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Adrian McDonald
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Project title: Constraining paramerisations of small-scale variability in middle atmosphere climate modelsAdrian McDonald is a senior lecturer at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Adrian’s main interests are associated with middle atmosphere dynamics and chemistry, particularly over the Antarctic, and the affect of the middle atmosphere on Antarctic surface climate. While at CIRES, he will be working with Xinzhao Chu and her group on understanding the temporal and spatial variability in the middle atmosphere (the region between 10 and 90 km above the Earth’s surface) associated with internal gravity waves. Understanding this variability and deriving data on gravity wave motions is important because these processes are too small to be resolved by most climate models, but have significant impacts on the mean circulation in the middle atmosphere which in turn feeds back on surface climate. The work will use data from the Chu group lidar instruments and satellite observations from the COSMIC radio occultation to derive improved constraints for parameterizations used in climate models. Office: Office: S250D |
