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PAST EVENTS
- toSpecial EventVirtual Career Day - Spring 2022 (March 22, 6-8 PM, via Zoom)
- toMeteorology Colloquium"What Sets the Latitudinal Precipitation Distribution?"
- toOral Comprehensive Exam"Convection Initiation over Coastal Regions: Supporting Environment and Physical Causes over Coastal Texas"
- toSpecial Event6-8 pm via Zoom
- toMeteorology Colloquium"Weather Warning Outreach and Communication in the 21st Century"
- toOral Comprehensive Exam"Improving a Diabatic Lagrangian Analysis Technique with Observations from Balloon-borne Sondes to Explore the Relationship Between Supercell Thermodynamics and Baroclinically Generated Circulation"
- toThesis Defense"Laboratory Measurements of Small Ice Crystal Growth Rates at Low Temperatures"
- toOral Comprehensive Exam"Assessing climate model applications at multiple spatial scales"
- toOral Comprehensive Exam"Examining Recent Surface Temperature Trends"
- toOral Comprehensive Exam"Leveraging Rossby wave breaking to understand mechanisms generating extreme weather in past and future climates"
- toOral Comprehensive ExamImproving Surface Flux and Boundary Layer Modeling with Land Surface Remote Sensing for State Air Quality Planning
- toMeteorology ColloquiumHuman Footprints in the Sky: Exploring the Impact of Land Use on the Boundary Layer and Beyond
- toKen Reeves Memorial Weather BriefingAssistant Teaching Professor, Exec. Producer of Weather World
- toMeteorology ColloquiumHuman Influence on the Large-Scale Atmospheric Flow in Recent Decades
- toKen Reeves Memorial Weather BriefingM.S. Graduate Student, Penn State Meteorology
- toTarbell Lecture in MeteorologyThe Earth System and its Many Scales: A View from Biosphere up to Atmosphere and Back Down Again
- toKen Reeves Memorial Weather BriefingAssistant Teaching Professor
- toThesis DefenseInvestigating the Characteristics and Dynamics of Convective Updrafts in Tropical Cyclone Rainbands
- toMeteorology ColloquiumAerosols and Droplets: Fundamental Particles in our Evolving World
- toQualifying ExamThe Scale Dependent Practical Estimates of Convection Velocity in Turbulent Canopy Flows
- toMeteorology ColloquiumDevelopments in Quantifying Uncertainty from Bayesian Convolutional Neural Networks as Applied to Synthetic Passive Microwave Retrievals
- toOral Comprehensive ExamInvestigating the Dimensionless Parameters Controlling Horizontal Convective Roll Aspect Ratios Over Land
- toKen Reeves Memorial Weather BriefingLead Meteorologist
- toMeteorology ColloquiumTropical Cyclones: Climate Change, ENSO and the Tropical Pacific
- toKen Reeves Memorial Weather BriefingResearcher, Penn State Meteorology
- toMeteorology ColloquiumWeather and Climate Simulation with State-of-the-Art Physics-Informed AI Algorithms
- toSpecial EventSharing Scientists' Stories: A Conversation with Meteorologist Biographers
- toKen Reeves Memorial Weather BriefingLecturer, Penn State Meteorology
- toKen Reeves Memorial Weather BriefingHydrologist/Hydrometeorologist
- Meteorology ColloquiumAerosols and Their Influence on Clouds
- toKen Reeves Memorial Weather BriefingPresident, Campus Weather Service
- toMeteorology ColloquiumIce Crystal Growth at Cirrus Temperatures: Measurements and New Theories
- toKen Reeves Memorial Weather BriefingThere will be no briefing on Monday, November 11th
- toMeteorology ColloquiumIntegration of Vantage Points, Programs, and Approaches for Space-Based Earth Remote Sensing
- toKen Reeves Memorial Weather BriefingPhD Student, Penn State Meteorology
- toPhD Thesis DefenseAssessing the Role of Parameterized Turbulence on Tropical Cyclones and the Mean Climate in the Community Earth System Model
- toMeteorology ColloquiumTop-Down and Bottom-Up Development of Climate Models
- toOral Comprehensive ExamAdvancing Methods for Source-Specific Quantification of Carbon Dioxide Fluxes in Urban Settings
- toMS Thesis DefenseRelating Polarimetric Radar Measurements to Quasi-Linear Convective System Cold Pool Properties and Damage Potential
- toOral Comprehensive ExamAssessing Urban Greening and Albedo Modification as Strategies to Mitigate Heat-Related deaths in Baltimore, Maryland
- toOral Comprehensive ExamImproving the Understanding of Snow Particles in the Eyewall and Rainbands of Hurricane Dorian Using Microwave Ice Scattering Databases for Various Microphysics Schemes
- toMeteorology ColloquiumImproving Mesoscale Forecasts of Winter Precipitation: Results from Stochastic Physics Experiments and Field Campaign Observations
- toOral Comprehensive ExamApplication and Analysis of a Novel Ice Crystal Trajectory Growth (ICTG) Model to a Tropical Cyclone Eyewall
- toOral Comprehensive Exam"Application of Advancements in Observation of the Planetary Boundary Layer Using Dual-Polarization Radars"
- toMeteorology ColloquiumU.S. Offshore Wind Metocean Conditions Characterization
- toOral Comprehensive ExamQuatifying Electrical Discharges and Their Impacts
- toOral Comprehensive ExamEvaluating and Expanding Statistical-Dynamical Downscaling Methods to Improve Landfalling Tropical Cyclone Risk Assessment
NEWS
Underused satellite, radar data may improve thunderstorm forecasts
A new technique combining underused satellite and radar data in weather models may improve predictions of thunderstorms, according to a Penn State-led team of scientists.
Penn State launches statewide environmental monitoring network
Penn State has established a publicly available, environmental monitoring network to provide enhanced surveillance of atmospheric and soil conditions across Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Environmental Monitoring Network currently consists of 17 stations, with plans soon to more than double that number to 50 stations across the commonwealth. The network consists of monitoring equipment located at Penn State campuses and research facilities, state parks, and airports around the state.
Penn State professor ‘ecstatic’ for Arctic research, establishing connections with students
Even from the Arctic Circle in Alaska, Penn State professor Jose Fuentes is inspiring his students to learn and grow
Carbon flow through inland and coastal waterways, implications for climate
A recent study by an international team of scientists including Raymond Najjar, professor of oceanography at Penn State, found that the flows of carbon through the complex network of water bodies that connect land and ocean has often been overlooked and that ignoring these flows overestimates the carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems and underestimates sedimentary and oceanic carbon storage.
Penn State scientists join Pacific field campaign to study extreme rainfall
The researchers are participating in the Prediction of Rainfall Extremes Campaign in the Pacific (PRECIP), a $6 million field campaign in Taiwan and Japan funded by the National Science Foundation to improve our understanding of the processes that produce extreme precipitation.
Sea saltiness predicts extreme rain in a landlocked region
Sea–surface salinity levels in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans can presage heavy rains in the Midwestern United States.
Electric discharges on leaves during thunderstorms may impact nearby air quality
Weak electrical discharges, called corona, can form on tree leaves during thunderstorms
Campus Weather Service celebrates 50 years
For fledgling forecasters and budding broadcasters, the Campus Weather Service at Penn State has a reputation for real-world readiness.