Gabriel Bromley
Exploring Trends in Warm-Season Precipitation in the Northern Great Plains
Extreme precipitation events are increasing in frequency and intensity with global climate change. Significant uncertainty exists in the spatial and temporal changes in extreme precipitation and these changes are critical to understand for public safety, water availability and food systems. In the northern North American Great Plains, recent work has shown that positive precipitation trends are stronger in more recent decades and are occurring preferentially during the early warm season but it’s unclear if this holds true for extreme precipitation.
Gabriel Bromley is a PhD candidate at Montana State University studying the effects of agricultural land use change on regional climate processes of the northern North American Great Plains. His research uses a combination of observational data and high resolution regional climate modeling experiments to ask questions about land use change, surface-atmosphere interactions, and convective precipitation.