Associate Professor
Atmospheric & Environmental Sciences
University at Albany
ES 339B
(518) 437 3732
jminder albany edu
News:
- December 2019: Massey Bartolini completes his MS degree with the thesis: "Convection-permitting ensemble forecasts of the 10-12 December 2013 lake-effect snow event: sensitivity to microphysical, planetary boundary layer, and surface layer parameterizations" Congrats!
- December 2019: Justin gives talks on "The importance of the snow albedo feedback for understanding and projecting changes in mountain climates" and "Evaluating the skill of GPM-IMERG satellite precipitation estimation over the mountains of central Chile" at
the American Geophysical Union's Fall Meeting.
Links:
here, and
here.
- October 2019:
Justin and Pat summarize Minder Group's research on winter weather and snow to
US Representative Paul Tonko during his
visit to UAlbany's Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sceinces.
- September 2019:
New NOAA grant, "Improving Snow and Streamflow Simulation in the National Water Model by Leveraging
Advanced Mesonet Observations from the Northeastern United States", will fund Minder group's research.
We will use unique observations from the
NYS Mesonet
to improve the representation of snow in NOAA's
National Water Model
via evaluation and improvement of model parameterizations and data assimilation.
- Aug. - Sept. 2019:
Justin attends the
1st TEAMx Workshop
and the
35th International Conference on Alpine Meteorology (ICAM) in the Italian Alps.
Justin served on the Programme Committee for ICAM and presented research on
"The impact of snow cover loss under climate warming on convective orographic rainfall"
and "Evaluating the skill of GPM-IMERG satellite precipitation estimation over the mountains of central Chile".
- August 2019:
Minder Group welcomes two new graduate students: Pat Naple and Matthew Seymour.
- August 2019:
New NOAA grant, "Advancing Probabilistic Prediction of High-Impact Winter Storms through Ensemble NWP and Post-Processing", will fund Minder group's research on winter storms in collaboration with Jim Steenburgh's group at UUtah. A major focus will be on evaluating and improving probabilistic predictions of winter storms using stochastic physics parameterizations. We will be leveraging data from the OWLeS and OLYMPEX field campaigns.
- July 2019:
New
NOAA CSTAR grant
will fund Minder group's research into improving understanding and prediction of precipitation type under near-freezing conditions in complex terrain.
- July 2019: Justin gives an invited talk on
"The Role of the Snow Albedo Feedback in Regional Climate Change over Mountains as Revealed by High-Resolution RCM Experiments"
at the
27th General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
in Montreal, Canada.
- June 2019: Yazmina Rojas recieves a student travel award and presents
her research on "Evaluating the Skill of GPM-IMERG Satellite Precipitation Estimation over the Mountains of Central Chile" at the
The International Precipitation Conference in Irvine, CA.
- More "old" news
here
