Faculty - Earle Williams

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Earle Williams

Principal Research Engineer

MIT
Room 48-319
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA, 02139

Telephone: 781.981.3744 e-mail: earlew@ll.mit.edu

Education

  • BA, 1974, Swarthmore College
  • PhD, 1981, MIT

Research Interests

Dr. Williams primary research areas are cloud physics, thunderstorm electrification, radar meteorology, breakdown phenomena, and tropical meteorology.

Selected Publications

  1. Lightning and climate: A review, Atmospheric Research, 76, 272-287, 2005.
  2. Thermodynamic conditions favorable to superlative thunderstorm updraft, mixed phase microphysics and lightning flash rate, Atmospheric Research, 76, 288-306, 2005 (with V. Mushtak, D.  Rosenfeld, S. Goodman and D. Boccippio.
  3. Islands as miniature continents: Another look at the land-ocean lightning contrast, J. Geophys. Res., 109, D16206, doi: 10.1029/2003JD003833, 2004 (with T. Chan and D. Boccippio).
  4. Lightning, thermodynamic and hydrological comparison of the two tropical continental chimneys, J.A.S.T.P., 66, 1213-1231, 2004 (with G. Satori).
  5. The physical origin of the land-ocean contrast in lightning activity, Comptes Rendus, 2. 1-17, 2002 (with S. Stanfill).
  6. ELF propagation parameters for uniform models of the Earth-ionosphere waveguide, J. A.S.T.P., 64, 1989-2001, 2002 (with V. Mushtak).