Category Archives: Research

Research, publications

The situation gets serious

Posted on 21 May 2013 by tornatrix

I am still getting my bearings back after three straight days of tornadoes. Yesterday, I watched the Moore tornado form from the controls of the KOUN radar on the north side of Norman. It was my first time to see … Continue reading →

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VORTEX2 science workshop recap

Posted on 21 April 2013 by tornatrix

It’s been nearly three years since the field phase of VORTEX2 ended. Two weeks ago, a group of about 30 PIs and scientists reunited at a retreat near Austin, Texas. I was asked to send a few tweets from the … Continue reading →

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New pub

Posted on 8 February 2013 by tornatrix

This month’s issue of Monthly Weather Review contains my newest paper,

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Heads up, Madison!

Posted on 1 October 2012 by tornatrix

I’ll be back in my undergrad stomping grounds to give a talk entitled “Unraveling tornadoes with mobile Doppler radar: Scientific storm chasing on the Great Plains” to the Madison, Wisconsin IEEE section on Friday, 16 November 2012. (The section is … Continue reading →

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New pub

Posted on 11 July 2012 by tornatrix

I’ve got a paper in this month’s Monthly Weather Review entitled Mobile, X-band, Polarimetric Doppler Radar Observations of the 4 May 2007 Greensburg, Kansas, Tornadic Supercell. This is the first of two planned papers based on my Ph.D. research, an … Continue reading →

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No Time Toulouse

Posted on 5 July 2012 by tornatrix

Sorry it’s been a little quiet around here over the last month, but I think I had a good reason. I was getting ready for my first European radar conference: 7th European Conference on Radar in Meteorology and Hydrology in … Continue reading →

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New pub

Posted on 2 February 2012 by tornatrix

I am a co-author on a paper in this month’s issue of Monthly Weather Review, entitled Impact of the Environmental Low-Level Wind Profile on Ensemble Forecasts of the 4 May 2007 Greensburg, Kansas, Tornadic Storm and Associated Mesocyclones. Dan ran … Continue reading →

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ASCENT to new heights

Posted on 17 July 2011 by tornatrix

This past week, I was privileged to participate in the third annual Atmospheric Science Collaborations and Enriching Networks (ASCENT) workshop in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.* This workshop brings together female atmospheric scientists at different stages of their respective academic careers, about … Continue reading →

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The key to productive writing?

Posted on 8 July 2011 by tornatrix

I’ve added a skill to my scientific skill tree recently. A skill that, in hindsight, seems intuitively obvious, but really wasn’t until I put it into practice. A common quip in academia is, “Publish or perish.” Successful scientists publish. Prominent … Continue reading →

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Is it time to modify the (Enhanced) Fujita scale paradigm?

Posted on 5 June 2011 by tornatrix

I received many thoughtful and passionate responses to my previous post regarding the upgrade of the El Reno / Piedmont /Guthrie tornado in Oklahoma to EF-5 based, in part on radar observations of 60 m AGL wind speeds. As I … Continue reading →

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