PhD Degrees Awarded in the Department of Atmospheric Science

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1966 - Fall
• Bean, Bradford
  Adviser: Reiter
  Title: Radio Studies of Atmospheric Water Vapor

1967 - Spring
• Bergen, James
  Adviser: Marlatt
  Title: Some Aspects of Cold Air Drainage on a Forested Slope
• Foltz, Harry P.
  Adviser: Reiter
  Title: Prediction of Clear Air Turbulence
• Mahlman, Jerry D.
  Adviser: Reiter
  Title: Atmospheric General Circulation and Transport of Radioactive Debris

1968 - Fall
• Elsberry, Russell L.
  Adviser: Riehl
  Title: A High-Rotation General Circulation Model Experiment with Cyclic Time Changes
• Rasmussen, James L.
  Adviser: Riehl
  Title: Atmospheric Water Balance of the Colorado River Basin
• Salomonson, Vincent
  Adviser: Marlatt
  Title: Anisotropy in Reflected Solar Radiation

1970 - Summer
• Dirks, Richard Allen
  Adviser: Reiter
  Title: A Theoretical Investigation of Convective Patterns in the Lee of the Colorado Rockies
• Lester, Peter Francis
  Adviser: Reiter
  Title: Some Physical and Statistical Aspects of Clear Air Turbulence
• Sartor, James Dayne
  Adviser: Riehl
  Title: General Thunderstorm Electricity
• Simons, Theodorus Johannes
  Adviser: Baer
  Title: The Nonlinear Dynamics of Cyclone Waves
• Wooldridge, Gene L.
  Adviser: Reiter
  Title: Vertical Momentum Transport Processes

1971 - Summer
• Barchet, William Richard
  Adviser: Corrin
  Title: H20 (v) - AgI, Adsorption Near Saturation
• Chappell, Charles Franklin
  Adviser: Grant
  Title: Modification of Cold Orographic Clouds

1972 - Spring
• Lopez, Raul
  Adviser: Gray
  Title: A Parametric Model of Cumulus Convection
• Webb, Willis Lee
  Adviser: Reiter
  Title: Atmospheric Neutral-Electrical Interaction

1972 - Summer
• Lovill, James Edward
  Adviser: Reiter
  Title: Characteristics of the General Circulation of the Atmosphere and the Global Distribution of Total Ozone as Determined by the NIMBUS III Satellite Infrared Interferometer Spectrometer

1972 - Fall
• McKee, Thomas B.
  Adviser: Cox/Marlatt
  Title: Inference of Stratospheric Temperature and Water Vapor Structure from Limb Radiance Profiles

1973 - Spring
• Hoxit, Lee Ray
  Adviser: Gray
  Title: Planetary Boundary Layer Winds

1973 - Summer
• Alyea, Fred Nelson
  Adviser: Baer
  Title: Numerical Simulation of an Ice Age Paleoclimate
• Connell, James R.
  Adviser: Marlatt
  Title: Entrainment by Turbulent Jets of Air
• Gerber, Hermann Ernst
  Adviser: Corrin/Grant
  Title: Freezing Water with Sized AgI Particles
• Grossmann, Robert Louis
  Adviser: Marlatt
  Title: Investigation of Marine Boundary Layer

1974 - Spring
• Adler, Robert F.
  Adviser: Reiter
  Title: Hemispheric Differences in Circulation
• Henmi, Teizi
  Adviser: Grant
  Title: Secondary Ice Particle Production from Rimed Ice

1974 - Summer
• Reinking, Roger Frederick
  Adviser: Grant
  Title: Empirical Assessment of Accretion Microphysics

1975 - Spring
• Burrows, William Russell
  Adviser: Vonder Haar
  Title: A Spectral Diagnostic Study of Atmospheric Kinetic Energetics

1975 - Fall
• Srivatsangam, Srinivasan
  Adviser: Reiter
  Title: Atmospheric Eddy Transports and Their Efficiencies
• Vardiman, Larry
  Adviser: Grant
  Title: The General of Secondary Ice Particles in Clouds by Crystal-Crystal Collision

1976 - Spring
• McNab, Alan LaRue
  Adviser: Betts
  Title: Mesoscale Characteristics of Cumulus Convection

1976 - Summer
• Reid, John D.
  Adviser: Grant
  Title: Dispersion in a Mountain Environment

1977 - Spring
• Albrecht, Bruce A.
  Adviser: Cox
  Title: A Time-Dependent Model of the Trade-Wind Boundary Layer
• Katen, Paul Charles
  Adviser: Reiter
  Title: Modeling Atmospheric Dispersion of Lead Particulates from a Highway
• McGuirk, James P.
  Adviser: Reiter
  Title: Fluctuations in the Atmosphere's Energy Cycle

1977 - Summer
• Mulvey, Gerald John
  Adviser: Grant
  Title: Physical Mechanisms of Extra Area Effects from Weather Modification
• Rhea, John Owen
  Adviser: Grant
  Title: Orographic Precipitation Model for Hydrometeorological Use

1977 - Fall
• Arnold Jr, Charles Perry
  Adviser: Gray
  Title: Tropical Cyclone Cloud and Intensity Relationships
• Frank, William Menaul
  Adviser: Gray
  Title: The Structure,Dynamics and Energetics of Tropical Cyclones

1978 - Spring
• Ellis, James S.
  Adviser: Vonder Haar
  Title: Cloudiness, the Planetary Radiation Budget, and Climate
• Fritsch, J. Michael
  Adviser: Grant
  Title: Parameterization of Mid-Latitude Organized Convection
• Madden, Roland Aloysius
  Adviser: Haurwitz
  Title: Traveling Planetary Waves and Their Effect on the General Circulation

