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The current affiliations of COAPS alumni, if known, are listed after their project titles.

PhD Projects

Beal, Rebecca Lynn (Becca), 2021, Changes in Equatorial Atlantic Ocean Surface Wind Patterns Associated with a Climate Index Based on Historical Ship Observations.
Folsom, Camill, 2019, Shipboard Automated Meteorological and Oceanographic System: Merger Program Re-Write
Ahern, Kyle, 2019, Hurricane Boundary Layer Structure During Intensity Change: An Observational and Numerical Analysis
Groenen, Danielle, 2019, Diagnosing the Atmospheric Phenomena Associated with the Onset and Demise of the Rainy Season in Mesoamerica
Steffan, John, 2018, Barrier Layer Development Local to Tropical Cyclones
Bhatrasataponkul, Tachanat, 2018, The Origin of the North Atlantic Clod Blob Revisited.
Olvero-Prado. Erick (2018), Contribution of the wind and Loop Current Eddies to the circulation in the western Gulf of Mexico
Chen, Xu (2018) Two-Way Feedback between Air-Sea Turbulent Fluxes and Oceanic Submesoscale Processes
Glazer, Russ (2018), Ice versus Liquid Water Saturation in Regional Climate Simulations of the Indian Summer Monsoon
Shi, Qi, 2017, Coupling ocean currents and waves with wind stress over the Gulf Stream.
Sun, Ji, 2017, Dynamics-based analysis of tropical waves.
Holbach, Heather, 2016, Wave and Wind Direction Effects on Ocean Surface Emissivity Measurements in High Wind Conditions.
Weihs, Rachel, 2016, Surface and Atmospheric Boundary Layer Responses to Diurnal Variations in Sea Surface Temperature in an NWP Model.
Selman, Christopher, 2015, Simulating the impacts and sensitivity of the southeastern United States climatology to irrigation.
Hughes, Paul, 2014, The influence of small-scale sea surface temperature gradients on surface vector winds and subsequent impacts on oceanic Ekman pumping.
Michael, J-P, 2014, On initializing CGCMs for seasonal predictability of ENSO.
Paget, Aaron, 2013, Important contributing factors for estimating the active and total whitecap coverage globally using satellite-derived parameters.
Todd, Austin, 2013, Circulation dynamics and larval transport mechanisms in the Florida Big Bend.
Boisserie, Marie, 2010, Generation of an empirical soil moisture initialization and its potential impact on subseasonal forecasting skill of continental precipitation and air temperature — CNRM/GAME (MeteoFrance/CNRS), Toulouse, France (as of 3/29/10).
Gouillon, Flavien, 2010, Internal wave propagation and numerically induced diapycnal mixing in oceanic general circulation models — Service Hydrographique et Océanographique de la Marine, France (as of 12/2/12).
Guimond, Steve, 2010, Tropical Cyclone Inner-Core Dynamics: A Latent Heat Retrieval and its Effects on Intensity and Structure Change; and the Impacts of Effective Diffusion on the Axisymmetrization Process.
Maue, Ryan, 2010, Warm seclusion extratropical cyclones — WeatherBELL Analytics, LLC, Monterey, CA (as of 7/2012).
Winterbottom, Henry, 2010, Impact of Ocean-Atmosphere Coupling and Vortex Initialization on Tropical Cyclone Prediction.
Maeda, Yoshie (Goto), 2008, Improved Vegetation Characterization and Freeze Statistics in a Regional Spectral Model for the Florida Citrus Farming Region — University of Tokyo, Japan (as of 10/6/09).
Brolley, Justin Michael, 2007, Effects of ENSO, NAO (PVO), and PDO on Monthly Extreme Temperature and Precipitation — EQECAT, California (as of 9/18/08).
Putman, William M., 2007, Development of the finite-volume dynamical core on the cubed-sphere.— NASA, Maryland (as of 9/18/08).
Yu, Peng, 2006, Development of new techniques for assimilating satellite altimetry data into ocean models— JPL, CA.
