Current Courses
Spring 2025
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ATMOS 5310-001
Physical Meteorology -
ATMOS 5810-004
Experiential Learning II -
ATMOS 6910-004
Grad/Special Topics
Fall 2024
Summer 2024
Entrepreneurial Experience
- Particle Flux Analytics.
08/01/2015 - present.
Employees: 3.
Comments: Company dedicated to the development, manufacture, and sale of hydrometeor measurement technologies. Recipient of numerous patents and STTR and SBIR awards.
Professional Organizations
- American Geophysical Union. 01/01/1998 - present. Position : Member.
- American Meteorological Society. 01/01/1998 - present. Position : Member.
Courses I Teach
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Atmos 5130
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Physical Meteorology I: Thermodynamics
Thermodynamics of dry and moist air, including diabatic and adiabatic processes, parcel theory, stability, heat engines and thermodynamic diagrams -
Atmos 5140
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Physical Meteorology II: Atmospheric Radiation
Solar and infrared radiative transfer in the atmosphere, and the greenhouse effect. -
Atmos 5200
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Physical Meteorology III: Cloud Physics
Aerosol production and removal, cloud and precipitation formation, mixing and turbulence. -
Atmos 6020
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Atmospheric Radiation
Theory of solar and infrared radiation; fundamentals of energy balance and climate models; parameterization of infrared and solar-flux transfer in clear, aerosol, and cloudy atmospheres; climate perturbations due to greenhouse gases, aerosols and clouds. -
Atmos 6020
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Fundamentals of Physical Meteorology
Overview of fundamental physical processes in the atmospheric sciences. Topics include thermodynamics, radiative transfer, and cloud microphysics. -
Atmos 6300
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Advanced Cloud Physics
Nucleation and growth of water and ice particles in clouds; precipitation production; aerosol-cloud-climate interactions; dynamics of stratiform and cumuliform clouds.