Hunter Brown
Atmospheric Science
Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Education:
- B.Sc., Environmental Science, University of Alaska Southeast (UAS), Juneau, AK, 2015
- M.Sc., Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, 2017
- Ph.D., Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, 2020
- Postdoc, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 2021
- Postdoc, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, 2021-2024
- Postdoc, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, 2024-Present
Research Interests: Aerosol-radiation and aerosol-cloud interactions; using observational data to improve representation of sub-grid scale aerosol and cloud parameterizations within Earth-system models; generation of and analysis of perturbed parameter ensembles (PPEs) to diagnose parameteric and structural uncertainty in Earth-system models.
Selected Publications:
- Jones, Dani, Brown, Hunter, et al., Surface observations from Atmospheric Radiation Measurement sites constrain the anthropogenic contribution to cloud droplet number, Geophysical Research Letters, (in review)
- Nugent, Jacqueline, Brown, Hunter, et al., Overview of the Nephele Perturbed Parameter Ensemble for aerosol-cloud interactions in E3SMv3, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, (in review)
- Brown, Hunter, et al. Validating a microphysical prognostic stratospheric aerosol implementation in E3SMv2 using observations after the Mount Pinatubo eruption, Geophysical Model Development, 2024.
- Brown, Hunter, et al. Brown Carbon Fuel and Emission Source Attributions to Global Snow Darkening Effect. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 2022
- Brown, Hunter, et al. Biomass Burning Aerosols in Most Climate Models are Too Absorbing. Nature Communications, 2021.
- Brown, Hunter, et al. Radiative Forcing and Climate Impacts of Brown Carbon with the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM). Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2018.
