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An abiding interest in atmospheric convection constitutes the
single most important thread running though my work in the
atmospheric sciences. Observational programs over the years have
been inspirational in my studies of this subject. Early in my
career I worked on simplified models of mesoscale convective
systems, starting with studies of the Tradewind showers occurring
off the east coast of the Island of Hawaii, where I lived at the
time. After moving to New Mexico in 1973, I worked in
observational programs related to convection over New Mexico
mountains. This led to the development and verification of ideas
about vertical mixing in shallow convection. In 1991 I
participated in a seminal field program on tropical cyclogenesis
called TEXMEX, which was based in Acapulco, Mexico. This project
was led by Kerry Emanuel of MIT and resulted in the development
of many of the ideas that have been refined and extended in
recent work. In 2001 I led another project based in Mexico,
EPIC2001, which studied (among other things) the climatology of
ITCZ convection in the east Pacific south of Huatulco, where the
project was based. This followed earlier field work during TOGA
COARE (Solomon Islands, 1992) and HaRP (Hilo, Hawaii, 1990). Most
recently, the T-PARC/TCS08 program in the western Pacific (2008)
and the PREDICT program in the western Atlantic and Caribbean
(2010) have been fertile ground for the development of new ideas
related to the formation of tropical cyclones. A related thread
has been the effort to understand how convection works in the
context of large-scale tropical motions. This has led to an
effort to develop a parameterization of convection for
large-scale atmospheric models that is constrained by the results
of cloud-resolving models of convection. Observations of
convection in various field programs have been instrumental in
providing real world checks on this modeling.
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El Dr. Raymond obtuvo el doctorado en Física por la Universidad de Stanford. Su campo de investigación es el estudio de la formación de ciclones tropicales, huracanes y tifones, también la formación de tormentas eléctricas y la interacción océano-atmósfera en el Pacífico tropical del este. El Dr. Raymond trabajó en la Universidad de Hawaii y en la actualidad es investigador en el Institute of Mining and Technology, en Nuevo México.
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