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Author:

La Chat, Grant

Title:

Identification of Rossby Wave Breaking Flavors using Self-Organizing Maps

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science (MS)

Keywords:

machine learning
self-organizing maps
anticyclones
cyclogenesis
Potential vorticity
Rossby waves
Wave breaking
Synoptic meteorology
moisture transport

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Committee Members:

David Stensrud, Program Head/Chair
Melissa Marie Gervais, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Steven B Feldstein, Committee Member
Kevin Andrew Bowley, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Colin M. Zarzycki, Committee Member

Author:

Mc Farland, Patrick

Title:

Observations of Corona Discharges on Trees Under Thunderstorms

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science (MS)

Keywords:

Electrical Discharges
Corona
Atmospheric Chemistry
Hydroxyl
Forest Ecology

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Committee Members:

Paul Markowski, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
William Henry Brune, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eugene Edmund Clothiaux, Committee Member
Matthew Robert Kumjian, Committee Member

Author:

Fan, Yifei

Title:

The mechanisms of the North Atlantic Cold Blob in the past century

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science (MS)

Keywords:

climate change
ocean circulation
global warming
AMOC
cloud radiative forcing

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Committee Members:

Laifang Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sukyoung Lee, Committee Member
Paul Markowski, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Raymond Gabriel Najjar, Jr., Committee Member
Melissa Marie Gervais, Committee Member

Author:

Schneider, Karl

Title:

A Comprehensive Investigation of Convective Snow in Central Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science (MS)

Keywords:

snow squall

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Committee Members:

Paul Markowski, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Matthew Robert Kumjian, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kelly Lombardo, Committee Member
Kevin Andrew Bowley, Committee Member

Author:

Sala, Christopher

Title:

The Midwestern–Southeastern Dipole Precipitation Pattern: A Mode of Summertime Contiguous United States Variability

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science (MS)

Keywords:

United States; Meteorology; Atmospheric Science; Atmospheric Sciences; Climate; Precipitation; Rainfall;

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Committee Members:

Laifang Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Melissa Marie Gervais, Committee Member
Paul Markowski, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Sukyoung Lee, Committee Member
Raymond Gabriel Najjar, Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Wu, Fan

Title:

Downstream Hydroclimatic Impacts and Forcing Mechanisms of Marine Heatwaves in the Northeast Pacific Ocean

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science (MS)

Keywords:

Marine heatwaves
US hydroclimate
Atmospheric circulation

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Committee Members:

Laifang Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sukyoung Lee, Committee Member
David Stensrud, Program Head/Chair
Steven B Feldstein, Committee Member

Author:

Hunt, Benjamin

Title:

A Numerical Study of How Convective Storms Modify Their Environments

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science (MS)

Keywords:

Convection
Supercells
Updraft Mass Flux
Environmental Modification

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Committee Members:

Paul Markowski, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Peters, Committee Member
Paul Markowski, Program Head/Chair
Yvette Pamela Richardson, Committee Member

Author:

Rui, Dixuan

Title:

The Growth Rate of Ice Crystals Formed from Frozen Solution Droplets: Laboratory Measurements and Power-law Parameterization

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science (MS)

Keywords:

cloud physics
cirrus cloud
ice crystal growth
solution drop freezing
laboratory

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Committee Members:

Jerry Y Harrington, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
William Henry Brune, Committee Member
Paul Markowski, Program Head/Chair
Anthony Carl Didlake, Jr., Committee Member