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John Noble
Phone: (408) 924-5199
Fax: (408) 924-5191
Email:
noble (at) met.sjsu.edu
Address:
One Washington Square
San Jose, CA 95192-0104 |
I work with Dr. Alison Bridger in the Mars General Circulation Modeling group at NASA Ames. My research involves the integration of Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) observations of the Mars Year 25 (2001) Global Dust Storm (GDS) in order to better characterize storm onset and evolution. We hypothesize that a superposition of transient baroclinic eddies, thermal tides, and topographically-enhanced cap-edge circulation triggered the GDS. Westerly winds carried the dust eastward into a longitude sector where a wave-one stationary wave pattern advected dust southward over the polar cap. As the dust reached higher altitudes in this longitude sector, the subsequent heating over a deep part of the atmosphere amplified the wave-one stationary wave exciting a Rossby wave train that propagated into the opposite hemisphere, possibly triggering storm activity in Claritas.
I received a B.A. in Russian language and Soviet studies from the University of Vermont in 1985, studied computer science in the 1990's at U.C. Berkeley and Santa Cruz, and did wind energy modeling before coming to SJSU.
