User:Dr Denim

Hey all...lets see...about me...well...

Interests

 * Meteorology (esp. Tropical Cyclogenesis), Math, Physics, History (esp. naval and strategic)

Quotes

 * "Imagine a rotating sphere that is 12,800 kilometers (8000 miles) in diameter, has a bumpy surface, is surrounded by a 40-kilometer-deep mixture of different gases whose concentrations vary both spatially and over time, and is heated, along with its surrounding gases, by a nuclear reactor 150 million kilometers (93 million miles) away. Imagine also that this sphere is revolving around the nuclear reactor and that some locations are heated more during one part of the revolution and other locations are heated during another part of the revolution. And imagine that this mixture of gases continually receives inputs from the surface below, generally calmly but sometimes through violent and highly localized injections. Then, imagine that after watching the gaseous mixture, you are expected to predict its state at one location on the sphere one, two, or more days into the future. This is essentially the task encountered day by day by a weather forecaster." - Bob Ryan, BAMS, 1982

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Stuff I'm working on/planning on working on soon
(not necissarily on wikipedia)
 * -List of Florida Hurricanes - all the way back to 1851...prolly gonna need a magnifying glass to see the scrollbar once I'm done...haha
 * -Eyewall Replacement Cycles and intensification
 * -working with simple aspects of graph theory
 * -learning to use Mathematica (this one's on the backburner as my new comp doesn't have Mathematica...which my friends and I have dubbed 'Steven Wolfram's Throne of Gold Plated Vorpal Babies')
 * -Learning to program in IDL
 * -improving my tropical forecasts
 * -Working to build an IDL-based algorithm which will use IR (and possibly VIS or WV) imagery from the Atlantic basin (as of now) to identify the general location of a tropical cloud cluster. The hope is that this algorithm will be used to input the location of the clusters into a statistical model developed in part by my research advisor in hopes of eventually creating an operational version
 * -learning FORTRAN

Other Stuff

 * I'm currently (as of summer of 2006) a rising sophmore in college and am double majoring in Atmospheric Science (Climatology Branch) and Mathamatics (Applied Branch)
 * I've found that I'm better at answering questions and filling in missing information than I am at actually writing entries

Subpages

 * Ref websites

Quotes

 * "If it looks like a hurricane... it probably is..." - NHC/TPC 2100Z Vince Discussion
 * "With a slug of dry air overtaiking the center of circulation...Alberto's chances of becoming a hurricane are evaporating" - NHC/TPC 0900Z June 13, 2006 TS Alberto Discussion
 * "Jeder Jeck ist anders" (Every loony is different) - German Proverb
 * "Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get" - Robert A. Heinlein
 * Are there no fours?" - Patrick Bahls, The Founding Father who slept in a good 200 years
 * "The whole of the Balkans is not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier." - Bismarck
 * "I bet you Minh doesn't have one this big" - President Lyndon B Johnson talking at a meeting with :his pants down
 * Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar" - Sigmund Frued
 * "Imagine a rotating sphere that is 12,800 kilometers (8000 miles) in diameter, has a bumpy surface, is surrounded by a 40-kilometer-deep mixture of different gases whose concentrations vary both spatially and over time, and is heated, along with its surrounding gases, by a nuclear reactor 150 million kilometers (93 million miles) away. Imagine also that this sphere is revolving around the nuclear reactor and that some locations are heated more during one part of the revolution and other locations are heated during another part of the revolution. And imagine that this mixture of gases continually receives inputs from the surface below, generally calmly but sometimes through violent and highly localized injections. Then, imagine that after watching the gaseous mixture, you are expected to predict its state at one location on the sphere one, two, or more days into the future. This is essentially the task encountered day by day by a weather forecaster." - Bob Ryan, BAMS, 1982

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