William J. Syrett, M.S. Department of Meteorology 608B Walker Building University Park, PA 16802 Telephone: (814) 865-6172 E-mail: wjs1@psu.edu (The Pennsylvania State University), Weather Station Coordinator, Instructor in Meteorology Research Assistant Click HERE for the Weather Station Home Page. Click HERE for an overview of my part in NASA's Earth Science Enterprise 2001 Summer Workshop. Click HERE for information about Penn State's second weather camp to be held in July 2002!

Research Interests: Clear-air turbulence, lower atmospheric structure and evolution, acoustic propagation.

Teaching Interests: General meteorology and its societal impacts, synoptic and mesoscale analysis.

As the Weather Station Coordinator, Mr. Syrett is responsible for maintaining the archive of local weather observations and disseminating this information to the public through conversations with the media, organized tours of the weather observatory, and through the World-Wide Web via the Weather Station home page. He also serves as the faculty advisor to the Campus Weather Service.

As a research assistant, Mr. Syrett has participated in numerous field projects designed to study subjects as diverse as cloudiness over the Eastern Atlantic and Pacific, the Arctic ozone hole and typhoons in the Western Pacific.
 

Selected Publications:

Syrett, W.J., B.A. Albrecht, and E.E. Clothiaux, 1995: Vertical cloud structure in a midlatitude cyclone from a 94-GHz radar. Monthly Weather Review, 123, 3393-3407.

Albrecht, B.A., M.P. Jensen, and W.J. Syrett, 1995: Marine boundary layer structure and fractional cloudiness. Journal of Geophysical Research, 100, No. D7, 14209-14222.

Clothiaux, E.E., M.A. Miller, B.A. Albrecht, T.P. Ackerman, J. Verlinde, D.M. Babb, R.M. Peters, and W.J. Syrett, 1995: An evaluation of a 94-GHz radar for remote sensing of cloud properties. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 12, 201-229.