Tammy Weckwerth

Tammy M. Weckwerth

National Center for Atmospheric Research

P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000

Phone: 303-497-8790; Fax: 303-497-2044

Email: tammy@ucar.edu

 Education

 1988                      B.A. in Mathematics & Physics, Magna Cum Laude, Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, IA

 1991                      M.S. in Atmospheric Sciences, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

 1995                      Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

                                Advisors: Roger M. Wakimoto and James W. Wilson (NCAR)

                                Title: A Study of Horizontal Convective Rolls Occurring within Clear-Air Convective Boundary Layers

Professional Record

1987                      Summer Student research participant, Argonne National Laboratory,                                               Chicago, IL

1990                      Teaching assistant, Dept. of Atmo. Sci., UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

1988-1995           Graduate research assistant, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

1992-1994           Graduate student assistant, ASP, NCAR, Boulder, CO

1995-1997           ASP Post-doc, NCAR, Boulder, CO

1997-2001           Scientist I, ATD, NCAR, Boulder, CO

2001-2006           Scientist II, ATD/EOL, NCAR, Boulder, CO

2006-Present      Scientist III, EOL, NCAR, Boulder, CO

2009-2012           Affiliate Faculty, Colorado State University

2010-2011           Deputy Manager, EOL/Remote Sensing Facility, NCAR, Boulder, CO

2011-2013           Graduate Faculty Appointment, University of Colorado-Boulder

Field Work

1991                     CaPE, Cape Canaveral, FL; graduate student

1995                     SCMS, Cape Canaveral, FL; PI: UWKA, tethersonde, flux-PAM network, ISS

1996                     Flatland/LIFT, Champaign, IL; PI: Doppler on Wheels radar

1998                     Lake-ICE/SNOWBAND, Ann Arbor, MI: Project Manager: ELDORA

1998                     Precip-98, Melbourne, FL; Acting Project Manager: S-Pol

1999                     MAP, Innsbruck, Austria; Acting Project Manager: ELDORA

1999                     MAP, Milan, Italy; Acting Project Manager: S-Pol

2000                     STEPS, Idalia, CO; Project Manager: S-Pol

2002                     IHOP_2002, Oklahoma City, OK: Co-lead Scientist; Co-PI: Leandre II,

                              NRL P-3, ELDORA, ISS, TAOS, surface network, dropsondes, S-Pol

2000                     NAME, Mazatlan, Mexico; Acting Project Manager: S-Pol

2004                     RICO, Barbuda; Acting Project Manager: S-Pol

2006                     REFRACTT, Boulder, S-Pol Operations

2007                     COPS, Black Forest, Germany; Co-PI: DOWs

2008                     TiMREX, Taiwan; CO-I: S-Pol

2008                     T-PARC, Guam, Acting Project Manager: ELDORA

2011                     DYNAMO, Maldives, Acting Project Manager: S-PolKa

2015                     PECAN, Hays, KS; Co-lead Scientist

Professional Memberships/Services/Committees

1988-Present     Member of American Meteorological Society

1996-1997          ASP Seminar Coordinator

1997-2001          ATD Seminar Coordinator

1998                     Co-Chair: NCAR/NOAA Water Vapor Workshop, Boulder

1999-2008          Associate Editor: Monthly Weather Review

2000                     Panel Member at 5^th Int. Symposium on Tropospheric Profiling,

Adelaide, Australia    

2000.                  Session Chair, 5^th Int. Symposium on Tropospheric Profiling,

Adelaide, Australia

2000-2001          Program Committee: 30th AMS International Conference on Radar Meteorology,          Munich, Germany

2000-2002          Steering Committee: Early Career Scientist Assembly, NCAR

2001-2003          Member: AMS Committee on Measurements

2002-2004          Awards Jury, UCAR

2003-2008          Associate Editor: Journal of Atmospheric Sciences

2005-Present     Subject Matter Editor: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

2006-2008          Co-Convener, Joint Radar/Lidar Symposium, 2008 AMS Annual Mtg, New Orleans

2006-2009          Member, AMS Radar Committee

2007                     Session Chair, AMS Lidar Symposium, 2007 AMS Annual Mtg, San Antonio

2007-2008          Program Committee, AGU Chapman Conference on Water Vapor, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii

