Mesoscale Modeling
Together with his several students who provided coding expertise as well as original scientific insights (including Chaing Chen, Piotr J. Flatau, Michael D. Moran, Jerome Schmidt, Craig J. Tremback, Gregory Tripoli) he developed one of the first comprehensive mesoscale weather forecast models in the US - the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System. This modelling system was subsequently merged with a smaller subset of the code based on the mesoscale model developed independently by Roger A. Pielke for his Ph. D. research related to sea breeze studies and subsequently with his students at the Colorado State University. The Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS) has been used as a basis for other weather forecast. He has indicated skepticism of the level of anthropogenic global warming, stating that it is an open question if human produced changes in climate are large enough to be detected from the noise of the natural variability of the climate system.
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