Dr. Jennifer Davison working on multi-agency PECAN field experiment

Dr. Jennifer Davison is part of a large, four-agency (NSF, NOAA, NASA, DOE) meteorological field project called PECAN (Plains Elevated Convection at Night). She is applying her Bragg-scattering analysis to live radar data to obtain detailed humidity structure and correlating it with other field variables.

Dr. Jennifer Davison is analyzing live radar data in Summer 2015, obtained as part of the large, four-agency (NSF, NOAA, NASA, DOE) field project called PECAN (Plains Elevated Convection at Night). Meteorological radar was originally designed to be sensitive to precipitation, not humidity (vapor) structure, but Dr. Davison has developed a Bragg-scattering analysis that retrieves detailed humidity structure as well. This is significant because such humidity information can now be retrieved "for free" without changing existing radar systems. She is correlating her live humidity retrievals with several other field variables obtained simultaneously by dozens of researchers who are coordinating for the PECAN project. Dr. Davison in an NSF postdoc and researcher in the UofL Atmospheric Science Program.