Program Alumni

This page lists alumni of the Columbia University program in Atmospheric and Planetary Science since 1985. Please note that it does not include Columbia alumni who completed their graduate research prior to that date nor GISS graduate alumni who were affiliated with another university's degree program (e.g., New York University, Yeshiva University or Rutgers University).

Year	Student	Dissertation Title
2008	Peng Xian	Seasonal Migration of the ITCZ and Implications for Aerosol Radiative Impact
2007	Radley Horton	An Observational and Modeling Study of the Regional Impacts of Climate Variability
2006	Allegra LeGrande	The Climate Imprint on the Isotopic Composition of Water: Observations, Proxies, and Coupled Isotopic Model Simulations
	Kirstie Lynn Stramler	The Influence of Synoptic Atmospheric Motions on the Arctic Energy Budget
2005	Junye Chen	Understanding the Observed Tropical and Midlatitude Radiative Energy Budget in the Context of Long-Term Climate Variations
	Michael Bauer	Observed and Simulated Humidity Variations
2004	Duane E. Thresher	Multi-Century Simulations of LGM and Present Day Climate Using an Accelerated Coupled GCM Carrying Water Isotope Tracers, with Comparisons to Ocean Sediment/Ice Cores and Observations
	Scott M. Gianelli	Retrieving Aerosols, Ozone, and NO2 Using MFRSR, RSS, and CIMEL Data
	Li Liu	Optical Characterization of Complex Aerosol and Cloud Particles: Remote Sensing and Climatological Implications
2003	Reha V. Cakmur	Mineral Dust Variability and the Parameterization of Emission Due to Unresolved Circulations
	Max Kelley	Water Tracers and the Hydrologic Cycle in a GCM
	Jiping Liu	Sea Ice Climatology: Variations and Teleconnections: Observational and Modeling Studies
	Zhengzhao Luo	Investigation of Tropical Cirrus, Their Variability, Evolution and Relation to Upper Tropospheric Water Vapor
2002	Margaret A. Rozendaal	Characterizing the Variability of Marine Subtropical Low Clouds and Studying Their Interaction in an SCM
2000	Ting Chen	Towards a More Complete Understanding of Cloud Radiative Effects
1999	Sukeshi Sheth	Ocean Circulation Changes and Greenhouse Warming Predicted by Coupled GCMs
	Jacek Chowdhary	Multiple Scattering of Polarized Light in Atmosphere-Ocean Systems: Application to Sensitivity Analyses of Aerosol Polarimetry
	Bing Ye	Cumulus Anvil Cloud Properties, CAPE and Climate Change
	Timothy P. Eichler	An Evaluation of ENSO and Climate Change Using the GCM/ZC Model
1998	Sun Wong	The Impacts of the Antarctic Ozone Hole on the Middle Atmosphere
1997	Fan Xu	Outgoing Longwave Radiation (OLR): Variability and Retrieval
	Yao Jin	Investigation of Cirrus Cloud Climatology by Satellite Remote Sensing
	Junhong Wang	Determination of Cloud Vertical Structure from Upper Air Observations and Its Effects on Atmospheric Circulation in a GCM.
1996	Margaret Lee Kneller	Paleoclimate from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Present: Pollen and Plant Macrofossil Records from the U.S. Southeast Accompanied by a Goddard Institute for Space Studies General Circulation Model Simulation
1995	Marc Lynch-Stieglitz	Development and Validation of New Land-surface Model for Regional and Global Climate Modeling
	Aiguo Dai	Global Precipitation Variability and Its Relationship with Other Climate Changes
	Bing Lin	Observation of Cloud Liquid Water Path Over Oceans: Optical and Microwave Remote Sensing Methods
1994	Oleg Schilling	A Two-point Closure Model of Turbulent Compressible Convection and Application to Stellar Interiors
1993	Colin Price	Global Lightning Activity and Climate Change
	Judah L. Cohen	Cyclogenesis Along the East Coast of North America
1992	Mark A. Chandler	The Early Jurassic climate: General circulation model simulations and the paleoclimate record
	Qingyuan Han	Global Survey of Effective Particle Size in Liquid Water Clouds by Satellite Observations
	George Tselioudis	Global Patterns of Cloud Optical Thickness Variation with Temperature and the Implications for Climate Change
1991	Rong Fu	Deep Convection and Its Relation to the Large-scale Circulation in the Tropical Pacific
1990	Jeffrey R. Chasnov	Development and Application of an Improved Subgrid Model for Homogeneous Turbulence
	Fenglin Yin	Numerical Modeling of Ocean Deep Water Circulation
	Richard Seager	Modeling Sea-surface Temperature and Low-level Winds in the Tropics
	Helene Wilson	Measurement of Fraction of Green Vegetation Cover from Landsat in a Heterogeneous Landscape
1989	Roseanne D'Arrigo	Dendrochronological Modeling and Reconstruction of Large-Scale Climate Variability in Recent Centuries and its Relation to Atmospheric Forcing Functions
1987	Leonard Smith	Lacunarity and Chaos in Nature
1986	Katharine C. Prentice	The Influence of the Terrestrial Biosphere on Seasonal Atmosphere Carbon Dioxide: An Empirical Model
1985	Walter A. Robinson	Interactions Among Planetary Waves and the Generation of Traveling Long Waves