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Kelvin K. Droegemeier

School of Meteorology
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Sasaki Institute
University of Oklahoma

 

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METR 1004, Introduction to Meteorology (Fall 2001)

Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms

AMS Journals Online 

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METR 2603, Severe and Unusual Weather (Spring, 2001)

National Weather Center (Norman, Oklahoma)
Full Curriculum Vitae (pdf)  METR 5413, Advanced Synoptic Meteorology School of Meteorology
Two-Page Biographical Sketch (pdf) METR 4133, Atmospheric Dynamics III (Fall 2007) Microsoft Technical Computing Science Advisory Board

       

    METR 4803, Hazardous Weather Detection and Prediction (Spring 2007) The University of Oklahoma
             METR 4433, Mesoscale Meteorology (Spring 2008) Advanced Regional Prediction System (ARPS)
Sasaki Institute
Norman, Oklahoma Chamber of Commerce Weather Committee

Major Projects

Real Time Weather

Current Research

CRAFT

Real Time ARPS Weather Forecasts

Yvette Richardson's Doctoral Dissertation Presentation

Integrated Radar Data Services (IRaDS)
Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery (LEAD)

Oklahoma Weather Roundup

Hee-Dong Yoo's Doctoral Dissertation Presentation
 Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA)

OU Weather Laboratory (OWL)

Edwin Adlerman's Doctoral Dissertation (105 MB PDF)
Oklahoma EDGE (Economic Development Generating Excellence) Weather and Climate Team Report

NEXRAD Radar

Selected Movies from Edwin Adlerman's Dissertation on Cyclic Storm Behavior
EDGE Action Plan Norman NWS Office
National Symposium on the Great Plains Tornado Outbreak of 3 May 1999 National Weather Service
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Selected Journal Publications 1999-2003

Recent Journal Publications (2004-2007) and Submitted Manuscripts

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Lazarus, S., A. Shapiro, and K.K. Droegemeier, 1999:  Analysis of the Gal-Chen/Zhang single-Doppler velocity retrieval.  J. Atmos. and Oceanic Tech., 16, 5-18.

Adlerman, E.J., K.K. Droegemeier, and R-P. Davies-Jones 1999:  Numerical simulation of cyclic mesocyclogenesis.  J. Atmos. Sci., 56, 2045-2069.

Rao, P.A., H.E. Fuelberg, and K.K. Droegemeier, 1999:  High resolution modeling of the Cape Canaveral area land/water circulations and associated features.  Mon. Wea. Rev., 56, 1808-1821.

Xue, M., K. K. Droegemeier, and V. Wong, 2000: The Advanced Regional Prediction System (ARPS) - A multiscale nonhydrostatic atmospheric simulation and prediction model. Part I:  Model dynamics and verification.  Meteor. and Atmos. Physics., 75, 161-193.

Xue, M., K. K. Droegemeier, V. Wong, A. Shapiro, K. Brewster, F. Carr, D. Weber, Y. Liu, and D.-H. Wang, 2001: The Advanced Regional Prediction System (ARPS) - A multiscale nonhydrostatic atmospheric simulation and prediction tool. Part II: Model physics and applications. Meteor. and Atmos. Physics, 76, 134-165.

Gao, J., M. Xue, A. Shapiro, Qin Xu, and K. Droegemeier, 2001:  Three-dimensional simple adjoint velocity retrievals from single Doppler radar data.  J. Atmos. and Oceanic Tech., 18, 26-38.

Hou, D., E. Kalnay, and K.K. Droegemeier, 2001:  Objective verification of the SAMEX '98 ensemble forecasts.  Mon. Wea. Rev., 129, 73-91.

Lazarus, S., A. Shapiro, and K.K. Droegemeier, 2001:  Application of the Gal-Chen/Zhang velocity retrieval to a deep convective storm.  J. Atmos. Sci., 58, 998-1016.

Weygandt, S.S., A. Shapiro and K.K. Droegemeier, 2002:  Retrieval of initial forecast fields from single-Doppler observations of a supercell thunderstorm.  Part I:  Single-Doppler velocity retrieval.  Mon. Wea. Rev, 130, 433-453.

Weygandt, S.S., A. Shapiro and K.K. Droegemeier, 2002:  Retrieval of initial forecast fields from single-Doppler observations of a supercell thunderstorm.  Part II:  Thermodynamic retrieval and numerical prediction.  Mon. Wea. Rev, 130, 454-476.

