Aug 2000- present Professor of Meteorology, Dept. of Geosciences, San Francisco State University. Mesoscale numerical model building. Dept. of Geosciences. Next-generation mesoscale model design, construction and testing. Topographic generation of mesoscale vortices in mixed-layer models.
Error analyses and tests of pressure-gradient force schemes in a nonhydrostatic, mesoscale model.
Error analyses and tests of alternative PGF schemes in MM5. Comparisons using different thermodynamic variables in MM5. Finite differencing the pressure-gradient force term in MM5. Insights into Alpine lee cyclogenesis from numerical simulations of moderately rotating, low Froude number flow past three-dimensional obstacles. Vorticity generation in mixed-layer models.