An integral part of her work continues to be the assessment and improvement of a GCM’s ability to predict the evolution of the earth’s weather and climate from synoptic to seasonal scales, functioning in atmosphere-only, coupled ocean/atmosphere, and data assimilation modes.

The topics of her research have included the modification and implementation of GCM parameterizations of atmospheric moist processes, turbulence, and land surface processes, the use of high resolution model results and satellite data to estimate GCM Sub-Grid scale variance of total water, and the evaluation of sources of prediction skill and predictability on different time scales.