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Derek J Posselt
Assistant Research Scientist

Email: dposselt@umich.edu
Telephone: (734)936-0502
Fax: (734)936-0503
Office: 2517D SRB



Education:

Ph.D., Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University

M.S., Atmospheric Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison

B.S., Atmospheric Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Research: 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




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