Principal Investigator Talia Tamarin-Brodsky
Project Start Date July 2023
The atmospheric temperature distribution is typically described by its mean and variance, while higher order moments, such as skewness and kurtosis, have received less attention. Skewness is a measure of the asymmetry between the positive and negative tails of the distribution, while kurtosis is indicative of the ”extremity” of the tails. Applying a dynamical approach we study what controls the spatial structure of the near-surface temperature distribution and its response to climate change.