M.S. Degrees Awarded

Barbero, Tyler

“A Potential Vorticity Diagnosis of Tropical Cyclone Track Forecast Errors”

Advisor: Michael Bell

Bowden, Amanda

“The Effect of Projected Sea Surface Temperature Change on MJO Activity in a Warmer Climate”

Advisor: Eric Maloney

Cahill, Jack

“Errors of Opportunity: Using Neural Networks to Predict Errors in the Unified Forecast System (UFS) on S2S Timescales”

Advisors: Elizabeth Barnes and Eric Maloney

Chakraborty, Anindita

“Investigating the Impact of Forced and Internal Climate Variability on Future Convective Storm Environments in Subtropical South America: A Large Ensemble Approach”

Advisors: Kristen Rasmussen and Jim Hurrell

Connolly, Charlotte

“Using Neural Networks to Learn the Forced Response of the Jet-Stream to Tropospheric Temperature Tendencies”

Advisor: Elizabeth Barnes

Glade, Ivy

“Assessing the impact of stratospheric aerosol injection on convective weather environments in the United States”

Advisor: Jim Hurrell

Hughes, Ann Casey

“Diagnosing the Angular Momentum Fluxes that Drive the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation”

Advisors: David Randall

Kelly, Joe

“Fast 3D Radiative Transfer of Shortwave Reflectance for Synergistic Remote Sensing Applications”

Advisor: Christine Chiu

Leitmann-Niimi, Nicolas

“The Changing Nature of Convection Over Earth's Tropical Oceans from a Water Budget Perspective”

Advisor: Christian Kummerow

Li, En

“Inorganic Gas-Aerosol Partitioning in and around Animal Feeding Operation Plumes in Northeastern Colorado in Late Summer 2021”

Advisors: Jeffrey Pierce and Emily Fischer

Marsavin, Andrey

“Summertime ozone production at Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico: influence of oil and natural gas development”

Advisor: Jeffrey Collett

Neumaier, Christine

“Cold Pool Train Dynamics and Transport”

Advisors: Susan van den Heever and Leah Grant

Sablan, Olivia

“The influence of prescribed burning on springtime PM2.5 concentrations in eastern Kansas”

Advisors: Emily Fischer and Jeffrey Pierce

Shackelford, Kyle

“Formation of rain layers in the Indian Ocean and their feedbacks to atmospheric convection”

Advisor: Peter Jan van Leeuwen

Sherman, Lexi

“Changes in the Snowpack of the Upper Colorado River Basin in a Warmer Future Climate”

Advisor: Kristen Rasmussen

Shogrin, Madison

“Spatiotemporal variability of peroxy acyl nitrates (PANs) over megacities from satellite observations”

Advisor: Emily Fischer

Solanki, Dhyey

“Machine-learned Gas Optics with a Focus on Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) for Improving Water Vapor Observations in the Lower Atmosphere”

Advisor: Christine Chiu

Boehm, Chloe

“The Contribution of Clouds to Global Surface Temperature Variability on Monthly to Decadal Timescales”

Advisor: David Thompson

Brent, Lee

Plan B

Advisor: James Hurrell

Cole, Ali

“Ensemble-Based Analyses of Liminal Extreme Rainfall Events Near Taiwan and Northern Colorado”

Advisor: Michael Bell

DeCaria, Michael

“Studying Tropical Cyclone Rapid Intensification with the Certainty Framework for Causal Discovery: A Case Study”

Advisor: Peter Jan van Leeuwen

Escobedo, Jacob

“CSU-MLP GEFS Day-1 'First-Guess' Excessive Rainfall Forecasts: Aggregate Evaluation and Synoptic Regimes of Best- and Worst-Performing Forecasts”

Advisor: Russ Schumacher

Falk, Nicholas

“Strong and Weak Cold Pool Collisions”

Advisor: Susan van den Heever

Franke, Megan

“Impact of Forced and Internal Climate Variability on Changes in Convective Environments over the Eastern United States”

Advisor: James Hurrell

Goldenstern, Eric

“Assessing the State Dependency of Infrared Satellite Precipitation Retrieval Errors”

Advisor: Chris Kummerow

Hudson, Justin

“Surface Heat Fluxes and MJO Propagation Through the Maritime Continent”

Advisor: Eric Maloney

Hueholt, Daniel

“Assessing Outcomes in Stratospheric Aerosol Injection Scenarios Shortly After Deployment”

Advisor: James Hurrell

June, Nicole

“Aerosol size distribution changes in FIREX-AQ biomass burning plumes: the role of plume concentration on coagulation and OA condensation/evaporation”

Advisor: Jeff Pierce

Lachenmayer, Emily

“Impacts of oil and natural gas development and other sources on volatile organic compound concentrations in Broomfield, Colorado”

Advisor: Jeff Collett

Leung, Gabrielle

“Processes Driving Shallow Convective Development and Their Interactions with Aerosols: Aerosol Transport and Aerosol Breezes”

Advisor: Susan van den Heever

Naimie, Lilly

“Composition of Fine Particles in Carlsbad Caverns National Park and Implications for Sources and Visibility Impacts”

Advisor: Jeff Collett

O'Donnell, Sam

“Probing the Vertical Profile of New Particle Formation and Growth in the Planetary Boundary Layer Using a Column Model with Surface- and Aircraft-based Observations”

Advisor: Jeff Pierce

Van Valkenburg, Kristen

“Sensitivity of Simulated Microphysics to the Raindrop Distribution Shape Parameter and Comparisons with Observation”

Advisors: Susan van den Heever and Steven Rutledge

Clayton, Adam

“Analyzing the Detection Efficiency of the Geostationary Lightning Mapper in Isolated Convection”

Advisor: Steven Rutledge

Hsiao, Wei-Ting

“The Impact of Tropical Intraseasonal Variability on Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Predictability”

Advisors: Eric Maloney and Elizabeth Barnes

Koeritzer, Drew

“Trends in Regional Atmospheric Water Cycles Across Ocean Basins Diagnosed Using Multiple Products ”

Advisor: Christian Kummerow

Lang, Matt

Plan B

Advisor: Christine Chiu

Mazurek, Allie

“From Rain Gauges to Retweets: Using Diverse Datasets to Explore Overlapping Hazards and Human Experiences in Landfalling Tropical Cyclones”

Advisor: Russ Schumacher

Needham, Michael

“Links Between Atmospheric Cloud Radiative Effects and Tropical Circulations”

Advisors: David Randall

Nino, Lance

“Nationwide Decadal Source Apportionment of PM2.5 with a Focus on Iron”

Advisor: Sonia Kreidenweis

Rader, Jamin

“Detection of Forced Change Within Combined Climate Fields Using Explainable Neural Networks”

Advisor: Elizabeth Barnes

Yang, Kevin

“Breaking the Deadlock in Aerosol Remote Sensing and Three-Dimensional Radiative Transfer Using Machine Learning”

Advisor: Christine Chiu

Bangs, Evelyn

“Spatial Patterns and Particle Size Distributions of Atmospheric Amines in Northern Colorado”

Advisor: Jeff Collet

DesRosiers, Alex

“Airborne Radar Quality Control and Analysis of the Rapid Intensification of Hurricane Michael (2018)”

Advisor: Michael Bell

Juncosa Calahorrano, Julieta

“Daytime Evolution of Oxidized Reactive Nitrogen in Western U.S. Wildfire Smoke Plumes: In situ and Satellite Observations”

Advisor: Emily Fischer

Kedzuf, Nicholas

“Retrieving Cloud Ice Number Concentration Using Polarimetric Radar”

Advisor: Christine Chiu

Moore, Kathryn

“Constraining Marine Ice Nucleating Particle Parameterizations in Atmospheric Models using Observations from the Southern Ocean”

Advisor: Sonia Kreidenweis

Murakami, Yasutaka

“On the Relation between Satellite Observed Liquid Water Path, Cloud Droplet Number Concentration and Cloud Base Rain Rate and Its Implication for the Auto-Conversion Rate in Stratocumulus Clouds”

Advisors: Chris Kummerow and Susan van den Heever

Piersante, Jeremiah

“Synoptic through Mesoscale Environments of South American Thunderstorms”

Advisors: Kristen Rasmussen and Russ Schumacher

Rocque, Marqi

“Intraseasonal and Diurnal Variations of Precipitation Features Observed During Dynamo”

Advisor: Steven Rutledge

Barry, Kevin

“Fire and Ice: Analyzing Ice Nucleating Particle Emissions from Western U.S. Wildfires”

Advisor: Sonia Kreidenweis

Bruick, Zachary

“Characteristics of Hailstorms and Enso-Induced Extreme Storm Variability in Subtropical South America”

Advisor: Kristen Rasmussen

Chudler, Kyle

“Impact of the Boreal Summer Intraseasonal Oscillation on the Diurnal Cycle of Precipitation in the Island of Luzon”

Advisor: Steven Rutledge

Davis, Luke

“Connections Between Climate Sensitivity and Large-scale Extratropical Dynamics”

Advisors: David Thompson and Thomas Birner

Gonzalez, Ryan

“Consistency in the AMSR-E Snow Products: Groundwork for a Coupled Snowfall and SWE Algorithm”

Advisor: Chris Kummerow

Groff, Faith

“Response of MCSs and Low-Frequency Gravity Waves to Vertical Wind Shear and Nocturnal Thermodynamic Environments”

Advisor: Russ Schumacher

Mayer, Kirsten

“Midlatitude Prediction Skill Following QBO-MJO Activity on Subseasonal to Seasonal Timescales”

Advisor: Elizabeth Barnes

Messina, Joe

“Characteristics of Linear Mesoscale Convective Systems During DYNAMO”

Advisor: Steve Rutledge

Natoli, Michael

“Intraseasonal Variability in the Diurnal Cycle of Precipitation in the Philippines”

Advisor: Eric Maloney

Toms, Ben

“Interactions Between the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Mesoscale to Global Scale Phenomena”

Advisor: Sue van den Heever

Barnum, Julie

“Investigations of the Uncertainties Associated with HID Algorithms and Guiding Input to a Novel, Synthetic Polarimetric Radar Simulator”

Advisor: Steven Rutledge

Bell, Emily

“Evaluation of OCO-2 Small-Scale XCO2 Variability Using Lidar Retrievals from the ACT-America Flight Campaign”

Advisors: Chris Kummerow and Chris O'Dell

Casas, Eleanor

“A Simplified Approach to Understanding Boundary Layer Structure Impacts on Tropical Cyclone Intensity”

Advisor: Michael Bell

Cha, Ting-Yu

“Eyewall Replacement Cycle of Hurricane Matthew (2016) Observed by Doppler Radars”

Advisor: Michael Bell

Cheeseman, Michael

“Productivity and Phenology in a Process-driven Carbon Cycle Model”

Advisors: Scott Denning and Chris O'Dell

Davis, Trent

“Lightning Channel Locations, LNOx Production, and Advection in Anomalous and Normal Polarity Thunderstorms”

Advisor: Steven Rutledge

Freeman, Sean

“Assessing the Impacts of Microphysical and Environmental Controls on Simulated Supercell Storms”

Advisor: Sue van den Heever

Kelly, Nathan

“Objective Analysis of Extreme Precipitation Events in Diverse Geographic Regions”

Advisor: Russ Schumacher

Lindaas, Jakob

“Investigating Contributions to Elevated Surface Ozone in the Colorado Front Range During Summer 2015”

Advisor: Emily Fischer

Nardi, Kyle

“Assessment of Numerical Weather Prediction Model Re-forecasts of Atmospheric Rivers Along the West Coast of North America”

Advisor: Elizabeth Barnes

O'Dell, Katelyn

“Estimating Spatiotemporal Trends in Wildfire Smoke Concentrations in the Western United States”

Advisor: Jeff Pierce

Ramnarine, Emily

“Effects of Near-Source Coagulation of Biomass Burning Particles on Global Predictions of Aerosol Size Distributions and Implications for Aerosol Radiative Effects”

Advisor: Jeff Pierce

Razin, Naufal

“The Unconventional Eyewall Replacement Cycle of Hurricane Ophelia (2005)”

Advisor: Michael Bell

Schulte, Richard

“Cloud Process Information from a Fleet of Small Satellites: Synthetic Retrievals Using an Optimal Estimation Algorithm”

Advisor: Chris Kummerow

Shao, Yixing

“Atmospheric Reactive Nitrogen in Rocky Mountain National Park”

Advisor: Jeff Collett

Trabing, Benjamin

“The Impact of Upper Tropospheric Temperatures on Idealized Tropical Cyclones”

Advisor: Michael Bell

Weber, Derek

“Volatile Organic Compound Concentrations and the Impacts of Future Oil and Natural Gas Development in the Colorado Northern Front Range”

Advisor: Jeff Collett

Whitaker, Justin

“Influence of the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Caribbean Low-Level Jet on East Pacific Easterly Waves”

Advisor: Eric Maloney

Charlesworth, Ed

“Radiation Feedbacks of Ozone in the Tropical Tropopause Layer”

Advisor: Thomas Birner

Childs, Sam

“Cold-season Tornadoes: Climatological, Meteorlogical, and Social Perspectives”

Advisor: Russ Schumacher

Curry, Renee

“Impact of Drought on Grassland Productivity Across the Wet-Dry Gradient in the U.S. Great Plains in 2010-2012”

Advisor: Scott Denning

Jenney, Andrea

“Skillful Long-Range Forecasts of North American Heat Waves from Pacific Storm Propagation”

Advisors: David Randall

Lee, Yoonjin

“Impacts of Assimilating Vertical Velocity, Latent Heat, or Hydrometer Water Contents Retrieved from a Single Reflectivity Data Set”

