Biography
Dr. Daniel Schmidt serves as an assistant professor of Mathematics at Liberty. He began his career in mathematics and specialized in functional analysis with a focus on problems motivated by quantum mechanics. He has since worked in climate science with a focus on larger-scale atmospheric circulation. After graduate work and a postdoctoral research position in climate dynamics, he returned to Liberty University to teach mathematics. Today he enjoys teaching mathematics courses at a variety of levels.
Courses Taught
- Math 121: College Algebra
- Math 128: Elementary Functions and Coordinate Geometry
- Math 131: Calculus and Analytic Geometry I
- Math 250: Introduction to Discrete Mathematics
- Math 307: Introduction to Number Theory
- Math 350: Discrete Mathematics
Research Interests
- Climate science, large-scale atmospheric dynamics
Edited Works
- Liu, X., Grise, K. M., Schmidt, D. F., & David, R. E. (2021). Regional characteristics of variability in the northern hemisphere wintertime polar front jet and subtropical jet in observations and CMIP6 models. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 12(22), http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10506595.2
- Schmidt, D. F., & Grise, K. M. (2021). Drivers of Twenty-First Century U.S. Winter Precipitation Trends in CMIP6 Models: A Storyline-Based Approach. Journal of Climate, 34(16), 6875-6889, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0080.1
- Schmidt, D.F., Amaya, D.J., Grise, K. M., & Miller, A. J. (2020). Impacts of shifting subtropical highs on the California Current and Canary Current systems. Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2020GL088996, https://doi.org/10/1029/2020GL088996
- Schmidt, D. F., & Grise, K. M. (2019). Impacts of subtropical highs on summertime precipitation in North America. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124, 11188-11204, doi:10.1029/2019JD031282
- Scanlon, T. S., Schmidt, D. F., Skaggs, T. (2019). Correlation-Based Flux Partitioning of Water Vapor and Carbon Dioxide Fluxes: Method Simplification and Estimation of Canopy Water Use Efficiency, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 279, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2019/107732
- Schmidt, D. F., Grise, K. M., & Pace, M. L. (2019). High-frequency climate oscillations drive ice-off for Northern Hemisphere lakes and rivers. Climatic Change, 152(3-4), 517-532. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-018-2361-5
- Schmidt, D. F., & Grise, K. M. 92017). The response of local precipitation and sea level pressure to Hadley cell expansion. Geophysical Research Letters, 44, 10,573-10,582. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL075380
- Elgart, A. & Schmidt, D. (2015). Eigenvalue Counting Inequalities, with Applications to Schrodinger Operators. Journal of Spectral Theory, 5(2), 251-278