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This page is maintained by Brian Fiedler. I am a Professor Emeritus in the School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma.

I am still alive

my thoughts

Semi-obligatory items:

Scientific and Mathematical sites that I maintain:

My defunct Meteorology courses:
Still teaching as an Adjunct Professor in the College of Engineering:
- Summary of ipython notebooks for DSA 5021 , also at dsa5021.net
Some video introductions to my courses:
- DSA 5021: Data Science Analytics for Meteorology
- METR 4553: Climate and Renewable Energy

some of my animations of meteorological data and simulations

Energy, climate and weather Summaries of my energy and climate seminars, and home to my other projects .

A wikipedia article mostly written by me: Idealized greenhouse model

pageview analysis of wikipedia articles for which I made a substantial contribution, especially figures

A front end to the column radiation model

Some Mathematica Notebooks, from various courses I have taught.

An ancient LaTeX page. Although the page is ancient, a class file for writing an OU dissertation or thesis is stored here. The class file is up-to-date as of 15 December 2011.

Public software that I wrote that might be useful or fun:

Two robots play scrabble
Axisymmetric Tornado Simulations with a Semi-Slip Boundary has the easy-to-use model as a supplement.
janim.py Makes html with javascript to animate a sequence of images (Python recipe)

Public software that I once maintained and thought was useful:

vplot, a vector graphics plotting utility written in python, output is in postscript
simpleSVG, a better vector graphics plotting utility written in python, output is in SVG
f90tohtml, a perl script to convert fortran source files into a hyperlinked web site
neural network freeware, written in f90

Results of some of my ancient science projects:

An axisymmetric (two-dimensional) simulation of a tornado.
A year 2006 variation on the two-dimensional theme.
A page showing 3-D numerical simulations of tornadoes with suction vortices.
simulations of dust devils
a neural network AMOS for SFO surface temperature
statistical prediction of SFO summer burnoff

Other:

my Graduate Liaison website , now defunct
My reviews at amazon.com
An art attack: OU, what you do to me...
Facebook didn't work for me. I do twitter.
my book reviews at goodreads.com
Alan Shapiro's recipe for Thai Coconut Shrimp.

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