Group members

Yi Zhang

Miller Postdoctoral Fellow, Ph.D. (Princeton)

Paul Nicknish

Research Assistant, B.A. Applied Math (Berkeley)

Ram Kripa

Undergraduate Intern, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science major (Berkeley)

Finn O'Toole Boire

Undergraduate Intern, Physics major (Berkeley)

Salil Goyal

Undergraduate Intern, Applied Math major (Berkeley)

Suhas D. L.

Postdoctoral scholar, Ph.D. (Indian Institute of Science), sponsored by India’s Monsoon Mission

Marysa LaguË

James S. McDonnell Postdoctoral Fellow, Ph.D. (University of Washington), now located at Coldwater Lab & Center for Hydrology in Canada

Quentin Nicolas

Ph.D. Candidate, M.S. Applied Math (Ecole Polytechnique)

S. Vishnu

Postdoctoral scholar, Ph.D. (Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services; INCOIS)

Teaching

In Fall 2021 I will not be teaching, in order to devote my full effort to a Research Professorship with the Miller Institute.

Previous courses:

  • EPS 81 | Atmospheres (Spring 2019, 2020)
  • EPS C181 | Atmospheric Physics and Dynamics (Fall 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020)
  • EPS 24 | Death by Water: Risk, Science, and Impacts of Hydrological Extremes (Fall 2017, 2019)
  • EPS 290 | Global Circulation of Planetary Atmospheres (Fall 2020)
  • Yale GG 765 | The General Circulation of Planetary Atmospheres (Spring 2012, 2015, 2017)
  • Yale GG 322 | Physics of Weather and Climate (Fall 2011, 2013, 2014, 2016)
  • Yale GG 570 | Cloud Physics and Dynamics, co-taught with Trude Storelvmo (Spring 2011, 2014)

Data & Tools

WorldMonsoons.org, a website with educational pages and recent news about monsoons

Global track datasets of monsoon disturbances:

Somali jet index, a measure of the strength of the South Asian monsoon circulation, and of roughly 30 percent of the global cross-equatorial flow

South Asian vertical shear index, the strength of the vertical shear of the zonal wind over South Asian. This was developed by Webster and Yang (1992, QJRMS) as a measure of the strength of the South Asian monsoon circulation.

Output from an idealized quasi-global aquaplanet model run without a convective parameterization (through use of the hypohydrostatic rescaling), from our paper that used this model to study the response of extreme precipitation to uniform surface warming.

Moist energy balance model, written in Python by Henry Peterson and used in Peterson and Boos (2020) to analyze the influence of radiative feedbacks and eddy diffusivity on tropical rainfall shifts.

Opportunities

My research group has an opening for a new graduate student to start in Fall 2022. Details can be found here.

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