Congratulations Prof. O'Gorman

As announced at last Friday's State of EAPS event, MIT is promoting Victor P. Starr Assistant Professor of Atmospheric Science, Paul O'Gorman to Associate Professor (effective July 2012). O'Gorman's research concerns the large-scale dynamics of the atmosphere, climate change, and turbulence. He is particularly interested in the behavior of the hydrological cycle and extratropical storms in different climates.

Recent publications include O'Gorman, P. A., Allan, R. P., Byrne, M. P. & Previdi, M. (2012) Energetic constraints on precipitation under climate change  in Surveys in Geophysics and Singh, M. S. & O'Gorman, P. A. (2012) Upward shift of the general circulation of the atmosphere in response to global warming submitted to Journal of Climate. You can read more about some of his recent work in this October 2010 MIT News story.

He joined the faculty in 2008.