This thesis presents the studies that I have conducted on a most fundamental step in satellite remote sensing---cloud detection, which has been known as the largest source of error in the retrievals of satellite geophysical ...

Accurate short-term wind speed forecasts for utility-scale wind farms will be crucial for the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) goal of providing 20% of total power from wind by 2030. For typical pitch-controlled wind ...

Although nocturnal convection is frequently observed, the mechanisms that allow nocturnal mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) to persist are still not well understood. On 9 August 2014 at approximately 2000 UTC, a regime ...

More than 200 hours of Na density, wind and temperature observations in the mesopause region (80--105 km) were obtained at the Starfire Optical Range (35°N, 106.5°W), NM during 94--95 period and 98--99 period. The ...

A planetary wave model which is symmetric about the equator has been developed using the linear balance set of equations. The model is formulated on a sphere and spectrally truncated to 4 zonal and 7 meridional modes. There ...

To understand and predict the strength of mesoscale lake-effect circulations a simple function, called the lake-effect intensity index, was developed using the dimensional analysis technique. The intensity index was found ...

Data from airborne W-band radar along with Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model thermodynamic fields and air-parcel back trajectories from the HYSPLIT model are used to determine causes of finescale features of a ...

This study examines the effect that Lake Erie, and its corresponding marine boundary layer (MBL), have on pre-existing convective storms which propagate over the water surface. To do this, data collected from the 2001-2007 ...

During the 2017 & 2018 Observations of Aerosols Above Clouds and their Interactions (ORACLES) field campaign, the NASA P3-Orion was equipped with a 2D-Stereo (2D-S) probe that contains 128 diodes that are 10 µm in size ...

The Tambora Project reconstructs on a global scale the most destructive episode of abrupt climate change in the modern historical record. The volcanic sulfate veil produced by the Tambora eruption in the period 1815-18 ...