Research
ATG 622 (2007-10)
For my PhD work, I am thinking about the hydrologic cycle in modern climate and climate change. I find it illuminating to think about the problem from the perspective of the energy budgets of the top of atmosphere, atmosphere, and surface, globally. I like to tinker with radiative feedback kernels.
In the past, I have worked on a variety of topics, ranging from fog and hurricanes to climate feedbacks to paleoclimate, using a range of models from a 0-D toy model to output from full GCMs, with many doses of probabilistic thinking.
(GRL, pdf) Pendergrass, A.G. and D.L. Hartmann, 2012: Global-mean precipitation and black carbon in AR4 simulations. Geophysical Research Letters, 39, L01703, doi:10.1029/2011GL050067.
(Or read about it here)
(Masters thesis) Paleoclimate data assimilation (David Battisti, Greg Hakim, Gerard Roe)
In the past, I have worked on a variety of topics, ranging from fog and hurricanes to climate feedbacks to paleoclimate, using a range of models from a 0-D toy model to output from full GCMs, with many doses of probabilistic thinking.
PhD work at University of Washington - Department of Atmospheric Sciences
(pdf) Pendergrass, A.G. and D.L. Hartmann: The atmospheric energy constraint on global-mean precipitation change. Accepted at Journal of Climate.(GRL, pdf) Pendergrass, A.G. and D.L. Hartmann, 2012: Global-mean precipitation and black carbon in AR4 simulations. Geophysical Research Letters, 39, L01703, doi:10.1029/2011GL050067.
(Or read about it here)
Masters work at University of Washington - Department of Atmospheric Sciences
(J.Clim, pdf) Pendergrass, A.G., and G.J. Hakim, D.S. Battisti and G. Roe, 2012: Coupled air-mixed-layer temperature predictability for climate reconstruction. Journal of Climate, 25, 459–472.(Masters thesis) Paleoclimate data assimilation (David Battisti, Greg Hakim, Gerard Roe)