TIMOTHY GARRETT

Professor

Atmospheric Sciences

  • Professor
    Atmospheric Sciences

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Clouds and precipitation are extraordinarily dynamic over a vast range of interacting scales in time and space, and this makes them difficult to understand. Is the role of clouds in climate fundamentally simple (which would be nice) or impossibly complex (a cause for despair)? The Garrett Group works to try to seek ways to constrain this challenging problem.

GRANTS

  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    MEASUREMENT OF HOW AIR MOTIONS PERTURB FROZEN HYDROMETEOR ORIENTATION AND SETTLING
    1 Jul 2026 - 30 Jun 2029
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    QUANTIFYING AND PARAMETERIZING MIXED-PHASE MICROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES USING NOVEL MEASUREMENT TECHNOLOGIES
    1 Sep 2025 - 31 Aug 2027
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    EVALUATING A CONSTRAINED RESPONSE OF CLOUDS TO VARYING ATMOSPHERIC CLIMATE AND CHEMICAL STATES
    1 Sep 2024 - 31 Aug 2027
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    Miniaturized weather station with rapid switching between precipitation and meteorological measurement modes
    Department of Energy14 Feb 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    • Garrett T,
    • Pardyjak E
    Department of Energy
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    MINIATURIZED WEATHER STATION WITH RAPID SWITCHING BETWEEN PRECIPITATION AND METEOROLOGICAL MEASUREMENT MODES
    PARTICLE FLUX ANALYTICS27 Apr 2023 - 11 Jul 2025
    PARTICLE FLUX ANALYTICS
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    Miniaturized weather station with rapid switching between precipitation and meteorological measurement modes
    Department of Energy2 Apr 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    • Pardyjak E
    Department of Energy
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    OBSERVATIONAL EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTS OF ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE AND TURBULENCE ON HYDROMETEOR FALLSPEED
    NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION1 Jun 2022 - 31 May 2026
    NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    A networked low-cost distributed weather and snowfall sensor array demonstration project for improved avalanched hazard mitigation in Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah.
    24. Transportation and Avalanche Research Program12 Aug 2021
    24. Transportation and Avalanche Research Program
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    NEW TOOLS FOR QUANTIFYING CLOUD RESPONSE TO VARYING CLIMATE STATES
    NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION1 Nov 2020 - 31 Oct 2024
    NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    Integrating macroeconomics and ecology via energy and the Laws of Thermodynamics
    United Kingdom Economic and Social Research Council9 May 2019
    United Kingdom Economic and Social Research Council
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    HOTPLATE SENSOR
    PARTICLE FLUX ANALYTICS1 Jan 2018 - 31 Dec 2020
    PARTICLE FLUX ANALYTICS
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    PRECIPITATION RATE AND TYPE
    PARTICLE FLUX ANALYTICS1 Jan 2017 - 31 Dec 2018
    PARTICLE FLUX ANALYTICS
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    ARCTIC HYDROMETEOR PHYSICS
    US DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY1 Jan 2016 - 31 Dec 2020
    US DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    FREEFALL PRECIPITATION CAMERA
    FALLGATTER TECHNOLOGIES7 Jan 2014 - 31 Dec 2015
    FALLGATTER TECHNOLOGIES
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    EPSCOR RID GARRETT
    NATIONAL AERONAUTICS & SPACE A12 Jan 2013 - 31 Dec 2014
    NATIONAL AERONAUTICS & SPACE A
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    ARCTIC POLUTION AND CLOUDS
    NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION8 Jan 2013 - 31 Dec 2017
    NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    CIVILIZATION EXPANSION
    EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATI3 May 2012 - 31 Dec 2013
    EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATI
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    ARCTIC CLOUD CLIMATE FEEDBACKS
    NATIONAL AERONAUTICS & SPACE A9 Jan 2012 - 31 Dec 2015
    NATIONAL AERONAUTICS & SPACE A
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    ROLE OF CLOUDS IN ALBEDO
    NATIONAL AERONAUTICS & SPACE A9 Jan 2012 - 31 Dec 2014
    NATIONAL AERONAUTICS & SPACE A
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    WASHARX
    NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION8 Jan 2011 - 31 Dec 2014
    NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    INNOVATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
    EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATI1 Jan 2011 - 31 Dec 2012
    EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATI
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    SNOWFLAKE MEASUREMENT
    US ARMY1 Jan 2009 - 31 Dec 2010
    US ARMY
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    Evaluating tropical and mid-latitude cirrus properties using co-incident satellite and aircraft sensors
    NASA1 Jan 2008 - 31 Dec 2012
    NASA
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    Evaluation of Aerosol-Cloud-Radiation Processes and Feedbacks in the Alaskan Arctic.
    NSF6 Jan 2007 - 31 Dec 2011
    NSF
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    AEROSOL EFFECTS ON ARCTIC CLOU
    CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE5 Jan 2007 - 31 Dec 2009
    CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE