Visiting Fellow, CIRES;
Ph.D., Colorado State University, 2008

Remote sensing; clouds and precipitation; radiation; satellite meteorology.

DSRC 3B708
CIRES/NOAA
303-497-4817
anita.d.rapp@noaa.gov

My research interests are in the remote sensing of clouds and precipitation and their application in studying the hydrologic cycle, energy budget and climate change. Currently my focus is on combining data from multiple satellite sensors, microwave, visible/infrared, and radar, to investigate the role of warm rain systems in the Tropics. This work entails studying the influence of environmental variables, such as SST and water vapor, on the microphysical and radiative properties of these clouds, as well as how changes to warm rain clouds might in turn affect the recycling time scales for deep convective events in the Tropics, such as tropical-depression type disturbances.

Publications

Full Curriculum Vitae

Kummerow Research Group

Rapp, A. D., M. Lebsock, and C. Kummerow: On the Consequences of Resampling Microwave Radiometer Observations for Use in Retrieval Algorithms. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, in press.

Rapp, A. D., L. Fowler, and C. Kummerow: Interactions Between Warm Rain Clouds and Atmospheric Preconditioning in Tropical Disturbances. In prep for submission to JGR--Atmopsheres.

Rapp, A. D., C. Kummerow, W. Berg, and B. Griffith, 2005: An Evaluation of the Proposed Mechanism of the Adaptive Infrared Iris Hypothesis Using TRMM VIRS and PR Measurements. J. Climate, 18(20), 4185-4194.

Rapp, A. D., C. Kummerow, W. Berg, B. Griffith, 2005: Shedding Light on the Adaptive Infrared Iris Hypothesis. Bull. Amer. Met. Soc., 86(12), 1727-1728.