Paul Markowski

For the East German politician, see Paul Markowski (politician).

Paul M. Markowski is an American meteorologist and leading expert on tornadogenesis and the forecasting of supercells and tornadoes.

Paul Markowski
Alma mater	Pennsylvania State University (B.S., 1996) University of Oklahoma (M.S, 1997; Ph.D. 2000)[1]
Known for	Tornadogenesis research
Awards	Clarence Leroy Meisinger Award,[2] T. Theodore Fujita Research Achievement Award,[3] Nikolai Dotzek Award,[4] Penn State Alumni Achievement Award,[5] American Meteorological Society Editor's Award,[6] National Science Foundation Early Career Award, Fellow of American Meteorological Society
Scientific career
Fields	Meteorology
Institutions	Pennsylvania State University
Thesis	Surface Thermodynamic Characteristics of Hook Echoes and Rear-Flank Downdrafts with Implications for Tornado Genesis and Maintenance  (2000)
Doctoral advisor	Jerry Straka
Website	sites.psu.edu/pmarkowski

Career

He was a principal investigator (PI) for the IHOP,^[7] (2002), PAMREX^[8] (2003–04), and VORTEX2^[9] (2009–10) field projects and, with Joshua Wurman, Howard Bluestein, et al., was on the VORTEX2 Steering Committee.^[10] He has been interviewed widely by newspapers, magazines, television and radio.^[1] He authored with Yvette Richardson, Mesoscale Meteorology in Midlatitudes,^[11] 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.^[12]

See also

• Erik N. Rasmussen
• Roger Wakimoto
• Ted Fujita

References

1. Markowski, Paul M. (2013). "Paul M. Markowski curriculum vitae" (PDF). Pennsylvania State University. Retrieved 2014-02-20.
2. "2015 AMS Annual Awards" (PDF). American Meteorological Society. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-02-11. Retrieved 2015-01-11.
3. "2013 NWA Annual Awards". National Weather Association. 2013. Retrieved 2014-02-20.
4. "European Severe Storms Laboratory Awards". 2011. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
5. "Penn State News". 2010. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
6. "2009 AMS Annual Awards" (PDF). American Meteorological Society. 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-02-06. Retrieved 2015-01-11.
7. "IHOP_2002 | Earth Observing Laboratory". Eol.ucar.edu. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
8. "PAMREX: The Pennsylvania Mobile Radar Experiment". Archived from the original on 2014-05-18. Retrieved 2014-05-19.
9. "VORTEX2 | Earth Observing Laboratory". Eol.ucar.edu. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
10. "Vortex2". Archived from the original on 2020-11-25. Retrieved 2014-05-19.
11. "Mesoscale Meteorology in Midlatitudes". Wiley. 2010. Retrieved 2014-02-20.
12. Revkin, Andrew C. (9 December 2013). "A Closer Look at Tornadoes in a Human-Heated Climate". The New York Times. Retrieved 2014-02-20.

External links

• Penn State faculty site
• Markowski, Paul; Richardson, Yvette (Jul–Aug 2013). "How to Make a Tornado". Weatherwise. 66 (4): 12–19. Bibcode:2013Weawi..66d..12M. doi:10.1080/00431672.2013.800413. S2CID 191649696.
• Markowski, Paul; Richardson, Yvette (Sep 2014). "What We Know and Don't Know about Tornado Formation". Physics Today. 67 (9): 26–31. Bibcode:2014PhT....67i..26M. doi:10.1063/pt.3.2514.