Campbell Watson

domex 2011

For six weeks in 2011, the Wyoming King Air Research Aircraft was flying through the clouds above Dominica, a small volcanic island in the Lesser Antilles. The goals were to understand the physics of mountain-triggered convection and precipitation in the tropics, using Dominica as a natural laboratory, and develop datasets that could be used to test and improve numerical models of convection and precipitation in the tropics.

This research was performed during my postdoc at Yale University. Published papers include (click to read):

Processes Controlling Precipitation in Shallow, Orographic, Trade Wind Convection
Aerosol Impacts on Thermally Driven Orographic Convection

And here’s an interview I did with Quartz:

Cloud physics could be the key to understanding climate change