Senior Instructor I and Program Director of the Climate Science Program
andrea.allan@oregonstate.edu

Office: 541-737-3427

Wilkinson Hall

Wilkinson Hall 244

2601 SW Orchard Avenue

2601 SW Orchard Avenue
Corvallis, Oregon 97331

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At OSU
Brief Research Interests: 

Large-scale atmospheric circulation and dynamics, present and future climatology, and global and regional climate modeling and statistical analysis

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andrea.allan@oregonstate.edu
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Specialty

I am an instructor for both the atmospheric sciences and the geography programs. I do not currently accept graduate students.

My previous research specialized in large-scale atmospheric circulation and dynamics; present and future climatology; and global and regional climate modeling and statistical analysis.

Education

Ph.D. Geography, Oregon State University (2012)

M.S. Atmospheric Science, Oregon State University (2007)

B.S. Meteorology, Penn State University (2005)

Courses

Current:

  • ATS 201 Climate Science (on-campus & e-campus)
  • GEOG 102 Physical Geography (e-campus)
  • GEOG 323 Climatology (on-campus & e-campus)


Previous:

  • ATS 320e The Changing Climate (Spring 2013)
  • GEOG 321 Climatology, University of Oregon (Fall 2010)

Publications

Boeke, R.C., A.M. Allan, and J.A. Coakley Jr. 2016: Properties of marine stratocumulus obtained with partly cloudy pixel retrievals and found in the MODIS MOD06 cloud product. J. Geophys. Res, DOI: 10.1002/2015JD024149. (link)

Allan, A.M., S.W. Hostetler, and J.R. Alder. 2014. Analysis of the present and future winter Pacific-North American teleconnection in the ECHAM5 global and RegCM3 regional climate models. Climate Dynamics, DOI 10.1007/s00382-013-1910-x. (link)

Hostetler, S.W., Alder, J.R. and Allan, A.M., 2011. Dynamically downscaled climate simulations over North America: Methods, evaluation and supporting documentation for users: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2011-1238, 64 pp. (link)