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Author:

Stefik, Jason Brian

Title:

A Decision Algorithm to Improve Data Collection in Stochastic Environments

Graduate Program:

Meteorology

Keywords:

optimized decision making
self-organizing maps
dynamic programming
resource allocation
field experiments

File:

Download Jason_Stefik_Thesis_Submit.pdf

Committee Members:

Johannes Verlinde, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Johannes Verlinde, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Arthur A Small Iii, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Johnson, Nathaniel Charles

Title:

The Spatial and Temporal Variability of Atmospheric Teleconnection Patterns: A Continuum Perspective

Graduate Program:

Meteorology

Keywords:

Pacific/North American pattern
North Atlantic Oscillation
continuum perspective
self-organizing maps
teleconnection patterns
linear unidimensional scaling

File:

Download Nat_Johnson_dissertation_revised.pdf

Committee Members:

Johannes Verlinde, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Johannes Verlinde, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eugene Edmund Clothiaux, Committee Member
Steven B Feldstein, Committee Member
Jerry Y Harrington, Committee Member
David Pollard, Committee Member
Hampton Nelson Shirer, Committee Member

Author:

Anderson-Frey, Alexandra Kate

Title:

Statistical Examination of Tornado Report and Warning Near-Storm Environments

Graduate Program:

Meteorology

Keywords:

tornado
quasi-linear convective system
supercell
convection
forecasting
self-organizing maps
kernel density estimation
near-storm environment

File:

Download Anderson-Frey_-_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Yvette Pamela Richardson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yvette Pamela Richardson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul Markowski, Committee Member
David Jonathan Stensrud, Committee Member
Andrew Mark Carleton, Outside Member

Author:

Polasky, Andrew

Title:

Statistical Climate Model Downscaling: Methods and Application to the Midwest United States and West Africa Regions

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science (PHD)

Keywords:

climate change
downscaling
self-organizing maps
machine learning
statistical downscaling

File:

Download polasky_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

George Young, Major Field Member
C Lee Giles, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jenni Evans, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jose Fuentes, Major Field Member
David Stensrud, Program Head/Chair

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:

Naegele, Steven M

Title:

Investigation of Wind Regimes in Kuwait and the Northeastern U.S. Coast Using Observations and Self-Organizing Maps of Model Output

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science (PHD)

Keywords:

wind
wind energy
wind regime
atmospheric model
machine learning
self-organizing maps

File:

Download Naegele_Dissertation_Draft_-_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul Markowski, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Steven Greybush, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
George Young, Major Field Member
Susan Stewart, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jared Lee, Special Member
Melissa Gervais, Major Field Member