Posts by Alex Gonzalez

In early January, Alex Gonzalez, Indrani Ganguly, and James Larson published a journal article in the Journal of Climate on the daily to weekly evolution of low-level winds and convergence prior to the intensification of the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) over the east Pacific Ocean using observational and reanalysis data sets: https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/clim/35/4/JCLI-D-21-0216.1.xml. The study focused…

The Tropical Atmospheric Dynamics Group welcomes new graduate students, Fouzia Fahrin and Travis Enzensperger. They both will be researching the east Pacific ITCZ and its associated climate model biases as a part of their Ph.D. and M.S. theses, respectively.

We welcome Urbandale High School Chemistry and Physical Sciences teacher, Katherine Hanson, to our research group for Summer 2021. Katherine will work on studying east Pacific ITCZ events that occurred from 2013 to 2019 in NASA observational and reanalysis data for northern ITCZs, southern ITCZs, and double ITCZs. Katherine is supported by one of Alex’s…

Allysa Dallmann presented her Spring 2021 research at ISU’s 15th Annual Symposium on Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression. A recording of her talk entitled can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwolxnW4LL4. Congrats, Allysa!

Allysa Dallmann was awarded the Dean’s High Impact Awards for Undergraduate Research for Spring 2021. Each award is $1,200 per semester or $4,800 for summer. Allysa will be advised by Dr. Christina Patricola and co-advised by Alex. She will continue her senior thesis research on the influence of El Niño Southern Oscillation on past and future precipitation.…

Allysa Dallmann presented her senior thesis project entitled, “The Influence of ENSO on Future Winter Precipitation and Temperature in the Southwestern United States,” at the 28th Annual Iowa State University Atmospheric Science Undergraduate Research Symposium. Allysa was advised by Dr. Christina Patricola and co-advised by Alex.

Alex presented research entitled, “Weather in the east Pacific ITCZ: The role of nonlinear dynamics in boreal spring submonthly ITCZ shifts,” at Penn State’s Meteorology and Atmospheric Science Colloquia. More info.

James Larson virtually presented his spring/summer research entitled, “How Climate Model Biases Depend on Weather: Case Studies in the East Pacific Ocean” at the 2020 ISU Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium. James’ poster and presentation can be found at this CyBox link. Congrats, James!

Ashley Heath successfully defended her M.S. thesis entitled, “Interactions of large scale dynamics in multi-model Madden-Julian Oscillation simulations” on July 6th via Webex. She officially graduated one month later and is working on publishing her research in the American Geophysical Union’s Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. Congrats, Ashley!

There is a fully funded, Graduate Student Research Assistantship opening up in our Tropical Atmospheric Dynamics group for Fall 2021. We are seeking a bright and enthusiastic graduate student who has strong skills in applied mathematics and computer programming (FORTRAN, Python, NCL) with interests in numerical modeling of tropical storms, the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone, and…