Laura Tomkins celebrating her successful oral defense of her Ph.D.in Geospatial Analytics, “Synthesis of radar-observed characteristics, storm structures, and surface snowfall rates in 10+ years of Northeast US winter storms” on 1 March 2024.
video of presentation
Category: Snow and Winter Storms
How big can snowflakes get?
Piece on NPR All Things Considered that aired on Christmas Day 2023 features an interview with Dr. Yuter
How big can an individual snow crystal versus a “puff ball” of separate crystals get?
Seminar “New Insights on Snowfall From Observations of Winter Storms”
Dr. Yuter presented an online seminar on 4 December 2023 at the University of Maryland’s Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center Seminar Series.
seminar recording
Burris Ph.D. defense presentation
Kevin Burris celebrates his successful oral defense of his Ph.D. thesis “Examining Winter Storm Structures with High-Resolution Observed Profiles” on 15 May 2023.
New Visualization Tool Helps Weather Forecasters and Researchers More Easily Identify and Study Bands of Heavy Snow
Laura Tomkins’ recently published paper, Tomkins et al. 2002 AMT, on image muting was featured in the Center for Geospatial Analytics New Research Spotlight
Time sequence of image muting on radar data.
NASA IMPACTS field program winter 2022
During January 2022, group members Matthew Miller, Kevin Burris, Luke Allen, Laura Tomkins, and Sandra Yuter all had key roles in the NASA Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Snowstorms (IMPACTS) field program.
An article about the research flight on 29 Jan 2022 during an east coast blizzard was published in Popular Science.
Kent M.S. Thesis Defense
Laura Kent celebrates her successful oral defense on 5 August 2021 of her Master’s thesis “Multi-year Analysis of Ice Streamers Within Coastal Northeast US Winter Storms”.
NASA IMPACTS Winter 2020 field phase begins
During January and February 2020, group members Matthew Miller, Sandra Yuter, Laura Tomkins, Ronak Patel, and Daniel Hueholt will spend time at NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia supporting mission science and forecasting for the NASA Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Snowstorms (IMPACTS) field program. Matthew Miller will also go to Hunter Army Airfield in Georgia to work in mission science support for the NASA ER-2 aircraft. Image: Meteorology majors Daniel Hueholt and Ronak Patel standing in front of the P3 research aircraft at NASA Wallops Island Flight Facility. Both students did winter storm forecasting and P3 aircraft data collection for the NASA IMPACTS field program.
What big snowflakes look like
Megan Skrip , the Center for Geospatial Analytics’ Science Communicator, interviewed Dr. Yuter for this piece on what big snowflakes really look like:
Below are two images of snow aggregates we prepared for the piece. Both photographs were obtained by the Multi-Angle Snowflake Camera at Stony Brook, NY during a storm on 24 Jan 2015.
