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Paul Markowski's Degrees

PhD Meteorology Pennsylvania State University
Masters Meteorology Pennsylvania State University
Bachelors Meteorology Pennsylvania State University

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According to Wikipedia, Paul M. Markowski is an American meteorologist and leading expert on tornadogenesis and the forecasting of supercells and tornadoes. Career He was a principal investigator for the IHOP, , PAMREX , and VORTEX2 field projects and, with Joshua Wurman, Howard Bluestein, et al., was on the VORTEX2 Steering Committee. He has been interviewed widely by newspapers, magazines, television and radio. He authored with Yvette Richardson, Mesoscale Meteorology in Midlatitudes, which is a widely popular textbook worldwide.

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Close Proximity Soundings within Supercell Environments Obtained from the Rapid Update Cycle (2003) (663)
Mesoscale Meteorology in Midlatitudes (2010) (486)
Direct Surface Thermodynamic Observations within the Rear-Flank Downdrafts of Nontornadic and Tornadic Supercells (2002) (331)
The Occurrence of Tornadoes in Supercells Interacting with Boundaries during VORTEX-95 (1998) (215)
Hook Echoes and Rear-Flank Downdrafts: A Review (2002) (211)
The Second Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment: VORTEX2 (2012) (156)
Variability of Storm-Relative Helicity during VORTEX (1998) (130)
The Influence of Environmental Low-Level Shear and Cold Pools on Tornadogenesis: Insights from Idealized Simulations (2014) (126)
Tornadogenesis Resulting from the Transport of Circulation by a Downdraft: Idealized Numerical Simulations (2003) (125)
A Numerical Investigation of the Effects of Dry Air Aloft on Deep Convection (2009) (123)
The Association of Significant Tornadoes with a Baroclinic Boundary on 2 June 1995 (2000) (121)
Characteristics of Vertical Wind Profiles near Supercells Obtained from the Rapid Update Cycle (2003) (120)
Tornadogenesis: Our current understanding, forecasting considerations, and questions to guide future research (2009) (114)
Vortex Lines within Low-Level Mesocyclones Obtained from Pseudo-Dual-Doppler Radar Observations (2008) (105)
Tornado maintenance investigated with high-resolution Dual-Doppler and EnKF analysis (2012) (98)
Genesis of the Goshen County, Wyoming, Tornado on 5 June 2009 during VORTEX2 (2013) (94)
The Pretornadic Phase of the Goshen County, Wyoming, Supercell of 5 June 2009 Intercepted by VORTEX2. Part II: Intensification of Low-Level Rotation (2012) (84)
Is buoyancy a relative quantity (2004) (78)
Surface In Situ Observations within the Outflow of Forward-Flank Downdrafts of Supercell Thunderstorms (2006) (78)
The Pretornadic Phase of the Goshen County, Wyoming, Supercell of 5 June 2009 Intercepted by VORTEX2. Part I: Evolution of Kinematic and Surface Thermodynamic Fields (2012) (77)
Single- and Dual-Doppler Analysis of a Tornadic Vortex and Surrounding Storm-Scale Flow in the Crowell, Texas, Supercell of 30 April 2000 (2008) (74)
Multipass Objective Analyses of Doppler Radar Data (2008) (71)
Observations of Low-Level Baroclinity Generated by Anvil Shadows (1998) (61)
Environmental Distinctions between Cellular and Slabular Convective Lines (2005) (56)
Finescale Single- and Dual-Doppler Analysis of Tornado Intensification, Maintenance, and Dissipation in the Orleans, Nebraska, Supercell (2010) (55)
A numerical study of the effects of orography on supercells (2011) (53)
Observations of Convection Initiation “Failure” from the 12 June 2002 IHOP Deployment (2006) (51)
The Interaction of Simulated Squall Lines with Idealized Mountain Ridges (2006) (50)
Bow Echo Sensitivity to Ambient Moisture and Cold Pool Strength (2006) (48)
VORTEX2 Observations of a Low-Level Mesocyclone with Multiple Internal Rear-Flank Downdraft Momentum Surges in the 18 May 2010 Dumas, Texas, Supercell* (2014) (48)
A Climatology of Springtime Dryline Position in the U.S. Great Plains Region (2005) (44)
Severe Hail Climatology of Turkey (2016) (41)
The Characteristics of Numerically Simulated Supercell Storms Situated over Statically Stable Boundary Layers (2011) (40)
Observational and Idealized Numerical Examination of Low-level Counter-rotating Vortices in the Rear Flank of Supercells (2007) (40)
