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CIRA Fellow

Professor, Atmospheric Science Department, Colorado State University

rutledge@radarmet.atmos.colostate.edu


Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere
Colorado State University
1375 Campus Delivery
Fort Collins, CO 80523-1375

Research Interests:

Cloud physics, radar meteorology, cloud electricity and lightning, tropical meteorology

Current Research Projects:

The CSU-CHILL Radar Facility; Analysis of TRMM precipitation radar and microwave imager data to study the characteristics of tropical rainfall; study of the dynamical, microphysical and electrical characteristics of mid-latitude convection and Mesoscale Convective Systems; shipboard radar PI for DYNAMO, DOE ASR support to analyze radar data for Improving numerical models; Developing ground validation plans for the Global Precipitation Measurement mission; developing multi-Doppler, hydrometeor identification and rainfall algorithms for the CASA-ERC X-band radar system.