I am David Stensrud, a Professor in the Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science. I very much enjoy teaching meteorology and atmospheric science courses to our students, providing service to the broader science community, and conducting research to learn more about the atmosphere and how it works. My current research interests include assimilating novel observations (typically satellite and radar observations) into convection-allowing model (CAM) ensembles to improve ensemble forecasts of severe weather events, and using dual-polarization radar observations to explore the planetary boundary layer. In collaboration with others at Penn State, we created a 20 station environmental monitoring network across Pennsylvania and are working to expand the network to 50+ stations. I also have interest in the North American monsoon, the predictability of severe weather, and the interactions between urban environments and thunderstorms.This is a supercell thunderstorm we intercepted during the Mesoscale Predictability Experiment (MPEX) in 2013 to the southeast of Oklahoma City. It never spawned a tornado, but the low-level mesocyclone lasted for several hours as we followed it eastward and launched soundings into the storm’s inflow.
You can find more information about me and my list of publications at Stensrud_Vita_August_2023. Please also visit my research, team, and teaching pages shown in the navigation bar at the top of this page.