General Info

ResearchMy contributions in recent years all center on severe and unusual weather phenomena in California. This includes tornadic thunderstorms, winter cyclones and precipitation, Diablo winds and more.The referred publications in this area can be found in the AMS journals Weather and Forecasting and Monthly Weather Review. I have also authored or coauthored several Technical Memoranda and Technical Attachments for the Western Region of the National Weather Service and published in Weatherwise.The chief conceptual contribution to the body of knowledge on severe thunderstorms may not seem novel as of this date, but was somewhat controversial at the time--namely, that supercell thunderstorms can and do occur in California, and that some of these are associated with tornadoes that are mesocyclone-induced.AMENITYSeveral students have been instrumental in this research, including current MS in Applied Geosciences candidates Gary Lipari and Ted Schlaepfer (Honorable Ment ion Poster at 20th Conference on Severe Local Storms).Other areas of research involve California winter storms, El Ni?o and La Ni?a, and their impacts on California precipitation. An important centerpoint of what I have done in this area is to properly characterize the "unusualness" of an event. My work on El Ni?o, and La Ni?a and California precipitation, Diablo Winds, major flood producing storms in California, was grounded in explaining not only the meteorology of these events, but the statistical context...how unusual are these events when they occur.