2011
The Little Shop of Physics Texas Road Trip
LSOP and CMMAP Education and Diversity folks travelled to southern Texas in late September to take part in HESTEC, the Hispanic Engineering, Science and Technology Week.
Teaching School Teachers about Weather and Climate
A highlight on CMMAP's week-long summer course for secondary teachers.
The Effects of Ice Nuclei on Clouds and Climate
Paul DeMott's research showing that concentration of ice nucleating particles play a critical role amount of cloud ice formation.
A Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean Model with Explicit Clouds
The new coupled ocean-atmosphere model, SP-CCSM, from Christiana Stan.
CMMAP Summer Internship Offers Research Experience for Undergraduates
A summary of the CMMAP summer internship program of 2011.
Improving turbulance and cloud representation...
... without breaking the bank. Peter Bogenshutz looks at an improved PDF scheme to compute shallow convection in the MMF to improve compute cost.
Finding the limits of convective parameterizations
A look at Todd Jones' work on the capabilities and limitations of cumulus parameterizations in models with fine grid spacing.
Environmental Science Communication Workshop
CMMAP post-doc Jim Benedict attended this workshop and gives a brief overview of this two-day event.
2010
Subgrid-scale representation for cloud-resolving models
Chin-Hoh Moeng studies individual cloud elements and turbulent subgrid-scale motions withing cloud-resolving models.
Implementation of a two-moment microphysics scheme into the MMF
Marat Khairoutdinov and Hugh Morrison's recent work with the multiscale modeling framework (MMF) is highlighted here.
Development of a quasi-3D multi-scale modeling framework: Motivation, basic algorithm and preliminary results
Joon-Hee Jung presents an update on the development of the Q3D MMF here.
Towards the new generation of Earth's System Modeling
CMMAP scientist Cristina Stan’s work on the coupled model.
Tracking parcels that are entrained across cloud tops
Tak Yamaguchi's results on cloud-top cooling.
2009
CMMAP Publishing Initiatives
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Peer-reviewed journal and multi-authored book.
A Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean Model with Explicit Clouds
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Connecting Communities
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Outreach to Native American Schools, Students and Teachers.
CMMAP Internships
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Meet our 2009 interns and what some of them did during their summer internship with us.
The effects of ice nuclei on clouds and climate
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CMMAP Research Scientist, Paul DeMott, finds that ice nucleating particles play a critical role in cloud formation in the MMF.
2008
High-Detail Simulation of Tropical Convection
Improving the simulation of clouds using a Cloud Resolving Model (CRM).
Introducing JAMES
A new journal in Earth Systems Modeling.
Low Clouds and Climate Change
Understanding why models produce different changes in clouds for the same change in climate.
Heartbeat of the Climate System Found in Tropical Thunderstorms
Following the cycle of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO).
Changing Climates @ CSU
Teaching and talking about climate change across the university curriculum.
Teaching Public School Teachers about Weather and Climate
A summer course of five action-packed days.
2007
Ten Things You Should Know About the Atmosphere
Connecting research and K-12 education with the Little Shop of Physics.
Mentoring Graduate Students at Colorado College
Expanding the pipeline by educating future educators.
Nucleation Processes in Deep Convection
Studying the impact of aerosols on ice clouds associated with deep convection.
High-frequency Rainfall Variability Reveals Nature of Simulated Climates
Evaluating the realism of explicitly modeling rain systems using a Multiscale Modeling Framework (MMF).
Cloud Effects on Climate
Establishing the role of clouds in the climate system.
Quasi-Lagrangian Vertical Coordinates
Nonhydrostatic atmospheric modeling with a hybrid vertical coordinate.
National Science Foundations's "Profiles in Team Science"
Full Booklet
CMMAP Profile