List of PhD's in Atmospheric Science at the University of Chicago

Qtr Year Title First Name MI Last Name Thesis Title Field Advisor
Aut 1945 Mr. Morris   Neiberger "Physical Processes Associated with Summer Stratus in Southern California" Meteorology  
Aut 1946 Mr. John C. Bellamy "The Use of Pressure Altitude and Altimeter Corrections in Meteorology" Meteorology  
Sum 1946 Mr. Victor   Starr "A Quasi La Grangian System of Hydrodynamical Equations" Meteorology  
Aut 1947 Mr. George   Benton "The Hydrodynamics of the Flow of Homogeneous Fluids Through Saturated Porous Media" Meteorology  
Spr 1947 Mr. Dave   Fultz "Upper-air Trajectories and Weather Forecasting" Meteorology  
Spr 1947 Mr. Herbert   Riehl "Subtropical Flow Patterns in Summer" Meteorology  
Sum 1948 Mr. Werner   Baum "Aspects of the Vertical Temperature Distribution Within the Layer of Air Near the Ground" Meteorology  
Sum 1948 Mr. Reid   Bryson "On Disturbances in the Easterlies" Meteorology  
Aut 1948 Mr. Hsiao-Lan   Kuo "Dynamic Instability of Two-Dimensional Nondivergent Flow in a Barotropic Atmosphere" Meteorology  
Aut 1948 Mr. George W. Platzman "Oscillations of a Jet Stream" Meteorology  
Aut 1948   Tu-Cheng   Yeh "On Energy Dispersion in the Atmosphere" Meteorology  
Sum 1949 Mr. Abdul M. Chaudhury "Some Dynamic and Aerological Aspects of Meteorology over Indo-Pakistan" Meteorology  
Win 1949 Mr. George P. Cressman "On the Forecasting of the Long Waves in the Upper Westerlies" Meteorology  
Sum 1949 Mr. Seymour L. Hess "The Meteorology of Mars" Meteorology  
Win 1949   Yi-Peng   Hsieh "An Investigation of a Selected American Cold Vortex" Meteorology  
Spr 1949 Ms. Joanne   Malkus "Certain Features of Undisturbed and Disturbed Weather in the Tradewind Region" Meteorology  
Spr 1949 Mr. Donald P. McIntyre "On the Barocline Structure of the Westerlies" Meteorology  
Aut 1951 Mr. Roscoe R. Braham, Jr. "The Water and Energy Budgets of the Thunderstorms and their Relation to Thunderstorm Development" Meteorology  
Spr 1951 Mr. Lewis D. Kaplan "On the Pressure Dependence of Radiative Heat Transfer in the Atmosphere" Meteorology  
Aut 1951 Mr. Chester W. Newton "Structure of Shear Lines Near the Tropopause in Summer" Meteorology  
Spr 1951 Mr. Norman A. Phillips "A Simple Three-dimensional Model for the Study of Large-scale Extratropical Flow Patterns" Meteorology  
Spr 1951 Mr. Walter J. Saucier "Relations between Pressure and Divergence Fields in the Upper Troposphere" Meteorology  
Spr 1953   Louis   Battan "Observations on the Formation of Precipitation in Convective Clouds" Meteorology  
Spr 1953   Noel E. La Seur "On the Asymmetry of the Circumpolar Vortex in Temperate Latitiudes" Meteorology  
Spr 1953 Mr. Verner E. Suomi "The Heat Budget Over a Cornfield" Meteorology  
Win 1955 Mr. Mikhail A.R. Alaka "A Case Study of an Easterly Jet Stream in the Tropics" Meteorology  
Aut 1956 Mr. Donald R. Fitzgerald "Theoretical and Experimental Studies of Convective Cloud Electrification" Meteorology  
Sum 1956 mr. Charles L. Jordon "An Experiment in Low Latitude Numberical Prediction with the Barotropic Model" Meteorology  
