Master's and Ph.D. Theses

(Supported directly or in part by CCR)

1963

Shulman, Mark David. A statistical study of climate-tree growth relationships in south central Wisconsin. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

White, Fred Donald, Jr. The radiative factor in the mean meridional circulation of the Antarctic atmosphere during the polar night. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

1964

Knollenberg, Robert. The distribution of string bogs in central Canada in relation to climate. M.S. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 44 pp.

Wilson, Clayton A. III. An investigation of the effect of dust on the flux of infrared radiation in India. M.S. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

1965

Bratnick, Michael. Infrared temperature patterns on Lake Superior and inferred vertical motions. M.S. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Finke, Denford Dale. A correction for the net radiometer reflection error.M.S. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 25 pp.

Hamilton, H.L., Jr. Measurements of infrared radiation divergence and temperature profiles near an air-water interface. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Joseph, Dennis H. Rainfall and Zonal index relationships over the United States in summer. M.S. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Lenschow, Donald H. Airborne measurements of atmospheric boundary layer structure. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University ofWisconsin-Madison.

McFadden, James. The interrelationship of lake ice and climate in central Canada. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Peterson, James. On the distribution of lake temperatures in central Canada observed from the air. M.S. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Super, Arlin B. A study of small-scale air mass modification over LakeMendota. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Wendland, Wayne Marcel. Analysis of measured net radiation values for Canada. M.S. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

1966

Christensen, Walter I., Jr. An investigation of the potential of component analysis for weather classification. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Gibbons, Guy. The midway village site: An intra-site analysis. M.S. thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Hurley, William. The Silver Creek sites (47-Mo-1 to Mo-5): A complex of five woodland site localities in Monroe County, Wisconsin. M.S. thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Kutzbach, John Elmer. Representation and classification of field of atmospheric variables. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Lettau, Bernhard. The use of sub-arctic bogs as natural climatic indicators. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Menon, Velayudh K. Remote sensing by infrared and microwave radiometry and a technique for correcting aerial measurement of apparent surface temperature. M.S. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

1967

Bendel, William B. The representation of the prediction equation in the Fourier-Bessel functions and its solution by the relaxation method. M.S. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 36 pp.

Lawson, Theodore L. Mean monthly and annual potential evapo-transpiration in West Africa. M.S. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Mitchell, Val Leonard. An investigation of certain aspects of tree growth rates in relation to climate in the Central Canadian boreal forest. M.S. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Sandovel, Angelito R. Background studies for a climatology of the inter-tropical convergence zone in the western central Pacific area. Ph.D.thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.Stearns, Charles

R. Micrometeorological studies on the coastal desert of Southern Peru. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

1968

Ahrnsbrak, William F. Summertime radiation balance and energy budget of the Canadian tundra. M.S. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Blasing, Terence J. Patterns of climatic anomaly over the upper Midwest in summer. M.S. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Nagatani, Ronald M. The dynamic influences of diabatic heat sinks and the Himalayan Mountain Range on the vertical motion field over India. M.S. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Peterson, James Teigen. Measurements of atmospheric aerosols and infrared radiation over northwest India and their interrelationship. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

1969

Berryman, Bruce F. Objective typing of hemispheric 700 mb height charts. M.S. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Cohen, Edward H. Eigen vector analysis of precipitation patterns in Wisconsin. M.S. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Cole, Henry S. Objective reconstruction of the paleoclimatic record through the application of eigen vectors of present-day pollen spectra and climate to the late-Quaternary pollen stratigraphy. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Ilesanmi, Oluwafemi Ojo. A study of Nigerian rainfall patterns from the view-point of precipitation dynamics. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Mitchell, Val. The regionalization of climate in Montane areas. Ph.D.thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

1970

Webb, Thompson III. The late- and post-glacial sequence of climatic events in Wisconsin and east-central Minnesota: Quantitative estimates derived from fossil pollen spectra by multivariate statistical analysis. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 161 pp.

1971

Bauer, Kenneth George. Linear prediction of a multivariate time series applied to atmospheric scalar fields. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 180 pp.

Donley, David Lee. Analysis of the winter climatic pattern at the time of the Mycenaean decline. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 156 pp.

Reitan, Clayton Harold. An assessment of the role of volcanic dust in determining modern changes in the temperature of the northern hemisphere. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 147 pp.

Sanchez, Walter Aurelio. The climate of the 1960's in the Americas .M.S. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Sargent, Stephen L. A numerical solution to the transfer equation for infrared radiation in a non-gray, absorbing, emitting and scattering atmosphere. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Wendland, Wayne Marcel. Dating the temporal limits of climatic episodes during the Holocene. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 119 pp.

1972

Moran, Joseph Michael. An analysis of periglacial climatic indicators of late glacial time in North America. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 160 pp.

