Dr. Alexander Gluhovsky

Associate Professor of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences and Statistics
 

E-mail: aglu@purdue.edu

Associated Website(s): Climate & Extreme Weather (CLEW), Mesoscale Convection and Tornado Research Group (MCT), Climate Change and Computational Science

Education

M.S. (Mathematics/Statistics) Moscow State University 1967

Ph.D. (Applied Mathematics) USSR Academy of Sciences 1973

 
Research Interests

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Coherent Structures in Turbulent Flows, Predictability, Resampling Methods for Atmospheric Time Series, Statistics of Extremes in Weather and Climate.
 
Teaching Interests

  • STAT 225 Introduction to Probability Models

  • STAT 301T Elementary Statistical Methods

  • STAT 350 Introduction to Statistics

  • STAT 416 / MA 416 Probability

  • MA 490 Nonlinear Dynamics

  • STAT 490T Introductory Time Series

  • STAT 503 Statistical Methods for Biology

  • STAT 511 Statistical Methods

  • ATMS 591 Chaotic Dynamics

  • ATMS 591 Turbulence and Dynamical Systems

  • EAS 591S Statistical Methods for Atmospheric Sciences
 
Professional Experience

  • 2007 - present, Associate Professor, Dept. of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences and Dept. of Statistics, Purdue University

  • 1996 - 2007, Visiting Professor, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue University

  • 1995 - 2007, Senior Research Scientist, Dept. of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University

  • 1992 - 1995, Visiting Professor, Dept. of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University

  • 1981 - 1992, Senior Research Scientist, Institute of Atmospheric Physics , USSR Academy of Sciences

  • 1973 - 1981, Research Scientist, Institute of Atmospheric Physics , USSR Academy of Sciences

 
Research Grants

Current

  • Co-PI “Modeling Coherent Structures in Convective Boundary Layers”, NSF, Grant ATM-0514674 ($407,722), Sept. 2005 – Aug. 2008.

  • Co-PI “Sub-Daily Scale Extreme Precipitation in Future Climate-Change Scenarios: A Pilot Study”, NSF, Grant ATM-0541491 ($275,075), Feb. 2006 – Jan. 2008

Previous

  • PI “Modeling Mesoscale Circulations by Coupled Nonlinear Systems”, NSF, Grant ATM-0413382 ($60,605), Oct. 2004 – Sept. 2005.

  • PI “Modeling Mesoscale Convection by Coupled Nonlinear Systems”, NSF, Grant ATM-9909009 ($255,071), Feb. 2000 - Jan. 2004.

  • Co-PI “Understanding and Prediction of Critical Transitions in Complex Systems”, UCLA ($153,733), Jan. 2001 – Feb. 2003.

  • PI “Modeling Mesoscale Convection by Coupled Nonlinear Systems”, NSF, Grant ATM-9523572 ($210,340), Dec. 1995 - June 1999.

 
Selected Publications

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

  • Gluhovsky, I., and A. Gluhovsky, 2007: Smooth location dependent bandwidth selection for local polynomial regression. J. Amer. Stat. Assoc., 102, 718-725.

  • Gluhovsky, A. (2006). Energy-conserving and Hamiltonian low-order models in geophysical fluid dynamics. Nonlin. Processes Geophys., 13, 125-133.

  • Gluhovsky, A, Zihlbauer, M., and Politis, D. N. (2005). Subsampling confidence intervals for parameters of atmospheric time series: block size choice and calibration. J. Statist. Computation and Simulation, 75, 381-389.

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

  • Gluhovsky, A., Tong, C., and Agee, E. (2002).  Selection of modes in convective low-order models. J. Atmos. Sci ., 59 , 1383-1393.

  • Tong C., and Gluhovsky, A. (2002).  Energy-conserving low-order models for three-dimensional Rayleigh-Bénard convection. Phys. Rev. E ., 65 , 046306 (11 pages).

  • Gluhovsky, A., and C. Tong (1999). The structure of energy conserving low-order models. Phys. Fluids , 11, 334 - 343.

  • Gluhovsky, A., and E. M. Agee (1994). A definitive approach to turbulence statistical studies in planetary boundary layers. J. Atmos. Sci. , 51, 1682 - 1690.

  • Gledzer, E. B., A. Gluhovsky and A. M. Obukhov (1988). Modeling by cascade systems of nonlinear processes in hydrodynamics including turbulence. J. Theor. Appl. Mech. , 7, 111 - 128.

  • Gluhovsky, A. (1982). Nonlinear systems that are superpositions of gyrostats. Sov. Phys. Doklady , 27, 823 - 825.

  • Gluhovsky, A., and M. I. Fortus (1982). Estimating the statistical reliability of empirical orthogonal functions. Izv. Acad. Sci. USSR, Atmos. Oceanic Phys. , 18, 345 - 351.

  • Gluhovsky, A., A. M. Obukhov and V. I. Klyatskin (1980). Hydrodynamic models and reversal phenomena. Atmospheric Physics and the Problem of Climate , G. S. Golitsyn and A. M. Yaglom, Eds. Nauka, Moscow, 114 - 138.

  • Gluhovsky, A., 1971: Statistical description of Brownian motion of a particle in turbulent flow. Izv. Acad. Sci. USSR, Atmos. Oceanic Phys. , 7 , 687 - 690.