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Robert Pincus
Research Scientist, NOAA-CIRES
Climate Diagnostics Center
325 Broadyway, R/CDC1, Boulder, Colorado, 80305
Phone: (303) 497-6310, FAX: (303) 497-6449
Research Interests
My research is about clouds as they relate to the earth's radiation budget and
climate. This includes descriptions and simple models of horizontal and vertical
structure, methods of remote sensing, and the representation of clouds in climate
models.
Clouds properties vary at spatial scales from the size of the planet to the size of individual drops. My research is directed at describing this variability as it relates to clouds' influences on climate. I am working to develop simple models of cloud horizontal structure, which will be used to assess the performance of remote sensing algorithms, especially those that depend on the reflection of sunlight. I am also collaborating on work to develop methods to account for the sub-grid scale variability of water vapor and cloud water in large scale models of the atmosphere. Our intent is to dramatically improve the treatment of processes (such as radiative transfer and precipitation) which depend non-linearly on the amount of cloud water.
See also my current research papers, including some non-technical descriptions.
I got my Ph.D. in 1994 at the University of Washington. I then worked in the Climate and Radiation Branch at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center for three and a half years. I spent the next two and a half years in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies at the University of Wisconsin before joining PSD in February 2001.
Scientific Software and Programming
I distribute some of the software I've written
in the course of my research and teaching. I try to use ideas from mainstream
software engineering practice when I build my own codes, so I'm collecting resources
on building object oriented code in Fortran 90.
And also...
I wrote an article for my high school's alumni newsletter about science
as storytelling.
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