Past Seminars

11/16/18 - Hristo Chipilski and Sam Degelia: Assimilation of Boundary Layer Profilers: Implications for the Prediction of Nocturnal Convection Initiation and Atmospheric Bores

11/09/18- Qingyo Wang: Atmospheric Variations in Column Integrated CO2 on Synoptic and Seasonal Time Scale over the U.S.

11/02/18 - John D'Alessandro: Phase partitioning of Southern Ocean boundary layer clouds: comparisons of airborne in situ measurements and CAM5 simulations

10/19/18 - Dr. Scott Salesky: Large-scale motions in convective boundary layers: effects of buoyancy and implications for land-atmosphere interactions

09/07/18 - Dr. Alan Shapiro: An analytical model of an urban heat island circulation in calm conditions

04/27/18 - Tyler Bell: Analysis of Flow and Thermodynamic Characteristics at a Complex Site

04/20/18 - Joshua Gebauer: Determining the Optimal Smoothing Parameter for Spatially Variable Advection Correction

04/13/18 - Dylan Reif: An investigation of initiation mechanisms of nocturnal convection using WRF

04/06/18 - Ryann Wakefield: A 16-year Observational Study of Land Atmosphere Coupling in Oklahoma Using Oklahoma Mesonet and North American Regional Reanalysis Data

03/30/18 - Brian Greene: Boundary Layer Profiling Using Rotary-Wing Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Filling the Atmospheric Data Gap

03/12/18 - Dr. Haroldo Fraga de Campos Velho: Transition boundary layer modeling: decay and growth of the convective boundary layer

03/09/18 - Greg Blumberg: Demystifying the 6 o’clock Magic Phenomenon: Observations and Simulations of Water Vapor Changes During Sunset in the Southern Great Plains

01/26/18 - Dr. Howard Bluestein: On the Anomalous Counterclockwise Turning of the Surface Wind with Time in the Plains of the United States

12/08/17 - Elizabeth Smith: Evolution of the nocturnal low-level jet and the nocturnal boundary layer during PECAN

12/01/17 - Dr. Nathan Dahl: Using High-Resolution Simulations to Quantify Errors in Radar Estimates of Tornado Intensity

11/28/17 - Dr. Dimitri Mironov: Turbulence Kinetic Energy - Scalar Variance Turbulence Parameterization Scheme for NWP Models

09/08/17 - Dr. Cedrick Ansorge: Scale-Dependence of MOST: Sampling Convergence and Surface-Layer Closure

04/28/17 - Jinxin Wang: Urban Heat Island in the Dallas-Fort Worth during Dry and Wet Summers: An Evaluation of Single-layer and Multi-layer Urban Canopy Models

04/21/17 - Elizabeth Smith: The Great Plains low-level jet during PECAN: observations, simulations, and ongoing analyses

04/14/17 - Kevin Haghi: Bores: Naughty by Nature

03/24/17 - Joshua Gebauer: Examining the cause of heterogeneous Great Plains low-level jets

03/24/17 - Larissa Reames: Influence of a Great Plains urban environment on a simulated supercell

03/10/17 - Greg Blumberg: Observations of Moisture Increases During the Southern Great Plains Afternoon to Evening Transition

12/09/16 - Dr. Mohammed Osman: Observation of water vapor turbulence profiles in stationary and well mixed convective boundary layers over the ARM Tropical Western Pacific site

11/18/16 - Hayden Mahan: In-Situ measurements and remotely sensed estimations of surface fluxes over the Southern Great Plains of the United States

09/16/16 - Dr. Nathan Dahl: Simulated near-surface behavior of tornado-like vortices in a Fiedler chamber with resolved turbulence

09/09/16 - Dr. Alan Shaprio: Ascent in a nocturnal low-level jet

05/05/16 - Brad Illsoton: Near Surface Atmospheric Impacts Resulting from a Developing Metropolitan Area

04/22/16 - Joshua Gebauer: The Role of the Nocturnal Low-Level Jet in Convection Initiation on 1-2 June 2015

04/15/16 - Jinxin Wang: A Study of Urban Heat Island Intensity Trends in the Dallas-Fort Worth Region during Wet and Dry Summers

04/01/16 - Greg Blumberg: Towards Understanding the Capabilities of High-Temporal Resolution Soundings in Convective Environments

03/25/16 - Dr. Sukanta Basu: Quasi-universal scaling of boundary-layer wind speeds in mesoscale regime

12/11/15 - Elizabeth Smith: WRF model study of the Great Plains low-level jet: effects of grid spacing and boundary layer parameterization

12/04/15 - Ethan Cook: Ekman Revisited: The case of the phantom PGF

11/06/15 - Dr. Phillip Chilson: CLOUD-MAP: Advancing Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics Through Unmanned Aerial Systems

10/15/15 - Dr. Jeremy Gibbs: Sensitivity of turbulence statistics in the lower portion of a numerically simulated stable boundary layer to parameters of the Deardorff subgrid turbulence closure model

