(KKCO) - Orographic lifting contributes to the snowpack ... That cooling, rising air forms clouds and in the winter, snow.

The main tools have been the Wyoming Cloud Radar (WCR) and the UW King Air aircraft. Dynamics and microphysics of orographic precipitation (since ... In a future campaign, we hope to further study ...

and orographic precipitation. I joined the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder in January of 2008. Investigating cloud formation processes and ...

My research focuses on investigating kinematic and microphysical processes in orographic precipitation ... I conduct modeling, analysis and field studies in cloud physics ranging from case studies to ...