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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
NSF grant to fund better, AI-powered understanding of weather pattern
Led by Steven Greybush, researchers will incorporate computational tools along with traditional science to better understand and predict weather
Lumpy, bumpy hail: Realistic hail shapes may improve modeling of severe weather
A new approach for modeling hailstorms that uses more realistic hailstone shapes could improve our understanding of hazardous weather, according to a team led by scientists at Penn State.
Atmospheric, climate researcher named IEE 'Person of the Year'
The Penn State Institute of Energy and the Environment has named Kenneth Davis as Person of the Year for 2024.
Mesonet Station Leads to K-12 Education Opportunities
A PA Environmental Monitoring Network station, installed by Penn State Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric science researchers earlier this Fall, has been enthusiastically embraced by the school district. Waynesboro Area School District (station installed at Middle School) in Franklin County is already using data from the site within their science and technology classrooms! This is one of our mesonet expansion sites funded by the PA Emergency Management Agency, with 50 total sites planned to be installed and operating by Summer 2026.
Researchers react: Science fact versus fiction in new ‘Twisters’ film
How does Hollywood’s treatment of tornadoes compare to the science behind the phenomena?
Drs. Yvette Richardson and Paul Markowski talk about the film Twisters on NPR.
As the movie "Twisters" enjoys a whirlwind of success at the box office, two Penn State meteorologists and storm chasers talk about the science in the movie and their own experience in the field.
‘Twisters’ movie: Two tornado scientists take us inside the real world of storm chasing
A short article written by Drs. Yvette Richardson and Paul Markowski for The Conversation discusses what scientific storm chasing is really all about.
Storm-chasing trip offers Penn State students classroom lessons on the road
It’s a chance for students to see what they’re learning in classrooms and textbooks taking place before their eyes and in the skies.
Convective Boundary Layer Research
A group of Penn State researchers, led by Dr. David Stensrud, have been able to learn more about an important layer of the atmosphere by using readily-available data from radars.
Five Penn State faculty named 2024 BTAA Department Executive Officer Fellows
The Big Ten Academic Alliance's (BTAA) Department Executive Officers (DEO) program has gained five additional fellows from the Penn State ranks; among them is Distinguished Professor and head of the Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, Paul Markowski. The BTAA is the academic consortium of the Big Ten universities and the United States’ preeminent model for effective collaboration among research universities.