Why Atmospheric science?
John's interest in weather started in elementary school, and this fed his curiosity to collect weather observations in Wisconsin for ~10 years. Chasing storms, modeling convective clouds, and understanding how to use satellite data provides the basis of his enthusiasm in a relatively wide variety of research he performs today at UAHuntsville.
What's john working on?
SATellite Convection AnalySis and Tracking (SATCAST) system
This collaborative research efforts at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAHuntsville), the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory have been to incorporate satellite-derived information into systems designed to nowcast atmospheric convection and its first-time thunderstorm development in the 30-60 min timeframe from present, so-called "convective initiation.
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