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Harold Brooks

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Job Title:Senior Research Scientist

Affiliation:Federal

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I like to play with scientific problems I think are interesting. I have a broad liberal arts background, so I tend to think of the human aspect of many of those problems.

Education
Degree (Ph.D, M.S, B.A, etc.) Major Subject University or College Name Year (YYYY) (optional)
B.A. Physics and Math William Jewell College 1982
Tripos Part I Archaeology and Anthropology University of Cambridge 1980
M. A., M.Phil Atmospheric Sciences Columbia University in the City of New York 1985
Ph.D Atmospheric Sciences University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1990
Research Interests
  • Forecast Evaluation and Decision Analysis
  • Climatology of Severe Thunderstorms
  • Impacts of Severe Thunderstorms
Professional Activities
  • Fellow, American Meteorological Society
  • Fellow, Royal Meteorological Society
Outreach/Volunteer
  • State Advisor Coach, Mathcounts
  • Volleyball official (NFHS, PAVO (NCAA, NAIA, NJCAA), USAV)
Honors & Awards
Award Name Year
Albritton Outstanding Communicator 2012
Distinguished Scientific Career 2021
NOAA Adminstrator's Award 2007
Department of Commerce Silver Medal 2002
William Jewell College Achievement Award 2007
Selected Publications

Brooks, H. E., 2004: Tornado warning performance in the past and future: A perspective from signal detection theory. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 85, 837–843. doi:https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-85-6-837

Brooks, H. E., 2013: Severe thunderstorms and climate change. Atmospheric Research, 123, 129–138, doi:10.1016/j.atmosres.2012.04.002.

Brooks, H. E., G. W. Carbin, P. T. Marsh, 2014: Increased variability of tornado occurrence in the United States. Science, 346, 349–352, doi:10.1126/science.1257460.

Brooks, H. E., J. Correia, 2018: Long-Term Performance Metrics for National Weather Service Tornado Warnings. Weather and Forecasting, 33, 1501–1511, doi:10.1175/WAF-D-18-0120.1.

Brooks, H. E., C. A. Doswell III, 1996: A Comparison of Measures-Oriented and Distributions-Oriented Approaches to Forecast Verification. Weather and Forecasting, 12, 288–303. doi:https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0434(1996)011%3C0288:ACOMOA%3E2.0.CO;2

Brooks, H. E., C. A. Doswell III, 2001: Normalized damage from major tornadoes in the United States: 1890-1999. Weather and Forecasting, 16, 168–176. doi:https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0434(2001)016%3C0168:NDFMTI%3E2.0.CO;2

Brooks, H. E., C. A. Doswell III, 2002: Deaths in the 3 May 1999 Oklahoma City tornadoes from a historical perspective. Weather and Forecasting, 17, 354–361.https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0434(2002)017%3C0354:DITMOC%3E2.0.CO;2

Brooks, H. E., C. A. Doswell III, J. B. Cooper, 1994: On the environments of tornadic and nontornadic mesocyclones. Weather and Forecasting, 10, 606–618. doi:https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0434(1994)009%3C0606:OTEOTA%3E2.0.CO;2

Brooks, H. E., C. A. Doswell III, M. P. Kay, 2003: Climatological estimates of local daily tornado probability. Weather and Forecasting, 18, 626–640. doi:https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0434(2003)018%3C0626:CEOLDT%3E2.0.CO;2

Brooks, H. E., J. W. Lee, J. P. Craven, 2003: The spatial distribution of severe thunderstorm and tornado environments from global reanalysis data. Atmospheric Research, 67-68, 73–94. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0169-8095(03)00045-0

Doswell III, C. A., H. E. Brooks, R. A. Maddox, 1996: Flash-flood forecasting: An ingredients-based methodology. Weather and Forecasting, 11, 360–381. doi:https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0434(1996)011%3C0560:FFFAIB%3E2.0.CO;2