Sim D. Aberson

Employment

• Research Meteorologist (1985 to present)
  Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
  Hurricane Research Division
  4301 Rickenbacker Causeway
  Miami, FL 33149-1026
  
• NOAA G-IV Jet dropsonde assessments

Awards and Honors

• United States Department of Commerce Gold Medal for Hurricane Research Division's Performance During Hurricane Andrew (group award).
• NOAA / Environmental Research Laboratories 1999 Outstanding Scientific Paper Award for
  "The Impact of Omega Dropwindsondes on Operational Hurricane Track Forecast Models," Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 77 (5), 925-933 (1996).
• 2003 NOAA Research Employee of the Year

Professional

• Member American Meteorological Society (1983 to present)
• Member American Meteorological Society, Board on Women and Minorities (1996-9)
• Member European Geophysical Union (1998 to present)
• Member National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals (1992 to present)
• Chair National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals, Atmospheric Sciences Caucus (1994 to present)
• Member NOAA Diversity Council (1999 to present)

Education

• B.S. Meteorology Pennsylvania State University, (June 1985)
• M.S. Meteorology Pennsylvania State University, (Dec. 1987)
• Ph.D. Atmospheric Sciences, University of Maryland, (2002)

Recent publications

• Powell, M. D., and S. D. Aberson, 2001: "Accuracy of United States tropical cyclone landfall forecasts in the Atlantic basin 1976-2000" Bull. Amer. Met. Soc., 82.
• Aberson, S. D., and M. DeMaria, 1994: "Verification of a nested barotropic hurricane track forecast model (VICBAR)." Mon. Wea. Rev., 122, 2804-2815.
• Aberson, S. D., S. J. Lord, M. DeMaria, and M. S. Tracton, 1995: "Short-range ensemble forecasting of hurricane tracks." Proc., 21st Conf. On Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Miami, FL, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 494-496.
• Aberson, S., D., 1998: "Five-day tropical cyclone track forecasts in the Atlantic basin." Wea. Forecasting, 13, 1005-1015.
• Aberson, S. D., 1999: "Targeting and sampling strategies to improve hurricane forecasts." Proc. 3rd Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems Dallas, TX, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 40-41.
• Aberson, S. D., 1999: "Ensemble-based products to improve tropical cyclone forecasting." Proc. 23rd Conf. On Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Dallas, TX, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 843-844
• Aberson, S. D., 1999: "The depth of the environmental steering layer of tropical cyclones in the North Atlantic basin." Submitted to Mon. Wea. Rev.
• Aberson, S. D., and J. L. Franklin, 1999: "Impact on hurricane track and intensity forecasts of GPS dropwindsonde observations from the first-season flights of the NOAA Gulfstream-IV jet aircraft." Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 80, 421-427.
• Bishop, C. H., S. Majumdar, I. Szunyogh, Z. Toth, and S. D. Aberson, 1999: "Using ensembles to simulate the impact of targeted observations." Proc. 3rd Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems Dallas, TX, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 52-53.
• Burpee, R. W., J. L. Franklin, S. J. Lord, R. E. Tuleya, and S. D. Aberson. "The impact of Omega dropwindsondes on operational hurricane track forecast models." Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 77, 925-933.
• R. W. Burpee, S. D. Aberson, P. G. Black, M. DeMaria, J. L. Franklin, J. S., Griffin, S. H. Houston, J. Kaplan, S. J. Lord, F. D. Marks, Jr., M. D. Powell, and H. E. Willoughby, 1994: Real-time guidance provided by NOAA's Hurricane Research Division to forecasters during Emily of 1993. Bull. Amer.Meteor. Soc., 75, 1765-1783.
• DeMaria, M., S. D., Aberson, K. V. Ooyama, and S. J. Lord, 1992: "A nested spectral model for hurricane track forecasting." Mon. Wea. Rev., 120, 1628-1643.

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