General Circulation Studies

PI是一位退休的大学教授，他将无偿参与这个项目。该奖项允许一名本科生助理与PI合作，为研究生水平的教科书和关于大气环流模式的历史专著组装和准备图形和动画插图。这本教科书是根据他30多年的课程笔记编写的。该奖项还支持发表一系列期刊文章，记录(i)过去50年热带降雨率的趋势，（ii）降雨率频率与闪电频率之间的关系，（ii）大气潮汐的特征，包括每日降雨量中两周月球天气周期的可能性，以及（iii）热带太平洋海面温度在季节到几十年的时间尺度上的变化模式。这些书的目的是支持大气动力学的研究生教学和先进的本科课程采取的学生准备在大气研究和天气预报的职业生涯。PI已经是一本被广泛使用的教科书的作者：大气科学：概论。研究的重点是降雨率的气候学，这是一个对农业和防洪具有重要意义的变量。它利用来自卫星传感器和全球地面闪电网络的最新可用数据。这些项目为仍处于研究生涯早期阶段的博士科学家提供培训和指导。

The PI is a retired university professor who will be working pro bono on the project. This award allows an undergraduate assistant to work with the PI on assembling and preparing graphical and animation illustrations for a graduate level textbook and a historical monograph on atmospheric circulation patterns. The textbook is based on his course notes that have been developed over a period of 30 years. The award also supports the publications of a series of journal articles documenting (i) trends tropical rain rate over the past 50 years, (ii) relationships between rain rate frequency and the frequency of lightning, (ii) the signature of atmospheric tides, including the possibility of a 2 weekly lunar synodic cycle in daily rainfall, and (iii) patterns of variability of tropical Pacific sea surface temperature on time scales ranging from seasons to decades. The books are intended to support the teaching of atmospheric dynamics in graduate and advanced undergraduate courses taken by students preparing for careers in atmospheric research and weather forecasting. The PI is already the author of a widely used textbook: Atmospheric Science: An Introductory Survey. The research focuses on the climatology of rain rate, a variable that has important implications for agriculture and flood control. It utilizes newly available data from satellite sensors and a worldwide, ground based lightning network. The projects provide training and mentoring for PhD scientists who are still at an early stage of their research careers.