Paul Markowski (meteorologist)

Paul Markowski
Alma materPennsylvania State University (B.S., 1996)
University of Oklahoma (M.S, 1997; Ph.D. 2000)[6]
Known forTornadogenesis research
AwardsAmerican Meteorological Society Clarence Leroy Meisinger Award,[1] National Weather Association T. Theodore Fujita Research Achievement Award,[2] European Severe Storms Laboratory Nikolai Dotzek Award,[3] Penn State Alumni Achievement Award,[4] American Meteorological Society Editor's Award,[5] National Science Foundation Early Career Award, Fellow of American Meteorological Society
Scientific career
FieldsMeteorology
InstitutionsPennsylvania State University
Thesis Surface Thermodynamic Characteristics of Hook Echoes and Rear-Flank Downdrafts with Implications for Tornado Genesis and Maintenance  (2000)
Doctoral advisorJerry Straka
Websitesites.psu.edu/pmarkowski

Paul M. Markowski is an American atmospheric scientist and leading expert on tornadogenesis and the prediction of supercells and tornadoes. He is a professor and department head in the Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science at Pennsylvania State University. Markowski is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society and served as editor-in-chief of the society's Journal of Weather and Forecasting from 2012–2017.

Career

Markowski developed an interest in meteorology after experiencing the 31 May 1985 tornado outbreak while growing up in Pennsylvania.[7] Markowski attended Pennsylvania State University, graduating magna cum laude from Penn State's Schreyer Honors College with a B.S. in meteorology in 1996. He subsequently received an M.S. and Ph.D. in meteorology from the University of Oklahoma in 1997 and 2000, respectively. His doctoral research examined thermodynamic characteristics of downdrafts in supercell thunderstorms and their relationship to tornado formation.

After completing his doctoral studies, Markowski joined the faculty at Pennsylvania State University in 2001. He progressed through the academic ranks of assistant professor, associate professor, and professor, and was later appointed a distinguished professor. In 2023, he was named Head of the Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science.

Markowski was a principal investigator (PI) for the IHOP,[8] (2002), PAMREX[9] (2003–04), and VORTEX2[10] (2009–10) field projects and, with Joshua Wurman, Howard Bluestein, et al., was on the VORTEX2 Steering Committee.[11] He has been interviewed widely by newspapers, magazines, television and radio.[6]

Markowski has authored over 100 peer-reviewed articles in atmospheric science journals.[12] He also authored, with Yvette Richardson, Mesoscale Meteorology in Midlatitudes,[13] a widely popular textbook worldwide. In December 2013 Markowski lead authored with Harold Brooks, et al., a prominent op-ed rebuttal to physicist Richard Muller critiquing substantial methodological flaws in his findings that strong to violent tornado activity decreased in recent decades and his tying the stated decline to global warming.[14]

See also

References

  1. ^ "2015 AMS Annual Awards" (PDF). American Meteorological Society. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-02-11. Retrieved 2015-01-11.
  2. ^ "2013 NWA Annual Awards". National Weather Association. 2013. Archived from the original on 2014-02-23. Retrieved 2014-02-20.
  3. ^ "European Severe Storms Laboratory Awards". 2011. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
  4. ^ "Penn State News". 2010. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
  5. ^ "2009 AMS Annual Awards" (PDF). American Meteorological Society. 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-02-06. Retrieved 2015-01-11.
  6. ^ a b Markowski, Paul M. (2013). "Paul M. Markowski curriculum vitae" (PDF). Pennsylvania State University. Retrieved 2014-02-20.
  7. ^ US Department of Commerce, NOAA. "May 31, 1985 Tornado Outbreak: 35th Anniversary". www.weather.gov. Retrieved 2025-12-30.
  8. ^ "IHOP_2002 | Earth Observing Laboratory". Eol.ucar.edu. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
  9. ^ "PAMREX: The Pennsylvania Mobile Radar Experiment". Archived from the original on 2014-05-18. Retrieved 2014-05-19.
  10. ^ "VORTEX2 | Earth Observing Laboratory". Eol.ucar.edu. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
  11. ^ "Vortex2". Archived from the original on 2020-11-25. Retrieved 2014-05-19.
  12. ^ "People – Markowski Research Group". sites.psu.edu. Retrieved 2025-12-30.
  13. ^ "Mesoscale Meteorology in Midlatitudes". Wiley. 2010. Retrieved 2014-02-20.
  14. ^ Revkin, Andrew C. (9 December 2013). "A Closer Look at Tornadoes in a Human-Heated Climate". The New York Times. Retrieved 2014-02-20.
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