Explosive deep convection initiation in a "zipper"-like fashion along the boundary intersection of a northwestward-retreating dryline and a southeastward-moving cold front in Southwest TX this evening.
#txwx
I am super excited to join the University of North Dakota Department of Atmospheric Sciences (
@UNDATSC
) this upcoming fall as an Assistant Professor! I will mainly be teaching the Numerical Weather Prediction course and continuing my research into various aspects of convection!
We are pleased to announce Dr. Jake Mulholland will be joining our faculty as an Assistant Professor this fall! Jake is currently a researcher at the Naval Postgraduate School studying various aspects of convection.
@JakeMulholland1
@UNDAerospace
@UofNorthDakota
I am happy to announce that I've officially accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences (DAES) at the University at Albany (UAlbany) in New York starting on 1 September 2024! I am thrilled for this opportunity!!
Happy to announce that I officially passed my Ph.D. defense today to become a Doctor of Philosophy in Atmospheric Sciences—blessed would be an understatement 🙏 I couldn’t have done it without my queen, family, friends, and colleagues!
#PhD
Happy to announce that I have received & accepted a 3-yr National Research Council post-doctoral fellowship award to work with Dr. John M. Peters (Naval Postgraduate School-Monterey, CA) and Dr. Hugh Morrison (NCAR-Boulder, CO) for my proposed work on upscale convective growth!
Honored to have won the student-voted Univ. of North Dakota Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences “Best Academic Advisor” award at our department banquet last night. Couldn’t have won this without the great support + mentorship from my department, especially Remer and Montana Etten-Bohm!
Neat to see structural differences between a classic cold core cyclone to the west and a (relatively) warm(er) core cyclone (associated with
#Christobal
) to th east. (Graphic courtesy -
@TropicalTidbits
)
Final grades entered... my first full semester as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of North Dakota is officially over! I survived (and had fun doing it)! :-)
As mentioned in this evening's
@NWSBoulder
forecast discussion, the upcoming 90s/100s F-to-potential accumulating snows across the CO Front Range this weekend into next week is, at least in part, due to downstream influences of WPAC TCs Maysak and Haishen as seen on the 18Z GFS.
Congratulations to my first-ever M.S. student, Ethan Weisberger (
@WeisbergerWx
), on walking the stage today at the University of North Dakota commencement ceremony! I am so proud to be your advisor and to have worked with you these last 2 years-You’re destined to do great things!
Might be a neat example of a squal line--supercell merger event about to unfold across C NE... attached also is a nice schematic from French and Parker's (2014; MWR) paper of this process (also see French and Parker's 2012; WAF observational study of these types of events).
#NEwx
My advisor, Dr. John Peters (
@UpdraftwMax
) and I, along with numerous collaborators (e.g.,
@cjnowotarski
), are working to understand entrainment characteristics of cumulus clouds to supercells to MCSs. Here is an example of a growing cumulus cloud that I saw on campus today!
The visual manifestation of vortex sheet breakdown into discrete vortical circulations within a "reverse" (east-to-west moving) lake-effect snowband across western Lake Ontario north of Buffalo, NY.
#NYwx
One of the greatest emails that I have ever read in my life... my 3rd Ph.D. paper was accepted today into
@ametsoc
's Journal of Atmspheric Sciences (JAS) today!
@UpdraftwMax
@70_dbz
My start date as an Assistant Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of North Dakota on 1 July is quickly approaching... time to update my email and email signature! Check and check!
@UNDATSC
@UNDAerospace
@undalumni
@KennedyClouds
Love you, forever n always, to infinity and beyond B.B... my wife,
@pbw_pan
:-)
p.s. - these braclets have a golden dragon, representing good luck and well being in the Chinese culture!
