Email: cdavis@ucar.edu
Phone: 303-497-8990
Postal Address: P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO, 80307-3000
Shipping Address: 3450 Mitchell Lane, Boulder, CO, 80307-3000

Professional Interests

If it is mesoscale and it rotates, I am interested in it. This includes hurricanes, but also mesoscale convective systems with rotation. I am especially intruiged by the interplay between high frequency convective motions and low frequency rotational structures. I also am interested in how models simulate these behaviors. Moreover, I am pursuing new ways to evaluate mesoscale models for a variety of problems.

Recent Publications

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Davis, C. A., Wang, W., Chen, S., Chen, Y., Corbosiero, K., DeMaria, M., Dudhia, J., Holland, G., Klemp, J., Michalakes, J., Reeves, H., Rotunno, R., Xiao, Q., 2008: Prediction of landfalling hurricanes with the advanced hurricane WRF model. Monthly Weather Review. (In Press).

Davis, C. A., Snyder, C. S., Didlake, A. C., 2007: A vortex-based perspective of eastern Pacific tropical cyclone formation. Monthly Weather Review. (Submitted).

Musgrave, K. D., Davis, C. A., Montgomery, M. T., 2007: Numerical simulations of the formation of Hurricane Gabrielle (2001). Monthly Weather Review. (In Press).

Pan, L. L., Bowman, K. P., Shapiro, M., Randel, W. J., Gao, R. S., Campos, T., Davis, C., Schauffler, S., Ridley, B. A., Wei, J. C., Barnet, C., 2007: Chemical behavior of the tropopause observed during the Stratosphere-Troposphere Analysis of Regional Transport experiment. Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, doi: 10.1029/2007JD008645, D18110.

Trier, S. B., Chen, F., Manning, K. W., Lemone, M. A., Davis, C. A., 2007: Sensitivity of the PBL and precipitation in 12-day simulations of warm-season convection using different land surface models and soil wetness conditions. Monthly Weather Review. (Submitted).


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