Ronald Smith (meteorologist)
Ronald Smith is the Damon Wells Professor in the department of Geology & Geophysics at Yale University. He leads Yale’s program in mesoscale meteorology and regional climate, and is the Director of the Yale Center for Earth Observation (YCEO).
Academic biography[edit]
Ronald Smith earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in aerospace engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Princeton University and his PhD in geophysics from Johns Hopkins University.
Research[edit]
He is the PI of The DOMinica EXperiment,[1] a project to measure orographic precipitation in the tropics. He is also the PI of the DEEPWAVE Project,[2] which studies gravity waves generated in the troposphere that propagate upwards to the mesophere near New Zealand.
Honors[edit]
He is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society and won the Society’s Jule G. Charney Award in 2011.[citation needed]