Education:
- B.S. Meteorology (Mathematics Minor) - Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte (2009)
- Honors Thesis: "Structure and Evolution of an Offshore Supercell in Hurricane Jeanne(2004)"
Research Specialties:
Biography:
Research Interests
My main research foci are contained within mesoscale and tropical meteorology. More specifically, I look into the development of miniature-supercells in the outer rainbands of tropical cyclones and associated tornadogenesis. Other projects I am working on include looking at airborne Doppler radar composites of TCs in order to document their structure, and potentially evaluate signals that indicate future intensity changes. I have also worked with the WRF model looking at horizontal resolution and it's impacts on Rapid Intensification forecasts. I have spent my last two summers working as a research assistant at the Hurricane Research Division (NOAA/AOML), and hope to return there after the completion of my PhD.
My most current project utilizes the Ensemble-Kalman Filter (EnKF) to study the dynamics and predictability of Tropical Storm Erika (2009). This work is in collaboration with Fuqing Zhang, JunHong Wei, and Gang Ko.
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