Carbon Dioxide Measurement and Modeling
I work with Paul Wennberg at Caltech to measure atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations. We use Fourier Transform Spectrometry to obtain high resolution measurements of the integrated vertical columns of carbon dioxide, methane, carbon monoxide, and other atmospheric gases. We currently have automated data acquisition at two sites: Park Falls, Wisconsin, and Darwin, Australia. I am currently setting up a third mobile laboratory which will be deployed to the DOE ARM site at Lamont, Oklahoma. Our stations are part of the Total Column Carbon Observing Network.
Link to TCCON webpage





Climate Stability and Energy Balance Models
I have developed a one dimensional energy balance model with Tapio Schneider based on eddy scaling laws from an idealized GCM. I am working to couple this model with an ice sheet model to do paleoclimate experiments.

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