The influence of sea- and land-breeze circulations on the diurnal variability in precipitation over a tropical island (2017) (38)
An Investigation of the Goshen County, Wyoming, Tornadic Supercell of 5 June 2009 Using EnKF Assimilation of Mobile Mesonet and Radar Observations Collected during VORTEX2. Part I: Experiment Design and Verification of the EnKF Analyses (2014) (38)
Descending Reflectivity Cores in Supercell Thunderstorms Observed by Mobile Radars and in a High-Resolution Numerical Simulation (2009) (35)
An Idealized Numerical Simulation Investigation of the Effects of Surface Drag on the Development of Near-Surface Vertical Vorticity in Supercell Thunderstorms (2016) (35)
Mobile Mesonet Observations on 3 May 1999 (2002) (35)
LES of Laminar Flow in the PBL: A Potential Problem for Convective Storm Simulations (2016) (32)
A Modeling Study on the Development of a Bowing Structure and Associated Rear Inflow within a Squall Line over South China (2012) (31)
Observations of Vertical Wind Shear Heterogeneity in Convective Boundary Layers (2007) (30)
Numerical Simulations of Radiative Cooling beneath the Anvils of Supercell Thunderstorms (2010) (29)
Some Observations of Rotating Updrafts in a Low-Buoyancy, Highly Sheared Environment (2000) (29)
A Simulation of a Supercell Thunderstorm with Emulated Radiative Cooling beneath the Anvil (2005) (28)
Radar in Atmospheric Sciences and Related Research: Current Systems, Emerging Technology, and Future Needs (2014) (27)
Tornado Climatology of Turkey (2014) (26)
Tornadoes in the Central United States and the “Clash of Air Masses” (2014) (26)
Characteristics of the Wind Field in Three Nontornadic Low-Level Mesocyclones Observed by the Doppler On Wheels Radars (2011) (25)
What we know and don’t know about tornado formation (2014) (25)
The Orinoco Low‐Level Jet: An Investigation of Its Characteristics and Evolution Using the WRF Model (2017) (24)
Polarimetric and Dual-Doppler Radar Observations of the Lipscomb County, Texas, Supercell Thunderstorm on 23 May 2002 (2009) (24)
Speciation of iodide, iodine, and iodate in environmental matrixes by inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry using in situ chemical manipulation. (2000) (23)
An application of the tilted independent pixel approximation to cumulonimbus environments (2009) (23)
A Comparison of Near-Surface Buoyancy and Baroclinity across Three VORTEX2 Supercell Intercepts (2015) (21)
Multiple-Doppler Radar Observations of the Evolution of Vorticity Extrema in a Convective Boundary Layer (2006) (21)
On the Classification of Vertical Wind Shear as Directional Shear versus Speed Shear (2006) (21)
The origins of vortex sheets in a simulated supercell thunderstorm (2014) (20)
Comparison of the Tornadic and Nontornadic Supercells Intercepted by VORTEX2 on 10 June 2010 (2014) (20)
Multiscale Processes Leading to Supercells in the Landfalling Outer Rainbands of Hurricane Katrina (2005) (2011) (19)
Dynamical Influences of Anvil Shading on Simulated Supercell Thunderstorms (2013) (19)
Lifting of Ambient Air by Density Currents in Sheared Environments (2013) (19)
Observations of Near-Surface Vertical Wind Profiles and Vertical Momentum Fluxes from VORTEX-SE 2017: Comparisons to Monin–Obukhov Similarity Theory (2019) (18)
Recommendations for In Situ and Remote Sensing Capabilities in Atmospheric Convection and Turbulence (2018) (18)
Supercell Low-Level Mesocyclones in Simulations with a Sheared Convective Boundary Layer (2015) (17)
“Near Ground” Vertical Vorticity in Supercell Thunderstorm Models (2017) (17)
An Investigation of the Goshen County, Wyoming, Tornadic Supercell of 5 June 2009 Using EnKF Assimilation of Mobile Mesonet and Radar Observations Collected during VORTEX2. Part II: Mesocyclone-Scale Processes Affecting Tornado Formation, Maintenance, and Decay (2016) (17)
Unusually Long Duration, Multiple-Doppler Radar Observations of a Front in a Convective Boundary Layer (2007) (16)
Modifications to the Near-Storm Environment Induced by Simulated Supercell Thunderstorms (2016) (16)
Properties of a Simulated Convective Boundary Layer in an Idealized Supercell Thunderstorm Environment (2014) (15)
Mean Monthly Diurnal Cycles Observed with PRE-STORM Surface Data (1998) (14)
Organization of Isolated Convection (2010) (13)
