Philip Cunningham

Phone: 850-644-4334
Fax: 850-644-9642
Email: pcunningham@fsu.edu

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Meteorology at The Florida State University.

I am a Faculty Associate of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Institute, and I collaborate with a few other faculty in the School of Computational Science (SCS)

My main interests are in geophysical fluid dynamics and atmospheric dynamics. I am interested in a wide variety of problems, ranging from small scale (plumes, convective clouds, etc.) to very large scale (tropical and extratropical weather systems), with the goal of trying to understand the fundamental behaviour and dynamics of these phenomena. In general, I try to combine data from observations and sometimes laboratory experiments with theoretical analysis and numerical simulations using both idealized fluid models and a hierarchy of computational models.

Topics of interest include: dynamics and behaviour of wildfires and their associated plumes; dynamics of volcanic plumes and pyroclastic flows; deep convection in the tropics; dynamics of jet streams and jet streaks; generation of inertia-gravity waves by fronts and jets; geophysical vortices and turbulence.

Here is my C.V., or you can get PDF files of my publications.

If you have any comments or questions, please feel free to email me at pcunningham@fsu.edu.