NSSL Staff Profiles

Kent is a Research Associate III with CIWRO/NSSL and is a member of the Forecast Applications and Social Science Team in the Forecast Research and Development Division of NSSL.  He currently manages the daily NSSL convection-allowing model runs and co-manages the NSSL Warn-on-Forecast System (WoFS).  He was an original co-developer of the WoFS prior to its transition to cloud-based computing. He also serves as data-flow manager and facilitator of the annual Hazardous Weather Testbed - Spring Forecasting Experiment.

Clark, A. J., I. L. Jirak, B. T. Gallo, K. H. Knopfmeier, B. Roberts, M. Krocak, J. Vancil, K. A. Hoogewind, N. A. Dahl, E. D. Loken, D. Jahn, D. Harrison, D. Imy, P. Burke, L. Wicker, P. S. Skinner, P. L. Heinselman, P. Marsh, K. A. Wilson, A. Dean, G. J. Creager, T. A. Jones, J. Gao, Y. Wang, M. Flora, C. K. Potvin, C. A. Kerr, N. Yussouf, J. Martin, J. Guerra, B. C. Matilla, T. J. Galarneau, 2022: The 2nd Real-Time, Virtual Spring Forecasting Experiment to Advance Severe Weather Prediction. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 103, E1114–E1116, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0239.1.

Galarneau, T. J., L. J. Wicker, K. H. Knopfmeier, W. J. Miller, P. S. Skinner, K. A. Wilson, 2022: Short-Term Prediction of a Nocturnal Significant Tornado Outbreak Using a Convection-Allowing Ensemble. Weather and Forecasting, 37, 6, 1027–1047, doi:10.1175/WAF-D-21-0160.1.

Gallo, B. T., K. A. Wilson, J. Choate, K. Knopfmeier, P. Skinner, B. Roberts, P. Heinselman, I. Jirak, A. J. Clark, 2022: Exploring the Watch-to-Warning Space: Experimental Outlook Performance during the 2019 Spring Forecasting Experiment in NOAA’s Hazardous Weather Testbed. Weather and Forecasting, n/a, doi:10.1175/WAF-D-21-0171.1.

Guerra, J. E., P. S. Skinner, A. J. Clark, M. Flora, B. Matilla, K. Knopfmeier, A. Reinhart, 2022: Quantification of NSSL Warn-on-Forecast System Accuracy by Storm Age using Object-based Verification. Weather and Forecasting, EOR, doi:10.1175/WAF-D-22-0043.1.

Miller, W. J., C. K. Potvin, M. L. Flora, B. T. Gallo, L. J. Wicker, T. Jones, B. Matilla, K. Knopfmeier, P. Skinner, 2022: Exploring the Usefulness of Downscaling Free Forecasts from the Warn-on-Forecast System. Weather and Forecasting, 37, 181–203, doi:10.1175/WAF-D-21-0079.1.

Britt, K. C., P. S. Skinner, P. L. Heinselman, K. H. Knopfmeier, 2020: Effects of Horizontal Grid Spacing and Inflow Environment on Forecasts of Cyclic Mesocyclogenesis in NSSL's Warn-on-Forecast System (WoFS). Weather and Forecasting, 35, 2423–2444, doi:10.1175/WAF-D-20-0094.1

Jones, T. A., K. Knopfmeier, D. Wheatley, G. Creager, P. Minnis, R. Palikonda, 2016: Storm-Scale Data Assimilation and Ensemble Forecasting with the NSSL Experimental Warn-on-Forecast System. Part II: Combined Radar and Satellite Data Experiments. Weather and Forecasting, 31, 297–327, doi:10.1175/WAF-D-15-0107.1.

Wheatley, D. M., K. H. Knopfmeier, T. A. Jones, G. J. Creager, 2015: Storm-Scale Data Assimilation and Ensemble Forecasting with the NSSL Experimental Warn-on-Forecast System. Part I: Radar Data Experiments. Weather and Forecasting, 30, 1795–1817, doi:10.1175/WAF-D-15-0043.1.

Knopfmeier, K. H., D. J. Stensrud, 2013: Influence of mesonet observations on the accuracy of surface analyses generated by an Ensemble Kalman Filter. Weather and Forecasting, 28, 815–841, doi:10.1175/WAF-D-12-00078.1