Matthew Van Den Broeke, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Atmospheric and Earth Science

Contact

301 Sparkman Drive
SWIRLL
Room 122
Huntsville, AL 35899
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256.824.4025
msv0008@uah.edu

Biography

Dr. Van Den Broeke applies polarimetric radar observations to understand storm structure and improve severe weather warning guidance.  He uses radar observations to learn about the responses of organisms in the airspace to weather events, and has additional research interests in tropical and synoptic meteorology. 

Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • Ph.D., Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, 2011
  • M.S., Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, 2007
  • B.S., Meteorology, Valparaiso University, 2005

Expertise

  • Polarimetric radar applications to convection and biological scatter
  • Supercell and squall line structure/evolution and precipitation processes
  • Radar aeroecology
  • Tropical cyclones
  • Synoptic meteorology

Recent Publications

  • Van Den Broeke, M., C. Van Den Broeke, and B. Schweigert, 2026: Spatiotemporal characteristics of a manually derived left-moving supercell dataset in the contiguous United States. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., accepted. 

  • Healey, D. J., and M. S. Van Den Broeke, 2025: ZDR columns in simulated QLCSs: Column-updraft relationships and differences between two microphysics schemes. Mon. Wea. Rev., 153, 2669–2688, https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-25-0031.1. 

  • Wood, M. J., and M. S. Van Den Broeke, 2024: Dual-polarization radar characteristics of tropical cyclone tornadic and nontornadic supercells.  Mon. Wea. Rev., 153, 327–345. https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-24-0080.1 

  • Van Den Broeke, M. S., M. B. Wilson, C. A. Van Den Broeke, D. J. Healey, M. J. Wood, and R. E. Nelson, 2023: Polarimetric radar observations of a long-lived supercell and associated tornadoes on 10-11 December 2021.  Mon. Wea. Rev., 151, 2501–2520. https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-22-0330.1  

  • Van Den Broeke, M. S., 2023: Radar indications of altered foraging behavior during the February 2021 severe North American cold wave.  Avian Biol. Res., 16, 14–20. https://doi.org/10.1177/17581559221145450

  • Wilson, M. B., and M. S. Van Den Broeke, 2022: Using the Supercell Observation Research Kit (SPORK) to examine a large sample of pretornadic and nontornadic supercells.  Electronic J. Severe Storms Meteor., 17 (2), 1–38. https://doi.org/10.55599/ejssm.v17i2.85

  • Van Den Broeke, M. S., 2022: Bioscatter transport by tropical cyclones: Insights from ten years in the Atlantic basin.  Rem. Sens. Ecol. Cons., 8, 18–31.  doi.org/10.1002/rse2.225