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05.15.06
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 Owen Kelley uses space-based and ground-based instruments to study
changes in hurricane structure that occur over several hours or
days. He has recently published two papers in Geophysical Research
Letters describing how radar data can be used to predict when a
hurricane's surface wind intensity is about to increase. In the
future, Kelley would like to discover why "Hot Towers," tall rain
clouds often just three miles across, are so intimately connected
with what happens to hurricanes, which are several hundred miles
across. Kelley also develops visualization software for the
Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite launched in
1997 and the Global Precipitation Measuring (GPM) satellite to be
launched after 2010. Kelley feels that this is an exciting time to
study hurricanes because many discoveries are about to be
made through frequent, high-resolution observations.
Since 1997, Kelley has been a researcher at NASA Goddard. He is
currently a Ph.D. student in the School of Computational Sciences
at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. In 1997, he
earned a masters degree in Applied Physics from George Mason
University. In 1993, he earned his undergraduate degree from St.
John's College, the "Great Books" school in Annapolis, Maryland.
Rob Gutro
Goddard Space Flight Center
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