Yvette Richardson
Yvette Richardson | |
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| Alma mater | University of Wisconsin–River Falls (B.S., 1990) University of Oklahoma (M.S., 1993; Ph.D., 1999) |
| Known for | Tornado and convection research |
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| Fields | Meteorology |
| Institutions | Pennsylvania State University |
| Thesis | The Influence of Horizontal Variations in Vertical Shear and Low-Level Moisture on Numerically Simulated Convective Storms (1999) |
| Doctoral advisor | Kelvin K. Droegemeier |
| Other academic advisors | Frederick H. Carr |
Yvette Richardson is an American meteorologist with substantial contributions on tornado dynamics, tornadogenesis, the environments of tornadoes, supercells, and severe convection, and radar observations of these. She was a principal investigator (PI) of VORTEX2.
Career
[edit]Richardson graduated with Special Academic Honors (sigma cum laude) at the University of Wisconsin–River Falls (UWRF) with a B.S. in physics in 1990. She earned a M.S. and Ph.D. in meteorology from the University of Oklahoma (OU) in 1993 and 1999, respectively. Richardson was a visiting assistant professor at OU from 1998 to 2000, was a research scientist at OU from 2000 to 2001, and has been a professor at Pennsylvania State University (PSU) since 2002. She is a member of Sigma Pi Sigma and Phi Kappa Phi.[1]
Richardson was on the steering committee, was a scientific-PI, and was co-coordinator of mobile mesonets for VORTEX2.[2] She previously collaborated in other field projects, including PAMREX,[3] (2003–2004), IHOP[4] (2002), ROTATE[5] (2000, 2001, 2004), and VORTEX1[6] (1994–1995). She co-authored the textbook, Mesoscale Meteorology in Midlatitudes, with Paul Markowski with whom she also wrote a major Weatherwise magazine article, "How to Make a Tornado". Richardson is a co-writer of a rebuttal to a New York Times opinion piece by physicist Richard A. Muller, challenging his contention that tornadic activity had decreased in the U.S. and his tying the alleged decline to global warming.[7]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Richardson, Yvette (10 Feb 2014). "Vitae" (doc). Pennsylvania State University. Retrieved 2014-05-18.
- ^ "VORTEX2 | Earth Observing Laboratory". Eol.ucar.edu. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
- ^ "PAMREX: The Pennsylvania Mobile Radar Experiment". Archived from the original on 2014-05-18. Retrieved 2014-05-18.
- ^ "IHOP_2002 | Earth Observing Laboratory". Eol.ucar.edu. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
- ^ "ROTATE Description - Center for Severe Weather Research (CSWR.org)". Archived from the original on 2013-10-17. Retrieved 2014-05-18.
- ^ "VORTEX | Earth Observing Laboratory". Eol.ucar.edu. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
- ^ Revkin, Andrew C. (9 December 2013). "A Closer Look at Tornadoes in a Human-Heated Climate". The New York Times. Retrieved 2014-05-18.
External links
[edit]- PSU profile
- WeatherBrains interview Archived 2014-01-08 at the Wayback Machine
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