1978 - Fall
• Wetzel, Peter
  Adviser: Cotton/Sinclair
  Title: A Detailed Parameterization of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer

1979 - Spring
• Kidder, Stanley Q.
  Adviser: Vonder Haar
  Title: Determination of Tropical Cyclone Surface Pressure and Winds from Satellite Microwave Data
• McBride, John Leonard
  Adviser: Gray
  Title: Observational Analysis of Tropical Cyclone Formation

1979 - Summer
• Silva Dias, Maria
  Adviser: Betts
  Title: Linear Spectral Model of Tropical Mesoscale Systems
• Silva Dias, Pedro
  Adviser: Schubert
  Title: Dynamics of Equatorial Mass-Flow Adjustment

1979 - Fall
• Rinehart, Ronald E.
  Adviser: Grant
  Title: Internal Storm Motions from a Single Non-Doppler Weather Radar

1980 - Spring
• Fingerhut, William
  Adviser: Gray
  Title: Tropical Cyclone Genesis-Numerical Modeling Inferences

1980 - Summer
• Whiteman, C. David
  Adviser: McKee
  Title: Breakup of Temperature Inversions in Colorado Mountain Valleys

1980 - Fall
• Hack, James J.
  Adviser: Schubert
  Title: The Role of Convective-Scale Processes in Tropical Cyclone Development

1981 - Spring
• Abel, Michael D.
  Adviser: Cox
  Title: A Climate Index Derived from Satellite Measured Spectral Infrared Radiation
• Bridger, Alison
  Adviser: Stevens
  Title: Wave-Mean Flow Interactions and Solar-Weather Effects
• Maddox, Robert A.
  Adviser: Vonder Haar
  Title: The Structure and Life-Cycle of Midlatitude Mesoscale Convective Complexes
• Nunez, Edwin
  Adviser: Gray
  Title: Tropical Cyclone Structure and Intensity Change

1981 - Summer
• Campbell, George
  Adviser: Vonder Haar
  Title: Energy Transport Within the Earth's Atmosphere Ocean System from a Climate Point of View
• Davis, John
  Adviser: Cox
  Title: Regional Properties of Angular Reflectance Models

1982 - Spring
• Love, Geoff Bruce
  Adviser: Gray
  Title: The Role of the General Circulation in Tropical Cyclone Genesis

1982 - Summer
• Banta, Robert M.
  Adviser: Cotton
  Title: An observational and Numerical Study of Mountain Boundary-Layer Flow
• Chatfield, Robert B.
  Adviser: Reiter/Crutzen
  Title: Tropospheric SO2:Cloud Transport of Reactive Sulfur Emissions

1982 - Fall
• Chan, Johnny
  Adviser: Gray
  Title: The Physical Processes Responsible for Tropical Cyclone Motion
• Hanna, Adel
  Adviser: Stevens/Reiter
  Title: Short-Term Climatic Fluctuations Forced by Thermal Anomalies
• Starr, David
  Adviser: Cox
  Title: Numerical Experiments on the Formation and Maintenance of Cirriform Clouds

1983 - Spring
• Borys, Randolph D.
  Adviser: Grant
  Title: The Effect of Long-Range Transport of Air Pollutants on Arctic Cloud-Active Aerosol
• Hillger, Donald W.
  Adviser: Vonder Haar
  Title: Mesoscale Moisture Fields Retrieved from Satellite Infrared Radiances in Nocturnal Inversion Cases
• Holland, Greg Joseph
  Adviser: Gray
  Title: Tropical Cyclones in the Australian/Southwest Pacific Region

1983 - Summer
• DeMaria, Mark
  Adviser: Schubert
  Title: Experiments with a Spectral Tropical Cyclone Model
• Matthews, David Aaron
  Adviser: Cotton
  Title: Analysis and Classification of Mesoscale Triggering Effects on Convective Clouds and Precipitation
• Seagraves, Mary Ann
  Adviser: McKee
  Title: Visible and Infrared Transmission and Precipitation Rate in Falling Snow

1984 - Spring
• Jorgensen, David P.
  Adviser: Cotton
  Title: Mesoscale and Convective Scale Characteristics of Mature Hurricanes

1984 - Summer
• Anderson, John
  Adviser: Stevens
  Title: Slow Motions in the Tropical Troposphere
• Chen, Chaing H.
  Adviser: Cotton
  Title: The Physics of the Marine Stratocumulus-capped Mixed Layer
• Durkee, Philip
  Adviser: Vonder Haar
  Title: The Relationship Between Marine Aerosol Particles and Satellite-Detected Radiance
• Freeman, Larry
  Adviser: Cox
  Title: The Saudi Arabian Heat Low: A Numerical Perspective
• Smith, Eric A.
  Adviser: Vonder Haar
  Title: Radiative Forcing of the Southwest Summer Monsoon (A Satellite Perspective)

1984 - Fall
• Fulton, Scott
  Adviser: Schubert
  Title: Spectral Methods for Limited Area Models
• Krueger, Arlin
  Adviser: Vonder Haar
  Title: Inference of Photochemical Trace Gas Variations from Direct Measurements of Ozone in the Middle Atmosphere
• Matsumoto, Cliff
  Adviser: Gray
  Title: A Statistical Method for One to Three Day Tropical Cyclone Track Prediction

