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Jerry Straka

Earth Sciences

#1278

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#1891

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Meteorology

#131

World Rank

#188

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Jerry Straka's Degrees

Masters Atmospheric Science Pennsylvania State University

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According to Wikipedia, Jerry Michael Straka is an American atmospheric scientist with expertise microphysics of clouds, cloud modeling, and dynamics of severe convection in conjunction with weather radar. He was in leadership roles in both the VORTEX projects and subsequent field research focusing on tornadogenesis.

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Bulk Hydrometeor Classification and Quantification Using Polarimetric Radar Data: Synthesis of Relations (2000) (521)
Cloud Microphysics Retrieval Using S-Band Dual-Polarization Radar Measurements (1999) (451)
Direct Surface Thermodynamic Observations within the Rear-Flank Downdrafts of Nontornadic and Tornadic Supercells (2002) (331)
Precipitation Uncertainty Due to Variations in Precipitation Particle Parameters within a Simple Microphysics Scheme (2004) (290)
Design and Deployment of a Portable, Pencil-Beam, Pulsed, 3-cm Doppler Radar (1997) (242)
Simulated three‐dimensional branched lightning in a numerical thunderstorm model (2002) (225)
Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment: VORTEX (1994) (224)
Charge structure and lightning sensitivity in a simulated multicell thunderstorm (2005) (222)
The Occurrence of Tornadoes in Supercells Interacting with Boundaries during VORTEX-95 (1998) (215)
Precipitation and Evolution Sensitivity in Simulated Deep Convective Storms: Comparisons between Liquid-Only and Simple Ice and Liquid Phase Microphysics* (2004) (193)
Testing a Procedure for Automatic Classification of Hydrometeor Types (2001) (188)
TELEX: The Thunderstorm Electrification and Lightning Experiment (2008) (186)
Numerical solutions of a non‐linear density current: A benchmark solution and comparisons (1993) (177)
A Mobile Mesonet for Finescale Meteorological Observations (1996) (144)
Variability of Storm-Relative Helicity during VORTEX (1998) (130)
Fine-Scale Doppler Radar Observations of Tornadoes (1996) (129)
THE SHARED MOBILE ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH AND TEACHING RADAR A Collaboration to Enhance Research and Teaching (2005) (128)
Polarimetric Signatures above the Melting Layer in Winter Storms: An Observational and Modeling Study (2013) (127)
Numerically Simulated Electrification and Lightning of the 29 June 2000 STEPS Supercell Storm (2006) (126)
Tornadogenesis Resulting from the Transport of Circulation by a Downdraft: Idealized Numerical Simulations (2003) (125)
A lightning parameterization for numerical cloud models (2001) (123)
The Association of Significant Tornadoes with a Baroclinic Boundary on 2 June 1995 (2000) (121)
A Bulk Microphysics Parameterization with Multiple Ice Precipitation Categories (2005) (107)
Vortex Lines within Low-Level Mesocyclones Obtained from Pseudo-Dual-Doppler Radar Observations (2008) (105)
Variations in Supercell Morphology. Part I: Observations of the Role of Upper-Level Storm-Relative Flow (1998) (96)
Assimilation of Simulated Polarimetric Radar Data for a Convective Storm Using the Ensemble Kalman Filter. Part II: Impact of Polarimetric Data on Storm Analysis (2008) (93)
Cloud and Precipitation Microphysics: Principles and Parameterizations (2009) (89)
Numerical Simulations of Microburst-producing Storms: Some Results from Storms Observed during COHMEX (1993) (81)
Enhanced polarimetric radar signatures above the melting level in a supercell storm (2002) (77)
A Summary of Convective-Core Vertical Velocity Properties Using ARM UHF Wind Profilers in Oklahoma (2013) (76)
The mysteries of Mammatus clouds: Observations and formation mechanisms (2006) (71)
Nocturnal Tornado Climatology (2010) (65)
On How Hot Towers Fuel the Hadley Cell: An Observational and Modeling Study of Line-Organized Convection in the Equatorial Trough from TOGA COARE (2009) (62)
