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Researcher's Profile

Last Name

Morgan 

First Name

Michael 

Middle Initial

Areas of Research Expertise

* Analysis, diagnosis and prediction of weather systems
* Extratropical and tropical cyclogenesis, frontogenesis, and atmospheric blocki

Web site

Michael Morgan's University Web Page 

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Recent Publication(s)

  • "A two-season impact study of the WindSat surface wind retrievals in the NCEP global data assimilation system"

Bi L, Jung JA, Morgan MC, Le Marshall JF, Weather and Forecasting 25(3): 931-949 June 2010.  Results of this study show that assimilating the surface wind retrievals from the WindSat satellite improve the NCEP GFS wind and temperature forecasts. 

  • "Synoptic-dynamic climatology of large-scale cyclones in the North Pacific"
Keller LM, Morgan MC, Houghton DD, et al., Monthly Weather Review 134 (12): 3567-3587 Dec 2006. The evolution of the forecast sensitivities suggest that LSC events are not a manifestation of a modal instability of the time mean flow, but rather the growth of a favorably configured perturbation on the flow.
  • "Application of adjoint-derived forecast sensitivities to the 24-25 January 2000 US east coast snowstorm"
Kleist DT, Morgan MC, Monthly Weather Review 133 (11): 3148-3175 Nov 2005.
  • "Interpretation of the structure and evolution of adjoint-derived forecast sensitivity gradients"
Kleist DT, Morgan MC, Monthly Weather Review 133 (2): 466-484 Feb 2005. These results suggest adjoint-derived sensitivities of quasi-conserved response functions may be more easily interpretable than sensitivities calculated for nonconserved response functions.

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E-mail Address

morgan@wisc.edu 

Phone Number

(608) 262-1957 

Current University

UW- Madison 

Department

Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences 

Title

Professor 

Other Appointments

 

Address Line 1

1401 Atmospheric Oceanic & Space Sciences Building 

Address Line 2

1225 West Dayton Street 

City

Madison 

State

WI 

Zip Code

53706 

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PhD

PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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