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Tropical Meteorology
The study of atmospheric structure and behavior in the areas astride the Equator, roughly between 30° north and south latitude. The weather and climate of the tropics involve phenomena such as trade winds, hurricanes, intertropical convergence zones, jet streams, monsoons, and the El Niño Southern Oscillation.
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Jenni L. Evans
The field trips are generally hot and sticky, but understanding the workings of the atmosphere affecting 50% of the Earth's populations is worth a little sweat. Come and join me and my team of graduate and undergraduate students in their studies of the tropics: tropical cyclones (hurricanes), monsoon variability and sensitivity to base climate, convective weather systems and their role in the hydrologic cycle and extratropical transition of tropical cyclones. We use a combination of data analysis, analytical and various numerical models to attack these and other questions in the tropics. More information.
