CAREER: Atmospheric Physics on Climate Time Scales

CAREER奖将通过关注潮湿对流过程及其与更大尺度环流的联系，解决气候变率评估和建模中的关键科学不确定性。该奖项将使舍伍德博士能够加强耶鲁大学在气候科学方面的本科和研究生教育和研究培训。作为该项目的一部分，将开发一个教学计划，旨在提供基于物理的对全球尺度大气行为和气候的理解。该项目的研究和教育目标将促进对潮湿对流过程的理解和建模，特别是它们通过对大气递减率、水分分布和输送以及水文循环的影响，在调节年际气候变率方面的作用。

The CAREER award will address the key scientific uncertainties in assessment and modeling of climate variability by focusing on moist convective processes and their linkage to the larger scale circulation. The award will enable Dr. Sherwood to strengthen undergraduate and graduate education and research training in climate sciences at Yale. A teaching program aimed at providing a physically based understanding of global-scale atmospheric behavior and climate will be developed as part of this project. The research and educational goals of the project will advance understanding and modeling of moist convective processes, particularly their role in regulating interannual climate variability through impacts on atmospheric lapse rate, moisture distribution and transport, and the hydrological cycle.