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I am a postdoctoral associate here at DAS. I am a dynamic meteorologist by training and am now working on climate change research.
Currently, I am working with Prof. Michael Schlesinger to learn about uncertainty in climate predictions. While the commonly cited range for the expected warming of Earth’s climate under a doubling of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is 1.5 to 4.5 degrees Celsius, most probability density functions of climate sensitivity contain a “thick upper tail”, indicating a significant likelihood that the climate sensitivity is in fact greater than 4.5 degrees C. We are using a simple climate model to learn about the factors that produce this thick upper tail. We intend to study changes to the model’s PDF upon inclusion of factors including updated observed temperature data, new records of aerosol forcing, and oceanic heat uptake data.
In my thesis research at MIT, I studied the annular modes to determine whether they are truly a preferred, “mode-like” response of the atmosphere to a generic perturbation. Using a dynamical core of a GCM, I found the model’s response was indeed annular mode-like even for forcings which do not resemble the structure of the annular modes. My graduate adviser was Prof. Alan Plumb.
In my free time, I enjoy playing bridge. In 2006 and 2007 I represented New England in the Non-Life Master Flight of the Grand National Teams tournament. I attained Life Master status in 2008. Currently I play at the Ginger Creek Bridge Center in Champaign and occasionally attend weekend tournaments.
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