Adlerman, E.J. and K.K. Droegemeier, 2002:  The sensitivity of numerically-simulated cyclic mesocyclogenesis to variations in model physical and computational parameters.  Mon. Wea. Rev., 130, 2671-2691.

Xue, M., D.-H. Wang, J.-D. Gao, K. Brewster, and K. K. Droegemeier, 2003: The Advanced Regional Prediction System (ARPS):  Storm-scale numerical weather prediction and data assimilation.  Meteor. and Atmos. Physics, 82, 139-170.

 

Gao, J., M. Xue, K. Brewster, and K.K. Droegemeier, 2004:  A three-dimensional variational data analysis method with recursive filter for Doppler radars.  J. Atmos. and Oceanic Tech., 21, 457-469.

Gao, J. and K.K. Droegemeier, 2004:  A variational technique for dealiasing Doppler radar velocity data.  J. Appl. Meteor., 43, 934-940.

Gao, J., K.K. Droegemeier, J. Gong and Q. Xu, 2004:  A method for retrieving mean horizontal wind profiles from single-Doppler radar observations contaminated by aliasing.  Mon. Wea. Rev., 132, 1399-1409.

Plale, B., J. Alameda, R. Wilhelmson, D. Gannon, S. Hampton, A. Rossi, and K.K. Droegemeier, 2004:  User-oriented active management of scientific data with my LEAD.  IEEE Internet Computing, 9, 27-34.

Adlerman, E.J. and K.K. Droegemeier, 2005: The dependence of numerically simulated cyclic mesocyclogenesis upon environmental vertical wind shear.  Mon. Wea. Rev., 133, 3595-3623.

Droegemeier and Co-Authors, 2005:  Service-oriented environments in research and education for dynamically interacting with mesoscale weather.  Computing in Science and Engineering, 7, 12-29.

Smedsmo, J.L., E. Foufoula-Georgiou, V. Vuruputur, F. Kong, and K. Droegemeier, 2005:  On the vertical structure of modeled and observed deep convective storms:  Insights for precipitation retrieval and microphysical parameterization.  J. Appl. Meteor., 44, 1866-1884.

Kong, F., K.K. Droegemeier and N.L. Hickmon, 2006:  Multiresolution ensemble forecasts of an observed tornadic thunderstorm system, Part I: Comparison of coarse and fine-grid ensembles.  Mon. Wea. Rev, 134, 807-833.

Nascimento, E. and K.K. Droegemeier, 2006:  Dynamic adjustment in a numerically simulated mesoscale convective system:  Impact of the wind field.  J. Atmos. Sci., 63, 2246-2268.

Xue, M., M. Tong, and K. K. Droegemeier, 2006: An OSSE framework based on the ensemble square-root Kalman filter for evaluating impact of data from radar networks on thunderstorm analysis and forecast.  J. Atmos. Ocean Tech., 23, 46-66.

Plale, B., D. Gannon, J. Brotzge, K.K. Droegemeier and Co-Authors, 2006:  CASA and LEAD:  Adaptive cyberinfrastructure for real-time multiscale weather forecasting.  IEEE Computer, 39, 66-74.

Brotzge, J., K.K. Droegemeier, and D.J. McLaughlin, 2006:  Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA): New radar system for improving analysis and forecasting of surface weather conditions.  J. Transport. Res. Board, No. 1948, 145-151.

Gao, J., M. Xue, S. Lee, A. Shapiro and K. K. Droegemeier, 2006: A Three-dimensional variational method for velocity retrievals from single-Doppler radar on supercell storms.  Meteor. and Atmos. Phys., 94, 11-26.

Kong, F., K.K. Droegemeier and N.L. Hickmon, 2007:  Multiresolution ensemble forecasts of an observed tornadic thunderstorm system, Part II.  Mon. Wea. Rev., 135, 759-782.

Kelleher, K., K.K. Droegemeier and co-authors, 2007:  Project CRAFT:  Technical Aspects of a Real Time Delivery System for NEXRAD Level II Data via the Internet.  Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 88, 1045-1057.

Richardson, Y.P., K.K. Droegemeier and R.P. Davies-Jones, 2007:  The influence of horizontal environmental variability on numerically-simulated convective storms, Part I:  Variations in vertical shear.  Mon. Wea. Rev., 135, 3429-3455.

Xue, M., K.K. Droegemeier, and D. Weber, 2007:  Numerical Prediction of High-Impact Local Weather:  A driver for Petascale Computing.  Chapter 18 in Petascale Computing: Algorithms and Applications, Chapman and Hall/CRC Press, 568 pp.

 

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