Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder

Jeffrey Duda

Research Interests

  • Convective-scale numerical weather prediction, both deterministic and probabilistic (ensemble approach)
  • Forecast verification, including alternative methods such as neighborhood and object-based

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  • Dowell DC; Alexander CR; James EP; Weygandt SS; Benjamin SG; Manikin GS; Blake BT; Brown JM; Olson JB; Hu M. (May 2022). The High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR): An Hourly Updating Convection-Allowing Forecast Model. Part 1: Motivation and System Description. Weather and Forecasting. 10.1175/waf-d-21-0151.1
  • Duda JD; Turner DD. (Jun 2021). Large-Sample Application of Radar Reflectivity Object-Based Verification to Evaluate HRRR Warm-Season Forecasts. Weather and Forecasting , 36(3), 805-821. 10.1175/waf-d-20-0203.1
  • Duda, J., X. Wang, Y Wang, J. Carley. (Jan 2019). Comparing the Assimilation of Radar Reflectivity using the Direct GSI-Based Ensemble-Variational (EnVar) and Indirect Cloud Analysis Methods in Convection-Allowing Forecasts over the Continental United States. , 147(5). 10.1175/MWR-D-18-0171.1
  • Duda JD; Wang X; Xue M. (May 2017). Sensitivity of Convection-Allowing Forecasts to Land Surface Model Perturbations and Implications for Ensemble Design. Monthly Weather Review , 145(5), 2001-2025. 10.1175/MWR-D-16-0349.1
  • Duda JD; Wang X; Kong F; Xue M; Berner J. (May 2016). Impact of a Stochastic Kinetic Energy Backscatter Scheme on Warm Season Convection-Allowing Ensemble Forecasts. Monthly Weather Review , 144(5). 10.1175/MWR-D-15-0092.1
  • Duda JD; Wang X; Kong F; Xue M. (Jun 2014). Using Varied Microphysics to Account for Uncertainty in Warm-Season QPF in a Convection-Allowing Ensemble. Monthly Weather Review , 142(6), 2198-2219. 10.1175/MWR-D-13-00297.1
  • Duda JD; Gallus WA. (Aug 2013). The Impact of Large-Scale Forcing on Skill of Simulated Convective Initiation and Upscale Evolution with Convection-Allowing Grid Spacings in the WRF. Weather and Forecasting , 28(4), 994-1018. 10.1175/WAF-D-13-00005.1
  • Duda JD; Gallus WA. (Feb 2010). Spring and Summer Midwestern Severe Weather Reports in Supercells Compared to Other Morphologies. Weather and Forecasting , 25(1), 190-206. 10.1175/2009WAF2222338.1