1985 - Spring
• Knupp, Kevin
  Adviser: Cotton
  Title: Precipitating Convective Cloud Downdraft Structure: A Synthesis of Observations and Modeling

1985 - Fall
• Arritt, Ray
  Adviser: Pielke
  Title: Numerical Studies of Thermally and Mechanically Forced Circulations Over Complex Terrain
• Bader, David
  Adviser: McKee
  Title: Mesoscale Boundary Layer Development over Mountainous Terrain
• Merrill, Robert
  Adviser: Gray
  Title: Environmental Influences on Hurricane Intensification
• Rauber, Robert
  Adviser: Grant
  Title: Physical Structure of Northern Colorado River Basin Cloud Systems

1986 - Spring
• Sarma, R. Ananthakrishna
  Adviser: Pearson
  Title: Numerical Simulation of the Formation and Transport of Sulfate in Convective Clouds

1986 - Summer
• Lee, Cheng-Shang
  Adviser: Gray
  Title: An Observational Study of Tropical Cloud Cluster Evolution and Cyclogenesis in the Western North pacific
• Purdom, Jim
  Adviser: Sinclair
  Title: Convective Scale Interaction: The Importance of Arc Cloud Lines in the Development and Evolution of Deep Convection
• Tripoli, Greg
  Adviser: Cotton
  Title: A Numerical Investigation of an Orogenic Mesoscale Convective System

1986 - Fall
• Lin, Ming-Sen (Jack)
  Adviser: Cotton
  Title: The Evolution and Structure of Composite Meso-Alpha-Scale Convective Complexes
• Song, Jenn-Luen
  Adviser: Pielke
  Title: A Numerical Investigation of Florida's Sea Breeze -- Cumulonimbus Interactions
• Young, George
  Adviser: Johnson
  Title: The Dynamics of Thermals and Their Contribution to Mixed Layer Processes

1987 - Spring
• Griffith, Cecilia
  Adviser: Vonder Haar
  Title: The Estimation from Satellite Imagery of Great Plains Summertime Rainfall Over Varied Space and Time Scales

1987 - Summer
• Ackerman, Steven
  Adviser: Cox
  Title: Radiative Characteristics of Soil Derived Aerosols
• Kuo, Hung-Chi
  Adviser: Schubert/Vonder Haar
  Title: Dynamical Modeling of Marine Boundary Layer Convection
• Weatherford, Candis
  Adviser: Gray
  Title: Typhoon Structure as Revealed by Aircraft Reconnaissance

1987 - Fall
• Nicholls, Melville
  Adviser: Johnson/Cotton
  Title: A Numerical Investigation of Tropical Squall Lines
• Toth, James
  Adviser: Johnson
  Title: Interaction of Shallow Cold Surges with Topography on Scales of 100-1000 Kilometers
• Tucker, Donna
  Adviser: Reiter
  Title: The Anatomy of Heavy Rainfall Episodes over Complex Terrain: A Modeling Approach
• Weaver, Clark
  Adviser: Pearson
  Title: Observational Analysis of Cumulus and Stratocumulus Entrainment Using Ozone

1988 - Fall
• Hadfield, Mark Gregory
  Adviser: Pielke
  Title: The Response of the Atmospheric Convective Boundary Layer to Surface in Homogeneities
• Kawa, Stephan Randolph
  Adviser: Pearson/Schubert
  Title: The Chemistry and Dynamics of Marine Stratocumulus
• Kelly, Francis Peter
  Adviser: Vonder Haar
  Title: Spatial and Temporal Short Range Total Cloud Cover Estimation by Metric Statistical Analysis of Composite Imagery
• Lipton, Alan Edmund
  Adviser: Vonder Haar
  Title: Mesoscale Analysis by Numerical Modeling Coupled with Satellite-Based Sounding
• MacDonald, Bruce
  Adviser: Reiter
  Title: Explosive Cyclogenesis over the Eastern United tates

1989 - Spring
• Smith, Laura Dorothy
  Adviser: Vonder Haar
  Title: Satellite Versus GCM-Simulated Radiation Balance: Comparisons and Implications for Climate Modeling

1989 - Fall
• Fortune, Michael Allan
  Adviser: Cotton
  Title: The Evolution of Vortical Patterns and Vortices in Mesoscale Convective Complexes
• Magnusdottir, Gudrun
  Adviser: Schubert
  Title: Generalized Semigeostrophic Theory

1990 - Spring
• DeMott, Paul J.
  Adviser: Grant
  Title: Quantifying Ice Nucleation by Silver Iodide Aerosols
• Tremback, Craig J.
  Adviser: Cotton
  Title: Numerical Simulation of a Mesoscale Convective Complex: Model Development and Numerical Results
• Wetzel, Melanie A.
  Adviser: Vonder Haar
  Title: Investigation of a Remote Sensing Technique for Droplet Effective Radius

1990 - Fall
• Bossert, James E.
  Adviser: Cotton/McKee
  Title: Regional-Scale Flows in Complex Terrain: An Observational and Numerical Investigation
• Cram, Jennifer
  Adviser: Pielke
  Title: Numerical Simulation and Analysis of the Propagation of a Prefrontal Squall Line
• Randel, David
  Adviser: Vonder Haar
  Title: Earth Radiation Budget Variability and the Relationship to Changes in the General Circulation

1991 - Spring
• Changnon, David
  Adviser: McKee
  Title: Hydroclimatic Variability in the Rocky Mountain Region
• Schmidt, Jerome
  Adviser: Cotton
  Title: Numerical and Observational Investigations of Long-Lived, MCS-Induced, Severe Surface Wind Events: The Derecho

