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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

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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

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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

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He is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society and won the Society’s Jule G. Charney Award in 2011.[citation needed]

References

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  1. ^ The DOMinica EXperiment
  2. ^ DEEPWAVE Project
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