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1 Prospectus UNR – University of Reno, Nevada DRI – Desert Research Institute Dr. Michael Kaplan Bo Tan

2 Content Biography Advisor’s biography My present work Plans for the future Steps Need-to-dos

3 Biography Changchun, China

4 Biography Parents:  Dad (Electrician)  Mom (Physics Journal Translator) Moved to U.S. by age 14, December 1999

5 Biography Arcadia High School  Regular English Classes in sophomore year  Marching Band Pasadena Rose Parade in 2003  Chinese Club President

6 Biography Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University  Prescott/AZ  Aeronautical Science Major (year and half) CESSNA SKYHAWK C-172S

7 Biography Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University  Applied Meteorology Major (two and half years)  First Graduating Meteorology Class Internship with University of Oklahoma/National Weather Service  African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses  2006 cases study V.P. weather club / Teaching Assi. / Tutoring Theta Xi

8 Biography UNR/DRI  Interesting place  More meteorological people  Broader perspective

9 Advisor Dr. Michael Kaplan  Over 40 years experience in most areas of meteorology  Rutgers University Meteorology B.A.1967  Rutgers University Meteorology M.S.1968  State University of New York, AlbanyAtmospheric SciencesPh.D.1972  More than 40 publications  Held positions in Public, Private, and Military sector.  Over 40 mentored students

10 Monsoon Research Topic  Mid-latitude and tropical interactions with the North American Monsoon  National Science Foundation Climate Program

11 Monsoon Research History:  Johnson, et. al. 2006: Multistage Variability of the Flow during the North American Monsoon Experiment J. Climate, 20, 1628-1648 Moisture surge relates to tropical disturbances Extra-tropical and tropical interactions near the Gulf of Mexico Upstream interactions leading to moisture surges in the Southwest

12 Monsoon Research Importance  Initiation sequences of individual moisture surge events in the southwest during the monsoon season  Mid-latitude interaction process/Rossby Wave Breaking events  What roll do mid-latitude processes, over the Gulf of Mexico, play in the surge sequences? Notably Rossby Wave Breaking and Trough Thinning Processes

13 Monsoon Research San-Jose State University  John T. Abatzoglou (Co-PI)  Simulations

14 Monsoon Research 070606Z070706Z070923Z

15 Plans for the future NASA The Lunar Surface Systems  Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center  “WASHINGTON -- NASA and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Space Enterprise Council will hold a workshop on lunar surface system concepts to support human and robotic exploration on the moon by 2020.”

16 Steps Books

17 Need-to-do Astronomy Classes Space Atmosphere Classes Laboratory Experience

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