Aut 1957 Mr. Earl W. Barrett "Some Applications of Harmonic Analysis to the Study of the General Circulation" Meteorology  
Spr 1957 Mr. Keith D. Hage "On Summer Cyclogenesis in Western Canada Associated with Upper Cold Flows" Meteorology  
Spr 1957 Mr. Glenn R. Hilst "Observation of the Diffusion and Transport of Stack Effluents in Stable Atmosphere" Meteorology  
Sum 1959   Tiruvalam N. Krishnamurti "The Subtropical Jet Stream of Winter" Meteorology  
Aut 1960 Mr. James E. Carson "The Response of Soil Temperature to Meteorological Conditions" Meteorology  
Sum 1960 Mr. Jose A. Colon "On the Heat Balance of the Troposphere and Water-body of the Caribbean Sea" Meteorology  
Sum 1960 Mr. John M. Mihaljan "A Rigorous Exposition of the Boussinesq Approximations in the Hydrodynamical Equations" Meteorology  
Win 1960   Hukum S. Rathor "On the Heat Sources and Sinks Associated with Mobile Cyclones" Meteorology  
Spr 1960 Mr. Wayne E. Sangster "A Meteorological Coordinate System in which the Earth's Surface is a Coordinate Surface" Meteorology  
Aut 1961 Mr. Ferdinand   Baer "Some Properties of the Spectral Vorticity Equation" Meteorology  
Win 1961 Mr. Thomas E. Hoffer "A Laboratory Investigation of Droplet Freezing" Meteorology  
Spr 1962 Mr. Gene E. Birchfield "A Systematic Method for Introduction of Quasi-hydrostatic and Quasi-geostrophic Approximations into General Dynamic Equations" Meteorology  
Spr 1962 Mr. Lloyd   Koenig "Ice in the Summer Atmosphere: An inquiry into its Structure, Genesis, and Metamorphosis" Meteorology  
Sum 1962 Mr. Robert A. Simpson "Analysis of a Large-scale Disturbance in the Mesosphere" Meteorology  
Sum 1963 Mr. Maurice B. Banard "On the Influence of Released Latent Heat on Cyclone Development" Meteorology  
Aut 1963   Phanindramohan   Das "Role of Condensed Water Substances in the Life Cycle of a Convective Cloud: A Study in One Dimension" Meteorology  
Spr 1963   Banner I. Miller "On the Filling of Tropical Cyclones Over Land" Meteorology  
Sum 1964 Mr. Hugh W. Ellsaesser "Evaluation of Spectral versus Grid Methods of Hemispheric Numerical Weather Prediction" Meteorology  
Win 1964 Mr. Paul   Frenzen "A Laboratory Investigation of the Lagrangian Autocorrelation Function in a Stratified Fluid" Meteorology  
Spr 1964 Mr. William   Gray "On the Scales of Motion and Stress Characteristics of the Hurricane" Meteorology  
Aut 1964   Yukio   Omoto "An Investigation of Pre-frontal Precipitation Zones" Meteorology  
Sum 1965 Ms. Bernice   Ackerman "A Study of the Fluctuations of Some Meteorological Parameters in Clouds" Meteorology  
Win 1965 Mr. William D. Bonner "Statistical and Kinematical Properties of the Low-level Jet Stream" Meteorology  
Win 1965   Gandikota V. Rao "On the influence of Field of Motion, Baroclinicity and Heat Sources on Frontogenesis" Meteorology  
Aut 1965   Desiraju B. Rao "Free Gravitational Oscillations in Rotating Rectangular Basins" Meteorology  
Sum 1967 Mr. Henry   Brown "On the Diurnal and Spatial Variation of Convective Activity over the Great Plains" Meteorology  
Spr 1967 Mr. Thomas   Flattery "Hough Functions" Meteorology  
