Henry R. Winterbottom
Graduate Research Assistant
Department of Meteorology
The Florida State University

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Education:

• A.A., Mathematics, Montgomery County Community College, Blue Bell, PA (2000)
• B.S., Physics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA (2003)
• M.S., Meteorology, The Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL (2006)
• Ph.D. candidate, Meteorology, The Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL (2008)

Research Interests:

• Numerical weather prediction
• Tropical cyclone vortex specification and initialization
• Data assimilation
• The derivation of empirical models for improved vortex specification
• Atmospheric visualization
• Atmospheric/Oceanic model coupling and the improvements which can be made for tropical cyclone forecasts

Publications:

• Winterbottom, H.R., 2008: A Composite Analysis of Tropical Cyclone Structure Observed by GPS RO Refractivity Derived Moisture Profiles. J. Atmos. Sci. (in review)

Presentations:

• Advancing Tropical Cyclone Visualization
• Algorithms for Advanced Tropical Cyclone Visualization

Web Pages:

• Tropical Cyclone Amira Visualizations
• Tropical Cyclone Maximum Potential Intensity Forecasts
• Tropical Cyclone Best-Track Reanalysis Visualizations
• WRF-ARW Tropical Cyclone Forecasts
• HYCOM North Atlantic Ocean Basin Forecasts
• WRF-ARW User's Wiki
• Florida Division of Forestry WRF-ARW Fire Weather Forecasts
• Open Source Library of Air-Sea Interaction Literature

Software:
To be updated shortly.

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Henry R. Winterbottom (hwinter@met.fsu.edu)
Last Update: May 31, 2008