Alumni

Climate Dynamics Doctoral Alumni

The Climate Dynamics Program has had an exceptional record in placing graduating students in top posts of research and research administration. We welcome alumni to contact Barry Klinger with news of recent accomplishments and to visit this page to keep in touch.

Alumni Names, Dissertation Titles, and Post-Graduate Affiliation

Swenson, Erik (2012)
"The role of sub-seasonal tropical convective variability for the extratropical response to ENSO"
Researcher, APEC Climate Center, Republic of Korea

Krishnamurthy, Lakshmi (2012)
"Influence of decadal variability of global oceans on South Asian monsoon and ENSO-monsoon relation"
COLA (till January 2013); NOAA/GFDL (UCAR Fellow)

Li, Jian (2011)
"SST diurnal variability and its influence on the tropical atmospheric intraseasonal variability"
George Mason U. GGS Dept and NOAA/NESDIS

Arsenault, Kristi (2011)
"Impact of Model and Observation Error on Assimilating Snow Cover Fraction Observations"
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Jang, Youkyoung (2011)
"The Atmospheric Influence of Tropical Diabatic Heating Associated with Developing ENSO on Indian Monsoon"
Florida International University

Jia, Liwei (2011)
"Robust Predictability of Regional Climate Change"
COLA

Xu, Li (2011)
"Snow-Atmosphere Coupling Strength and its Contribution to Climate Predictability"
COLA

Cruz, Carlos (2010)
"Global Circulation Variability Induced by Southern Ocean Winds Goddard Space Flight Center/Northrup Grumman Corp.

Feng, Xia (2010)
"Identifying the Predictability of Water cycle by Detecting and Attributing Variability and Change"
George Mason University

Narapusetty, Balachandrudu (2010)
"Impact of Tropical Instability Waves on Atmospheric Boundary Layer"
COLA

Achuthavarier, Deepthi (2009)
"Role of the Indian and Pacific Oceans in the Indian Summer Monsoon Variability"
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Pan, Xiaohua (2009)
"The Influence of Mean Climate on the ENSO Simulation and Predictability"
Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology Center, U. Maryland Baltimore County

Fan, Meizhu (2008)
"Low Frequency Climate Variability in the North Atlantic: Stochastic Forcing and Coupled Response"
NOAA NESDIS

Jin, Daeho (2008)
"The Impact of Perfectly Periodic ENSO on the Extratropics"
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Miami, Miami, FL
http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/climate/

Pegion, Kathy (2007)
"Potential Predictability of Tropical Intraseasonal Variability in the NCEP Climate Forecast System"
Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, Calverton, MD
Currently at CIRES/University of Colorado and NOAA/ESRL/PSD

Feudale, Laura (2006)
"Large Scale Extreme Events in Surface Temperature During 1950-2003; An Observational and Modeling Study"
Physics of Weather and Climate Group, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy
http://users.ictp.it/~feudale/

Burgman, Robert (2006)
"Model Studies of ENSO Decadal Variability"
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Miami, Miami, FL
Currently Assistant Professor, Florida International University

Bates, Susan (2006)
"The Role of the Annual Cycle in Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Variability in the Tropical Atlantic Ocean"
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Currently NCAR, Ocean Model Working Group Science Liaison

Vikhliaev, Yuri (2005)
"The Role of Ocean Basin Modes in Excitation of North Pacific Decadal Variability"
Global Modeling And Assimilation Office
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
http://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov

Anderson, Whit (2004)
"Oceanic Sill-Overflow Systems: Investigation and Simulation with the Poseidon Ocean General Circulation Model"
NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ
http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/whit-anderson-homepage

Manganello, Julia (2004)
"The Influence of Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies on Low-Frequency Variability of the North Atlantic Oscillation"
Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, Calverton, MD
Personnel Page

Verona, Mary Ellen (2002)
"The role of Westerly Wind Bursts in the Development of El Nino"
Deceased

Bamzai, Anjuli (1997)
"Observational and Modeling Study of Snow and Its Relation to the Indian Summer Monsoon"
Program Manager, Climate Change Prediction Program, Department of Energy
http://www.er.doe.gov/OBER/CCRD/model.html