In a storm, rain doesn't fall uniformly; we sometimes say rain falls in sheets. Rain drops fall through vigorous turbulence on their way to earth, and the interactions between rain and turbulence affect the size of the drops, the speed at which they fall, and the way they scatter the radio waves used by weather radar. To find out more about this, we will build a laboratory experiment to track the droplets, their spatial organization, and their interactions as they fall through turbulence.
To apply please send a letter and CV to Professor Gregory Bewley <gpb1@cornell.edu>.