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Author:

Chen, Yaosheng

Title:

NUMERICAL MODELING OF ARCTIC MIXED-PHASE LAYERED CLOUDS

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science

Keywords:

boundary-layer clouds
mesoscale dynamics
MMCR
North Slope Alaska
model evaluation

File:

Download CYS.pdf

Committee Members:

Johannes Verlinde, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Johannes Verlinde, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eugene Edmund Clothiaux, Committee Member
Jerry Y Harrington, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Outside Member
Marcelo Chamecki, Committee Member

Author:

Minamide, Masashi

Title:

ON THE PREDICTABILITY OF TROPICAL CYCLONES THROUGH ALL-SKY INFRARED SATELLITE RADIANCE ASSIMILATION

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science

Keywords:

data assimilation
satellite
tropical cyclones
numerical weather prediction

File:

Download Dissertation_MasashiMinamide.pdf

Committee Members:

Fuqing Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fuqing Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eugene Edmund Clothiaux, Committee Member
David Jonathan Stensrud, Committee Member
John Harlim, Outside Member

Author:

Jiang, Zhiyuan

Title:

Towards an improved understanding of ice processes in clouds and precipitation

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science

Keywords:

ice microphysics
ice aggregates
radar meteorology
image processing

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_Zhiyuan_Jiang.pdf

Committee Members:

Johannes Verlinde, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kultegin Aydin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eugene Edmund Clothiaux, Committee Member
Matthew Robert Kumjian, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Outside Member
Johannes Verlinde, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Jimenez Sanchez, Jorge Giovanni

Title:

The Orinoco low-level jet

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science

Keywords:

Low-level jet
Orinoco River
Llanos Savannas
Dynamical downscaling
WRF
Colombia
Venezuela
Momentum balance
sea breeze
Unare depression
Katabatic flow
Bora
gravity current
density current
downslope flow
expansion fan
point wakes
supercritical channel flow
turbulent diffusivity
Planetary Boundary Layer
PBL
Atmospheric Boundary Layer
ABL
LLJ
OLLJ
Blackadar mechanism
Holton mechanism
inertial oscillation
topographic thermal forcing
Orinoco low-level jet
Llanos low-level jet
Llanos
Tropics
Tropical meteorology
Mesoscale meteorology
bore
Guiana Highlands
Eastern Cordillera
Andes
Coastal Cordillera
Merida Cordillera
Guanipa Mesa
Macarena mountain range
Colombian Air Force
Fuerza Aerea Colombiana
low-level wind shear
aviation
boundary layer
Austral summer

File:

Download OLLJ_Dissertation_Jorge_Jimenez.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul Markowski, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul Markowski, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George Spencer Young, Committee Member
David Jonathan Stensrud, Committee Member
Andrew Mark Carleton, Outside Member

Author:

Chen, Hans Weiteng

Title:

Toward improved regional estimates of carbon dioxide sources and sinks through coupled carbon–atmospheric data assimilation

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science

Keywords:

carbon cycle
data assimilation
atmospheric inversion
climate
climate change
ensemble kalman filter
Bayesian inference
act-america
co2
carbon dioxide

File:

Download chen.pdf

Committee Members:

Fuqing Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fuqing Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Lauvaux, Committee Member
Steven B. Feldstein, Committee Member
Richard B. Alley, Outside Member
David W. Titley, Outside Member

Author:

Lamer, Katia

Title:

RELATIVE OCCURRENCE OF LIQUID, ICE AND MIXED-PHASE CONDITIONS WITHIN CLOUD AND PRECIPITATION REGIMES: LONG TERM GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS FOR GCM MODEL EVALUATION

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science

Keywords:

model evaluation
mixed-phase clouds
rain rate
observational benchmark
forward-simulators
subcolumn generator
ground-based observations
general circulation models

File:

Download Lamer_phd_dissertation_final_version_submitted.pdf

Committee Members:

Eugene E. Clothiaux, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Johannes Verlinde, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andrew Mark Carleton, Committee Member
Chris Eliot Forest, Committee Member
Ann M. Fridlind, Outside Member

Author:

Hanson, Elle Richard

Title:

Theory and Experiments Pertaining to Atmospheric Ice Crystal Growth and Surface Evolution

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science

Keywords:

cloud ice
ice crystal
crystal growth
atmospheric ice
crystal surface evolution
experimental atmospheric science
2D nucleation

File:

Download LEHanson-thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Jerry Y Harrington, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Robert Kumjian, Committee Member
Miriam Arak Freedman, Committee Member
William Henry Brune, Committee Member

Author:

Seibert, Jonathan

Title:

Applications of the Geometry-Sensitive Ensemble Mean for Lake-Effect Snowbands and Other Weather Phenomena

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science

Keywords:

Ensemble forecasting
Object-based
Numerical weather prediction
Ensemble mean
Wasserstein Distance

File:

Download GEM_Applications_thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Steven J. Greybush, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fuqing Zhang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jia Li, Committee Member

Author:

Williams, Matthew

Title:

Causes and Impacts of Sea Ice Variability in the Sea of Okhotsk Using CESM-LE

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science

Keywords:

CESM
Okhotsk
sea ice
interannual variability
atmospheric dynamics
CESM-LE
thermodynamics

File:

Download MatthewWilliams_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Melissa Marie Gervais, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chris Eliot Forest, Committee Member
Sukyoung Lee, Committee Member

Author:

Ruiz-Plancarte, Jesus

Title:

Carbon dioxide exchange between the atmosphere and a temperate salt marsh

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science

Keywords:

Carbon
salt marsh
coastal
inundation
tides
Virginia
Salt marsh
Coastal
Inundation
Gross Primary Productivity
Wetland
Remote sensing
Light use efficiency

File:

Download Jesus_Ruiz-Plancarte-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jose Dolores Fuentes, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jose Dolores Fuentes, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Raymond Gabriel Najjar, Jr., Committee Member
Kenneth James Davis, Committee Member
Robert P. Brooks, Outside Member
David Jonathan Stensrud, Program Head/Chair