Clouds, Grid Systems, & Climate Resiliency

Season 2: Episode 6 – Stephen Nesbitt

Did you know low-lying clouds cool the climate or that communities designed in a grid can limit extreme weather events? We didn’t, and it’s likely fair to say you might not have either. In this episode, Atmospheric Scientist and Professor Stephen Nesbitt shares his expertise in clouds, meteorology, and climate technologies illuminating ways designers can create more climate resilient communities and engaging climate stories.

Listen to this episode on: Spotify, Apple, Google and other places you get your podcastsAbout our guest

Prof. Nesbitt leads a research group in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences, where his research and teaching interests reside in the remote sensing of precipitation using radar and passive microwave sensors, mesoscale meteorology, cloud dynamics, and microphysics, land-atmosphere interaction, numerical simulation, data science, and high-performance computation. He has taught courses in synoptic and mesoscale meteorology and weather forecasting, remote sensing, radar meteorology, tropical meteorology, mesoscale modeling, and geophysical data analysis. He has participated in 21 field campaigns on 5 continents and was the principal investigator of the international NSF/NASA/NOAA RELAMPAGO field campaign to study high-impact weather in Argentina in 2018-2019, which studied the intersection of weather, climate, hydrology, high impact weather in subtropical South America.

On the web

twitter.com/70_DBZ

swnesbitt.com

illinois.edu/profile/snesbitt

Music in this episode

Theme music by Casual Motive

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