COURTNEY SCHUMACHER, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Department of Atmospheric Sciences
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-3150
Tel: (979) 845-5522, Fax: (979) 862-4466
Email: courtney@ariel.met.tamu.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, 2003
M.S., Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, 2000
B.A., Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, 1994

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University, Fall 2003 - present
  • Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Fall 1996 - Spring 2003
  • Editor, King Mahendra Trust for Nature Conservation, Nepal, Fall 1995 - Spring 1996
  • Intern, W. Alton Jones Foundation, Charlottesville VA, Fall 1994
  • Fire Weather Technician, National Weather Service, Fairbanks AK, Summer 1994

    FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

  • Texas A&M College of Geosciences Robert C. Runnels Excellence in Advising Award, 2007
  • Texas A&M Fish Camp Namesake, 2007
  • NASA New Investigator Program Award, 2006
  • NSF CAREER Award, 2005
  • NASA/GSFC Summer Faculty Fellow, 2004
  • NASA Earth System Science Graduate Fellowship, 2001-3
  • Student fellowship to the 1st AMS/UCAR Summer Policy Colloquium, 2001

    FIELD PROGRAM EXPERIENCE

  • DOE Tropical Warm Pool-International Cloud Experiment (TWP-ICE), Darwin, Australia, 2006
  • NASA Kwajalein Experiment (KWAJEX), Marshall Islands, 1999
  • NOAA Tropical Eastern Pacific Process Study (TEPPS), 8 N 125 W, 1997

    PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

  • American Geophysical Union
  • American Meteorological Society
  • Committee for the Geotis Prize (33rd International Conference on Radar Meteorology), 2007
  • AMS Committee of Judges for Undergraduate Awards, 2006-2010
  • Max Eaton committee (26th + 27th Conferences on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology), 2004 + 2006

    • PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

  • Hopper, L. J., and C. Schumacher, 2008: Baroclinicity influences on storm divergence and stratiform rain: Subtropical upper-level disturbances. Mon. Wea. Rev., submitted.
  • Jakob, C., and C. Schumacher, 2008: Precipitation and latent heating characteristics of the major Tropical Western Pacific cloud regimes. J. Climate, accepted.
  • Schumacher, C., P. E. Ciesielski, and M. H. Zhang, 2008: Tropical cloud heating profiles: Analysis from KWAJEX. Mon. Wea. Rev., accepted.
  • Frederick, K., and C. Schumacher, 2008: Anvil characteristics as seen by C-POL during the Tropical Warm Pool International Cloud Experiment (TWP-ICE). Mon. Wea. Rev., 136, 206-222.
  • Casey, S. P. F., A. E. Dessler, and C. Schumacher, 2007: Frequency of tropical precipitating clouds as observed by the TRMM PR and ICESat/GLAS. J. Geophys. Res., 112, D14215, doi:10.1029/2007JD008468.
  • Schumacher, C., M. H. Zhang, and P. E. Ciesielski , 2007: Heating structures of the TRMM field campaigns. J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 2593-2610.
  • Schumacher, C., and R. A. Houze Jr., 2006: Stratiform precipitation production over sub-Saharan Africa and the tropical East Atlantic as observed by TRMM. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 132, 2235-2255.
  • Schumacher, C., R. A. Houze Jr., and I. Kraucunas, 2004: The tropical dynamical response to latent heating estimates derived from the TRMM Precipitation Radar. J. Atmos. Sci., 61, 1341-1358.
  • Houze, R. A., Jr, S. Brodzik, C. Schumacher, S. E. Yuter, and C. R. Williams, 2004: Uncertainties in oceanic radar rain maps at Kwajalein and implications for satellite validation. J. Appl. Meteor., 43, 1114-1132.
  • Schumacher, C., and R. A. Houze Jr., 2003: The TRMM Precipitation Radar's view of shallow, isolated rain. J. Appl. Meteor., 42, 1519-1524.
  • Schumacher, C., and R. A. Houze Jr., 2003: Stratiform rain in the tropics as seen by the TRMM Precipitation Radar. J. Climate, 16, 1739-1756.
  • Schumacher, C., and R. A. Houze Jr., 2000: Comparison of radar data from the TRMM satellite and Kwajalein oceanic validation site. J. Appl. Meteor., 39, 2151-2164.

    SELECTED OTHER PUBLICATIONS

  • Hopper, L. J., and C. Schumacher, 2007: Baroclinicity influences on storm divergence in the subtropics. 87th AMS Annual Meeting, 14-19 January, San Antonio, TX.
  • Schumacher, C., 2006: Shallow tropical convection: How often does it rain? Conference Notebook in Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 87, 23-24.
  • Brugman, K. E., and C. Schumacher, 2005: Variations in drop-size distributions associated with the degree of baroclinicity of the environment. 11th Conference on Mesoscale Processes, 24-29 October, Albuquerque, NM.

    FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS

  • NASA New Investigator Program: Interannual Variations in Tropical Convection: The Long-term TRMM Precipitation Radar Data Set, 8/1/2006-7/31/2009, PI
  • DOE ARM: Hydrometeors Injected into the Large-scale Environment by Tropical Cloud Systems, 2/1/2006-1/31/2009, PI
  • NSF CAREER: Diabatic Heating in the Subtropics, 5/01/05-4/30/10, PI

    CURRENT GRADUATE STUDENTS

  • Larry Hopper
  • Celina Hernandez
  • Wei Li
  • Justin Stachnik
  • Elinor Martin
  • Sean Casey (co-chair with Andy Dessler)

    FORMER GRADUATE STUDENTS

  • Kaycee Frederick (M.S., 2006)
  • Karen Brugman (M.S., 2007)

    COURSES

  • ATMO 201 Atmospheric Science: Spring 2006
  • ATMO 459 Tropical Meteorology: Spring 2004, Fall 2004, Fall 2005, Fall 2006
  • ATMO 489 Radar Meteorology: Fall 2007
  • ATMO 656 Tropical Meteorology: Fall 2004, Spring 2007
  • ATMO 291/491 Undergraduate Research (SOAP): Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008