I am a Senior Research Associate in Sharan Majumdar's Tropical Cyclone Research Group.
The following are some current and prior research areas and relevant publications/proceedings:

• Tropical cyclone model diagnostics
  • HWRF performance diagnostics from the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season, McNoldy et al. 2010
  • Statistical evaluation of the response of intensity to large-scale forcing in the 2008 operational HWRF model, DeMaria and McNoldy 2009
• Tropical cyclone theoretical dynamics
  • Shock-like structures in the tropical cyclone bounday layer, Williams et al. 2011
  • Time evolution of the intensity and size of tropical cyclones, Musgrave et al. 2011
  • Application of the concepts of Rossby length and Rossby depth to tropical cyclone dynamics, Schubert and McNoldy 2010
• Tropical cyclone concentric eyewalls and moats
  • On the distribution of subsidence in the hurricane eye, Schubert et al. 2007
  • Rapid filamentation zones in intense tropical cyclones, Rozoff et al. 2006
  • Potential vorticity rings and eye subsidence, Schubert et al. 2006
  • Triple eyewall in Hurricane Juliette, McNoldy 2004
• Tropical cyclone eyewall mesovortices and asymmetries
  • Spontaneous-adjustment emission of inertia-gravity waves by unsteady vortical motion in the hurricane core, Hendricks et al. 2010
  • Vortical swirls in hurricane eye clouds, Kossin et al. 2002
• Tropical cyclone merger via observations, theory, and modeling
  • A classification of binary tropical-cyclone-like vortex interactions, (supplement), Prieto et al. 2003
• North American monsoon
  • Multiscale variability of the flow during the North American Monsoon Experiment, Johnson et al. 2007
  • Diurnal cycle of sea surface winds and temperatures during the 2004 North American Monsoon Experiment, McNoldy et al. 2006
  • An observational analysis of two Gulf surge events during the 2004 North American Monsoon Experiment, Rogers et al. 2005
  • Gulf surges, the diurnal cycle, and convective outflows as revealed by the NCAR ISSs in NAME, Johnson et al. 2005
  • The low-level circulation of the North American Monsoon as revealed by QuikSCAT, Bordoni et al. 2004
• Sub-tropical anticyclones and stratocumulus regimes
  • Surface winds, divergence, and vorticity in stratocumulus regimes using QuikSCAT and reanalysis winds, McNoldy et al. 2004
• Experimental fluid dynamics
  • Design and construction of an affordable rotating table for classroom demonstrations of geophysical fluid dynamics principles, (supplement), McNoldy et al. 2003
• Local weather and climatology
  • A high wind statistical prediction model for the Northern Front Range of Colorado, Lindsey et al. 2011
  • July 2005 Denver heat wave: How unusual was it?, Pielke et al. 2007

My other meteorological interests include: Atlantic tropical cyclones (history, tracking, forecasting), snow storms, and mid-latitude severe weather. Non-meteorological scientific interests include: inflationary cosmology, planetary atmospheres, stellar evolution, geology/volcanology, and fractals/chaos.

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