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Shu-Hua Chen

Title: Associate Professor
Email Address: shachen@ucdavis.edu
Web Site: http://atm.ucdavis.edu/mmg
Telephone: 530-752-1822
FAX: 530-752-1793

Home Department: Land, Air, and Water Resources

Graduate Programs

• Atmospheric Science
• Applied Mathematics
• Atmospheric Aerosols & Health

Areas of Research

• Urban and Regional Smog - Numerical modeling of long-range transport and the source-receptor relationship.
• Global Climate Change - Regional climate changes in temperature, rainfall distribution, and the frequency of cyclones and anticyclones.

Research Summary

• My research involves data assimilation, heavy orographic rainfall, and pollutant transport. Remote sensing data, such as SSM/I, QuikSCAT, MODIS, and radar are used to improve severe weather simulations and forecasts. The effects of the moist Froude number and the convective available potential energy on flow regimes associated with a conditionally unstable flow over a mesoscale mountain are investigated using idealized simulations. A tracer model based on a mesoscale model has been developed to study the source-receptor relationship and long-range transport.

Teaching Summary

• I teach weather observation and analysis (ATM110) at the undergraduate level and mesoscale meteorology (ATM250) and numerical modeling of the atmosphere (ATM255) at the graduate level.