Michael Jon Erickson

I am a CIRES employee working remotely with the Weather Prediction Center (WPC) in College Park, MD. My primary research topics utilize the Model Evaluation Tools software to improve WPC's verification efforts related to heavy precipitation events. These verification projects range from evaluating WPC's Excessive Rainfall Outlook product to creating novel visualization and post-processing techniques through the tracking of high-impact heavy precipitation objects. I have also been heavily involved in utilizing and post-processing river streamflow data from hydrological models.

Currently I am developing techniques to display heavy precipitation displacement biases to forecasters and hydrologists. I am also tracking experimental heavy precipitation model data with extremely high temporal scales. Our goal is to simultaneously improve experimental model output and better understand model biases. New websites are being designed with dynamic mapping features to allow users to analyze multiple layers of data.