Ron Przybylinski

Ron W. Przybylinski is an American meteorologist with primary areas of interest in bow echoes, mesovortices, and quasi-linear convective system (QLCS) tornadoes.

Biography

Przybylinski was born near South Bend, Indiana.

He earned his B.S. and M.S. in meteorology at Saint Louis University in 1977 and 1981, respectively. He worked as the station scientist at the Indianapolis National Weather Service office until 1991, when he moved to the St. Louis NWSFO as Science and Operations Officer. During the late 1980s he served as a project leader on the Operational Test and Evaluation of the WSR-88D Doppler radar. He is currently a principal investigator on the severe straight-line winds component of the COMET Cooperative Project with Saint Louis University as well as involved with the Cooperative Institute for Precipitation Studies (CIPS). He was an organizer of the Bow Echo and Mesoscale Convective Vortex Experiment (BAMEX).cite journal |last=Davis |first=Christopher |coauthors=et al |title=The Bow Echo and MCV Experiment: Observations and Opportunities |journal=Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society |volume=85 |issue=8 |pages=1075–1093 |publisher=American Meteorological Society |date=August 2004 |url=http://ams.allenpress.com/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1175/BAMS-85-8-1075 |doi=10.1175/BAMS-85-8-1075 ]

Przybylinski is a leading world expert on quasi-linear convective systems (QLCS), bow echoes, and mesoscale convective systems, and convective winds and tornadogenesis associated with these thunderstorm structures. He intensively studied linear thunderstorms and their associated winds and tornadoes throughout the 1980s, writing a seminal paper in 1995.cite journal |last=Przybylinski |first =Ron W. |title =The Bow Echo: Observations, Numerical Simulations, and Severe Weather Detection Methods |journal=Weather and Forecasting |volume=10 |issue=2 |pages=203–218 |publisher=American Meteorological Society |date=June 1995 |url=http://ams.allenpress.com/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1175%2F1520-0434(1995)010%3C0203%3ATBEONS%3E2.0.CO%3B2 |year =1995 |doi =10.1175/1520-0434(1995)010<0203:TBEONS>2.0.CO;2 |doilabel =10.1175/1520-0434(1995)0100203:TBEONS2.0.CO;2 ] He is also a leading scientist on tornadoes in general and is on the NWS Quick Response Team (QRT), a group of experts who are rushed to assess damage from particularly damaging tornadoes.

Przybylinski has actively trained meteorologists, for example, participating heavily in the National Center for Atmospheric Research COMET training (particularly on bow echoes), as well as mentoring and collaborating with university students, both graduate and undergraduate. He has published dozens of scientific papers and hundreds of conference presentations. He has served on the American Meteorological Society Severe Local Storms Committee and as a Councilor of the National Weather Association.

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External links

* [http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lsx/ St. Louis NWSFO]