This page contains an ongoing list of theses and dissertations using datasets from UWKA facility deployments, including both the University of Wyoming King Air as well as the Wyoming Cloud Radar and Lidars. Click here for a list of refereed publications using facility measurements.
Paleri, Sreenath, 2023: Role of Heterogeneous Ecosystems in Modulating Surface-Atmosphere Transport. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 202 pp. https://www.proquest.com/docview/2820196658
Rademacher, Harrison P., 2022: Airborne and Laboratory Performance Characterization of a New Aerosol and BC Instrument, The SP2-XR. University of Wyoming, 62 pp. https://www.proquest.com/docview/2763173889
Shaffer, Kevin, 2022: Development of the University of Wyoming Optical Array Probe Processing Software (WOPRS). University of Wyoming, 101 pp. https://www.proquest.com/docview/2762471002
Astenah, Mohammad, 2021: Characterization of a New CH4, and CO2, Flux Instrument for the University of Wyoming King Air Platform. University of Wyoming, 50 pp. https://books.google.com/books/about/Characterization_of_a_New_CH4_and_CO2_Fl.html?id=sXquzgEACAAJ
Cann, Matthew, 2021. Dissertation, University of Colorado Boulder.
Gaudet, Lauriana Catherine, 2021: Identifying the Microphysical Sensitivities of Mesoscale and Synoptic Precipitation Using an Ensemble Framework. Dissertation, State University of New York at Albany, 246 pp. https://www.proquest.com/docview/2569684655/C3A2F8FBBBC941B6PQ/4\
Grasmick, C. D., 2021: Mixed-Phase Cloud Microphysics over Mountainous Terrain Emphasizing Airborne Dual-Doppler Kelvin-Helmholtz Observations and a Dual-Wavelength Retrieval Approach. Dissertation, University of Wyoming. https://www.proquest.com/openview/a5cb53200a38e2ece2086542e3268352/
McCabe, Megan E., 2021: Isolating Methane Emissions from Animal Feeding Operations in an Interfering Location in the Colorado Front Range. Thesis, Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming. https://www.proquest.com/openview/8e2c9cf4ef1b0521d60c2223d7e75475/
Kille, Natalie, 2020: Development of Solar Occultation Flux Spectroscopy for Ground and Airborne Applications. Dissertation, University of Colorado Boulder. https://www.proquest.com/pqdtglobal/docview/2447564027/3254FA1AAEC34B00PQ/1?accountid=14793
Hatt, Melinda, 2019: Microphysical Impact of Cloud Seeding on Wintertime Orographic Clouds Observed During SNOWIE. Thesis, Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019MsT.........39H/abstract
Majewski, Adam, 2019: Supercooled Drizzle Drop Development In a Postfrontal Orographic Layer Cloud in Response to Semi-Coherent Vertical Velocity Fluctuations. Thesis, Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019MsT.........17M/abstract
Springer, Adam, 2019: Investigation of the structure of natural orographic clouds embedded within atmospheric river type flow over the Payette Mountains in Idaho. Thesis, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/106301
Bergemaier, Philip, 2018: Understanding Intense Lake-Effect Snowstorms Produced by Lake Ontario. Dissertation, University of Wyoming.
Jacobson, Darcy, 2018: Cloud particle shape discrimination and improving hydrometeor characterization with in-situ optical array probe measurements. Thesis, Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming.
Juliano, Timothy, 2018: Characterizing Marine Boundary Layer Clouds Associated with Coastally Trapped Disturbances. Dissertation, University of Wyoming.
Yang, Jing, 2018: Vertical Air Motion and Phase Partitioning in Convective Clouds: Observing and Modeling Studies. Dissertation, University of Wyoming.
Christian, Jordan, 2017: Radar kinematic information as surrogate for isentropes in stratiform precipitation systems. Thesis, Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming.
Faber, Spencer, 2017: Error characterization for airborne cloud probes using laboratory calibration and in-situ analysis. Thesis, Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming. https://www.uwyo.edu/atsc/directory/faculty/French/french-research/class_materials/faber_thesis_final.pdf
Grasmick, Colton, 2017: Linking Convective Outflow Boundaries in the Nocturnal Boundary Layer to MCS Maintenance. Thesis, Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming.
Lin, Guo, 2017: Characterizing Environmental Boundary Layer Conditions around Nocturnal Convective Storms. Thesis, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder/University of Wyoming.
Moser, Daniel, 2017: A numerical modeling investigation of entrainment in cumulus congestus clouds and its effects upon precipitation. Dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/99241
Mueller, Dana, 2016: Vertical structure and evolution of bores observed during PECAN. Thesis, Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming.
Sulskis, Jason, 2016: A comparison and survey of the measured cloud liquid water context and an analysis of the bi-modal droplet spectra observed during the summer of 2013 convective precipitation experiment. Thesis, Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming.
