Applications Water Vapor Model Work in Progress Acknowledgments Climate analysis is an essential component of natural resource assessment evaluations.
Many natural resources depend on climatic inputs and variables.
This is especially true of agricultural resources, ecosystem resources, water resources, and renewable energy resources. This component of our research will focus on using climatic simulations and models in combination with remote sensing and geographic data to provide a characterization of climate with high spacial and temporal resolution. We will first focus on temperature and atmospheric heat transport models, progressing to wind and air motion models. We will compare these models with available remote sensing data. And finally we will progress to more complicated water vapor transport models that can be applied to mapping of humidity and rainfall distributions.