ARPS Model Development Team
ARPS model development team is consisted of a number of scientists,
supporting staff and graduate students. Here is a list of people in the team,
along with their responsibilities involving ARPS as of September 1998. For a
general picture of the CAPS organizational structure,
click here.
Scientists from Coastal
Meteorology Research Program (CMRP) also made important contributions.
First, the scientists and supporting staff:
Dr. Ming Xue
( mxue@ou.edu ) - Project Director
and Senior Research Scientist, responsible for overall project coordination
and planning, model dynamics, code design and testing, module integration,
User's Guide, and vector graphics.
Dr. Kelvin Droegemeier (kkd@ou.edu)
- Center Director and Professor of Meteorology, responsible for operational
testing and evaluation, high-performance computing, model availability, documentation
design, educational outreach.
Dr. Vince Wong (vwong@ou.edu)
- Senior research scientist responsible for physics development and testing.
Dr. Keith Brewster (kbrewster@ou.edu) -
Research Scientist responsible for the development and
integration of the ARPS Data Analysis System (ADAS) as well as realtime data
acquisition/ingest and assimilation system.
Dr. Alan Shapiro(ashapiro@ou.edu) -
Senior research scientist responsible for development
of the forward-variational data assimilation system and single-Doppler retrieval
algorithms.
David Jahn (djahn@ou.edu)
Associate Director of CAPS - User Support Group Leader.
Dr. Dan
Weber (dweber@ou.edu) (Research Scientist) -
Development of terrain database management system, code optimization, model
validation and testing.
Dr. Richard Carpenter (rcarpenter@ou.edu) -
Sr. Research scientist. Lead scientist of Hub-CAPS project.
Dr. Gene Bassett (gbassett@ou.edu)
- Sr. Research scientist, responsible for parallel implementation of ARPS,
operational implementation for Hub-CAPS and CAPS.
Dr. Stephen Weygandt
(sweygan@ou.edu) - Research scientist- Development of ARPS forward-variational
data assimilation system.
Dr. Jidong Gao (jdgao@ou.edu)
- Research scientist, responsible for the development and implementation of
variational/adjoint data assimilation techniques/system for ARPS.
Dr. Donghai Wang (dhwang@ou.edu)
- Research scientist, responsible for ARPS system testing, real data simulation
and applications.
Dr. Dingchen Hou (dhou@ou.edu)
- Research scientist, responsible for ensemble system development, and real
data analysis and applications.
Dr. Henry Needman (hneeman@ou.edu)
- Graphics and operational support.
Yuhe Liu (yuhe@ou.edu) - Sr. Scientific programmer,
responsible for code integration, maintenance and user support, physics module
development and overall testing.
Yidi Liu (yliu@ou.edu) - Reseach
Associate, responsible for Doppler retrieval algorithms and system development.
Jason Levit (jlevit@ou.edu) (masters student) - ADAS development support.
Sue Weygandt (swey@tornado.caps.ou.edu)
- Publications design specialist.
The students involved are:
Jiang Zhang (jzhang@ou.edu)
- Development of ADAS cloud analysis package.
Edwin Adlerman (eadler@ou.edu)
(masters student) - Testing of adaptive mesh refinement techniques; studies
of cyclic mesocyclogenesis.
John Mewes) (jmewes@ou.edu) (masters student) - ARPS
model forecast verification.
Yvette Richardson (yrichard@ou.edu)
(doctoral student) - Dynamics of organization and transition in rotating convective
storms.
Jinxing Zong (jzong@ou.edu) (doctoral
student) - Simulation and data impact study with a supercell hailstorm.
Leilei Wang (lwang@ou.edu) (master student) - Surface
characteristics data base.
Yanming Li (yli@tornado.ou.edu)
(master student) - Student programmer. Fortran-90 conversion and testing.