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..
  
  
• 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.