Bart Alan Brashers, Ph.D.

Work E-mail: bbrashers@geomatrix.com Personal E-mail: bart.brashers@nyckelharpa.org UW research advisor: R.A. Brown My Dissertation Abstract, and my full Dissertation (PDF) My Resumé in HTML, PDF, and PostScript My Curriculum Vitae.

Mailing Address: Bart Brashers Geomatrix Consultants 19203 36th Ave W Suite 101 Lynnwood WA 98036

My research interests include

• Air Quality modeling, especially meso-scale multi-media modeling, e.g. MM5, CMAQ, CalPuff, etc.
• Linux clusters and parallel computing ("Beowulf" clusters)
• Dry Deposition of pollutants and acids, and fluxes of H2O, CO2, etc.
• Air-sea interaction, especially fluxes of Latent and Sensible Heat
• Remote sensing, especially the SSM/I
• PBL water vapor structure and clouds

Work Links

• PBL-LIB home page, which I used to maintain
• UW Atmos Sci Dept: Weekly Calendar and Weather Info Commands
• The Global Change Master Directory
• Meteorological Abstracts and AMS Electronic Journals and other UW Subscriptions
• Reynolds Optimally Interpolated SST page
• The IRI/LDEO Climatologies aand the NOAA PMEL Climate Server
• The Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I):
  • DMSP SSM/I Home Page and Remote Sensings Systems and GHRC SSM/I Info Page
• Data Access:
  • Langley DAAC where I Access Data
  • Goddard DAAC and NOAA's SAA
  • NCAR's Data Support Secction which has datasets including ds084.5, ds111.1, and ds111.2
  • UCAR/OFSP's CODIAC
  • The POLDAT (Polarstern data) Archive
  • Remote Sensing Systems FTP site
• PACS TEPPS info
• A nice page about moisture in the air
• Miscellaneous other work links

Swedish Folk Music and Dance Links

• The American Nyckelharpa Association's Homepage which I maintain.
• Contact list: If you want to come to the US and you perform Scandinavian folk music/dance, here's a listing of people who will help.
• My Väsen Page dedicated to the best band in the world.
• The Triangle Spelmanslag, which meets in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area of North Carolina.
• Pang i Bygget, my old band.
• Some of the tunes I've written
• The Skandia Folkdance Society of Seattle.
• Swedish-English Dictionary.
• Netscape Mail's (Communicator) Swedish dictionary; if you use Netscape's Mail program, this will allow you to spell-check your Swedish.
• Typing International characters using a standard US keyboard, also useful if you send e-mail in Swedish.

Other Links

• Seattle City Forecast and NBC News Forecast
• Riderlink Home Page, bus routes 72, 73 and 78, and Seattle Traffic Flow
• Alaska Airlines, NorthWest Airlines and TWA, all of which share frequent flier miles.
• The Dilbert Zone and Over the Hedge and UW Comics