Severe Convective Storms

Severe convective storms produce a number of hazards to life, property, and agriculture. These include tornadoes, hail, damaging winds, flash floods, and lightning.

Severe convective storms and their hazards

Severe convective storms and their hazards

I am particularly interested in supercell storms, as these produce a disproportionate number of high-impact events such as violent tornadoes and giant hail.

My research interests include identifying and using polarimetric radar signatures in severe storms to understand the storm behavior, modeling of supercell storms and precipitation processes within them, and radar-based detection and sizing of hail.

Simulated hailstorm with hail growth trajectory.

 

A list of my publications on severe storms and severe storm microphysics may be found on my Publications page.