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Layer inflow into precipitating convection over the western tropical Pacific. DB Mechem, RA Houze Jr, SS Chen. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society: A journal of the …. , 2002....
Dave Mechem is known for The Shift (2023) and Unbroken: Path to Redemption (2018).
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I am a professor in the Atmospheric Science Program located in the Department of Geography. My group and I conduct research on cloud microphysics and dynamics, and mesoscale organization of cloud systems.
- Entrainment Uncertainties
- ‘A Fabulous Data Set’
- Confronting Cloud Transitions
- Entrainment’S General Physical Laws
- Storms, Stars, and Computers
- Phd Influences
- Biking, Baking, Bass Guitar Playing
Mechem and his team of graduate students are particularly interested in one facet of the dynamics of boundary-layer clouds: entrainment. This mixing process describes the movement of warm air into clouds from above and the sides. In the case of shallow cumulus, models estimate how turbulence patterns above and around these puffy clouds blend dry ai...
At least seven papers have emerged from the ASR entrainment project. Mechem is “particularly proud” of two. A 2019 paper quantifies entrainment estimates of marine stratocumulus clouds, a task so exceptionally difficult that Mechem calls it a “holy grail” for cloud researchers. Its lead author is Virendra Ghate, an ASR research veteran from Argonne...
A second “really cool” paper, says Mechem, was published in 2018 and co-authored by Mechem and researcher Scott Giangrandeof Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York. The study confronted the enigma of how shallow cumulus clouds transition to the deeper cloud types, such as cumulus congestus, which may produce rain. Tied in was the need to unders...
Historically, most modeling studies of entrainment are based on a few different marine environments. But Mechem has also researched continental locales, using data from both MC3E at the SGP and ARM’s Green Ocean Amazon (GoAmazon2014/15) field campaignin the rainforests of Brazil. “Ideally, what we’re after are general physical laws on how entrainme...
Mechem grew up in Oklahoma City, where “severe storms are part of life and part of culture,” he says. During his boyhood, Mechem also had an attraction to computers and a passion for astronomy. His father, a bookkeeper, may have established some impulse towards order and record-keeping that fed into Mechem’s later professional attraction to modelin...
In 1993, with his strong inclination to be a modeler still intact, Mechem started doctoral studies in atmospheric sciences at the University of Washington (PhD, 2003), where he studied with Robert A. Houze Jr. That relationship drew Mechem into the data world of the Tropical Ocean-Global Atmosphere (TOGA) Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Response Experimen...
A glimpse at Mechem’s Twitter-page description sums up his eccentrically complicated life: KU Atmospheric science professor, motorcycles, electric bass, baking, bicycling, F1, Moby Dick enthusiast, Oxford comma now and forever. “There are so many interesting things out there to do,” he says. Back in his Seattle graduate school days, Mechem met his ...
Jun 26, 2019 · David B. Mechem. Department of Geography and Atmospheric Science University of Kansas 1475 Jayhawk Blvd., Room 215 Lawrence, KS 66045-7613 Phone: 785-864-5707 Email: dmechem@ku.edu. Education. 2003 1993. Ph.D., Atmospheric Sciences B.S., summa cum laude, Meteorology with minor in Mathematics. University of Washington University of Oklahoma.
Feb 4, 2017 · David Mechem. @dbmechem. KU Atmospheric Science prof, motorcycles, electric bass, baking, bicycling, F1, Moby Dick enthusiast, Oxford comma now and forever. My views, not my employer's. Kansas, USA Joined February 2017. 945 Following. 428 Followers. Tweets & replies. Media. Likes. David Mechem Retweeted. Justin Pringle. @justinpringle_ ·. Nov 4.
Jan 18, 2017 · David Mechem is leading a new $525,000, three-year grant from the US Department of Energy to better understand the fundamental processes governing the behavior of shallow clouds.
