Kevin Knupp, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus, Atmospheric and Earth Science Contact 301 Sparkman DriveSWIRLLRoom 122Huntsville, AL 35899 Campus Map 256.824.7947kevin.knupp@uah.edu Biography Curriculum Vitae Personal Website Education B.S. Meteorology, Iowa State University (graduated with distinction) M.S. Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University Ph.D. Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University Honors & Awards 2013 - Dean's Service Award 2013 - UAH Distinguished Research Award 2012 - Special award, Committee on Severe Local Storms, American Meteorological Society 2011 - Fellow, American Meteorological Society 1998 - Editor's Award, Monthly Weather Review, American Meteorological Society 1977 - Father James B. Macelwane Award, 2nd place Recent Publications Conrad, D.M., and K.R. Knupp, 2019: Doppler Radar Observations of Horizontal Shearing Instability in Quasi-Linear Convective Systems. Mon. Wea. Rev., in press. Lyza, A.W., and K.R. Knupp, 2018: A Background Investigation of Tornado Activity across the Southern Cumberland Plateau Terrain System of Northeastern Alabama. Mon. Wea. Rev., 146, 4261-4278, https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-18-0300.1 Gatlin, P., W.A. Petersen, K. Knupp, and L. Carey, 2018: Observed Response of the Raindrop Size Distribution to Changes in the Melting Layer, Atmosphere, 9, 319, https://DOI: 10.3390/atmos9080319 Coleman, T. A., A. W. Lyza, K. R. Knupp, K. Laws, and W. Wyatt, 2018: A significant tornado in a heterogeneous environment during VORTEX-SE. Electronic J. Severe Storms Meteor., 13 (2), 1–25 Lyza, A. W., A. W. Clayton, K. R. Knupp, E. Lenning, M. T. Friedlein, R. Castro, and E. S. Bentley, 2017: Analysis of mesovortex characteristics, behavior, and interactions during the second 30 June?1 July 2014 midwestern derecho event. Electronic J. Severe Storms Meteor., 12 (2), 1–33. Geerts, B., D. Parsons, C. L. Ziegler, T. M. Weckwerth, D. D. Turner, J. Wurman, K. Kosiba, R. M. Rauber, G. M. McFarquhar, M. D. Parker, R. S. Schumacher, M. C. Coniglio, K. Haghi, M. I. Biggerstaff, P. M. Klein, W. A. Gallus, B. B. Demoz, K. R. Knupp, R. A. Ferrare, A. R. Nehrir, R. D. Clark, X. Wang, J. M. Hanesiak, James O. Pinto, J. J. Moore, 2016: The 2015 Plains Elevated Convection At Night (PECAN) field project. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 98, 767-786 Coleman, T. A., and K. R. Knupp, 2016: Review and Case Studies of Non-Traditional Severe Local Windstorms. J. Oper. Meteor., 4, 192-206. Wingo, S., and K.R. Knupp, 2016: Structure of mesovortices in Hurricane Ike (2008) derived from ground-based dual-Doppler analyses. Mon. Wea. Rev., 144, 4245-4263. Finlon, J.A., G. M. McFarquhar, R. M. Rauber, D. M. Plummer, B. F. Jewett, D. Leon, and K. R. Knupp, 2016: A Comparison of X-band Polarization Parameters with In-Situ Microphysical Measurements in the Comma Head of Two Winter Cyclones. J. Appl. Meteor. Clim., 55, 2549-2574. Kristovich, D.A., R. D. Clark, J. Frame, B. Geerts, K. R. Knupp, K. A. Kosiba, N. F. Laird, N. D. Metz, J. Minder, T. D. Sikora, W. J. Steenburgh, S. M. Steiger, J. Wurman, and G. S. Young, 2016:The Ontario Winter Lake-effect Systems (OWLeS) Field Project, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 98, 315-332.