Dave Kristovich receives grant to collaborate with NWS Office
A
key difficulty in forecasting severe convective weather in the Great Lakes
region is predicting whether thunderstorms will weaken or strengthen as they
cross over a lake. Dave Kristovich has been notified that the Cooperative
Program for Operational Meteorology, Education, and Training
(COMET) program will fund a proposal to investigate thunderstorm interactions
with the Great Lakes. The project is collaborative, entailing strong
interactions with the NOAA National Weather Service Office in Cleveland, OH. He
will work with Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences graduate student Thomas Workoff
to develop a multi-year "climatology" of storm types and storm evolution as
they cross over Lake Erie. The goal is to better understand the diurnal and
seasonal variation in storm responses to the presence of the lake. (contact
dkristo@illinois.edu)
