Clouds, weather, and climate

Clouds modulate the flows of energy through the climate system, shaping everything from precipitation to circulations at all scales. We are primarily interested in shallow clouds -- those in which ice doesn't form -- because they have a profound impact on climate.  

Photo of clouds over the Atlantic Ocean seen from a research aircraft during the ATOMIC field campaign in 2020

Postdoc Xuanyu Chen is looking at how clouds, including the mesoscale circulations that organize them, affect interactions between the ocean and the atmosphere above it. We are exploring the rich set of data from the ATOMIC and EUREC4A field campaigns held in early 2020 near the island of Barbados in the Atlantic Ocean. 

 

 

Columbia Affiliations
Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
LEAP - Learning the Earth through Artificial intelligence and Physics
Applied Math and Applied Physics