Yaga Richter

Jadwiga (Yaga) H. Richter is a scientist in the Climate Change Research (CCR) section of the Climate and Global Dynamics (CGD) Laboratory at NCAR. Yaga has received a B. S. of Science in Mathematics from the State University of New York at Purchase in 1997, and a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences from University of Washington in 2002. She also holds a graduate certificate in Instructional Design from University of Wisconsin. Yaga has spent the majority of her scientific career at NCAR beginning with the ASP postdoctoral fellowship, with the exception of an Education and Outreach fellowship at University of Colorado.

Yaga’s areas of expertise and scientific interests include gravity waves and their parameterizations in global climate models, middle atmospheric dynamics, quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO), whole atmosphere climate modeling, subseasonal-to-seasonal forecasting, and geoengineering. Yaga has developed the first source spectrum parameterization of convectively generated gravity waves in a climate model. Her improvements to the convective momentum transport parameterization in the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM) have significantly improved the representation of El Nino Southern Oscillation, and with her work on gravity waves and vertical resolution, she was able to obtain a very realistic QBO in the NCAR CAM and Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (WACCM). Yaga is currently the co-PI of the NCAR DOE Cooperative Agreement to Analyze Variability, Change and Predictability in the Earth System (CATALYST), co-chair of the Earth System Prediction Workging Group (ESPWG) within CESM, and co-lead of the SPARC QBOi activity. 

Current Research Projects:

• Cooperative Agreement to Analyze Variability, Change and Predictability in the Earth System (CATALYST)
• Quasi-biennial Oscillation Initiative (QBOi)
• Subseasonal-to-Seasonal forecasting/Earth System Prediction
• Climate intervention research and Asessing Responses and Impacts of Solar climate intervention on the Earth system with Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (ARISE-SAI) 

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