Tropical Climate Dynamics
Observation Tower Las Cruces Biological Station, Agua Buena, Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica March 2014 |
Benjamin R. Lintner Associate Professor Director, Graduate Program in Atmospheric Science Office: |
Current Research Overview:
My research centers on diagnosing and
interpreting processes in the climate system, especially
in the tropics. Prior
and current areas of focus include: (i) assessing the
controls on tropical precipitation and its
spatiotemporal variability; (ii) diagnosing the pathways
through which the land surface and atmosphere interact
in observations and models; (iii) analyzing the
distributions of trace constituents and their transport
in the troposphere; and (iv) developing and applying
novel approaches for the analysis of precipitation and
other climate variables. I make use of a
diverse array of observational and reanalysis data sets, a
suite of diagnostic approaches, and a vertical hierarchy
of models ranging from process-based analytic prototypes
to full-blown global climate models.