Current Courses

Professional Organizations

• Royal Meteorological Society. 01/01/1997 - present. Position : Fellow (2010).
• American Geophysical Union. 01/01/1997 - present. Position : Member.
• American Meteorological Societ. 01/01/1994 - present. Position : Fellow (2019).

Teaching Philosophy

Courses I Teach

• ATMOS 5000 - Atmospheric Sciences   (http://www.inscc.utah.edu/~pu/5000_new/5000.html)
  This course offers an intermediate-level introduction to atmospheric sciences for both atmospheric science majors and other science and engineering majors. Topics include the structure of the atmosphere, atmospheric thermodynamics, cloud physics, radiative transfer, and atmospheric dynamics. This course serves as the first in a series of theoretical and practical courses required to qualify as a meteorologist or atmospheric scientist. Students in related majors, such as Earth Environmental Sciences, chemistry, physics, biology, mathematics, and engineering, will also gain a comprehensive background in atmospheric sciences from this class.
• ATMOS 5100 - Atmospheric Dynamics   (http://www.inscc.utah.edu/~pu/dynamic.htm)
  Introduction to atmospheric fluid dynamics, including fundamental forces, conservation laws, governing equations, circulation and vorticity.
• ATMOS 6500/5500 - Numerical Weather Prediction   (http://www.inscc.utah.edu/~u0439327/6500.htm)
  Solid foundation in atmospheric modeling and numerical weather prediction: numerical methods for partial differential equations, an introduction to physical parameterizations, modern data assimilation, and predictability.
• ATMOS 6910/7910 - Graduate Special Topics
  - Individual or Group study on the following topics: 1) Advanced data assimilation 2) Ensemble forecasting and Predictability 3) Extreme weather systems 4) Mesoscale dynamics, modeling, and predictability 5) Observing system simulation experiments 6) Big data and machine learning 7) Land-Atmosphere coupling and data assimilation 8) Boundary layer and parameterization