Associate Professor of Nephology*
Department of Meteorology
University of Utah
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Associate Professor of Nephology* Department of Meteorology University of Utah |
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Beginning Aug 1 2008 through July 31, 2009 I will be at the Laboratoire d'Optique Atmospherique in Lille, France. Email is the same however
Publications Field Projects Teaching Group Research Available positions
CV Meteorology Department
| The earth's
climate displays many tightly interwoven processes that cover vast scales in time and space. Clouds play a particularly vital role, by removing pollutants, and by acting
as pistons in the atmospheric heat engine. The extraordinary complexity of clouds has meant that their
exact role in the earth's climate remains largely 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. With my group, we have several main research areas. The below is a selection. The global economy and its carbon dioxide emissions as a simple heat engine Garrett, T. J. Are there basic physical constraints on future anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide? ArXiV, arXiv:0811.1855v1 Link The effects of mid-latitude pollution on clouds radiative properties in the Arctic and mid-latitudesGarrett, T. J. and L. Verzella, 2008: An evolving history of Arctic aerosols. Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc., 89, 299–302 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 Avey, L., T. J. Garrett, A. Stohl, 2007: Evaluation of the aerosol indirect effect using satellite, tracertransport model, and aircraft data from ICARTT, J. Geophys. Res. 112, D10S33, doi:10.1029/2006JD007581 HTML PDF The microphysical and optical properties of ice crystals in cirrus cloudGarrett, T. J. Observational quantification of the optical properties of cirrus cloud. Chapter in Light Scat- tering Reviews, Vol. 3, Praxis, A. Kokhanovsky, ed., 2008 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 The role of radiative heating in the dynamic evolution of cloudsGarrett, T. J., M. A. Zulauf, and S. K. Krueger, 2006: Effects of cirrus near the tropopause on anvil cirrus dynamics, Geophys. Res. Lett, 33, L17804, doi:10.1029/2006GL027071 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 Remote sensing of cloud properties using visible, infrared and microwave techniquesZhao, C., and T. J. Garrett, 2008: Ground-based remote sensing of precipitation in the Arctic, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D14204, doi:10.1029/2007JD009222 HTML PDF Production of thin cirrus near the tropical tropopauseGarrett, 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 The removal of pollutants from the atmosphere by precipitationGarrett, 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 Airborne instrument performance |
*Really just Assoc. Prof., but nephology is a wonderful, though neglected 19th century word meaning "the study of clouds"