User Profile profile for janel.hanrahan

Before joining the full-time Atmospheric Sciences faculty in 2012, Janel Hanrahan earned her Ph.D. in Mathematics with a strong focus in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her dissertation work included the investigation of Lake Michigan-Huron water levels and their connection to historic climate variability and anthropogenically-forced climate change. Following graduate school, Dr. Hanrahan worked as researcher at the University of Alberta where she studied changes in rainfall in the Canadian Plains region and examined procedures for model optimization. Through dynamical and statistical downscaling, she is currently interested in identifying connections between large-scale climate modes and local rainfall patterns and trends. In addition, she is interested in investigating how regional weather will be modified under climate change and what impact this may have on renewable energy sources.