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Climate change study foresees a warmer, wetter Pennsylvania
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A Penn State study of climate change projects a warmer, wetter Pennsylvania, with a longer growing season and significantly less snow by the middle of the current century. Study co-authors include Raymond Najjar, Associate Professor of Meteorology.
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Lungs getting a breather from ozone
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"There's been a sort of semi-permanent area of low pressure over the Great Lakes for most of the summer season, and as the wind spins around that low, we've just been getting cloudier and cooler weather than normal," said Bill Ryan, a meteorology professor at Pennsylvania State University and consultant to the EPA.
"The other thing that's going on is, our ozone concentrations have fallen over the past five or six years. What we call the regional background ozone that comes into our big cities from the west with the prevailing winds has been significantly reduced."
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Donor offers matching challenge for Levenia Adom Memorial Graduate Award
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PhD student, Jared Lee, wins award at AMS Annual Meeting
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PhD student, Walter Kolczynski, takes second place at AMS Conference
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Hurricane-calming technology? Bill Gates has a plan
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Says climate scientist Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University in State College: "Needless to say, there is a whole lot of skepticism about this among tropical meteorologists. But it's not so ridiculous that I would actually dismiss it out of hand. There is certainly an important role of upper ocean mixing on tropical cyclone behavior."
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Meteorology alumnus, Robert Davis' work used to develop weather program
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Alumnus Joel Gratz ('03) and team from ICAT develop hurricane damage estimator
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ICAT Damage Estimator Revisits a $13.8B July Hurricane
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Meteorology Department’s new electronic map wall enhances learning via state-of-the-art graphics technology
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No longer relying on paper maps, the Penn State Department of Meteorology offers faculty an opportunity to use an electronic map wall for teaching that they can customize to meet their course needs.
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Weather or Not broadcasts on-location from State College Arts Fest
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Lack of Twisters Aside, VORTEX2 Gets Useful Data
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"Paul Markowski, a meteorologist at Penn State University who serves on VORTEX2's steering committee and directs a team of mobile observation platforms taking part in the experiment, said the datasets the teams collected on supercells that didn't produce tornadoes were "real gems for us," because they can be compared to data sets on tornado producing storms to identify key differences."
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PSU Meteorology student wins almost $55,000 on Wheel of Fortune
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The Daily Collegian, and the Centre Daily Times follow the story of recent Penn State graduate, Thomas Sabbatelli, who participated in College Week on the Wheel of Fortune, which aired on Memorial Day, May 25, 2009.
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Scientist says climate change isn't fueling hurricanes
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"Hurricane specialist Chris Landsea, with the National Hurricane Center in Miami, disputes theories that global warming has caused more hurricanes, in a study to be published soon in The Journal of Climate. Prof. Michael Mann disagrees with his research findings, saying that his technology argument ignores the chance that a single storm could have been counted twice before satellite records could show the exact track. He expressed doubt that the study would pass muster to be published."
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Spotlight - Vortex 2
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Supercomputers Simulate Stars, Cars, Hurricanes, and Blood
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From the American Physical Society, May 2009: "Recreating existing complex clouds is exactly what Fuqing Zhang of Penn State University is doing. He has been taking Doppler radar information on the paths of hurricanes crossing the Gulf of Mexico in hopes of predicting where they’ll hit the coast. This approach to forecasting relies primarily on probabilities derived from estimated cloud turbulence models."
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World's largest tornado experiment heads for the Great Plains
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The largest and most ambitious tornado study in history will begin next week, as dozens of scientists deploy radars and other ground-based instruments across the Great Plains to gain a better understanding of these often-deadly weather events.
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Daniel Pollak and Michael Hernandez SOARS Protégés of 2009
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Two members of Penn State Meteorology have been selected as SOARS Protégés for 2009.
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Hurricane predictions gain ground
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"I am not sure we know what the limits are right now," said Fuqing Zhang, a professor of meteorology at Penn State University. "I think we will continue seeing improvements in track forecasts, especially in extended range."
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Pennsylvania badly in need of April showers
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Mercer County, bordering Ohio, is the only entire county currently averaging above normal precipitation for 2009, said Paul Knight, Penn State climatologist and meteorology instructor. Other western counties, such as Crawford, Venango, Butler, Lawrence and Erie, all have measured near normal for rain and snow so far this year.
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Meteorology alumni launch new company, Commodity Weather Group, LLC
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