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Author:

Avramov, Alexander Elkov

Title:

SIMULATIONS OF AEROSOL, MICROPHYSICAL AND COASTAL INFLUENCES ON ARCTIC MIXED-PHASE CLOUDS

Graduate Program:

Meteorology

Keywords:

aerosols
mixed-phase clouds
arctic clouds
ice crystal habit

File:

Download FinalDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jerry Y Harrington, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jerry Y H Arrington, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Johannes Verlinde, Committee Member
Eugene Edmund Clothiaux, Committee Member
David Pollard, Committee Member

Author:

Pawlak, Daniel Thomas

Title:

Development and Evaluation of a Shortwave Full-Spectrum Correlated k-Distribution Radiative Transfer Algorithm for Numerical Weather Prediction

Graduate Program:

Meteorology

Keywords:

Shortwave
Correlated k-distribution
FSCK
radiative transfer
numerical weather prediction

File:

Download Pawlak-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Eugene Edmund Clothiaux, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David R Stauffer, Committee Member
Jerry Y Harrington, Committee Member
Michael F Modest, Committee Member

Author:

Schuster, Gregory L.

Title:

Inferring the Specific Absorption and Concentration of Black Carbon from AERONET Aerosol Retrievals

Graduate Program:

Meteorology

Keywords:

particulate carbon
elemental carbon
soot
retrievals
aerosols
absorption cross section
absorption efficiency

File:

Download schuster.pdf

Committee Members:

Eugene Edmund Clothiaux, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas P Charlock, Committee Member
Dennis Lamb, Committee Member
James Kasting, Committee Member
Timothy Joseph Kane, Committee Member
Thomas L Ackerman Jr., Committee Member
William Henry Brune, Committee Member

Author:

Seker, Ilgin

Title:

THE PROPERTIES AND 3D STRUCTURE OF MEDIUM SCALE TRAVELING IONOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

F-region
ionosphere
instabilities
irregularities
plasma depletion
mid-latitude
allsky imager
radar
ISR
MSTID
model
Arecibo Observatory

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation-Ilgin_Seker.pdf

Committee Members:

John David Mathews, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John David Mathews, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
C Russell Philbrick, Committee Member
Julio Urbina, Committee Member
Eugene Edmund Clothiaux, Committee Member

Author:

Petters, Jonathan

Title:

The Impact of Radiative Heating and Cooling on Marine Stratocumulus Dynamics

Graduate Program:

Meteorology

Keywords:

radiative transfer
cloud dynamics
atmospheric science
meteorology

File:

Download Dissertation_Petters_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Eugene Edmund Clothiaux, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eugene Edmund Clothiaux, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jerry Y Harrington, Committee Member
Johannes Verlinde, Committee Member
James Kasting, Committee Member

Author:

Cole, Jason Neil Steven

Title:

Assessing the Importance of Unresolved Cloud-Radiation Interactions in Atmospheric Global Climate Models Using the Multiscale Modelling Framework

Graduate Program:

Meteorology

Keywords:

global climate model
radiative transfer
Monte Carlo
multiscale modelling framework

File:

Download Jason_Cole_PhD_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Eugene Edmund Clothiaux, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jenni Evans, Committee Member
Jerry Y Harrington, Committee Member
Michael F Modest, Committee Member
Howard W Barker, Committee Member
William Henry Brune, Committee Member

Author:

Yeo, Junho

Title:

NUMERICALLY EFFICIENT TECHNIQUES FOR THE ANALYSIS OF MICROWAVE ANTENNAS, CIRCUITS AND SCATTERING PROBLEMS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Impedance Matrix Interpolation
Method of Moments (MoM)
Characteristic Basis Function (CBF)
Microwave antennas and Circuits
Scattering Problems

File:

Download Thesis_Junho_Yeo_071403.pdf

Committee Members:

Raj Mittra, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kultegin Aydin, Committee Member
Douglas Henry Werner, Committee Member
Vijay Krishna Varadan, Committee Member
Eugene Edmund Clothiaux, Committee Member

Author:

Rambukkange, Mahlon P

Title:

CHARACTERIZING HYDROMETEOR POPULATIONS IN ARCTIC MIXED-PHASE CLOUDS USING DOPPLER RADAR VELOCITY SPECTRA

Graduate Program:

Meteorology

Keywords:

rime-splintering
Doppler veloctiy spectra
Mixed-phase cloud

File:

Download Rambukkange_PhD_2012_SL.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, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Meng

Title:

INTERCOMPARISON AND COUPLING OF ENSEMBLE-BASED AND VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION SCHEMES

Graduate Program:

Meteorology

Keywords:

Data assimilation
EnKF
4DVar
Hybrid

File:

Download Meng_thesis_PSU_2010.pdf

Committee Members:

Fuqing Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fuqing Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eugene Edmund Clothiaux, Committee Member
Yvette Pamela Richardson, Committee Member
Xiaolong Zhang, Committee Member
Chris Snyder, Committee Member

Author:

Herrmann, Maria

Title:

DIAGNOSTIC MODELING OF OCEANIC BIOGEOCHEMICAL FLUXES USING A GENERAL OCEAN TURBULENCE MODEL (GOTM) AND TIME-SERIES TRACER MEASUREMENTS

Graduate Program:

Meteorology

Keywords:

biological pump
ocean carbon cycle
dimethylsulfide
marine biogeochemistry
Nort Atlantic
ESTOC

File:

Download MH_dissertation_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Raymond Gabriel Najjar Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Raymond Gabriel Najjar Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eugene Edmund Clothiaux, Committee Member
Michael Mann, Committee Member
David N Hill, Committee Member