Andreas
Muschinski
I am a professor
at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst, MA. My research group and I study micro- and
mesoscale structure and dynamics in the lower atmosphere. We are particularly
interested in phenomena that are difficult to understand, difficult to observe,
and difficult to capture in numerical simulations. Such phenomena include the
fine-structure and dynamics of the top of the (daytime and nocturnal)
atmospheric boundary layer; structure and evolution of meter- and
submeter-scale sheets and turbulent layers near the ground, particularly at
night; small-scale gravity waves, atmospheric seiches, instabilities, and
turbulence in the stably stratified atmosphere; and exchange processes between
the Earth’s surface and the lower atmosphere.
Besides being intellectually challenging, these phenomena
are of enormous practical importance for a wide variety of disciplines
including optical, radio, and acoustic wave propagation for both communication and
remote-sensing applications; numerical weather prediction (NWP), air-quality
monitoring/forecasting, and climate diagnostics; navigation, surveillance, and
geodesy; and the management of natural resources such as clean air, water, and
energy.
I am the first holder of the newly established (March 2007)
Jerome M. Paros Endowed Professorship in Measurement Sciences at the
Research