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Position

Senior Research Scientist
Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies (CIMMS),
University of Oklahoma,
Oklahoma, US.

Thèmes de recherche

Dr. Charles "Chuck" Doswell III is a former research meteorologist with the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL), and is considered as one of the top tornado scientists in the world. He has been a dedicated storm chaser since 1972.

Dr. Charles A. Doswell III has significantly contributed to understanding severe convective storms and their accompanying weather namely tornadoes and downbursts, significant hail and flash floods. Not only is he the leading and best recognized scientist in this research area but he has spent enormous energy in publicizing and drawing attention to these natural hazards among the general public and among governmental authorities.

Prix et récompenses

2005 Sergey Soloviev Medallist (EGU) in recognition of his world leadership in predicting the consequences of severe storms and floods, and in the avoidance and mitigation of these severe natural hazards.

Publications

C.A. Doswell III, Schultz, D.M., J.V. Cortinas, Jr. (2002): Comments on: " An Operational Ingredients-Based Methodology for Forecasting Midlatitude Winter Season Precipitation." Wea. Forecasting, 17.

Doswell, C.A. III (2002): Comments on: "Extraction of geopotential height and temperature structure from profiler and rawinsonde winds" Mon. Wea. Rev., 130.

Doswell, C.A. III, amd P.M. Markowski (2002): Is buoyancy a relative quantity? J. Atmos. Sci., 59.

Doswell, C.A. III, D.V. Baker, and C.A. Liles (2002): Recognition of negative mesoscale factors for severe weather potential. A case study. Wea. Forecasting, 17.

Doswell, C.A. III and Brooks, H.E. (2001): Normalized damage from major tornadoes in the United States: 1890-1999. Wea. Forecasting, 16, 168-176.

Doswell, C.A. III and Spencer, P.L. (2001): A quantitative comparison between traditional and line integral methods of derivative estimation. Mon. Wea. Rev. 129, 2538-2554.

Doswell, C.A. III, Romero, R. and R. Riosalido (2001): Observations and fine-grid simulations of a convective outbreak in northeastern Spain: Importance of diurnal forcing and convective cold pools. Mon. Wea. Rev., 129, 2157-2182.

Doswell, C.A. III and Brooks, H.E. (2001): Deaths in the 3 May 1999 Oklahoma City tornado from a historical perspective. Wea. Forecasting, 16.

Doswell, C.A. III and H.E. Brooks (2001): Lessons learned from the damage produced by the tornadoes of 3 May 1999. Wea. Forecasting, 16.

Doswell, C.A. III, and P.M. Markowski (2001): On the concept of relative buoyancy. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 82, [withdrawn].

Doswell, C.A. III and Brooks, H.E. (2001): Some aspects of the international climatology of tornadoes by damage classification. Atmos. Res., 56, 191-201.

Doswell, C.A. III, Speheger, D.A. and G.S. Stumpf (2001): The tornadoes of 3 May 1999: Event verification in central Oklahoma and related issues. Wea. Forecasting, 16.

C.A. Doswell III, Monteverdi, J.P., G.S. Lipari (2001): Shear parameter thresholds for forecasting California tornadic thunderstorms. Wea. Forecasting, 16, in revision].

Doswell, C.A. III and Evans, J. (2001): Examination of derecho environments using proximity soundings. Wea. Forecasting, 16, 329-342.

Doswell, C.A. III (2001): Severe convective storms - An overview. Meteor. Monogr.

Doswell, C.A. III, and L.F. Bosart (2001): Extratropical synoptic-scale processes and severe convection. Meteor. Monogr.

Doswell, C.A. III, Schultz, D.L., P.N. Schumacher (2000): The intricacies of instabilities. Mon. Wea. Rev., 128, 4143-4148.

Doswell, C.A. III and Schultz, D.L. (2000): Analyzing and forecasting Rocky Mountain lee cyclogenesis associated with damaging winds. Wea. Forecasting, 15, 152-173.

Doswell, C.A. III and Romero, R. and C. Ramis (2000): Mesoscale numerical study of two cases of long-lived quasistationary convective systems over eastern Spain. Mon. Wea. Rev., 128, 3731-3751.

Doswell, C.A. III and Trapp, R.J. (2000): Radar data objective analysis. J. Atmos. Ocean. Technol., 17, 105-120.

