Seth SeidelResearch Scientist

Research Focus:

Convection, Climate Dynamics, Tropical meteorology

Email:

sdseidel@uchicago.edu

Biography

Before joining University of Chicago, I was a NASA Postdoctoral Program fellow at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. I earned a B.A. degree in mathematics and economics from Texas A&M University, followed by an M.S. in Civil Engineering and a PhD in atmospheric science at University of California Davis.
 

Research Interests

I construct hierarchies of numerical models, simple models, and observations to better understand the weather and climate of Earth's tropics. My work is especially focused on problems involving convection, clouds, and radiation. 
 

Selected Publications

Seidel, Seth, Nathan Arnold, and Brandon Wolding. “How convective mass flux responds to environmental humidity.” Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 2026. (link: https://doi.org/10.1029/2025MS005289)

Seidel, Seth and Da Yang. “Temperatures of Anvil Clouds and Radiative Tropopause in a Wide Array of Cloud-Resolving Simulations.” Journal of Climate, 2022. (link: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0962.1)

Seidel, Seth and Da Yang. “The lightness of water vapor helps to stabilize tropical climate.” Science Advances, 2020. (link: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aba1951)