Spr 1967 Mr. Joseph S. Greene "A Theoretical Mechanism to Explain the Main Phase of the DS Current System" Meteorology  
Sum 1967 Mr. Rolland K. Hauser "Some Effects of Ionospheric Reflectivity in Atmospheric Tidal Computations" Meteorology  
Sum 1967 Mr. William   Hooke "Ionospheric Irregularities Produced by Internal Atmospheric Gravity Waves" Meteorology  
Spr 1967   Tadepalli   Murty "Thermal Convection in Vertical Tubes with Applications to Geophysical Phenomena" Meteorology  
Sum 1968 Mr. Kenneth   Gage "The Effect of Stable Thermal Stratification on the Stability of Viscous Parallel Flows" Meteorology  
Sum 1968 Mr. William   Taffe "Hydromagnetic Effects on Atmospheric Tides" Meteorology  
Win 1969 Mr. Jack A.C. Kaiser "An Experimental Investigation of the Thermal Fields and Instabilities Which Develop in a Rotating Annulus of Baroclinic Fluid" Meteorology Fultz
Win 1970 Mr. Peter M. Caplan "The Production of Downdrafts by Rain" Meteorology Fujita
Spr 1970 Mr. Walter A. Lyons "Mesoscale Regimes over the Southern Basin of Lake Michigan and their Effect upon Summertime Convective Clouds" Meteorology Fujita
Win 1970 Mr. John Y.C. Wang "A Quasi-One-Dimensional Cumulus Cloud Model: A Study on the Formation and Development of Orographic Shallow Cumulus Clouds" Meteorology Kuo
Sum 1971 Mr. William J. Eadie "A Molecular Theory of the Homogeneous Nucleation of Ice from Supercooled Water" Meteorology Braham
Aut 1972   E. Ekundayo Balogun "A Study of Satellite-Observed Cloud Patterns of Tropical Cyclones" Meteorology Fujita
Spr 1972 Mr. James W. Fitzgerald "A Study of the Initial Phase of Cloud Droplet Growth by Condensation: Comparison Between Theory and Observation" Meteorology Braham
Sum 1972 Mr. Frank Morris Richter "Dynamical Models for Sea Floor Spreading" Meteorology Pedlosky
Win 1972 Mr. Bernard A. Silverman "Warm Fog Modification by Airborne Hygroscopic Particle Seeding" Meteorology Braham
Win 1973 Ms. Donna W. Blake "Simplified Photochemical Models and Their Applications in the Stratosphere and Mesosphere" Meteorology Lindzen
Sum 1973 Mr. Andrew Joel Heymsfield "Cirrus Uncinus Generating Cells and the Evolution of Cirriform Clouds" Meteorology Braham
Aut 1973   Siu-Shung   Hong "Semidiurnal Tides in an Atmosphere with Mean Wind and Dissipation" Meteorology Lindzen
Spr 1973 Mr. Arthur Zlobnicki Loesch "Nonlinear Interactions Between Unstable and Neutral Baroclinic Waves" Meteorology Pedlosky
Spr 1973 Mr. John   McCarthy "Mixing Processes in Cumulus Clouds" Meteorology Braham
Aut 1973 Mr. Thomas W. Spence "An Experimental Investigation of Rotating Thermal Convection in a Differentially Heated Cylinder" Meteorology Fultz
Win 1973 Mr. Michael A. Weissman "Nonlinear Wave Packets in Kelvin-Helmholtz Flow" Meteorology McGoldrick
Sum 1973 Mr. Kenneth Christie Young "A Numerical Simulation of Winter-time, Orographic Precipitation under Natural and Seeded Conditions" Meteorology Braham
Spr 1974 Mr. William George Collins "On the Contributions of Nonlinearity and Nonhydrostatic Accelerations to Low-Level Contrary Flow over Mountains" Meteorology Kuo
