University of Manitoba - Centre for Earth Observation Science - Kyle Ziolkowski
Kyle Ziolkowski

M.Sc. Student

 

Advisor: John Hanesiak
Department: Department of Environment and Geography

B.Sc. University of Manitoba: Physical Geography (Atmospheric Science Stream)

 

Research interests

Mr. Ziolkowski’s research interests involve the initiation, maintenance and forecasting of nocturnal elevated convective storms. Nocturnal elevated thunderstorms are a type of thunderstorm whose inflow air originates above the stable nocturnal boundary layer during the late evening/overnight hours and where little to no real-time observations exist. Therefore, due to the lack of observations the initiation of these types of thunderstorms often comes as a surprise to operational forecasters. Elevated convection largely contributes to total growing season rainfall and all types of warm season severe weather, thus it remains an important operational forecasting issue. The focus of my research involves the dynamical and thermodynamic processes that lead to the initiation and maintenance of nocturnal elevated convection through the use of various remote sensing instrumentation such as doppler wind lidars, AERI profilers, microwave radiometers, radiosondes, radars and surface observation stations. The observations obtained from these various instrumentation is critical to further the understanding the processes that lead to the initiation of nocturnal elevated convection.

 

Projects

PECAN (Plains Elevated Convection at Night)

 

Contact

467 Wallace Building
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, MB
R3T 2N2

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