Geerts Research Group

Current graduate students

Xia Chu, PhD, is working on LES simulations of glaciogenic seeding of winter orographic clouds.

Binod Pokharel, PhD, is working on the validation of the impact of cloud seeding using ASCII data.

Xiaoqing Jing, MSc, is working on DOW data collected during ASCII, with a focus on the seeding impact.

Phil Bergmaier, MSc, is working on a case study and climatology of a dryline in Wyoming.

Tim Nicholson, MSc, will be working on OWLeS WCR data.

from left to right: Yang Yang, Yonggang Wang, Xin Zhou, Qun Miao, Ryan Peterman, and Bart Geerts

PhD projects completed

Yonggang Wang, PhD, May 12: An Observational Study of the Processes of Entrainment and Detrainment of Cumulus Clouds using In Situ and Airborne Cloud Radar Data. Currently he is a Post-doc in our group.
Thomas Andretta, PhD, Aug. '11: Forcing, Properties, Structure, and Antecedent Synoptic Climatology of the Snake River Plain Convergence Zone of Eastern Idaho: Analyses of Observations and Numerical Simulations.
Cory Demko, PhD Dec '09: Interaction of cumulus convection with the topographically-controlled mesoscale circulation (CuPIDO) (webpage). Currently employed by a DoD contractor in Virginia, USA.
Qun Miao, PhD, Nov '06: Structure and dynamics of the convective boundary layer; convective initiation during IHOP. Currently he is Assoc. Prof., Department of Applied Mathematics, Ningbo University, PR China.

MSc projects completed

Yang Yang, MSc, Aug '13: Snow transport patterns in orographic storms as estimated from airborne vertical-plane dual-Doppler radar data.
Xia Chu, MSc, June '13: Cloud-resolving Large Eddy Simulations of the impact of AgI nuclei dispersed from the ground on orographic clouds and precipitation: model validation. Currently she is a PhD student in our group.
Xin Zhou, MSc, May '13: The influence of soil moisture on the planetary boundary layer and on cumulus convection over an isolated mountain: observations and numerical simulations. At this time he is a PhD student at the SUNY Stony Brook
Ben Sipprell, MSc, Dec 05: Fine-scale observations and dynamical interpretation of convective initiation during IHOP. Currently he is the SOO at the NWSRO in Boston MA, USA.
Yang Qiong, MSc, Aug '05: Characterization of thermals and cloud streets in the convective boundary layer over Lake Michigan. Currently she is a PhD student in Atmospheric Science at the University of Washington.
Teferi Dejene, MSc, May '04: Regional and diurnal variability of the vertical structure of precipitation systems in Africa, based on spaceborne radar data. Teferi obtained a PhD in Geophysics at the University of Trondheim in Norway in 2012.
Tim Trudel, MSc, Dec '03: Mesoscale analysis of the May 24 cold front and convective initiation during IHOP. Currently Tim is a NWS forecaster in Cheyenne WY, USA.
Wang Jingyun, MSc, Dec '02: Identifying drizzle within marine stratus with W-band radar reflectivity profiles. She obtained a PhD in Geography from Boston University in 2008 and currently is employed at EQECAT, Inc., an ABS Group Company in Oakland CA, as a research scientist modeling natural hazards
Yu Dawei, MSc, Aug '02: Classification and characterization of tropical precipitation based on high-resolution airborne vertical-incidence radar. Yu returned to PR China.