Office: 420K Flarsheim Hall

Phone: 816 2352978

Email: adegokej@umkc.edu

 

Assistant Professor Jimmy Adegoke, Ph.D., Penn State, 2000, is a climatologist whose research emphasizes the role of the land surface as drivers of weather and climate. Following dissertation work at Penn State involving the use of climate diagnostic, and satellite remote sensing tools to investigate the interactions and feedbacks between meso and synoptic scale atmospheric and land surface processes in the U.S. Midwest, he focused his postdoctoral work at the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA), Colorado State University (CSU) on improving the representation of land surface heterogeneity in the CSU Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS). Two interconnected issues engage his attention: the direct influence of surface representation in regional climate models using high resolution satellite products; and the feedbacks and interactions between the land surface and various physical components that are triggered by the land surface representation in the models. His current work involves modeling cross-scale linkages and feedbacks between processes that impact heat stress and air quality in changing urban areas. Dr. Adegoke maintains research collaborations with the mesoscale modeling group at CSU and the Science & Applications Branch at the USGS EROS Data Center, Sioux Falls South Dakota where he was recently a visiting research scientist.

 

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