Kevin Viner

Research Assistant, Ph.D. student

Department of Atmospheric Sciences

Texas A&M University

St. Andrews cross pattern of internal-gravity waves created by an oscillating heating/cooling bubble at the center in a constant static stability environment. The angle of the arms from the center is determined by the frequency of the oscillation. The x-z buoyancy field is shown above, but the pattern is axisymmetric so it is the same as x-y and y-z.

I. PERSONAL

II. OLD RESEARCH

III. CURRENT RESEARCH

IV. SIDE PROJECTS

Born: May 4, 1980

Hometown: Lisle, IL (20 miles west of Chicago)

My house in winter. I like to look at this picture to remind myself that there are actual four seasons, not just two: hot and hotter (Texas sux!).

My girlfriend of six years…i think…Sophronia (Chantal) with someone who really enjoys lavender.

She sells insurance for State Farm, and while I haven’t really gotten any great discounts, I plan to one day (very soon) retire and spend my days walking the dog, cleaning, cooking and living off of her money. I was told that my meager wages as a future professor would not be necessary unless I was uncomfortable with a woman making all the money in the house…I’m not.

Oh yea, I did these other things in my spare time:

B.S. Atmospheric Sciences specializing in Synoptic Meteorology, Purdue University, 2002

M.S. Atmospheric Sciences specializing in Synoptic Dynamics, Purdue University, 2004

Ph.D. Atmospheric Sciences specializing in Numerical Modeling, Texas A&M University, hopefully before I’m 30!!

Component wave merger/explosive cyclogenesis diagnosis using interaction terms of the Zwack-Okossi (Z-O) surface geostrophic vorticity/surface pressure equation coupled with piecewise QGPV inversion.

manuscript

2-D Eady model with Klemp-Wilhelmson time differencing

2-D Rossby, Eady, and Charney eigenvalue solvers with flags for third order Runge-Kutta (RK3) differencing, implicit biasing, divergence damping, time filtering, and small-step integration of buoyancy.

2D/3D incompressible model with conjugate gradient Poisson solver (see above picture)

2D movie