Project Leads
Aditi Sheshadri
Coordinating PI; Head of Task 1
Loon Observations and Gravity Wave Momentum Flux Estimates
Public data portal for observation data and momentum flux and uncertainty quantification
Claudia Stephan
Head of Task 2
High-resolution Model Simulations of Gravity Waves
High-resolution model simulations with the ICON model to study the generation of gravity waves by orographic and convective sources, and their three-dimensional resolved propagation through the atmosphere.
Ulrich Achatz
Head of Task 3
Ray Tracing-based Parameterization of Gravity Waves
Scale interactions in atmospheric dynamics, e.g. the prognostic modelling of subgrid-scale of gravity waves and their impact on the flow resolved by atmospheric models.
Pedram Hassanzadeh
Co-Head of Task 4
Machine Learning-based Parameterization of Gravity Waves
Turbulent flows using numerical, mathematical, statistical, and machine learning methods, guided by observational and experimental data.
Ed Gerber
Co-Head of Task 5
Gravity Wave Impacts in Climate Projections
Atmospheric dynamics and idealized modeling.
Adam Scaife
Co-Head of Task 5
Gravity Wave Impacts in Climate Projections
Climate variability and prediction, stratosphere-troposphere interaction, Atmospheric waves and wave-mean flow interaction.
Joan Alexander
Task 2
High-resolution Model Simulations of Gravity Waves
Observations and computer modeling of gravity wave sources, their propagation through the atmosphere, and their interaction with regional and global circulations.
François Lott
Task 1, 3, and 5
Parameterization Development and Testing
Mountain flow, stratospheric dynamics, and parameterizations of subgrid scale mountains and of non-orographic gravity waves.
PostDocs and Research Scientists
Riwal Plougonven
Professor
Collaboration with François Lott
Atmospheric dynamics, with a focus on observation and modeling of gravity waves and their impacts in the stratosphere.
Qiang Sun
Research Scientist
Gravity wave dynamics, high-resolution numerical simulation and/or prediction for gravity-wave events, and interested in how machine-learning might contribute to a better numerical model.
Yanmichel Morfa-Avalos
Postdoctoral Researcher
Gravity wave dynamics and energy transfers across scales in high‐resolution global models
Brian Green
Research Scientist
Analysis of gravity waves using loon observation data
Ray Chew
Postdoctoral Researcher
Combining raytracing-based modelling, high-performance numerics, and machine learning methods to improve the representation of gravity waves in numerical weather prediction
Graduate Students
Dave Connelly
PhD Student
Advised by Dr. Ed Gerber
Development and calibration of data-driven gravity wave parameterizations, with a particular focus on regression tree approaches
Karan Jakhar
PhD Student
Advised by Dr. Pedram Hassanzadeh
Data-driven equation discovery of subgrid-scale physics
Robert King
PhD Student
Advised by Dr. Aditi Sheshadri
Calibration and Uncertainty Quantification for MiMA gravity wave parameterization
Felix Jochum
PhD Student
Advised by Dr. Ulrich Achatz
Generating high-resolution OGW-resolving simulation results, performance benchmarked against MS-GWaM
Collaborators
Milena Corcos
Postdoctoral Researcher
WRF simulations validation with the Stratéole-2 balloons
Annelize van Niekerk
Senior Scientist in Atmospheric Processes and Parametrizations
Development and validation of orographic gravity wave drag parametrizations in models
Aurélien Podglagen
Research scientist
Collaboration with François Lott
Characterizing gravity waves and their interactions with cirrus clouds in the upper troposphere, using superpressure balloon observations and modeling approaches.
Additional Support
Niku Darafshi
Project Admin + Research Assistant
Project administrator: organization and planning