David M. Romps

davidromps@gmail.com

Dynamics of tropical convection

Global warming & the hydrological cycle

Troposphere-stratosphere interactions

Convective parameterizations

Large-eddy simulations

617-384-5351

24 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138

An animation from a paper in press at JAS, “Nature versus nurture in shallow convection.”

An animation of 2005 brightness temperatures and best-track data from the GRL paper

“Overshooting convection in tropical cyclones.”

Animations with and without precipitation of deep convection from work in progress.

Selections from publications and work in progress:

1995-1999

1999-2005

2005-2006

2006-2008

2008-Now

Yale

Harvard

WHRC

Harvard

B.S. Math, B.S./M.S. Physics

Ph.D. Physics, String Theory

Postdoctoral Fellow

Environmental Fellow

Research Associate

The first direct measurement of convective entrainment. From the paper in press at JAS, “A direct measure of entrainment,” this figure shows the azimuthally averaged entrainment rate at three intervals in the life cycle of a deep cumulonimbus.