Nicholson, Sharon E. A pollution model for street level air. M.S. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

1973

Battel, Gary F. The delimitation of the tropical savanna by confluence boundaries and gradients of associated climatic parameters. M.S. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Robertson, Alan E. The persistence of sea surface temperature anomalies in the N. Atlantic and N. Pacific Oceans. M.S. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Sorenson, Curtis J. Interrelationships between soils and climate and between paleosols and paleoclimates: Forest/tundra ecotone, North Central Canada. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 224 pp.

1974

Carlson, John D. Springtime anticyclones over Hudson Bay and the Great Lakes--A study of regional subsidence in relation to surface energy budget changes from April to June. M.S. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Chu, Pao S. Reconstruction of the climatic fluctuations over the Ohio area. M.S. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

McDonald, Neil S. The three dimensional nature of Australian winter air masses.Ph.D. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 192 pp.

Moertl, Paul E. Climatic change over North America as shown by cyclonic activity in the period 1901-1970. M.S. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Peterson, Gilbert M. Pollen analysis of cave and surface sediments in central Kentucky. M.S. thesis, Department of Geology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

1975

Blasing, Terence Jack. Methods for analyzing climatic variations in the North Pacific sector and western North America for the last few centuries. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 177 pp.

1976

Dunwiddie, Peter. Tree growth in subalpine meadows in the wind river mountains, Wyoming. M.S. thesis, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Johnson, William C., The impact of environmental change on fluvial systems: Kickapoo River, Wisconsin. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Kay, Paul A. Post-glacial history of vegetation and climate in the forest-tundra transition zone, Dubawnt Lake region, Northwest territories, Canada. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Nicholson, Sharon Elaine. A climatic chronology for Africa: Synthesis of geological, historical, and meteorological information and data. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Pollack, John A. Climate reconstruction from pollen in annually-laminated lake sediments -- an application to a 2040 pollen chronology from Northern Wisconsin. M.S. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Velie, Edward. A multivariate model of corn yield response to climate for the North Central United States. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

1977

Clark, Douglas R. Modeling the seasonal and interannual variations in regional hydrologic balances. M.S. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Dittberner, Gerald John. A physically based climate model of hemispheric mean surface temperature with predictive capability. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 168 pp.

Redmond, Kelly Thomas. An atmospheric emissivity approximation suitable for climate modeling. M.S. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

1978

Benuzzi, Eugene Joseph. Chandler period atmospheric oscillation at the 700h ectopascal level over the northern hemisphere. M.S. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 31 pp.

Berge, Arden J. Carbon 13 in tree rings of a Wisconsin oak and its implications for changes in atmospheric CO2. M.S. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 96 pp.

Goodman, Brian M. Secular variations of the mean annual atmospheric transparency in the northern hemisphere. M.S. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 46 pp.

1979

Michaels, Patrick J. Atmospheric anomalies and crop yields in North America. Ph.D. thesis, Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 270 pp.

Phillips, Thomas J. The climatic impact of sea surface temperature anomalies on zonally symmetric and asymmetric flows: A quasi-geostrophic modeling approach. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 165 pp.

Virji, Hassan. Summer circulation over South America from satellite data. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 146 pp.

1980

Lenzen, Allen Joseph. Diagnostic study of warm-core anticyclones associated with a blocking circulation pattern. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 205 pp.

1981

Ahlquist, Jon Elling. Normal mode global Rossby waves: Theory and observations. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 93 pp.

Clark, Douglas Robison. Regional hydrologic models for climatology: An application to three Wisconsin watersheds. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 89 pp.

Gamache, Monique Marie. A diagnostic study of a general circulation model by examination of the seasonal cycle. M.S. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 76 pp.

1982

Nash, Eric. A critical comparison of two theories of the atmospheric Chandler and "Pole tide". M.S. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 28 pp.

Pearson, Douglas C. Periodic interannual variations of midwestern UnitedStates temperatures in December. M.S. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 76 pp.

Redmond, Kelly. A zonal monthly northern hemisphere climate model. Ph.D.thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Weickmann, Klaus M. Intraseasonal fluctuations in near global-scale modes of circulation and outgoing longwave radiation during northern hemisphere winter. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Winkler, Marjorie J. Late-glacial and postglacial vegetation history of Cape Cod and the paleolimnology of Duck Pond, South Wellfleet, Massachusetts. M.S. thesis, Institute for Environmental Studies – Land Resources Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 118 pp.

1983

Campbell, William. Possible tidal modulation of the Indian Monsoon Onset, Ph.D. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Gajewski, Konrad. On the interpretation of climate change from the fossil record: Climatic change in central and eastern United States for the past 2000 years estimated from pollen data, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Goodman, Brian. Climatic impact of volcanic activity, PhD thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

House, Tamzy. A Candidate Hypothesis for the Generation of Quasi-Biennial Variations in Sea Level Pressure, Ph.D. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 279 pp.

