U.S.-Germany Cooperative Research: Improving Simulations of the Global Hydrological Cycle

该奖项支持威廉·m·弗兰克和宾夕法尼亚州立大学的一到两名研究生与德国汉堡大学气象系的克劳斯·弗雷德里希合作。该项目将重点研究地球水文循环的长期变化，并将利用汉堡大学的便携式大气气候模型。汉堡大学是世界上领先的气候模拟中心之一，宾夕法尼亚州立大学在对流研究方面有着长期的优秀工作记录，因此这次合作结合了互补的专业知识。他们的研究课题——积云对流与气候的相互作用——是一个关键的气候问题，应该会对我们对气候和气候变化的理解和建模产生深远的影响。

9909938FrankThis award supports William M. Frank and one or two graduate students from Pennsylvania State University in a collaboration with Klaus Fraedrich of the Department of Meteorology at the U. of Hamburg, Germany. The project will focus on the study of long-term variations in the Earth's hydrological cycle, and will make use of the University of Hamburg's Portable Climate Model of the Atmosphere. The University of Hamburg is one of the leading climate modeling centers in the world, and Penn State has a long record of excellent work in convection studies, so the collaboration combines complementary expertise. Their topic of study-the interaction of cumulus convection and climate-is a key climate issue and should lead to far-reaching results of importance to our understanding and modeling of climate and climate change.