Blake Rutherford

Graduate Student Teaching Assistant OFFICE: Weber Building Room 18C EMAIL: rutherfo@math.colostate.edu MAILING ADDRESS:  Department of Mathematics  Colorado State University  Fort Collins, CO 80523
	Left: The interaction of Vortical Hot Tower (VHT's) during tropical cyclone intensification with vorticity contour overlays.  The field shown  corresponds to the normal hyperbolic solution of the transformed 3D variational equation.       Above:  Time evolution of the Lagrangian eye-eyewall interface (LEEI)  (blue), and maximal shearing surface (red), during a mature tropical cyclone.

Class Information:

M340

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Mathematical Interests

·   Dynamical Systems

·   Tropical Cyclone Dynamics

·   Lagrangian Mixing

·   Image Processing

Information

·   B.A. Mathematics Texas Tech University 2001

·  M.S. Mathematics Baylor University 2003

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 - Here is my current Research Statement

Publications

B. Rutherford, G. Dangelmayr, M. Kirbyb, M. T. Montgomery, and J. Persing, Lagrangian mixing in an axisymmetric hurricane model, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss. 9, 18545-18596,  2009,  PDF

B. Rutherford, G. Dangelmayr, W. H. Schubert, M. T. Montgomery, and J. Persing, Advective mixing in a nondivergent barotropic hurricane model, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 9, 16085:16129, 2009,  PDF

A 3D hurricane eye-eyewall definition, submitted to Quart.J. Royal Meteorolog. Soc., 2009 PDF