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Adams, A. J., 2020: High resolution numerical simulation of a nocturnal mesoscale convective system: Comparison with pecan observations. MS Thesis

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Beall, M. K., 2016: Surface Layer Processes And Nocturnal Low Level Jet Development--An Observational Study During Pecan. MS Thesis.
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Carroll, B., 2020 : Observations of Low-level Jet Physics and Impacts. PhD Dissertation.
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Chipilski, H. G., 2021: Assimilation of ground-based remote sensors for improving the prediction of bore-generating nocturnal convection. University of Oklahoma, dissertation.
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Cui, W., 2021: Investigation of Mid-Latitude MCSs Cloud and Precipitation Properties and Their Associated Environments Through an Integrative Analysis of Ground Radar, Satellite and Reanalysis Data and Machine Learning Techniques. University of Arizona, dissertation.
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Degelia, S., 2021: Improving the Prediction of Nocturnal Convection through the Assimilation of Novel Datasets: Observation Impacts and Error Treatment. University of Oklahoma, dissertation.
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Eberle, G. R., 2016: Characterizing the Effects of Convection on the Afternoon to Evening Boundary Layer Transition During Pecan 2015. MS Thesis
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Flournoy, M, 2017: A Tale of Two Mesovortices: Analysis of a Simulated Severe MCS Observed By PECAN on 5-6 July 2015. MS Thesis.
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Gebauer, J., 2017: Convection Initiation By Heterogeneous Great Plains Low-Level Jets. MS Thesis

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Groff, F, 2019: Response of MCSs and low-frequency gravity waves to vertical wind shear and nocturnal thermodynamic environments. MS Thesis
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Haghi, K., 2017: Theory and observations of bores in the nocturnal environment of the Great Plains. PhD Dissertation.
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Hitchcock, S., 2018: On the environments and dynamics of nocturnal mesoscale convective systems. PhD Dissertation.
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Lillo, S., 2021: Development and Application of a Unified Framework for Meso to Synoptic Scale Error Growth Diagnosis and Weather Extremes in Global Numerical Weather Prediction. University of Oklahoma, dissertation.
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Loveless, D. M., 2017: Composite Analysis of Atmospheric Bores during PECAN Observed by Ground-Based Profiling Systems. MS Thesis.
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McAuliffe, M., 2019: The Importance of Soil Moisture Content on Numerical Simulations and the Summertime Great Plains Low Level Jet. University of California, Davis, dissertation.
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Miller, R. L., 2023: Diagnosis of Severe Wind Processes in Two Nocturnal MCSs Observed during PECAN. PhD Dissertation.
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Miller, R., 2018: Kinematics, Thermodynamics, and Microphysics of the 25-26 June 2015 Kansas MCS during PECAN. University of Oklahoma, thesis.
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Smith, E. 2018: The Great Plains Nocturnal Low-Level Jet: Spatial and Temporal Evolution. PhD Dissertation.
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Stechman, D. M., 2018: Observed microphysical characteristics and inferred thermodynamic processes contributing to the structure, evolution, and maintenance of nocturnal elevated mesoscale convective systems. PhD Dissertation.
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Stelton, S. A., 2016: Pristine nocturnal convective initiation: a climatology and preliminary examination of predictability. MS Thesis.
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Sullivan, S. M., 2016: June 9-10, 2015: A case study of the Great Plains Low-Level Jet during PECAN (Plains Elevated Convection at Night). University of Wyoming, thesis.
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Tam, I-H., 2019: Microphysical and Near-Storm Environmental control on the Maintenance of Nocturnal Mesoscale Convective Systems: A Case Study. MS Thesis

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The impact of Ice Microphysics and Ambient Instabilities on Nocturnal Convective System Maintenance. MS Thesis.
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Vertz, N., 2018: Can model errors in atmospheric variables within the low-level inflow region of mesoscale convective systems be used to anticipate displacement errors in initiation location? MS Thesis.
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Weber, K. J., 2017: Using Profiles of Water Vapor Flux to Characterize Turbulence in the Convective Boundary Layer. MA Thesis.
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Reports

Special Issues

Parsons, D., B. Geerts, T. M. Weckwerth, C. L. Ziegler, and D. D. Turner: Plains Elevated Convection At Night (PECAN) Special Collection.

Special Issues