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Making weather forecasts more accurate gives communities more time to prepare for dangerous weather and make informed decisions about emergency response. My research focuses on understanding how hurricanes form and behave to improve the accuracy of hurricane forecasts.
I study how temperature, moisture and air currents interact within storms, and how that information can help scientists better predict where hurricanes will go and how strong they will become.
My current work focuses on two areas. One project evaluates the impact of integrating satellite data into numerical weather prediction (NWP) models on tropical cyclone forecasts. This data comes from new satellite systems designed to catch GPS radio signals that transit through the atmosphere (yes, that’s right, the same GPS signals that we use for navigating our cars!). As part of this work, I collaborate with NOAA researchers to improve the observation data assimilation algorithms in NOAA's NWP models. For my second project, I analyze a model simulation of Hurricane Joaquin (2015) to better understand how the storm was able to undergo rapid intensification despite experiencing unfavorable upper-level winds that could have otherwise sheared the storm apart.
Feel free to ask me about hurricane/tropical cyclone prediction, severe weather forecasting and meteorology more broadly. I'll be answering questions on Tuesday, May 26, from 1 to 3 p.m. EDT (17-19 UT).
Bio: Will Miller is an Assistant Research Scientist with the University of Maryland Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. His research interests include both advancing our fundamental understanding of atmospheric dynamic and thermodynamic processes important to severe convective-scale and mesoscale weather phenomena—particularly tropical cyclones (TCs)—and improving the TC forecast accuracy of numerical weather prediction (NWP) model.
Will graduated from the University of Virginia in 2004 with a BS in Chemistry. Following a tour serving in the U.S. Navy as a nuclear trained officer, Will decided to pursue his lifelong interest in meteorology and enrolled in the University of Maryland's Atmospheric and Oceanic Science (AOSC) M.S./Ph.D. program, which he completed in 2019. After a one-year postdoctoral research appointment at the University of Oklahoma Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, Will returned to UMD to join ESSIC/CISESS.
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