Advisors: Chris Kummerow and Dr. Zupanski

Li, Jingyuan

“Towards Understanding the Role of Natural Variability in Climate Change”

Advisor: David Thompson

Patrizio, Casey

“The Spatial Scale of Convective Aggregation in Cloud Resolving Simulations of Radiative-Convective Equilibrium”

Advisors: David Randall and David Thompson

Reimel, Karly

“An Analysis of Total Lightning Characteristics in Tornadic Storms: Preparing for the Capabilities of the GLM”

Advisors: Steven Rutledge and Steven Miller

Smith, Dakota

“Using Remotely Sensed Fluorescence and Soil Moisture to Better Understand the Seasonal Cycle of Tropical Grasslands”

Advisor: Scott Denning

Brey, Steven

“Using Operational HMS Smoke Observations to Gain Insights on North American Smoke Transport and Implications for Air Quality”

Advisor: Emily Fischer

Crow, Brian

“On Quasi-Periodic Baroclinic Variability in Extratropical Circulation”

Advisor: David Thompson

Drager, Aryeh

“Convective Cold Pools: Characterization and Soil Moisture Dependence”

Advisor: Sue van den Heever

Goble, Peter

“Maximizing the Utility of Available Root Zone Soil Moisture Data for Drought Monitoring Purposes in the Upper Colorado River Basin and Western High Plains, and Assessing the Interregional Importance of Root Zone Soil Moisture on Warm Season Water Balance”

Advisor: Russ Schumacher

Goodman, Alexander

Plan B

Advisors: David Randall

Herman, Greg

“Model Post-Processing for the Extremes: Improving Forecasts of Locally Extreme Rainfall”

Advisor: Russ Schumacher

Hilliard, Noel

Plan B

Advisor: Jeff Collett

Hodshire, Anna

“Analysis of Multiple New-Particle Growth Pathways Observed at the U.S. DOE Southern Great Plains Field Site”

Advisor: Jeff Pierce

Lassman, Will

“Blending Model Output with Satellite-Based and In-Situ Observations to Produce High-Resolution Estimates of Population Exposure to Wildfire Smoke”

Advisor: Jeff Pierce

Lindsey, Leah

“The Impacts of Amazon Deforestation on Pacific Climate”

Advisors: David Randall

Manaster, Andrew

“A Comparison of Observed and Modeled Inter-Annual Variability and Trends in Cloud Liquid Water Path”

Advisors: Chris Kummerow and Chris O'Dell

Marinescu, Peter

“Latent Heating and Aerosol-Precipitation Interactions Within Mesoscale Convective Systems”

Advisors: Sue van den Heever and Sonia Kreidenweis

Naegele, Alexandra

“Observations and Simulations of the Interactions Between Clouds, Radiation, and Precipitation”

Advisors: David Randall

Nielsen, Erik

“Using Convection-Allowing Ensembles to Understand the Predictability of Extreme Rainfall”

Advisor: Russ Schumacher

Zaragoza, Jake

“Observations of Acyl Peroxy Nitrates During the Front Range Air Pollution and Photochemistry Experiment (Frappe)”

Advisor: Emily Fischer

Basarab, Brett

“Prediction of Total Lightning Behavior in Colorado and Alabama Thunderstorms from Storm Dynamical and Microphysical Variables”

Advisor: Steven Rutledge

Dagg, Erin

“Tropical Tropopause Layer Variability Associated with the Madden-Julian Oscillation during DYNAMO”

Advisors: Thomas Birner and Richard Johnson

Fine, Caitlin

“Wake Vortices and Tropical Cyclogenesis Downstream of Sumatra over the Indian Ocean”

Advisor: Richard Johnson

Geyer, Nick

“Time-Filtered Inverse Modeling of Land-Atmosphere Carbon Exchange”

Advisor: Scott Denning

Glanville, Sasha

“Vertical and Horizontal Mixing in the Tropical Tropopause Layer”

Advisor: Thomas Birner

Kodros, Jack

“Uncertainties in Global Aerosols and Climate Effects Due to Biofuel Emissions”

Advisor: Jeff Pierce

Liu, Jianbo

“The Spatial and Temporal Properties of Precipitation Uncertainty Structures over Tropical Oceans”

Advisor: Chris Kummerow

MacDonald, Landan

“Estimating Emission Rates of Volatile Organic Compounds from Oil and Natural Gas Operations in the Piceance Basin”

Advisor: Jeff Pierce, co-advisor: Jeff Collett

McGraw, Marie

“Seasonal Sensitivity of the Eddy-Driven Jet to Tropospheric Heating in an Idealized Atmospheric General Circulation Model”

Advisor: Libby Barnes

Nelson, Rob

“The Impact of Aerosols on Space-Based Retrievals of Carbon Dioxide”

Advisor: Chris O'Dell

Sakamoto, Kim

“An Observational and Theoretical Investigation of the Evolution of Biomass-Burning Aerosol Size Distributions”

Advisor: Jeff Pierce

Wells, Bradley

“The Validation of Emission Rate Estimation Methods”

Advisors: Jeff Collett and Jeff Pierce

Wills, Samantha

“On the Observed Relationships Between Variability in Sea Surface Temperatures and the Atmospheric Circulation in the Northern Hemisphere”

Advisor: David Thompson

Erickson, Kim

Plan B

Advisor: Thomas Vonder Haar

Foust, Elliot

“Estimating the Likelihood of Significant Climate Change with the NCAR 40-Member Ensemble”

Advisor: David Thompson

Fuchs, Brody

“Factors Affecting Lightning Behavior in Various Regions of the United States”

Advisor: Steven Rutledge

Grant, Leah

“The Relative Influence of Aerosols and the Environment on Organized Tropical and Midlatitude Deep Convection”

Advisor: Sue van den Heever

King, Josh

“On Modeled and Observed Warm Rainfall Occurrence and Its Relationships With Cloud Macrophysical Properties”

Advisors: Chris Kummerow and Sue van den Heever

Matthews, Alyssa

“Storm Microphysics and Kinematics at the ARM-SGP site using Dual Polarized Radar Observations at Multiple Frequencies”

Advisor: Steven Rutledge

Morales, Annareli

“Effect of Latent Heating on Mesoscale Vortex Development During Extreme Precipitation: Colorado, September 2013”

Advisors: Sonia Kreidenweis and Russ Schumacher

Samman, Ahmad

“Numerical Simulation Diagnostics of a Flash Flood Event in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia”

Advisor: Bill Cotton

Tzompa, Zitely

“Contribution of Biomass Burning to Carbonaceous Aerosols in Mexico City During May 2013”

Advisor: Sonia Kreidenweis

Vincente, Vanessa

“Ensemble-based Analysis of Front Range Severe Convection on 6-7 June 2012: Forecast Uncertainty and Communication of Weather Information to Front Range Decision-Makers ”

Advisor: Russ Schumacher

Wolding, Brandon

“Moist Static Energy and the Madden-Julian Oscillation: Understanding Initiation, Maintenance and Propagation Through the Application of Novel Diagnostics”

Advisor: Eric Maloney

Beavis, Nick

“The Climatology of Lightning Producing Large Impulse Charge Moment Changes with an Emphasis on Mesoscale Convective Systems”

Advisor: Steven Rutledge

Carpenter, James

“Simulations of Arctic Mixed-Phase Clouds Using a New Aerosol-Linked Ice Nuclei Parameterization in a Prognostic Ice Prediction Scheme”

Advisor: Sonia Kreidenweis

Clark, Allyson

“The Impact of Reforestation in the Northeast United States on Precipitation and Surface Temperature”

Advisors: David Randall

Davis, Adam

“Kinematic Structures, Diabatic Profiles, and Precipitation Systems in West Africa During Summer 2006”

Advisor: Richard Johnson

Davis, Nick

“Seasonal to Multi-Decadal Variability of the Width of the Tropical Belt”

Advisor: Thomas Birner

Duncan, David

“A Lagrangian Perspective on Deep Convective Tropical Raining Systems”

Advisor: Chris Kummerow

Letcher, Ted

“A Simple Parameterization of Aerosol Emission in RAMS”

Advisor: Bill Cotton

McCluskey, Christina

“Characteristics of Atmospheric Ice Nucleating Particles Associated with Biomass Burning in the US: Prescribed Burning and Wildfires”

Advisor: Sonia Kreidenweis

McGhee, Clayton

“Latent Heating and Mixing Due to Entrainment in Tropical Deep Convection”

Advisor: Sue van den Heever

Orescanin, Biljana

“Seasonal Greening in Grasslands”

Advisor: Scott Denning

Paulus, Matthew

Plan B

Advisor: Richard Johnson

Phillips, Morgan

“Variability of Sublimation in the Upper Colorado River Basin”

Advisor: Bill Cotton

Pina, Aaron

“Transport of Pollutants from Eastern Colorado into the Rocky Mountains via Upslope Winds”

Advisor: Scott Denning

Potter, Lauren

“Characterizing the Influence of Anthropogenic Emissions and Transport Variability on Sulfate Aerosol Concentrations at Mauna Loa Observatory”

Advisor: Sonia Kreidenweis

Roy, Gavin

“The Radiative and Hydrologic Effects of a Local Switch from Maize to Miscanthus”

Advisor: Thomas Vonder Haar

Slocum, Chris

“Diabatic and frictional forcing effects on the structure and intensity of tropical cyclones”

Advisors: Wayne Schubert and Mark DeMaria

Vanden Boogart, Lance

“Using Total Precipitable Water Anomaly as a Forecast Aid for Heavy Precipitation Events”

Advisor: Thomas Vonder Haar

Woodworth, Jonathan

“Towards Understanding the Processes That Govern Variability in the Southern Hemisphere”

Advisor: David Thompson

Yost, Charles

“Investigation into a Displacement Bias in Numerical Weather Prediction Modelsâ Forecasts of Mesoscale Convective Systems”

Advisor: Russ Schumacher

Atwood, Sam

“Source Apportionment of Aerosol Measured in the Northern South China Sea During Springtime”

Advisor: Sonia Kreidenweis

Berg, Ashley

“The Impact of Pine Beetle Kill on Monoterpene Emissions and Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation in Western North America”

Advisor: Prof. Heald

Evanoski-Cole, Ashley R.

“Investigation of a New Microchip Electrophoresis Instrument for Semi-Continuous Aerosol Composition Measurements”

Advisor: Jeff Collett

Igel, Adele

“Latent Heating and Cloud Processes in Warm Fronts”

Advisor: Sue van den Heever

Lynch, Samantha

“Ensemble-Based Analysis of Extreme Precipitation Events from 2007-2011”

Advisor: Russ Schumacher

Meyer, Tiffany

“Radar and Lightning Analyses of Gigantic Jet-Producing Storms”

Advisor: Steven Rutledge

Ruppert, James

“Analysis of the Diurnal Cycle in Taiwan During the Terrain-Influenced Monsoon Rainfall Experiment”

Advisor: Richard Johnson

Rydbeck, Adam

“Remote Versus Local Controls of East Pacific Intraseasonal Variability”

Advisor: Eric Maloney

Schiferl, Luke

“An Investigation of Ammonia and Inorganic Particulate Matter in California during the CalNex Campaign”

Advisor: Prof. Heald

Slade, Stephanie

“A Statistical Prediction Model for East Pacific and Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Genesis”

Advisor: Eric Maloney

Thompson, Elizabeth

“Development of a Polarimetric Radar Based Hydrometeor Classification Algorithm for Winter Precipitation”

Advisor: Steven Rutledge

Anderson, Amanda

“A Comparison of Positive and Negative Cloud-To-Ground Lightning Dominant Storm in Three Comparisons of Positive and Negative Cloud-Regions of the United States”

Advisor: Steven Rutledge

Boyd, Kathryn

“Regional Aerosol Effects on Precipitation: An Observational Study”

Advisor: Chris Kummerow

Ford, Bonne

“The Vertical Distribution of Pollutants during Export and Longi Range Transport: A Comparison of Model Simulations and A-Train Observations”

Advisor: Heald

Gonzalez, Alex

“Steady-State Circulation Forced by Diabatic Heating and Wind Stress in the Intertropical Convergence Zone”

Advisor: Wayne Schubert

Holcomb, Stephen

Plan B

Advisor: Collett

Igel, Matthew Reeves

“A Tropical Radiation and Cloud System Feedback Modulated by Sea Surface Temperature”

Advisor: Sue van den Heever

Kraus, Parker Mayo

“Wetland Extent from a Topographic Index, Wetland's Impact on Land Surface Fluxes and a Model of CH4 Exchange”

Advisor: Scott Denning

Medina, Isaac Daniel

“Applying Two Binned Methods to the Simple Biosphere Model (SIB) for Improving the Representation of Spatially Varying Precipitation and Soil Wetness”

Advisor: Scott Denning

Mullin, Kathryn Ann

“Towards Understanding the Processes That Influence Global Mean Temperature”

Advisor: David Thompson

Paulik, Laura

“Quantifying Deep Convective Influence on the Tropical Tropopause Layer (TTL)”

Advisor: Thomas Birner

Petkovic, Veljko

“A Spatio-Temporal Correlation Technique to Improve Satellite Rainfall Accumulation”

Advisor: Kummerow

Sheffield, Amanda

“Assessing the Impacts of Cloud Condensation Nuclei on Cumuluscongestus Clouds Using a Cloud Resolving Model”

Advisor: Sue van den Heever

Stuckmeyer, Elizabeth

“Boundary Layer Features Observed During Name 2004”

Advisor: Rutledge

Takano, Yohei

“What controls the variability of oxygen in the subpolar North Pacific?”

