Johnson Research Group - Research

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Johnson Research Group

RESEARCH

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Some topics being investigated by the Johnson Research Group:

Midlatitude Convection
- organization of convection
- mesoscale convective vortices
- mesohighs/wake lows
- gravity currents/waves
- flash floods

Tropical Studies
- convective cloud populations
- tropical atmospheric boundary layer
- cloud-radiation interactions
- properties of the Madden-Julian Oscillation

Monsoon Processes
- latent heating distributions in the East Asian monsoon
- organization of monsoon convection
- diurnal cycle of convection
- Gulf of California surges

Our research is supported by NSF, NASA, and NOAA.