Tom Workoff
Tom Workoff
June 29, 2012

HMT Welcomes Tom Workoff

HMT welcomes Tom Workoff to the team at NOAA's Hydrologic Predication Center (HPC) in Camp Springs, MD. Among other tasks, Tom will be working with HMT colleagues in Boulder, CO to plan and implement a west coast atmospheric river (AR) retrospective experiment as well as in the analysis of extreme precipitation events in the eastern U.S.

Tom comes to us from the Midwestern Regional Climate Center at the University of Illinois, where he spent over a year serving as their Service Climatologist. While at the MRCC, Tom provided climate data services to private industry and academic research groups. He also contributed to various research projects, including aiding in the design of a project to identify the causes and impacts of the heavy rain and flooding event in the lower Mississippi Valley in spring 2011. Prior to his time in Champaign, he worked as a meteorologist for a local affiliate of Clear Channel Communications in Rochester, NY. There, he provided specialized short and mid-range weather forecasts based on the needs of private customers and local municipalities.

Tom earned his B.S. in Meteorology from The College at Brockport, a SUNY school near Rochester, NY. After his undergraduate studies, he moved on to acquire his M.S. in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Illinois, which he completed in 2010. While at Illinois, he focused on the mesoscale circulations and boundary layer structure associated with the Great Lakes. This research included a project that examined how the marine boundary layers of the Great Lakes affect pre-existing convective systems in the warm season. As a part of this project, Tom worked closely with the NWSFO Cleveland, OH to develop a database of thunderstorm interaction with Lake Erie, which revealed telling relationships between changes in storm intensity and over-lake boundary layer conditions. These results will be implemented in aiding forecasters predict how storm intensity may change over the water and before reaching the downwind shore. He has also collaborated on efforts to diagnose the climatological and synoptic conditions associated with long-duration lake effect snowstorms, as well as designing an observational study to capture the physical structure of over-lake boundary layers in the summer. Welcome to the team, Tom!


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