School of Meteorology News
7 Meteorology Juniors Shine: Recognized at The OU 2024 Campus Awards Program
Last Friday, The 2024 University of Oklahoma Campus Awards Ceremony honored 7 outstanding Juniors from The School of Meteorology. In the photo above (from left to right): Evan White, Parker Davis, Andrew Kenny, Xochitl Hidalgo, Alexa Dringus, Kyle Eskew (not pictured), and Daniel Fenske (not pictured), were all of the outstanding Juniors recognized at Friday’s […]
SoM Student Receives NSF GRFP Honorable Mention
This year, one student in the School of Meteorology received a NSF GRFP honorable mention. Colin Welty received one of only 3 honorable mentions in the Physical and Dynamical Meteorology category.
SoM Student Affairs Committee Teams Up With College of AG&S for 2024 Multicultural Festival
On March 8, 2024, the SoM Student Affairs Committee (SAC), teamed up with the College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences (A&GS) to host their Annual Multicultural Festival. This year’s festival delighted attendees with 28 dishes, skillfully prepared by students, faculty, staff, and researchers within the National Weather Center (NWC) and A&GS. Complementing the diverse food […]
Three OU SoM Students Received The Outstanding Student Presentation Award for Atmospheric Sciences
On March 11th, 2024, The American Geophysical Union selected 20 out of 344 students to receive the 2023 Outstanding Student Presentation Award (OSPA) for the Atmospheric Sciences Section. Out of these twenty students, three of them came from The University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology. These students are: Abdulamid Fakoya (University of Oklahoma): Exploring the […]
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Frederick Iat-Hin Tam
NWC Colloquium Frederick lat-Hin Tam AI for Knowledge Discovery in Tropical Meteorology: Pattern Extraction, Uncertainty Quantification, and Causality Tuesday, April 23th, 2024 3:00 pm NWC 1313 Recent advancements in machine learning (ML) have led to data-driven weather prediction models that rival or outperform state-of-the-art numerical weather prediction models in short— to medium-range forecasts. In order […]
Wayne Yuan-Huai Tsai
Weather and Climate Systems Wayne Yuan-Huai Tsai Prediction Skills of Rainfall Diurnal Cycle over the Maritime Continent and the Influences from Madden-Julian Oscillation in ECMWF and NCEP S2S Reforecasts April 24th, 2024 3:00 pm NWC 1350 Abstract: The Maritime Continent is one of the rainiest regions globally, where the diurnal cycle of rainfall contributes significantly […]
Erin Jones
Weather and Climate Systems Erin Jones Flow-Dependent Vertical Localization in GFS Hybrid 4DEnVar for Improvement of Global and Tropical Cyclone Track Numerical Prediction April 24th, 2024 3:30 pm NWC 1350 Abstract: In ensemble-based data assimilation for numerical weather prediction, limitations in ensemble size due to computational cost restrictions introduce spurious background forecast error correlations. Covariance […]
Nathan Kuhr
ARRC Seminar Nathan Kuhr Characterization and Detection of Downburst Precursor Signatures using Adaptive Scanning Strategies from All-digital Phased Array Radar (PAR) Thursday, April 25th, 2024 1:00 pm/ NWC 1350 Abstract: Phased array radar (PAR) is being explored as a potential candidate for the replacement upon the retirement of the current dish-based WSR-88D radar network across […]
Amanda G. Richter
ARRC Seminar Amanda G. Richter An Airborne Multifrequency Microwave Analysis of Precipitation within Two Winter Cyclones Thursday, April 25th 1:30 pm / NWC 1350 If unable to attend, please join via zoom meeting: https://oklahoma.zoom.us/j/93078394162?pwd=Y2ZlRDBnNVRJUlBrUERqL2pWYUlHdz09 Meeting ID: 93078394162 Passcode: 06207489 Abstract: NASA’s Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Snowstorms (IMPACTS) field campaign gathered data […]
Oluwafemi Omitusa
Convective Meteorology (Mesoscale Dynamics) Oluwafemi Omitusa Characterizing the Effects of Land Cover Heterogeneity on Convective Cells and Precipitation in Houston, Texas April 25th, 2024 3:00 pm / NWC 1350 Abstract: Urbanization profoundly impacts local meteorology and precipitation processes, as urban landscapes modify heat, moisture, and momentum fluxes in the boundary layer. For example, past modeling […]
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