My thesis work towards a Doctoral degree in Civil and Environmental
Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
focuses on the feedbacks that exist between soil moisture and precipitation during the
late Spring and early Summer. Model development of NCAR's RegCM2 is included in these tasks. Thesis
work toward a Master of Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering, completed in May,
1997 also at MIT investigated the role of soil moisture
conditions in the occurrence of floods and droughts over the Mississippi Basin.
Published papers and conference presentations include A Bivariate Stochastic Model of
Rainfall and Surface Wet-bulb Temperature, Relationship
between Surface Conditions and Subsequent Rainfall in Convective Storms, On the
Relationship between Spring Soil Moisture and Summer Precipitation over the Midwest, A
Numerical Investigation of the Role of Soil Moisture on the Surrounding Water and Energy
Balance in Floods and Droughts over the Mississippi Basin, and Soil Moisture
Distribution and its Impact on the 1998 Spring and Summer Rainfall Anomalies over the
United States.
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