I'm currently working as a Research Associate in the Schubert Research Group, the Johnson Research Group, and CIRA/RAMMB.
The following are some topics I'm investigating or have investigated in the recent past:

• HWRF and GFDL model diagnostics
• Concentric eyewalls in tropical cyclones
• Moats and rapid filamentation zones in tropical cyclones
• Tropical cyclone eyewall mesovortices and asymmetries.
• Tropical cyclone merger via observations, theory, and modeling.
• Radar loops of landfalling tropical cyclones.
• Satellite loops of tropical cyclone eyes and eyewalls.
• North American monsoon
• Sub-tropical anticyclones and stratocumulus regimes
• Design and fabrication of a spin tank, or rotating table.

I also generate useful operational products and online calculators for various interests:

• Global, real-time tropical cyclone tracking charts
• Atlantic & EastPac VIS/IR/WV/SST imagery sectors
• Atlantic & EastPac IR Hovmoller sectors
• Atlantic & EastPac ITCZ Zonal Means & Hovmoller plots
• Net Tropical Cyclone (NTC) Activity JavaScript calculator
• National Hourly Weather Analyses
• Colorado Regional Hourly Weather Analyses
• Northern Colorado Regional Radar Loop
• Real-time 3D visualization of atmospheric fields (Φ3D)
• Upcoming CloudSat Ground Tracks
• Temperature/Dewpoint/RH JavaScript calculator
• Hydraulic Jump JavaScript calculator
• Severe Weather Index JavaScript calculator
• Mt. St. Helens webcam loop (restricted access)
• Mt. Redoubt webcam loop

My other meteorological interests include (but are not limited to): Atlantic tropical cyclones (history, tracking, forecasting), tropical convection, and mid-latitude severe weather. Non-meteorological scientific interests include inflationary cosmology, planetary atmospheres, geology/volcanology, stellar evolution, and fractals/chaos.

Created and maintained by Brian McNoldy