09/18/15 - William Anderson: Large-eddy simulation of rough wall turbulence: effects of complex topography, evidence of inner-outer effects, and the role of turbulence in aeolian systems

08/26/15 - Cedrick Ansorge: Conditional analyses of the very stable boundary layer

05/06/15 - Paul Flanagan: The Dryline, Convective Initiation, and Rapid Evolution of Drought in Oklahoma During 2011

05/01/15 - William (Greg) Blumberg: Ground-Based Infrared Thermodynamic Sounders: A Fresh Look at the Enivornments Supporting Deep Convection

04/24/15 - Ethan Cook: A very basic model for velocity statistics of an Ekman-like neutral turbulent layer

04/10/15 - Jinxin Wang: Urban heat island of Dallas Fort-Worth during July 2011 North-Central Texas drought: WRF-SLUCM model verification and sensitivity study of UHI’s dependence on land-use category.

03/14/15 - Larissa Reames: Boundary Layer and Urban Scheme Performance for a nested 500m WRF simulation

03/07/15 - Jennifer Newman: Optimizing Lidar Scanning Strategies for Wind Energy Turbulence Measurements

01/16/15 - Dr. Alan Shapiro: A Unified Theory for the Great Plains Nocturnal Low-Level Jet

12/12/14 - Chiel van Heerwaarden: A comparison of heterogeneously heated convective boundary layers with fixed flux and fixed temperature boundary conditions

11/21/14 - Cedrick Ansorge: Study of Stabily Stratified Bounday Layers using Turbulent Ekman Flow

10/31/14 - Tim Bonin: Thermal and Turbulence Characteristics of the Southern Great Plains Nocturnal Boundary Layer

10/24/14 - Mike Buban: The formation of small-scale atmospheric vortices via horizontal shearing instability

10/17/14 - Dr. Alan Shapiro: On the lower boundary condition for pressure in numerical simulations of boundary layer flows driven by surface buoyancy variations

09/26/14 - Dr. Jeremy Gibbs: Step Brothers 2: Revisiting Surface Heat-Flux and Temperature Boundary Conditions in Models of Stably Stratified Boundary-Layer Flows

04/25/14 - Stephen Castleberry: Evaluation of a Microwave Radiometer Thermodynamic Retrieval Algorithm

04/18/14 - Charlotte Wainwright: Sampling the boundary layer with a sodar simulator

04/11/14 - Jinxin Wang: Urban effects on precipitation: a literature review and climatology study for Dallas-Fort Worth

04/04/14 - Kerstin Schaefer: Validation of the mesoscale transport and fluid model METRAS for Berlin based on a measurement campaign in summer 2012

03/28/14 - Nathan Anderson: Vertical Velocity Turbulence Profiles Measured by Two Horizontally Separated Doppler Lidars

02/21/14 - Larissa Reames: The WRF-simulated effects of the Oklahoma City urban area on its environment on the dynamics of a simulated supercell thunderstorm

02/14/14 - Dr. Alan Shapiro: New similarity model solutions for boundary-layer flows

01/31/14 - Dr. Petra Klein: Scaling of Mean Flow and Turbulence in the Urban Canopy Layer

01/17/14 - Jennifer Newman: Optimizing Lidar Scanning Strategies for Turbulence Measurements

12/2/13 - Dr. Robert M. Banta: Generalized Relationships in the Stable Boundary Layer Derived from High-Resolution Doppler Lidar and Instrumented Tower Data

11/15/13 - Subhashree Mishra: Raman Lidar Observations from the ARM Site in Darwin, Australia: A Water Vapor and Aerosol Climatology

11/08/13 - Kodi Monroe: Sensitivity of the modeled urban heat island to rooftop parameters

11/01/13 - Nathan Anderson: Vertical Velocity Turbulence Profiles Measured by Two Horizontally Separated Doppler Lidars

10/07/13 - Dr. Tristan Quaife: Integrating satellite data with models of the land surface

10/04/13 - Hayden Mahan: Impacts of Vegetation and Precipitation on Throughfall Heterogeneity in a Tropical Pre-Montane Transitional Cloud Forest

09/06/13 - Dr. Alan Shapiro: A Boundary-Layer Scaling for Turbulent Katabatic Flow

05/03/13 - Jennifer Newman: Using Ground-Based Measurements to Improve Wind Power Forecasts

04/19/13 - Greg Blumberg: Developing a Statistical Thermodynamic Retrieval for Ground-Based Infrared Spectrometers

04/05/13 - Tim Bonin: Observed Characteristics of Low-Level Jets During the Lower Atmospheric Boundary Layer Experiment

03/08/13 - Charlotte Wainwright: Virtually Sampling the Developing Boundary Layer

02/08/13 - Xiaoming Hu: Simulations of thet Low-Level Jet with WRF

01/25/13 - Dr. Petra Klein: Impact of the Low-Level Jet on Urban Heat Island Intensity and Nocturnal Ozone Concentrations in OKC