I'm Tom Dror (she/her), a postdoctoral researcher at CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder, embedded in the NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, working in the Clouds, Aerosol, and Climate Group. My passion for clouds drives my research, which focuses on the coupling between land and atmosphere and its effect on clouds, particularly in the tropics and the Amazon forest. I am also fascinated by ocean–atmosphere interactions and explore related topics when time allows. For these investigations, my primary tools are measurements of the Earth's surface and atmosphere, especially from satellites.
Cheers,
Tom
Dror, T., Flores, J. M., & Koren, I. (2025). Global diurnal sea surface temperature variability and the role of ocean–atmosphere interactions. J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 130, e2025JC022862. link.
Koren, I., Dror, T., Shehter E. R., & Altaratz, O. (2025). Not as random: the stable dynamics controlling shallow convective clouds. npj Clim Atmos Sci, 8, 43. link.
Koren, I., Dror, T., Altaratz, O., & Chekroun, M. D. (2024). Cloud versus Void Chord Length Distribution (LvL) as a Measure for Cloud Field Organization. Geophys. Res. Lett. link.
Dror, T., Koren, I., Liu, H., & Altaratz, O. (2023). Convective steady state in shallow cloud fields. Phys. Rev. Lett., 131(13), 134201. link.
Chekroun, M. D., Dror, T., Altaratz, O., & Koren, I. (2023). Equations discovery of organized cloud fields: Stochastic generator and dynamical insights. arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.12199. link.
Dror, T., Silverman, V., Altaratz, O., Chekroun, M. D., & Koren, I. (2022). Uncovering the Large-Scale Meteorology That Drives Continental, Shallow, Green Cumulus Through Supervised Classification. Geophys. Res. Lett., 49(8), e2021GL096684. link.
Dror, T., Chekroun, M. D., Altaratz, O., & Koren, I. (2021). Deciphering organization of GOES-16 green cumulus through the empirical orthogonal function (EOF) lens. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 21(16), 12261-12272. link.
Dror, T., Koren, I., Altaratz, O., & Heiblum, R. H. (2020). On the Abundance and Common Properties of Continental, Organized Shallow (Green) Clouds. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens. link.
Dror, T., Flores, J. M., Altaratz, O., Dagan, G., Levin, Z., Vardi, A., & Koren, I. (2020). Sensitivity of warm clouds to large particles in measured marine aerosol size distributions – a theoretical study. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 20, 15297–15306. link.
Dror, T., Lehahn, Y., Altaratz, O., & Koren, I. (2018). Temporal-Scale Analysis of Environmental Controls on Sea Spray Aerosol Production Over the South Pacific Gyre. Geophys. Res. Lett., 45(16), 8637-8646. link.
Chemke, R., Dror, T., & Kaspi, Y. (2016). Barotropic kinetic energy and enstrophy transfers in the atmosphere. Geophys. Res. Lett., 43(14), 7725-7734. link.
Dror, T., & Feingold, G. (2026). Amazon Forest Loss: an All-Sky Biophysical Cooling Feedback. Under review in Science.
Dror, T., & Feingold, G. (2026). Deforestation Triggers State-dependent Cloud Regimes in the Amazon. In revisions for Earth's Future.
Chekroun, M. D., Dror, T., Koren, I., & Honghu, L. (2026). Multilayered Stochastic Delay Models with Hierarchical Structures: Modeling Emergent Beat Patterns. Under review in npj Complexity.
Roth, H., Dror, T., Altaratz, O., & Koren, I. (2026). Ternary Pattern Space of Shallow Marine Clouds. Under review in Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmosphere.
Zhang, J., Painemal, D., Dror, T., Lim, J.S., Sorooshian, A., & Feingold, G. (2026). Inferring processes governing cloud transition during mid-latitude marine cold-air outbreaks from satellite. Under review in Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics. link
Tom Dror (she/her)
NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory
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Boulder, CO 80305 USA
Email:
tom.drorschwartz@colorado.edu
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tom.dror@noaa.gov