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What's the difference? Atmospheric Sciences (Meteorology), Hydrology, Hydrometeorology
Atmospheric Sciences
- Aerosol-cloud interaction
- Aerosol instrumentation development
- Asian monsoon system
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
- Chemical transport modeling
- Climate and global change
- Climate extremes
- Data assimilation
- Drought science and applications
- Frozen solution chemistry
- Global and regional climate modeling
- Hurricanes and tropical meteorology
- Land-atmosphere-ocean interaction
- Lightning and atmospheric electricity
- Lightning and detection systems (land- and space-based)
- Marine atmospheric boundary in climate models
- North American Monsoon system
- Numerical weather modeling and ensemble forecasting
- Paleoclimatology
- Precipitation
- Radiation and remote sensing
- Role of land and ocean surface processes in seasonal precipitation
- Synergy between in-situ, airborne, and remotely-sensed observations of the atmosphere's constituents, e.g. carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, aerosols, ozone
- Urban air quality
- Weather analysis and predictability of large-scale systems, e.g. extratropical cyclones and associated fronts and jet streams
Environmental Hydrology
- Aqueous geochemistry
- Biogeochemistry
- Characterization of contaminated sites
- Contaminant transport
- Critical Zone Processes
- Ecohydrology
- Ground-water chemistry
- Hydrochemical modeling
- Hydrogeochemistry
- Integrated physical-chemical modeling
- Isotopic analysis
- Mountain glaciers
- Paleoclimate reconstruction
- Paleohydrology
- Soil and groundwater remediation
- Snow and ice
- Water quality and quantity
- Watershed ecohydrology
- Watershed studies
Planetary Science
Subsurface Hydrology
- Computational methods
- Conjunctive use
- Decision making and uncertainty
- Exploring natural stimuli for CAT scan groundwater basins
- Extreme value statistics
- Fractured rock hydrology
- Geological CO2 storage
- Geostatistical analysis
- Ground-water chemistry
- Ground-water modeling
- Hydraulics, tracer tomography, and data fusion
- Hydrobiogeochemistry
- Hydrogeology
- Hydrogeophysics
- Integrated physical-chemical modeling
- Integrated physical-economic modeling
- Isotopic tracers
- Mathematical programming and simulation
- Microbial carbon cycle
- Multiphase flow and transport in porous media
- Natural and anthropogenic tracers
- Network design
- Numerical modeling
- Pumping test design and analysis
- Residence time tracers
- Scaling of geophysical variables
- Stochastic subsurface hydrology
- Subsurface contamination
- Subsurface flow and transport
- Unconventional oil/gas production
- Unsaturated media
- Vadose zone hydrology
- Water-rock-microbial reactions
Surface Water Hydrology
- Catchment hydrobiogeochemistry
- Catchment hydrology
- Computational hydraulics
- Computational river mechanics and sediment transport
- Evapotranspiration of riparian systems
- Extreme value statistics
- Flood forecasting
- Fluvial geomorphology
- Glacier and mountain hazards remote sensing
- Hydraulics and river engineering
- Hydroclimatology
- Hydrogeochemistry
- Hydrologic extremes
- Hydrometeorology
- Mesoscale coupled modeling
- Monsoon prediction studies
- Natural and anthropogenic tracers
- Paleoflood hydrology
- Paleohydrology
- Parameter estimation
- Precipitation-runoff modeling
- Probabilistic precipitation forecasting
- Remote sensing applications
- Scaling of geophysical variables
- Stochastic surface hydrology
- Transit time tracers
- Water quality
Terrestrial Hydrometeorology
- Climate change
- Coupled modeling
- Data assimilation
- Flash flood forecasting
- Hydrologic extremes
- Land-atmosphere feedbacks and coupling
- Mesoscale water, energy, and carbon balances
- Monsoon predictability
- Ocean-atmosphere-continent teleconnections
- Predictability of precipitation and convective parameters and indices
- Remote sensing by weather radar
- Role of ecosystem dynamics
- Topographic influences
Water Resources & Systems Analysis
- Advanced methods for model sensitivity analysis
- Applications of remotely-sensed data
- Artificial neural networks
- Computational methods
- Decision making and uncertainty
- Diagnostic analysis of hydrologic models
- Glacier impacts of projected climate change
- Hazards relationship to climate change
- Hydrologic impacts of projected climate change
- Information theory approach to learning
- International mountain hazards
- International water development
- Legal and institutional issues
- Literacy: Public communication and understanding of Western water issues
- Mathematical and goal programming
- Maximum entropy approach to modeling
- Merging models with data
- Model calibration
- Model structural improvement
- Parameter and state estimation
- Risk analysis and uncertainty
- Stochastic physically-based modeling
- Stochastic data-based- and hybrid data-physics-based modeling
- Surface-subsurface water quality modeling
- Systems approach to hydrologic modeling
- Transdisciplinary analysis of water issues
- Water conflict analysis
- Water resources systems
- Water quality