Mailing and Contact Information: 308 Howe-Russell Geoscience Complex Coastal Studies Institute Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA - 70803 Tel:225-578-2962 Fax:225-578-2520 E-mail: sahsu@lsu.edu	Shih Ang Hsu Professor

Education:

Ph. D. University of Texas at Austin, 1969
M. S. University of Texas at Austin, 1967
B. S. National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 1961

Grants:

• 2003-2007 Mineral Management Service - Simultaneous measurements of atmospheric visibility, particulate matter and mixing heights at the Breton Area IMPROVE site, La (PI S.A. Hsu).
  
• 2006-2007 Mineral Management Service - Verification of dataset form the radar profiler station at Cocodrie, Louisiana using in-situ GPS rawinsonde measurements (PI S.A. Hsu).
  
• 2000-2004 Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality - Rawinsonding of the atmospheric structure over Baton Rouge area in the summers, 2000-2004 (S.A. Hsu).
  

Recent Publications:

1. Hsu, S.A. 2007. Characteristics of wind-wave interaction during an intense extra tropical cyclogenesis. Journal of Coastal Research 23(5):1287-1291.
   
   
2. Hsu, S.A. 2007. A parameterization of over water friction velocity during hurricanes. Journal of Coastal Research 23(1):270-274 .
   
   
3. Hsu, S.A. 2005. Air-Sea Interaction. Water Encyclopedia, Vol. 4. pp 1-4. Wiley- Interscience.
   
   
4. Hsu, S.A. and B.W. Blanchard. 2004. Estimating overwater turbulence intensity form routine gust-factor measurements. J. Applied Meteorol. 43:1911-1916.
   
   
5. Hsu, S.A. 2003. Estimating over water friction velocity and exponent of power-law wind profile from gust factor during storms. Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering 129(4):174-177.
   
   

Courses Taught:

OCS 4021- Weather Analysis
OCS 4040- Environmental Pollution