Stephen Guimond
Associate Research Professor
| sguimond@umbc.edu | |
| Education |
Ph D, Florida State University (2010)
MS, Florida State University (2007)
BS, Iowa State University (2004)
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Research Interests
Remote sensing with a focus on airborne Doppler radar including designing algorithms for computing geophysical variables such as winds, latent heat and precipitation. Geophysical fluid dynamics with a focus on hurricanes, convection, turbulence and computational methods.
Teaching Interests
Atmospheric Dynamics, Computational Physics, Numerical Weather Prediction, Radar Remote Sensing
Contracts, Fellowships, Grants, and Sponsored Research
The Dynamics of Turbulent Buoyant Plumes Contract (Funded) Sponsored by DOE/LANL (Mar 1, 2020 – Mar 31, 2022)
Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Snowstorms (IMPACTS) Grant (Funded) Sponsored by NASA (Oct 1, 2019 – Oct 31, 2023)
Real-time Observations of the Three-Dimensional Hurricane Boundary Layer Winds and Ocean Surface Vector Winds with an Imaging Airborne Profiler Grant (Funded) Sponsored by NOAA (Oct 1, 2019 – Oct 31, 2021)
Understanding Hurricane Inner-Core Asymmetries and their Relationship to Convective Bursts and Storm Intensification using a Suite of NASA Data Grant (Funded) Sponsored by NASA (Mar 1, 2017 – Feb 29, 2020)
Intellectual Contributions
(2020) The Dynamics of Vortex Rossby Waves and Secondary Eyewall Development in Hurricane Matthew (2016): New Insights from Radar Measurements Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
(2019) Hurricane boundary layer height relative to storm motion from GPS dropsonde composites Atmosphere
(2017) Concentric Eyewall Asymmetries in Hurricane Gonzalo (2014) Observed by Airborne Radar Monthly Weather Review
Organized Kinetic Energy Backscatter in the Hurricane Boundary Layer from Radar Measurements Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Reducing Errors in Velocity-Azimuth Display (VAD) Wind and Deformation Retrievals from Airborne Doppler Radars in Convective Environments Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology
Coherent Turbulence in the Boundary Layer of Hurricane Rita (2005) during an Eyewall Replacement Cycle Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
A Large Eddy Simulation of Hurricane Intensification 33rd Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Amer. Meteor. Soc..
Presentations
NASA Ocean Vector Winds Science Team Meeting Oral Presentation Coherent Turbulence in the Boundary Layer of Intense Hurricanes NASA Portland, Maine (May 30, 2019)
AGU Fall Meeting Poster Coherent Turbulent Structures & Wavelet Analyses of Hurricane Isabel via Observational (IWRAP) & Model (LES) Data AGU (Dec 1, 2018)
AGU Fall Meeting Oral Presentation The Asymmetric Dynamics of Hurricane Matthew (2016) During An Eyewall Replacement Cycle AGU (Dec 1, 2018)
33rd Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology Oral Presentation The Formation and Evolution of Convective Bursts in Hurricanes: An Observational Study American Meteorological Society (Apr 1, 2018)
Seminar Understanding the Physics of Hurricane Intensification: Measurement, Theory and Modeling UMBC Department of Physics UMBC (Sep 27, 2017)
38th Conference on Radar Meteorology Oral Presentation Novel radar observations of turbulent eddies in the lower levels of intense Hurricane Rita (2005) American Meteorological Society Chicago, IL (Aug 29, 2017)
38th Conference on Radar Meteorology Poster A Multi-Radar, Multi-Platform Investigation of the Inner Core of Hurricane Matthew (2016) American Meteorological Society Chicago, IL (Aug 28, 2017)