Arguez, Anthony, 2005, Indexing, mode definition, and signal extraction in climate research: Analysis and applications involving the MJO, the AO, and ENSO— NCDC, Asheville.
Samuelsen, Annette, 2005, Modeling the Effect of Eddies and Advection on the Lower Trophic Ecosystem in the Northeast Tropical Pacific— Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Norway (as of 9/18/08).
Kvaleberg, Eric, 2004, Generation of cold core filaments and eddies through Baroclinic instability on the continental shelf— Johns Hopkins.
Kara, A. Birol, 2003, A fine resolution hybrid coordinate ocean model with a new solar radiation penetration scheme— U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Mississippi (as of 9/18/08).
Arruda, Wilton Zumpichiatti, 2002, Eddies along western boundaries— Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) [Federal University of Rio de Janeiro], Brazil (as of 9/18/08).
Mask, Andrea, 2002, An open boundary condition for layer to level ocean model interaction— Naval Oceanographic Office, Mississippi (as of 9/18/08).
Mizoguchi, Ken-ichi, 2001, Quasi-decadal variations in the North Atlantic— Japan.
Zamudio-Lopez, Luis, 2001, Mesoscale variability along the southwest coast of Mexico induced by oceanic and atmospheric remote forcings— Naval Research Lab / COAPS, Mississippi (as of 9/18/08).
Leonardi, Alan P., 2000, Interannual variability in the eastern subtropical Pacific Ocean— National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML), Miami, FL (as of 9/20/10).
Tilburg, Charles Edward, 2000, Ocean dynamics around New Zealand— University of New England, Maine (as of 9/18/08).
Morey, Steven L., 1999, The spring transition of thermal stratification on a mid-latitude continental shelf— FSU COAPS, Tallahassee, FL.
Nunez, Rodrigo H., 1996, A study of the ocean circulation off the coast of Chile— Chilean Naval Officer.
Verschell, Mark Alan, 1996, Interannual variability of atmospheric carbon dioxide flux in the equatorial Pacific Ocean— Stay at home dad.
Liu, Ming, 1995, Variational assimilation of acoustic tomography (Pacific ocean).
Shriver, Jay Francis, 1993, Interdecadal variability of the equatorial pacific ocean and atmosphere: 1930-1989.
Kelly, Brian Gerard Joseph, 1992, On the generation and dispersion of Yanai waves with a spectral chebyshev-collocation reduced-gravity ocean-model.
Legler, David M., 1992, Analysis of air and sea physical properties and surface fluxes using a combination of in-situ and seasat data— NOAA Climate Program Office, Climate Observations Division, Silver Spring, MD (as of 3/10/11).
Yu, Lisan, 1992, Determining the surface heat flux distribution over the tropical pacific ocean by the adjoint method (sea temperature).
Yang, Jiayan, 1991, A coupled atmosphere-ocean model in the tropics with various climatological backgrounds (pacific ocean, El Nino).
McCalpin, John D., 1990, The design and implementation of a three-dimensional, primitive equation ocean circulation model— Advanced Micro Devices, Inc, Texas (as of 9/18/08).
Jensen, Tommy Gert, 1989, A Numerical study of the seasonal variability of the Somali current.
Smedstad, Ole Martin, 1989, Data assismilation and parameter estimation in oceanographic models.
Pares-Sierra, Alejandro, 1987, Interannual variability of the California current system: a numerical model— CICESE, Ensenada, Mexico (as of 9/22/08).
Barnier, Bernard, 1986, A numerical study on the influence of the Mid-Atlantic ridge on non-linear barotropic and first mode baroclinic Rossby waves generated by seasonal winds— Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France (as of 9/18/08).
Peggion, Germana, 1985, The effect of the benthic boundary layer on the physics of intense mesoscale eddies— University of New Orleans, Louisiana (as of 9/18/08).
Preller, Ruth H. , 1985, A numerical model study of circulation in the Alboran sea.
