CAREER: Atmospheric Physics on Climate Time Scales

职业奖将通过重点研究湿对流过程及其与更大规模环流的联系，解决气候可变性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生和研究生教育和研究培训。作为该项目的一部分，将开发一个旨在提供对全球尺度大气行为和气候的物理理解的教学计划。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，特别是它们通过影响大气递减率、水分分配和输送以及水文循环在调节年际气候变异性方面的作用。

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.