Robert Pincus
Robert Pincus
Professor
Columbia University
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Palisades
NY
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Fields of interest
Radiation, climate modeling, climate change, radiative forcing, remote sensing, and clouds
Description of scientific projects
I'm interested in how clouds and radiation -- sunshine and earthlight -- sculpt the circulation of the atmosphere and the thermal and hydrological climate. These days I'm especially focused on developing computational and theoretical simplifications to understand problems like how and why rainfall increases with temperature and how trace gases like methane affect energy flows through the atmosphere.