Jonathan M. "Jon" Davies is an American

meteorologist A meteorologist is a scientist who studies and works in the field of meteorology aiming to understand or predict Earth's atmosphere of Earth, atmospheric phenomena including the weather. Those who study meteorological phenomena are meteorologists ...

, storm chaser, and author. An operational meteorologist, Davies is a

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and is known for his

mesoscale meteorology Mesoscale meteorology is the study of weather systems and processes at horizontal scales of approximately to several hundred kilometres. It is smaller than synoptic scale meteorology, synoptic-scale systems (1,000 km or larger) but larger than Mi ...

research related to

tornado A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that is in contact with the surface of Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. It is often referred to as a twister, whirlwind or cyclone, although the ...

es and convective storms. He is a major discoverer of the mini-supercell thunderstorm now often referred to as a low-topped

supercell A supercell is a thunderstorm characterized by the presence of a mesocyclone, a deep, persistently rotating updraft. Due to this, these storms are sometimes referred to as rotating thunderstorms. Of the four classifications of thunderstorms (su ...

, pioneered significant research on tornado environments including on cold-core situations and the importance of low-level buoyancy in some deceptively low-

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tornado situations, and produced important case studies. Growing up in

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, Davies graduated with a degree in meteorology from the

University of Kansas The University of Kansas (KU) is a public research university with its main campus in Lawrence, Kansas, United States. Two branch campuses are in the Kansas City metropolitan area on the Kansas side: the university's medical school and hospital ...

in 1980. He has worked for a number of private forecasting firms as well as a broadcast meteorologist for

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and local television stations such as

KSNW KSNW (channel 3) is a television station in Wichita, Kansas, United States, affiliated with NBC and Telemundo. The station is owned by Nexstar Media Group, and maintains studios on North Main Street in northwest Wichita (near downtown); its tran ...

. Davies wrote the children's book ''Storm Chasers! On the Trail of Twisters'' with Robert Rath in 2007. He has appeared on several television programs related to tornadoes and provided footage for many more. A storm chaser since 1988, Davies also enjoys playing the piano.

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