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Carl J. Schreck, III
carl@cicsnc.org
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100: The Atmosphere
I
am currently a postdoctoral research associate at the Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites,
which is a partnership between North Carolina State University and NOAA’s National Climate Data Center in
Asheville, NC. I recently
completed my Ph.D. with Dr. John Molinari at the University at Albany in the Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences.
My
dissertation research investigated the role of convectively coupled equatorial
waves in tropical cyclogenesis. I identified these waves using multisatellite
rainfall estimates from the NASA Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM). My
research interests include tropical cyclogenesis, equatorial waves, the
Madden–Julian Oscillation, and the El Niño–Southern Oscillation.
Before
going to Albany, I earned his B. S. degree in meteorology at North Carolina
State University. As an undergraduate, I researched the climate variability of
rainfall over eastern Africa. I also participated in an undergraduate research
experience at the University of Maryland where I examined the structures of
hurricanes using high-resolution model output.
The satellite picture above
shows an interesting set of tropical cyclone twins (in this case
“triplets”). All three storms formed at
roughly the same longitude, with the storms in the Northern Hemisphere
mirroring the one in Southern Hemisphere.
My Master’s research focused on the equatorial Rossby (ER) waves and
background conditions that led to this set of twins. The results of this work can be seen in my papers and presentations.