Tony Wong

My research interests bring my mathematical background to climate modeling. I began work in land surface modeling during the spring of 2011 in an independent study project (see below) with David Noone, and am now a research assistant with David's Climate Processes Research Group.

My current work is with the isotopically-enabled land surface model, ISOLSM, tuning the model, striving to match observations from the Manitou Experimental Forest near Colorado Springs. Following this will be experiments in the partitioning of evapotranspiration into contributions from ground evaporation and plant transpiration, as well as sensitivity and optimization tests.

Concurrently, I am adding tracers of heavy water isotopes to the National Center for Atmospheric Research Community Land Model. This coding work will be followed by a data assimilation study of model sensitivity and model parameter optimization. Additionally, as collaborators finish similar work with the NCAR atmosphere, ocean and sea-ice models, coupling the fruits of our labors will open up uncharted territory in the world of isotopically-enabled GCMs!