Climate change effects on clouds and precipitation; clouds and precipitation associated with tropical convective cloud clusters and midlatitude cyclones; assimilation of cloud and precipitation data into mesoscale and cloud scale numerical models; nonlinear inverse problem theory

Specializations and Research Interests

Climate change effects on clouds and precipitation
Distribution of clouds and precipitation in tropical convective cloud clusters and midlatitude cyclones
Assimilation of cloud and precipitation data into mesoscale and cloud scale numerical models
Nonlinear inverse problem theory

Honors, Awards and Accomplishments

First Place Student Poster Competition, AMS Annual Meeting
Center for Earth-Atmosphere Studies Fellowship, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Colorado State University
NCAR Advance Studies Program Summer Colloquium
NATO Advanced Studies Institute
Participant in the first Pacific THORPEX Operations Science Test observation campaign, Honolulu
Participant in the International H2O Project field experiment

Professional Service

American Meteorology Society
American Geophysical Union

Publications

Posselt, D. J., G. L. Stephens, and M. Miller, 2008: CloudSat: Adding a New Dimension to a Classical View of Extratropical Cyclones. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., In Press.

Vukicevic, T., and D. J. Posselt, 2008: Analysis of the Impact of Model Nonlinearities in Inverse Problem Solving. J. Atmos. Sci., In Press.

Posselt, D. J., S. C. van den Heever, and G L. Stephens (2008), Trimodal cloudiness and tropical stable layers in simulations of radiative convective equilibrium, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L08802, doi:10.1029/2007GL033029.

Otkin, J. A., D. J. Posselt, E. R. Olson, H.-L. Huang, J. E. Davies, J. Li, and C. S. Velden, 2007: Mesoscale Numerical Weather Prediction Models Used in Support of Infrared Hyperspectral Measurements Simulation and Product Algorithm Development. J. Atmos. Ocn. Tech., 24, 585-601.

Posselt, D. J., and J. E. Martin, 2004: The Effect of Latent Heat Release on the Evolution of a Warm Occluded Thermal Structure. Mon. Wea. Rev., 132, 578-599.

Updated: 2008-04-18