Numerical simulations of the 2 August 1981 CCOPE supercell storm with and without ice microphysics (1993) (61)
Observations of Low-Level Baroclinity Generated by Anvil Shadows (1998) (61)
Electrification and Lightning in an Idealized Boundary-Crossing Supercell Simulation of 2 June 1995* (2004) (60)
The Impact of Spatial Variations of Low-Level Stability on the Life Cycle of a Simulated Supercell Storm (2010) (58)
Polarimetric Radar Observations at Low Levels during Tornado Life Cycles in a Small Sample of Classic Southern Plains Supercells (2008) (50)
A Three-Dimensional Numerical Analysis of Colliding Microburst Outflow Dynamics (1996) (48)
Early Radar Echoes from Ultragiant Aerosol in a Cumulus Congestus: Modeling and Observations (2001) (48)
A Preliminary Survey of Rear-Flank Descending Reflectivity Cores in Supercell Storms (2006) (45)
A high-resolution simulation of microphysics and electrification in an idealized hurricane-like vortex (2007) (45)
The Evolution of Low-Level Rotation in the 29 May 1994 Newcastle–Graham, Texas, Storm Complex during VORTEX (2001) (44)
An Adaptation of the Barnes Filter Applied to the Objective Analysis of Radar Data (2000) (41)
Observational and Idealized Numerical Examination of Low-level Counter-rotating Vortices in the Rear Flank of Supercells (2007) (40)
A 3-D modelsyystem for simulating thunderstorm microburst outflows (1992) (32)
Axis Ratios and Flutter Angles of Cloud Ice Particles: Retrievals from Radar Data (2013) (31)
Tropical Oceanic Hot Towers: Need They Be Undilute to Transport Energy from the Boundary Layer to the Upper Troposphere Effectively? An Answer Based on Trajectory Analysis of a Simulation of a TOGA COARE Convective System (2012) (30)
Some Observations of Rotating Updrafts in a Low-Buoyancy, Highly Sheared Environment (2000) (29)
A study of microphysical processes in the 2 August 1981 CCOPE supercell storm (1994) (28)
Polarimetric and Dual-Doppler Radar Observations of the Lipscomb County, Texas, Supercell Thunderstorm on 23 May 2002 (2009) (24)
The Berry and Reinhardt Autoconversion Parameterization: A Digest (2008) (24)
A Statistical Study of the Association of DRCs with Supercells and Tornadoes (2007) (22)
Numerical Simulations of the Microphysics and Electrification of the Weakly Electrified 9 February 1993 TOGA COARE Squall Line: Comparisons with Observations (2008) (22)
Evolution of Low-Level Angular Momentum in the 2 June 1995 Dimmitt, Texas, Tornado Cyclone (2007) (21)
Numerical simulation of mammatus. (2008) (19)
Simulation of chemical metabolism for fate and hazard assessment. III. New developments of the bioconcentration factor base-line model (2012) (18)
Toward Improving Microphysical Parameterizations of Conversion Processes (1997) (18)
Evaluation of Unmanned Aircraft Systems for Severe Storm Sampling Using Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulations (2011) (17)
An idealized numerical simulation of mammatus‐like clouds (2006) (16)
Extension and Application of a Local, Minimum Aliasing Method to Multidimensional Problems in Limited-Area Domains (1993) (13)
A Comparison of the Conservation of Number Concentration for the Continuous Collection and Vapor Diffusion Growth Equations Using One- and Two-Moment Schemes (2005) (10)
Comment on “Why do tornados and hailstorms rest on weekends?” by D. Rosenfeld and T. Bell (2013) (8)
Response Functions for Arbitrary Weight Functions and Data Distributions. Part II: Response Function Derivation and Verification (2005) (7)
Response Functions for Arbitrary Weight Functions and Data Distributions. Part I: Framework for Interpreting the Response Function (2005) (6)
THE ENHANCED ZDR SIGNATURE IN STRATIFORM CLOUDS ABOVE MELTING LAYER (2010) (6)
educational affairs: The Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program: The 1995 Program at the Oklahoma Weather Center (1996) (4)
ELECTRIFICATION AND LIGHTNING IN A SIMULATED SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORM (4)
An Unusual Reticular Cloud Formation (2002) (3)
Mesocyclone and RFD evolution in simulated supercell storms with varying wind profiles (2010) (3)