Doswell, C.A. III, A. R. Moller and H.E. Brooks (1999): Storm spotting and public awareness since the first tornado forecasts of 1948. Wea. Forecasting, 14 , 544-557.

Doswell, C.A. III and Schultz, D.L. (1999): Conceptual Models of Upper-Level Frontogenesis in Southwesterly and Northwesterly Flow. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc. , 2535-2562.

Doswell, C.A. III and Hall, T., H.E. Brooks (1999): Precipitation forecasting using a neural network. Wea. Forecasting, 14, 338-345.

Doswell, C.A. III and Spencer, P.L., P.R. Janish (1999): A 4-dimensional objective analysis scheme and multi-triangle techniques for wind profiler data. Mon. Wea. Rev., 127, 279-291.

Doswell, C.A. III, and H.E. Brooks (1998): Budget-cutting and the value of weather services. Wea. Forecasting, 13, 206-212.

Doswell, C.A. III, C. Ramis, R. Romero and S. Alonso (1998): A diagnostic study of three heavy precipitation episodes in the western Mediterranean. Wea. Forecasting, 13, 102-124.

Doswell, C.A. III, Romero, R., C. Ramis, S. Alonso and D. J. Stensrud (1998): Mesoscale model simulations of three heavy precipitation events in the western Mediterranean region. Mon. Wea. Rev., 126, 1859-1881.

Doswell, C.A. III and Sonia Lasher-Trapp (1997): On Measuring the Degree of Irregularity in an Observing Network, J. Atmos. Ocean. Technol., 13, 120-132.

Doswell, C.A. III , Harold E. Brooks, and Robert A. Maddox (1996): Flash Flood Forecasting: An Ingredients-Based Methodology Wea. Forecasting, 11, 560-581. [Winner: NSSL Outstanding Scientific Paper Award, January 1999]

Doswell, C.A. III and Brooks, H.E.(1996): A comparison of measures-oriented and distributions-oriented approaches to forecast verification. Wea. Forecasting, 11, 288-303.

Doswell, C.A. III and Sanders, F.,(1995): A case for detailed surface analysis. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 76, 505-521.

Doswell, C.A. III, Davies-Jones, R. and H.E. Brooks (1994): Comments on "Initiation and evolution of updraft rotation within an incipient supercell thunderstorm." J. Atmos. Sci., 51, 326-331.

Doswell, C.A. III, Brooks, H.E. and J. Cooper (1994): On the environments of tornadic and nontornadic mesocyclones. Wea. Forecasting, 10, 606-618.

Doswell, C.A. III and Brooks, H. E. (1993): New technology and numerical weather prediction: A wasted opportunity? Weather, 48, 173-177.

Doswell, C.A. III, and D.W. Burgess (1993): Tornadoes and tornadic storms: A review of conceptual models. The Tornado: Its Structure, Dynamics, Prediction, and Hazards (C. Church et al., Eds), Geophys. Monogr. 79, Amer. Geophys. Union, 161-172.

Doswell, C.A. III, S.J. Weiss and R.H. Johns (1993): Tornado forecasting: A review. The Tornado: Its Structure, Dynamics, Prediction, and Hazards (C. Church et al., Eds), Geophys. Monogr. 79, Amer. Geophys. Union, 557-571.

Doswell, C.A. III, Brooks, H.E., and R.A. Maddox (1992): On the use of mesoscale and cloud-scale models in operational forecasting. Wea. Forecasting, 7, 120-132.

Doswell, C.A. III (1991): A Review for Forecasters on the Application of Hodographs to Forecasting Severe Thunderstorms. Nat. Wea. Dig , 16, No. 1, 2-16.

Doswell, C.A. III (1990): Comments on "Mesoscale Convective Patterns of the Southern High Plains." Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 72, 389-390.

Doswell, C.A. III (1990): Comments on "On the Need for Augmentation in Automated Surface Observations" Nat. Wea. Dig., 15, No. 3, 29-30.

Doswell, C.A. III (1986): The Human Element in Weather Forecasting, Nat. Wea. Dig., 11, 6-17.

Doswell, C.A. III , Leslie R. Lemon, and Robert A Maddox (1981): Forecaster Training -- A Review and Analysis Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 62, 983-988.