Meteorology

Ph.D.
Saint Louis University
2016

Wildland Fire Research, Remote Sensing Tools and Air Quality Model Development

ATMS301 - Current Topics in Atmospheric Science

This 1-credit hour course will review and discuss the current literature in atmospheric science in a journal club format.  Students are expected to listen to seminars, periodically review articles, participate in discussions, and prepare questions for the presenter. Students will be expected to fill out an speaker evaluation form and write a 1-to-2-page short summaries related to each weekly topic by the preceding course date. Students may be required to present their own presentations, but are all expected to actively participate in class and online discussion forums. Outside speakers from NOAA, NASA, other agencies, and Universities will also be invited to provide their perspective. 

ATMS572 - Numerical Weather and Prediction

This 3-credit hour course will allow students to become familiar with numerical weather prediction (NWP) models, use statistical methods and software to analyze results, and implement scientific communication techniques to share their findings with broad audiences. The course involves learning and developing the skills to (1) identify appropriate data sources, (2) obtain relevant data including quality checking, (3) load data into computing packages such as Matlab or R, (4) decide what outputs the programs should provide to address specific scientific questions, (5) design algorithms and write programs/codes to read data, implement quality assurance, and check results for correctness, (6) run programs to work with large datasets and format outputs into a usable form, (7) analyze outputs using statistical methods to address scientific questions, (8) write reports and design effective visualizations of the results to communicate scientific findings to the intended audience in appropriate production formats, and (9) document the data processing and results.