Description

Physical geography at Texas A&M comprises biogeography, climatology, hydrology, and geomorphology. Climatology concerns the study of the weather and climate processes and the impact of climate on human activities. At Texas A&M, the focus of climatology research is on hydroclimatology, climate variability and climate change, applied climatology, and the cryosphere (snow cover, snow albedo, tropical glaciers). The geographic scope of our work is the United States (Texas, Great Plains, Gulf Coast, Eastern U.S.), Canada (Prairies), the tropics including the Andes and Indonesia (Mt. Jaya), and Antarctica.

Affiliated Faculty

• Andrew Klein
• Steven Quiring

Research Projects

• Developing a drought monitoring system for Texas (S. Quiring, S. Ganesh, A. Nordfelt, L. Meng)
• Digital Climatic Atlas of Texas (S. Quiring)
• Modeling power outage risk during hurricanes (S. Quiring)
• Monitoring changes in Tropical glaciers using remote sensing (J. Kincaid, A. Klein)
• Satellite Remote Sensing of seasonal snow cover (J. Morris, A. Klein)
• Environmental monitoring program for McMurdo Station, Antarctica (A. Klein)