Advisor: Ito

Alaka, Ghassan

“Intraseasonal Variability of the West African Monsoon and African Easterly Waves During Boreal Summer”

Advisor: Maloney

Guillot, Eric

“Evaluating Satellite-Based Cloud Persistence and Displacement NowCasting Techniques Over Evaluating Satellite-Based Cloud Persistence Complex Terrain”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Henderson, David

“The Earth's Energy Balance Ingerred From A-Train Observations”

Advisor: Stephens

Howell, Kelly

“Quasi-Global and Regional Water Vapor and Rainfall Rate Climatologies for a 35 Month Period”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Jones, Todd

“Quantifying the Limits of Convective Paramterizations: A Statistical Characterization of Simulated Cumulus Convection”

Advisors: Randall

Krall, Geoffrey

“Potential Indirect Effects of Aerosol on Tropical Cyclone Development”

Advisor: Cotton

McDonough, Francis

“Freezing Drizzle Production in Warm Frontal Overunning Cloud Layers: An Observational Study”

Advisor: Cotton

Ram, Jessica

“Three Regional Climatologies of Marine Stratocumulus Characteristics Using the A-Three Regional Climatologies of Marine Train Satellite Data”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Seigel, Robert

“Simulating the Effects of Coated Ice Nuclei in the Formation of Thin Ice Clouds in the High Artic Using Rams”

Advisor: Cotton

Sjoberg, Jeremiah

“Low Order Models of Sudden Stratospheric Warmings”

Advisor: Birner

Steinweg-Woods, Jesse

“Surface and Synoptic Features of Leading and Parallel Stratiform Mesoscale Convective Systems”

Advisor: Johnson

Tourville, Natalie

“CloudSat Tropical Cyclone Database”

Advisor: Stephens

Argo, Kathryn

“A Documentation Study of Antarctic Cloudiness From CloudSat and Calypso Satellite Data”

Advisor: Thompson

Finch, Zach

“An observational Study of Two Upper-Level Inverted Troughs During the 2004 North American Monsoon Experiment”

Advisor: Johnson

Firl, Grant

“Development of a Second-order Closure Turbulence Model with Subgrid-scale Condensation and Microphysics”

Advisors: David Randall

Hannah, Walter

“The Role of Moisture-Convection Feedbacks in Simulating the Intraseasonal Oscillation”

Advisor: Eric Maloney

Harrold, Michelle

“The Vorticity Structure of the 2-3 June 2003 MCS During Bamex”

Advisor: Johnson

James, Eric

“An Observational Climatology of Midlatitude Mesoscale Convective Vortices”

Advisor: Johnson

Patterson, Leigh

“Development of Wildland Fire Smoke Marker Emissions Maps for the Conterminous United States”

Advisor: Collett

Quantz, Heather

“Observations of the Double Intertropical Convergence Zone Using CloudSat”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Sankovich, Victoria

“A Comparison of ECMWF Global Cloudiness Forecasts with CloudSat Observations”

Advisor: Stephens

Schurman, Misha

“Developing and Testing Prototype Compact Denuders for Ambient Air Sampling Applications”

Advisor: Jeff Collett

Stevens, Scott

“A ground-based analysis of the transition from warm cloud to rain”

Advisor: Kummerow

Stoner, Eric

“Intercalibration of Four Microwave Radiometers Using Optimal Estimation Techniques”

Advisor: Chris Kummerow

Storer, Rachel

“Modeling Aerosol Impacts on Convection Under Differing Storm Environments”

Advisor: Stephens, van den Heever

Van Cleave, Darren

“Relating snowfall patterns over the central and eastern U.S. to infrared imagery of extratropical cyclone comma heads”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Woloszyn, Mary

“Analyzing Eddy Transport of Carbon Dioxide in the Southern Ocean using a High-Resolution Model”

Advisor: Ito

Adams, Rebecca

“Investigation of Mesoscale Surface Pressure and Temperature Features Associated with Bow Echoes”

Advisor: Johnson

Beem, Katherine

“Atmospheric Nitrogen and Sulfur Deposition in Rocky Mountain National Park”

Advisor: Collett

Burt, Melissa

“Paleo Feedbacks in the Hydrological and Energy Cycles in the Community Climate System Model 3”

Advisors: Randall

Bytheway, Janice

“Evaluation of the Adaptive Infrared Iris Using TRMM Satellite Measurements”

Advisor: Kummerow

Corr, Chelsea

“Retrieval of Aerosol Single Scattering Albedo at UV Wavelengths for Two Urban Field Campaigns”

Advisor: Kreidenweis

Cullin, Richard

“Lightning Characteristics in Bow Echo and Supercell Storms”

Advisor: Steven Rutledge

Dodson, Jason Brant

“Observations of Atmospheric Rivers with CloudSat CPR and Aqua AMSR-E”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

George, Kristen

“Polarimetric-based Rainfall Rates Using S- and X- Band Radars in the GPM-GV Pilot Project”

Advisor: Steven Rutledge

Haladay, Taryn

“Characteristics of Thin Cirrus Clouds Jointly Observed by CloudSat and CALIPSO”

Advisor: Graeme Stephens

Harper, Anna

“The Relationship Between Surface Biophysics and the Hydrologic Cycle in the Amazon Rainforest”

Advisor: Denning

Holden, Amanda

“Estimating Contributions of Primary Biomass Combustion to Fine Particulate Matter at Sites in the Western United States”

Advisor: Collett

Levin, Ezra

“The role of Aerosols on Visibility Degredation During Two Field Campaigns”

Advisor: Kreidenweis

Mack, Laura

“The Retrieval of Aerosol Optical Properties from Biomass Burning During Flame2”

Advisor: Kreidenweis

McCrary, Rachel

“Great Plains Drought in Simulations of the Twentieth Century”

Advisors: Randall

McGrath-Spangler, Erica

“Entrainment Effects of Overshooting Thermals on Land-Atmosphere Interactions”

Advisor: Denning

Mora Rojas, Gabriela

“Low Level Jets in the Tropical Americas”

Advisor: Schubert

Schwartz, Aaron

“Clouds, Energetics, and Climate in the Arctic from CloudSat”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Thayer-Calder, Katherine

“The Role of Moisture in the MJO: A Comparison of Tropical Convection Processes in the CAM and Super-parameterized CAM”

Advisors: David Randall

Donofrio, Kevin

“A 1DVAR Optimal Estimation Retrieval of Non-Precipitating Water Vapor Profiles Over the Global Oceans Using AMSU”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Grise, Kevin

“Dynamical Impacts of Antarctic Stratospheric Ozone Depletion on the Extratropical Circulation of the Southern Hemisphere”

Advisor: Thompson

Hammerschmidt, Brad

“Combine Radar and Radiometer Analysis of Precipitation Over Land”

Advisor: Kummerow

Ikeda, Kyoko

“Observations of Winter Storms with a Video Disrometer and Polarimetric Radar”

Advisor: Rutledge

Kalb, Christina

“Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Polarity and Environmental Conditions over the Central United States”

Advisor: Rutledge

Martin, Elinor

“An Observational and Modeling Study of Atmospheric Internal Bores During the 2004 North American Monsoon Experiment”

Advisor: Johnson

Masarik, Matthew

“A Look at the Energy and Potential Vorticity Aspects of the MJO Through Equatorial Wave Theory”

Advisor: Schubert/Vonder Haar

Mazur, Rebecca

“Observations of Inflow Feeder Clouds and Their Relation to Severe Thunderstorms”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Parazoo, Nicholas

“Investigating Synoptic Variations in Atmospheric CO2 Using Continuous Observations and a Global Transport Model”

Advisor: Denning

Rapp, Dustin

“Satellite-Based Passive Microwave Soil Moisture Measurement: An Analysis Using WindSat”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Rowe, Angela

“Elevation-dependent trends in precipitation observed by the NAME radar network”

Advisor: Rutledge

Silvers, Levi

“The Theory of Stratified, Quasi-Balanced Flows on the Sphere”

Advisor: Schubert

Smith, Michael

“Evaluation of Mesoscale Simulations of Dust Sources, Sinks and Transport over the Middle East”

Advisor: Cotton

Aves, Steve

“The Diurnal Cycle of Convection Over the Northern South China Sea During the South China Sea Monsoon Experiment”

Advisor: Johnson

Bell, Michael

“Observed Structure, Evolution, and Potential Intensity of Category Five Hurricane Isabel (20063) From 12-14 September”

Advisor: Montgomery

Butler, Amy

“Observed Relationships Between Large-Scale Patterns of Variability and Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide”

Advisor: David Thompson

Elsaesser, Greg

“A Parametric Optimal Estimation Retrieval of the Non-Precipitating Parameters Over the Global Oceans”

Advisor: Kummerow

Finn, Sarah

“Rainfall Classification Using Reflectivity Structure: Validation and Application”

Advisor: Chris Kummerow

Hawes, Amy

“Observed Relationships Between Large-Scale Patterns of Variability and Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide”

Advisor: David Thompson

Johnson, Kelley

“A Comparison of the Navy Aerosol Analysis and Prediction System in the In-SITU Aerosol Analysis Measurements in the Continental U.S.: Transport vs. Local Production of Soil Dust Aerosol”

Advisor: Kreidenweis

Lerach, David

“Vertical Structure and Kinematics of Tropical Monsoon Precipitation Observed From a 28-75-MHZ Profiler During NAME”

Advisor: Rutledge

Maclay, Katherine

“A Study of Tropical Cyclone Structural Evolution”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Musgrave, Kate

“The Formation of Hurricane Gabrielle (2001): Examining The Influence of The Initial Vortex and Vertical Shear Using MM5”

Advisor: Montgomery

Philpott, Andrew

“Surface Fluxes of Water, Energy, and Carbon Dioxide as Simulated by the Simple Biosphere Model Version 3 in the Southern Great Plains of North America and Their Effect on Simulated Boundary Layer Hydrology”

Advisor: Denning

Quelet, Paul

“Observed Radar and Environmental Properties of United States Warm Season Bowing Convective Systems, 2003-2004”

Advisor: Johnson

Ringerud, Sarah

“Rainfall Classification Using Reflectivity Structure: Validation and Application”

Advisor: Chris Kummerow

Taylor, Tommy

“Error Analysis and Characterization of an Operational Retrieval Algorithm for Estimating Column Ozone an Aerosol Optical Properties from Ground Based Ultra-Violet Irradiance Measurements”

Advisor: Stephens

Van Roekel, Luke

“An Examination of the Influence of Sill Overflow on Overturning in a Fully Lagrangian Framework”

Advisors: Randall

Ward, Daniel

“Local Anthropoegenic Aerosol Sources Effect on Winter Clouds and Precipitation in the Colorado Park Range”

Advisor: William Cotton

Wells, Kelley

“A Comparison of the Navy Aerosol Analysis and Prediction System to In-Situ Aerosol Measurements in the Continental U.S.: Transport vs. Local Production of Soil Dust Aerosol”

Advisor: Sonia Kreidenweis

Benedict, James

“The Birth and Death of the MJO: An Observational Study”

Advisors: Randall

Ciolek, John

“Assessment of Atmospheric Plume Prediction, Modeling and Vulnerability Capabilities with Respect to Terrorists Events”

Advisor: Pielke

Corbin, Katherine

“Evaluating Spatial, Temporal, and Clear-Sky Errors in Satellite CO2 Measurements”

Advisor: Denning

Dolan, Brenda

“An integrated display and analysis tool for multi-variable radar data”

Advisor: Rutledge

Ellis, Todd

“Evaluation of International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) D2 Cloud Amount Changes and their Connections to Large-Scale Dynamics”

Advisor: Stephens/Schubert

Furtado, Jason

“On the Balanced Response of the Troposphere to Variability in the Extratropical Stratosphere”

Advisor: Thompson

Gorin, Courtney

“The Temporal and Spatial Variability of Wood Smoke Concentration and its Contribution to Ambient Aerosol in Fresno During Winter 2003-2004”

Advisor: Collett

Lebsock, Matthew

“Modeling Polarized Radiances Towards the Development of An Aerosol Retrieval Method”

Advisor: Stephens

Leesman, Kyle

“Development and Validation of A 3-Channel Optimal Estimation Cloud Top Effective Radius and Optical Thickness Retrieval”

Advisor: Stephens

Mueller, Kimberly

“Objective Estimation of Tropical Cyclone Wind Structure From Infrared Satellite Data”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Nielsen, Matthew

“Remote Sensing of Water Vapor Over Land Using the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Pitter, Shanna

Plan B

Advisor: Stephens

Rogers, Peter

“An Observational Analysis of Two Gulf Surge Events During the 2004 North American Monsoon Experiment”

Advisor: Johnson

Sample, Laura

“A sensitivity analysis for the retrieval of aerosol optical properties from measured reflectances”

Advisor: Kreidenweis

Stokowski, David

“The Addition of the Direct Radiative Effect of Aerosols into the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS)”

Advisor: Cotton

Wang, Aaron

“Observations and Simulations of Synoptic, Regional, and Local Variations in Atmospheric CO2”

Advisor: Denning

Yamaguchi, Tak

“Analysis of PBL-TOP Entrainment Using LES”

Advisors: Randall

Youngster, Sarah

“The Processing of Aerosol Particles and Soluble Trace Gases by Radiation Fogs in Fresno, CA”

Advisor: Collett

Ahlgrimm, Maike

“Diagnosing Monthly Mean Boundary Layer Properties from Re-Analysis Data Using a Mixed-Layer Model”

Advisors: Randall

Ciasto, Laura

“North Atlantic Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction on Intraseasonal Time Scales”

Advisor: Thompson

Goering, Christian

“Retrievals of Column Ozone and Aerosol Properties from UV-MFRSR Solar Irradiance Measurements during MCMA-2003”

Advisor: Stephens

Koehler, Kirsten

“Water activity and activation diameters of inorganic and organic species from hygroscopicity data”

Advisor: Kreidenweis

L'Heureux, Michelle

“Observed Relationships Between the El Nino-Southern Oscillation and the Annular Modes”

Advisors: Thompson/Randall

Liu, Jun

“Investigation of Ecosystem Drought Stress and its Impacts on Carbon Exchange in Tropical Forests”

Advisor: Denning

Long, David

“Evaluating the Use of Polarimetric Cloud Radars for Studying Winter Storms”

Advisor: Rutledge

McMeeking, Gavin

“Size distribution measurements of wildfire smoke-influenced aerosol at Yosemite National”

Advisor: Kreidenweis

Meyer, Catherine

“Forecasting Rain Events in the Southern Great Plains using GPS Total Precipitable Water Amounts”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Rapp, Anita

“Evaluation of the Adaptive Infrared Iris Using TRMM Satellite Measurements”

Advisor: Kummerow

Saunders, Andrea

“A Closer Look at Vortical Hot Towers in a Tropical Cyclogenesis Environment”

Advisor: Montgomery

Seseske, Stacey

“Forecasting Summer/Fall El Nino-Southern Oscillation Events at 6-11 Month Lead Times”

Advisor: Gray

Skidmore, Joanne

“Using Continuous (CO2) Data in Inverse Models to Reduce Uncertainty in Global and Regional Estimates of Carbon Flux”

Advisor: Denning

Straka, William

“Radar study of precipitation and anvil efficiencies for Florida thunderstorms during CYSTAL-FACE”

Advisor: Cotton

Vigh, Jonathan

“Forecasting of Atlantic Tropical Cyclones Using a Kilo-Member Ensemble”

Advisor: Schubert

Al-harbi, Badr

“Transport of North African Dust to Big Bend, Texas, during the 1999 Big Bend Regional Aerosol and Visibility Student”

Advisor: Collett

Archuleta, Cassie

“Ice Nucleation by Surrogates for Atmospheric Mineral Dust and Mineral Dust/Sulfate Particles at Cirrus Temperatures”

Advisor: Kredenweis

Chibe, Russell J.

