Travis Allen O'Brien Research Scientist

Research within Travis’ group focuses on understanding the fundamental physical processes that control weather and climate phenomena that impact human and natural systems.

This research focuses on the broad questions of:

1. What causes characteristics of different weather types to vary from year to year?
2. How well do different modeling approaches simulate different weather types?
3. How will anthropogenic climate change affect specific weather types?

Expertise:

• Atmospheric Sciences
• Boundary Layer Processes
• Coastal Processes
• Coupled Models of the Climate System
• Extreme Events
• Fractals and Multifractals
• Ocean Fog
• Regional and Global Modeling
• Regional Climate Change
• Statistical Analysis.

Research Interests

• Human and natural systems are roughly in equilibrium with the statistics of how, when and where weather occurs. Changes in these statistics—of climate—can have dramatic effects on these systems: whether the changes are due to natural climate variability or due to long-term trends.

Research:

• Clouds: from fog to cirrus anvils
• Rain from local to global scales
• Community Impact.