Jacob Z. Tindan

Jacob was a MS student in Atmospheric Science (2020-2022). He got his B.S. degree in Meteorology and Climate Science from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Ghana in 2018 and a Postgraduate Diploma in Earth System Physics from Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ITCP) in Italy in 2020. Jacob joined our group in fall 2020 and since then had worked on understanding dust spatiotemporal variations (day-night differences and interannual variations) in the Dust Belt (North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia) using station data, reanalyses, and satellite products.

Jacob won an Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award from KU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in 2023 (thesis title “Day-night Differences and Long-term Trends in Dust Activities over the Dust Belt of North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia in the Early 21st Century“). He is now in a PhD program at Penn State.