My name is Travis Aerenson and I'm a Postdoctoral Scholar in Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Wyoming studying climate change and how we expect it impact droughts with Daniel McCoy. I recently completed a PhD at the University of Washington studying cloud radiative feedbacks with Roger Marchand.
My research focuses on clouds and precipiation processes and the ways we expect them to change in a warming climate. Lately I have been focused on projecting changes in moisture convergence and snow water equivalent over the United States. This includes using the NASA GISS-E3 perturbed parameter ensemble to train statistical emulators to derive an improved parameter set that will increase the fidelity of regional water stress predictions. During my PhD I used a combination of satellite observations and climate model simulations to diagnose the physics that causes clouds and to change in our warming climate, and how cloud changes will continue to impact future warming. Using a combination of satellite observations and model output from the COSP instrument simulator, I performed model intercomparison of projected changes of cloud attributes, and analyzed the biases in modeled clouds, and relate them to predicted cloud changes.
Before my graduate work I studied Physics at Colorado College, where I honed my love for science and the outdoors. These days when I'm not working you can probably find me playing somewhere in the mountains.
