Our Mission - We use advanced Earth system models and innovative simulation techniques to study the water cycle, focusing on a variety of convective storm types and characteristics of precipitation that impact the availability of freshwater, drought, floods, heat, and removal of air pollution.
Current Students - Alison Banks, Alana Cordak, Ashley Cornish, Wei-Ching Hsu
Lab Site- https://kooperman.uga.edu
Our Projects
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Investigating the role of land-surface conditions on landfalling tropical cyclones and the preceding processes that influence antecedent soil moisture and temperature on S2S timescales
U.S. Department of Energy: Evaluating the influence of plant-climate interactions and feedbacks on hydrologic cycling: quantifying and validating the roles of plant processes and stomatal conductance
U.S. Department of Energy: Simulating extreme precipitation in the U.S. in the Energy Exascale Earth System Model: Investigating the importance of representing convective intensity versus dynamic structure
In the News
10 students, alumni win NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
https://news.uga.edu/10-students-alumni-win-nsf-graduate-research-fellowships
New Interdisciplinary Seed Grants will support UGA’s Great Commitments
https://news.uga.edu/new-interdisciplinary-seed-grants-2019
UGA part of $10M weather and climate project
https://news.uga.edu/uga-10m-grant-weather-project
Related Courses
ATSC 4100/6100: Programming for Atmospheric Scientists
GEOG 8130: Modeling Earth’s Climate System
Contact Information
Gabe Kooperman