“The Numerical Simulation of Fog with the RAMS@CSU Cloud-Resolving Mesoscale Forecast Model”

Advisor: Cotton

Depue, Tracy K.

“Ground Truth and Modeling Verification of the Hail Quadrature Parameter”

Advisor: Rutledge

Jones, James C.

“Comparisons of Satellite-Derived Cloud Heights with Radar Measurements of Mid-Level, Mixed-Phase Clouds”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Krebs, Teresa A.

“Measuring and Modeling the Isotope Composition of Forest Air”

Advisor: Denning

Miner, Sean J.

“Sensitivities of Microwave Retrievals to Cloud Model Assumptions”

Advisor: Chris Kummerow

Pakula, Lyle A.

“Moisture Feedbacks in the Tropical Atmosphere”

Advisor: Stephens

Pereira, Luis Gustavo

“A Radar Perspective on the Variability of Tropical Convection Characteristics over the Southwestern Amazon and Eastern Pacific Regions”

Advisor: Rutledge

Schumacher, Russ

“Climatological and Radar-Indicated Characteristics of United States Extreme Rain Events”

Advisor: Johnson

Seaman, Curtis

“Observed and Calculated Properties of Mid-Level, Mixed-Phase Clouds”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Terwey, Wesley

“Quasi-Linear Dynamics of Discrete Vortex Models”

Advisor: Montgomery

Tessendorf, Sarah

“Kinematic and Microphysical Evolution of the 29 June Supercell Observed during STEPS”

Advisor: Rutledge

Trenary, Laurie

“Characterization of Organic Matter in Fogwater during the California Regional Particulate Air Quality Study”

Advisor: Collett

Zarovy, Elizabeth M.

“Detection of Smoke Impact in Aerosol Samples in the Eastern and Southeastern United States during late Spring and Summer”

Advisor: Kreidenweis

Blake, Eric

“Prediction of August Atlantic Basin Hurricane Activity”

Advisor: Gray

Christi, Matthew

“On Retrieving Profiles of CO2 in the Lower Atmosphere using Spectroscopy in the Near and Far Infrared: A Preliminary Study”

Advisor: Stephens

Haynes, John

“Microphysical Properties of Dynamically Forced Cirrus Associated with Strong Jet Streams and their Relation to the Synoptic Scale Flow”

Advisor: Stephens

Hendricks, Eric

“On the Role of Hot Towers in the Formation of Hurricane Diana (1984): Insights using High Resolution Numerical Experiments”

Advisor: Montgomery

Jirak, Israel

“Radar Survey of Mesoscale Convective System Development”

Advisor: Cotton

Klotzbach, Phillip

“Forecasting September Atlantic Basin Tropical Cyclone Activity at Zero and One Month Lead Times”

Advisor: Gray

Koyama, Tomoko

“Modis Thermal Emissive Band Error Estimation using Structure Function Analysis”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Lee, Taehyoung

“The Ionic Composition of Aerosol in Big Bend National Park”

Advisor: Collett

Lindsey, Daniel

“Analysis of Convective Downdrafts Using Simple Model Results and Doppler Radar Data”

Advisors: Randall

Poyner, Philip

“Beam-filling Correction Variability in Emission-based Passive Microwave Rainfall Retrievals”

Advisor: Kummerow

Rogers, Matthew

“Radar and Optical Depth Retrieval of Marine Stratocumulus Cloud Properties Using LES Modelling”

Advisor: Stephens

Rozoff, Christopher

“Simulation of St. Louis, MO Land-use Impacts on Thunderstorms”

Advisor: Cotton

Williams, Andrea

“Kinematic, Microphysical and Latent Heating Aspects of Two Mesoscale Convective Systems Observed During TRMM-LBA”

Advisor: Rutledge

Worsham, Anthony

“On the Impact of the Stratosphere on the Circulation of the Troposphere”

Advisor: Thompson

Zhang, Ni

“Observations and Simulations of the Planetary Boundary Layer at a Tall Tower in Northern Wisconsin”

Advisor: Denning

Ashby, Travis

“Impact of Soil Moisture Initialization on a Simulated Flash Flood”

Advisor: Cotton

Barlow, Stephen

“Detecting Low-Clouds (<10,000 ft) using the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission 85.5 GHz Channel in the U.S. Southwest”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Brown, Steven

“Characterization of Carbonaceous Aerosol During the Big Bend Regional Aerosol and Visibility Observational Study”

Advisor: Collett

Cabosky, Steven

“A Statistical Frequency Analysis of Lightning Producing Storms During STEPS 2000”

Advisor: Rutledge

Corbin, Katherine

“Comparison of Aerosol Properties Derived from Sun Photometer Vonder HaarData and Ground-Based Chemical Measurements”

Advisor: Kreidenweis/Vonder Haar

Darby, Lisa

“The Sea Breeze at Monterey Bay: Comparisons between Lidar Measurements and RAMS”

Advisor: Pielke

Demuth, Julie

“Objectively Estimating Tropical Cyclone Intensity and Wind Structure Using the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Emert, Scott

“Design, Construction and Evaluation of the CSU Optical Fog Detector”

Advisor: Collett

Fulton, John

“Insights into the Hurricane Vortex using a High Resolution Numerical Simulation of Hurricane Bob (1991)”

Advisor: Montgomery

Hanamean, J.R.

“Vegetation Impacts on Maximum and Minimum Temperatures in Northeast Colorado”

Advisor: Pielke

Kolb, Ila

“Laser Transmission Through Simulated Cirrus Clouds”

Advisor: Cotton

Loechl, Erica

“Intraseasonal Oscillations and the Southeast Asian Monsoon Onset”

Advisor: Johnson

McLeod, Raymond

“Analysis of the 1998 Southeast Asian Monsoon and the Diurnal Cycle in the South China Sea”

Advisor: Johnson

McNoldy, Brian

“Distribution of Water Vapor Using Satellite Sounding Methods with New Aircraft Data Validation”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Pettet, Crystalyne

“Airflow and Precipitation Structure of Two Leading Stratiform Mesoscale Convective Systems”

Advisor: Johnson

Schuster, Douglas

“Prototype Real-time Boundary Layer Prediction in Support of the Vonder HaarCASES-99 Nocturnal Boundary Layer Experiment”

Advisor: Cotton/Vonder Haar

Strack, John

“Sensitivity of Model-Generated Daytime Surface Heat Fluxes over Snow to Land Cover Changes”

Advisor: Pielke

Vilpors, Steven

“Variability of Tropical Cyclone Wind-Pressure Relationships”

Advisor: Gray

Wolff, Cory

“Observations of the Environment, Structure, and Evolution of Five Derecho Events”

Advisor: Cotton

Belcher, Larry

“Classification of Tropical Precipitation Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Disdrometer, Profiler, and Multiparameter Radar Measurements”

Advisor: Rutledge

Castro, Christopher L.

“The Relationship of the North American Monsoon to Tropical and North Pacific Sea Surface Temperatures as Revealed by Observational Analyses”

Advisor: McKee

Cooper, Steven J.

“Estimation of Cloud Particle Effective Radius from Multiple Field of View Radiometer Measurements”

Advisor: Cox

Cram, Thomas A.

“Evolution and Organization of Vertical Vorticity in an Idealized Numerically-Simulated Convective Line”

Advisor: Montgomery

Davey, Christopher A.

“Satellite Moisture Profiling of Eastern Pacific Moisture Plumes”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Griffith, Brian D.

“Rooftop and Ground Standard Temperatures: A Comparison of Physical Differences”

Advisor: McKee

LeeJoice, Robert N.

“Hurricane Inner-Core Structure as Revealed by GPS Dropwindsondes”

Advisor: Gray

Moore, Richard W.

“Interannual Variations in Northern Hemisphere Winter Energy Transport Related to the El Nino-Southern Oscillation Phenomenon”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Reilly, Jill E.

“Application of a Tracer Technique to Study Sulfur Dioxide in Cloud Drops as a Function of Drop Size”

Advisor: Collett

Ruston, Benjamin C.

“Temporal and Spectral Differences of Water Vapor Radiances”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Volz, Karl P.

“Suitability of the 2FOV Radiometer for Determining Cloud Particle Effective Radius”

Advisor: Cox

Ahijevych, David

“Lifecycle Characteristics and Organization of Tropical Island Convection”

Advisor: Rutledge

Calame, Lorraine

“Aerosol Black Carbon Measurements”

Advisor: Collett

Camp, J. Parks

“Hurricane Maximum Intensity: Past and Present”

Advisor: Montgomery

Carpenter, Kelly M.

“Multi-Platform Exploration of the Inner-Core Intensity Change for Hurricane Marilyn (1995)”

Advisor: Gray

Davis, Janel

“Large Particle Characteristics over the Southern Ocean During ACE 1”

Advisor: Kreidenweis

Eastin, Matthew D.

“Instrument Wetting Errors in Hurricanes and a Re-Examination of Inner-Core Thermodynamics”

Advisor: Gray

Garcia, Matthew

“Simulated Tropical Convection”

Advisor: Schubert

Gauthier, Michael L.

“Multiparameter Investigation of Significant Lightning Producing Storms in Northeast Colorado”

Advisor: Rutledge

Greene, Ethan M.

“Simulation of Alpine Snow Distributions in the Northern Colorado Rocky Mountains using a Numerical Snow-Transport Model”

Advisor: Pielke

Harris, Katherine

“The Barotropic Response of the Global Atmosphere to Large-scale Tropical Convective Forcing”

Advisor: Schubert

Hidalgo, J. Marcus

“A Semi-Spectral Numerical Method for Modeling the Vorticity Dynamics of the Near-Core Region of Hurricane-Like Vortices”

Advisor: Montgomery

Parker, Matthew

“May 1996 and May 1997 Linear Mesoscale Convective Systems of the Central Plains: Synoptic Meteorology and a Reflectivity-Based Taxonomy”

Advisor: Johnson

Ryan, Jesse

“Relationship between Lightning Flash Rates and Radar Observations from Colorado”

Advisor: Rutledge

Schaefer, Kevin M.

“A Comparison of Methods for Modeling Aerosol, Condensation and Gravitational Settling”

Advisors: Randall

Snell, Holly D.

“Axisymmetric Spin-Down Dynamics of Hurricane-like Vortices”

Advisor: Montgomery

Straub, Derek

“Numerical and Experimental Performance Evaluation of Two Multi-Stage Cloud Collectors”

Advisor: Collett

Xu, Gang

“Chemical Heterogeneity Among Cloud Drop Populations and Its Influence on Aerosol Processing in Winter Clouds”

Advisor: Collett

Butler, Christine M.R.

“Microphysical Characteristics of Ice Crystals and Snowflakes as Revealed by Polarimetric Radar Measurements”

Advisor: Rutledge

Butler, Richard D.

“ASOS Heated Tipping Bucket Performance Assessment and Impact on Precipitation Climate Continuity”

Advisor: McKee

Drummond, Charles J.

“A Novel k-distribution Parameters Development System and its Application to MAS/SUCCESS Channels”

Advisor: Stephens

Golaz, Jean-Christophe

“Development of a Single-Column Model for Simulating Precipitating Stratocumulus Clouds”

Advisor: Cotton

Hoag, Katherine J.

“Heterogeneous Fog Chemistry and Aqueous S (IV) Oxidation in the San Joaquin Valley”

Advisor: Collett

Kankiewicz, Joseph Adam

“The Fine-Scale Characteristics of the 7-8 May Squall Line as Revealed by Eldora”

Advisor: Johnson

Mitrescu, Cristian

“Cloud-Resolving Simulations of Tropical Cirrus Clouds”

Advisor: Cotton

Partain, Philip T.

“Absorption of Solar Radiation by Heterogeneous Atmospheres: A New Approach to Monte Carlo Modeling”

Advisor: Stephens

Roberts, Rita D.

