Stephen R. Guimond

• To become a research scientist utilitzing remote sensing to analyze tropical cyclone dynamics
• To conduct research for a government funded laboratory (NRL,HRD,NASA GSFC,LANL)

Education:

• GPA 3.40
• In Major 3.66

• GPA 3.75

• Advisors: Drs. Paul Reasor and Mark Bourassa

My research involves understanding tropical cyclone structure and intensity change with a focus on using remotely sensed observations (radar and satellite) to describe the dynamics of the storm. One specific goal of my work is to understand the impacts of deep convective clouds in the hurricane. Some of my work in progress includes: (1) understanding the role of convection in the momentum budget of a parcel and (2) understanding and retrieving the evolution of diabatic heating in convection for use in a numerical simulation.

Guimond, S.R. and M.A. Bourassa, 2007: The effects of trough interactions on tropical cyclone QPF.
      Monthly Weather Review, in review.

Guimond, S.R., 2007: A diagnostic study of the effects of trough interactions on tropical cyclone QPF.
      M.S. thesis, Dept. of Meteorology, Florida State University, 57 pp.

Turk, F.J., S.R. Guimond, S. Miller and J.Hawkins, 2006: An examination of Hurricane Dennis using airborne
      radar and radiometric data during the TCSP experiment. Eos, Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union (Fall Meeting).

Guimond, S.R., F.J. Turk, C.B. Blankenship and J.D. Hawkins, 2006: Detecting tropical cyclone structural
      change with the TRMM Precipitation Radar (PR) and Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU),
      Preprints, 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, Atlanta, GA, Amer.
      Meteor. Soc.[Link]

Wu, X. and S. Guimond, 2006: Two- and three-dimensional cloud-resolving model simulations of the
      mesoscale enhancement of surface heat fluxes by precipitating deep convection. J. Climate, 19,
      139-149.[Link]

Guimond, S.R., 2005: Midlatitude trough interaction with the extratropical transition of Hurricane Michael.
      Tropical Meteorology II, 21 pp.[Link]

Guimond, S.R., 2003: Enhancement of surface heat fluxes by convective clouds. Undergraduate Senior
      Thesis - Iowa State University. 21 pp.[Link]

Awards and Activities:

• Student Poster Award, 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography
• Member, Chi Epsilon Pi (National Meteorology Honor Society)
• NASA Tropical Cloud Systems and Processes (TCSP) science team       2005-present
• NRL Role in TCSP Presentation by Joe Turk, Baltimore, MD, 2007
• TRMM Science Team Meeting Poster, Monterey, CA, 2005

Internships:
Office of Naval Research May 16 - July 22 2005 and 2006

Naval Research Laboratory Monterey,CA   VIEW RESEARCH WITH MARINE METEOROLOGY DIVISION ---->

Publicity:


NASA news story: "NASA Satellite Catches a Hurricane Transforming Itself" by Rob Gutro and Steve Guimond [Link]

NASA news story: "NASA Aircraft Captures Windy Details in Hurricane's Ups and Downs" by Mike Bettwy, Steve Guimond and Joe Turk [Link]

On-camera interview by The Weather Channel at 86th AMS Annual Meeting Atlanta,GA regarding TRMM PR/AMSU detection of ET


Computer Knowledge:

• Fortran 90/77
• UNIX
• FERRET (NOAA PMEL Graphing Software)
• C Shell Scripting
• IDL
• HTML
• Python
• C++
• NetCDF
• JMP (ISU Statistical & Graphing Software)

Completed Work:

• Tropical Meteorology I
(Dr. T.N. Krishnamurti)
• Tropical Meteorology II
(Dr. Robert Hart)
• Mesoscale Meteorology (Dr. Henry Fuelberg) -->Mesofest Poster (2005)
• Boundary Layer Meteorology
(Dr. Carol Anne Clayson)
• Physical Oceanography
(Dr. Georges Weatherly)
• Numerical Weather Prediction
(Dr. James J. O'Brien)
• Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulations
(Dr. Fei-Fei Jin)
• Satellite Oceanography
(Dr. Carol Anne Clayson)
• Synoptic/Dynamic Meteorology
(Dr. Phil Cunningham)
• Advanced Topics: Hurricanes
(Drs. Robert Hart, T.N. Krishnamurti, Paul Reasor and Xiaolei Zou)

Future Work: Scatterometry Applications

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