Anita Rapp
  • Professor
  • Graduate Committee Chair

Research Interests

  • Remote Sensing
  • Clouds and Precipitation
  • Satellite Meteorology
  • Mesoscale Meteorology
  • Atmospheric Radiation
  • Aerosol-Cloud Interactions




Graduate Student and Postdoc Opportunities

Students interested in working in these areas should contact Dr. Rapp. Information on our graduate program at Texas A&M can be found here.

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, 2008
  • M.S., Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, 2004
  • B.S., Meteorology, Texas A&M University, 2000

Awards & Honors

  • Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences Visiting Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2008–2009
  • NASA Earth System Science Fellowship, 2005–2008
  • Superior Accomplishment Award, NASA Contractors Steering Council, 2002
  • Superior Accomplishment Award, NASA Contractors Steering Council, 2001
  • University Undergraduate Research Fellow, Texas A&M University Honors Program, 2000

Selected Publications

    • Byrne, M. P., A. G. Pendergrass, A. D. Rapp, and *K. Wodzicki, 2018: Response of the Intertropical Convergence Zone to climate change: Location, width, and strength. Curr. Clim. Change Rep., 4, 355-370, doi:10.1007/s40641-018-0110-5.
    • *Ren, T., A. D. Rapp, S. Nasiri, J. Mecikalski, and J. Apke: Is awareness of the aerosol state useful in predicting enhanced lightning for lightning-producing storms over northern Alabama? Accepted in J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 57, 1663-1681, doi: 10.1175/JAMC-D-17-0182.1.
    • Stephens, G., M. Hakuba, M. Webb, M. Lebsock, Q. Yue, B. Kahn, S. Hristova-Veleva, A. D. Rapp, C. Stubenrauch, G. Elsaesser, and J. Slingo: Regional intensification of the tropical hydrological cycle during ENSO. Geophys. Res. Lett., 45, doi:10.1029/2018GL077598.
    • Rapp, A. D., 2016: Observational evidence linking precipitation and mesoscale cloud fraction in the southeast Pacific. Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, 7267–7273, doi:10.1002/2016GL069906.
    • *Wodzicki, K., and A. D. Rapp, 2016:  Long-term characterization of the Pacific ITCZ using TRMM, GPCP, and ERA-Interim. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 121, 3153–3170, doi:10.1002/2015JD024458.
    • Rapp, A. D., A. Peterson, O. W. Frauenfeld, S. M. Quiring, and E. B. Roark, 2014: Climatology of precipitation and storm characteristics in Costa Rica using the TRMM Precipitation Radar. J. Hydrometeor., 15, 2615–2633, doi:10.1175/JHM-D-13-0174.1.
    • Rapp, A.D., M. Lebsock, and T. L’Ecuyer, 2013:  Low cloud precipitation climatology in the southeastern Pacific marine stratocumulus region using CloudSat. Environ. Res. Lett., 8, 014027, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/8/1/014027.