“Integration of WSR-88D and GOES-8 Data for Detecting and Forecasting Storm Initiation”

Advisor: Rutledge

Tulich, Stefan N.

“Measured and Calculated Structures of a Multi-Layered Altocumulus Cloud”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Wood, Norman B.

“Tracking Errors and Optical Scatter in a Solar Tracker with Linear Regression Error Correction”

Advisor: Cox

Zajac, Bard A.

“Climatological Characteristics of Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Activity in the Contiguous United States”

Advisor: Rutledge

Cocks, Stephen B.

“The Outer Radius Tangential Winds of Tropical Cyclones”

Advisor: Gray

Edwards, Daniel C.

“Characteristics of 20th Century Drought in the United States at Multiple Time Scales”

Advisor: McKee

Enagonio, Janice

“Tropical Cyclogenesis Via Convectively Forced Vortex Rossby Waves in a Three-Dimensional Quasigeostrophic Model”

Advisor: Montgomery

Hall, Timothy J.

“Diurnal Cycle of Tropical Deep Convection Examined using a High Space and Time Resolution Satellite Data Set”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Hand, Jennifer L.

“New Methods for Inversions of Optical Particle Counter Measurements and Their Applications to Visibility Estimates in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park”

Advisor: Kreidenweis

Lang, Timothy J.

“Relationship Between Storm Structure and Lightning Activity in Colorado Convection Observed During STERAO-A”

Advisor: Rutledge

Miller, Steven D.

“Multiple Scattering Effects in the Lidar Pulse Stretching Problem”

Advisor: Stephens

Saxen, Thomas R.

“Surface Fluxes and Boundary Layer Recovery in TOGA COARE: Sensitivity to Convective Organization”

Advisor: Rutledge

Yang, Zongjun

“Axisymmetric Spin-down Dynamics of Hurricanes”

Advisor: Montgomery

Ames, Rodger

“Optical Measurements of Aerosol Size Distributions in Great Smoky Mountains and National Park: Particle Hygroscopicity and Its Impact on Visibility”

Advisor: Kreidenweis

Chen, Aidong

“Studies of Stratocumulus Cloud, Drizzle and Aerosol Interaction”

Advisors: Kreidenweis/Randall

Cotturone, James A.

“Monte-Carlo Simulation of Detection of Cirrus Cloud Properties by Micro Pulse Lidar”

Advisor: Cox

Dickey, Jennifer A.

“Analysis of the Atmospheric Mixed Layer Over the Western Pacific Warm Pool”

Advisor: Johnson

Eitzen, Zachary A.

“The Simulation of the Asian Summer Monsoon by a General Circulation Model”

Advisors: Randall

Erdman, Jonathan P.

“Utility of Real-Time Lightning Data in Nowcasting: Electrical and Microphysical Observations of Northeast Colorado Convection”

Advisor: Rutledge

Gaudet, Brian J.

“Statistical Analysis of Winter Orographic Precipitation Forecasts Using a Bulk Microphysics Model”

Advisor: Cotton

Guch, Ingrid K.

“The Use of a Satellite-Model Coupled System to Study Soil Moisture Effects on Mesoscale Circulations”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Hilgendorf, Eric R.

“Evolution of Precipitation Structures Within Mesoscale Convective Systems”

Advisor: Johnson

King, Ronnie G.

“Mid-Level Vorticity in a Mesoscale Convective System”

Advisor: Johnson

Knapp, Kenneth R.

“Radiative Effects of Boundary Layer Aerosols:Detectability of Hazes by GOES-8 and Estimation of Their Direct Effect”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Knievel, Jason C.

“Surface Pressure Transients in Mesoscale Convective Systems”

Advisor: Johnson

Levy, Robert C.

“An Analysis of Southern Great Plains ARM Cloudiness and Surface Radiation Data”

Advisors: Randall

Lucci, Richard M.

“Doppler Radar Investigation of Tornadic and Lightning Producing Storms in Northeast Colorado”

Advisor: Rutledge

McElroy, Carl A.

“On the Causes of Tropical Cyclone Motion and Propagation”

Advisor: Gray

Muller, Bruce D.

“Numerical Simulation of a Regional Icing Event by a Mesoscale Model”

Advisor: Cotton

Nicklas, Christopher T.

“Hurricane Motion on a Beta Plane in an Asymmetric Balance Model”

Advisor: Montgomery

Olsen, Lori D.

“Analysis of Infrared Heating Rates in Observed Cloud Layers”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Reasor, Paul D.

“Circumpolar Vortex Studies Using MSU Temperature Data”

Advisor: Schubert/Montgomery

Schrumpf, Alison D.

“Temperature Data Continuity with the Automated Surface Observing System”

Advisor: McKee

Schrumpf, Bradford D.

“Identification of Potential Aircraft Icing Regions Through Multispectral Analysis of GOES-8 Imagery”

Advisor: Schubert

Stepaniak, David P.

“An Initial Value Problem Study of Free Waves on a Barotropic Vortex”

Advisor: Schubert

Stocker, Roger A.

“Numerical Examination of Long-Range Dispersion using RAMS with a Climatological Analysis for the MOHAVE Field Study”

Advisor: Pielke

Werner, John V.

“Inferring Draining and Pooling Along Colorado Mountain Valleys Using GOES-8 Imagery”

Advisor: McKee

Yeisley, Mark O.

“Low-Level Mesoscale Wind Field Generation from Cloud Track Winds Using GOES-8 Imagery”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Chase, Thomas N.

“The Sensitivity of a General Circulation Model to Large Scale Vegetation Changes”

Advisor: Pielke

Clement, Peter C.

“A Comparison of Radar-Derived Precipitation and Rain Gage Precipitation in Northeastern Colorado”

Advisor: McKee

Gillies, Sean C.

“Observation and Parameterization of Surface Solar Irradiance in the Marine Stratocumulus and Trade Wind Regimes”

Advisor: Cox

Haertel, Patrick T.

“Two-Day Disturbances in the Tropical Western Pacific”

Advisor: Johnson

Hausman, Scott A.

“Dynamic Adjustment of Mesoscale Convective Lower-Stratospheric Outflows”

Advisor: Schubert

Kallenbach, Randall

“Symmetrization, Vortex Rossby Waves, and Hurricane motion in an Asymmetric Balance Model”

Advisor: Montgomery

Kubat, Gary

“Tropical Cyclone Intensity Relationships”

Advisor: Gray

Lawyer, David T.

“An Exploratory Study of an Icing Index from Satellite Remote Sensing of Cloud Liquid Water Over Land”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Nebuda, Sharon E.

“Development of an Upper-Level Cloud Parameterization for Large Scale Models”

Advisor: Cotton

Persing, John

“A Point-Vortex Application to Vortex Stability, Evolution, and Statistical Equilibrium”

Advisor: Montgomery

Richardson, Wendy A.

“Cloud Processing of Aerosol Using a Hybrid LES/Parcel Model with Solute Following Microphysics”

Advisor: Kreidenweis/Cotton

Ries, Vincent T.

“Calibration of the Scanning Spectral Polarimeter and Measurement of the Sky Light Polarization”

Advisor: Stephens

Shaw, Brent

“The Effect of Soil-Moisture and Vegetation Heterogeneity on a Great Plains Dryline: Numerical Simulations”

Advisor: Pielke

Baker, Ian

“Investigation of Enhanced-Reflectivity Features Embedded within a Wintertime Orographic Cloud on 28-29 November 1994”

Advisor: Grant

Beck, Gordon

“Spectral Radiative Properties of Cirrus Clouds Deduced from Interferometric Measurements”

Advisor: Cox

Beitler, Brian A.

“Mesoscale Numerical Prediction of Colorado Snowfall and Winds”

Advisor: Cotton

Carey, Lawrence D.

“Multiparameter Radar Case Studies of the Microphysical and Kinematic Evolution of Lightning Producing Storms”

Advisor: Rutledge

Cripe, Douglas

“Investigation of GCAPE Quasi-Equilibrium in Midlatitudes”

Advisors: Randall

Edwards, James

“Barotropic Instability in the Innercore of Tropical Cyclones”

Advisor: Schubert

Ganse, Henry J.

“Regional Water Vapor Distribution over the U.S. During 1988-89 and its Clear Sky Longwave Radiative Effects”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Harrington, Jerry

“Parameterization of Ice Crystal Convection Processes in Cirrus Clouds Using Double Moment Basis Functions”

Advisor: Cotton

Hart, Kenneth A.

“Water Vapor and Temperature Inversions Near the O-degree C Level Over The Tropical Western Pacific”

Advisor: Johnson

Heidinger, Andrew K.

“Finite Cloud Effects in Longwave Radiative Transfer”

Advisor: Cox

Keith, Chan W.

“Monte Carlo Modeling of Multiply Scattered Laser Ceilometer Returns”

Advisor: Cox

Kelly, Michael A.

“Investigations of the Earth's Entropy Budget: Comparison with a General Circulation Model”

Advisors: Randall

Lappen, Cara-Lyn

“An Assessment of the Extent of the Contamination of Measurements Taken on Porto Santo During ASTEX”

Advisor: Cox

Mocko, David

“Diagnosing Boundary-Layer Fractional Cloudiness in a Mesoscale Model”

Advisor: Cotton

Schneider, Timothy L.

“Backscattering by Nonspherical Ice Particles at Millimeter Wavelengths: A Theoretical Study”

Advisor: Stephens

Scott, James D.

“Doppler Radar Observations of an Asymmetric MCS and Associated Vortex Couplet”

Advisor: Rutledge

Smith, Gerald B.

“Inviscid Disturbance Dynamics in Barotropic Shear Flows”

Advisor: Montgomery

Song, Ran

“Vertical Velocity Observations of FIRE II Cirrus Event”

Advisor: Cox

Stevens, Eric

“Comparison of Sounding, Profiler, Radar and Ceilometer Data from Porto Santo Island During ASTEX”

Advisor: Schubert

Treu, Marvin H.

“Nowcasting Convective Storm Evolution in East-Central Florida using Satellite and Doppler Radar Data”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Withrow, John R.

“An Initial Investigation into the Effects of Particle Nonsphericity in Cirrus Cloud Radiative Properties”

Advisor: Cox

Youngblood, Debra

“Further Development and Testing of a Bimodal Aerosol Dynamics Model”

Advisor: Kreidenweis

Braunstein, Lancelot M.

“The Air-Sea Interaction and the Evolution of Stratocumulus Clouds in the Marine Boundary Layer”

Advisors: Randall

Cornick, Jon C.

“A Comparison of Ceiling and Visibility Observations for NWS Manned Observation Sites and ASOS Sites”

Advisor: McKee

Denning, A. Scott

Plan B

Advisors: Randall

Eastman, Joseph L.

“A Numerical Study and Tracer Evaluation of Transport and Diffusion in a Lake Breeze”

Advisor: Pielke

Edwards, Benjamin

“Producing Terminal Aerodrome Forecast Using a Mesoscale Model”

Advisor: Cotton

Forman, Keith K.

Plan B

Advisor: McKee

Forsythe, John M.

“Satellite Microwave Observations of Polar Lows”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Heikes, Ross P.

“The Shallow Water Equations on a Spherical Geodesic Grid”

Advisors: Randall

Jensen-Leute, Tara

“Studies of the Relationship Between Submicron Marine Aerosol and Cloud Properties”

Advisor: Kreidenweis

Knowles, John B.

“The Influence of Forest Fire Induced Albedo Differences on the Generation of Mesoscale Circulations”

Advisor: Pielke

Krasner, Richard D.

“Further Development and Testing of a Second-Order Bulk Boundary Layer Model”

Advisors: Randall

Leute, Frank A.

“An Analysis of Simulated and Actual DMSP SSM/T-2 Brightness Temperatures”

Advisor: Stephens

London, Steven

“A Wind Profiler Assisted Study of a Non-Precipitating Warm Front”

Advisor: McKee

Miner, Barbara

“Opposing Mesoscale Flows in a Broken Midlatitude Squall Line”

Advisor: Johnson

Savoie, Matthew H.

“The role of Wintertime Radiation in Maintaining and Destroying Stable Layers”

Advisor: McKee

Thompson, Gregory

“Prototype Real-Time Mesoscale Prediction During 1991-92 Winter Season and Statistical Verification of Model Data”

Advisor: Cotton

Van Aartsen, Bruce H.

“Three-Dimensional Visualization of GOES Cloud Data Using Octrees”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Chang, Tse-Tsang

“Optimal Smoothing for Upper Atmosphere GOES VAS Images”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Coskun, Mustafa

“Flushing of a Two-Dimensional Valley as a Function of Froude Number and Surface Heating”

Advisor: Pielke

Falvey, Robert J.

“A Composite Study of the Madden-Julien Oscillation”

Advisor: Johnson

Fitzpatrick, Michael E.

“Tropical Cyclone Motion and Recurvature in TCM-90”

Advisor: Gray

Grasso, Lewis

“A Numerical Simulation of Tornadogenesis”

Advisor: Cotton

Jackson, Darren

“On the Role of SSM/I Derived Precipitable Water Over the Globe and Tropical Pacific”

Advisor: Stephens

Knaff, John

“Evidence of a Stratospheric QBO Modulation of Parameters Associated with ENSO Variation”

Advisor: Gray

Lin, Xin

“A Diagnostic Study of a Midlatitude Frontal Squall Line”

Advisor: Johnson

Loehrer, Scott

“The Surface Pressure Features and Precipitation Structure of PRE-STORM Mesoscale Convective Systems”

Advisor: Johnson

Mahoney, Jennifer Luppens

“Synoptic and Mesoscale Features in Colorado Winter Storms: A Climatology”

Advisor: McKee

Manning, Kevin

“An Observational and Modelling Study of the 26-27 June 1985 PRE-STORM Mesoscale Convective System”

Advisor: Rutledge

Nachamkin, Jason E.

