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Climate Dynamics Alumni

Climate Dynamics Alumni

 

Alumni Names

[Doctoral Dissertation Title, and Post-Graduate Affiliation(where known)]

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Hay-Chapman, Finley(2025):
"Analyzing the Role of Land-Atmosphere Coupling Sensitivity and Subgrid Spatial Heterogeneity in Earthsystem Models"
Affiliation: GMU-Graduate Research Assistant

Knapp, Scott (2025):
"Sea Surface Temperature Gradients of the Pacific in Warm Climates"

Korendyke, Mary (2025):
"Holistic Forecasting of z500: A Combined Oscillation-Regime Framework"
Affiliation: GMU-Graduate Research Assistant

Buchmann, Paul (2024):
"Identifying the Most Predictable Subseasonal Modes"
Affiliation: University of Wisconsin-Madison

Nezda, Douglas (2024):
"Separating Forced and Internal Variability in North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature"
Affiliation: GMU - Post-Doctoral Research

Gaal, Rachel (2023):
"The Role of Soil Moisture State on the Incidence of Summer Mesoscale Convective Systems in the U.S. Great Plains"
Affiliation: University of Miami

Huang, Kai (2023):
"Understanding MJO Propagation in Observations and Models"
Affiliation: NSF NCAR

Joshi, Janak (2023):
"Modeling and Predictability of Dust Storms and Atmospheric Dustiness over the Western United States"
Affiliation: NASA Goddard

Benson, David (2022):
"The role of land-atmosphere interactions in the improvement of heatwave prediction"
Affiliation: NOAA OAR

Gozdz, Olivia (2022):
"The Impact of Ocean Dynamics on Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature Variability"
Affifiliation: IDA

Hsu, Hsin (2022):
"Nonlinearity and Regimes in Global Soil Moisture-Surface Heat Flux Coupling"
Affifiliation: Princeton

Cicerone, Teresa (2020):
"The Sensitivity of the Tropical Atmosphere to Changes in Mixed-Layer Depth and Ocean Heat Flux Convergence Over the Indian Ocean"
Affiliation: EndoArmy

Al Fahad, Abdullah (2020):
"Influence of Tropical Diabatic Heating and Midlatitude Static Stability on Subtropical Anticyclones"
Affiliation: NASA Goddard

Kodama, Keri (2019):
"The El Nino-Southern Oscillation from an empirical adjusted energetics perspective"
Post-doctoral Research Scientist, George Mason U.

Elders, Akiko (2019):
"Atmospheric response to current and future Arctic sea ice loss and the impacts on the mid-latitudes in CESM-L"

Lybarger, Nick (2019):
"The effect of the Madden-Julian Oscillation on the energetics and prediction of El Nino-Southern Oscillation"
Postdoctoral Researcher, National Center for Atmospheric Research

Getzandanner, Ralph (2019):
"Mid-Latitude Regime Transitions"

Liang Yu (2019):
"Understanding the effects of thermal and momentum forcing on the Atlantic multidecadal variability"
Assistant Professor, Marine Meteorology and GIS Department, Dalian Maritime University, China

Norton, Holly (2018):
"Soil moisture memory (SMM) of karst and non-karst soils"
Postdoctoral Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Wu, Jiexia (2018):
"Drought demise quantification and attribution over CONUS"
Beijing Piesat Information Technology Co. Ltd

Scafonas, Mark (2018):
"The role of moisture in the sensitivity of baroclinic life cycles to warming conditions: a budget of wave activity"
Physics Lab Coordinator, Saint Joseph's University

Guangyang Fang (2018):
"The seasonal predictability of anomalous events of tropical Atlantic Variability"
Postdoctoral Researcher, ESSIC, University of Maryland

Wang, Zaiyu (2018):
"Understanding the role of coupling in climate simulations"
Postdoctoral Researcher, Second Institute of Oceanography, Hanzhou, China

Sara Amini (2018):
"The impact of large-scale circulation regimes on extreme weather over Pacific and North America"

Yadav, Priyanka (2018): 
"The character of the mid-latitude response to the fast and slow cycles of the Madden-Julian Oscillation heating"
Postdoctoral researcher, Dept of Geography, U. Delaware

Singh, Bohar (2017)
"Seasonality of the tropical intraseasonal oscillations: Sensitivity to mean background state"
Postdoctoral Researcher, Colorado State U

Srivastava, Abhishekh (2017):
"Decadal predictability in climate models with and without interactive ocean dynamics"
U California, Davis

Jin, Yan (2016):
"Simulation of the East Asian Summer Monsoon (EASM) in SP-CCSM4 under Present and Future Climate Conditions"
George Mason University, AOES

Feng, Xuelei (2016):
"Understanding of global climate variability and climate changes in high-resolution GCM simulations"
Texas A & M University – Corpus Christi

LaJoie, Emerson (2016):
"Projected Changes in Internal Variability for Temperature and Precipitation: New Field Significance Tests"
Atmospheric Scientist, Climate Prediction Center NOAA Affiliate – Innovim, Inc.

Xiaoqin Yan (2016):
"Detecting Anthropogenic Aerosol Cooling in Models and Observations
Princeton/NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

Garuba, Oluwayemi (2015):
"Mechanisms of Ocean Heat Uptake"
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Palipane, Erool (2015):
"Atmospheric General Circulation Changes under Global Warming"
Postdoctoral Scholar, U. California, Davis, Dept. of Land, Air and Water Resources.

Badger, Andrew (2015):
"The Role of Large-Scale Land-Use Change on the Global Climate Response and Sensitivity to Amazon Deforestation"
Research Associate, CIRES (NOAA and University of Colorado Boulder)

Stofferahn, Eric (2015):
"Investigation of Aerosol Effects on the Arctic Surface Temperature During the Diurnal Cycle"
NASA Jet Propulsion Lab

Colfescu, Ioana (2014): 
"Attribution of Atlantic Multidecadal Variability to External Forcing, Internal Variability, and Weather Noise"
Research Scientist, Leeds University (UK) National Centre for Atmospheric Science

Hazra, Abheera (2013):
"Seasonal Variations of Tropical Intraseasonal Oscillations"
Post-doctoral associate, University of California, Santa Barbara

Chen, Hua (2013):
"Mechanisms of the Internally Generated Decadal-to-Multidecadal Variability in the Atlantic"
The equivalent of assistant professor, Department of Climate Change, School of Atmospheric Science, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology

Nattala, Jyothi (2013):
"El Niño and the Southern Oscillation in Parameterized" & "Super-Parameterized Coupled General Circulation Models"
Senior Research Scientist, SAIC and NASA GSFC GMAO

Swenson, Erik (2012):
“The role of sub-seasonal tropical convective variability for the extratropical response to ENSO”
Post-doctoral Associate, George Mason University, AOES

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”
NOAA/GFDL

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”
NASA GSFC

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

Pegion, Kathy (2007):
“Potential Predictability of Tropical Intraseasonal Variability in the NCEP Climate Forecast System”
Assistant Professor, George Mason University, AOES

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, Currently University of Trieste

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

Anderson, Whit (2004):
“Oceanic Sill-Overflow Systems: Investigation and Simulation with the Poseidon Ocean General Circulation Model”
NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ

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

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”
NSF

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