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- Strategic Goals: Science, Facilities & Technology
- 1. Exploring atmospheric, Earth system, and solar processes, variability, and change
- 2. Investigating the interaction of the atmosphere, the broader Earth system, and human society
- 3. Improving prediction of weather, climate, and other atmospheric phenomena
- 4. Developing community models
- 5. Enabling innovative field experiments and measurement campaigns
- 6. Developing new instrumentation
- Research Catalog
William (Bill) Hall
General Information
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RAL &
TIIMES
Associate Scientist
Contact Information:
PO Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000
Office: FL3 - 3033
Telephone: 303-497-8976
Email: hallb@ucar.edu
Vita
Research Focus FY08:
Google Earth flight path for START-08.
High resolution figure
UTLS-TIMES
Work with Laura Pan on the Upper Troposphere-Lower Stratosphere (UTLS) project performing chemical transport analysis in the tropopause region using available model, aircraft, and satellite data sources.
He has also working on the following projects with the external & internal collaborators listed:
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Modeling Cloud-Aerosol interactions with detailed particle and hydrometer spectra: W.W Wobrock and A.I Flossmann, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Modeling winter time snow clouds over the Japan Sea: Masatak Murakami Meteorological Research Institute, Ibaraki JAPAN
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Modeling aerosol effects on precipitation formation:- Roelof Bruintjes, RAL, NCAR.
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The development of an improved two-moment microphysical scheme with improved
aerosol physics: Richard Farley , Institute of Atmospheric Sciences, South Dakota School of Mines
and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota
RAL - Modeling Aircraft Turbulence Events
Bill works with Bob Sharman on modeling aircraft turbulence events using high resolution meso-scale models.
Field Programs FY08:
START-08
I parcipitated in the Stratosphere-Troposphere Analyses of Regional Transport (START-08) Field project by providing forecasting and data merging support during and after the project, 21 April - 28 June 2008.
Community Service FY08:
- Thesis Committee: Delphine Leroy, , PhD, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand II, FRA
Publications FY08:
Thompson, G., P. R. Field, R. M. Rasmussen, W. D. Hall, 2008: Explicit forecasts of winter precipitation using an improved bulk microphysics scheme. Part II: Implementation of a new snow parameterization. Mon. Wea. Rev., doi: 10.1175/2008MWR2387.1. (In Press)