People - Meteorology

Faculty title

Faculty

Nuss

Professor and Chair
Ph.D., University of Washington.

Extratropical Marine Cyclogenesis, Mesoscale Numerical Weather Prediction, Mesoscale Predictability, Coastal Meteorology and Forecasting

Montgomery

Michael T. Montgomery

Distinguished Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University.

Tropical Meteorology, Hurricanes/Typhoons/Cyclones, Midlatitude Cyclones, Polar Lows, Fronts, Mesoscale Vortices, Mesoscale Convective Vortices, Tornadoes, Stratospheric Circumpolar Vortex and other atmospheric vortices

Faculty Profile - Powell

Scott W. Powell

Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Washington

Tropical Meteorology, Remote Sensing (Radar and Satellite Meteorology) and Cloud Dynamics

Wang

Qing Wang

Professor
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University.

Environmental effects on electromagnetic wave propagation, Air-Sea interaction, Boundary layer processes and their parameterizations, Boundary layer clouds and fog

Witte

Mikael Witte

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California Santa Cruz

Cloud physics, microphysics-turbulence interactions, warm precipitation formation, convective parameterization, airborne observations

Research Faculty

Faculty Profile - Bucholtz

Anthony Bucholtz

Research Professor
Ph.D., University of Michigan

Effects of aerosol particles and clouds on the radiative balance of the Earth’s atmosphere, Impact of the atmosphere on the performance of EO/IR sensors, Developing next-generation EO tactical decision aids (TDA), Developing new surface and airborne instrumentation

Faculty profile - David Ortiz

David G. Ortiz-Suslow

Research Associate Professor
Experimental air-sea interaction, Turbulence, Atmospherics impacts on near-surface EM propagation, Wind-wave coupling, Observational methods.

Roy Woods

Research Associate
Measurement technology as relates to air-sea interaction meteorology and cloud and aerosol microphysics

Ryan Yamaguchi

Research Associate
Meteorological measurements relating to air-sea interaction, turbulence, and EM/EO propagation; data acquisition systems; sensor technologies and platforms

Faculty Profile - Jesus Ruiz-Plancarte

Jesus Ruiz-Plancarte

Research Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University

Surface-atmosphere turbulent exchange processes, boundary layer meteorology specializing in air-sea interactions, measurement techniques for field observations

Military Faculty title

Military Faculty

Kellen Jones

Kellen Jones, LCDR, USN

Military Faculty
Ph.D., Naval Postgraduate School

Climate Dynamics, Subseasonal to Seasonal Weather and Climate Predictability, Probabilistic Forecasting, Forensic Meteorology, Marine Meteorology, Climate Security.

List of Staff and other Faculty

Research Affiliates

Staff

Mark Boothe: Meteorologist

Derek Podowitz: Meteorologist

Ana Lopez: Administrative Specialist

Emeritus Faculty

Chih-Pei Chang: Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Kenneth L. Davidson: Professor Emeritus

Russell L. Elsberry: Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Peter S. Guest: Research Professor Emeritus

Haflidi H. Jonsson: Professor Emeritus

Tom Murphree: Research Associate Professor Emeritus

Carlyle H. Wash: Professor Emeritus