Kooperman Research Group

Kooperman Research Lab Members posing

Our Mission -  We use advanced Earth system models and innovative simulation techniques to study the water cycle, focusing on a variety of convective storm types and characteristics of precipitation that impact the availability of freshwater, drought, floods, heat, and removal of air pollution.

Current Students - Alison Banks, Alana Cordak, Ashley Cornish, Wei-Ching Hsu

Lab Site- https://kooperman.uga.edu

 

 

 

Our Projects 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Investigating the role of land-surface conditions on landfalling tropical cyclones and the preceding processes that influence antecedent soil moisture and temperature on S2S timescales

 U.S. Department of Energy: Evaluating the influence of plant-climate interactions and feedbacks on hydrologic cycling: quantifying and validating the roles of plant processes and stomatal conductance 

U.S. Department of Energy: Simulating extreme precipitation in the U.S. in the Energy Exascale Earth System Model: Investigating the importance of representing convective intensity versus dynamic structure 

 

In the News 

10 students, alumni win NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

https://news.uga.edu/10-students-alumni-win-nsf-graduate-research-fellowships 

 

New Interdisciplinary Seed Grants will support UGA’s Great Commitments

https://news.uga.edu/new-interdisciplinary-seed-grants-2019

 

UGA part of $10M weather and climate project

https://news.uga.edu/uga-10m-grant-weather-project

 

Related Courses

ATSC 4100/6100: Programming for Atmospheric Scientists

GEOG 8130: Modeling Earth’s Climate System

 

Contact Information

Gabe Kooperman

kooperman@uga.edu