Dr. Ernest Agee
 Dr. Ernest Agee

Professor

E-mail: eagee@purdue.edu

Curriculum Vitae <pdf>

Associated website(s): Mesoscale Convection and Tornado (MCT) Research Group, Climate & Extreme Weather (CLEW), Purdue Climate Change Research Center (PCCRC)

 

Education

Ph.D., University of Missouri (Atmospheric Science)

M.S., University of Missouri (Atmospheric Science)

B.S., Eastern Kentucky University (Math & Physics)

Research Interests

Agee (and his students) have a long track record of studying convective phenomena in the atmosphere, both shallow and deep convective systems.  Fundamental discovery has been made in the manner that microscale convective structures in the surface boundary layer develop and subsequently organize into larger mesoscale convective patterns of 2-d and 3-d geometry.  This work has focused on field investigation of wintertime cold-air outbreaks over warm ocean currents as well as the USA-Canada Great Lakes.  Intensive field observation from aircraft platforms have been undertaken over the East China Sea, the Kuroshio and Gulf Stream currents, and Lake Michigan.  Self-organizing convective patterns, observed and measured, have also been numerically simulated through Large Eddy Simulation (LES) models.  This work has been extensively supported by the NSF and DOD.  Deep convective systems, particularly severe thunderstorms and tornadoes, have also been studied both observationally and through laboratory investigation with a focus on vortex breakdown (a phenomenon in fluid mechanics that leads to turbulent vortex flows that bifurcate into multiple vortex phenomena).  Professor Agee has also published papers in the areas of climate change, solar variability, statistical meteorology, chaos theory, satellite meteorology, and radioisotope analyses of convective rainfall.  Agee's research has been funded by NSF, DOD, NOAA, IBM, NASA and computer software companies.  Agee's Science Citations are presently at 945 with an h-index of 21.

Agee has served on numerous scientific committees within the AMS, AGU, IAMAP, IUGG, NCAR, and NOAA and he continues to serve today as Purdue's Scientific Representative to UCAR.  Dr. Agee received invitations as a distinguished scientist to visit and lecture at Utrecht University, Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology-University of Hamburg, University of Tokyo, NASA, NOAA, IBM and NCAR (including the summer program for Women and Minorities).  Dr. Agee was elected to Fellow status in the AMS in 1982, named a Sagamore of the Wabash in 1990, honored with the EAS outstanding Teacher Award in 2004, the Graduate Student Mentoring Award in 2007 and the Cleveland Abbe Award (AMS) in 2010.  He has supervised 11 PhD, 27 MS and 7 BS Honors degrees as well as 9 postdoctoral students (all of whom achieved a broad field of accomplishments from professors to research scientists, forecasters to support scientists and program directors to statesmen; including one space shuttle astronaut and one recipient of an Honorary Doctorate from Purdue).  Dr. Agee has over 60 research papers in referred journals, including over 30 with former students, ranging from topics on severe storms and climate change to Great Lakes meteorology.  Dr. Agee is currently a member of the AMS, AGU, and AAAS, and during his tenure at Purdue he has served 12 years as either Head or Associate Head of the EAS department.

Teaching Interests

EAS 117 Introduction to Atmospheric Science
EAS 133 Profession of Meteorology
EAS 138 Thunderstorms and Tornadoes
EAS 230 Survey of Meteorology
EAS 391 Introduction to Atmospheric Science for Engineers/Physical Scientists
EAS 421 Application of Microcomputers to Meteorology
EAS 422 Atmospheric Dynamics I
EAS 423 Atmospheric Dynamics II
EAS 538 Cumulus Dynamics
EAS 639 Atmospheric Fluid Dynamics
EAS 690 Seminar in Atmospheric Science
EAS 698 MS Thesis Research
EAS 699 Ph.D. Dissertation Research

Awards/Honors Appointment/Elections

  • Cleveland Abbe Award, AMS (2010)

  • COS Graduate Student Mentoring Award (2007)

  • EAS Outstanding Teaching Award (2004)

  • UCAR Science Advocate Award (2003, 2004)

  • Purdue University 's Scientific Member Representative to UCAR (University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder , Colorado), 1984-present.

  • Member, Board on Oceans and Atmosphere, National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, 1993-98. Elected to 3-year term on the Executive Committee, 1995-98.

  • Sagamore of the Wabash, Named by Governor Evan Bayh (Indiana), 1990.

  • USA representative, The International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics (IAMAP); Chairman - USA IAMAP subcommittee; Member - IAMAP Cloud Dynamics Group; 1980-88.

  • Member, The United States National Committee, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics; nominated by the American Geophysical Union and appointed by the National Academy of Sciences, 1982-85 and 1985-88.