1991 - Summer
• Peterson, Tom
  Adviser: Vonder Haar
  Title: The Relationships Between SST Anomalies and Clouds, Water Vapor, and Their Radiative Effects

1991 - Fall
• Weissbluth, M.
  Adviser: Cotton
  Title: Convective Parameterization in Mesoscale Models
• Wesley, Douglas A.
  Adviser: Pielke
  Title: An Investigation of the Effects of Topography on Colorado Front Range Winter Storms

1992 - Spring
• Flatau, Maria
  Adviser: Stevens/Schubert
  Title: The Influence of Baroclinic Processes on Tropical Cyclone Motion
• Hu, Qi
  Adviser: Randall
  Title: Low Frequency Oscillations in Radiative-Convective Models
• Rasmussen, Erik
  Adviser: Rutledge
  Title: An Observational and Theoretical Study of Squall Line Evolution
• Verlinde, Johannes
  Adviser: Cotton
  Title: Fitting Microphysical Observations to a Numerical Model Through an Optical Control Theory Technique
• Wolyn, Paul
  Adviser: McKee
  Title: A Modeling and Observational Study of the Daytime Evolution of the Atmosphere East of the Front Range of the Colorado Rockies

1992 - Summer
• Guinn, Thomas A.
  Adviser: Schubert
  Title: A Dynamical Theory for Hurricane Spiral Bands
• Rodgers, Edward B.
  Adviser: Gray
  Title: Tropical Cyclone/Upper-Atmospheric Interaction as Inferred from Satellite Total Ozone Observations
• Weng, Fuzhong
  Adviser: Vonder Haar
  Title: Vector Radiative Transfer Model: Application to Rainfall Retrieval with Microwave Radiometry Data
• Zehr, Raymond
  Adviser: Gray
  Title: Tropical Cyclogenesis in the Western North Pacific
• Zeng, Xubin
  Adviser: Pielke
  Title: Chaos Theory and Its Application in the Atmosphere

1992 - Fall
• Costigan, Keeley R.
  Adviser: Cotton
  Title: Large Eddy Simulations of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer East of the Colorado Rockies
• Flatau, Piotr J.
  Adviser: Cotton/Stephens
  Title: Scattering by Irregular Particles in Anomalous Diffraction and Discrete Dipole Approximation
• Lee, Tsengdar J.
  Adviser: Pielke
  Title: The Impact of Vegetation on the Atmospheric Boundary Layer and Convective Storms
• Moran, Michael D.
  Adviser: Pielke/Cotton
  Title: Numerical Modeling of Mesoscale Atmospheric Dispersion

1993 - Spring
• Lu, Chungu
  Adviser: Schubert
  Title: Balanced Dynamics for Three Dimensional Curved Flows
• Mayr, Georg
  Adviser: McKee
  Title: Evolution of Orogenic Blocking

1993 - Fall
• Evans, Kent Franklin
  Adviser: Stephens
  Title: Microwave Remote Sensing Algorithms for Cirrus Clouds and Precipitation
• Gallus, William
  Adviser: Johnson
  Title: The Dynamics of Circulations within the Stratiform Region of Squall Lines
• Snook, John S.
  Adviser: Pielke
  Title: An Investigation of Colorado Front Range Winter Storms using a Nonhydrostatic Mesoscale Numerical Model Structured for Operational Use

1994 - Spring
• Shao, Qingqiu
  Adviser: Randall
  Title: The Effects of Cloud-Top Processes on Convection in the Cloud-Topped Boundary Layer
• Wang, Junyi
  Adviser: Randall
  Title: Generalized Convective Available Potential Energy and its Application to Cumulus Parameterization
• Wong, Takmeng
  Adviser: Stephens
  Title: On the Radiative Processes Associated with the Tropical Mesoscale Convective Systems

1994 - Summer
• Bresch, James F.
  Adviser: Johnson
  Title: Numerical Simulation and Analysis of a Series of Mesoscale Convective Systems

1994 - Fall
• Blanchard, David O.
  Adviser: Cotton
  Title: The Role of Inertial Instability in the Genesis of Mesoscale Convective Systems
• Denning, A. Scott
  Adviser: Randall
  Title: Investigations of the Transport, Sources and Sinks of the Atmospheric CO2 Using a General Circulation Model
• Duda, David P.
  Adviser: Stephens
  Title: Macrophysical and Microphysical Influences on Radiative Transfer in Two Dimensional Marine Stratus
• Greenwald, Thomas J.
  Adviser: Stephens/Vonder Haar
  Title: Satellite Microwave Sensing of Oceanic Cloud Liquid Water. Application to the Earth Radiation Bidget and Climate
• Landsea, Christopher W.
  Adviser: Gray
  Title: Atlantic Basin Climate Change and Hurricanes
• Nieto Ferreira, Rosana
  Adviser: Schubert
  Title: On the Dynamics of the Formation of Multiple Tropical Disturbances

1995 - Spring
• Copeland, Jeffrey
  Adviser: Cotton/Pielke
  Title: Impact of Soil Moisture and Vegetation Distribution on July 1989 Climate using a Regional Climate Model
• Meyers, Michael P.
  Adviser: Cotton
  Title: The Impact of a Two-Moment Cloud Model on the Microphysical Structure of Two Precipitation Events
• Olsson, Peter Q.
  Adviser: Cotton
  Title: Evolution of Balanced Flow in a Simulated Mesoscale Convective Complex

1995 - Summer
• Pan, Dzong-Ming (Victor)
  Adviser: Randall
  Title: Development and Application of a Pronostic Cumulus Parameterization

