Faculty

Joyce Penner

Professor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

Research

Prof. Penner’s research is adding the impacts of contrail formation within a global climate model. This involves following the physics from scales that treat aerosols (sub-micron sizes) to contrails (hundreds of meters) to climate (hundreds of kilometers). Computational aspects involve how to efficiently treat interactions across these scales.

Research Areas

Modeling: Multi-scale; Predictive and Metamodeling
Physics-Specific Methods