# overview
My primary research goals are (1) investigate the relationship between lightning source/flash rates and precipitation/flooding events in the Houston Metropolitan Area and communities along the Texas Gulf Coast, (2) analyze the long-term aerosol impacts on low-level and deep convective cloud development, and (3) discern the possible impacts of biomass burning smoke aerosols on severe weather and lightning.

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5102 Atomic, Molecular And Optical Physics

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4009 Electronics, Sensors And Digital Hardware

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University of North Dakota - (Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States)

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University of Virginia - (Charlottesville, Virginia, United States)

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University of North Dakota - (Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States)

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New WMO Certified Megaflash Lightning Extremes for Flash Distance and Duration Recorded from Space

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Anomalous Lightning Behavior During the 26-27 August 2007 Northern Great Plains Severe Weather Event

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Assessing Radiative Impacts of African Smoke Aerosols over the Southeastern Atlantic Ocean

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Assessing Radiative Impacts of African Smoke Aerosols Over the Southeastern Atlantic Ocean

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Effects of Atmospheric Profiles on Sonic Boom Perceived Level from Supersonic Vehicles

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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

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Occurrence of Rare Lightning Events During Hurricane Nicholas (2021)

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Biomass burning smoke and deep convection during the 2011 midlatitude continental convective louds experiment (MC3E)

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A Comparison of the Mineral Dust Absorptive Properties between Two Asian Dust Events

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Examining Intrinsic Aerosol-Cloud Interactions in South Asia Through Multiple Satellite Observations

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Biomass burning aerosol properties over the Northern Great Plains during the 2012 warm season

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Classification and investigation of Asian aerosol absorptive properties

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Impacts of long-range transport of aerosols on marine-boundary-layer clouds in the eastern North Atlantic

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Linear segmentation algorithm for detecting layer boundary with lidar.

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A study of Asian dust plumes using satellite, surface, and aircraft measurements during the INTEX-B field experiment

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Dust aerosol impact on the retrieval of cloud top height from satellite observations of CALIPSO, CloudSat and MODIS

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Aerosol properties and their influences on marine boundary layer cloud condensation nuclei at the ARM mobile facility over the Azores

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Quantifying Long-Term Seasonal and Regional Impacts of North American Fire Activity on Continental Boundary Layer Aerosols and Cloud Condensation Nuclei

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Seasonal and spatial variations in aerosol vertical distribution and optical properties over China from long-term satellite and groundbased remote sensing

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Distinctive aerosol-cloud-precipitation interactions in marine boundary layer clouds from the ACE-ENA and SOCRATES aircraft field campaigns

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Environmental effects on aerosol-cloud interaction in non-precipitating marine boundary layer (MBL) clouds over the eastern North Atlantic

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Classification and investigation of Asian aerosol properties

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Impacts of Saharan Dust on Atlantic Regional Climate and Implications for Tropical Cyclones

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Electrified deep convection and rare lightning events infer rapid intensification during Hurricane Nicholas (2021)

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Laboratory measurements of light scattering properties of kaolinite dust at 532nm

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Determinant Role of Aerosols From Industrial Sources in Hurricane Harvey's Catastrophe

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Aerosol properties and their impacts on surface CCN at the ARM Southern Great Plains site during the 2011 Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment

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Investigation of aerosol-cloud interactions under different absorptive aerosol regimes using Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) southern Great Plains (SGP) ground-based measurements

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Investigation of Aerosol-Cloud Interactions under Different Absorptive Aerosol Regimes using ARM SGP Ground-Based Measurements

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Impacts of Long-range Transport of Aerosols on Marine Boundary Layer Clouds in the Eastern North Atlantic

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Distinctive aerosol-cloud-precipitation interactions in marine boundary layer clouds from the ACE-ENA and SOCRATES aircraft field campaigns

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Aerosol vertical distribution and optical properties over China from long-term satellite and ground-based remote sensing

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An Analysis of the Performance of the Houston Lightning Mapping Array During an Intense Period of Convection During Tropical Storm Harvey

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Wildfire Impact on Environmental Thermodynamics and Severe Convective Storms

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Collaborative Research: Experiment of Sea Breeze Convection, Aerosols, Precipitation and Environment (ESCAPE)

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Directorate for Geosciences - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Collaborative Research: Contrasting the Effects of Aerosols on Marine Boundary Layer (MBL) Cloud-precipitation Properties and Processes in Boreal and Austral Mid-latitude Regions

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Directorate for Geosciences - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Collaborative Research: Evaluating the Influences of Aerosols on Low-level Cloud-precipitation Properties over Land and Ocean Using Long-term Ground-based-Observations and WRF Simulations

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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How The Saharan Dust Plume Affects North America