Doctoral Students

For more information about PhD Programs, see Climate Dynamics Doctoral Program and Earth Science Graduate Program.

The Chandran J. Shukla Fellowship is an endowed fund for academic assistance to Climate Dynamics students.

Abdullah al Fahad 
The Influence of Tropical Diabatic Heating and Midlatitude Static Stability on Subtropical Anticyclones

Teresa Cicerone
The Impact of Air-Sea Interactions in the Indian Ocean on MJO Initiation

Ralph Getzandanner (2019)
Mid-Latitude Regime Transitions

Keri Kodama (2019)
Using satellite data and climate simulations to evaluate wind power as an El Nino predictor and the state dependence of Easterly Wind Bursts

Nick Lybarger (2019)
The Effect of the Madden-Julian Oscillation on the Energetics of El Niño

Jiexia Wu (2018)
A new framework for attributing causes of drought demise over CONUS

Amini, Sara (2018)
The Impact of Large-Scale Circulation Regimes on Extreme Weather Over Pacific and North America

Akiko Elders (2019)
Atmospheric Response to Current and Future Arctic Sea ice loss and the Impacts on the Mid-latitudes in CESM-LE

Liang Yu (2019)
Understanding the effects of thermal and momentum forcing on the Atlantic multidecadal variability

Guangyang Fang (2018)
The Seasonal Predictability of Anomalous Events of Tropical Atlantic Variability

Zaiyu Wang (2018)
Understanding the Role of Coupling in Climate Simulations

Priyanka Yadav (2018)
Predictability of Mid-Latitude Circulation due to Interactions with the Madden Julian Oscillation

Mark Scafonas
The Role of Moisture in the Sensitivity of Baroclinic Life Cylec to Warming Conditions

Bohar Singh (2017)
Seasonality of the Tropical Intraseasonal Oscillations: Sensitivity to Mean Background State

Xuelei Feng (2016)
Understanding of global climate variability and climate changes in high-resolution GCM simulations

Emerson LaJoie (2016)
Projected Changes in Internal Variability for Temperature and Precipitation: New Field Significance Tests

Yan Jin (2016)
Simulation of the East Asian Summer Monsoon (EASM) in SP-CCSM4 under Present and Future Climate Conditions

Xiaoqin Yan (2016)
Detecting Anthropogenic Aerosol Cooling in Models and Observations

For all past Climate Dynamics thesis titles, see the Alumni page.