BTPC Director Brad Marston is featured in Quanta Magazine‘s July 18 article, “How Quantum Physicists Explained Earth’s Oscillating Weather Patterns.” Professor Marston’s work, particularly the recent paper “Topological Signature of Stratospheric Poincare – Gravity Waves” (now in preprint) has been instrumental in advancing the theoretical framework explaining the behavior of equatorial Kelvin waves. With his co-authors, BTCP affiliated faculty Baylor Fox-Kemper (DEEPS), Weixuan Xu (DEEPS), Jung-Eun Leea, and Ziyan Zhu, Marston presents data collected from direct observations of stratospheric Poincaré-gravity waves. This led to a breakthrough in the theory of the origin of equatorial Kelvin waves.
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