Paul Markowski
Paul Markowski | |
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| Alma mater | Pennsylvania State University (B.S., 1996) University of Oklahoma (M.S, 1997; Ph.D. 2000)[6] |
| Known for | Tornadogenesis research |
| Awards | Clarence Leroy Meisinger Award,[1] T. Theodore Fujita Research Achievement Award,[2] Nikolai Dotzek Award,[3] Penn State Alumni Achievement Award,[4] American Meteorological Society Editor's Award,[5] National Science Foundation Early Career Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Meteorology |
| Institutions | Pennsylvania State University |
| Thesis | Surface Thermodynamic Characteristics of Hook Echoes and Rear-Flank Downdrafts with Implications for Tornado Genesis and Maintenance (2000) |
| Doctoral advisor | Jerry Straka |
| Website | www |
Paul M. Markowski is an American meteorologist and leading expert on tornadogenesis and the forecasting of supercells and tornadoes.
He was a principal investigator (PI) for the IHOP (2002), PAMREX (2003–04), and VORTEX2 (2009–10) field projects and, with Joshua Wurman, Howard Bluestein, et al., was on the VORTEX2 Steering Committee.[7] He has been interviewed widely by newspapers, magazines, television and radio.[6] He authored with Yvette Richardson, Mesoscale Meteorology in Midlatitudes,[8] which is a widely popular textbook worldwide.
Markowski attended Pennsylvania State University (PSU), graduating magna cum laude from Penn State's Schreyer Honors College with a B.S. in meteorology in 1996. He moved on to the University of Oklahoma (OU), earning a M.S. in 1997 and a Ph.D. in 2000, both in meteorology. He has been a professor of meteorology at Penn State since 2001.
In December 2013 Markowski lead authored with Harold Brooks, et al., a prominent op-ed rebuttal to physicist Richard Muller critiquing substantial methodological flaws in his findings that strong to violent tornado activity decreased in recent decades and his tying the stated decline to global warming.[9]
See also
References
- ^ "2015 AMS Annual Awards" (PDF). American Meteorological Society. 2015. Retrieved 2015-01-11.
{{cite web}}:|archive-date=requires|archive-url=(help) - ^ "2013 NWA Annual Awards". National Weather Association. 2013. Retrieved 2014-02-20.
{{cite web}}:|archive-date=requires|archive-url=(help) - ^ "European Severe Storms Laboratory Awards". 2011. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
{{cite web}}:|archive-date=requires|archive-url=(help) - ^ "Penn State News". 2010. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
{{cite web}}:|archive-date=requires|archive-url=(help) - ^ "2009 AMS Annual Awards" (PDF). American Meteorological Society. 2009. Retrieved 2015-01-11.
{{cite web}}:|archive-date=requires|archive-url=(help) - ^ a b Markowski, Paul M. (2013). "Paul M. Markowski curriculum vitae" (PDF). Pennsylvania State University. Retrieved 2014-02-20.
- ^ VORTEX2
- ^ "Mesoscale Meteorology in Midlatitudes". Wiley. 2010. Retrieved 2014-02-20.
- ^ Revkin, Andrew C. (9 December 2013). "A Closer Look at Tornadoes in a Human-Heated Climate". The New York Times. Retrieved 2014-02-20.
External links
- Penn State faculty site
- Markowski, Paul; Richardson, Yvette (Jul–Aug 2013). "How to Make a Tornado". Weatherwise: 12.
- Markowski, Paul; Richardson, Yvette (Sep 2014). "What We Know and Don't Know about Tornado Formation". Physics Today. 67: 26–31. doi:10.1063/pt.3.2514.