1995 - Fall
• Christopher, Sundar A.
  Adviser: Vonder Haar
  Title: Cloud Radiative Forcing in the Tropics: The Effects of Optical Property Retrievals and Scene Identification
• Ding, Ping
  Adviser: Randall
  Title: A Parameterization of Cumulus Convection with Multiple Cloud Base Levels
• Dutton, Ellsworth G.
  Adviser: Cox
  Title: Tropospheric Radiative Forcing from El Chichon and Mt. Pinatubo: Theory and Observations
• Fitzpatrick, Patrick J.
  Adviser: Gray
  Title: Forecasting and Understanding Tropical Cyclone Intensity Change
• Kuo, Kwo-Sen
  Adviser: Cox
  Title: The Picard Iterative Approximation to the Solution of the Integral Equation of Radiative Transfer
• Stackhouse, Paul W.
  Adviser: Stephens
  Title: An Assessment of the Effects of Cloud Inhomogeneity on Ice Cloud Radiative Properties

1996 - Spring
• Alexander, G. David
  Adviser: Cotton
  Title: The Use of Simulations of Mesoscale Convective Systems to Build a Convective Parameterization Scheme
• Cifelli, Robert C.
  Adviser: Rutledge
  Title: Vertical Motion Structure in Tropical Mesoscale Convective Systems
• DeMott, Charlotte A.
  Adviser: Rutledge
  Title: The Vertical Structure and Modulation of TOGA COARE Convection: A Radar Perspective
• Grasso, Lewis D.
  Adviser: Cotton
  Title: Numerical Simulation of the April 26 and May 15, 1991 Tornadic Thunderstorms
• Hertenstein, Rolf F.
  Adviser: Cotton
  Title: Evolution of Potential Vorticity Associated with Mesoscale Convective Systems

1996 - Summer
• Jones, Andrew S.
  Adviser: Vonder Haar
  Title: The Use of Satellite-Derived Heterogeneous Surface Soil Moisture for Numerical Weather Prediction
• Rafkin, Scot C.
  Adviser: Cotton
  Title: Development of a Cumulus Parameterization Suitable for Use in Mesoscale Through GCM-Scale Models

1996 - Fall
• Poulos, Gregory S.
  Adviser: Pielke/McKee
  Title: The Interaction of Katabatic Winds and Mountain Waves
• Rickenbach, Thomas M.
  Adviser: Rutledge
  Title: Convection in TOGA COARE: Horizontal Scale and Rainfall Production
• Stevens, Bjorn B.
  Adviser: Cotton
  Title: On the Dynamics of Precipitating Stratocumulus

1997 - Spring
• Lin, Xin
  Adviser: Johnson
  Title: Multiscale Variability Associated with the Intraseasonal Oscillation over the Western Pacific Warm Pool
• Petersen, Walter A.
  Adviser: Rutledge
  Title: Multi-Scale Process Studies in the Tropics: Results from Lightning Observations
• Schuur, Terry J.
  Adviser: Rutledge
  Title: An Observational and Modeling Study of Mesoscale Convective System Electrification
• Trier, Stanley B.
  Adviser: Johnson
  Title: Multiscale Analysis of a Simulated Oceanic Mesoscale Convective System and its Environmental Impact

1997 - Summer
• Knaff, John A.
  Adviser: Gray
  Title: Progress Toward Seasonal Prediction in the Tropics

1997 - Fall
• Bernardet, Ligia R.
  Adviser: Cotton
  Title: Multi-Scale Evolution of a Derecho-Producting MCS
• Harrington, Jerry Y.
  Adviser: Cotton
  Title: The Effects of Radiative and Microphysical Processes on Simulated Warm and Transition Season Arctic Stratus

1998 - Spring
• Finley, Catherine A.
  Adviser: Pielke
  Title: Numerical Simulation of Intense Multi-scale Vortices Generated by Supercell Thunderstorms
• Haertel, Patrick T.
  Adviser: Johnson
  Title: The Dynamics of MCS Mesohighs and Wake Lows
• Heidinger, Andrew K.
  Adviser: Stephens/Cox
  Title: Nadir Sounding of Clouds and Aerosols in the O2 A-band
• Lietzke, Christopher
  Adviser: Vonder Haar
  Title: Satellite Moisture Profiling of the Tropical Eastern Pacific Convergence Zone
• Nachamkin, Jason
  Adviser: Cotton
  Title: Observational and Numerical Analysis of the Genesis of a Mesoscale Convective System
• Vidale, Pier Luigi
  Adviser: Pielke
  Title: Contributions of Land Surface Forced Mesoscale Circulations to the Total Heat, Moisture and Momentum Budgets over Boreas

1998 - Summer
• Papineau, John M.
  Adviser: Pielke
  Title: Orographic Precipitation: A Mesoscale Modeling Perspective

1998 - Fall
• Brechtel, Fredrick J.
  Adviser: Kreidenweis
  Title: Predicting Particle Critical Supersaturation from Hygroscopic Growth Measurements in the Humidified TDMA: Theory and Experiments
• Kelly, Michael A.
  Adviser: Randall
  Title: A Simple Model of Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions in the Tropical Climate System
• Zhang, Yiping
  Adviser: Kreidenweis
  Title: The Effects of Clouds on Aerosol and Chemical Species Processing, Production, and Distribution in the Boundary Layer and the Upper Troposphere

