Member Since 2012
Jonathan Poterjoy
Associate Professor, University of Maryland College Park
Member, Nonlinear Geophysics Fellows Committee; Associate Editor, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
Professional Experience
University of Maryland College Park
Associate Professor
2018 - Present
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Postdoc fellow
2014 - 2016
Pennsylvania State University University Park
Graduate Student
2009 - 2014
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Education
Pennsylvania State University University Park
Doctorate
2014
AGU Abstracts
Evaluating the Utility of IMERG and Tail-Doppler Radar for Understanding Tropical Cyclone Precipitation Patterns
TROPICAL CYCLONES: OBSERVATIONS, MODELING, AND PREDICTABILITY—TODAY AND INTO THE FUTURE V POSTER
atmospheric sciences | 13 december 2024
Alex Cheung, Jonathan Poterjoy
The precipitation structure of a tropical cyclone (TC) can affect its intensity evolution because the highest diabatic heating rates often occur near ...
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New sea ice and ice sheet OSSE frameworks for determining ice topography science requirements from a future STV mission
SCIENCE GOALS, MEASUREMENT NEEDS, AND TECHNICAL ADVANCES TOWARD ACHIEVING NASA’S SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY AND VEGETATION TARGETED OBSERVABLE I POSTER
global environmental change | 13 december 2024
Alek Petty, Youngmin Choi, Denis Felikson, Brooke ...
Earths ice sheets and sea ice are in a state of rapid decline. Climate models constrained by high quality observations are our best means of tracking ...
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Assimilating measurements with state-dependent non-Gaussian errors
NUMERICAL MODELING, DATA ASSIMILATION, AND RESEARCH TO OPERATIONS (R2O) FOR BETTER FORECASTING OF HIGH-IMPACT WEATHER EVENTS II POSTER
atmospheric sciences | 12 december 2024
Jonathan Poterjoy
Most data assimilation techniques used for environmental models have a Bayesian interpretation. If we choose a prior distribution for prior model vari...
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Volunteer Experience
2025 - 2026
Member
Nonlinear Geophysics Fellows Committee
2021 - 2026
Associate Editor
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems