Brett McDonald

Graduate Student

High School: Hillcrest High School 1988 (Midvale,Utah)
B.S.: University of Utah (1994) Major: Meteorology Minor: Mathematics
Graduate School: 1994/1995 AMS/CRAY Research Fellowship recipient

Family:

  • Married to Cindy (a nurse now! - finished up summer quarter 1996, and working very part-time in the Newborn Intensice Care Unit at LDS Hospital).
  • We have a 3 1/2 year-old boy IAN JEREMY,
  • and an 11 month old girl SARAH ANNE.

    Research Interests:

  • Mountain Biking
  • Softball
  • Synoptic-Mesoscale Applications to Operational Forecasting

    Projects:

  • During Autumn quarter 1996, I taught Meteorology 341 - Visualization of Atmospheric Processes.
  • During Winter quarter 1997, I taught Meteorology 551 - Fundamental Application of Dynamic Meteorology.
  • At the 2nd Annual Intermountain Weather Prediction Workshop in September 1995, I gave a presentation entitled "Precipitation Forecast Skill of NMC Models during January & March 1995".
  • At the 15th Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting sponsered by the American Meteorological Society from 19-23 August 1996 in Norfolk, VA, I gave a presentation entitled "Precipitation Forecast Skill Over California of National Centers for Environmental Precdiction Models".
  • At the 3rd Annual Intermountain Weather Prediction Workshop on 20 September 1996, I also gave a presentation entitled "Precipitation Forecast Skill Over California of National Centers for Environmental Prediction Models".
  • At the 4th Annual Intermountain Weather Prediction Workshop on 12 September 1997, I gave a presentation entitled "Comparison of Quantitative Precipitation and Low-level Winds in the 48, 29, & 10 km Eta Models".

    Awesome Pictures:

  • Elk in Yellowstone National Park
  • mammatus clouds near campus
  • Kelvin-Helmholtz Waves, my first ever!! (looking west from the Wind River Range in Wyoming with Soda Lake down below
  • Orange sunset with layers
  • Isolated snow convective cell at south end of Salt Lake Valley

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    Office: 420 EMRO
    Phone: 581-7324
    E-Mail: bemcdona@atmos.met.utah.edu

    Updated 05 November 1997