Hakkinen, S., 1984, Dynamics of the coupled ice-ocean system in the Marginal Ice Zone: Study of the mesoscale processes and of constitutive equations for sea ice.
Busalacchi, A. J., 1982, Wind-driven variability of the tropical Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
Rood, Richard Benton , 1982, Mechanisms of Stratospheric ozone transport.
Camerlengo, A., 1981, On the sub-Arctic front.
Heburn, G., 1981, A numerical model of coastal upwelling off Peru - including mixed layer dynamics.
Cushman-Roisin, B., 1980, Mixing, convection and advection in the upper ocean— Dartmouth College, New Hampshire (as of 9/18/08).
Grotjahn, R., 1979, The influence of thermal fronts upon the solutions of an analytical model of mid-latitude wave-cyclone.
Kindle, J. C., 1979, Equatorial Pacific Ocean variability--Seasonal and El Nino time scales.
Wroblewski, Joseph S., 1976, A model of the spatial structure and productivity of phytoplankton populations during variable upwelling off the coast of Oregon— Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada (as of 9/18/08).
Hurlburt, H. E., 1974, The influence of coastline geometry and bottom topography on the eastern ocean circulation.
Thompson, J. D., 1974, The coastal upwelling cycle on a beta- plane: hydrodynamics and thermodynamics.
Lee, John D., 1973, Numerical simulation of the planetary boundary layer over Barbados W.I.
Jacob Padro, 1971, Energy sources for some tropical waves.

Masters Projects

Shropshire, Taylor, 2019, Quantifying Spatiotemporal Variability in Zooplankton Dynamics in The Gulf of Mexico Using A Physical-Biogeochemical Model
Roman-Stork, Heather, 2018, Analysis of the 10–20-Day Intraseasonal Oscillation in the Indian Ocean Using Surface Winds from Composite Satellite Data
Stallard, Adam, 2017, Comparing SAMOS Document Search Performance Between Apache Solr and Neo4j.
Li, Keqiao, 2016, Adjustment of Visually Observed Ship Winds (Beaufort Winds) in ICOADS.
Ahern, Kyle, 2015, Analysis of polar mesocyclonic surface turbulent fluxes in the Arctic System Reanalysis (ASRv1) Dataset.
Clark, Matthew, 2015, Quantification of Stokes drift as a mechanism for surface oil advection in the Gulf of Mexico during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Glazer, Russell, 2014, The influence of mesoscale sea surface temperature gradients on tropical cyclones.
Nguyen, Tam, 2014, Variability of cross-slope flow in the Desoto Canyon region.
Dockery, Nkemderim, 2014, Enhanced Search and Vocabulary Access for the Shipboard Automated Meteorological and Oceanographic System (SAMOS) using the Semantic Web Stack.
Seitz, Chana, 2014, Estimating the effects of climate change on tropical cyclone activity.
Steffen, John, 2014, The effects of sea surface temperature gradients on surface turbulent fluxes.
Ahmed, Arsalan, 2013, Visualization of geo spatial data in real time.
Duncan, James, 2013, Atmospheric power law behavior across the Southeastern United States.
Nedbor-Gross, Robbie, 2013, Investigation of the relationship between the Yucatan Channel transport and the Loop Current area in a multi-decadal numerical simulation.
Collier, Cristina, 2012, Effects of sea state on offshore wind resource assessment — 3TIER, Seattle, WA (as of 06/2012).
Feng, Jiaxin, 2012, Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies off Baja California: A Possible Trigger for ENSO.
Holbach, Heather, 2012, The Effects of Gap-Wind-Induced Vorticity, the Monsoon Trough, and the ITCZ on Tropical Cyclogenesis — FSU COAPS, Tallahassee, FL (as of Fall 2012).
Montee, Geoff, 2012, SAMOS 2.0: High resolution meteorological and oceanographic data processing — US Department of Defense (as of 3/2012).
Selman, Christopher, 2012, Understanding the 21st century projection of the wet season over the southeastern United States.
Vickers, Grayum, 2012, An ingredients-based examination of U.S. severe tornado alleys using reanalysis data — NYC Teaching Fellows, New York, NY (as of 06/12).
Farmer, Benton, 2011, Evaluation of bulk heat fluxes from atmospheric datasets.
Frumkin, Adam, 2011, Predictability of Dry Season Reforecasts Over the Tropical South American Region.
Moeller, Lauren, 2011,Sea Breeze Variations in Florida.
Scott, Joel, 2011, An Intercomparison of Numerically Modeled Flux Data and Satellite-Derived Flux Data for Warm Seclusions.
Strazzo, Sarah, 2011, Low-Frequency Minimum Temperature Variability Throughout the Southeastern United States During the 1970s: Regime Shift or Phase Coincidence?.
Stroman, Ashley, 2011, The Rendition Of The Atlantic Warm Pool In Reanalyses.
Weihs, Rachel, 2011, Modeled Diurnally Varying Sea Surface Temperatures And Their Influence On Surface Heat Fluxes— FSU COAPS, Tallahassee, FL (as of 7/2/12).
DiNapoli, Steven, 2010, Determining the error characteristics of H*Wind— FSU COAPS, Tallahassee, FL (as of 12/2/12).
May, Jackie, 2010, Quantifying variance due to temporal and spatial difference between ship and satellite winds.
Michael, J-P, 2010, ENSO Fidelity in Two Coupled Models.
Pantina, Peter, 2010, Characterizing the Variability of the Indian Monsoon: Changes in Evaporative Sources for Summertime Rainfall Events.
Williams, Marcus, 2010, Characterizing multi-decadal temperature variability in the southeastern United States.
Griffin, Josh, 2009, Characterization of errors in various moisture roughness length parameterizations.
Keeling, Travis, 2009, Modified JMA ENSO Index and Its Improvements to ENSO Classification.
Lowry, Michael, 2009, Developing A Unified Superset In Quantifying Ambiguities Among Tropical Cyclone Best Track Data For The Western North Pacific.
Rettig, Jacob, 2009, SAMOS/NGI data management system— University of Maryland (as of 5/13).
Engelman, Mary Beth, 2008, A validation of the FSU/COAPS climate model— DOC/NOAA/NCEP/HPC, Virginia (as of 09/15/2008).
McBeth-Ford, Kelly, 2008, Uncertainty of Scatterometer-Derived Vorticity.
Moroni, D.F., 2008, A Global and Regional Diagnostic Comparison of Air-Sea Flux Parameterizations During Episodic Events.
Guimond, S.R., 2007, A diagnostic study of the effects of trough interactions on tropical cyclone QPF.
McDonald, Michael, 2007, Designing Reliable Large-Scale Storage Arrays— FSU COAPS, Tallahassee, FL (as of 9/18/08).
Bolinger (formerly Smith), Rebecca Anne, 2007, Trends in Maximum and Minimum Temperature Deciles in Select Regions of the United States— NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Ann Arbor, MI (as of 6/14).
Stewart, M. L., 2007, Cyclogenesis and Tropical Transition In Frontal Zones.
Briggs, K.R., 2006, ENSO Event Reproduction: A Comparison of an EOF vs. a Cyclostationary (CSEOF) Approach— FSU COAPS, Tallahassee, FL (as of 9/18/08).
Culin, Joanne Carol, 2006, Wintertime ENSO Variability in Wind Direction Across the Southeast United States— National Weather Service, Mississippi (as of 9/18/08).
Gierach, Michelle Marie (Hite), 2006, Vorticity-Based Detection of Tropical Cyclogenesis— University of Miami (as of 10/16/08).
Hughes, Paul J., 2006, North Atlantic Decadal Variability of Ocean Surface Fluxes— FSU COAPS, Tallahassee, FL (as of 9/18/08).
Petraitis, Dawn Christine, 2006, Long-Term ENSO-Related Winter Rainfall Predictions Over the Southeast U.S. Using the FSU Global Spectral Model— National Data Buoy Center (NDBC), Stennis Space Center, Mississippi (as of 10/21/10).
