1967 alumnus and WTNH daytime weatherman, Dr. Mel Goldstein, to release new Connecticut Climate Book in September.
1967 alumnus and WTNH daytime weatherman, Dr. Mel Goldstein, to release new Connecticut Climate Book in September.
A paper co-authored by Raymond Najjar, predicts that the water of the Bay will see rising levels of dissolved carbon dioxide and higher water temperatures.
Professor Anne Thompson (Meteorology, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences) is the new director of the CECG with Ming Tien (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Eberly College of Science) serving as the new associate director.
"Bill Barth, director of TACC's HPC group, said, "The demand for time on Ranger has been very high and instrumental to making TeraGrid the nation's largest resource for open science computational research. The system has run more than 600 million central processing unit hours so far." As for the user who ran the millionth job, Barth said it was a small post-processing job (16 processors) completed by Dr. Yonghui Weng, research associate, in Professor Fuqing Zhang's hurricane research group at the Pennsylvania State University Department of Meteorology."
Research by Dr. Ray Najjar and colleagues at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science focuses on the Chesapeake Bay.
"There's been a sort of semi-permanent area of low pressure over the Great Lakes for most of the summer season, and as the wind spins around that low, we've just been getting cloudier and cooler weather than normal," said Bill Ryan, a meteorology professor at Pennsylvania State University and consultant to the EPA. "The other thing that's going on is, our ozone concentrations have fallen over the past five or six years. What we call the regional background ozone that comes into our big cities from the west with the prevailing winds has been significantly reduced."
Dr. Stauffer and his research group presented a total of eleven papers at the Chemical and Biological Defense, Physical Science and Technology Conference, November 17 - 21 2008, in New Orleans, LA.
Assistant professor Yvette Richardson, one of the leaders of the Penn State team that is part of Vortex2, said the year was an anomaly when it came to tornadoes.
Professor Fuqing Zhang has been awarded the AMS 2009 Clarence L. Meisinger Award for "for outstanding contributions to mesoscale dynamics, predictability, and ensemble data assimilation."
Preliminary results from V2 are scheduled for presentation at Penn State University during fall 2009.
"I am not sure we know what the limits are right now," said Fuqing Zhang, a professor of meteorology at Penn State University. "I think we will continue seeing improvements in track forecasts, especially in extended range."
Mercer County, bordering Ohio, is the only entire county currently averaging above normal precipitation for 2009, said Paul Knight, Penn State climatologist and meteorology instructor. Other western counties, such as Crawford, Venango, Butler, Lawrence and Erie, all have measured near normal for rain and snow so far this year.
--from the Daily Collegian Online, February 3, 2009
Two members of Penn State Meteorology have been selected as SOARS Protégés for 2009.