1999 - Spring
• Lawrence, Carey
  Adviser: Rutledge
  Title: On the Relationship between Precipitation and Lightning as Revealed by Multiparameter Radar Observations
• Roohr, Peter B.
  Adviser: Vonder Haar
  Title: Analysis of the Incorporation of Lightning into the Nowcasting of Enhanced Frozen Precipitation
• Wu, Ting
  Adviser: Cotton
  Title: Numerical Modeling Study of the November 26, 1991 Cirrus Event

1999 - Summer
• Lappen, Cara-Lyn
  Adviser: Randall
  Title: Unification of Mass Flux and Higher-Order Closure in the Simulation of Boundary Layer Turbulence
• Lu, Lixin
  Adviser: Pielke
  Title: The Implementation of a Two-way Interactive Atmospheric and Ecological Modeling System and its Application to the Central United States

1999 - Fall
• Chen, Yalei
  Adviser: Kreidenweis
  Title: Studies of Ice Formation Behaviors of Upper Tropospheric Aerosol and their Chemical Compositions by Continuous Flow Thermal Diffusion Chamber

2000 - Spring
• Hausman, Scott
  Adviser: Schubert
  Title: Formulation and Sensitivity Analysis of a Nonhydrostatic Axisymmetric Tropical Cyclone Model
• Knapp, Kenneth R.
  Adviser: Vonder Haar
  Title: Aerosol Retrieval over Land using Background Composites of Geostationary Satellite Data
• Kossin, James P.
  Adviser: Schubert
  Title: Barotropic Instability and Asymmetric Mixing in Hurricanes with Primary and Secondary Eyewalls
• Lang, Timothy J.
  Adviser: Rutledge
  Title: On the Relationships between Convective Storm Kinematics, Microphysics, and Lightning
• Miller, Steven D.
  Adviser: Stephens
  Title: A Multi-Sensor Approach to the Retrieval and Model Validation of Global Cloudiness
• Prieto Gonzalez, Ricardo
  Adviser: Schubert
  Title: Predictions for the Final Equilibrium State of Flows on the Sphere

2000 - Summer
• Costa, Alexandre A.
  Adviser: Cotton
  Title: Cloud-Resolving Modeling of Air-Sea Interactions over the Western Pacific
• Li, Xiang
  Adviser: Vonder Haar
  Title: Impact of Biomass Burning Aerosols on the Clear-sky Shortwave Radiative Fluxes
• Reasor, Paul D.
  Adviser: Montgomery
  Title: Horizontal Vorticity Redistribution and Vortex Alignment in Developing and Mature Tropical Cyclones

2001 - Summer
• Fleishauer, Robert
  Adviser: Vonder Haar
  Title: Observed Microphysical and Radiative Structure of Mid-Level, Mixed-Phase Clouds
• Hand, Jennifer
  Adviser: Kreidenweis
  Title: A New Technique for Obtaining Aerosol Size Distributions with Applications to Estimates of Aerosol Properties
• Knievel, Jason
  Adviser: Johnson
  Title: Vorticity and Balance in a Mesoscale Convective Vortex

2001 - Fall
• Benedetti, Angela
  Adviser: Stephens
  Title: Toward Assimilation of Cloud Radar Data for Improvements in Mesoscale Forecasts
• Cheng, Anning
  Adviser: Randall
  Title: A Theory of the Mesoscale Organization of Moist Convection and the Associated Vertical Momentum Transport
• Eitzen, Zachary
  Adviser: Randall
  Title: Simulation and Parameterization of Vertically Propagating Convectively Generated Gravity Waves
• L.Ecuyer, Tristan
  Adviser: Stephens
  Title: Uncertainties in Space-Based Estimates of Clouds and Precipitation: Implications for Deriving Global Diabatic Heating
• Van den Heever, Susan
  Adviser: Cotton
  Title: The Impact of Several Hail Parameters on Simulated Supercell Storms

2002 - Spring
• Gaudet, Brian J.
  Adviser: Cotton
  Title: Rapid Development of Tornado-Like Vortices by Simulated Supercells
• Golaz, Jean-Christophe
  Adviser: Cotton
  Title: A PDF-Based Parameterization for Boundary Layer Clouds
• Moore, Katharine F.
  Adviser: Collett
  Title: Drop Size-Dependent Chemical Composition in Clouds and Fogs
• Nair, Udaysankar
  Adviser: Pielke
  Title: Climatic Impact of Lowland Deforestation on Tropical Montane Cloud Forests in Costa Rica

2002 - Summer
• Heikes, Ross P.
  Adviser: Randall
  Title: A Comparison of Vertical Coordinate Systems for Numerical Modeling of the General Circulation of the Atmosphere
• Mitrescu, Cristian
  Adviser: Stephens
  Title: Retrieved Optical Properties for Cirrus Clouds Over Tropical West Pacific
• Parker, Matthew D.
  Adviser: Johnson
  Title: Quasi-Two-Dimensional Convective Lines with Leading Precipitation: Dynamics Inferred from Idealized Numerical Simulations
• Persing, John J.
  Adviser: Montgomery
  Title: Insights on Hurricane Intensity
• Straub, Katherine A.
  Adviser: Schubert
  Title: Observations of Convectively Coupled Kelvin Waves

2002 - Fall
• Cheng, William Y.
  Adviser: Cotton
  Title: Sensitivity of a Simulated Mesoscale Convective System to Horizontal Heterogeneities in Soil Moisture Initialization
• Straub, Derek J.
  Adviser: Collett
  Title: Design and Testing of a New Aircraft-Based Cloud Water Sampling System