Taylor, Jeffrey, 2006, Comparison of ECMWF and QuikSCAT-Derived Surface Pressure Gradients— National Weather Service, South Carolina (as of 9/18/08).
Arrocha, Gloria, 2005, Variability of Intraseasonal Precipitation Extremes Associated with ENSO in Panama.
Banks, Robert F., 2005, Variability of Indian Ocean surface fluxes using a new objective method— Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands (as of 1/17).
Brolley, Justin Michael, 2004, Experimental Forest Fire Threat Forecast— EQECAT, California (as of 9/18/08).
Jones, Brian, 2004, Influence of Panamanian Wind Jets on the Southeast Intertropical Convergence Zone.
Lombardi, Khara , 2004, Resolving the Diurnal and Synoptic Variance of Scatterometer Vector Wind Observations— Working on PhD, Georgia Tech.
Maue, Ryan Nicholas, 2004, Evolution of Frontal Structure Associated with Extratropical Transitioning Hurricanes — WeatherBELL Analytics, LLC, Monterey, CA (as of 7/12)
Arguez, A., 2002, The relationship between low-frequency North Atlantic sea surface temperatures and Eastern North American climate.
Davis, S., 2002, Some impacts of SeaWinds data in numerical weather prediction— Univ. of Rhode Island.
Davis, Xujing Jia, 2002, Evaluation of wind products for forcing coastal ocean models— Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MA (as of 3/6/09).
Enloe, Jesse, 2002, ENSO impacts on peak wind gusts in the United States— National Climatic Data Center, North Carolina (as of 6/2/11).
Hilburn, Kyle, 2002, Development of scatterometer-derived research quality surface pressure fields for the Southern Ocean— Remote Sensing Systems, California (as of 9/18/08).
Parker, Carissa Tartaglione, 2002, Regional effects of ENSO on US hurricane landfalls— Johnson Controls, Florida (as of 9/18/08).
Phelps, M., 2002, Assessment of the potential predictability in the NCEP/CPC dynamical seasonal forecast system— Naval Research Lab, MS.
Salapata, D., 2002, Winter temperature and precipitation verification of a version of the NCEP MRF climate model— Univ. of Maryland.
Spade, Elizabeth Rebecca, 2001, The many faces of ENSO (El-Nino Southern Oscillation)— High School Teacher.
Bove, Mark Christopher, 2000, PDO Modification of U.S ENSO climate impacts— Munich Reinsurance America, New Jersey (as of 9/18/08).
Samuelsen, Annette, 2000, A simulation of the biological response to low-frequency physical forcing in the tropical Pacific Ocean— Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Norway (as of 9/18/08).
Kreitner, Richard Emil, 1999, Front range severe flash flooding and El-Nino— National Weather Service, North Carolina (as of 9/18/08).
Murray, Colin Patrick, 1999, Interannual variability of upper ocean vorticity balances in the Gulf of Alaska— NAVOCEANO.
Pegion, Kathleen Verzone, 1999, Double ensemble estimates of precipitation in the Southeastern United States for extreme ENSO events— Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, Maryland (as of 9/18/08).
Pegion, Philip J., 1999, Objectively-derived daily Winds from satellite scatterometer— NASA Goddard.
Sharp, Ryan James, 1999, Comparision of modelled and remotely sensed (NSCAT) boundary layer flow and vorticity around islands— National Weather Service, Louisville, KY (as of 6/11).
Leonardi, Alan P., 1998, Dynamics of the North Hawaiian ridge current— National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML), Miami, FL (as of 9/20/10).
Miller, Sonya Kulkarni, 1998, Variability of surface wind convergence estimated from ERS-1/2 Scatterometer winds over the Indian Ocean— Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology (as of 9/18/08).
Putman, William M., 1998, Assismilation of FSU and NCEP Reanalysis pseudostress products over the pacific ocean and complex EOF analysis of the resulting fields— NASA, Maryland (as of 9/18/08).