Lussky, Glenn. A global-scale analysis of 30-60 day fluctuation of out going longwave radiation and 250mb winds, MS thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Peterson, Gilbert M.. Holocene vegetation and climate in the western USSR, Ph.D. thesis, Institute for Environmental Studies - Land Resources Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

1984

DeBoar, Larry. Further studies into periodic interannual variations of early winter temperatures in central North America. MS thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Knutson, Thomas. Global scale intraseasonal oscillations of out going longwave radiation and 250mb zonal wind during northern hemisphere summer. MS thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 126 pp.

O'Connor, William P. The wobble of the earth and the low frequency dynamics of the ocean. PhD thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

1985

Winkler, Marjorie Green. Late-Glacial and Holocene Environmental History of South-Central Wisconsin: A study of Upland and Wetland Ecosystems. PhD, IES-Land Resources, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

1987

Pyeatt, John S. The Seasonal Cycle of Planetary-scale Divergent Circulations: A Comparison of Observed Fields and Model Simulation. MS thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 97 pp.

1988

LaFontaine (Shea), C. Vada. Comparison of the Simulated Climate and Geologic Observations from Equatorial Land Regions for the past 18,000 years, MS thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 62 pp.

Meyer, M.K. Net Primary Productivity Estimates for the Last 18,000 Years Evaluated from Simulations by a Global Climate Model. MS thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 39 pp.

1990

Alexander, Michael A. Interactions between the North Pacific Ocean and the Northern Hemisphere during El Nino. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 150 pp.

1992

Coe, Michael T. The response of the simulated hydrologic cycle to interglacial and glacial boundary condtions: Implications for major continental drainage basins and ocean basins. MS Thesis, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 53pp.

Vavrus, Stephen J. Sensitivity of a coupled ocean-atmosphere model to improved sea-ice parameterizations: Implications for orbitally-induced climate changes. MS Thesis, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 95pp.

1993

Foley, Jonathon A. Climate and the terrestrial biosphere: a numerical investigation of global environment change. Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 249pp.

1994

Delworth, Thomas L. Soil wetness and climate variability. Ph.D. Thesis Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 156pp.

1995

Levis, Samuel. The simulated terrestrial hydrologic budget of a land surface model bounded by observed climatology. MS Thesis, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 44pp.

1997

Coe, Michael T. Global simulations of lakes and river transport in climate models, and investigations of lake/cliamte feedbacks during the middle Holocene. Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 121pp.

Vavrus, Stephen J. Estimating the response of the sea-ice ocean-atmosphere system to paleoclimatic orbital variations using numerical models. Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 210pp.

1998

Carrington, Dana P. Climate sensitivity to wetlands and wetland vegetation in mid-Holocene North Africa. MS Thesis, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 37pp.

Costa, Marcos Heil. Water resources in the Amazon basin: Potential effects of environmental change. Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison,187pp.

Hurlin, William J. Freshening events in the Labrador Sea: An ocean model simulation related to decadal scale variability. Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, XXpp.

1999

Hopp, Marianne J. Disease vectors and climate: Modeling the potential effects of climate variability on aedes aegypti, the Dengue vector. Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Land Resources, Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 218pp.

Levis, Samuel. Bi-directional interactions simulated by a synchronously coupled atmosphere-vegetation model. Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Liu, Hui-Chun. A numerical study of cirrus clouds. Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 257 pp.

2000

Huang, Boyin. Understanding the temperature trends in the upper oceans. Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Lin, H.M. The microphysical characteristics of summer time thunderstorms in Subtropics and High Plains from a 3-D model simulation. Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Ramankutty, Navin. The role of land use in the terrestrial biosphere: past, present, and future. Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Land Resources, Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

2002

Shin, Sang-IK. Understanding the climate of the Last Glacial maximum using a climate system model. Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 178 pp.

2003

Casal, Tania Gil Duarte. Ice sheet mass balance simulations for Greenland the Tibetan Plateau. M.S. Thesis, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 48 pp.

2004

Tjiputra, Jerry Fong. Analysis of seasonal chlorophyll and nutrient distribution using an adjoint three-dimensional ocean carbon cycle model. M.S. Thesis, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 70 pp.

Howard, Matthew T.  Modeling of Particulate Organic Carbon Fluxes in the Ocean with Mineral Ballasting. MS Thesis, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 77pp.

Wang, Lihua. — nonthesis Master's degree, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison

2005

Wu, Qingfang — nonthesis Master's degree (DeWeaver), Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Zhong, Yafang — nonthesis Master's degree (Liu), Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

2006

Ong, Everest T. Response of South American climate to orbital forcing from Middle Holocene to present, M.S. thesis, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Lee, Dong Eun. The impact of Ekman advection on the North Pacific coupled climate variability, Ph.D. thesis, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 163 pp.