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Ali Tokay

Ali Tokay

Research Prof

Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology

Off Campus C427; Bldg. 33, NASA GSFC

Education

Ph D University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1993

MS Saint Louis University 1988

BS Istanbul Technical University 1984

tokay@umbc.edu

+1 301 614 6140

About

Dr. Tokay is an atmospheric scientist and meteorological engineering by training and conducted numerous field campaigns under the umbrella of NASA’s precipitation measurement mission. Dr. Tokay published 40+ peer-reviewed journals and served as a anonymous reviewer for 20+ different journals and NASA, NSF, and DOE proposals. Dr. Tokay was the co-chair of the 34th American Meteorological Society (AMS) radar meteorology conference and co-chair of 2016 European conference on radar meteorology and hydrology. He was the chair of AMS radar meteorology committee (2016-2020) and is associate editor of Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology.

Research Interests

Dr. Tokay focuses on precipitation measurements including microphysics, spatial variability, and measurement accuracy. Dr. Tokay was a principal investigator during a series of field campaigns under NASA Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission and Global Precipitation Measurement Mission. He is an associate member of NASA Precipitation Science Team.

Teaching Interests

Weather and Climate (Geography and Environmental Systems 311). This class includes fundamentals of atmospheric processes including radiative transfer, cloud physics, large and meso-scale phenomena, severe weather, and weather forecasting. Dr. Tokay was an advisor/co-advisor of ten MS and PhD. students. He also mentored 25 summer undergraduate and gradaute interns.