CURRICULUM VITAE RICHARD W. MOORE

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1 CURRICULUM VITAE RICHARD W. MOORE CONTACT INFORMATION Department of Meteorology Naval Postgraduate School 589 Dyer Road, Root Hall Monterey, CA Phone: (831) PERSONAL INFORMATION Date of Birth: 4 July 1970 Place of Birth: Sunnyvale, CA, USA Citizenship: United States EDUCATION 2004 PhD. Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO Advisor: Thomas H. Vonder Haar; Co-Advisor: Michael T. Montgomery Thesis: Reexamining the dynamics of short-scale, diabatic Rossby waves and their role in midlatitude moist cyclogenesis M.S. Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO Advisor: Thomas H. Vonder Haar Thesis: Interannual variability of global energy requirements and energy transport, and the subsequent effect on the large-scale atmospheric circulation B.S. Atmospheric Science, University of California at Los Angeles, CA PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS 05/08-Present Research Assistant Professor Department of Meteorology, Naval Postgraduate School 1/05-05/08 Post Doctoral Fellow Institute of Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH- Zürich Dynamical Meteorology Group, Prof. Huw Davies

2 6/04-1/05 Post Doctoral Fellow Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University Michael T. Montgomery Research Group 7/97-06/04 Graduate Research Assistant Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University Thomas H. Vonder Haar Research Group Michael T. Montgomery Research Group ( ) TEACHING EXPERIENCE 1/02-6/03 Teaching Assistant Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University Introduction to Weather and Climate (AT350) Introduction to Weather and Climate Laboratory (AT351): responsibilities including preparation of course material, weekly lecture and the evaluation of student performance Daily Weather Laboratory (AT541) AWARDS AND RECOGNITION 1999 Best Student Paper awarded by the American Geophysical Union for the paper presented at the 1999 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December Elected M.S. Student Representative, Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University. BOOKS / THESES Moore, R. W., 2004: Reexamining the dynamics of short-scale, diabatic Rossby waves and their role in midlatitude moist cyclogenesis. PhD. Dissertation, Colorado State University, 141 pp. Moore, R. W., 2000: Interannual variations in northern hemisphere winter energy transport related to the ENSO phenomenon. M.S. Thesis, Colorado State University, 116 pp. REFEREED PUBLICATIONS Moore, R. W. and O. Martius, 2008: The modulation of extratropical wave breaking and surface weather patterns by the Madden Julian Oscillation, in preparation. Moore, R. W. and M. T. Montgomery, 2008: The finite-amplitude threshold behavior of diabatic Rossby vortex formation, in preparation.

3 Graf, M., R. W. Moore, and M. Sprenger, 2008: Synoptic characteristics of European tornadoes: A Lagrangian perspective, in preparation Moore, R. W. and O. Martius, 2008: Downstream development and Kona low genesis, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L20814, doi: /2008gl Moore, R. W., M. T. Montgomery, and H. Davies, 2008: The integral role of a diabatic Rossby vortex in a heavy snowfall event. Mon. Wea. Rev., 136, Conzemius, R. J., R. W. Moore, M. T. Montgomery and C. A. Davis, 2007: Mesoscale convective vortex formation in a weakly sheared moist neutral environment. J. Atmos. Sci., 64, Moore, R. W. and M. T. Montgomery, 2005: Analysis of an idealized, three-dimensional diabatic Rossby vortex: a coherent structure of the moist baroclinic atmosphere. J. Atmos. Sci., 62, Moore, R. W. and M. T. Montgomery, 2004: Reexamining the dynamics of short-scale, diabatic Rossby waves and their role in midlatitude moist cyclogenesis. J. Atmos. Sci., 61, McNoldy, B. D., A. Cheng, Z. A. Eitzen, R. W. Moore, J. Persing, K. Schaefer and W. H. Schubert, 2003: Design and construction of an affordable rotating table for classroom demonstrations of geophysical fluid dynamics principles. Bul. Amer. Meteor.Soc., 12, Moore, R. W. and T. H. Vonder Haar, 2003: Diagnosis of a polar low warm core utilizing the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit. Wea. Forecasting, 18, Moore, R. W. and T. H. Vonder Haar, 2001: Interannual variability of cloud forcing and meridional energy transport for the northern hemisphere winter from J. Climate, 14, INVITED LECTURES Aspects of the TCS-08 field campaign and the genesis of typhoon Nuri, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, October Can latent heat release provide an alternate avenue to moist cyclogenesis?, Meteo France, Toulouse, France, March Can latent heat release provide an alternate avenue to moist cyclogenesis?, Laboratoire de Meteorologie, Paris, France, March The diabatic Rossby vortex: what is it and its possible importance, University of Mainz, Germany, December Reexamining the dynamics of short-scale, diabatic Rossby waves and their role in midlatitude moist cyclogenesis, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, November 2004.

