Richard T. Mcnider, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor of Science, Atmospheric and Earth Science Contact 320 Sparkman DriveCramer Research HallRoom 3051Huntsville, AL 35899 Campus Map 256.824.6456richard.mcnider@uah.edu Biography Curriculum Vitae Education Ph.D., University of Virginia Environmental Science, 1981 M.S., Florida State University, Meteorology, 1972 B.S., University of Alabama, Mathematics, 1970 Affiliations Fellow of the American Meteorological Society Recent Publications McNider, R.T., Handyside, C., Doty, K., Ellenburg, W.L., Cruise, J.F., Christy, J.R., Moss, D., Sharda, V., Hoogenboom, G. and Caldwell, P., 2015. An integrated crop and hydrologic modeling system to estimate hydrologic impacts of crop irrigation demands. Environmental Modelling & Software, 72, pp.341-355. McNider, R. T., G. J. Steeneveld, A. A. M. Holtslag, R. A. Pielke Sr., S. Mackaro, A. Pour-Biazar, J. Walters, U. Nair,and J. Christy (2012), Response and sensitivity of the nocturnal boundary layer over land to added longwave radiative forcing, J. Geophys. Res., 117, D14106, doi:10.1029/2012JD017578. Walters, J. ,R.McNider, X. Shi, B.Norris, and J. Christy. Positive temperature feedback in the stable boundary layer. Geophys. Res. Let., vol. 34, L12709, doi:10.1029/2007GL029505, 2007 Shi, X., McNider, R. T., D. E. England, M. J. Friedman, W. Lapenta, and W. B. Norris, 2005: On the behavior of the stable boundary layer and role of initial conditions, Pure Appl. Geophys., 162, 1811-1829. McNider, R. T., W.M. Lapenta, A. Biazar, G. Jedlovec, R. Suggs, and J. Pleim, 2005: Retrieval of grid scale heat capacity using geostationary satellite products: Part I: Case-study application, J. Appl. Meteor., 88, 1346-1360 McNider, R. T., W. Norris, A. Song, R. Clymer, S. Gupta, R. M. Banta, R. J. Zamora, A. B. White, and M. Trainer: Meteorological conditions during the 1995 Southern Oxidants Study Nashville/Middle Tennessee Field Intensive. Jrnl. Geophysical Res., Vol. 103, 22,225-22,243, 1998. McNider, R. T., X. Shi, M. Friedman, and D. E. England,1995: On the predictability of the stable atmospheric boundary layer, J. Atmos. Sci., 52, 1602-1614. McNider, R. and R. Pielke - Diurnal boundary layer development over sloping terrain. Journal Atmospheric Sciences, Vol. 38, pp. 2198-2212, October 1981. R.T. McNider, M. Moran and R. Pielke, 1988 Influence of Diurnal and Inertial Boundary Layer Oscillations on Long-Range Dispersion. Atmospheric Environment, Vol. 22, pp. 2445-2462, November 1988. R. T. McNider, A. J. Song, D. Casey, P. J. Wetzel, W. Crosson, and R. M. Rabin 1994: Toward a Dynamic-Thermodynamic Assimilation of Satellite Surface Temperature in Numerical Atmospheric Models. Monthly Weather Review, Vol. 122, pp. 2784-2803, 1994.