Kathleen Schiro

Kathleen A. Schiro is an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia's College of Arts & Sciences, specializing in tropical atmospheric dynamics, convection, and climate modeling. Her research integrates satellite observations, field campaign data, and cloud-resolving models to analyze environmental controls on deep convection and precipitation extremes.

• Institution: University of Virginia (College of Arts & Sciences)
• Contact: kschiro@virginia.edu

Research Interests: Focused on (1) atmospheric convection, (2) tropical dynamics, (3) regional hydroclimatology, and (4) cloud-circulation feedbacks. She examines how convective systems interact with large-scale circulation changes under anthropogenic warming.

Scientific Contributions: Key work includes analyzing tropical mesoscale convective system (MCS) precipitation intensity using multi-sensor datasets, investigating environmental moisture controls on convective organization, and developing metrics for climate model diagnostics. Recent publications address cloud feedback mechanisms, ITCZ narrowing, and process-level understanding of deep convection.