Cristina Leuba Perez

** Curriculum Vitae (August 2005)

Research Interests

* Clouds and tropical atmospheric convection
* Fluid dynamics
* Atmosphere and ocean dynamics
* Predictability issues in weather and climate
* Signal processing with environmental and biological applications
* Risk and vulnerability issues in the developing world as related to climate
* Dynamical systems
* Stochastic differential equations

* My Ph.D. thesis is downloadable from this page at the Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado.

Peer Reviewed Publications

* On the use of additive vs. multiplicative forcing in a two-timescale approach to modeling the El Niño-Southern Oscillation
C. L. Perez, A. M. Moore and K. Julien
In preparation for submission to Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans
* Equilibrium properties of tropical deep convection in cloud-resolving simulations using the weak temperature gradient approximation
C. L. Perez, A. H. Sobel, G. Gu, C.-L. Shie, W.-K. Tao and D. E. Johnson
Accepted Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, August 2005.
* A Comparison of the Influence of Additive and Multiplicative Stochastic Forcing on a Coupled Model of ENSO
C. L. Perez, A. M. Moore, J. Zavala-Garay and R. Kleeman
In press Journal of Climate, September 2005.
Connect to pre-print/abstract at the AMS website
* The Response of a coupled model of ENSO to observed estimates of stochastic forcing
J. Zavala-Garay, A. M. Moore, C. L. Perez and R. Kleeman
Journal of Climate, vol. 16, No. 17, September 2003, pp. 2827-2842.
* Hilbert-Huang analysis of BWR neutron detector signals: applications to DR calculation and to corrupted signal analysis,
M. E. Montesinos, J. L. Muñoz-Cobo and C. L. Perez
Annals of Nuclear Energy, vol. 30, Issue 6., April 2003, pp. 715-727.
* A Non-normal View of the Wind-Driven Ocean Circulation,
A. M. Moore, C. L. Perez and J. Zavala-Garay
Journal of Physical Oceanography, vol. 32, September 2002, pp. 2681-2705.

Conference Proceedings

* Simulation of tropical precipitation using the weak temperature gradient approximation to the Goddard Cumulus Ensemble model
C. L. Perez, A.H. Sobel, G. Gu, D. Johnson, C.-L. Shie and W. -K. Tao
Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology,
American Meteorological Society, 3-7 May 2004.
Presentations:
* Ensemble Averaging of Gulf Stream Forecasts Using Contour Analysis
Presented at the 1998 Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union.
Click here for the abstract.
* The dynamics of Intraseasonal Variability in the Western Tropical Pacific as Revealed by Singular Vector Analysis
 Presented at the Second Hayes Symposium part of the 1998 Annual Meeting of the American Meterological Society.
Click here for the abstract.