CAREER: Monsoon and the Upper Troposphere Lower Stratosphere

亚洲和北美夏季风在向对流层上部和平流层下部输送水汽和污染物等化学成分方面起着重要作用。这项CAREER资助的研究目标是利用观测和模型层次来促进对夏季风及其与UTLS相互作用的理解。研究部分将增进对对流层和平流层动态耦合及其对地表极端事件影响的了解。它将为对流层-平流层化学成分交换提供新的见解。教育目标是提高高中和本科教育中的数学和数据分析能力。教育活动将涉及与当地高中教师和地球科学教育工作者的合作。 PI将通过整合真实世界的大气数据为高中数学课程开发新的学习活动，并通过气候科学本科课程的数据分析和可视化促进积极的学习活动。研究活动将提高对UTLS对气候系统的化学，辐射和动力学影响的科学理解，并提高对极端天气事件的理解和预测，如亚洲和北美等人口稠密地区的阵风和极端降雨。教育活动将提高高中生在现实世界中制定和解决数学问题的能力，并提高大学生的课堂表现和完成STEM学士学位。这些教育活动沿着《地球观测数据共同框架》，该框架最近由白宫科学和技术政策办公室发布，旨在改善公众对地球观测的发现、评估、理解和利用。

Asian and North American summer monsoons play an important role in transporting chemical constituents such as water vapor and pollutants into the upper troposphere lower stratosphere (UTLS). The research objective of this CAREER grant is to advance the understanding of the summer monsoon and its interaction with the UTLS using observations and model hierarchies. The research component will improve the understanding of the dynamical coupling of the troposphere and stratosphere and its impact for surface extremes. It would provide new insights into the troposphere-stratosphere exchange of chemical constituents. The educational objective is to improve math and data analytics proficiency in both high school and undergraduate education. The educational activities will involve collaborations with local high school teachers and geoscience educators. The PI will develop new learning activities for high school math classes by integrating real-world atmospheric data and prompt active learning activities through data analytics and visualizations in undergraduate courses in climate sciences.The research activities will improve the scientific understanding of the chemical, radiative and dynamical effects of the UTLS on the climate system, and lead to improved understanding and prediction of extreme weather events such as wind gust and extreme rainfall in populated regions like Asia and North America. The educational activities will improve high school students' capability in formulating and solving math problems in real-world situations, and increase college students' performance in classes and their completion of bachelor's degree in STEM. The educational activities are along the lines with the Common Framework for Earth-Observation Data, which was recently released by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to improve the public access to find, evaluate, understand, and utilize Earth observations.