“The Upscale Evolution of a Midlatitude Mesoscale Convective Complex”

Advisor: Cotton

Papineau, John M.

“A Performance Evaluation of the NGM and RAMS Models for the 29-30 March 1991 Front Range Storm”

Advisor: Pielke

Petersen, Walter A.

“Cloud-to-Ground Lightning in Tropical Mesoscale Convective Systems”

Advisor: Rutledge

Poulos, Gregory

“The Potential Contribution of Los Angeles Pollution to Grand Canyon Air Quality”

Advisor: Pielke

Powell, Nicolas S.

“Radar Based Case Study of a Northeast Colorado Snowstorm”

Advisor: Rutledge

Rafkin, Scot

“Non-Inductive Charging of Tropical Convection in High and Low Cape Environments”

Advisor: Rutledge

Rodriguez-Hernandez, Humberto

“Influence of Mesoscale Variations in Land Surface Albedo on Large Scale Averaged Heat Fluxes”

Advisor: Pielke

Speltz, David J.

“A Comparison of Radar Rainfall Estimates and Rain Gauge Measurements During Two Denver Thunderstorms”

Advisor: McKee

Tepecik, Kadir

“Dynamics of the Tropical Atmosphere”

Advisor: Schubert

Branson, Mark D.

“An Historical Evaluation of a Winter Orographic Precipitation Model”

Advisor: Grant

Hallin, Stephen C.

“Diurnal Variations in Tropical Cyclones”

Advisor: Gray

Harding, Ken W.

“Balanced, Potential Vorticity Dynamics in Tropics”

Advisor: Schubert/Stevens

Heckman, Scot

“Numerical Simulation of Cirrus Clouds - FIRE Case Study and Sensitivity Analysis”

Advisor: Cotton

Henry, Sandra

“Impact of Latent Heating Rates - Inferred from Precipitation Rates - on Predictions of Mesoscale Convective Systems with RAMS”

Advisor: Cotton

Hodanish, Stephen J.

“An Observational Analyses of Tropical Cyclone Recurvature”

Advisor: Gray

Intrieri, Janet

“Determining Cirrus Cloud Effective Radii Using Lidar and Radar Backscatter Data”

Advisor: Stephens

Landsea, Chris

“West African Monsoonal Rainfall and Intense Hurricane Associations”

Advisor: Gray

Roohr, Peter B.

“A Comparative Analysis of the Temporal Variability of Lightning Observations and GOES Imagery”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Shih, Chi-Fan Gilvan

Plan B

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Xian, Zejin

“A 2-D Model Study of the Influence of the Surface on Mesoscale Convection During the Indian Monsoon”

Advisor: Pielke

Atwater, Charlotte

“Radar-Derived Latent Heating Rates in a Convective Storm”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Bernstein, Ben

“Surface and Dual-Doppler Radar Analysis of 23-24 June 1985 OK PRE-STORM Heat Bursts”

Advisor: Johnson

Evans, K. Franklin

“Polarized Radiative Transfer Modeling: An Application to Microwave Remote Sensing of Precipitation”

Advisor: Stephens

Graw, Richard L.

“Wintertime Local Circulations in Northwestern Colorado”

Advisor: Grant

Keener, James Elliot

“Diurnal Cycle of the Thermal Structure and a Mesoscale Wind on the West Slope of the Colorado Rockies”

Advisor: McKee

Mandy, Norman Hollis

“A Two-Dimensional Balanced Model of Internal Frontogenesis in Geostrophic and Isentropic Coordinates”

Advisor: Schubert

Mulvihill, Elizabeth A.

“Modeling of Aggregation and Riming in Orographic Clouds Over the Northern Colorado Rockies”

Advisor: Grant

Mundell, Dan Beebe

“Prediction of Tropical Cyclone Rapid Intensification Events”

Advisor: Gray

Orr, Brad William

“Boundary Layer Momentum Budgets as Determined from a Single Scanning Doppler Radar”

Advisor: Johnson

Rickenbach, Thomas M.

“Microphysical Retrieval and Water Budget Study of the 10-11 June 1985 Mesoscale Convective System”

Advisor: Rutledge

Schmitt, Christina C.

“The Effects of Surface Temperature and Clouds on the CO2 Forcing”

Advisors: Randall

Staley, Jim Marshall

“Passive Infrared Detection of Microburst Induced Low Level Wind Shear”

Advisor: Sinclair

Vescio, Michael D.

“The Wind's Response to Transient Mesoscale Pressure Fields Associated with Squall Lines”

Advisor: Johnson

Wittmeyer, Ian L.

“Satellite Based Estimates of Global Precipitable Water and Poleward Latent Heat Transport”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Collimore, Christopher Craig

“Long Term Fluctuations of the West Pacific Tropical Circulation and How They Affect East Pacific SSTS”

Advisor: Gray

Dattore, Robert Edward

“Observations of Thunderstorm Outflows from Doppler Radar and Surface Mesonetwork Data”

Advisor: Sinclair

Drake, Stephen

“Paper entitled: Gust Front Pumping of Boundary Layer Air by Small Scale Vorticie”

Advisor: Sinclair

Duda, David Paul

“Microphysical and Radiative Properties of Marine Stratocumulus from Tethered Balloon Measurements”

Advisor: Stephens

Fogarty, Robert M.

“The Invertibility Principle for a Simple Hurricane Model”

Advisor: Schubert

Gallus, William

“The Heat, Moisture, and Momentum Budgets of a Midlatitude Squall Line with a Trailing Stratiform Region”

Advisor: Johnson

Guinn, Thomas Alan

“A Modeling Study of the Cloud-Topped Marine Boundary Layer”

Advisor: Schubert

Meyers, Michael P.

“An Evaluation of the Factors Affecting Wintertime Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts in an Explicit Cloud Model Over Mountainous Terrain”

Advisor: Cotton

Morrison, Brian Jay

“A Characterization of Dry Ice as a Glaciogenic Seeding Agent”

Advisor: Grant

Olsson, Peter Quentin

“Inference of Horizontal Temperature Gradients Using Passive Radiometric Methods”

Advisor: Cox

Osterburg, Robert Daniel

“Testing How Well the GAC Spatial Sampling Algorithm Represents Imaged Surfaces”

Advisor: Grant

Peterson, Thomas Carl

“The Effect of Decoupled Low-Level Flow on Winter Orographic Clouds in Northern Colorado”

Advisor: Grant

Shoemaker, Daniel N.

“Relationships Between Convection and Extent of Winds in Northwest Pacific Tropical Cyclones”

Advisor: Gray

Smith, William L.

“The Broadband Radiative Properties of Cirrus Clouds Deduced from Aircraft Measurements During FIRE”

Advisor: Cox

Stackhouse Jr., Paul

“A Theoretical and Observational Comparison of Cirrus Cloud Radiative Properties”

Advisor: Stephens

Thompson, Bruce W.

“Tropical Cylcone Track Predictability and the Adjoint Method of Data Assimilation”

Advisor: Schubert

Vroman, Theodore

“Microwave Brightness Temperature and its Relation to Atmospheric General Circulation Features”

Advisor: Stephens

Combs, Cynthia

“Transmittance of Solar Radiation Determined by the Multiple Field of View Radiometer Under Various Cloud Covers for Mauna Loa, Hawaii”

Advisor: Cox

Cramer, James H.

“Observational Evaluation of Snow Cover Effects on the Generation and Modification of Mesoscale Circulation”

Advisor: Pielke

Gibson, Harold M.

“Cloud and Convection Frequencies Relative to Small-Scale Geographic Features”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Hertenstein, Rolf

“Modeling and Observations of the Atmospheric Response to Squall Lines”

Advisor: Schubert

Jones, Andrew

“Microwave Remote Sensing of Cloud Liquid Water and Surface Emittance Over Land Regions”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Martin, Joel D.

“Tropical Cyclone Observation and Forecasting With and Without Aircraft Reconnaissances”

Advisor: Gray

McCoy, Mary

“Application of the CIMMS Mesoscale Model to Operational Short-Range Forecasting”

Advisor: Pielke

Ramirez, Deanna Rita

“A Global Analysis and Correlation of NIMBUS-7 Cloud and Longwave Radiation Data”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Ringerud, Mark Andrew

“Instability of Horizontally and Vertically Sheared Parallel Flow”

Advisor: Stevens

Stumpf, Gregory

“Surface Pressure Features Associated with a Midlatitude Mesoscale Convective System in O.K. Pre-Storm”

Advisor: Johnson

Verlinde, Johannes

“Observed Structure of a Mesovortex in the Trailing Anvil of a Multi-Cellular Convective Complex”

Advisor: Cotton

Alberta, Timothy A.

“Anisotropy in Reflected Solar Radiation From Fields of Finite Clouds”

Advisor: Cox

Hamilton, Paul

“Observations of a Mid-Latitude Squall Line Boundary Layer Wake”

Advisor: Johnson

Howard, George

“Modeling Cloudy and Clear Interval Length Probabilities Using Space Shuttle Imagery”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Lunney, Patrick

“Environmental and Convective Influence on Tropical Cyclone Development vs. Non-Development”

Advisor: Gray

Middlebrooke, Michael G.

“Investigation of Tropical Cyclone Genesis and Development Using Low-Level Aircraft Flight Data”

Advisor: Gray

O'Neal, Robert

“Intra-Valley Topographical Control of Nocturnal Valley Winds”

Advisor: McKee

Sorlin-Davis, Janet

“Determination of Cloud Base Height and Emissivity From Downwelling Angular Radiances”

Advisor: Cox

Stone, Robert

“Optical Properties of Cirrus Clouds from Satellite Imagery and Radiative Transfer Calculations”

Advisor: Stephens

Wong, Takmeng

“Sensitivity Study from One Dimensional Ocean-Atmosphere Climate Model”

Advisor: Stephens

Changnon, David

“Economic Impacts and Analysis Methods of Extreme Precipitation Estimates for Eastern Colorado”

Advisor: McKee

Chen, Sue

“Simulation of the Stratiform Region of a Mesoscale Convective System”

Advisor: Cotton

Chen, Yuh Mei Yin

“Mesoscale Air Quaility Under Stagnant Synoptic Cold Season Conditions in the Lake Powell Area”

Advisor: Schubert

Cowie, James

“Colorado Precipitation Event and Variability Analysis”

Advisor: McKee

Craig, Robert

“Three- and Four-Dimensional Display of Radar and Satellite Data”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Fleming, Richard

“Wind Flow Over the Rocky Mountains”

Advisor: Reiter

Hu, Qi

“A Diagnostic Study of Explosive Cyclogenesis in the Lee of the Rocky Mountains”

Advisor: Reiter

Kawa, Randolph

“Ozone Deposition, Scalar Budgets and Radiative Heating Over Texas Coastal Forest and Ocean”

Advisor: Pearson

Leary, Nancy

“Determination of Wind Shear Using Cloud Relative Tracking of Clouds from Satellite Imagery”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Rodrigues, Jose

Plan B

Advisor: Reiter

Scott, Paul

“Altered and Enhanced Iodargyrite with Bismuth Triiodide for Use in Precipitation Enhancement Operations”

Advisor: Sinclair

Wesley, Douglas

“The Role of Radiative Processes in the Diffusional Mass Evolution of Cirrus Hydrometers”

Advisor: Cox

Williams, Gary

“Mesoscale Observations of Lee Trough in Colorado”

Advisor: Johnson

Wolyn, Paul

“An Examination of Deep Stable Layers in the Intermountain Region of the Western United States”

Advisor: McKee

Woodruff, Brian

“Sampling Error in a Single-Instrument Vertical Gradient Measurement in the Atmospheric Surface Layer”

Advisor: Pearson

Alworth, Brian

“Evolution of Potential Vorticity in a Tropical Cyclone Model”

Advisor: Schubert

Blumenstein, Rochelle

“Characterization of Silver Iodide-Sodium Ice Nuclei Using Chemical Kinetic Methodology”

Advisor: Grant

Bossert, James

“Associations Between Summer Circulation Anomalies and Sea Surface Temperature Forcing”

Advisor: Reiter

Chen, Cheng-Li

Plan B

Advisor: Gray

Flannigan, Michael

“Forest Fire Monitoring Using the NOAA Satellite Series”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Flatau, Piotr

“Study of Second-Order Turbulence Closure Technique and Its Application to Atmospheric Flows”

Advisor: Cotton

Flatau, Maria

“The Effect of Horizontal Pressure Gradients on the Momentum Transport in Tropical Convective Lines”

Advisor: Stevens

Li, Jingwen

Plan B

Advisor: Stevens

McQueen, Jeffery

“A Numerical and Climatological Investigation of Deep Convective Cloud Patterns in South Florida”

Advisor: Pielke

Meade, Arthur

“Applications for Three-Dimensional Computer Graphic Cloud Representations Produced from Satellite Imagery”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Roetman, Ray

Plan B

Advisor: Pearson

Schmidt, Jerome

“Structure and Evolution of a Squall Line With an Embedded Super Cell”

Advisor: Cotton

Uttal, Taneil

“Distribution of Liquid, Vapor and Ice in a Phase Budget in a Colorado Orographic Cloud System”

Advisor: Grant

Weatherford, Candis

“Typhoon Structural Variability”

Advisor: Gray

Weissbluth, Michael

“A Modelling Study of Visibility in the Grand Canyon”

Advisor: Cox

Wilkes, Craig

Plan B

Advisor: McKee

Wolfe, Daniel

“Early Morning Evolution of the Convective Boundary Layer at the Boulder Atmospheric Observatory”

Advisor: Johnson

Yu, Chang-Han

“Mesoscale Air Quality Under Stagnant Synoptic Cold Season Conditions in the Lake Powell Area”

Advisor: Pielke

Askue, Cecilia

“Varying Structure and Intensity Change Characteristics of Four Western North Pacific Tropical Cyclones”

Advisor: Gray

Chen, Wun-Iuang

Plan B

Advisor: Cox

Gould-Stewart, Sharon

“Low-Frequency Variability in a Climate Model With a Mixed-Layer Ocean”

Advisor: Reiter

Luiz, Teixeira

“Sea Surface Temperature, Rainfall and Southern Oscillation: Relationships Over Tropical America”

Advisor: Reiter

O'Connor, Lauraleen

Plan B

Advisor: Cox

Rosenlof, Karen

“The Sensitivity of the Walker Circulation to Different Basic States in a Linear Model”

Advisor: Stevens

Taylor, Richard

Plan B

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Tunick, Arnold

“A First Order Closure Model of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer Comparison with Observations and Theory”

Advisor: Pielke

Blanchard, David

“Variability of the Convective Field Pattern in South Florida and its Relationship to the Synoptic Flow”

Advisor: Pielke

Dye, Anita F.

