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Member Since 2015
Robert Jeffrey Trapp
Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Professional Experience
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Professor
2014 - Present
Education
University of Oklahoma
Doctorate
1994
Honors & Awards
Gilbert F. White Award and Distinguished Lecture
Received 2022
Prof. Robert J. (Jeff) Trapp is a wonderful person and a great scientist. Along with his groundbreaking research that I highlight below, I want to start by acknowledging the strong diversity of his graduate program where Jeff has been a leader in bri...
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Publications
The Impact of Human‐Induced Climate Change on Future Tornado Intensity as Revealed Through Multi‐Sca...
A novel, multi‐scale climate modeling approach is used to show the potential for increases in future tornado intensity due to anthropogenic c...
July 27, 2023
Alternative Implementations of the “Pseudo‐Global‐Warming” M...
December 15, 2021
Using Overshooting Top Area to Discriminate Potential for La...
November 05, 2019
The Dynamical Coupling of Convective Updrafts, Downdrafts, a...
January 25, 2019
AGU Abstracts
Understanding the Impact of the Upper Tropospheric/Lower Stratospheric Thermodynamic Environment on Overshooting Top Characteristics
DYNAMICS AND CHEMISTRY OF THE UPPER TROPOSPHERE AND LOWER STRATOSPHERE (UTLS) V POSTER
atmospheric sciences | 15 december 2023
Melinda T. Berman, Robert J. Trapp, Stephen W. Nes...
Overshooting tops (OTs) are manifestations of deep convective updrafts that extend above the tropopause into the stratosphere. They can induce dynamic...
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Environment-informed, convection-permitting dynamical downscaling for climate-change projections of hazardous convective weather
MULTISCALE MODELING OF EXTREME EVENTS AND THEIR RESPONSES TO CLIMATE CHANGE POSTER
atmospheric sciences | 13 december 2023
Robert J. Trapp, Songning Wang, John T. Allen, Dee...
It has now been demonstrated rather convincingly that studies of hydro-climate extremes, especially those associated with convective precipitation, be...
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Future changes in severe thunderstorm environments over the United States from CMIP6 models
UNDERSTANDING AND MODELING OF MESOSCALE AND SEVERE LOCAL CONVECTIVE STORM PROCESSES II POSTER
atmospheric sciences | 13 december 2023
Deepak Gopalakrishnan, John T. Allen, Robert J. Tr...
Severe thunderstorms are one of the hazardous weather phenomena that are characterized by strong winds, intense rainfall, large hail, and/or tornadoes...
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