John M. Lewis

Adjunct Research Professor
Division of Atmospheric Sciences

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Dr. Lewis is interested in weather analysis and prediction including synoptic meteorology and dynamic data assimilation - a marriage between the subjective and objective components of meteorology.

RESEARCH AREAS:

• Synoptic Meteorology, Data Assimilation, and History of Science

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Lewis, J., 1972:

An operational upper-air analysis using the variational method. Tellus, 24, 514-530.

Lewis, J. C. Hayden, R. Merrill, and J. Schneider, 1989:

GUFMEX: A study of return flow over the Gulf of Mexico. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. , 70, 1193-1209.

Lewis, J., 1992:

Carl-Gustaf Rossby: A study in mentorship. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 73, 1425-1438.

Lewis, J., D. Koracin, R. Rabin, and J. Businger, 2003:

Sea fog off the California coast: Viewed in the context of transient weather systems. J. Geophys. Res., 108, No. D15, 4457.

Lewis, J., 2005:

Roots of ensemble forecasting. Mon. Wea. Rev., 133, 1865-1885.

Lewis, J., S. Lakshmivarahan, and S. Dhall, 2006:

Dynamic Data Assimilation: A Least Squares Approach. Cambridge Univ. Press, 745 pp.