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Affiliation: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA Project Mentees: Armand Kablan , Ayuna Santika

Affiliation: University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA Project Mentees: Odinaka Echeta

In September 2022, Hurricane Fiona had impacts in the Caribbean, on Bermuda, and in Canada. NASA's satellites and science algorithms helped to monitor this hurricane in near real time.

Overview: Understanding the relationship between aerosols and the fuel that govern deep convective storm events can significantly improve meteorologists’ and scientific researchers’ capacity to predict and monitor these severe weather events. For this project, I am analyzing shallow, deep convective and stratiform events over Central Kalimantan using GPM DPR data and comparing it to the amount of atmospheric aerosols using AOD retrievals from ground based measurements provided by AERONET. Mentors: Aaron Funk , Courtney Schumacher

Overview: Numerous isolated precipitation features (PFs) can have similar rain intensities as organized ones and thus have potential to cause catastrophic flooding, landslides, and infrastructure damage. Understanding more about the properties of these storm systems can help improve forecast analysis, and improve mitigation and disaster response. For this project, I am doing a global analysis to sort out when and where high intensity isolated PFs were formed using GPM DPR data and indirect measurements of latent heating from GPM. Mentor: Chuntao Liu