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Andrew Dzambo

Andrew Dzambo

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Research Scientist

dzamboam@ou.edu
National Weather Center


  • PhD, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin
  • MS, Meteorology, University of Oklahoma
  • BS, Meteorology, The Pennsylvania State University

  • Cloud Physics Research Group

Andrew is currently a Research Scientist in the CIWRO Cloud Physics Research Group. Before joining OU, Andrew worked on his PhD at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, characterizing cloud and precipitation properties from the 2016-18 NASA ORACLES field campaign that took place over the southeast Atlantic Ocean. Since joining the Cloud Physics Research Group, Andrew has worked on a variety of projects and field campaigns including the 2022 NSF ESCAPE campaign in Houston, and the 2024 NSF CAESAR campaign in Kiruna, Sweden. His current research interests include exploring methodologies to better constrain uncertainty quantity-dimension relationships for use in cloud property parameterizations in weather models, mesoscale/dynamic processes that influence observed cloud macrophysical properties including gravity waves and turbulence, and polar cloud observations.


  • Polar clouds and climate
  • Constraining uncertainty in cloud parameterizations for weather models
  • Midlatitude clouds and convection 
  • Dynamical influences on observed cloud properties 
  • Climate and climate change education

  • Weather Radar and Observations
  • Social and Socioeconomic Impacts of High-Impact Weather

  • Dzambo, A., McFarquhar, G., Sledd, A., and L’Ecuyer, T., 2023: Assessing latent and kinetic energy trend changes in extratropical cyclones from 1940 to 2020: Results from ERA-5 reanalysis. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2023GL105207. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL105207. 
  • Dzambo, A. M., G. McFarquhar, and J. A. Finlon, 2022: Quantifying Uncertainty in Ice Particle Velocity–Dimension Relationships Using MC3E Observations. J. Atmos. Sci., 80, 189–209, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-21-0322.1. 
  • Dzambo, A. M., L'Ecuyer, T., Sinclair, K., van Diedenhoven, B., Gupta, S., McFarquhar, G., O'Brien, J. R., Cairns, B., Wasilewski, A. P., and Alexandrov, M., 2021: Joint cloud water path and rainwater path retrievals from airborne ORACLES observations, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 21, 5513–5532, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-5513-2021.
  • American Meteorological Society 
  • American Geophysical Union