Sharon Sessions
Sharon Sessions
Professor of Physics
New Mexico Tech
801 Leroy Place, Socorro, NM 87801
(575) 835-5798
sharon dot sessions at nmt dot edu
Workman 353
Office Hours: TBA
current course webpages:
Physics 189
Climate Physics & Sustainability
Physics 501
Introduction to Research and Scientific Communication
previously taught courses:
Physics 121 General Physics I
Physics 189 Introduction to Weather and Climate/Climate & Sustainability
Physics 221 Comprehensive Physics I
Physics 331 Weather & Climate I
Physics 428 Climate Physics
Physics 444 Solid State Physics
Physics 501 & 502 Introduction to Research and Scientific Communication
Physics 505 Advanced Dynamics
Physics 508 Statistical Mechanics
Physics 515 Quantum Mechanics I
Physics 516 Quantum Mechanics II
Physics 527 Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Physics 536 Atmospheric Convection
Tropical Weather Research
at the New Mexico Tech Geophysical Research Center
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Publications
Sentic, Stipo, and Sharon L. Sessions (2017)
Idealized Modeling of Convective Organization with Changing Sea Surface Temperatures Using Multiple Equilibria in Weak Temperature Gradient Simulations
J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 9,
doi:10.1002/2016MS000873.
Daleu, Woolnough, Plant, Sessions, Herman, Sobel, Wang, Kim, Cheng,
Bellon, Peyrille, Ferry, Siebesma, and van Ulft (2016)
Intercomparison of methods of coupling between convection and
large-scale circulation. Part 2: Comparison over nonuniform surface
condtions,
J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst.,
doi:10.1002/2015MS000570.
Sessions, Sharon L, Stipo Sentic, and Michael J. Herman (2016)
The role of radiation in organizing convection in weak
temperature gradient simulations ,
J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., doi:10.1002/2015MS000587.
Sentic, Stipo, Sharon L. Sessions, and Zeljka Fuchs (2015)
Diagnosing DYNAMO Convection with Weak Temperature Gradient Simulations
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J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst.,
doi:10.1002/2015MS000531. EOS.org Research Spotlight . JAMES Highlights
Daleu, Woolnough, Plant, Sessions, Herman, Sobel, Wang, Kim, Cheng,
Bellon, Peyrille, Ferry, Siebesma, and van Ulft (2015)
Intercomparison of methods of coupling between convection and
large-scale circulation. Part 1: Comparison over uniform surface
condtions,
J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst.,
doi:10.1002/2015MS000467.
Raymond, D. J., Z. Fuchs, S. Gjorgjievska, S. L. Sessions (2015),
Balanced dynamics and thermodynamic constraints in the tropical
troposphere,
J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 7,
doi:10.1002/2015MS000467. EOS.org Research Spotlight
Sharon L. Sessions, Michael J. Herman, and Stipo Sentic (2015),
Convective response to changes in the thermodynamic environment in idealized
weak temperature gradient simulations,
J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 7, 712-738, doi:10.1002/2015MS000446.
Zeljka Fuchs, Sharon L. Sessions, David J. Raymond (2014),
Mechanisms controlling the onset of simulated convectively coupled Kelvin waves,
Tellus A, 66, 22107, http://dx.doi.org/10.1034021/tellusa.v66.22107.
Raymond, David J., Saska Gjorgjievska, Sharon Sessions, and Zeljka Fuchs
(2014),
Tropical cyclogenesis and mid-level vorticity,
Australian Meteorological and Oceanlographic Journal, 64, 11-25.
Sharon L. Sessions, Leah A. Lindsey, Carlos Lopez Carrillo, and
David J. Raymond (2013),
Modeling the diurnal cycle over tropical oceans using the weak
temperature gradient approximation,
Journal of the Atmospheric
Sciences,
submitted.
David J. Raymond, Sharon L. Sessions, and Carlos Lopez Carrillo (2011),
Thermodynamics of tropical cyclogenesis in the northwest Pacific,
J. Geophys. Res. -- Atmospheres, 116, D18101,
doi:10.1029/2011JD015624.
Sharon L. Sessions, Satomi Sugaya, David J. Raymond and Adam H. Sobel
(2010),
Multiple equilibria in a cloud
resolving model using the weak temperature gradient approximation,
Journal of Geophysical Research , 115, D12110,
doi:10.1029/2009JD013376.
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David J. Raymond, Sharon Sessions, Adam Sobel, Zeljka Fuchs (2009),
The Mechanics of Gross Moist Stability,
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems,
Vol. 1, Art. #9, 20 pp.,
doi:10.3894/JAMES.2009.1.9,
Published 26 August 2009.
Patton F. S., G. D. Bothun, S. L. Sessions (2008),
An electric force facilitator in descending vortex tornadogenesis,
Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, D07106,
doi:10.1029/2007JD009027,
Published 9 April 2008.
David J. Raymond, Sharon L. Sessions, Zeljka Fuchs (2007),
A theory for the spinup of tropical depressions,
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society,
Volume 133, Issue 628,
Date: October 2007 Part A, Pages: 1743-1754.
Raymond D. J., S. L. Sessions (2007),
Evolution of convection during tropical cyclogenesis,
Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L06811,
doi:10.1029/2006GL028607,
Published 31 March 2007.
Sharon L. Sessions, D. Belitz, T. R. Kirkpatrick, and Maria Teresa Mercaldo
(2003),
Weak Localization Effects at the Quantum Ferromagnetic Transition,
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 72, 171-172, Suppl. A.
Sharon L. Sessions and Dietrich Belitz (2003),
Quantum critical behavior in disordered itinerant ferromagnets:
Instability of the ferromagnetic phase,
Physical Review B 68, 054411, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.68.054411
Published 19 August 2003.
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D. Belitz, T. R. Kirkpatrick, Maria Teresa Mercaldo, and Sharon L. Sessions
(2001),
Quantum critical behavior in disordered itinerant ferromagnets:
Logarithmic corrections to scaling,
Physical Review B, 63, 174428,
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.63.174428.
Published 11 April 2001.
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D. Belitz, T. R. Kirkpatrick, Maria Teresa Mercaldo, and Sharon L. Sessions
(2001),
Local field theory for disordered itinerant quantum ferromagnets,
Physical Review B, 63, 174427,
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.63.174427.
Published 11 April 2001.
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