Background
I am a Research Meteorologist in Prof. Cliff Mass' Mesoscale Analysis and Forecasting Group at the University of Washington's Department of Atmospheric Sciences. I earned a Masters Degree in Atmospheric Sciences in 2004 for studying the relationship of large-scale dynamics, circulation and sea surface temperature to atmospheric properties in the Tropics using the MM5. I have a BS in Astronomy with a minor in Mathematics from San Diego State University where I graduated magna cum laude.
I have over five years experience developing state-of-the-art weather applications for different organizations such as Boeing, Vaisala, Seattle Public Utilities and the Northwest Modeling Consortium, which includes the National Weather Service, Washington State University, USDA Forest Service, the EPA, Puget Sound Clean Air Agency, Washington State - Dept. of Transportation, Seattle City Light and the Idaho Dept of Environmental Quality.
Research
My current research includes:
* assimmilating lightning network detection data into numerical weather prediction models in order to improve forecasts.
* developing applications for the UW-Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences Real-Time numerical weather prediction suite.
* creating a Nowcasting weather prediction system - Seattle RainWatch - for the Puget Sound Area using radar and rain gauge data.
* dissemination of weather information to both the industrial and private sector.
Interests
* real-time numerical weather forecasting using the MM5 and WRF.
* data assimilation using the Ensemble Kalman Filter.
* developing weather related web applications.
* weather forecasting.
* synoptic and mesoscale meteorology.
* helping the public understand the science of meteorology.
* climate research.
Please feel free to contact me with questions, comments or requests.