Severe convective storm environments in Turkey (2017) (13)
Large sensitivity of near-surface vertical vorticity development to heat sink location in idealized simulations of supercell-like storms (2017) (13)
A: Radar and Its Applications (2010) (12)
What is the Intrinsic Predictability of Tornadic Supercell Thunderstorms? (2020) (12)
INTEGRATING CLASSROOM LEARNING AND RESEARCH The Pennsylvania Area Mobile Radar Experiment (PAMREX) (2008) (10)
The Influence of Topography on Convective Storm Environments in the Eastern United States as Deduced from the HRRR (2016) (9)
Aboveground Thermodynamic Observations in Convective Storms from Balloonborne Probes Acting as Pseudo-Lagrangian Drifters (2017) (9)
Tornadogenesis in the 12 May 2010 Supercell Thunderstorm Intercepted by VORTEX2 near Clinton, Oklahoma (2018) (9)
A Numerical Simulation Study of the Effects of Anvil Shading on Quasi-Linear Convective Systems (2013) (8)
Comments on “Proposed Conceptual Taxonomy for Proper Identification and Classification of Tornado Events” (2010) (8)
Comment on “Why do tornados and hailstorms rest on weekends?” by D. Rosenfeld and T. Bell (2013) (8)
Dynamics of Elevated Vortices (1999) (8)
Mesoscale Gravity Waves (2010) (7)
An Overview of Atmospheric Convection (2007) (7)
A comparison of the midlevel kinematic characteristics of a pair of supercell thunderstorms observed by airborne Doppler radar (2008) (7)
The Orinoco Low‐Level Jet: An Investigation of Its Mechanisms of Formation Using the WRF Model (2020) (6)
Hazards Associated with Deep Moist Convection (2010) (5)
Multiple-Doppler radar observations of vertical wind profile heterogeneity in convective boundary layers (2004) (5)
Near-surface vortexgenesis in idealized three-dimensional numerical simulations involving a heat source and a heat sink in a vertically sheared environment (2010) (5)
Mountain Waves and Downslope Windstorms (2010) (4)
Convective Storm Initiation and Organization (2007) (4)
Simulations of a supercell thunderstorm with radiative transfer, surface physics, and a soil model (2006) (4)
Assessing the influence of complex terrain on severe convective environments in northeastern Alabama (2021) (4)
Comments on “The Regulation of Tornado Intensity by Updraft Width” (2018) (3)
Thermally Forced Winds in Mountainous Terrain (2010) (3)
How to Make a Tornado (2013) (3)
Simultaneous Dual-Doppler and Mobile Mesonet Observations of Streamwise Vorticity Currents in Three Supercells (2020) (3)
Processes Preventing the Development of a Significant Tornado in a Colorado Supercell on 26 May 2010 (2020) (3)
Air Mass Boundaries (2010) (2)
Mesoscale Convective Systems (2010) (2)
Comment on "Eliminating the major tornado threat in Tornado Alley" (2014) (2)
COMPARISON OF THE TORNADIC AND NONTORNADIC SUPERCELLS INTERCEPTED BY VORTEX 2 ON 10 JUNE (2014) (2)
Blocking of the Wind by Terrain (2010) (2)
What is the Mesoscale (2010) (2)
The Influence of Turbulence Memory on Idealized Tornado Simulations (2020) (2)
Modeling Near-Surface Turbulence in Large-Eddy Simulations of a Tornado: An Application of Thin-Boundary-Layer Equations (2023) (1)
The Boundary Layer (2010) (1)
Objective Analyses of Doppler Radar Data (2008) (1)
The structure and evolution of vortex lines in supercell thunderstorms (2008) (1)
Processes Associated with Convection Initiation in the North American Mesoscale Forecast System, Version 3 (NAMv3) (2019) (1)
The Markowski and Richardson toy simulations revisited: what is the effect of surface drag? (2014) (1)
Multiple-Doppler radar observations of the structure and evolution of vortices in a convective boundary layer (2004) (1)
An Artificially Intelligent System for the Automated Issuance of Tornado Warnings in Simulated Convective Storms (2020) (1)
A Review of the Various Treatments of the Surface Momentum Flux in Severe Storms Simulations: Assumptions, Deficiencies, and Alternatives (2018) (1)
Observations from VORTEX2: The pretornadic phase of the Goshen County, Wyoming, supercell (5 June 2009) (2011) (1)
The Concept of Buoyancy and Its Application to Deep Moist Convection (2007) (1)
The Influence of WENO Schemes on Large-Eddy Simulations of a Neutral Atmospheric Boundary Layer (2021) (1)
The Orinoco Low-Level Jet: An Investigation of its Mechanisms of Formation Using the WRF Model (2020) (1)
