: Shepson Atmospheric Chemistry Group: Purdue University

Austin Hope

Austin graduated from the University of Maryland under the guidance of Ross Salawitch and Tim Canty working with the linear-regression-based climate model originally by Tim Canty and Nora Mascioli, focusing on temperature trends in the modern historical observations and projections of temperature into the future.

Austin's work in the shepson lab focuses on modeling 3 New York City flights performed with the Airborne Laboratory for Atmospheric Research (ALAR) when flying over the Hudson River. The goal is to better understand how well the model can represent total turbulent kinetic energy (TKE), which controls mixing in the atmosphere. He runs the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model with various different settings and compares to measured data with ALAR to understand how different settings affect performance.  Of particular interest are the region of flights just downwind of Manhattan where the skyscrapers create noticeably higher TKE.

Email: austin.hope@stonybrook.edu