Atmospheric Science

College of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Adam Majewski, PhD student

Room 6056, Engineering Building
email: amajewsk@uwyo.edu

Advisor:

Jeff French

Research Topic: Cloud Microphysics and Precipitation Dynamics

My dissertation research focuses on the role of kilometer-scale or finer vertical velocity variations on cloud hydrometeor spectrum development and spatial precipitation response utilizing observations from the in-situ dynamic, thermodynamic, and cloud/precipitation probes and remote profiling cloud radar/lidar data of the UWKA.

Future research questions include: How do hydrometeor size distributions respond to kilometer-scale vertical velocity fluctuations in an idealized model setting? Are coarser bulk models sensitive to this hydrometeor/precipitation response? If this dynamic scale is not explicitly resolved, what can observations tell us about how may this be parameterized at subgrid scales?

Education:

• B.Sc. Chemical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 2015
• M.Sc. Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming, 2019

Publications:

• Majewski, A. and French, J. R.: Supercooled Drizzle Development in Response to Semi-Coherent Vertical Velocity Fluctuations Within an Orographic Layer Cloud, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2019-717, in review, 2019.