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Member Since 1974
Don R. MacGorman
Fellow, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies
Professional Experience
Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies
Fellow
1994 - Present
National Severe Storms Laboratory Norman
Physicist/WRDD ISG Group leader
2012 - 2020
National Severe Storms Laboratory Norman
physicist
1980 - 2020
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Education
Rice University
Doctorate
1978
Honors & Awards
Union Fellow
Received December 2021
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For fundamental discoveries concerning lightning and storm electrification processes, using field observations and numerical cloud modeling
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Benjamin Franklin Lecture
Received December 2021
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Publications
Evaluation of Lightning Flash Rate Parameterizations in a Cloud‐Resolved WRF‐Chem Simulation of the ...
Eighteen lightning flash rate parameterization schemes (FRPSs) were investigated in a Weather Research and Forecasting model coupled with chemistry...
June 01, 2024
Lightning and Secondary Convection in the Anvil of the May 2...
January 28, 2021
GLM and ABI Characteristics of Severe and Convective Storms
August 27, 2020
AGU Abstracts
Lightning and Electrification of Severe Storms: Advances in Understanding and in the Requisite Observational Technologies
THE 2021 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN LECTURE I
atmospheric and space electricity | 15 december 2021
Donald R. MacGorman
For well over half a century, scientists have considered whether the large, long-lasting thunderstorms that produce tornadoes and large hail also prod...
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Novel radio, optical, and meteorological observations of a gigantic jet with extraordinary charge transfer
THUNDERSTORM EFFECTS IN THE NEAR-EARTH SPACE ENVIRONMENT I ORAL
atmospheric and space electricity | 14 december 2021
Levi Boggs, Douglas M. Mach, Eric C. Bruning, Ning...
Here we report on a unique negative gigantic jet discharge that had extraordinary charge transfer (300 C, twice the previous largest amount recorded)....
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Surprisingly Different Outcomes from Two Different Processing Methodologies for the Oklahoma Lightning Mapping Array
ADVANCES IN INSTRUMENTATION AND SIGNAL AND DATA PROCESSING METHODS FOR ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY APPLICATIONS I
atmospheric and space electricity | 10 december 2020
Vanna Chmielewski, Donald R. MacGorman, Doug Kenne...
A Lightning Mapping Array typically consists of several Very High Frequency (VHF) sensors spaced 10s of kilometers apart in a single cluster to triang...
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Volunteer Experience
1998 - 1999
President
Atmospheric and Space Electricity Executive Committee
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