  • Member, AMS-STAC Committee on Mesoscale Meteorology, American Meteorological Society (AMS), 1985-88.

  • Trustee, The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), elected to the board by the 51 member university consortium, 1979-83.

  • Member, UCAR Nominating Committee, 1988-89; chairman, 1990.

  • Vice Chairman UNIDATA Policy Committee and Executive Committee, appointed by UCAR President, 1983-88.

  • Member, NOAA Profiler Committee, appointed by Director of NOAA-ERL, 1987-88.

  • Member, STORM Program Scientific Steering Committee and Data Management Working Group, appointed by UCAR and NOAA, 1983-88.

  • Chairman, UCAR Personnel Policy Committee, 1981-83.

  • Fellow, American Meteorological Society, elected in 1982.

  • Member, Education and Manpower Commission, AMS, 1976-80.

  • Eastern Kentucky University Awards:

    • Outstanding Alumnus Award, 1987

    • Hall of Fame, 197

    • Distinguished Alumnus Award, 1976

Professional Experience

  • July 2009-January 2010 - Interim Department Head, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University

  • 2005 - Present, Professor and Associate Head, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University

  • 2004, Professor and Acting Department Head, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University

  • 1978-present Professor, Dept. of Earth & atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University.

  • 1990-1996 Head, Dept. of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University.

  • 1972-1978 Associate Professor, Dept. of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University.

  • 1968-1972 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University.

  • May 1984 Invited Distinguished Scientist, Dept. of Physics, Institute of Meteorology and Oceanography, Utrecht University , The Netherlands

  • Summer, 1983 Invited Distinguished Scientist, NOAA Environmental Research Labs, Boulder, CO

  • August 1981 Invited Lecturer, Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology, University of Hamburg and Convener, IAMAP Special Assembly, Hamburg , FRG

  • Summer, 1980 Visiting Senior Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder , CO

  • Summer, 1979 Lecturer, NCAR's Advanced Study program for Women and Minorities, Boulder, CO

  • February 1974, 75 Scientific Participant, The Air Mass Transformation Experiment - a meteorology/oceanography field expedition over the East China Sea, invited by the Japanese government

  • August 1974, 75 Invited lecturer, Japan Meteorological Agency and University of Tokyo, sponsored by the USA-Japan Cooperative Science program

Selected Publications

  • Agee, E. M., E. Cornett, and K. Gleason, 2010:  An extended solar cycle 23 with deep minimum transition to cycle 24:  Assessments and climate ramifications.  J. Climate, 23, 6110-6114.

  • Agee, E., and E. Jones, 2010: Reply. Wea. Forecasting, 25, 341-342.

  • Gluhovsky, A., and E. Agee, 2009: Estimating higher-order moments of nonlinear time series. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 48, 1948-1954.

  • Agee, E. and E. Jones, 2009: Proposed conceptual taxonomy for proper identification and classification of tornado events. Wea. Forecasting, 24, 609-617.

  • Gluhovsky, A., and E. M. Agee, 2007: On the analysis of atmospheric and climatic time series. J. Appl. Meteor. and Climatol., 46, 1125-1129.

  • Zurn-Birkhimer, S., E. M. Agee, and Z. Sorbjan, 2005: Convective structures in cold air outbreak over Lake Michigan during Lake-ICE. J. Atmos. Sci., 62, 2414-2432.

  • Zurn-Birkhimer, Suzanne and Ernest M. Agee, 2003: Westerly flow cold air outbreak over Lake Michigan during Lake-ICE. 12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Long Beach, California, 9-13 February 2003, CD-ROM.

  • Gluhovsky, A., and E. M. Agee, 2002: Improving the statistical reliability of data analysis from atmospheric measurements and modeling. Mon. Wea. Rev., 130, 761-765.

  • Gluhovsky, A., C. Tong, and E. M. Agee, 2002: On selection of modes in convective low-order models. J. Atmos. Sci ., 59 , 1383-1393.

  • Gluhovsky, A., and E. M. Agee, 2002: Improving the statistical reliability of data analysis from atmospheric measurements and modeling. Mon. Wea. Rev. , 130 , 761-765.

  • Agee, Ernest M., 2000: Shallow convection workshop held at Purdue University . Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc ., 81 , 1370.

  • Agee, Ernest and Alexander Gluhovsky, 1999: Further aspects of large eddy simulation model statistics and inconsistencies with field data. J. Atmos. Sci., 56 , 2948-2950.

  • Agee, Ernest, and Alexander Gluhovsky, (1999). LES model sensitivities to domains, grids and large eddy time scales. J. Atmos. Sci., 56, 599-604.

  • Agee, Ernest M., (1999). 2-D or not 2-D: That is the Question. 13th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Dallas, Texas, 10-15 January 1999, 123-126.

 

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