Zierden, David F., 1998, Cyclone surface pressure fields and frontogenesis from Nasa scatterometer (NSCAT) winds— FSU COAPS, Tallahassee, FL (as of 9/18/08).
Caron, Julie, 1997, The generation of synthetic sea surface temperature date for the equatorial pacific ocean— National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Colorado (as of 9/18/08).
Henderson, Tracy, 1997, Statistical analysis relating El Nino (El Viejo) events to monthly temperature and precipitation departures in the Pacific Northwest— Weather Broadcasting, Seattle.
Mizoguchi, Ken-ichi, 1997, Multi and Quasi-decadal variations of sea surface temperature anomaly in the North Atlantic— Japan.
Morey, Steven L., 1997, The effects of Halmahera on the Indonesian overflow.
Green, Phaedra M., 1996, Regional analysis of Canadian, Alaskan, and Mexican precipitation and temperature for ENSO impact— Naval Postgraduate School.
Mask, Andrea C., 1996, Wind driven effects on the yellow sea warm current— Naval Oceanographic Office, Mississippi (as of 9/18/08).
Murphy, Sylvia J., 1996, The connectivity of Eddy variability in the Caribbean sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean— NCAR, Colorado (as of 9/18/08).
Sweeny, Shannon R., 1996, Impact of ENSO on weather conditions at continental U.S military bases— U.S. Air Force Officer.
Ekers, Kenneth W., 1995, Principal patterns of interannual regional Australian rainfal variability and their relationship to Indian Ocean evaporation.
Beaudoin, Paul T., 1994, Information content in the ERS-1 three day repeat visit scatterometer winds over the North Pacific from January through March 1992.
Hickel, Brent D., 1994, The effects of the horizontal resolution of the sea surface temperature field on the FSU spectral model.
Sittel, Mattew C. , 1994, Marginal probability distribution of the extremes of ENSO events for temperature and precipitation in the Southeastern U.S.— University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Nebraska (as of 9/18/08).
Jones, Catherine Stephens, 1992, Variability of surface fluxes over the Indian ocean— University of Maryland, Maryland (as of 1/18/12).
Miles, Kelley Franklin, 1992, Variability of five day wind fields over the Indian ocean using ship and SASS data.
Heim, Paul K. II, 1991, The influence of the Alaskan gyre on the coastal circulation in the Gulf of Alaska— U.S. Navy, Virginia (as of 9/18/08).
Matthews, Paul E., 1991, Observation of Mesoscale ocean dynamics in the Northeast Pacific using Geosat radar altimetry data.
Potemra, James T., 1990, The seasonal circulation of the upper ocean in the Bay of Bengal— University of Hawaii (as of 9/18/08).
Tsai, Pedro T.H. , 1990, The 26-day oscillation observed in the satellite SST measurements in the equatorial western Indian ocean.
Yu, Lisan, 1990, Using ocean current data to determine the wind stress.
Shriver, Jay F., 1989, Analysis of remotely forced oceanic Rossby waves off California.
Hirschberg, P., 1988, The saline flow into the Atlantic.
Woodberry, Karen E., 1988, The wind driven seasonal circulation in the Southern tropical Indian Ocean.
Simmons, Ray C., 1987, Verification of a numerical ocean model of the Arabian sea.
Ehret, Laura L., 1986, Temporal and spatial structure of wind stress curl over the North Atlantic.
Harlan, Jack Jr., 1985, A variational method for assimilation of scatterometer winds into surface pressure fields.
Pavia, Edgar G., 1985, Statistics of wind speed over the oceans— CICESE, California (as of 9/18/08).
Legler, David M., 1984, Objective analysis algorithm for satellite surface wind data— NOAA Climate Program Office, Climate Observations Division, Silver Spring, MD (as of 3/10/11).
Meng, Alex M., 1984, Development of the Somali current system during the Southwest Monsoon.
