Research
Research in severe convection, tornadoes, mesoscale phenomena and operational meteorology.
Eye Tracking: Evaluating the Impact of Gesturing during Televised Weather Forecasts
Robert Drost, Jay Trobec, Christy Steffke and Julie Libarkin · BAMS 96(3), 387–392.
ArticleHeat burst detection by a temporally fine-scale mesonet
A 2007 heat burst recorded at one-minute resolution.
PaperOperational difficulties associated with convective wet downbursts
Review of operational aspects of downburst winds in a convective environment.
PDFSouth Dakota tornado outbreak
Research on the synoptic setup, tornadogenetic air parcels, cell mergers and unusual tornado motion.
Spencer tornado revisited
Review of the tornado that killed six people and destroyed Spencer, South Dakota.
PDFSelected publication
“South Dakota’s climate and weather,” Dennis Todey, Jay Trobec and H. Michael Mogil, Weatherwise, November/December 2009.
Current project: CEAT
Long-period analysis of severe-weather environments using thermodynamic, kinematic and composite diagnostics.
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