How the Environmental Lifting Condensation Level Affects the Sensitivity of Simulated Convective Storm Cold Pools to the Microphysics Parameterization (2022) (1)
Three-Dimensional Thermodynamic Observations in Supercell Thunderstorms from Swarms of Balloon-Borne Sondes (2022) (1)
Bow Echo Development Associated with the Interaction of Convection with Complex Terrain : Blending Observations with Idealized Simulations (2004) (0)
The sensitivity of a simulated supercell to emulated radiative cooling beneath the anvil (2004) (0)
Can a gust front tilt horizontal vortex lines to produce a tornado (2012) (0)
Snowflake Selfies: A Low-Cost, High-Impact Approach toward Student Engagement in Scientific Research (with Their Smartphones) (2020) (0)
1 SURFACE OBSERVATIONS WITHIN THE FORWARD-FLANK DOWNDRAFT OF A TORNADIC AND NONTORNADIC SUPERCELL (2004) (0)
Comments on “Use of a Mesoscale Model to Forecast Severe Weather Associated with a Cold Front Aloft” (2003) (0)
CAREER: A Study of the Radiative E!ects of Cloud Shadows on the Dynamics of Long-Lived Convective Storms (2012) (0)
P 13 . 2 MULTIPLE-DOPPLER RADAR OBSERVATIONS OF THE STRUCTURE AND EVOLUTION OF VORTICES IN A CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER (2004) (0)
ERAD 2010-THE SIXTH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON RADAR IN METEOROLOGY AND HYDROLOGY VORTEX2: The Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment (2010) (0)
Toward understanding the role of shear instability in tornadogenesis: The origins of vortex sheets along supercell gust fronts that precede low-level mesocyclogenesis (2014) (0)
11 A . 4 MOBILE DOPPLER RADAR OBSERVATIONS OF A FRONT DURING IHOP (2003) (0)
Data and analysis code for the 26 May 2010 supercell intercepted by VORTEX2 near Prospect Valley, Colorado (2020) (0)
Weather Verification Papers Requested (2015) (0)
Near-Surface Vertical Wind Shear Observed during VORTEX-Southeast IOPs within and Near Convective Storms: Departures from Log-Law Behavior and Implications for Lower Boundary Conditions in Convective Storm Simulations (2018) (0)
Comments on “Observations of Wall Cloud Formation in Supercell Thunderstorms during VORTEX2” (2015) (0)
What Have We Learned About Convective Storms From Observations That We Could Not Have Learned From Numerical Simulations (2017) (0)
Large Sensitivity of Near-surface Vertical Vorticity Development and Amplification to Heat Sink Location in Idealized Simulations of Supercell-like Storms (2016) (0)
Tornadoes and Tornadogenesis (2007) (0)
Some potentially interesting differences in the midlevel kinematic characteristics of a nontornadic and tornadic supercell observed by ELDORA during VORTEX (2006) (0)
SUMMARY OF THE 2012 NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION COMMUNITY WORKSHOP ON RADAR TECHNOLOGIES (2014) (0)
Should Reversible Convective Inhibition be Used when Determining the Inflow Layer of a Convective Storm? (2021) (0)
An Analysis of the Impact of Vertical Wind Shear on Convection Initiation Using Large-Eddy Simulations: Importance of Wake Entrainment (2023) (0)
Basic Equations and Tools (2010) (0)
7 Radar Reflectivity “ Blobs ” Observed by the Doppler on Wheels (2006) (0)
Lighthill's theory applied to tornadoes as an infrasonic source (2022) (0)
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE Multipass Objective Analyses of Doppler Radar Data (2008) (0)
The influence of sea-and land-breeze circulations on the diurnal variability of precipitation 1 over a tropical island 2 3 (2017) (0)
P12.4 CHARACTERISTICS OF RUC VERTICAL WIND PROFILES NEAR SUPERCELLS (2002) (0)
Circulation Around a Constrained Curve: An Alternative Analysis Tool for Diagnosing the Origins of Tornado Rotation in Numerical Supercell Simulations (2021) (0)
The Pennsylvania State University (2008) (0)
Tornadogenesis : Our current understanding , operational considerations , and questions to guide future research (2007) (0)
Multiple-doppler observations of a nontornadic supercell on 23 May 2002 using ground-based mobile radars (2006) (0)
Pressure Fluctuations Associated with Deep Moist Convection (2007) (0)
P6.7 The Goshen County, Wyoming, supercell of 5 June 2009 intercepted by VORTEX2: Pretornadic phase (2010) (0)
A lower frequency signal emitted from tornadoes based on a new mechanism (2023) (0)

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