Pares-Sierra Alenjandro F., 1984, Estimates of oceanic heat transport in the tropical pacific: Mean, Seasonal and Interannual variability— CICESE, Ensenada, Mexico (as of 9/22/08).
Vogel, Gerard, 1982, A climatology of the surface wind field, its divergence and the ITCZ over the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean.
Nash, Louis, 1981, The interannual variability of the upper ocean equatorial pacific current system.
Busalacchi, Antonio J., 1980, The seasonal variability in a model of the tropical pacific.
Goldenberg, Stanley B., 1980, Time and space variability of tropical pacific wind stress.
Adamec, David, 1978, The equator as a waveguide with reference to upwelling in the Gulf of Guinea.
Camerlengo, Alejandro L., 1978, Open boundary conditions in an equatorial ocean.
Preller, Ruth, 1978, An idealized model of upwelling off Peru.
Grotjahn, Richard, 1975, Some inaccuracies in finite differenting hyperbolic.
Peffley, Monty B. , 1975, A three-dimentional simulational of coastal upwelling off Oregon— NOAA, National Coastal Data Development Center, Louisiana (as of 9/18/08).
Elliott, Dennis L., 1974, The Mesoscale wind field over an upwelling region.
Holladay, Cleveland G., 1974, Mesoscale variability of sea surface temperature— U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, San Francisco, CA (as of 4/19/12).
Johnson, Andrew Jr., 1973, An investigation of a sea breeze event on the central Oregon coast in August 1972.
McNider, Richard T., 1972, A multi-layer model of coastal upwelling— University of Alabama in Huntsville (Emeritus) and Florida State University (as of 9/18/08).
Wroblewski, J. S., 1972, An ecological model of the lower marine trophic levels on the continental shelf off west Florida.

Undergrad Projects

Stauffer, Catherine, 2018, Air-Sea Interactions about SST Gradients
Carstens, Jacob, 2017, North Atlantic and Northeast Pacific Tropical Cyclone Intensity Comparison Using Integrated Kinetic Energy.
Yarboro, Jennifer, 2017, Wildfire Modeling: Developing a Computer Simulation of a Burning Front using the Reaction-diffusion Equation.
Karmel, Thomas, 2016, Using multiple methodologies to explore variation in rainfall events in the southeastern United States.
Swearingen, Aaron, 2015, Examining shifts in warm-season near-surface moisture trends in Florida.
Zuromski, Lauren, 2015, Investigating relationships between rising temperatures and heavy rainfall events in the southeastern U.S. using analog methods.
Keclik, Alexandra, 2014, The accuracy of the National Hurricane Center's United States tropical cyclone landfall forecasts in the Atlantic Basin (2004-2012) — University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (as of 9/14).
McNaught, Carlysle, 2014, The increasing intensity and frequency of ENSO and its impacts to the Southeast U.S.
Rudzin, Johna, 2012, The influence of atmospheric cold air outbreaks on the upper ocean thermal variability of the Florida Straits — University of Miami, Florida (as of 9/12).
Worsnop, Rochelle, 2012, Multi-decadal variations of durations of extreme temperatures in the southeastern United States — University of Colorado, Boulder (as of 9/12).
Heath, Nicolas, 2011, Determining the effects of Stokes Drift on the movement of oil in the Gulf of Mexico — Florida State University, Tallahassee (as of 5/13).
Kennedy, Andrew, 2007, Effects of El Nino–Southern Oscillation on sea level anomalies along the Gulf of Mexico coast.
Banks, Robert F., 2004, Spatial and temporal variability of precipitation runs across the Southeast U.S.— Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands (as of 1/17).
Bove, Mark, 1996, A comparison of GTS and CMAN surface meteorological data sets in the TOGA-COARE region — National Weather Service, Louisville, KY (as of 6/11).
Sharp, Ryan James, 1996, Complex empirical orthogonal function analysis in two dimensional data sets: theory and examples — Munich Reinsurance America, New Jersey (as of 9/18/08).

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