Adam Houston
Professor Earth and Atmospheric Sciences University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Contact
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BESY 305A
Lincoln NE 68588-0340 - Phone
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402-472-2416 On-campus 2-2416
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ahouston2@unl.edu
Dr. Adam Houston joined the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) faculty as an assistant professor in the Department of Geosciences in 2006. Prior to this he served as a visiting instructor at UNL in the 2005-2006 academic year and served as both a visiting assistant professor and postdoctoral research assistant in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Purdue University in the 2004-2005 academic year. Dr. Houston received his Ph.D. in atmospheric sciences from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his B.S. in meteorology from Texas A&M University.
Dr. Houston's research focus is on cloud-scale and mesoscale phenomena; specifically, those related to severe local storms. Active research projects deal specifically with deep convective initiation, the impacts of preexisting airmass boundaries on supercell rotation, climatologies of supercells and non-supercells, high-precipitation supercells, environmental controls on storm mode, and computational fluid dynamics.
Numerical experiments conducted by Dr. Houston and his research group (SSRG) utilize cloud-scale and mesoscale numerical models. Observational work primarily utilizes unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and Doppler radars.
Web page for Dr. Houston’s Severe Storms Research Group.
Education
Ph.D., 2004, University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
Atmospheric convection, severe weather, mesoscale processes, climate diagnostics
Selected Publications
Islam, A., A. Houston, A. Shankar, C. Detweiler, 2019: Design and Evaluation of Sensor Housing for Boundary Layer Profiling using Multirotors. Sensors, 19, 2481, doi: 10.3390/s19112481
Jacob, J., P. Chilson, A. L. Houston, and S. Smith, 2018: Considerations for Atmospheric Measurements with Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems as part of the CLOUD-MAP Flight Campaign. Atmosphere, 9, 252, doi: 10.3390/atmos9070252
Houston, A.L., and J.M. Keeler‡, 2018: The Impact of Sensor Response and Airspeed on the Representation of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Phenomena by Airborne Instruments. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 35, 1687–1699, doi: 10.1175/JTECH-D-18-0019.1
Hanft, W. † and A. L. Houston, 2018: An observational and modeling study of mesoscale air masses with high theta-e. Monthly Weather Review, 146, 2503-2524. doi: 10.1175/MWR-D-17-0389.1.
Limpert, G. ‡ and A. L. Houston., 2018: Ensemble Sensitivity Analysis for Targeted Observations of Supercell Thunderstorms. Monthly Weather Review, 146, 1705-1721. doi: 10.1175/MWR-D-17-0029.1.
Ford, T, S. Quiring, B. Thakur, R. Jogineedi, A. Houston, S. Yuan, A. Kalra, N. Lock †: 2018: Evaluating Soil Moisture-Precipitation Interactions Using Remote Sensing: A Sensitivity Analysis. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 19, 1237-1253. doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-17-0243.1.
Nasta, P., Z. Adane, N. Lock†, A. Houston, and J. Gates, 2018: Links between episodic groundwater recharge rates and rainfall events classified according to stratiform-convective storm scoring: a plot-scale study in eastern Nebraska. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 259, 154-161. doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2018.05.003.