Paquita Zuidema

Aerosol Measurements, Land-Atmosphere Interactions
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• Professor, Rosenstiel School for Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami

• PhD, Astrophysics Planetary & Atmospheric Science, University of Colorado, 1999
• MS, Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, 1993
• MS, Physics, University of Washington, 1989
• MS, Civil Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987
• BS, Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1983

I research the characterization and understanding of cloud processes and cloud radiative impacts. This includes aerosol-cloud interactions, cloud mesoscale organization, and their variability at various time scales. I have primarily examined marine clouds (both low-latitude stratocumulus and cumulus), arctic mixed-phase, and tropical deep convection. Primarily an observationalist, I strive to connect observations to modeling studies. I was PI for the Layered Atlantic Smoke Interactions with Smoke (LASIC) campaign on Ascension Island in 2016-2017.

My exposure to atmospheric sciences began at age 29; I encountered ARM-type data sets through my PhD. Thereafter I worked on the MISR satellite project and at the NOAA Environmental Technology Lab in Boulder on SHEBA data. Arriving at UM in 2005, I worked on (Atlantic) trade-wind cumulus and participated in the VOCALS experiment. Recently I have focused on the biomass-burning aerosol and stratocumulus regime of the southeast Atlantic. I am active in International CLIVAR (Atlantic panel), serve on the NCAR OFAP panel, and am an associate editor for Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.