Teaching Interests: Cloud and ice physics, atmospheric chemistry, thermodynamics.

Graduate Students: What really goes on inside those spectacular clouds we see in the sky everyday? In the laboratory you can measure, first-hand, the growth and evaporation of aerosol particles, cloud droplets and ice crystals, all in an environment where YOU have the controls -- a wonderful way to study the physics and chemistry of clouds.

Dr. Lamb is interested in the interactions of atmospheric pollutants with clouds that lead to their mutual modification or to the acidification of rain and snow, as well as in the photochemical origins of secondary aerosol particles comprising smog. In addition, he studies various microphysical processes involving the ice phase to understand ice crystal growth habits, cloud glaciation, precipitation formation, and latent heat release mechanisms.
 

Selected Publications:

Chen, J.P., and D. Lamb, 1999: Simulation of cloud microphysical and chemical processes using a multicomponent framework. Part II. Microphysical evolution of a wintertime orographic cloud. J. Atmos. Sci., 56, 2293-2312.

Lamb, D., 1999: Atmospheric Ice. Encyclopedia of Applied Physics, VCH Publishers, 1-25.

Shaw, R.A. and D. Lamb, 1999: Experimental determination of the thermal accommodation and condensation coefficients of water. J. Chem. Phys., 111, 10659-10663.

Shaw, R.A., D. Lamb, and A.M. Moyle, 2000: An electrodynamic levitation system for studying individual cloud particles under upper-tropospheric conditions. J. Atmos. Ocean Technol., 17, 940-948.

Stein, A.F., and D. Lamb, 2000: The sensitivity of sulfur wet deposition to atmospheric oxidants. Atmos. Environ., 34, 1681-1690.

Huthwelker, T., D. Lamb, M. B. Baker, B. Swanson, and T. Peter, 2001: Uptake of SO2 by polycrystalline water ice. J. Colloid Interface Sci., 238, 147-159.

Stein, A.F., and D. Lamb, 2002: Chemical indicators of sulfate sensitivity to nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds. J. Geophys. Res., 107 (D20), 4449,
doi: 10.1029/2001JD001088.