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On June 24–28, Alex attended the American Meteorological Society (AMS) 24th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics in Burlington, VT. He had a poster presentation entitled, “Dynamical Importance of the Trade Wind Inversion in Suppressing the Southeast Pacific ITCZ.”  

On June 3–6, Alex and Fouzia attended the Cloud Feedbacks Model Intercomparison Project (CFMIP) Meeting at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, MA. Alex and Fouzia both presented posters. Fouzia’s poster was entitled, “The Seasonal Evolution of Low Clouds and the Southern ITCZ over the East Pacific Ocean.” Alex’s poster was entitled, “Dynamical Importance of the…

On May 20, undergraduate student from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Chelone Laws, started her summer research project as a part of the NSF SOARS Program. Her summer project involves the influence of increasing vertical resolution on the representation of the ITCZ and low clouds. Welcome, Chelone!

On May 11, Alex was invited to serve a four-year term (through March 2028) on the U.S. CLIVAR Process Study and Model Improvement (PSMI) Panel: https://usclivar.org/panels/psmi. Congrats, Alex!

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…