Win 1974 Mr. James Isreal Metcalf "On the Origin and Structure of Radar Echo Layers in the Clear Atmosphere" Meteorology Srivastava
Spr 1974 Mr. Charles Lee Nelson "The Interaction of Fluid and Sediment on the Foreshore" Meteorology Miller
Win 1975 Mr. Frank Ian Harris "Doppler Radar Study of Evaporating Ice Crystal Clouds" Meteorology Srivastava
Spr 1975   Wen-yih   Sun "Convection in the Surface Layer of the Atmosphere" Meteorology Kuo
Win 1976 Mr. Peter H. Hildebrand "A Radar Study of Turbulent Diffusion in the Lower Atmosphere" Meteorology Srivastava
Win 1976   Man-Li Chou Wu "Long-wave Radiation and Its Effect on the Atmosphere" Meteorology Kaplan
Spr 1977 Mr. Robert Perkins Chase "Transport Dynamics and Kinematic Behavior of Aquatic Particulates" Meteorology McGoldrick
Win 1977 Mr. Arthur R. Jameson "A Dual-wavelength Radar Study of a Hailstorm" Meteorology Srivastava
Spr 1977 Mr. Barry Mark Lesht "Field Study of the Bottom Friction Boundary Layer on the Inner Continental Shelf" Meteorology McGoldrick
Win 1978 Mr. Gregory Stanley Forbes "Three Scales of Motions Associated with Tornadoes" Meteorology Fujita
Win 1978 Mr. Richard E. Passarelli, Jr. "The Evolution of Snow-Size Spectra in Winter Storms" Meteorology Braham
Aut 1978 Ms. Mary Ann Hrivnak Smith "Estimation of Venus Wind Velocities from High Resolution Infrared Spectra" Meteorology Kaplan
Win 1979 Mr. Alan Russell Bohne "A Dual-Doppler Radar Study of Mesoscale Winter Snow Bands" Meteorology Srivastava
Win 1979 Mr. David Bruce Johnson "The Role of Coalescence Nuclei in Warm Rain Initiation" Meteorology Braham
Win 1979 Mr. Loren Dean Nelson "Observations and Numerical Simulations of Precipitation Mechanisms in Natural and Seeded Convective Clouds" Meteorology Braham
Aut 1980 Mr. Mark Richard Hjelmfelt "Numerical Simulation of the Effects on St. Louis of Boundary Layer Air Flow and Convection" Meteorology Braham
Sum 1981 Mr. Kirk Samuel Hansen "Secular Effects of Oceanic Tidal Dissipation on the Moon's Orbit and the Earth's Rotation" Meteorology Platzman
Sum 1981 Mr. Walter Stanley Marker, Jr. "A Dual Doppler Radar Study of Diffusion and Rolls" Meteorology Srivastava
Spr 1981 Mr. Roger M. Wakimoto "Investigations of Thunderstorm Gust Fronts from Project NIMROD Data" Meteorology Fujita
Sum 1982 Ms. Judith Bishop Curry "The Formation of Continental Polar Air" Meteorology Kuo
Aut 1982 Mr. Robert Dwayne Kelly "Horizontal Roll Convection in Lake-effect Snow Storms over Lake Michigan" Meteorology Braham
Aut 1982 Mr. Keith Lynn Seitter "The Dynamical Structure of Squall-line Type Thunderstorms" Meteorology Kuo
Sum 1983 Mr. Leo Joseph Donner "Radiative Forcing of Stationary Planetary Waves" Meteorology Kuo
Sum 1983 Mr. Robert Edward Peterson, Jr. "A Triple-Doppler Radar Case Study of a Small Multicell Convective Storm" Meteorology Srivastava
Win 1985   Pecheng   Chu "A Boundary Layer Theory of Coastal Desert Formation and Seabreeze Circulation" Meteorology Kuo
Aut 1986 Mr. Joseph A. Zehnder "A Numerical Simulation of Frontogenesis Over a Mountain Ridge" Meteorology Bannon
Aut 1989 Mr. Robert   Grumbine "Formation of High Salinity Shelf Water on Polar Continental Shelves" Atmos. Sciences MacAyeal
