Position

Associate Professor of Atmospheric Science

Education

B.S. in Civil Engineering, University of Missouri – Rolla, 1994

M.S. in Atmospheric Science, Texas Tech University, 1997                    

Ph.D. in Wind Engineering, Texas Tech University, 1999         

Research Interests
Wind flow characterization and boundary layer structure in extreme events (hurricanes, thunderstorm outflows, etc.), instrumentation, meso and microscale observational networks, wind engineering, statistical and time series analysis.

Other Major Interests/Efforts
I'm the principle investigator for the West Texas Mesonet, a mesoscale network of  50 surface observation stations, and one or two Texas Tech University (TTU) representatives to the SMART Radar coalition, which jointly manages two mobile 5-cm radars. I am the lead investigator on TTU's  Ka-band radar initiative, which will develop two mobile Ka-band radars in the next 12-18 months. I led the development process for the Stick-Net platforms which will be used by various individuals to study the near-surface kinematic and thermodynamic structure in hurricanes and thunderstorms.  I am the principle investigator for hurricane intercept project which was created in 1998 with the WEMITE project.  The hurricane project has provided valuable data from 24 landfalling tropical cyclones since 1998, including Katrina and Rita (these links are big PDF files).     

Contact Information
Atmospheric Science Group
Department of Geosciences
Texas Tech University
Box 42101
Lubbock, TX 79409
Ph: (806) 742 2813
Fax: (806) 742 1738
Email: john.schroeder@ttu.edu