CAREER: Diabatic Heating in the Subtropics

这是一个教师早期职业发展(Career)项目。PI将对热带和副热带地区的对流和中尺度过程如何在更大的时间和空间尺度上进行反馈形成统一的理解。她将展示与亚热带降水系统相关的非绝热加热的水平和垂直变化如何与大尺度环流相互作用。中心假设是，降水系统在大尺度环流中的作用取决于对流活动和环境的斜压性程度，但无论分类如何，降水系统总体上在副热带大尺度环流中起着积极的作用。对风暴和风暴结构的长期测量对于更好地理解降水系统的高级反馈是必不可少的。在项目过程中将进行雷达测量。该项目的教育目标是利用观察性研究来提升本科生的学习体验，本科生直接参与其中。研究生将参与这项研究。

This is a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) project. The PI will develop a unified understanding of how convective and meso-scale processes feedback on larger time and space scales in the tropics and subtropics. She will show how horizontal and vertical variations in diabatic heating associated with precipitating systems in the subtropics interact with the large-scale circulation. The central hypothesis is that the role of precipitating systems in the large-scale circulation is dependent on the convective activity and degree of baroclinicity of the environment, but that regardless of classification, precipitating systems in aggregate play an active role in the large-scale circulation of the subtropics. Long-term measurements of storms and storm structure are essential to better understand the upscale feedbacks of precipitating systems. Radar measurements will be taken during the course of the project. The educational objective of this project is to use observational research to enhance the learning experience of undergraduate students, who directly participate in it. Graduate students will participate in the research.