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Title: Prescott, Arizona Campus


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Prescott, Arizona Campus
Department overview
2
Some pictures
New faculty complex under construction future
home of Weather Center by Fall 2004
Present Department of Meteorology Building with
Honeywell radar on roof
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More pictures
Radar
Meteorological screen for instruments
Display from Departments rooftop Honeywell
Primus 400 airborne radar
4
More pictures
Classroom instruction
5
Courses taught
  • Four full-time faculty, expanding
  • A total of 13 sections of WX courses taught
  • Two core aviation meteorology courses
  • Other courses in climatology, aircrew weather,
    thunderstorms, radar/satellite, advanced
    meteorology
  • Average class size is 24 students
  • 300 students take courses in the Department of
    Meteorology
  • 200 in core WX courses for aviation
  • Over 100 in weather minor classes each semester
  • Applied Meteorology Degree starting Fall 2004

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Meteorology Minor at Prescott
  • Statistics reflect growing demand for WX courses
  • Fall 97 24
  • Fall 98 49
  • Fall 99 53
  • Fall 00 74
  • Spr 02 105
  • Fall 03 120

7
Faculty profiles
Dr Curtis James ERAU since 1999
Dr Mark Sinclair Dept Chair ERAU since 1998
Randy Tomkins ERAU since 2001
Dr Ken Parsons ERAU since 2001
8
Curtis James
  • Research interests in mountain meteorology,
    radar, thunderstorm dynamics
  • Author of several articles
  • Has worked for National Weather Service
  • Field experience in the European Alps
  • Several teaching awards
  • Manages Department equipment and computing
    facilities

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Kenneth Parsons
  • Ph.D. in atmospheric science in 2001 from Purdue
    University in West Lafayette, IN.
  • Areas of expertise in synoptic meteorology,
    extratropical cyclones, dynamic meteorology, and
    air pollution meteorology.
  • Industry experience
  • 20 years as a forecaster in the U.S. Air Force
    with duty stations in the U.S., Europe, Asia, and
    the Middle East
  • Five years with a leading environmental
    engineering firm as an air quality meteorologist
    performing dispersion modeling and air emission
    inventories.

10
Mark Sinclair
  • Ph.D. meteorology, Naval Postgraduate School,
    1985
  • Department Chair
  • Research interests in midlatitude storms,
    mountain precipitation, Southern Hemisphere
    meteorology
  • Author of over 50 research papers technical
    reports
  • Weather forecaster researcher in New Zealand
  • Field experience - Antarctica New Zealand Alps
  • Teaching awards
  • Research grants in extratropical cyclone research
    (completed) and in storm track climatology
    (pending)

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Randy Tomkins
  • MS in Meteorology and Oceanography Naval
    Postgraduate School in Monterey, Ca.
  • Research emphasis on weather systems affecting
    the southern portions of Africa
  • Twenty years in the Navy as a meteorologist and
    oceanographer.
  • Forecasting weather on location in Antarctica,
    the Northwest pacific Ocean and hurricane
    forecasting for the Gulf of Mexico
  • Forecasting for navy fleet operations and for
    aircraft carrier flight operations

12
Scholarly activity
  • A total of 13 full-length peer-reviewed journal
    articles by our three research-capable faculty
  • Nine conference presentations and seminars
  • One grant submitted
  • Next slides

13
Journal articles published by Dept. of
Meteorology faculty last 5 years
  • Chong, M., J.-F. Georgis, O. Bousquet, S. R.
    Brodzik, C. Burghart, S. Cosma, U. Germann, V.
    Gouget, R. A. Houze, Jr., C. N. James, S. Prieur,
    R. Rotunno, F. Roux, J. Vivekanandan, and Z.-X.
    Zeng, 2000 Real-time wind synthesis from Doppler
    radar observations during the Mesoscale Alpine
    Programme. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 81,
    2953-2962.
  • James, C. N., S. R. Brodzik, H. Edmon, R. A.
    Houze, Jr., and S. E. Yuter, 2000 Radar data
    processing and visualization over complex
    terrain. Wea. Forecasting, 15, 327-338.
  • Houze, R. A., Jr., C. N. James, and S. Medina,
    2001 Radar observations of precipitation and
    airflow on the Mediterranean side of the Alps
    Autumn 1998 and 1999. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor.
    Soc., 127, 2537-2558.
  • James, C. N., and R. A. Houze, Jr., 2001 A
    real-time four-dimensional Doppler dealiasing
    scheme. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 18,
    1674-1683.
  • James, C. N., and R. A. Houze, Jr., 2004 Radar
    Observations of Precipitation Enhancement by the
    Coastal Terrain of Northern California October
    1995 March 1998. Mon. Wea. Rev. (in
    preparation)

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Journal articles (cont.)
  • Jones, S, Harr, P, Abraham, Bosart, L.F., Bowyer,
    Evans, J.L., Hanley, D.E., Hanstrum, B.N., Hart,
    R.E., Lalaurette, F., Sinclair, M.R., Smith, R.
    and Thorncroft, C., 2003 The extratropical
    transition of tropical cyclones forecast
    challenges, current understanding and future
    directions. Weather and Forecasting. 18, 16-56
  • Parsons, K.E., 2003 Book review of The winds
    of flight. Bulletin of the American
    Meteorological Society, 84, 1837-1840.
  • Parsons, K.E., and P.J. Smith, 2004 An
    investigation of extratropical cyclone
    development using a scale-separation technique.
    Monthly Weather Review, 132, 956-974.
  • Sinclair, M.R., 2004 Extratropical transition of
    southwest Pacific tropical cyclones. Part II
    Midlatitude circulation characteristics. Monthly
    Weather Review, in press
  • Sinclair, M.R., 2002 Extratropical transition of
    southwest Pacific tropical cyclones. Part I
    Climatology and mean structure changes. Monthly
    Weather Review, 130, 590-609.

