What is C.O.M.A.P?
The COMAP group focuses on improving the understanding and forecasting of meteorological phenomena in the coastal margins of North America. Many near-shore features, such as severe convective storms, storm surge, land/sea breeze circulations, orographic flows and precipitation, and marine clouds/fog in a marine environment are challenging to forecast. Our more recent efforts have focussed on the regional/future climate of extreme weather events over the Northeast U.S.
These phenomena are investigated using conventional data, field study observations, as well as atmospheric (Weather Research and Forecasting model) and ocean (ADCIRC and SWAN) models combined with the latest data assimilation (EnKF) approaches. We use CMIP5, statistical models, and nested WRF runs to determine how extreme weather will change in a future climate.