Recent Ph.D. Graduate Xu Lu Wins Provost's Dissertation Prize

Dr. Xu Lu, who graduated with his Ph.D. in Meteorology in December 2019, has been awarded the University of Oklahoma Provost’s Dissertation Prize! His dissertation was entitled “Improving High-Resolution Tropical Cyclone Prediction using a Cycled, GSI-Based Hybrid Ensemble-Variational Data Assimilation System for HWRF with Vortex Scale Observations”, a work he completed under the guidance of his faculty advisor, Dr. Xuguang Wang.

Dr. Lu was the only graduate selected in the science and engineering category and received a certificate and $1,000 for his outstanding research.

Congratulations, Xu!