Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ~John Ruskin

Sunday, September 29, 2013

Charles Doswell

    Charles Doswell earned his Bachelor of Science degree in meteorology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison in the spring of 1967. He worked as a student at the Weather Bureauin Madison. After graduation, he spent the first of 2-1/2 summers working as a student at the National Severe Storms Forecast Center, in Kansas City, Missouri. He began graduate school in the fall of 1967 at the University of Oklahoma, finishing his Master of Science degree in meteorology in January of 1969.
    He began storm chasing with a group of students. With his Doctor of Philosophy degree in meteorology he began his first real job as a Research Forecaster. This time with the newly-created Techniques Development Unit which was assigned to do applications research for the Severe Local Storms Unit of NSSFC. After about six years, he transferred to the Environmental Research Laboratories Weather Research Program. After four years in Boulder, Chuck decided to take advantage of the developing opportunities here in Norman, Oklahoma, and transferred to NSSL in the fall of 1986. After more than 14 years with NSSL. He retired from Federal Service, and joined the Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies at the University of Oklahoma as a Senior Research Scientist. It is a part time position, and he is continuing his involvement with teaching that he began several years ago mainly, his Advanced Forecasting Techniques course. Dr. Doswell is a certified consulting meteorologist.
   His research interests focus mainly on tornadoes and severe thunderstorms, but he had a interest in everything related to weather.

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