Jeffrey W. Frame is an American atmospheric scientist and professor at the

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United States. Established in 1867, it is the f ...

. He is known for observational and modeling studies of severe convective storms and for teaching

meteorology Meteorology is the scientific study of the Earth's atmosphere and short-term atmospheric phenomena (i.e. weather), with a focus on weather forecasting. It has applications in the military, aviation, energy production, transport, agricultur ...

. He was a scientist for VORTEX2 and other field research programs.

Early life and education

Frame is from Michigan. He and graduated summa cum laude from the

University of Michigan The University of Michigan (U-M, U of M, or Michigan) is a public university, public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest institution of higher education in the state. The University of Mi ...

(UM) with a B.S. in Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences in 2001. Moving on to the

Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State or PSU) is a Public university, public Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related Land-grant university, land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsyl ...

(PSU) for graduate studies, he earned a M.S. in 2003 with the thesis ''The Interaction of Simulated Squall Lines with Complex Terrain'' and a Ph.D. in 2008 with the dissertation ''The Dynamical Impact of Anvil Shading on Simulated Supercell Thunderstorms''.

Career

Since 2010 he has been an instructor and assistant professor at the

(UIUC). Frame is a member of the

American Meteorological Society The American Meteorological Society (AMS) is a scientific and professional organization in the United States promoting and disseminating information about the atmospheric, oceanic, and hydrologic sciences. Its mission is to advance the atmosph ...

(AMS) and Chi Epsilon Pi. He participated in th
International H2O Project
(IHOP)
Radar Observations of Tornadoes and Thunderstorms Experiment
(ROTATE)
Verification of the Origin of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment 2
( VORTEX2), co- PI o
Ontario Winter Lake-effect Storms
( OWLeS), and other field experiments. He participated with the

Doppler on Wheels Doppler on Wheels (DOW) is a fleet of quickly deployable truck-mounted weather radars managed by FARM (Flexible Array of Radars and Mesonets), an American research company affiliated with the University of Alabama Huntsville. The group, which ...

(DOW) team for the ROTATE, VORTEX2, and OWLeS projects and as mobile

mesonet In meteorology and climatology, a mesonet, portmanteau of mesoscale network, is a network of automated weather and, often also including environmental monitoring stations, designed to observe mesoscale meteorological phenomena and/or microclima ...

leader for IHOP. He also participated in the DOW's deployment for teaching purposes at UIUC.

References

External links

UIUC page

Twitter account
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