Degrees Completed with Partial or Complete CAPS Sponsorship

M.S. Degree (Meteorology)

1989

Yu-Cheng Liou
Retrieval of Three-Dimensional Wind and Temperature Fields from One Component Wind Data by Using the Four Dimensional Data Assimilation Technique
Advisor: Dr. Tzvi Gal-Chen
 

1990

Kim Carver
On the Origin of Rotation in Numerically-Simulated Dry Convection
Advisor: Dr. Kelvin Droegemeier
 
Steven Lazarus
The Role of Helicity in the Stability and Morphology of Numerically Simulated Storms
Advisor: Dr. Kelvin Droegemeier
 

1991

Michael Baldwin
Incorporation of Precipitation Data into a Numerical Weather Prediction Data Assimilation System
Advisor: Dr. Frederick Carr
 
Chee-Foong Chang
Synthetic Dual-Doppler Analysis of a Mesoscale Convective System in Oklahoma Using NEXRAD Data
Advisor: Dr. Howard Bluestein
 
William McPherson
Sensitivity of Numerically Simulated Downbursts to the Horizontal Radius of the Initial Rain Disturbance
Advisor: Dr. Kelvin Droegemeier
 
Kriste Paine
A Comparison of Two Methods for Dynamic Grid Adaptation in Two-Dimensional Passive Scalar Transport
Advisor: Dr. Kelvin Droegemeier

 

1992

Michael Babcock
Aircraft Trajectory Analyses Through Simulated Microbursts
Advisor: Dr. Kelvin Droegemeier
 
Samuel Contorn
An Investigation of Wintertime Precipitation Events in North-Central America
Advisor: Dr. Frederick Carr
 
James T. Johnson
Investigation of Outflow Strength Variability in Florida Microburst-Producing Storms
Advisor: Dr. Kelvin Droegemeier
 
 
 
Renee McPherson
Predictability Experiments of a Numerically-Modeled Supercell Storm
Advisor: Dr. Kelvin Droegemeier

 

1993

Yvette Richardson
Verification of NMC Short-Range Models Using Wind Profiler Data
Advisor: Dr. Frederick Carr
 
Maribeth Stolzenberg
Electrical and Meteorological Conditions in the Stratiform Cloud Region of a Mesoscale Convective Storm
Advisor: Dr. W. David Rust (NSSL)
 
Y. Zheng
Observational Study and Numerical Simulations of the 7 May 1985 Mesoscale Convective System
Advisor: Dr. Qin Xue (CIMMS)

 

1994

Daniel Bickford
Effects of Wind Filling in the Near-Environment of a Numerical Storm Simulation
Advisor: Dr. Carl Hane (NSSL)
 
Hao Jin
A Numerical Study of Cold-Air Damming
Advisors: Dr. Qin Xu (CIMMS) and Dr. Kelvin Droegemeier
 
Gordana Sindic-Rancic
Test of an Advanced Passive Scalar Advection Scheme for Numerical Weather Prediction
Advisor: Dr. Frederick Carr
 

1995

David Jahn
Simulation of Convective Storms in Environments with Independently Varying Bulk Richardson Number Shear and Storm-Relative Helicity
Advisor: Dr. Kelvin Droegemeier
 
John Krause
Application of the Bratseth Technique to Mesoscale Objective Analysis
Advisor: Dr. Frederick Carr

 

1997

 
Scott Ellis
Hole-Filling Data Voids in Gridded Fields
Advisors: Dr. Alan Shapiro and Dr. Kelvin Droegemeier

 

Xiaochun Zhao
Using Spectrum Width for Detection of Thunder Storm Turbulence: A Case Study
Advisor: Dr. Robert Crane

 

1998

John Case
Case Study of the 10 November 1995 Strong Cold Front
Advisor: Dr. Frederick Carr
 
M.S. Degree (Computer Science)

1991 

Gwan Ming Thio (Computer Science)
Performance Evaluation of Matrix Decompositions on a Multivector Processor
Advisor: Dr. S. Lakshmivarahan (Computer Science)
 
1992
Kevin Kelleher (Computer Science)
On the Performance of a Direct Parallel Method of Solving Separable Elliptic Equations Based on a Block Cycle Reduction
Advisor: Dr. S. Lakshmivarahan (Computer Science)

1997

Mir Ali (Computer Science)
Analyzing Parallel Algorithms
Advisor: Dr. S. Lakshmivarahan (Computer Science)

1998

David Zhi Wang (Computer Science)

Min Zou (Computer Science)
Simulation of the Squall Line Base (7 May 1995)
Advisors: Dr. Sridhar Radhakrishnan (Computer Science) and Dr. Ming Xue
Ph.D Degree (Meteorology)

 

1990

Wan-Shu Wu
Helical Buoyant Convection
Advisor: Dr. Douglas Lilly

1991

Jeanne Schneider
Dual-Doppler Measurements of a Shreard Convective Boundary Layer
Advisor: Dr. Douglas Lilly
 
Meta Sienkiewicz
Retrieval of Virtual Temperature from Vertical Wind Profiles and Groud-Based Microwave Radiometer Data
Advisor: Dr. Tzvi Gal-Chen

1992

Juanzhen Sun
Convective Scale 4-D Data Assimilation Using Simulated Single-Doppler Radar Observations
Advisor: Dr. Douglas Lilly

1993

Litao Deng
Dynamics of Tornado-Like Vortices
Advisor: Dr. Douglas Lilly
 
Qingyun Zhao
The Incorporation and Initialization of Cloud Water/Ice in an Operational Forecast Model
Advisor: Dr. Frederick Carr

1994

Yong Li
On the Topological Complexity of the Cost Function in Variational Data Assimilation
Advisor: Dr. Kelvin Droegemeier

1995

Yu-Chieng Liou
Numerical Investigation of a Heated, Sheared Planetary Boundary Layer
Advisors: Dr. Tzvi Gal-Chen and Dr. Douglas Lilly
Scott Richardson
Multiple Radiation Shields: Investigating Radiational Heating Errors
Advisor: Dr. Frederick Brock
 
Mei Xu
Estimation of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Fluxes and Other Turbulence Parameters from Doppler Radar and Lidar Data
Advisors: Dr. Tzvi Gal-Chen and Dr. Douglas Lilly

1996

Steven Lazarus
Assimilation and Prediction of a Florida Multicell Storm Using Observed Single-Doppler Data
Advisor: Dr. Kelvin Droegemeier
 
Daniel Weber
Numerical Simulation and Prediction of Downslope Windstorms
Advisors: Dr. Douglas Lilly and Dr. Brian Fiedler
 
Seon Ki Park
Sensitivity Analysis of Deep Convective Storms
Advisor: Dr. Kelvin Droegemeier

1997

Xiaouguang Song
Shape Optimal Design for Stiffened Plate Structures
Advisor: Dr. Baldwin (AME)

1998

Stephen Weygandt
Single-Doppler Retrieval and Assimilation Using the ARPS Model
Advisors: Dr. Kelvin Droegemeier and Dr. Alan Shapiro
 
Ph.D Degree (Computer Science)

1991

Jung-Sing Jwo
Analysis of Interconnection Networks Based on Cayley Graphs Related to Permutation Groups
Advisor: Dr. S. Lakshmivarahan (Computer Science)

1992

C.G. Song
Application of Direct Parallel Methods to Reconstruction and Forecasting Problems
Advisor: Dr. S. Lakshmivarahan (Computer Science)

 

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