Thompson's Research Featured in Time Magazine
David Thompson, assistant professor in the Department of Atmospheric Science, is featured in the Innovators section of Time magazine this week (January 10, 2005 issue). Thompson's background is in large-scale atmospheric dynamics, or how the large-scale atmosphere organizes itself into patterns and how these patterns affect our climate. As a graduate student at the University of Washington, he and Dr. John M. Wallace discovered a pattern they called the Arctic Oscillation which provided new insights into how observations of the stratosphere can be used in predicting and understanding climate change at Earth's surface.
At Colorado State, Dr. Thompson has expanded his earlier research on large-scale atmospheric dynamics in the northern hemisphere to include the southern hemisphere and the impacts that the Antarctic Oscillation may be having on the earth's climate system. For more information on Dr. Thompson and his research, you can view his video under the Atmospheric Science faculty listing at http://www.engr.colostate.edu/adr/video/ or go to his website, http://www.atmos.colostate.edu/dept/facmembers/thompson.html.