Alan Shapiro

Alan Shapiro received the B.S. degree (with distinction) in atmospheric science from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, in 1983 and the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in geophysical fluid dynamics from The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, in 1985 and 1987, respectively. From 1987 to 1989, he was a Postdoctoral Scientist at the National Meteorological Center (now one of the National Centers for Environmental Pre-diction), where he worked on the initialization of numerical hurricane-prediction models. From 1990 to 1995, he was a member of the research team at the Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms (CAPS), where he worked on problems of radar data analysis, single-Doppler-velocity retrieval, and numerical weather prediction. He joined the faculty of the School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, in 1996, where he is currently an Associate Professor. His research interests range from the dynamics of natural convective flows, waves, vortices, and katabatic flows to the development of single- and multiple-Doppler radar-analysis techniques and tornado-detection algorithms. Dr. Shapiro is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Geophysical Union, American Mathematical Society, American Meteorological Society, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.