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| Dr.
Charles "Chuck" Doswell, III |
Senior Research Scientist
CIMMS
Dr. Charles “Chuck” Doswell, III earned his Bachelor
of Science (B.S.) degree in meteorology at the University of
Wisconsin at Madison in the spring of 1967. During his last
two summers in Madison, he worked as a student trainee at the
Weather Bureau (what the National Weather Service was called
way back then!) in Madison. After graduation, he spent the
first of 2-1/2 summers working as a student trainee at the
National Severe Storms Forecast Center (NSSFC), in Kansas City,
Missouri. He began graduate school in the fall of 1967 at the
University of Oklahoma (OU), finishing his Master of Science
(M.S.) degree in meteorology in January of 1969.
During his
third summer at NSSFC, Chuck’s name was called
for military service and he entered the Army in August of 1969.
After boot camp at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri and "training" at
Fort Gordon, Georgia, he spent 11 months in Phu Bai, Vietnam
as a communications clerk. However, after Vietnam, he was assigned
to the Atmospheric Sciences Laboratory at White Sands Missile
Range, in New Mexico, where he worked on fog modeling.
Chuck
was allowed to leave the Army in February of 1972, whereupon
he returned to graduate school at OU. That spring, he began
storm chasing with a group of students and NSSL scientists,
and has been doing it more or less ever since. With his Doctor
of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree in meteorology in July of 1976,
he began his first real job as a Research Forecaster, once
again at NSSFC, this time with the newly-created Techniques
Development Unit (TDU), which was assigned to do applications
research for the Severe Local Storms Unit (SELS) of NSSFC (SELS
has become the Storm Prediction Center, located here in Norman).
After about six years with the TDU, he transferred to the Environmental
Research Laboratories Weather Research Program in Boulder,
Colorado, in the fall of 1982, as a Research Meteorologist.
After four years in Boulder, Chuck decided to take advantage
of the developing opportunities here in Norman, Oklahoma, and
transferred to NSSL in the fall of 1986, again as a Research
Meteorologist. After more than 14 years with NSSL, as of January
2001, he retired from Federal Service, and joined the Cooperative
Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies (CIMMS) at the
University of Oklahoma, as a Senior Research Scientist. It
is a half-time position, and he is continuing his involvement
with teaching that he began several years ago ... mainly, his
Advanced Forecasting Techniques course.
His research interests
focus mainly on tornadoes and severe thunderstorms, but he
has developed an interest in just about everything related
to weather. Chuck has published papers on objective analysis
of meteorological data; exploring new data streams like wind
profilers, satellite images, and lightning ground strike
locaters; weather forecasting; and methods for verification
of weather forecasts. His interests range wider than that,
and he likes meteorology in part because of the wide range
of things a meteorologist needs to know. |
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