2007-2009          Chair, EOL Internal Advisory Committee

2007-2012          Co-Organizer, IHOP_2002 Special Issue on Boundary Layer Processes,                                         Monthly Weather Review

2008                     Session Chair, AGU Chapman Conference on Water Vapor, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii

2008-2009          Program Committee: 34th AMS International Conference on Radar Meteorology, Williamsburg, VA

2009-2011          Associate Editor: COPS Special Issue of Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

2009                    Session Chair, 34th AMS International Conference on Radar Meteorology, Williamsburg, VA

2010                    DOE Science Board Member

2010                    Session Chair, 6th European Conference on Radar in Meteorology and Hydrology, Sibiu, Romania

2012-Present    Chair, EOL Internal Advisory Committee

2012                    Session Chair, 9th Int. Symposium on Tropospheric Profiling, L'Aquila, Italy

2012-Present    European Initial Training for atmospheric Remote Sensing (ITaRS) Supervisory Board Member

2013                    NOAA Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) Review Team Member

2013                    Keynote Speaker, AMS Radar Conference, Breckenridge, CO

2015                    Session Chair, AMS Lidar Symposium, AMS Annual Mtg, Phoenix

Student Committees

2000                    Ramon Hanssen, U. Delft, The Netherlands, Ph.D.

2004                    Nettie Arnott, Penn State, M.S.

2008                    Lindsay Bennett, U. Leeds, U.K., Ph.D. co-advisor

2009                    Ryan Hastings, Penn State, M.S.

2011                    Elizabeth Stuckmeyer, CSU, M.S.

2012                    Theresa Aguilar, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, M.S.

Honors and Awards

1988                     Elected member of Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, Cornell College

1991                     Jacob A. Bjerknes Memorial Award, UCLA Atmo. Sci. Dept.

2000                     Nominated for NCAR Outstanding Publication Award

Publications

1. Coulter, R. L., T. J. Martin and T. M. Weckwerth, 1989: Minisodar measurements of rain. J. Atmos. Oceanic Tech., 6, 369-377.
2. Weckwerth, T. M., and R. M. Wakimoto, 1992: The initiation and organization of convective cells atop a cold-air outflow boundary. Mon. Wea. Rev., 120, 2169-2187.
3. Wilson, J. W., T. M. Weckwerth, J. Vivekanandan, R. M. Wakimoto, and R. W. Russell, 1994: Boundary layer clear-air radar echoes: origin of echoes and accuracy of derived winds. J. Atmos. Oceanic Tech., 11, 1184-1206.
4. Atkins, N. T., R. M. Wakimoto and T. M. Weckwerth, 1995: Observations of the sea-breeze front during CaPE. Part II: Dual-Doppler and aircraft analysis. Mon. Wea. Rev., 123, 944-969.
5. Weckwerth, T. M., J. W. Wilson and R. M. Wakimoto, 1996: Thermodynamic variability within the boundary layer due to horizontal convective rolls. Mon. Wea. Rev., 124, 769-784.
6. Weckwerth, T. M., J. W. Wilson, R. M. Wakimoto, and N. A. Crook, 1997: Horizontal convective rolls: Determining the environmental conditions supporting their existence and character­istics. Mon. Wea. Rev., 125, 505-526.
7. Cohn, S., S. Mayor, C. Grund, T. Weckwerth and C. Senff, 1998: The Lidars In Flat Terrain (LIFT) experiment. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 79, 1329-1343.
8. Weckwerth, T. M., T. W. Horst and J. W. Wilson, 1999: An observational study of the evolution of horizontal convective rolls. Mon. Wea. Rev., 127, 2160-2179.
