Prof. Nolan's main research topics are hurricanes, tornadoes, and tropical meteorology. Currently, he is supervising research projects on the impacts of hurricane winds in urban environments, the rapid intensification of hurricanes, gravity waves radiating out of hurricanes, and gravity waves radiating upward from thunderstorms and into the stratopshere. He teaches classes on mid-latitude atmospheric dynamics, the general circulation of the amtopshere, and the dynamics of vortices in the atmosphere and ocean.
Cam Pine worked as an undergraduate researcher with Dr. Nolan until his graduation in May of 2023. In Fall 2023 he joined the Rosenstiel School as a graduate student in Atmospheric Sciences, working on hurricane structure and intensification.
Ph.D. Student
Shanna completed her B.S. in meteorology in May 2024 and is now a first-year Ph.D. student at the Rosenstiel School as of Fall 2024. She works under the guidance of Dr. David Nolan in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences and her scientific interest focuses on the structure and intensification of tropical cyclones.
Brian is a Senior Research Associate III working on a variety of projects related to tropical cyclones, including high-resolution modeling and hurricane hazard communication.
Dr. Yi Dai is currently working on the Convective Gravity Waves in the Stratosphere (CGWaves) project. Dr. Dai earned his Ph.D. on the dynamics of tropical cyclones from UM in 2019. He is also interested in land-atmosphere interaction and convective storms over the land.
Dr. Jun Zhang is a Scientist at the University of Miami. He is also associated with the Hurricane Research Division (HRD) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Dr. Zhang’s research focuses on hurricane boundary-layer structure and dynamics, air-sea interaction, hurricane intensity change, and physical parameterizations in numerical models.Dr. Zhang has flown more than 30 Hurricanes with NOAA’s P3 aircraft and experienced more than 100 eyewall penetrations.
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