Dr. Lee Panetta
| Title | Associate Professor |
| Research Interests |
Tropospheric stationary waves Stratospheric quasi-biennial oscillation Coherent structure formation Tracer transport Large-scale flow organization |
| Education | Ph. D., University of Wisconsin, 1978 |
| Office Location | Room 1007A, O&M Bldg |
| Office Phone | 979-845-1386 |
| Fax | 979-862-4466 |
| panetta@ariel.met.tamu.edu | |
| Mailing Address |
Department of Atmospheric Sciences Texas A&M University 3150 TAMU College Station, TX 77843-3150 |
Narrative
Dr. Panetta received a B.Sc. degree in Mathematics from McGill Universityin 1969. After a brief period of graduate study in mathematical economics at the University of Wisconsin, he transferred to the Mathematics Department there and received a Ph.D. i n 1978. His dissertation work concerned applications of non-standard analysis to probability theory and stochastic differential equations.
After a year on the tenure track in the Mathematics Department at Occidental College in Los Angeles, he accepted a position as an applied mathematician at the Space Science and Engineering Center in Madison where he was introduced to meteorology. He su bsequently held visiting scientist positions at Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton and Joint Institute for the study of the Atmosphere and the Oceans in Seattle, coming to the Atmospheric Sciences Department at Texas A&M in September 1988 .
Dr. Panetta has worked on the theory of tropospheric stationary waves, the observed structure of the stratospheric quasi-biennial oscillation, coherent structure formation and tracer transport in highly idealized models of baroclinic turbulent flow (wi th troposheric and oceanic applications) and large-scale flow organization in pure hydrodynamic circulation models of the lower atmosphere.
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