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Member Since 1974
Don R. MacGorman
Fellow, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies
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Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies
Fellow
1994 - Present
National Severe Storms Laboratory Norman
Physicist/WRDD ISG Group leader
2012 - 2020
National Severe Storms Laboratory Norman
physicist
1980 - 2020
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Education
Rice University
Doctorate
1978
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Evaluation of Lightning Flash Rate Parameterizations in a Cloud‐Resolved WRF‐Chem Simulation of the 29–30 May 2012 Oklahoma Severe Supercell System Observed During DC3
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: ATMOSPHERES
01 june 2024
A Comparison of Processing Methods for the Oklahoma Lightning Mapping Array
EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE
01 july 2022
Lightning and Electrification of Severe Storms: Advances in Understanding and in the Requisite Observational Technologies
THE 2021 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN LECTURE I
atmospheric and space electricity | 15 december 2021
Novel radio, optical, and meteorological observations of a gigantic jet with extraordinary charge transfer
THUNDERSTORM EFFECTS IN THE NEAR-EARTH SPACE ENVIRONMENT I ORAL
atmospheric and space electricity | 14 december 2021
Intraregional Comparisons of the Near‐Storm Environments of Storms Dominated by Frequent Positive Versus Negative Cloud‐to‐Ground Flashes
EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE
24 may 2021
Lightning and Secondary Convection in the Anvil of the May 29, 2012 Oklahoma Supercell Storm Observed by DC3
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: ATMOSPHERES
28 january 2021
Surprisingly Different Outcomes from Two Different Processing Methodologies for the Oklahoma Lightning Mapping Array
ADVANCES IN INSTRUMENTATION AND SIGNAL AND DATA PROCESSING METHODS FOR ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY APPLICATIONS I
atmospheric and space electricity | 10 december 2020
Dynamic and Electrical Sensitivities to CCN Concentrations within the Simulated 29–30 May 2004 Geary, Oklahoma, Supercell Thunderstorm
THUNDERSTORM ELECTRIFICATION AND LIGHTNING METEOROLOGY IV
atmospheric and space electricity | 10 december 2020
Volunteer Experience
1998 - 1999
President
Atmospheric and Space Electricity Executive Committee
Honors & Awards
Union Fellow
Received December 2021
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For fundamental discoveries concerning lightning and storm electrification processes, using field observations and numerical cloud modeling
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Benjamin Franklin Lecture
Received December 2021
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