Assistant Professor
University of North Carolina Asheville
Teaching
I am teaching the following courses at UNCA during the Spring 2008 semester:
I am also teaching a new course for Summer 2008:
You can find home pages for these and other courses from the links in the top menu. If you have questions about your course or advising, please contact me. You may also want to visit the Department of Atmospheric Sciences.
Research
My most recent research assesses the value of assimilating observations of soil temperature, soil moisture, and satellite-derived vegetation indexes in a land surface model. Results show that the accuracy of surface energy fluxes deteriorates in the Noah land surface model with a more accurate specification of the initial land surface conditions. Using a wealth of unique surface observations, I devised an empirical latent heat flux scheme that improves short-term mesoscale forecasts. One undergraduate research student is working with me to test this new scheme during a very moist warm season in the Great Plains.
Other Items
Wondering why many of the links at the top bring you back here? Apparently, UNCA likes to keep new professors pretty busy (I'm not alone with this realization), so I'll add these links when I have a spare moment. Until then, you can see my old page here.