Kenneth Bowman
Research Professor
David Bullock Harris Professor of Geosciences
Atmospheric dynamics, stratospheric ozone, climate dynamics, satellite meteorology
Research
Atmospheric transport and mixing
Dynamics and chemistry of the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere
Climate dynamics
Satellite meteorology
Statistical climatology
Dr. Bowman is the Principal Investigator for a new six-year NASA Earth Venture Suborbital (EVS-3) project Dynamics and Chemistry of the Summer Stratosphere. The DCOTSS project will use the NASA ER-2 high-altitude research aircraft to investigate the impact of overshooting convection on the chemistry and dynamics of the summer stratosphere over the United States.
Participating universities and government organizations include Texas A&M University, Harvard University, Purdue University, NASA Ames Research Center, NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Langley Research Center, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Texas A&M
Selected Publications
Homeyer, C. R., J. B. Smith, K. M. Bedka, K. P. Bowman, D. M. Wilmouth, R. Ueyama, J. M. Dean-Day, J. M. St. Clair, R. Hannun, J. Hare, A. Pandey, D. S. Sayres, T. F. Hanisco, A. E. Gordon, and E. N. Tinney, 2023. Extreme altitudes of stratospheric hydration by midlatitude convection observed during the DCOTSS field campaign, Geophys. Res. Letts., 10.1029/2023GL104914.
Jellis, D., K. P. Bowman, and A. D. Rapp, 2023. Lifetimes of overshooting convective events using high-frequency gridded radar composites, Mon. Wea. Rev., 151, 1979–1992, 10.1175/MWR-D-23-0032.1.
Chang, K.-W., K. P. Bowman, and A. D. Rapp, 2023. Transport and confinement of plumes from tropopause-overshooting convection over the contiguous United States during the warm season, J. Geophys. Res., 128, e2022JD037020, 10.1029/2022JD037020.
Chang, K.-W., K. P. Bowman, L. W. Siu, and A. D. Rapp, 2021. Convective influence on the North American monsoon anticyclone at intraseasonal and interannual time scales, J. Atmos. Sci., 78, 2941–2956, 10.1175/JAS-D-21-0009.1.
Siu, L. W.* and K. P. Bowman, 2020. Unsteady vortex behavior in the Asian monsoon anti- cyclone, J. Atmos. Sci., 77, 4067-4088, 10.1175/JAS-D-19-0349.1.
Siu, L. W.* and K. P. Bowman, 2019. Forcing of the upper-tropospheric monsoon anticy- clones, J. Atmos. Sci., 76, 1937–1954, doi: 10.1175/JAS-D-18-0340.1.
Smith, J. B., D. M. Wilmouth, K. M. Bedka, K. P. Bowman, C. R. Homeyer, J. A. Dykema, M. R. Sargent, C. E. Clapp, S. S. Leroy, D. S. Sayres, J. M. Dean-Day, T. P. Bui, and J. G. Anderson, 2017. A case study of convectively sourced water vapor observed in the overworld stratosphere over the United States J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 122, 17, 9529-9554, doi: 10.1002/2017JD026831.
Anderson, J. G., D. K. Weisenstein, K. P. Bowman, C. R. Homeyer, J. B. Smith, D. M. Wilmouth, D. S. Sayres, J, E. Klobas, S. S. Leroy, J. A. Dykema, and S. C. Wofsy, 2017. Stratospheric ozone over the United States in summer linked to observations of convection and temperature via chlorine and bromine catalysis PNAS., 114, 25, E4905-E4913, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1619318114.
Education
Ph.D. Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Princeton University, 1984
