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Associate Professor of Nephology* Department of Meteorology University of Utah |
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CV Meteorology Department
| The earth's climate exhibits tightly interwoven processes covering vast scales in time and space. Clouds in particular play a vital role, by removing pollutants, and by acting as pistons in the atmospheric heat engine. However, the extraordinary complexity of clouds has meant that their exact role in the earth's climate, and how climate will change, largely remains a mystery. Is the problem fundamentally simple or impossibly complex? A small group I lead is trying to tease from clouds their importance to various atmospheric chemical, dynamic and radiative processes. |
Selected publications
Garrett, T. J. Observational quantification of the optical properties of cirrus cloud. Chapter in Light Scat-Garrett, T. J., L. Avey, P. I. Palmer, A. Stohl, J. A. Neuman, C. A. Brock, T. B. Ryerson, and J. S. Holloway, 2006: Quantifying wet scavenging processes in aircraft observations of Nitric Acid and CCN. J. Geophys. Res. D23S51, doi:10.1029/2006JD007416 PDF
Garrett, T. J. and C. Zhao, 2006: Increased Arctic cloud longwave emissivity associated with pollution from mid-latitudes. Nature, 440, 10.1038/nature04636, 787-789 HTML PDF
Garrett, T. J., J. Dean-Day, C. Liu, B. K. Barnett, G. G. Mace, D. B. Baumgardner, C. R. Webster, T. P. Bui, W. B. Read, and P. Minnis 2006: Convective formation of pileus cloud near the tropopause Atmos. Chem. Phys. 6, 1185-1200 PDF
Garrett, T. J., B. C. Navarro, C. H. Twohy, E. J. Jensen, D. G. Baumgardner, T. P Bui, H. Gerber, R. L. Herman, A. J. Heymsfield, P. Lawson, P. Minnis, L. Nguyen, M. Poellot, S. K. Pope, F. P. J. Valero, and E. Weinstock 2005: Evolution of a Florida cirrus anvil, J. Atmos. Sci., 62, 2352–2372. PDF
Garrett, T. J., H. Gerber, D. G. Baumgardner, D. G., C. H. Twohy, and E. M. Weinstock, 2003: Small, highly reflective ice crystals in low-latitude cirrus. Geophys. Res. Let., 30, 2132, doi:10.1029/2003GL018153. PDF
*Really just Assoc. Prof., but nephology is a wonderful, though neglected 19th century word meaning "the study of clouds"