Convective storms, sometimes reaching into the stratosphere, play a major role in maintaining the heat balance of the atmosphere, and in governing the vertical distribution of critical trace gases and aerosols. Work involving the coupling of the deeper atmosphere to the surface and boundary layers is being conducted over the rain forest of the Amazon Basin and the tropical south Atlantic and Pacific. Other studies, which capitalize upon knowledge of convective storms and the boundary layer, include global and regional rainfall, gaps in the rainforest and low frequency sound transmission.

Selected Recent Publications

Garstang, M., D. Fitzjarrald, K. Fristrup, and C. Brain (2005): The daily cycle of low-frequency elephant calls and near-surface atmospheric conditions. EARTH INTERACTIONS, 9, Paper No. 14, 21 pp.

Garstang, M., R. Bruintjes, R. Serafin, H. Orville, B. Boe, W. Cotton, and J. Warburton (2004): Weather Modification: Finding Common Ground. BULL. AMER. METEOR. SOC., 86, 647-655

Garstang, M. (2004): Long-distance, low-frequency elephant communication. J. COMPARA. PHYSIOL. A, 190, 791-805

Warren, L. (2004): Calls in the Wild. A review of M.Garstang’s Field Campaign. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE, March, 96-101

Angelini, I., M. Garstang, S. Macko, R. Swap, D. Stewart, and H.B. Cunha (2003): Isotopic variations and internal storm dynamics in the Amazon Basin. Chapter 7 in CLOUD SYSTEMS, HURRICANES, AND THE TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION (TRMM): A TRIBUTE TO DR. JOANNE SIMPSON, pp. 81-94, AMS Monograph, Boston, MA

Tao, W.-K., J. Halverson, M. LeMone, R. Adler, M. Garstang, R. Houze, Jr., R. Pielke, Sr., and W. Woodley (2003): The research of Dr. Joanne Simpson: Fifty years investigating hurricanes, tropical clouds, and cloud systems. Chapter 1 in CLOUD SYSTEMS, HURRICANES, AND THE TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION (TRMM): A TRIBUTE TO DR. JOANNE SIMPSON, pp. 1-16, AMS Monograph, Boston, MA

Swap, R.J., T.A. Szuba, M. Garstang, H.J. Annegarn, L. Marufu, and S.J. Piketh (2003): Spatial and temporal assessment of sources contributing to the annual austral spring midtropospheric ozone maxima over the tropical South Atlantic. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOL., 9, 336-345.

Sigler, J.M., J.D. Fuentes, R.C. Heitz, M. Garstang, and G. Fisch (2002): Ozone dynamics and deposition processes at a deforested site in the Amazon Basin. AMBIO, 31, 21-27

Simpson, R.H., R. Anthes, and M. Garstang (eds.) (2002): HURRICANE! COPING WITH DISASTER, Amer. Geophys. Union Press, Washington, D.C., 360 pp.

Fuentes, J., B. Hayden, M. Garstang, M. Lerdau, D. Fitzjarrald, D.D. Baldocchi, R. Monson, B. Lamb, and C. Geron (2002): VOCs and biosphere-atmosphere feedbacks. Chapter 13 in AIR POLLUTION SCIENCE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY, J. Austin, P. Brimblecombe and W. Struges (eds.), Elsevier Press, UK

Betts, A.K., J.D. Fuentes, M. Garstang, and J.H. Ball (2002): Surface diurnal cycle and boundary layer structure over Rondonia during the rainy season. J. GEOPHYS. RES., 107(D20), 8065, doi: 10.1029/2001JD000356

Silva Dias, M.A.F., S. Rutledge, P. Kabat, P.L. Silva Dias, C. Nobre, G. Fisch, A.J. Dolman, E. Zipser, M. Garstang et al. (2002): Cloud and rain processes in a biosphere-atmosphere interaction context in the Amazon Region. J. GEOPHYS. RES., 107 (D20), 8072, doi: 10.1029/201JD000335