Projects

A Framework for Assessing the Impact of Extreme Heat and Drought Climate Scenarios on Urban Energy Production and Consumption

Reliable and environmentally sustainable production and consumption of electricity are a major concern in cities experiencing climate extremes.

Applications of HRRR ensembles for ensemble hydrologic prediction using the WRF-hydro and SACSMA models as testbeds

The primary goal of this project is to advance the application of ensemble precipitation forecasts for short-term probabilistic streamflow prediction using the High Resolution Rapid Refresh Ensemble (HRRRE) outputs.

Improved Understanding of Nocturnal Mesoscale Convective System Evolution

This research project focuses on the use of convective-allowing grid spacings in the Weather Research and Forecasting model to improve understanding of the predictability of precipitation and morphological evolution of mesoscale convective systems.  

NOAA-ML

The goal of this project is to create a tool that will assign probability values for winds exceeding severe thunderstorm thresholds (50 knots) to storm reports where winds are currently estimated based on the damage done.  At this point in time, 12 years of storm reports have been collected and some textual analysis has been performed on the descriptions of storm damage.  Environmental data on the weather conditions near the storms has been collected from the archive of RUC/RAP analyses maintained by the Storm Prediction Center.  Surface station data has also been gathered from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet archive.