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Chris
Thorncroft
Professor
College of Arts and Sciences
Department:
Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences
Department Chair
Tropical weather and climate; monsoons, hurricanes
Campus phone: (518) 442-4555
Campus email: cthorncroft@albany.edu
Professor Chris Thorncroft studies tropical weather and climate. He specializes in the nature and variability of the West African monsoon, including the causes of droughts as well as how West African weather and climate impact hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean.
Thorncroft currently serves as chair for the Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences.
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