2003 - Summer
• Eastin, Matthew D.
  Adviser: Gray
  Title: Buoyancy of Convective Vertical Motions in the Inner Core of Intense Hurricanes
• Tulich, Stefan N.
  Adviser: Randall
  Title: The Interaction between Tropical and Gravity Waves: Comparisons between Simple Models and Direct Numerical Simulations

2004 - Spring
• Ruston, Benjamin
  Adviser: Vonder Haar
  Title: Characteristics of Summertime Microwave Land Emissivity Over the Conterminous United States

2004 - Summer
• Chang, Hui
  Adviser: Collett
  Title: The Processing of Aerosol Particles and Soluble Trace Gases by Chemically Heterogeneous Radiation Fogs
• Moore, Richard
  Adviser: Vonder Haar
  Title: Reexamining the Dynamics of Short-Scale, Diabatic Rossby Vortices and their Role in Midlatitude Moist Cyclogenesis
• Schaefer, Kevin
  Adviser: Denning
  Title: The Influence of Climate on Terrestrial CO2 Fluxes

2004 - Fall
• Cooper, Steve
  Adviser: Stephens
  Title: Implications of Atmosphere and Cloud State Uncertainties for the Global Retrieval of Ice Cloud Microphysical Properties
• Marshall, Curtis
  Adviser: Pielke
  Title: Simulated Impacts of Anthropogenic Land-Cover Change on the Mesoscale Climate of the Florida Peninsula

2005 - Spring
• Davey, Christopher
  Adviser: Pielke
  Title: Alternative Metrics for Measuring Heating Trends, with Possible Connections Between the Surface and Troposhere
• Stan, Cristiana
  Adviser: Randall
  Title: The Mean Meridional Circulation: A New Potential-Vorticity, Potential-Temperature Perspective
• Wiens, Kyle
  Adviser: Rutledge
  Title: Kinematic Microphysical, and Electrical Structure and Evolution of Thunderstorms during the Severe Thunderstorm Electrification and Precipitation Study (STEPS)

2005 - Fall
• Beltran, Adriana
  Adviser: Pielke
  Title: Using a Coupled Atmospheric-Biospheric Modeling System (GERRAMS) to Model the Effects of Land-Use/Land-Cover Changes on the Near-Surface Atmosphere
• Castro, Christopher
  Adviser: Pielke
  Title: The Use of a Regional Atmospheric Model to Investigate the Summer Climate of North America
• Griffith, Brian
  Adviser: Kummerow
  Title: Multifrequency Retrieval of Cloud Ice Particle Size Distribution
• Jirak, Israel
  Adviser: Cotton
  Title: Observational Analysis of the Predictability of Mesoscale Convective Systems

2006 - Spring
• Engling, Guenter
  Adviser: Collett
  Title: Characterizing Biomass Combustion Emission Contributions to Ambient Aerosol Concentrations

2006 - Summer
• Pakula, Lyle
  Adviser: Stephens
  Title: On The Dynamics of Forced Waves and Cumulus Clouds in the Equatorial Region
• Posselt, Derek
  Adviser: Stephens
  Title: Application of Advanced Data Assimilation Techniques to the Study of Cloud and Precipitation Feedbacks in the Tropical Climate System
• Strack, John
  Adviser: Pielke
  Title: Artic Tundra Shrub Invasion and Soot Deposition: Consequences For Spring Snowmelt and Near-Surface Air Temperatures
• Tessendorf, Sarah
  Adviser: Rutledge
  Title: Relationships between kinematics, microphysics, and lightning in High Plains storms observed during the Severe Thunderstorm Electrification and Precipitation Study

2007 - Spring
• Lee, Taehyoung
  Adviser: Collett
  Title: Characterizing Ionic Components of Aerosol in Rural Environments: Temporal Variability, Size Distributions, and the Form of Particle Nitrate
• Matsui, Toshi
  Adviser: Pielke
  Title: Aerosol Effects on Cloud-Precipitation and Land-Surface Processes
• Page, Elizabeth
  Adviser: Cotton
  Title: Post-Fire Impacts on Microclimate and Convective Precipitation
• Rozoff, Christopher
  Adviser: Schubert
  Title: Aspects of moat formation in tropical cyclone eyewall replacement cycles

2007 - Summer
• Hidalgo, Marc
  Adviser: Montgomery
  Title: Vortical Hot Towers, Their Aggregate Effects and Their Resolution Dependence in the Formation of Hurricane Diana (1984)
• Klotzbach, Phil
  Adviser: Schubert
  Title: Developments in Seasonal Atlantic Basin Tropical Cyclone Prediction

2007 - Fall
• Koehler, Kirsten
  Adviser: Kreidenweis
  Title: Abstract of the Impact of Natural Dust Aerosol on Warm and Cold Cloud Formation
• Terwey, Wesley
  Adviser: Montgomery
  Title: Secondary Eyewall Formation and Sheared Convection in Mature Hurricanes

2008 - Spring
• Ahlgrimm, Maike
  Adviser: Randall
  Title: Model Evaluation Using Space-Borne Lidar Observations
• Ciasto, Laura
  Adviser: Thompson
  Title: Mechanisms of Observed Sea Surface Temperature Variability in the Extratropical Southern Hemisphere
• Haynes, John
  Adviser: Stephens
  Title: The Near-Global Distribution of Light Precipitation from CloudSat
• Koehler, Kirsten
  Adviser: Kreidenweis
  Title: Abstract of the Impact of Natural Dust Aerosol on Warm and Cold Cloud Formation
• Rogers, Matthew
  Adviser: Stephens
  Title: Properties of the Tropical Hydrologic Cycle as Analyzed through 3-D K-Means Analysis
• Schumacher, Russ
  Adviser: Johnson
  Title: Quasi-Stationary, Extreme-Rain-Producing Convective Systems Associated with Midlevel Cyclonic Circulations