“An Analysis of Periodicity in Colorado Precipitation”

Advisor: McKee

Franchi, Lynnette

Plan B

Advisor: Reiter

Greeson, Joseph S.

“The Vertical and Temporal Characteristics of Winter Orographic Clouds as Assessed by Vertical-Pointing Radar”

Advisor: Grant

Hanson, Keeley

“Potential for Regional Air Pollution Episodes in Colorado”

Advisor: McKee

Kelly, Francis P.

“An Extreme Event Forecast Guidance Method Using Satellite Cumulus Cloud Climatologies”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Kuo, Hung-Chi

“Radiation Field in Maritime Stratocumulus”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Lipton, Alan

“A Statistical Procedure for Retrieving the Vertical Distribution of Water Vapor From Satellites”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Nicholls, Melville E.

“Observations and Modeling of the Boundary Layer Accompanying a Squall Line”

Advisor: Johnson

Parker, Hugh A.

“An Analysis of the Thunderstorm Overshooting Top”

Advisor: Sinclair

Randel, David L.

“Space Time Variations in the Earth Radiation Budget”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Smith, Tracy

“Radiation Budget Over the Indian Monsoon Region”

Advisor: Cox

Tan, Kapin

“Descriptive Study of Upstream Flow Separations in Mountain Terrain”

Advisor: Grant

Toth, Jim

“An Observational Study of Summer Surface Wind Flow Over Northeast Colorado”

Advisor: Johnson

Weiss, Mitchell

“Satellite Rainfall Classification in the U.S. High Plains Using Statistical Discriminant Analysis”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Conley, John Robert

“An Analysis of Solar Radiation Data for Fort Collins, Colorado”

Advisor: McKee

Crum, Francis X.

“A Comparison of Two Cumulus Parameterization Schemes in a Linear Model of Wave-Cisk”

Advisor: Stevens

Culverwell, Arlene

“An Analysis of Moisture Sources and Circulation Fields Associated with an MCC Episode”

Advisor: Cotton

DeMott, Paul J.

“A Characterization of Mixed Silver Iodide-Silver Chloride Ice Nuclei”

Advisor: Grant

Klitch, Marjorie A.

“Compositing GOES Data to Detect Regions of Enhanced Convective Development Around Eastern Montana”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Levy, Gad

“Communication Mechanism in Dynamically Seeded Cumulus Clouds”

Advisor: Cotton

Magnusdottir, Gudrun

“A Method to Determine Sea Surface Temperatures and Cloud Top Temperatures Using TIROS-N Data”

Advisor: Cox

Merrill, Robert T.

“A Comparison of Large and Small Tropical Cyclones”

Advisor: Gray

Motallebi, Nehzat

“Doppler-Radar Observation of the Evolution of Downdrafts in Convective Clouds”

Advisor: Cotton

Raschke, Robert

“The Determination of Cloud Optical Depth from Multiple Fields of View Pyrheliometric Measurements”

Advisor: Cox

Reinke, Donald L.

“Weather Forecast Adjustment Using Model Output Cloud Fields and Digital Satellite Data”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Rogash, Joseph

“The Development of Subsynoptic and Mesoscale Cyclones in a Tornado Outbreak”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Smith, Jeffrey

“Undisturbed Clear Day Diurnal Wind and Temperature Pattern in Northeastern Colorado”

Advisor: McKee

Stoker, Timothy

“The Migrating Dirunal Tide in the Tropical Troposphere: Theory and Observations Compared”

Advisor: Stevens

Tucker, Donna F.

“April Circulation Over the Tibetan Plateau: Investigations with a Primitive Equation Model”

Advisor: Reiter

Vimont, John C.

“Snowpack Acidity in the Colorado Rocky Mountains”

Advisor: Grant

Bader, David

“Simulation of the daytime boundary layer evolution in deep mountain valleys”

Advisor: Thomas McKee

Buss, Norman

Plan B

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Chorowski, Larry

“Characteristics of Denver Air Pollution Using Geostationary Satellite Data”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Dropco, Kenneth

“Tropical Cyclone Intensity Change--A Quantitative Forecasting Scheme”

Advisor: Gray

Ebel, David

“Diurnal Radiance Patterns of Finite and Semi-Infinite Clouds in Observations of Cloud Fields”

Advisor: McKee

Holland, Greg

“Angular Momentum Budgets in Tropical Cyclones”

Advisor: Gray

Lee, Cheng-Shang

“Vertical Rearrangement of Tangential Momentum in Tropical Cyclones”

Advisor: Gray

Medina, Jonnie

“Techniques for Assessment of Nonrandomized Weather Modification Programs in the Colorado Mountains”

Advisor: Grant

Nehrkorn, Thomas

“A Three-Dimensional Simulation of the Dynamic Response of a Florida Cumulus to Seeding”

Advisor: Cotton

Rauber, Robert

“Microphysical Processes in Two Stably Stratified Orographic Cloud Systems”

Advisor: Grant

Sorenson, Roger

“Cloud and Insolation Climatology for Selected Colorado Stations”

Advisor: McKee

Behunek, Jan

“The Role of Moisture Flux in Atmospheric Feedback Mechanisms Over the Tropical Oceans”

Advisor: Reiter

Byrd, Gregory

“A Case Study of Radiative Forcing Upon a Tropical Cloud Cluster”

Advisor: Cox

Ciesielski, Paul

“Variability Within the Ocean-Atmospheric System Over the North Pacific”

Advisor: Reiter

Durkee, Phillip

“Summer Precipitation Frequency of the North Central U.S. from Microwave Observations”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Edson, Roger

“Parameterization of Net Radiation at the Surface Using Data from the Wangara Experiment”

Advisor: Reiter

Fulton, Scott

“Geostrophic Adjustment in a Stratified Atmosphere”

Advisor: Schubert

Hahn, David

“Observed Characteristics of Turbulence in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer Over Mountainous Terrain”

Advisor: Cotton

Knupp, Kevin

“Observed Characteristics of an Intense Quasi-Stationary Thunderstorm Complex Over Mountainous Terrain”

Advisor: Cotton

Lee, Robert Ray

“Wintertime Cloud Systems Over the Colorado Rockies: Three Case Studies”

Advisor: Grant

Mitambo, Bernard

“Mass Exchange Between Stratosphere and Troposphere Under the Influence of a Strong Jet Stream”

Advisor: Reiter

Smith, Eric

“Orbital Mechanics and Analytical Modeling of Meteorological Satellite Orbits”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Thompson, Thayne

“Pyrheliometer Observations as an Indicator of the Climatological Persistence of Clouds”

Advisor: Cox

Ackerman, Steven A.

“Gate Phase III. Mean Synoptic-Scale Radiative Convergence Profiles”

Advisor: Cox

Breed, Daniel William

“Liquid Water Measurements in High Elevation Continental Cumuli”

Advisor: Grant

Colley, Anthony Wayne

Plan B

Advisor: Vonder Haar

DeMaria, Mark

“A Comparison of Theoretical and Observed Radiances from Non-Precipitating Cumulus Clouds”

Advisor: Tom McKee

Eversole, Rae Ann

“Spectral Characteristics of Boundary Layer Turbulence Over Irregular Terrain”

Advisor: Schubert

Forsyth, Merlyn C.

Plan B

Advisor: Vonder Haar

George, Raymond L.

“Evolution of Mesoscale Convective Systems Over Mountainous Terrain”

Advisor: Cotton

Grube, Pamela G.

“Convection Induced Temperature Change in Gate”

Advisor: Gray

Hsiao, Chi-Nan

“Interannual Variation of Atmospheric Meridional Eddy Transports”

Advisor: Reiter

Morris, Kenneth Robert

“Satellite Studies of Sierra Nevada Winter Storms in Support of Weather Modification”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Philipp, Ceri Burns

“Observation of Progressive Convective Interactions from the Rocky Mountain Slopes to the Plains”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Stephens, Mark A.

“A Simple Ice Phase Parameterization”

Advisor: Cotton

Agne, Robert L.

Plan B

Advisor: McKee

Baer, Mitchell T.

“Aerial Sampling of a Weather Modification Seeding Agent”

Advisor: Grant

Bielicki, Dennis E.

“Estimation of Big Thompson Flood Rainfall Using Infrared Satellite Imagery”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Butchko, Joseph J.

“A Diagnostic Case Study of the August 9-11 Period During GATE”

Advisor: Schubert

Corona, Thomas J.

“The Interannual Variability of Northern Hemispheric Precipitation”

Advisor: Reiter

Dewart, Jean M.

“The Diurnal Variability of the Atmosphere in the GATE Region”

Advisor: Gray

Erbes, Russell E.

“A Kinematic Description of Colorado Thunderstorms”

Advisor: Grant

Harr, Patrick A.

“Relationships Between Precipitation, Pressure, and Ocean Temperature”

Advisor: Brier

Heuer, George R.

“Predicting Winter Wheat Phenology Using Temperature and Photoperiod”

Advisor: McKee

Hughes, Richard L.

“A Numerical Simulation of Mesoscale Flow Over Mountainous Terrain”

Advisor: Cotton

Klehr, John T.

“Simulated Radiance Patterns for MIE Absorbing Finite Clouds”

Advisor: McKee

Kuenning, James A.

“Laboratory Investigation of Radiative Transfer in Cloud Fields”

Advisor: McKee

Leverson, Verne H.

“Waterspout Structure and Dynamics”

Advisor: Sinclair

Mendola, Christopher P.

“Cloud Analysis From Bi-Spectral Satellite Data”

Advisor: Cox

Minnis, Patrick

“Magnitude of the Radiative Effects of the Saharan Dust Layer”

Advisor: Cox

Pryor, Stephen P.

“Measurement of Thunderstorm Cloud Top Parameters Using High-Frequency Satellite Imagery”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Raghunandan, Sudama

“Gradient Adjustments in a Axisymmetric System”

Advisor: Schubert

Stodt, Richard W.

“Summertime Satellite Cumulus Cloud Climatology”

Advisor: Grant

Timbre, Keith O.

“An Investigation and Model of the Urban Heat Island”

Advisor: Reiter

Toepfer, Frederick

“Evaluation of a Second Moment Time Dependent Turbulence Model”

Advisor: Cotton

Wakefield, Joseph S.

“Numerical Simulation of Eastern North Pacific Stratocumulus”

Advisor: Schubert

Yee, Young P.

“Optimum Interpolation of Radiosonde and Satellite Derived Temperature Fields”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Carney, Mark V.

“An Analytical Technique for the Analysis of Atmospheric Lead Alkyls”

Advisor: Corrin

Davis, John M.

“Solar Absorption in Clouds of Finite Horizontal Extent”

Advisor: Cox

Erickson, Steven L.

“Comparison of Developing vs. Non-Developing Tropical Disturbances”

Advisor: Gray

Gifford, Malcolm D.

“Characteristic Size Spectra of Cumulus Fields Observed from Satellites”

Advisor: McKee

Glendening, John W.

“Aeolian Transport and Vegetative Capture of Particulates”

Advisor: Sinclair

Griffith, Keith T.

“Radiative Properties of Clouds Inferred from Broad Band Measurements”

Advisor: Cox

Hack, James J.

“Numerical Experiments with an Axisymmetric Tropical Cyclone Model”

Advisor: Schubert

Kleespies, Thomas J.

“Observation of Stratospheric Thermal Structure from Satellites”

Advisor: Reiter

McGuirk, David E.

Plan B

Advisor: Haurwitz

Mower, Richard

“Case Study of Convection Lines During GATE”

Advisor: Betts

Negri, Andrew J.

“Satellite Observations of the Onset and Growth of Severe Local Storms”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Phelps, Ronald W.

Plan B

Advisor: Gray

Pope, Matthew

“Management of Alpine Windblown Snow by Lee Slope Available Modification”

Advisor: Grant

Schanot, Allen J.

“The Structure and Mixing Processes of Mountain Cumulus Clouds”

Advisor: Sinclair

Seigel, Anne Deborah

“Oceanic Latent and Sensible Heat Flux Variability and Air-Interaction”

Advisor: Reiter

Silva Dias, Maria

“Diagnostic Analysis of Tropical Cumulonimbus Downdraft Structure”

Advisor: Betts/Stevens

Silva Dias, Pedro

“Experiments with the Arakawa--Schubert Cumulus Parameterization Theory”

Advisor: Schubert

Steiner, Ellen

“Stratocumulus Convection Off the South American Coast”

Advisor: Schubert

Vardiman, Steven

“The Amine Inhibition of AgI Aerosol Ice Nucleation”

Advisor: Corrin

Barbieri, Ann M.

