Meet Dr. Rachel Clemesha
Dr. Rachel Clemesha is a Project Scientist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California - San Diego.
Her research interests include the climate of coastal California and more broadly, western North America, with a focus on climate extremes, marine layer clouds and fog. Dr. Clemesha received a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship in 2012 to expand her research on low-level clouds for her PhD dissertation. She also served as a Climate Science Alliance author of the 2018 San Diego County Ecosystems Assessment.
Currently, Dr. Clemesha is part of the WECLIMA Group at Scripps, which studies relationships between regional weather extremes, large-scale climate variability, and consequent impacts on public and ecosystemic health. She also serves as the Scripps PI for a multi-institutional project called Pacific Coastal Fog Research: Basic science, water resources, and future change. The project examines how changes in coastal fog and low cloud cover in California connect to regional and global-scale climate processes.
Dr. Clemesha is a principal investigator (PI) for the Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center's (SW CASC) Phase 3 Team.
Learn more about Dr. Clemesha's work:
Recent Publications
- The 1991 California ‘Miracle March’: precipitation myth or miracle?
- North American Monsoon Impacts Southern California’s Coastal Low Clouds
Multimedia
- Follow @scripps_ocean Instagram, where Dr. Clemesha explains “May Gray” and “June Gloom.”
- Webinar recording on Changes in Precipitation in the Southwestern United States
- Web article on Climate, Clouds, and the Connection to Solar Energy
Meet the people behind the science! This profile is part of the "Principal Investigator (PI) Profiles" series for the SW CASC's Phase 3 Team.
The Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center (SW CASC) is a federal-university partnership with the USGS and seven academic institutions across the southwest.