Dr. Thomas Marshall
Office: 126 Lewis Hall Phone: (662) 915-5325 Degrees Earned
Experience
Research InterestsMy research is aimed at determining how thunderstormselectrify. Understanding electricity in storms is hampered by the lack of detailed knowledge of the electrical conditions that exist inside thunderstorms: where are charges located, is charge carried primarily on precipitation particles or on tiny cloud particles, etc. Using balloons-borne instruments I measure the electric field inside storms and the charge carried by precipitation particles. Currently, I am extending these measurements to large, severe storms in the Great Plains and to non-thunderstorm, electrified clouds to see how electricity in these clouds compares to electricity in the small thunderstorms traditionally studied. Visit the pages of the Atmospheric Physics research group. |