“Variations of Hemispheric Energy Parameters”

Advisor: Reiter

Barnes, Roy M.

“In Situ Coated Silver Iodide Nucleants”

Advisor: Corrin

Foltz, Gary S.

“Diurnal Variation of the Tropospheric Energy Balance”

Advisor: Gray

George, John E.

“Tropical Cyclone Motion and Surrounding Parameter Relationships”

Advisor: Gray

Hillger, Donald W.

“Mesoscale Temperature and Moisture Fields from VTPR Sounding Radiances”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Hunt, Douglas

Plan B

Advisor: Corrin

Kidder, Stanley Q.

“Tropical Oceanic Precipitation Frequency form Nimbus 5 Microwave Data”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

McWilliams, Gary B.

Plan B

Advisor: Corrin

Rockwood, Anthony A.

“Satellite Inferred Albedo over Northwestern Africa”

Advisor: Cox

Starr, David

“Objective Cloud Field Determinations for the GATE”

Advisor: Cox

Stobie, James G.

“Gravity Shear Waves Atop the Cirrus Layer of Intense Convective Storms”

Advisor: Sinclair

Wackter, David J.

“The Structure of Atmospheric Parameters in Wave-number-Space”

Advisor: Haurwitz

Walters, Gregg W.

“Severe Local Storm Wind Gusts”

Advisor: Gray

Zehr, Raymond M.

“Typhoon Genesis and Pre-Typhoon Cloud Clusters”

Advisor: Gray

Arn, Robert M.

“Anvil Area and Brightness Characteristics as Seen from Geosynchronous Satellites”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Banta, Robert Mason

“Jet Stream Flow as Inferred from IOLE Balloon Data”

Advisor: Reiter

Danielson, Kelvin S.

“Continental Mountains Cumulus CLouds”

Advisor: Grant

Dumont, Robert J.

“Determining the Seedability of the Winter Orographic Cloud from Satellite Observations”

Advisor: Grant

Introne, Robert E.

Plan B

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Jacobson, Robert W.

“Diurnal Variability of Tropical Convection”

Advisor: Gray

Janssen, Don W.

“Downwind Seeding Effects from the Climas Experiment”

Advisor: Grant

Kuo, Marie Siew

“Analysis of Colorado Precipitation”

Advisor: Cox

Mendonca, Bernard G.

“Benchmark Properties of Aerosols”

Advisor: Corrin

Poellot, Michael R.

“Computer Simulation of Irradiance Measurements form Aircraft”

Advisor: Cox

Ruiz Rodriguez, Omar Jesus

“Mesoscale Study of the Tropical Sub-cloud Layer”

Advisor: Betts

Schewe, George J.

“A Climatology of Inversions”

Advisor: Reiter

Albrecht, Bruce A.

“The Large Scale Response of the Tropical Atmosphere with Radiative Heating”

Advisor: Cox

Belculfine, Ulysses

Plan B

Advisor: Reiter

Cole, Harold Lee

“The Effects of Aerosols on Atmospheric Radiation”

Advisor: Marlatt

Grover, Ralph Wayne

“Characteristics of Tropical Squall-Lines Over Land”

Advisor: Betts

Haines, Robert S.

“Poisoning of Silver Iodide Ice-Nucleants”

Advisor: Corrin

Henz, John Francis

“Colorado High Plains Thunderstorm Systems”

Advisor: Grant

Logan, Gregory Lewis

Plan B

Advisor: Corrin

Loranger, David Clark

“Convective Ring Structures in the Tropics”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Macdonald, Bruce C.

“Stratospheric Flow and Solar Variability”

Advisor: Reiter

Moore, Douglas Alan

“Diagnostic Tests of Models for the Thermal Structure of the Non-Precipitating Convective Boundary Layer”

Advisor: Betts

Mueller, Gerald Harvey

“Hydrophobed Silica-Ice Nucleants”

Advisor: Corrin

Ramos, Rodolpho P.L.

“Characteristics of the Precipitation of Northeast Brazil”

Advisor: Gray

Sagert, Peter G.

“The Tall Stack”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Youngblood, Phillip L.

Plan B

Advisor: Corrin

Abbe Jr., Robert Fred

“Spectra of Atmospheric Motions on the Upper-Troposphere and Lower-Stratosphere over North America and Australia”

Advisor: Reiter

Clark, Wayne E.

“Analysis of Point Seeding Pyrotechnics”

Advisor: Sinclair

Dahl, David A.

“The Washout of Atmospheric Lead”

Advisor: Corrin

Dugan, Frank J.

“Convective Changes in Heat and Moisture Structure of the Cumulus Sub-Cloud Layer. The Thermodynamic Structure of the Cumulus Subcloud Layer”

Advisor: Betts

Durham, Richard

“Warm Cumulus Cloud Seeding Potential”

Advisor: Grant

Fleming, James Rodger

“Radiative Effects of Cirrus Clouds”

Advisor: Cox

Frank, William M.

“Characteristics of Carbon Black Dust as a Scale Tropospheric Heat Source”

Advisor: Gray

Maddox, Robert Alan

“A Study of Tornado Proximity Data and an Observationally Derived Model of Tornado Genesis”

Advisor: Gray

Nelson, Donald W.

“PPM Level Gas-Particulate Interactions”

Advisor: Corrin

Novlan, David J.

“Hurricane Spawned Tornadoes”

Advisor: Gray

Puckett, William R.

“Weather Modification Climatology at Climax, Colorado”

Advisor: Grant

Reynolds, David W.

“The Effects of Solar Radiation Absorption in the Tropical Troposphere”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Turner, Charles P.

“The Infrared Emissivity of Water Vapor”

Advisor: Cox

Wetzel, Peter John

“The Eastern Colorado Hail Environment”

Advisor: Sinclair

Almeyda, Guillermo F.

“Grassland Climatology”

Advisor: Rasmussen

Cruz, Luis A.

“Venezuelan Rainstorms as Seen by Radar”

Advisor: Riehl

Downey, Patrick H.

“Solar Energy in the Atmosphere”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Ellis, James S.

“Applied Radiation Budget Measurements”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Mata, Martha

“Modeling Venezuelan Weather Systems”

Advisor: Riehl

Miller, H. Joe

“Real-Time Direct Read-Out Satellite Support to Meteorological Research Programs and Forecasting Units”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Pacheco, Pedro P.

“The Subcloud Layer of Venezuelan Storms”

Advisor: Riehl

Ramanathan, N.

“A Study of the Nongeotrophic Barotropic-Baroclinic Instability Problem. Ageostrophic Combined Instability Study”

Advisor: Baer

Rhea, John O.

“Interpreting Orographic Snowfall Patterns”

Advisor: Gray

Shea, Dennis J.

“The Structure and Dynamics of the Hurricane.s Inner Core Region”

Advisor: Gray

Sheaffer, John D.

“Lithium Doped Silver Iodine Studies”

Advisor: Corrin

Sundararajan, A.

“Surface Pressure Analysis in the Tropics”

Advisor: Riehl

Vardiman, Larry

“Ice Crystal Multiplication in Convective Elements of Winter Orographic Clouds”

Advisor: Grant

Balick, Lee K.

“A Study of Orographic Clouds”

Advisor: Rasmussen

Heikes, Kenneth

“Steady Convection in Stratifies Fluid”

Advisor: Cox

Kamm, William J.

Plan B

Advisor: Baer

Matthews, David A.

“Effects of Raindrop Spectra on a Cumulus Model”

Advisor: Grant

Oliver, John W.

Plan B

Advisor: Grant

Sandberg, Peter S.

“Water-Structuring Dopants in AgI”

Advisor: Corrin

Sikula, Gerald J.

“ATS III Data as a Forecasting Aid”

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Taylor, Elden C.

Plan B

Advisor: Vonder Haar

Bertolin, Gary Eugene

“A Climatology of the Pawnee National Grassland”

Advisor: Rasmussen

Brown, Stanley R.

“Terminal Velocities of Ice Crystals”

Advisor: Grant

Cotton, Austin Gay

“Satellite Observations of Momentum Surge”

Advisor: Reiter

Cress, Ted Seth

“Factors in Warm Fog Dissipation”

Advisor: Corrin

Hablutzel, Benjamin

“Crossed Bea, Wind Measuring Techniques”

Advisor: Reiter

Hadley, Donald Lee

“Precipitation Patterns in a Cyclone”

Advisor: Rasmussen

Hjermstad, Lawrence Marvin

“The Influence of Meteorological Parameters on the Distribution of Precipitation Across Central Colorado Mountains”

Advisor: Grant

Kininmonth, William Robert

“Weather Disturbances over Tropical Continents and Their Effects on Ground Conditions. Thermal Modification of the Troposphere due to Convective Interactions”

Advisor: Riehl

Parisi, John Thomas

“Properties of Orographic Clouds”

Advisor: Rasmussen

Robitaille, Francis E.

“Some Aspects of Wet and Dry Middle-Level Cyclones over Southeast Asia ”

Advisor: Riehl

Sopka, R.J.

“Remote Infrared Detection of Uranium Ore Bodies”

Advisor: Marlatt

Stankov, Borislava V.

“Variation of Turbulence Characteristics”

Advisor: Reiter

Williams, Knox Tacquard

“A Statistical Analysis of Trade Wind Clouds Clusters in the Western North Pacific”

Advisor: Gray

Anthony, John Thomas

Plan B

Advisor: Gray

Dankwa, Joseph B.

“Some Aspects of Precipitation Occurring in Summer Disturbances Over Southeast Asia”

Advisor: Riehl

Fischer, Robert E.

“Remote Sensing of Hail and Hail Growth in Convective Clouds”

Advisor: Sinclair

Fritsch, J. Michael

“Objective Analysis of a Two Dimensional Data Field by the Cubic Spline Technique”

Advisor: Rao

LaDochy, Stephen E.

Plan B

Advisor: Riehl

Modahl, Alf C.

“The Influence of Vertical Wind Shear on Hailstorm Development and Structure”

Advisor: Sinclair

Pann, Yunn

Plan B

Advisor: Marlatt

Reeser, Warner K.

“Haze Distributions in the Troposphere”

Advisor: Marlatt

Renne, David S.

“Stability and Dynamic Processes in the Formation of High Plains Hailstorms”

Advisor: Sinclair

Rubenacker, J.

Plan B

Advisor: Rasmussen

Wills, Thomas G.

“Characteristics of the Tornado Environment as Deduced from Proximity Soundings”

Advisor: Gray

Zimmerman, Carl Scott

Plan B

Advisor: Rao

Barchet, William R.

“The Sessile Drop as a Heterogeneous Nucleation Embryo”

Advisor: Corrin

Black, Robert E.

“Blizzards on the North Central Plains”

Advisor: Marlatt

Chappell, Charles F.

“Cloud Seeding Opportunity Recognition”

Advisor: Grant

Ehrman, William D.

“Wintertime Eastern Colorado Airflow”

Advisor: Bean

Grossman, Robert L.

“An Investigation of Water Surface Temperature by an Airborne Infrared Radiometer”

Advisor: Marlatt

Lopez, Raul E.

“Investigation of the Importance of Cumulus Convection and Ventilation in Early Tropical Storm Development”

Advisor: Gray

Reeder, Frank D.

Plan B

Advisor: Marlatt

Sartor, James W.

“Monthly climatological wind fields associated with tropical storm genesis in the West Indies”

Advisor: Gray

Wachtmann, Ronald F.

“Role of Angular Momentum Transports in Tropical Storm Dissipation Over Tropical Oceans”

Advisor: Gray

Walts, Dennis S.

“Transport Processes During Stratospheric Warming and Cooling Episodes”

Advisor: Reiter

Yeatman, Raymond T.

Plan B

Advisor: Marlatt

Djordjevic, Nenad

“Denver Air Pollution Study with Air Trajectories”

Advisor: Reiter

Finklin, Arnold I.

“Precipitation and Runoff Characteristics of the Sacramento Basin”

Advisor: Marlatt

Furman, William R.

“Radar Characteristics of Wintertime Storms in the Colorado Rockies”

Advisor: Grant

Hindman, Edward E.

“Snow Crystal and Ice Nuclei Concentrations on Orographic Snowfall”

Advisor: Grant

Mendenhall, Bruce R.

“A Statistical Study of Frictional Wind Veering in the Planetary Boundary Layer”

Advisor: Gray

Rainbird, Allan F.

“Some Hydrometeorological Aspects of Flood Flows in the Lower Mekong River, Southeast Asia”

Advisor: Marlatt

Beran, Donald W.

“Large Amplitude Lee Waves and Chinook Winds”

Advisor: Reiter

Connell, James R.

“A Transient State of a Wave in the Easterlies”

Advisor: Riehl

Figgins, Everett D.

“Weather Pattern Recognition from TIROS Pictures Over Southeast Asia”

Advisor: Riehl

Anderson, Alan C.

Plan B

Advisor: Marlatt

Auer, August H.

“The Vertical Distribution of Aitken Nuclei in the Vicinity of Fort Collins, Colorado”

Advisor: Schleusener

Davis, William E.

Plan B

Advisor: Reiter

Smith, Boyce M.

Plan B

Advisor: Riehl

Stephens, Charles P.

Plan B

Advisor: Riehl

Bergen, James D.

“The Thermal Regime of a Mountain Snow Cover”

Advisor: Marlatt

Mahlman, Jerry D.

“Relation of Stratospheric-Tropospheric Mass Exchange Mechanisms to Surface Radioactivity Peaks”

Advisor: Reiter

Rasmussen, James

“Some Aspects of the Monthly Atmospheric Circulation Affecting Monthly Precipitation Over the Colorado River Basin”

Advisor: Riehl

Butler, Calvin C.

Plan B

Advisor: Riehl

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