Research has been central to the department’s activities since its inception. Despite the department’s modest size, an impressive array of research projects are being undertaken by our faculty and students involving field work, experimental work, computer modeling, and theoretical calculations. Our research interests have a primary focus on weather and climate of the tropics, but many projects have application to phenomena of global scope. [ More ]

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Full-Time Graduate Faculty

Steven Businger

Department Chair

• Ph.D., Washington. Mesoscale and synoptic meteorology, satellite meteorology, storm stSructure and dynamics.
• emailname businger
• Storm Evolution and Energetics Research (SEER) Group Page
• Curriculum Vitae

Yi-Leng Chen

• Ph.D., Illinois.  Mesoscale meteorology, heavy rainfall.
• emailname yileng
• Atmospheric Sciences Dept. Page | Rain and Wind Study Group Page
• Curriculum Vitae

Pao-Shin Chu

State Climatologist

• Ph.D., Wisconsin-Madison.  Climate variability and natural hazards, tropical cyclones, climate prediction.
• emailname chu
• Pao-Shin Chu’s Home Page | Hawai‘i State Climate Office
• Curriculum Vitae

Jennifer D. Small Griswold

Undergraduate Advisor

• Ph.D., UCSC. Cloud microphysics, aerosols and climate, satellite remote sensing of clouds and aerosols.
• emailname smalljen
• Curriculum Vitae

Christina Karamperidou

• Ph.D., Columbia University. ENSO dynamics and predictability, extreme events in response to large-scale climate variability and change, paleoclimate, hydro-climate modeling, machine learning applications in environmental science and climate model optimization.
• emailname ckaramp
• Website
• Curriculum Vitae

Fei-Fei Jin

• Ph.D., Academia Sinica. Dynamical meteorology, climate dynamics.
• emailname jff
• Atmospheric Sciences Dept. Page
• Curriculum Vitae

Tim Li

Graduate Chair

• Ph.D., Hawaii.  Climate dynamics and coupled atmosphere-ocean modeling.
• emailname timli
• IPRC Page
• Curriculum Vitae

Alison D. Nugent

• Ph.D., Yale University. Mountain meteorology and Cloud Physics: Orographic convection and precipitation, shallow cloud dynamics, cloud microphysics, aerosol-cloud-precipitation interactions, observations and modeling.
• emailname anugent
• Curriculum Vitae

Giuseppe Torri

• Ph.D., Imperial College London. Atmospheric Physics. Precipitating convection, downdraft and cold pool dynamics, severe thunderstorms, and climate change.
• emailname gtorri
• Curriculum Vitae

Yuqing Wang

• Ph.D., Monash (Australia).
• Atmospheric dynamics and physics, tropical  meteorology, tropical cyclones, global and regional climate modeling.
• emailname yuqing
• Atmospheric Sciences Dept. Page | IPRC Page
• Curriculum Vitae

Jingxia Zhao

Assistant Professor

• Ph.D., UCLA. Atmosheric chemistry and physical meteorology.
• emailname jingxiaz
• Curriculum Vitae

Cooperating Graduate Faculty and Researchers

H. Annamalai

Affiliate Researcher, International Pacific Research Center

• Ph.D., Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. Tropical climate dynamics, climate variability and prediction.
• emailname hanna
• IPRC Page

Tiziana Cherubini

Associate Researcher, Institute for Astronomy

• Ph.D., Rome. Very high resolution numerical weather prediction modeling and meteorological data assimilation.
• emailname tiziana
• Mauna Kea Weather Center, Institute for Astronomy

Rashed Chowdhury

Affiliate Researcher

• Ph.D., University of Tsukuba (Japan)
• emailname rashed
• Pacific ENSO Application Center (PEAC)

John N. Porter

Associate Researcher, Hawaii Instit. of Geophysics & Planetology, UH-Manoa

• Ph.D., Hawaii. Satellite and ground-based optical sensing of atmospheric aerosols.
• emailname johnport
• HIGP Projects Page | LIDAR Page | Satellite Images

Emeritus Faculty

Kevin P. Hamilton

• Ph.D., Princeton.  Dynamical meteorology, climate dynamics.
• emailname kph
• Atmospheric Sciences Dept. Page | IPRC Page

Thomas A. Schroeder

• Ph.D., Purdue.  Mesometeorology — severe local storms, flash flood meteorology, interactions of island with synoptic environments.
• emailname tas
• Research statement + recent publications | JIMAR

Bin Wang

Ph.D., Florida State.  Climate dynamics, geophysical fluid dynamics, and tropical meteorology.

• emailname wangbin
• Atmospheric Sciences Dept. Page | IPRC page
• Curriculum Vitae