Research

Convective Initiation
This project seeks to develop real-time automated products that can aid in thunderstorm monitoring and nowcasting.
Turbulence
Dynamic instability due to tropopause folding is one cause of Clear Air Turbulence. This is an effort to which uses the GOES midwave infrared (water vapor) channel to build a near real-time satellite product that estimates areas of tropopause folding in regions of strong humidity gradients.
Observation Validation
Resarch involving validation of remotely sensed observations. These include atmospheric, dynamic and thermodynamic properties in three primary areas: aircraft in-situ measurements, satellite-derived winds, and satellite-derived cloud products.
Enhanced-V
This research focuses on the development of an objective satellite-based enhanced-V anvil thermal couplet (ATC) signature detection product. The enhanced-V ATC product will be evaluated at the 2010 SPC Spring Experiment via the GOES-R Proving Ground.
Overshooting Tops
A research effort involving the development of an objective overshooting convective cloud top detection program for evaluation by the Experimental Forecast and Warning Programs (EFP and EWP).