Graduate Research Assistant

University of Washington
Department of Atmospheric Sciences
713 ATG Building
Seattle, WA
terai at atmos.washington.edu

Much of my research has been motivated by the broader question, “How do aerosol particles in the atmosphere affect cloud properties?” The many feedbacks between the aerosol particles, cloud microphysics, and cloud dynamics make studying these interactions both difficult and interesting. To simplify things, I have concentrated on one of the many pathways in which aerosols can affect clouds and have been looking at how how aerosol particles affect drizzle properties and how drizzle can in turn affect marine stratocumulus clouds over the southeast Pacific.