Christopher R. Terai

Graduate Research Assistant

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



About myself

I am a third year graduate student in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the Unviersity of Washington. I work with Dr. Robert Wood to study the interactions between aerosol particles, clouds, and precipitation. More specifically, I have been analyzing aircraft data from the VOCALS Regional Experiment.



Research Interests
Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation Interactions

My research has been motivated by the broad 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. In my current research I am concentrating on one of the many pathways in which aerosols can affect clouds and am looking at how aerosol particles affect drizzle properties and how drizzle can then in turn affect marine stratocumulus clouds over the southeast Pacific.




Pictures from VOCALS
Stratocumulus cloud deck and sunrise as seen from the NSF/NCAR C-130. NSF/NCAR C-130

                                                                                      last update: 4th May 2011