Hunter Brown
Atmospheric Science
Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Advisor: Daniel McCoy
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, D., Brown, H., et al., Surface observations from Atmospheric Radiation Measurement sites constrain the anthropogenic contribution to cloud droplet number, Geophys. Res. Lett. (in review).
- Nugent, J., Brown, H., et al., Overview of the Nephele Perturbed Parameter Ensemble for aerosol-cloud interactions in E3SMv3, J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst. (in review).
- Brown, H., et al., Validating a microphysical prognostic stratospheric aerosol implementation in E3SMv2 using observations after the Mount Pinatubo eruption, Geosci. Model Dev., 2024, doi:10.5194/gmd-17-5087-2024.
- Brown, H., et al., Brown Carbon Fuel and Emission Source Attributions to Global Snow Darkening Effect. J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 2022, doi:10.1029/2021MS002768.
- Brown, H., et al., Biomass Burning Aerosols in Most Climate Models are Too Absorbing. Nat. Commun., 2021, doi:10.1038/s41467-020-20482-9.
- Brown, H., et al., Radiative effect and climate impacts of brown carbon with the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM). Atmo. Chem. Phys., 2018, doi:10.5194/acp-18-17745-2018.