15
Journal articles (cont.)
  • Sinclair, M.R., and M.J. Revell, 2000
    Classification and Composite Diagnosis of
    Extratropical Cyclogenesis in the Southwest
    Pacific. Monthly Weather Review, 128, 1089-1105.
  • Sinclair, M.R., and I.G. Watterson, 1999
    Objective assessment of extratropical weather
    systems in simulated climates. Journal of
    Climate, 12, 3467-3485.
  • Wratt, D.S., M.J. Revell, M.R. Sinclair, W. Gray,
    R. Henderson, and A.M. Chater, 2000
    Relationships between airmass properties and
    mesoscale rainfall in New Zealands Southern
    Alps. Atmospheric Research, 52, 261-282.

16
Conference proceedings and seminars
  1. James, C., S. Brodzik, H. Edmon, R. A. Houze,
    Jr., and S. E. Yuter, 1999 MountainZebra
    Real-time archival and 4-D visualization of radar
    volumes over complex terrain. Preprints, COST-75
    Final International Seminar on "Advanced Weather
    Radar Systems," Locarno, Switzerland, 297-306. 
  2. Parsons, K.E., and P.J. Smith, 2002 The role of
    subsynoptic processes in synoptic-scale
    extratropical cyclone development. Paper
    presented at the 19th Conference on Weather
    Analysis and Forecasting, San Antonio, TX, 12-16
    August 2002.
  3. Sinclair, M.R., 2003 Influence of midlatitude
    circulation characteristics on extratropical
    transition in the southwest Pacific Ocean. .
    Proc. 7th Int. Conf. on Southern Hemisphere
    Meteorology and Oceanography, Wellington, New
    Zealand. American Meteorological Society, Boston,
    116-117. Session Chair. 
  4. Sinclair, M.R., 2002 Secular trends in storm
    track activity from explicit tracking. Abstract
    Volume, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Spring
    meeting, Washington DC, 28-31 May, 2002. EOS,
    Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 83(19),
    Spring Meet. Suppl, Abstract. A52E-03 p. S83.
    Session Chair.

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Conferences (cont.)
  • Sinclair, M.R., 2003 Meteorological influences
    on Arizona Precipitation. Title of a workshop
    presentation at the Tri-City Water Forum at
    Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, November
    15, 2003. 
  • Sinclair, M.R., 2003 Storm Track Activity and
    its Recent Trend as Deduced from Explicit
    Tracking. Title of a Research Seminar presented
    at University of Quebec at Montreal, 19 August,
    2003.
  • Sinclair, M.R., 2001. Extratropical Transition of
    Southwest Pacific Tropical Cyclones. Title of a
    Research Seminar presented at Department of
    Geography, Arizona State University, Phoenix,
    Arizona in February 2001.  
  • Sinclair, M.R., 2000 Extratropical transition in
    the southwest Pacific. Title of a workshop
    presentation for New Zealand weather forecasters,
    Wellington, NZ, July 2000.
  • Sinclair, M.R., 2000 Extratropical transition
    and transformation of tropical cyclones in the
    southwest Pacific an overview. Paper presented
    at the 11th Extratropical Cyclone Workshop,
    Monterey, CA, August 2000.

18
Grants
  • Collaborative project Storm track variations and
    cyclogenesis Relationships between cyclone track
    statistics, eddy statistics, and wave packets.
    NSF Proposal Number 0405749 under ATM Large
    Scale Dynamic Meteorology. (Jointly, Mark
    Sinclair with Professor Edmund Chang from the
    State University of New York at Stony Brook).
    385,000 (pending)

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New instrumentation
  • Digicora III Sounding system
  • GPS and UHF antennas (tracking the position and
    data signal from the radiosonde)
  • Honeywell Primus 880 weather radar
  • Upgrade current Primus 400
  • Digital readout
  • MAWS 301 Automatic Weather Station
  • Measures pressure, wind, humidity, temperature,
    precipitation and solar radiation

20
Computer classrooms
  • Graphical weather analysis overlays and
    calculations
  • Real-time data streams from radar, satellite,
    surface weather observations, upper-air
    observations, computer models, etc.
  • Local weather data from rooftop observations

21
Research directions
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The Arizona Drought
  • Sinclair/James
  • Preliminary statistical analysis of AZ rainfall
    patterns completed
  • Incorporate radar and synoptic data

23
Cyclone dynamics
  • Parsons
  • Dynamics of midlatitude cyclones

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Midlatitude storm tracks
  • Sinclair
  • Collaborative project Storm track variations and
    cyclogenesis Relationships between cyclone track
    statistics, eddy statistics, and wave packets
    (submitted). NSF Proposal Number 0405749

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Cyclones by month
Rome
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