**NEW PAPER ALERT** -- "Generalized lapse rate formulas for use in entraining CAPE calculations" by
@UpdraftwMax
,
@JakeMulholland1
, and
@danchavas
Here's the link to the paper:
Ever wondered why vertical wind shear is beneifitical to mature atmospheric convection, but detrimental to nascent atmospheric convection? Well then check out this two-part paper in the
@AMS_atmos
which outlines theory and simulations to explain this behavior led by
@UpdraftwMax
Just submitted my first lead-author journal article as a faculty member at the Univ. of North Dakota for publication in AMS’s Monthly Weather Review! 😃🙏
@UNDAerospace
@UofNorthDakota
@UNDATSC
Want to learn how vertical wind shear impacts supercell updrafts? Check out my post-doc advisor's new
@ametsoc
JAS paper titled: "The role of vertical wind shear in modulating maximum supercell updraft velocities." -- Peters et al. (2019) --
Giving my first full seminar as a
@NASEM_NRC_RAP
post-doc fellow at my host instituation,
@NPS_Monterey
, this Tuesday morning @ 8:00am, Root Hall 240 -- super excited for this opportunity to share at least a portion of my nascent post-doc research!
Incredible amount of smoke transport from the western U.S. wildfires... in this model depiction (RAP-smoke experimental model), you can note the cyclonic flow of the smoke around Tropical Storm
#Genevieve
- insane!
Textbook example of what a post squall line sounding (in cold pool) looks like on the 00 UTC KLCH sounding... mirrors the post squall line soundings presented in Zipser (1977; MWR).
@70_dbz
@SteigerScott
@VORTEXJeff
365 days ago I woke you up at 5:30am to go hiking up a mtn above the clouds, and at the very top I asked you to marry me. After a giggle, you said YES!!! I love you forever and always my queen, my buoyancy, my missing puzzle piece, and my only exception!😍
@pbw_pan
Been here since Day
#1
of
@RELAMPAGO2018
and it is a surreal feeling that it is all over! Thank you to all the participants of the field campaign who made this project a great success! Blessed to be a part of this international collaboration.
After 46 days, the intensive observing period of
#RELAMPAGO2018
has concluded. We observed all kinds of interesting weather, met so many new friends, and hope to change how we view convective weather through our analyses.
MUCHAS GRACIAS A TODOS PARA UN GRAN EXPERIMENTO!
Here is my
#SLS18
poster that I presented today about convective storm life cycle and environments in north central Argentina, South America, in preparation for
@RELAMPAGO2018
@70_dbz
@pbw_pan
Big "hole" in the cloud shield over the N. Pacific Ocean (south of Alaska) -- makes it easy to find where the upper-level ridge and surface anticyclone are...
Just ran 1-km CM1 supercell and MCS simulations for a 3 h integration length with 5 min output (domain size ~ 200 km x 200 km x 20 km) ... it took less than 1 minute to run on NCAR's Cheyenne supercomputer ... WOW!
@NCAR_Science
#CM1
211 lonely days and nights without you and finally, the long wait is over! Blessed to be re-united with you my queen, my buoyancy, my missing puzzle piece, and my only exception!
#TeamBJFAA
will make it through anything in this world Love forever and always, Jakey the Rapper <3
Using the "RGB-true color" GOES-16 option, you can clearly note the distinct color difference between the
#EastTroublesomeFire
smoke plume (brown-ish) from the low-level stratus clouds (white-ish). Also note the pyro-cu associated with the smoke plume.
Nice example of a cold front overtaking a dryline in today's 18 UTC 3-km NAM forecast for tomorrow! (2 m AGL Td shown)
@VORTEXJeff
@70_dbz
@SteigerScott
***NEW PAPER ALERT***
"Generalized Lapse Rate Formulas for Use in Entraining CAPE Calculations" - Peters, Mulholland, and Chavas (2022; published in
@AMS_atmos
)
Link:
@UpdraftwMax
@danchavas
Classic long lake-axis-parallel (LLAP) lake-effect band off of eastern Lake Ontario, complete with a low-level horizontal cyclonic shear zone and vortices!
@SteigerScott
@70_dbz
@VORTEXJeff
My first post-doc paper has been formally accepted into the American Meteorological Society's Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences (
@AMS_atmos
) today!
#JAtmosSci
@UpdraftwMax
If you are interested, please come swing by my talk tomorrow afternoon at the AMS Annual Meeting at 2:45pm MT as part of the Third Symposium on Mesoscale Processes!
#AMS2023
#AMS23