4 ORAL PRESENTATIONS Downstream development and Kona low genesis. 14 th Cyclone Workshop, Sainte- Adele, Quebec, Canada, September 21-26, The Modulation of Potential Vorticity Streamers and Surface Weather Patterns by the Madden Julian Oscillation, AGU 2007 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 10-14, Finite amplitude threshold behavior of diabatic Rossby vortex formation. Second THORPEX International Science Symposium, Landshut, Germany, December 4-8, The integral role of a diabatic Rossby vortex in an East Coast snowstorm. 13 th Cyclone Workshop, Pacific Grove, USA, October 22-27, Analysis of an idealized, three-dimensional diabatic Rossby vortex: a coherent structure of the moist baroclinic atmosphere. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 24-29, Reexamining the dynamics of short-scale, diabatic Rossby waves and their role in midlatitude moist cyclogenesis. 12 th Cyclone Workshop, Val Morin, Canada, September 21-26, The utility of data from the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit in the study of polar lows. 8 th Meeting of the EGS Polar Lows Working Group, Paris, France, October 4-5, Remote sensing of polar lows using the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit. Study of Environmental Arctic Change Implementation Meeting, Boulder, USA, November 14-15, CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS Moore, R. W. and T. H. Vonder Haar, 1999: Interannual variations in northern hemisphere winter energy transport related to the El Niño-Southern Oscillation phenomenon. Preprints, 10 th Conference on Atmospheric Radiation, Madison, WI, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Moore, R. W. and T. H. Vonder Haar,1999: Interannual variations in northern hemisphere winter energy transport driven by the El Niño-Southern Oscillation phenomenon. Preprints, AGU 1999 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 80(46), F145. COMPUTER EXPERIENCE Operating systems and related software: UNIX, LINUX, X Windows System, Windows NT, PSU-NCAR Mesoscale Model (MM5), Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model, Potential Vorticity inversion Languages: FORTRAN 77/90, HTML, IDL, Mathematica, MATLAB, NCAR Graphics

5 PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES American Geophysical Union American Meteorological Society European Geophysical Union European Meteorological Society

6 REFERENCES Prof. Huw C. Davies Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science ETH- Zürich 8092 Zürich, Switzerland Relationship: Head of the Dynamical Meteorology group of which I am currently a member. Prof. Richard H. Johnson Department of Atmospheric Science (970) Colorado State University johnson@atmos.colostate.edu Fort Collins, CO, USA Relationship: A mentor while at Colorado State University who served on both my M.S. and PhD. committees. I also filled the role of graduate teaching assistant for his Mesoscale Meteorology course for two semesters. Prof. Michael T. Montgomery Department of Meteorology (831) Naval Postgraduate School mtmontgo@nps.edu Monterey, CA USA Relationship: PhD. co-advisor at Colorado State University. Prof. Heini Wernli Institute for Atmospheric Physics University of Mainz wernli@uni-mainz.de Mainz, Germany Relationship: Colleague in atmospheric science with whom I have had many constructive conversations regarding moist dynamics. Dr. Jim Kossin CIMSS (608) University of Wisconsin-Madison jim_kossin@ssec.wisc.edu Madison, WI USA Relationship: Colleague in atmospheric science.