9. Hanssen, R. F., T. M. Weckwerth, H. A. Zebker and R. Klees, 1999: High resolution water vapor mapping from interferometric radar measurements. Science, 283, 1297-1299.
10. Weckwerth, T. M., V. Wulfmeyer, R. M. Wakimoto, R. M. Hardesty, J. W. Wilson and R. M. Banta, 1999: NCAR/NOAA lower-tropospheric water vapor workshop. Bull Amer. Meteor. Soc., 80, 2339-2357.
11. Weckwerth, T. M., 2000: The effect of small-scale moisture variability on thunderstorm initiation. Mon. Wea. Rev., 128, 4017-4030.
12. Jorgensen, D. P., and T. M. Weckwerth, 2003: Forcing and organization of convective systems. Radar and Atmospheric Science: A Collection of Essays in Honor of David Atlas, R. M. Wakimoto and R. C. Srivastava, Eds., Amer. Meteor. Soc., 75-103.
13. Flamant, C., F. Guichard, J. van Baelen, O. Bock, F. Couvreux, D. Parsons, T. Weckwerth, J. Pelon, P. Drobinski, K. Lhomme, M. Guenno and E. Doerflinger, 2003: La campagne IHOP 2000: Une campagne de mesure de la vapeur d’eau dans la couche limite. La Meteorologie, 43, 38-47.
14. Weckwerth, T. M., D. B. Parsons, S. E. Koch, J. A. Moore, M. A. LeMone, B. B. Demoz, C. Flamant,  B. Geerts, J. Wang and W. F. Feltz, 2004: An overview of the International H2O Project (IHOP_2002) and some preliminary highlights. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 85, 253-277.
15. Weckwerth, T. M., C. R. Pettet, F. Fabry, S. Park and J. W. Wilson, 2005: Radar refractivity retrieval: Validation and application to short-term forecasting. J. Appl. Meteor., 44, 285-300.
16. Cai, H., W.-C. Lee, T. M. Weckwerth, C. Flamant and H. V. Murphey, 2005: Observations of the 11 June dryline during IHOP_2002 – A null case for convection initiation. Mon. Wea. Rev.134, 336-354.
17. Weckwerth. T. M., and D. B. Parsons, 2006: A review of convection initiation and motivation for IHOP_2002. Mon. Wea. Rev., 134, 5-22.
18. Demoz, B., C. Flamant, T. Weckwerth, D. Whiteman, K. Evans, F. Fabry, P. Di Girolamo, D. Miller, B. Geerts, W. Brown, G. Schwemmer, B. Gentry, W. Feltz and Z. Wang, 2006: The dryline on 22 May 2002 during IHOP_2002: Convective scale measurements at the profiling site. Mon. Wea. Rev., 134, 294-310.
19. Weckwerth. T. M., H. V. Murphey, C. Flamant, J. Goldstein and C. R. Pettet, 2008: An observational study of convection initiation on 12 June 2002 during IHOP_2002. Mon. Wea. Rev., 136, 2283-2304.
20. Wulfmeyer, V., A. Behrendt, H.-S. Bauer, C. Kottmeier, U. Corsmeier, A. Blyth, G. Craig, U. Schumann, M. Hagen, S. Crewell, P. Di Girolamo, C. Flamant, M. Miller, A. Montani, S. Mobbs, E. Richard, M.W. Rotach, M. Arpagaus, H. Russchenberg, P. Schlüssel, M. König,, V. Gärtner, R. Steinacker, M. Dorninger, D.D. Turner, T. Weckwerth, A. Hense, and C. Simmer, 2008: The Convective and Orographically-induced Precipitation Study: A Research and Development Project of the World Weather Research Program for improving quantitative precipitation forecasting in low-mountain regions. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 89(10), 1477-1486, DOI:10.1175/2008BAMS2367.1.
21. Roberts, R. D., F. Fabry, P. C. Kennedy, E. Nelson, J. W. Wilson, N. Rehak, J. Fritz, V. Chandrasekar, J. Braun, J. Sun, S. Ellis, S. Reising, T. Crum, L. Mooney, R. Palmer, T. Weckwerth and S. Padmanabhan, 2008: REFRACT 2006: Real-time retrieval of high-resolution, low-level moisture fields from operational NEXRAD and research radars. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 89(10), 1535-1548. DOI:10.1175/2008BAMS2412.1.
