Faculty Awards for Women

PI计划利用卫星数据库，结合从风廓线获得的数据，研究热带对流系统及其对对流层和中间层环流模式强迫的影响。她还将审查卫星测量的大气水汽和热带雷达测量的垂直风廓线之间的关系，以便深入了解垂直能量通量的动态，这些能量通量将来源区域的能量耦合到其他高度。她还计划获得与对流有关的云合成的统计数据，以便迫使旋转球体上的大气模型建立将出现在对流层、平流层和中间层的风场中的模式结构。模式产生的模式结构将与雷达观测到的日潮、准两天波和其他较长周期波动的中层结构进行比较。此外，PI计划获得另外两项大气雷达探测技术的专业知识，即中频/高频雷达和1 GHz边界层雷达。

The PI plans to study the tropical convective systems and their impact on the forcing of tropospheric and mesospheric circulation patterns by utilizing satellite data bases in conjunction with data obtained from wind profiles. She will also examine the relationships between satellite derived measurements of atmospheric water vapor and vertical wind profiles measured by the radars in the tropics in order to provide insight into the dynamics of vertical energy fluxes which couple the energy from the source regions to other heights. She also plans to obtain the statistics of cloud composites associated with convection in order to force a model of an atmosphere on a rotating sphere to establish the mode structures in the wind field that will be present in the troposphere, stratosphere, and mesosphere. The model-generated mode structures will be compared with the radar observed mesospheric structures of the diurnal tide, quasi two-day wave, and other longer period wave motions. Additionally, the PI plans to gain expertise in two other atmospheric radar probing techniques, the MF/HF radar and the 1 GHz boundary layer radar.