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Courtney Schumacher is a professor in the Department of Geosciences at Texas A&M University. Her research primarily focuses on Tropical Meteorology, examining a wide range of atmospheric convective processes in the tropics, including small cumulus clouds and large mesoscale convective systems. She investigates environmental factors that influence precipitation production and convective organization. Radar Meteorology is a key tool in her work due to its capability to observe precipitation and storm structures over large temporal and spatial scales. Schumacher has utilized both ground-based and space-borne radars to create climatologies that enhance the understanding of tropical convective processes and subtropical precipitating systems. Additionally, she explores mesoscale-climate interactions, pairing observations of precipitation and storm structures with mesoscale global circulation models to understand the interactions between mesoscale systems and large-scale circulation patterns.
Department: Department of Communication and Journalism. Ph.D. program only currently admitting. GRE is test-optional.