A novel, multiple liquid and ice hydrometeor species, hybrid-bulk/bin, three-moment microphysics parameterization scheme (2010) (3)
Does the Influence of Oblate-Like Distortions in Larger Raindrops Make a Difference in Collection and Evaporation Parameterizations? (2006) (3)
Effects of linear, ambient wind shear on simulated mammatus‐like clouds (2009) (3)
Supercell Spectrum. Part I: A Review of Research Related to Supercell Precipitation Morphology (2008) (3)
Visual Observation of the 6 June 2005 Descending Reflectivity Core (2007) (2)
The Behavior of Number Concentration Tendencies for the Continuous Collection Growth Equation Using One- and Two-Moment Bulk Parameterization Schemes (2006) (2)
Cloud and Precipitation Microphysics: Microphysical parameterization problems and solutions (2009) (2)
Bin-Emulating Hail Melting in Three-Moment Bulk Microphysics (2020) (2)
Representing Moisture Processes in Mesoscale Numerical Models (1994) (2)
The performance of filtered leapfrog schemes in benchmark simulations (2021) (1)
EMBRYO DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SIMULATED HIGH AND LOW PLAINS HAILSTORMS (2008) (1)
Supercell Spectrum. Part II: A Semi-Objective Method for Radar Classification of Supercell Type (2009) (1)
Cloud and Precipitation Microphysics: Melting of ice (2009) (1)
Cloud and Precipitation Microphysics: References (2009) (0)
Model Studies of Lightning in Thunderstorms (2003) (0)
Recent Results from Thunderstorm electrification modeling (0)
Calculation of Physical Parameters of a Gas Cooled Heavy-Water Natural Uranium Reactor. Description of the program PARAMETRY II; VYPOCET FYSIKALNICH PARAMETRU MRIZE TEZKOVODNIHO REAKTORU S PRIRODNIM URANEM CHLAZENEHO PLYNEM. POPIS PROGRAMU PARAMETRY II (1965) (0)
Assimilation of Simulated Polarimetric Radar Data Using Ensemble Kalman Filter : Observation Operators , Error Modeling and Data Impact (2006) (0)
A New Trajectory Model and Its Practical Application for Accident and Risk Assessments (1983) (0)
Cloud and Precipitation Microphysics: Vapor diffusion growth of liquid-water drops (2009) (0)
Cloud-droplet and cloud-ice crystal nucleation (2009) (0)
STORM SIMULATIONS BY A NUMERICAL CLOUD MODEL WITH ELECTRIFICATION AND LIGHTNING PARAMETERIZATIONS (2008) (0)
Cloud and Precipitation Microphysics: Vapor diffusion growth of ice-water crystals and particles (2009) (0)
Quantitative Precipitation Sensitivity in Simulated Deep Convective Storms due to Variations in the Particle Density and Size Distribution for the "Large Ice" Category (2001) (0)
Multimoment microphysical parameterizations in cloud models (2011) (0)
Cloud and Precipitation Microphysics: Saturation adjustment (2009) (0)
Cloud and Precipitation Microphysics: Foundations of microphysical parameterizations (2009) (0)
8B.5 A QUASI-OBJECTIVE METHOD FOR DISCRIMINATION OF SUPERCELL ARCHETYPES USING THE WSR-88D (2004) (0)
NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF THE EVOLUTION OF TROPICAL CYCLONE ELECTRIFICATION , LIGHTNING , MICROPHYSICS , AND DYNAMICS AT LANDFALL : PRELIMINARY RESULTS (2005) (0)
Polarimetric Radar and Electric Field Observations of a Multicell Storm (2004) (0)
Model dynamics and finite differences (2009) (0)
THE INFLUENCE OF LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS UPON SUPERCELL KINEMATICS, MICROPHYSICS, ELECTRIFICATION, AND LIGHTNING (2002) (0)
A MULTI-MOMENT , MULTI-HYDROMETEOR CLASS , BULK MICROPHYSICS PARAMETERIZATION SCHEME (2007) (0)
What causes mammatus (2006) (0)
Cloud and Precipitation Microphysics: Autoconversions and conversions (2009) (0)
Cloud and Precipitation Microphysics: Appendix (2009) (0)
Cloud and Precipitation Microphysics: Preface (2009) (0)
Do hailstorms and tornadoes really 'rest on weekends'? (2013) (0)
PICTURE OF THE MONTH An Unusual Reticular Cloud Formation (2002) (0)
Cloud and Precipitation Microphysics: Drop breakup (2009) (0)
Cloud and Precipitation Microphysics: Introduction (2009) (0)
IDEALIZED NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF THE EVOLUTION OF TROPICAL CYCLONE ELECTRIFICATION , LIGHTNING , MICROPHYSICS , AND KINEMATICS AT LANDFALL (2004) (0)
Climatology of Long-Track Tornadoes (2022) (0)

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