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Departmental Affiliation:
Geography and Environmental Systems
JCET Research Group:
Mesoscale Atmospheric Processes
GSFC Code:
613.1
Mailing Address:
GEST/JCET
5523 Research Park Drive, Suite 320
Baltimore MD 21228 USA
Geography and Environmental Systems
xxx Sondheim Building
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore MD 21250 USA
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Phone:
(410) 455-8813
(410) 455-3550
Fax:
(410) 455-8806
Email:
jeffhalv@umbc.edu
URL:
Most Recent Publication
Jiang, H., J. B. Halverson, E. J. Zipser, 2008. Influence of environmental moisture on TRMM-derived tropical cyclone precipitation over land and ocean, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35,L17806 http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2008GL034658
Research Interests:
Biography:
Dr. Jeffrey B. Halverson has traveled the world's tropical latitudes to better understand how intense storms of rain and wind develop and intensify. He has conducted research in Brazil, Australia, the South China Sea, Costa Rica, the Marshall Islands, West Africa and various locations in the Caribbean studying tropical weather systems. Dr. Halverson's research examines the atmospheric factors that cause hurricanes to rapidly change intensity. In 2001, he helped pioneer a new aircraft-based, upper atmospheric measuring system to take direct measurements in the eye of a mature hurricane from an altitude of 70,000 feet. Halverson is currently an Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). He also serves as Associate Director-Academics at the Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET), a cooperative institute between NASA and UMBC. He also served as Deputy Project Manager at NASA Headquarters, where he managed NASA field programs to investigate hurricanes in 2005 and 2006. Dr. Halverson has authored more than 28 professional papers and writes a monthly column on severe and unusual weather for Weatherwise Magazine. He is currently examining the extratropical transition of hurricanes making landfall over the Mid Atlantic. |
