Glaucon: To know something about the seasons, the months, and the years is of use for military purposes, as well as for agriculture and for navigation.
Socrates: It amuses me to see how afraid you are, lest the common herd of people should accuse you of recommending useless studies.
Plato, The Republic, 360 BCE
Socrates: It amuses me to see how afraid you are, lest the common herd of people should accuse you of recommending useless studies.
Plato, The Republic, 360 BCE
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research
GENERAL RESEARCH INTERESTS:
1) Synoptic Climatology: regional rainfall patterns and their intra-seasonal to inter-annual variability
2) Climate Service Applications: Identifying partner needs through a collaborative and inter-disciplinary driven research approach that combines climate diagnostic and prediction activities with societal needs.
I currently support the Jamaican Coffee Leaf Rust project funded through the NOAA International Research Applications Program (IRAP) at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society at Columbia University (IRI). My work attempts to improve sub-seasonal to seasonal rainfall prediction during the Caribbean late spring rainfall onset period by diagnosing the atmospheric dynamics that lead to uplift and horizontal tropical moisture advection.
1) Synoptic Climatology: regional rainfall patterns and their intra-seasonal to inter-annual variability
2) Climate Service Applications: Identifying partner needs through a collaborative and inter-disciplinary driven research approach that combines climate diagnostic and prediction activities with societal needs.
I currently support the Jamaican Coffee Leaf Rust project funded through the NOAA International Research Applications Program (IRAP) at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society at Columbia University (IRI). My work attempts to improve sub-seasonal to seasonal rainfall prediction during the Caribbean late spring rainfall onset period by diagnosing the atmospheric dynamics that lead to uplift and horizontal tropical moisture advection.
Atmospheric river? Cold front? Maya Express?.....working to better understand the onset and impacts from these events.
Current work on fire warnings with the Jamaican Weather Service using the KBDI.
Refined fire warning plot for the Blue Mountain region climate bulletin to be issued by the Jamaican Coffee Industry Board.
Another example of the IRAP work within Jamaica: high resolution modeled monthly rainfall climatology maps based on 56 Jamaican weather stations. Spatial resolution is approximately 0.008 degrees, which allows for a detailed examination throughout the coffee rich Blue Mountain region. This work is in collaboration with the Meteorological Service of Jamaica, The Jamaican Coffee Industry Board, and Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture.
All daily rainfall data is generously provided by the Meteorological Service of Jamaica.
All daily rainfall data is generously provided by the Meteorological Service of Jamaica.
Wave forecasting - the old fashioned way.
surface weather analysis - click on image for latest update
Ask me about Hurricane Heat Trails!