Thesis Access Page

Much of the material on this website has been taken from Suzanne Wetzel's M.S. thesis at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (Wetzel, 2000): "Investigation of the Dynamical and Thermodynamical Ingredients for Mid-Latitude Winter Season Precipitation."

The thesis is available for downloading in parts or as a whole from this site.

Please note: I would like to hear from you if you download any of the thesis. Please send an email to swetzel@ssec.wisc.edu.

The thesis was written in LaTeX and is available in the original post script format, or as a pdf document. Below are links to the thesis files. The complete thesis file is quite large, as it includes figures (color and b/w) so I have also made it available to download in sections.

Important Notes

I have noticed that the quality of the pdf files is poor when viewed on the screen with acroread, however they appear fine when printed out.
The majority of Chapter 2 is not included in either the "complete" thesis file nor as a separate section because this work is not directly relevant to the ingredients approach and is currently being prepared for publication.
Most figures are included in the postscript or pdf documents, however a few figures are in separate files. These figures may be viewed here (figure captions are in the text):

Fig. 3.10 (p. 97) Fig. 3.11 (p. 98) Fig. 3.16 (p. 105)

Fig. 3.18 (p. 115) Fig. 3.27 (p. 130)

Complete Thesis (except Chapter 2)

Includes title page, list of figures, list of tables, table of contents, introduction, Chapter 1, Chapter 2 (only the first few pages), Chapter 3, conclusion, appendix, and references.

pp. 0-23, 61-158

postscript
134 Mb

pdf
23 Mb

Thesis Sections:

Introduction	Includes title page, list of figures, list of tables, table of contents, and introduction.	pp. 0-14	postscript 443 Kb	pdf 149 Kb
Instability (introduction only)	Includes the first few pages of Chapter 2: an introduction to types of moist instability and diagnostics for instability.	pp. 15-23	postscript 266 Kb	pdf 92 Kb
Ingredient Descriptions	Includes descriptions of the forcing, instability, moisture, temperature, and efficiency ingredients, and the diagnostics used for each in the ingredients-based approach.	pp. 61-83	postscript 1.4 Mb	pdf 627 Kb
Ingredients-Based Approach	Includes a discussion of the ingredients-based approach to forecasting winter season precipitation, including ingredients maps (isobaric and cross-section) and snowfall accumulation estimates.	pp. 84-114	postscript 43 Mb	pdf 7.4 Mb
Case Study: Ingredients-Based Approach	Case study of the March 13-14, 1997 winter storm. Includes a synoptic overview, an investigation of the early onset of precipitation and the transition from snow to freezing rain from an ingredients perspective, and an ingredients-based forecast for the event.	pp. 114-144	postscript 90 Mb	pdf 15 Mb
Conclusions and Future Work		pp. 145-150	postscript 155 Kb	pdf 59 Kb
References		pp. 154-158	postscript 172 Kb	pdf 74 Kb

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Fig. 3.10 (p. 97)	Fig. 3.11 (p. 98)	Fig. 3.16 (p. 105)
Fig. 3.18 (p. 115)	Fig. 3.27 (p. 130)