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Dr. Kenneth Bowman


Title Professor
Research Interests Atmospheric transport and mixing. Climate dynamics. Stratospheric ozone.
Education Ph.D., Princeton University
Office Location Room 1014A, O&M Bldg
Office Phone 979-862-4060
Fax 979-862-4466
E-mail k-bowman@tamu.edu
Mailing Address Department of Atmospheric Sciences
Texas A&M University
3150 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3150
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Research Programs

Atmospheric transport and mixing

My research in this area aims to develop a theory of the large-scale transport of atmospheric constituents, especially trace species such as ozone and water vapor, and of dynamical properties properties like potential vorticity. Currently we are using Green's function methods to diagnose the transport circulation of the troposphere and lower stratosphere.

Climate Dynamics

Current research involves the use of data from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite to understand climatic and dynamical processes in the tropical atmosphere. We are investigating the use of TRMM data to estimate the properties of tropical wave modes and oscillations.

Stratospheric ozone

This research primarily uses satellite data about ozone and other trace species to understand the chemical and dynamical processes responsible for ozone trends and fluctuations.

Recent Publications

Bowman, Kenneth P., 2005a. Comparison of TRMM precipitation retrievals with rain gauge data from ocean buoys, J. Climate, in press.

Collier, J. Craig, and Kenneth P. Bowman. Diurnal cycle of tropical precipitation in a general circulation model, J. Geophys. Res., 109, D17105, doi:10.1029/2004JD004818.

Cho, Hye-Kyung, and Kenneth P. Bowman, 2004. Equatorial waves including the Madden-Julian Oscillation in TRMM rainfall and OLR data, J. Climate, 17, 4387-4406.

Collier, J. Craig, Kenneth P. Bowman, and Gerald R. North, 2004. A comparison of tropical precipitation simulated by the Community Climate Model (CCM3) with that measured by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite, J. Climate, 17, 3319-3333.

Dexheimer, Darielle N., and Kenneth P. Bowman, 2004. Lagrangian methods for climatological analysis of regional atmospheric transport, J. Appl. Meteor., 43, 623-630.

Bowman, Kenneth P. and Tatiana Erukhimova, 2004. Comparison of global-scale Lagrangian transport properties of the NCEP Reanalysis and CCM3, J. Climate, 17, 1135-1146.

Bowman, Kenneth P., Amy B. Phillips, and Gerald R. North, 2003. Comparison of TRMM rainfall retrievals with rain gauge data from the TAO/TRITON buoy array, Geophys. Res. Lett., 30 (14), 1757, doi: 10.1029/2003GL017552.

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