Dale R. Durran Professor of Atmospheric Sciences Adjunct Professor of Applied Mathematics Atmospheric Sciences Box 351640 University of Washington Seattle, WA  98195-1640 telephone : (206) 543-7440 facsimile:  (206) 543-0308 drdee <at> uw [dot] edu
Research Interests Mesoscale Dynamic Meteorology Numerical Methods Atmospheric Predictability Mountain Meteorology Atmospheric Waves Machine Learning
		Iceland: International Conference on Alpine Meteorology, 2017.
		(Rain is not falling from the lenticular cloud, but blowing horizontally from the left to form the rainbow)

Curriculum Vitae

My Sculpture

Textbooks and Similar Materials

• Numerical Methods for Fluid Dynamics: with Applications in Geophysics (2nd Ed)
  
• Numerical Methods for Wave Equations in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (1st Ed)
• Animated Course Notes: Rising Air and Thunderstorms (ATMS 103)
• Flash Course Note Snippet: Developing Rotation in Mesocyclones (ATMS 103)
• Animated Course Notes: Introduction to Weather for Non-Science Majors (ATM S 101)
• Flow visualization software: The Interactive Visualization Environment (IVE)
• Errata for Introduction to Dynamic Meteorology, 4th Edition, by James Holton.

Visuals

• Fluid Dynamics Animations
  • Comparison of streamlines and trajectories
  • Vertically propagating internal gravity waves generated by a isolated source
  • Gravity waves generated by a similated 2D squall line propagating into the stratosphere
    
    
• YouTube Videos (available in HD)
  • Rocky Mountain Wave Clouds: time lapse movie photographed from Boulder, CO
  • Trapped lee waves over the western US
    
    
• Laboratory Demonstration
  • Comparing the rates of heat transport by convection and conduction
  • Watch the YouTube video in HD
    
    
• Thunderstorm development along the dryline (May 2008, note edge of low clouds in western Texas and Kansas)
  • Satellite loop only
  • Satellite with surface data

Coriolis Force Articles

• Is the Coriolis Force Really Responsible for the Inertial Oscillation (1993: BAMS, 74, 2179-2184) © Copyright 1993 AMS. This pdf incorporates the errata published in BAMS, p. 261 (probably in 1994).
• An Apparatus for Demonstrating the Inertial Oscillation (1996: BAMS, 77, 557-559) © Copyright 1996 AMS.

Publications

• Journal articles since 2000
• Selected additional works
• My Article on the Electoral College

Former Ph.D Students (listed chronologically with current affiliation)

• Louisa Nance: NCAR, Boulder, CO
• Rajul Pandya: AGU (Founding Director: Thriving Earth Exchange)
• Craig Epifanio: Texas A&M, College Station, TX
• Claudio Piani: American University, Paris, France
• Gretchen Mullendore: University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND
• Sasa Gabersek: Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA
• Daniel Kirshbaum: McGill University, Montreal, Canada
• Chih-Chieh Chen: NCAR, Boulder, CO
• Tomislav Maric: Vestas, Denmark
• P. Alex Reinecke: Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA
• Lucas Harris: GFDL, Princeton, NJ
• Justin Minder: University at Albany, Albany, NY
• Tra Dinh: University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
• Matt Hills: Weathernews, Netherlands
• Nick Siler, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
• Xiaoming Shi: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
• Maximo Menchaca, Vaisala, Seattle, WA