Welcome!
My name is Meg Fowler, and I’m currently a postdoctoral associate at CIRES (University of Colorado Boulder/NOAA ESRL PSD) working as part of the NOAA FACETs initiative. My project focuses on understanding and predicting soil moisture in the western United States by applying a linear inverse model (LIM) to observations of soil temperature and moisture.
As a graduate student at the University of California Irvine, my work centered on the intersection of human and climate systems, and made heavy use of supercomputers to run simulations with state-of-the-art global climate models (primarily CESM). My dissertation projects focused on understanding the modulation of tropical cyclones by the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO), the impact of plant physiological responses to increased CO2 on changes in flood frequency (Fowler et al. 2019), and how irrigation can affect non-local precipitation patterns (Fowler et al. 2018). My previous research experience includes the study of tropical cyclone precipitation patterns (Bowman and Fowler 2015) and Chicago heat waves.