22. Kottmeier, C., N. Kalthoff, C. Barthlott, U. Corsmeier, J. Van Baelen, A. Behrendt, R. Behrendt, A. Blyth, R. Coulter, S. Crewell, P. di Girolamo, M. Dorninger, C. Flamant, T. Foken, M. Hagen, C. Hauck, H. Höller, H. Konow, M. Kunz, H. Mahlke, S. Mobbs, E. Richard, R. Steinacker, T. Weckwerth, A. Wieser and V. Wulfmeyer, 2008: Mechanisms initiating deep convection over complex terrain during COPS. Meteorologische Zeitschrift (in English), 17, 931-948.
23. Huang, A., J. Marsham, D. J. Parker, W. Tian and T. Weckwerth, 2009: A comparison of roll and non-roll convection and the subsequent deepening moist convection: an LEM case-study based on SCMS data. Mon. Wea. Rev., 137, 350-365, DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2450.1
24. Champollion, C., O. Bock, C. Flamant, F. Masson, D. D. Turner and T. Weckwerth, 2009: Mesoscale GPS tomography applied to the 12 June 2002 convective initiation event of IHOP_2002. Q. J. Royal Meteor. Soc., 135, 645-662.
25. Sherwood, S.C., R. Roca, T.M. Weckwerth and N.G. Andronova, 2010: Tropospheric water vapor, convection and climate. Rev. Geophys., 48, RG2001, DOI:10.1029/2009RG000301.
26. Bennett, L. J., T. M. Weckwerth, A. M. Blyth, B. Geerts, Q. Miao, and Y. P. Richardson, 2010: Observations of the evolution of the nocturnal and convective boundary layers and the structure of open-celled convection on 14 June 2002. Mon. Wea. Rev., 138, 2589-2607, DOI:10.1175/2010MWR3200.1.
27. Wulfmeyer, et al. including T. Weckwerth, 2011: The Convective and Orographically-induced Precipitation Study (COPS): The scientific strategy, the field phase and first highlights. Q. J. Roy. Met. Soc., 137, 3-30, DOI: 10.1002/qj.752.
28. Bennett, L. J., A. M. Blyth, R. R. Foster, A. Gadian, T. M. Weckwerth, A. Behrendt, P. Di Girolamo, M. Dorninger, S.-J. Lock, V. Smith and S. D. Mobbs, 2011: Initiation of convection over the Black Forest mountains during COPS IOP 15a. Q. J. Roy. Met. Soc., 137, 176-189, DOI:10.1002.qj.760.
29. Weckwerth, T. M., J. W. Wilson, M. Hagen, T. J. Emerson, J. O. Pinto, D. L. Rife and L. Grebe, 2011: Radar climatology of the COPS region. Q. J. Roy. Met. Soc., 137, 31-41, DOI: 10.1002/qj.747.
30. Marsham, J. H., S. B. Trier, T. M. Weckwerth, and J. W. Wilson, 2011: Observations of elevated convection initiation leading to a surface-based squall-line during 13 June IHOP_2002. Mon. Wea. Rev., 139, 247-271, DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3422.1.
31. Wulfmeyer, V., C. Flamant, A. Behrendt, A. Blyth, A. Brown, M. Dorninger, A. Illingworth, P. Mascart, A. Montani and T. Weckwerth, 2011: Editorial: Advances in the understanding of convective processes and precipitation over low-mountain regions through the Convective and Orographcially-induced Precipitation Study (COPS). Q. J. Roy. Met. Soc., 137, 1-2, DOI: 10.1002/qj.799.
32. Bluestein, H. B., R. M. Rauber, D. W. Burgess, B. Albrecht, S. M. Ellis, Y. P. Richardson, D. P. Jorgensen, S. J. Frasier, P. Chilson, R. D. Palmer, S. E. Yuter, W.-C. Lee, D. C. Dowell, P. L. Smith, P. M. Markowski, K. Friedrich and T. M. Weckwerth, 2014: Radar in atmospheric sciences and related research: Current systems, emerging technology and further needs. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., in press DOI:10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00079.1.
33. Weckwerth, T. M., L. J. Bennett, L. J. Miller, J. Van Baelen, P. Di Girolamo, A. M. Blyth and T. J. Hertneky, 2014: Observations and simulations of orographic convection initiation on 6 August 2007 during COPS. Mon. Wea. Rev., 142, 2687-2708, DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-13-00216.1.