My dissertation work was published in Applied Mathematics and Computation, and involves the estimation of near surface wind structures in … More
Category: Meteorology
Assimilation of Thermodynamic Observations from Boundary Layer Remote Sensors
My first year as a postdoc was spent at the National Severe Storms Laboratory, working with David Stensrud and Dave … More
Radar Data Assimilation Workshop
This week there was a workshop on methods for assimilating radar data into numerical weather prediction models. Although I’m not … More
My New Postdoc
I started my postdoctoral position with the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) on September 1. My new work is somewhere … More
Attending the Severe Storms Conference
I had a paper accepted to the Severe Local Storms conference, an American Meteorological Society conference that is especially for … More
The Hardships of Collecting Data
An interesting theme that has pervaded these first two weeks of VORTEX2 is that things are constantly going wrong with … More
Time Out for the Radars
We went out on Tuesday to target a convective cell south of Clinton, OK. I took a bunch of pictures, … More
Less of an Adventure
As you may be aware, yesterday featured some very explosive severe weather, mostly focused in central and eastern Oklahoma. My … More
First Data Collection
We headed out from Hays on Thursday to intercept a small supercell to the northwest. My job is simple. I … More
Fixing the Rack on the Scout and von Karman
We officially left Norman on Tuesday, discovering to our annoyance that a spare instrument rack, which had been attached to … More