Sullivan, Sharon, 2016: June 9-10, 2015: A case study of the great plains low-level jet during PECAN (Plains Elevated Convection at Night). Thesis, Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016MsT.........14S/abstract
Welsh, Daniel, 2016: Understanding Heavy Lake-Effect Snowfall: the vertical structure of Radar Reflectivity in a Deep Snowband over and Downwind of Lake Ontario. Thesis, Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming.
David, Robert O., 2015: Cloud Dynamics and Microphysics during CAMPS: A Comparison between Airborne and Mountaintop Cloud Microphysics. Thesis, Atmospheric Sciences, University of Nevada Reno, 129 pp. https://www.proquest.com/docview/1696775016/C3A2F8FBBBC941B6PQ/1
Pauly, Rebecca, 2015: An Evaluation of PBL Parameterizations Utilizing Compact Airborne Raman Lidar Data. Thesis, Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming.
Snare, Dustin, 2015: A comparison of ground-based and aircraft-bsed Methane emissions flux estimates in a Western Oil and natural gas production Basin. Thesis, Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming.
Bergmaier, Philip, 2014: Characteristics and climatology of Drylines occuring Over the Higher Terrain of Southeast Wyoming. Thesis, Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming.
Jing, Xiaoqin, 2014: Dual-Polarization Radar Data Analysis of the Impact of Ground-Based Glaciogenic Seeding of Winter Orographic Clouds. Thesis, Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming.
Pokharel, Binod, 2014: Multi-Sensor Study of the Impact of Ground Based Glaciogenic Seeding on Orographic Clouds and Precipitation. Dissertation, University of Wyoming.
Peng, Liran, 2013: Ice Generation in Wave Clouds: Observation, Analysis, and Parameterization Evaluation. Thesis, Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming.
Yang, Yang, 2013: Snow Transport patterns in Orographic Storms as Estimated from Airborne vertical-plane Dual- Doppler Radar Data. Thesis, Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming.
Stemmler, J. D., 2012: The effect of cloud processes on microphysical and optical properties in oceanic stratocumulus. Thesis, Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming.
Wang, Y., 2012: An observational study of the processes of entrainment and detrainment of cumulus clouds using in situ and airborne cloud radar data. Dissertation, University of Wyoming.
Vogt, J., 2010: Airborne observations of horizontal pressure perturbations from the 21 May 2008 storm system. Thesis, Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming.
Czikowsky, Matthew J., 2009: Observations of the transient characteristics of the hydrological balance. Dissertation, State University of New York at Albany, 228 pp. https://www.proquest.com/docview/305093967/C3A2F8FBBBC941B6PQ/3
Demko, J. C., 2009: An observational and numerical modeling study of the evolving convective boundary layer and orographic circulation around the Santa Catalina Mountains in Arizona. Dissertation, University of Wyoming.
Pokharel, B., 2009: The removal of ultrafine nuclei in mountain wave clouds. Thesis, Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming. https://www.proquest.com/openview/4e4469582c3aa195f58ac89ca835b48b
Olson, Joseph Benjamin, 2008: The structure and dynamics of barrier jets along the southeast Alaskan coast. Dissertation, Stony Brook University, 157 pp. https://www.proquest.com/docview/304392340/C3A2F8FBBBC941B6PQ/2
Rahn, D. A., 2008: Forcing and structure of the 22-25 June 2006 coastally trapped wind reversal using aircraft observations and numerical simulations. Dissertation, University of Wyoming.
Miller, Scott, 2007: STILT-CO: A New Lagrangian Air Pollution Model for Carbon Monoxide. Senior Thesis, Harvard University.
Leon, D. C., 2006: Observations of drizzle cells in marine stratocumulus. Dissertation, University of Wyoming.
Matross, D. M., 2006: Regional scale land-atmosphere carbon dioxide exchange: Data design and inversion within a receptor oriented modeling framework. Dissertation, Harvard University, 178 pp. https://people.seas.harvard.edu/~swofsy/matross.phdthesisbound.harvard2006.pdf
Miao, Q., 2006: Fine-scale vertical structure of clear-air echoes during the International H2O Project as detected by an airborne Doppler radar. Dissertation, University of Wyoming.
Rahn, D., 2006: Diagnosis of the forcing and structure of the coastal jet near Cape Mendocino using in situ observations and numerical methods. Thesis, Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming.
Walters, S. L., 2006: Boundary layer dynamics and eddy fluxes in horizontal roll convection during lake-effect snow storms. Thesis, Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming.
Damiani, R. R., 2005: The structure of thermals in cumulus from airborne dual-Doppler radar observations. Dissertation, University of Wyoming. https://www.proquest.com/openview/b00053cde7fd78e99818eeb1d5090daa/
Gerbush, M. R., 2005: Surface heat fluxes over Lake Erie pack ice fields. Thesis, Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming.
Sipprell, B. D., 2005: Fine-scale observations of a pre-convective convergence line in the central Great Plains on 19 June, 2002. Thesis, Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming.
Yang, Q., 2005: Horizontal convective rolls in cold air over water: Buoyancy characteristics of coherent plumes detected by an airborne radar. Thesis, Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming.