Research Overview
My Masters research is being completed as part of the Collaborative Science, Technology, and Applied Research (CSTAR) Program, a cooporative effort between the National Weather Service (NWS) at Albany and the University at Albany Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences. I am co-advised by Dr. Lance Bosart and Dr. Daniel Keyser in addition to receiving guidance from NWS focal points, Tom Wasula and Neil Stuart.
My research focuses on finding methods to improve forecasts of precipitation distribution associated with cool-season (October-April) 500-hPa cutoff lows in the Northeast. The distribution of precipitation associated with cutoff cyclones can be modified by several factors (e.g., topography, diurnal heating cycle, speed and location of cutoff cyclone) and is therefore often difficult to forecast. The goal of my research is to identify signatures that differentiate between precipitation distributions and to develop conceptual models to be used by forecasters at the NWS. This will be completed through several case studies that will relate precipitation distribution to cyclone track and intensity as well as mesoscale and synoptic-scale features.
To review select presentations and preliminary results see the side bar on the right.
Northeast Domain
Presentations:
- Master's Thesis Presentation
- ER-Flash Flood Conf.
- Spring CSTAR 2010
- CRG Meeting 041410
- NESC 2010
- CRG Meeting 012710
- Fall CSTAR 2009
- NROW XI
- Spring CSTAR 2009
