Professor Ana P. Barros, PhD

Primary Research Interest:

Hydrology, Hydrometeorology and Environmental Physics with a focus on water-cycle processes in the coupled land-atmosphere-biosphere system particularly in regions of complex terrain, the study of multiscale interface phenomena in complex environments across the Earth Sciences, remote sensing of the environment (precipitation, clouds, soil moisture,and vegetation), climate predictability and risk assessment of natural hazards.

More:

http://www.cee.duke.edu/fds/pratt/cee/faculty/ana.barros

Contact:

Duke University

Box 90287

2457 CIEMAS Fitzpatrick Bldg.

Durham, NC 27708

barros@duke.edu

+1 919 660 5200

Wei Li, PhD

Primary Research Interest:

She is working on the project CLASIC (Cloud and Land Surface Interaction Campaign) with emphasis on regional heat and evaporation estimation and boundary layer instability and structure over flat fields in Oklahoma.

Contact:

lw68@duke.edu

Oliver Prat, PhD

Primary Research Interest:

His current research interests include the development and implementation of numerical models for the evolution of rainfall microstructure with explicit representation of coalescence, breakup, evaporation and condensation mechanisms. The ultimate goal is to achieve a dynamic simulation of the droplet size distribution that will be used for physical algorithms for radar rainfall estimation.

More:

http://www.duke.edu/~oprat/

Contact:

olivier.prat@duke.edu

Kun Tao, PhD

Primary Research Interest:

Her current research focus is on exploring the land-atmosphere interactions associated with cloud and precipitation process in the framework of nonlinear dynamical systems and phase-space topologies. Kun's overarching goal is to track and measure the complex space-time lifecycle of land-forced convective instabilities from their origin to the unfolding of clouds and the materialization of rainfall across the landscape.

Contact:

kun.tao@duke.edu

Julien Brun

Primary Research Interest:

His main research focus is on the monitoring of the hurricane impacts on the environment using remote sensing data.

More:

http://www.duke.edu/~jb160/

Contact:

julien.brun@duke.edu

Dohyuk Kang, Grad-CEE

Primary Research Interest:

His research interests lay in the snow dielectric studies using microwave frequency electro-microwaves. Various researchers have studied the relationship between the snow dielectrics and its physical properties such as mass, density, and liquid water contents. He will be upgrading the snow dielectric investigation using the 100 meter grid based network for snow dielectric measurements.  The field site in Grand Forks, SD will be equipped with 100 meter grid networks within a 1 km rectangular area comprising central pod (VSA) and microwave emitters at each grid point (VSG). Using collected data and mixture theory for snow dielectric, the snow physical properties will be retrieved. In addition, the downscale skills will be also developed to be compared with current AMSU, SSM/I, MODIS, and AMSR remote sensing results for snow.

Contact:

dohyuk.kang@duke.edu

Prabhakar Shrestha, Grad-CEE

Primary Research Interest:

His primary focus is in numerical simulation of clouds and rainfall using coupled land cloud model. He has been primarily working with the model and satellite data to quantify the sensitivity of cloud microphysic parameterizations. He intends to build upon this study to understand the affect of aerosols in rainfall distribution over central Nepal.

More:

http://www.duke.edu/~ps45/

Contact:

prabhakar.shrestha@duke.edu

Xiaoming Sun, Grad-CEE

Primary Research Interest:

The focuses of his research are mainly on extreme hydrological events and biosphere - atmosphere interactions.

Contact:

xiaoming.sun@duke.edu