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From May 6–10, Alex and Fouzia attended the American Meteorological Society (AMS) 36th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology in Long Beach, CA. Alex had a poster presentation entitled, “Daily ITCZ States over the East Pacific in Observations, Reanalyses, and CMIP6 Models” (https://ams.confex.com/ams/36Hurricanes/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/442632) and he co-chaired two sessions: Madden-Julian Oscillation and Intraseasonal Variability I (https://ams.confex.com/ams/36Hurricanes/meetingapp.cgi/Session/66506)…

From May 3–6, Alex and a team of WHOI scientists collected atmospheric data via soundings (also known as weather balloon launches) as a part of the Wind Forecast Improvement Project 3 (WFIP3, https://www2.whoi.edu/site/wfip3/). Atmospheric soundings took place every six hours from Woods Hole and from the R/V Endeavor, which transected south to the shelf break…

On March 22, Fouzia, Alex, and co-authors (Justin Stachnik and Brett Chrisler) published a paper entitled, “The Relationship between Convectively Coupled Waves and the East Pacific ITCZ” in the Journal of Climate: https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/clim/37/8/JCLI-D-23-0398.1.xml. Congrats to all involved! Significance Statement Convectively coupled atmospheric waves (CCWs) are a critical feature of tropical weather and are an important…

On February 16, Alex, Indrani, Marissa and co-authors (Gregory Cesana and Charlotte DeMott) published a paper entitled, “Dynamical Importance of the Trade Wind Inversion in Suppressing the Southeast Pacific ITCZ” in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres (https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023JD039571). Congrats to everyone involved! The three key points of the paper are: East Pacific ITCZ surface wind…

On January 28–February 1, Alex and Fouzia attended the 104th American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD. Alex had an oral presentation entitled, “Dynamical Importance of the Trade Wind Inversion in Suppressing the Southeast Pacific ITCZ” (https://ams.confex.com/ams/104ANNUAL/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/427237) and a poster presentation entitled, “Different flavors of horizontal moisture advection influence equatorial Rossby wave and…

On December 6, Alex and co-authors (Lisan Yu, Yanxu Chen, Chidong Zhang, and Gregory R. Foltz) published a paper entitled, “Dry Air Outbreak and Significant Surface Turbulent Heat Loss During Hurricane Ian: Satellite and Saildrone Observations” in Geophysical Research Letters: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2023GL105583. Congrats, Alex! The three key points of the paper are: Hurricane Ian triggered a…

On November 9, Alex was a guest lecturer discussing the topic: “Large-scale atmospheric dynamics and relation to extreme storms” as a part of the MIT-WHOI Joint Program course entitled, “12.757 Climate Change Science: Extreme Events in a Warming World.”

On November 8, Alex traveled to the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to host a talk entitled, “Dynamical Importance of the Trade Wind Inversion in Suppressing the Southeast Pacific ITCZ,” as a part of the weekly Sack Lunch Seminar Series.

Indrani and Alex published their research titled “On the Role of Wind-Evaporation-SST Feedbacks in the Sub-seasonal Variability of the East Pacific ITCZ” in the Journal of Climate: https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/clim/37/1/JCLI-D-22-0849.1.xml. This is Indrani’s first ever 1st-author publication. Congrats, Indrani!  

On October 25, Alex traveled to the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook University to host a talk entitled, “Dynamical Importance of the Trade Wind Inversion in Suppressing the Southeast Pacific ITCZ,” as a part of the Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences weekly seminar series. See the recording of Alex’s presentation…