Paul Markowski
{{Short description|American meteorologist}}
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| fields = Meteorology
| workplaces = Pennsylvania State University
| alma_mater = Pennsylvania State University (B.S., 1996)
University of Oklahoma (M.S, 1997; Ph.D. 2000){{cite web |last = Markowski |first = Paul M. |title = Paul M. Markowski curriculum vitae |publisher = Pennsylvania State University |year = 2013 |url = http://www.meteo.psu.edu/~pmm116/MarkowskiCV.pdf |access-date = 2014-02-20 }}
| thesis_title = Surface Thermodynamic Characteristics of Hook Echoes and Rear-Flank Downdrafts with Implications for Tornado Genesis and Maintenance
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| thesis_year = 2000
| doctoral_advisor = Jerry Straka
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| known_for = Tornadogenesis research
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| awards = Clarence Leroy Meisinger Award,{{cite web |title = 2015 AMS Annual Awards |publisher = American Meteorological Society |year = 2015 |url = http://www.ametsoc.org/awards/2015awardrecipients.pdf |access-date = 2015-01-11 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150211215722/http://www.ametsoc.org/awards/2015awardrecipients.pdf |archive-date = 2015-02-11 |url-status = dead }} T. Theodore Fujita Research Achievement Award,{{cite web |title = 2013 NWA Annual Awards |publisher = National Weather Association |year = 2013 |url = http://www.nwas.org/awards/nwa13awards.php |access-date = 2014-02-20 }} Nikolai Dotzek Award,{{cite web |title = European Severe Storms Laboratory Awards |year = 2011 |url = http://www.essl.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=82 |access-date = 2014-05-14 }} Penn State Alumni Achievement Award,{{cite web |title = Penn State News |year = 2010 |url = http://news.psu.edu/story/168398/2010/04/09/thirteen-young-penn-staters-honored-alumni-achievement-award |access-date = 2014-05-14 }} American Meteorological Society Editor's Award,{{cite web |title = 2009 AMS Annual Awards |publisher = American Meteorological Society |year = 2009 |url = http://www.ametsoc.org/awards/2009awardrecipients.pdf |access-date = 2015-01-11 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090206121400/http://ametsoc.org/awards/2009awardrecipients.pdf |archive-date = 2009-02-06 |url-status = dead }} National Science Foundation Early Career Award, Fellow of American Meteorological Society
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Paul M. Markowski is an American meteorologist and leading expert on tornadogenesis and the forecasting of supercells and tornadoes.
Career
He was a principal investigator (PI) for the IHOP,{{Cite web|url=https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/ihop2002/|title=IHOP_2002 | Earth Observing Laboratory|website=Eol.ucar.edu|access-date=25 October 2021}} (2002), PAMREX{{Cite web |url=http://www.meteo.psu.edu/~pmm116/pamrex/ |title=PAMREX: The Pennsylvania Mobile Radar Experiment |access-date=2014-05-19 |archive-date=2014-05-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140518092126/http://www.meteo.psu.edu/~pmm116/pamrex/ |url-status=dead }} (2003–04), and VORTEX2{{Cite web|url=https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/vortex2/|title=VORTEX2 | Earth Observing Laboratory|website=Eol.ucar.edu|access-date=25 October 2021}} (2009–10) field projects and, with Joshua Wurman, Howard Bluestein, et al., was on the VORTEX2 Steering Committee.{{Cite web |url=http://www.vortex2.org/home/ |title=Vortex2 |access-date=2014-05-19 |archive-date=2020-11-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201125022823/http://vortex2.org/home/ |url-status=dead }} He has been interviewed widely by newspapers, magazines, television and radio. He authored with Yvette Richardson, Mesoscale Meteorology in Midlatitudes,{{cite web |title = Mesoscale Meteorology in Midlatitudes |publisher = Wiley |year = 2010 |url = http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470742135.html |access-date = 2014-02-20 }} which is a widely popular textbook worldwide.
Markowski attended Pennsylvania State University (PSU), graduating magna cum laude from Penn State's Schreyer Honors College with a B.S. in meteorology in 1996. He moved on to the University of Oklahoma (OU), earning a M.S. in 1997 and a Ph.D. in 2000, both in meteorology. He has been a professor of meteorology at Penn State since 2001.
In December 2013 Markowski lead authored with Harold Brooks, et al., a prominent op-ed rebuttal to physicist Richard Muller critiquing substantial methodological flaws in his findings that strong to violent tornado activity decreased in recent decades and his tying the stated decline to global warming.{{cite news |last = Revkin |first = Andrew C. |title = A Closer Look at Tornadoes in a Human-Heated Climate |newspaper = The New York Times |date = 9 December 2013 |url = http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/09/a-closer-look-at-tornadoes-and-global-warming/ |access-date = 2014-02-20 }}
See also
References
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External links
- [http://www.meteo.psu.edu/~pmm116/Site/Welcome.html Penn State faculty site]
- {{cite journal |last1 = Markowski |first1 = Paul |last2 = Richardson |first2 = Yvette |title = How to Make a Tornado |journal = Weatherwise |pages = 12–19 |date = Jul–Aug 2013 |volume = 66 |issue = 4 |doi = 10.1080/00431672.2013.800413 |bibcode = 2013Weawi..66d..12M |s2cid = 191649696 |url = http://www.weatherwise.org/Archives/Back%20Issues/2013/July-August%202013/torando_full.html }}
- {{cite journal |last1 = Markowski |first1 = Paul |last2 = Richardson |first2 = Yvette |title = What We Know and Don't Know about Tornado Formation |journal = Physics Today |volume = 67 |pages = 26–31 |date = Sep 2014 |issue = 9 |doi = 10.1063/pt.3.2514|bibcode = 2014PhT....67i..26M |doi-access = free }}
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