2008 - Summer
• Corbin, Katherine
  Adviser: Denning
  Title: Investigating causes of regional variations in atmospheric CO. concentrations
• Ellis, Todd
  Adviser: Stephens
  Title: Characteristics of Precipitation: CloudSat Observations and Model Predictions of the Current and Future Climate
• Hendricks, Eric
  Adviser: Schubert
  Title: Tropical Cyclone Evolution via Internal Asymmetric Dynamics
• Toy, Michael
  Adviser: Randall
  Title: Design of a Nonhydrostatic Atmospheric Model Based on a Generalized Vertical Coordinate

2008 - Fall
• Rapp, Anita
  Adviser: Kummerow
  Title: On the role of warm rain clouds in the Tropics

2009 - Spring
• Cabell, Brenda
  Adviser: Rutledge
  Title: Analysis and Application of the Casa IP1 X-Band Polarimetric Radar Network
• Leoncini, Giovani
  Adviser: Pielke
  Title: Improving Numerical Weather Prediction: Error Growth at the Convective Scale and Speed
• Seaman, Curtis
  Adviser: Vonder Haar
  Title: Assimilation of Geostationary, Ingrared Satellite Data to Improve Forecasting of Mid-Level, Mixed-Phased Clouds

2009 - Summer
• Lebsock, Matt
  Adviser: Kummerow
  Title: Relationships Between Aerosol, Cloud, and Precipitation as Observed From the A-Train Constellation of Spaceborne Sensors.

2009 - Fall
• Butler, Amy
  Adviser: Thompson
  Title: The Atmospheric Circulation Response to Climate Change-like Thermal Forcings in a Simple General Circulation Model

2010 - Spring
• Benedict, James
  Adviser: Randall
  Title: Structure of the Madden-Julian Oscillation in Coupled and Uncoupled Version of the Superparameterized Community Atmosphere Model
• Vigh, Jonathan
  Adviser: Schubert
  Title: Formation of the Hurricane Eye

2010 - Summer
• Nobis, Timothy
  Adviser: Collett
  Title: Coupling an Urban PAramterization to an Atmospheric Model Using an Operational Configuration
• Van Roekel, Luke
  Adviser: Randall
  Title: The Influence of Variations in Penetrating Solar Radiation on the Diurnal and Intraseasonal Structure of the Oceanic Boundary Layer
• Ward, Daniel
  Adviser: Cotton
  Title: Cloud condensation nuclei in western Colorado: Observations and model predictions

2010 - Fall
• Munchak, Stephen
  Adviser: Kummerow
  Title: A Method to Combine Spaceborne Radar and Radiometric Observations of Precipitation
• Wells, Kelley
  Adviser: Kreidenweis
  Title: Aerosol Single-Scattering Albedo Retrieval Over North Africa Using Critical Reflectance
• Yamaguchi, Takanobu
  Adviser: Randall
  Title: Cloud-top entrainment analyzed with a Lagrangian parcel tracking model in large-eddy simulations

2011 - Spring
• Shen, Xinhua
  Adviser: Collett
  Title: Aqueous Phase Sulfate Production in Clouds at Mt. Tai in Eastern China

2011 - Summer
• Parazoo, Nicholas C.
  Adviser: Denning
  Title: Moist Synoptic Transport of CO2 Along Midlatitude Storm Tracks, Transport Uncertainty, and Implications for Flux Estimation
• Rowe, Angela K.
  Adviser: Rutledge
  Title: A polarimetric radar analysis of convective observed during NAME and TiMREX
• Wood, Norman
  Adviser: Stephens
  Title: Estimation of snow microphysical properties with application to millimeter-wavelength radar retrievals for snowfall rate

2011 - Fall
• Elsaesser, Greg
  Adviser: Kummerow
  Title: TROPICAL RAINFALL REGIMES AND THEIR EVOLUTION ON HOURLY TO DAILY TIMESCALES
• Grise, Kevin
  Adviser: Thompson
  Title: ON THE STRUCTURE OF CLIMATE VARIABILITY NEAR THE TROPOPAUSE AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO EQUATORIAL PLANETARY WAVES
• Maclay, Katherine S.
  Adviser: T. Vonder Haar
  Title: TROPICAL CYCLONE KINETIC ENERGY AND STRUCTURE EVOLUTION IN THE HWRFx MODEL
• McGrath-Spangler, Erica L.
  Adviser: Denning
  Title: IMPORTANCE OF BOUNDARY LAYER PROCESSES FOR SURFACE FLUXES
• Musgrave, Kate C
  Adviser: Schubert
  Title: TROPICAL CYCLONE INNER CORE STRUCTURE AND INTENSITY CHANGE
• Newman, Andrew J.
  Adviser: Johnson
  Title: Dynamics of North American Monsoon Circulation Systems
• Silvers, Levi G.
  Adviser: Schubert
  Title: A THEORY OF TOPOGRAPHICALLY BOUND BALANCED MOTIONS AND APPLICATION TO ATMOSPHERIC LOW-LEVEL JETS

2012 - Spring
• Harper, Anna B.
  Adviser: Denning
  Title: DROUGHT TOLERANCE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR VEGETATION-CLIMATE INTERACTIONS IN THE AMAZON FOREST

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