Spr 1989 Mr. Dean   Lindstrom "A Study of the Eurasion Ice Sheet Using a Combined Grounded Ice-Flow - Ice Shelf Numerical Model" Atmos. Sciences MacAyeal
Aut 1989 Mr. Daniel   Lubin "The Ultraviolet Radiation Environment of the Antarctic Peninsula" Atmos. Sciences Frederick
Spr 1991 Mr. David A.R. Kristovich "The Three-dimensional Flow Fields of Boundary Layer Rolls Observed During Lake-effect Snow Storms" Atmos. Sciences Braham
Aut 1992 Ms. Janice Lynn Coen "A Numerical Study of the Microburst Downdraft and Outflow: The Interaction of Precipitation Microphysics and Dynamics" Atmos. Sciences Srivastava
Spr 1993   Zailiang   Hu "A Numerical Study of the Evolution of Raindrop Size Distribution by Coalescence, Breakup and Evaporation" Atmos. Sciences Srivastava
Spr 1993 Mr. Brian   Soden "Satellite Observations of Water Vapor and Clouds: Implications for GCM Cloud Parameterization" Atmos. Sciences Donner/Frederick
Win 1993 Ms. Elizabeth C. Weatherhead "The Effects of Tropospheric Pollutants on the Transmission of Ultraviolet Radiation" Atmos. Sciences Frederick
Win 1993   Guoyong   Wen "A Study of SBUV Satellite Measurements after the El Chichon Volcanic Eruption" Atmos. Sciences Frederick
Sum 1995 Mr. Kyle Leigh Swanson "Dynamics and Mean Flow Interactions of Nonlinear Baroclinic Wave Packets" Atmos. Sciences Pierrehumbert
Sum 1995   Lin   Tian "Measurement of Microwave Attenuation by a Dual-Radar Method" Atmos. Sciences Srivastava
Spr 1996 Ms. Loretta J. Mickley "Using Tracers to Follow Chemical Change in the Atratosphere: Examples from the Antarctic Spring and the Aftermath of the Mount Pinatubo Eruption" Atmos. Sciences Frederick
Sum 1996 Mr. Peter F. Soulen "Ultraviolet Radiative Transfer in the Troposphere" Atmos. Sciences Frederick
Spr 1997   Nadja Z.W. Aquino "Measurements of 212Pb and 214Pb in Surface Air around Lake Michigan and Their Implications for Atmospheric Boundary Layer Mixing" Atmos. Sciences Barcilon
Sum 1997 Ms. Caryn   Erlick "The Effects of Clouds, Aerosols, and Gaseous Absorbers on the Wavelength Dependence of Atmospheric Transmission" Atmos. Sciences Frederick
Spr 1998 Ms. Christina L. Hulbe Heat Balance of West Antarctic Ice Streams, Investigated With a Numerical Model of Coupled Ice Sheet, Ice Stream, and Ice Shelf Flow Atmos. Sciences MacAyeal
Win 1998 Mr. Charles   Jackson Sensitivity of stationary wave amplitude to Laurentide Ice Sheet topography and the interpretation of the Heinrich Event climate record Atmos. Sciences MacAyeal
Sum 1999 Mr. Daniel   Cziczo Laboratory Studies of Phase Transitions in Common Tropospheric Aerosols Atmos. Sciences Abbatt
Sum 1999 Mr. Jun   Ma The Modified Lagrangian-Mean Diagnostics of the Stratospheric Transport and Chemistry Atmos. Sciences Nakamura
Win 1999 Mr. Zheng   Qu On the Transmission of Ultraviolet Radiation in Horizontally Inhomogeneous Atmospheres: A Three Dimensional Approach Based on the Delta-Eddington’s Approximation Atmos. Sciences Frederick
? ? Mr. John Clinton Freeman, Jr. "Flow Under an Inversion in Middle Latitudes" Meteorology  

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