Assistant Professor

Meteorology

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Email: mikael.witte@nps.edu

Professor Mikael Witte studies clouds, precipitation and convection. He uses observations from aircraft and remote sensing platforms to gain a better understanding of the physical processes driving clouds and precipitation, and applies that knowledge to develop simplified representations of these processes in numerical models of the atmosphere.

Dr. Witte's research interests are at the interface of cloud microphysics and boundary layer turbulence. He uses a broad suite of observations (airborne cloud measurements, ground-based remote sensing and space-borne remote sensing) and very high-resolution simulations to understand the physical processes governing evolution of clouds. These insights are then implemented in numerical weather prediction models to improve the representations of cloud and turbulence processes.

Dr. Witte teaches a variety of courses in meteorology and atmospheric science including: cloud physics; fundamentals of numerical weather prediction systems; atmospheric thermodynamics and radiation; remote sensing; and midlatitude synoptic meteorology.