People | Dana E. Veron

Dana E. Veron
Associate Professor
Physical Ocean Science and Engineering
University of Delaware
College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment
114 B Robinson Hall
 Phone: 1-302-831-4842

dveron@udel.edu

 

Education

  • B.A., Physics, SUNY College at Geneseo, 1995.
  • Ph.D., Oceanography, UC San Diego - Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 2000.

Research Interests

Climate change, off-shore wind resource assessment, sea breeze circulation, land surface-atmospheric interactions, stochastic radiative transfer, cloud-aerosol-radiation interactions, , Arctic energy balance, surface optical properties.

Current Projects

  • Analysis of observed winds over Delaware Bay and surrounding areas
  • Modeling of sea breeze circulation in Delaware Bay
  • Investigation of land-atmosphere interactions using regional scale atmospheric model
  • Development of a stochastic cloud-radiation parameterization
  • Cluster analysis of cloud regimes in the Tropics
  • Investigation of radiative transfer through mixed-phase clouds
  • Use of regional scale models for development of cloud field statistics
  • Investigation of cloud forcing characteristics and feedbacks during the NAO
  • Improving AGCM temperature and moisture profiles in the polar regions

Research Group

  • Chris Hughes, is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Geography.  He began his studies in September 2011.  He obtained a M.S. from the Oceanography program in the spring of 2011.  Chris's research focuses on the Delaware Sea/Bay Breeze.
  • Joe Brodie, is a M.S. student in the Physical Ocean Science and Engineering program.  He began his studies in September 2011. 
  • Justin Gilchrist, is a M.S. student in the Physical Ocean Science and Engineering program.  He began his studies in September 2011. 

Teaching

Offshore Wind Power - MAST 628

Polar Meteorology and Oceanography - MAST/GEOG 667

Climate Change - MAST/GEOG/GEOL 367

Radiative Transfer in the Atmosphere and Ocean - MAST 667

Paleoclimatology - GEOG 459/659

Oceans and Climate - MAST 809

Climate Dynamics - GEOG

Water, Water, Everywere - UNIV 111

Selected Publications

 Lane, D. E., K. Goris, R. C. J. Somerville, 2002: Radiative transfer through broken cloud fields: Observations and model validation. Journal of Climate, 15(20), 2921-2933.

 
Feingold, G., W. L. Eberhard, D. E. Veron, and M. Previdi, 2003: First measurement of the Twomey indirect effect using ground-based remote sensors. Geophysical Research Letters, 30(6), 1287, doi:10.1029/2002GL016633.
 
Lane-Veron, D. E., and R. C. J. Somerville, 2004: Stochastic Theory of Radiative Transfer Through Generalized Cloud Fields, Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, doi:10.1029/2004JD004524.
 
Previdi, M., and D. E. Veron, 2005: North Atlantic Oscillation-related climate variability in a regional atmospheric model,  Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, D16106, doi:10.1029/2005JD005764.
 
Previdi, M., and D. E. Veron, 2007: North Atlantic Cloud Cover Response to the North Atlantic Oscillation and Relationship to Surface Temperature Changes, J. Geophy. Res., 112(D7), DOI 10.1029/2006JD007516.
Foster, M. and D. E. Veron, 2008:Investigating the Shortwave Radiative Effects of Cloud Field Geometry in the Tropical Western Pacific, Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, D22205, doi:10.1029/2007JD009581.
Fairall, C.J., J. Hare, T. Uttal, D. Hazen, M. Cronin, N. Bond and D. E. Veron, 2008: Clouds, Radiation, and Surface Forcing in the Equatorial Eastern Pacific, Journal of Climate, 21, 655-673.
Foster, M., and D. E. Veron, 2009: Employing Cluster Analysis for Identifying Cloud Scenes with Significant 3D RT Effects, Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, accepted with minor revisions.
Francis, J. A., W. Chan, D. J. Leathers, J. R. Miller and D. E. Veron, 2009: Winter Northern Hemisphere weather patterns remember summer Arctic sea-ice extent, Geophysical Research Letters, 36, L07503, doi: 10.1029/2009GL037274.
Veron, D. E., C. P. Weaver, F. Veron, and M. Foster, 2009: Stochastic radiative transfer on RAMS cloud fields. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 6(2), 184-188.
Kempton, W., F. Pimenta, D. E. Veron and B. Colle, 2009: Uninterrupted Electric Power from Offshore Wind via Synoptic-Scale Interconnection, Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, 107(16),7240-7245, doi: 10.1073/pnas.0909075107.
Kassianov, E. and D. Veron, 2011: Stochastic Radiative Transfer in Markovian Mixtures: Past,
Present and Future Events, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, 112,
566-576. (pdf)
Muscarella, P., N. Barton, B. L. Lipphardt, Jr., D. E. Veron, and A. D. Kirwan, Jr., 2011: Surface
Currents and Winds at the Delaware Bay Mouth, Continental Shelf Research, 31, 1282–1293.
Barton, N. P., and D. E. Veron, 2011: Cloud Radiative Forcing in ERA-40 and the Relation to
Changes in Sea Ice Concentrations, International Journal of Climatology, accepted.
Barton, N. P., and D. E. Veron, 2011: Investigating Cloud-Ice Feedbacks over the Laptev Sea using a Regional Atmospheric Model, Climate Research, accepted.
 

Former Students

  • Koushby Majagah
  • Michael Previdi
  • Michael J. Foster
  • Neil Barton

 



  • College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment  •   111 Robinson Hall  •   Newark, DE 19716  •   USA
    Phone: 302-831-2841  •   E-mail: ceoe-info@udel.edu