User:Thegreatdr

Greetings. My name is David Roth, and I'm a meteorologist and weather forecaster. My work-related research revolves around developing a Tropical cyclone rainfall climatology and aiding in the Atlantic hurricane reanalysis. My interest in weather may have been influenced by my mom at an early age (according to dad), but Hurricane David in 1979 passing by our old place in Miami probably helped it along. Weather became my hobby in the summer of 1983, and to some degree I still consider it a hobby, even if it is my means of employment. I find wikipedia to be a good way/method of organizing information and sharing it with others. I like the idea of random quality control from others as well. As of last check, I'm number 2145 on the List of Wikipedians by number of edits.

Article contributions
Five articles needed extensive improvement and modification to go through the GAC and FAC processes. The featured list was created by myself. Extratropical cyclone was improved from Stub class to FA class within one month in October 2006. Tropical cyclone required the input and help of numerous editors and reviewers over a 1 1/2 year period before it became featured early in 2008. Numerical weather prediction took three months to go from Start to FA class in 2010/2011. Of the 121 articles I've contributed toward which have passed GA (but have yet to achieve FA status), 29 were created from scratch. Below is a list of articles that I have either created, or improved, but have yet to reach GA or FA status.


 * 1919 Florida Keys hurricane
 * 1969 Atlantic hurricane season
 * 1970 Atlantic hurricane season
 * 1970–1975 Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone seasons
 * 1970–71_Australian_region_cyclone_season
 * 1970–71_South-West_Indian_Ocean_cyclone_season
 * 1971–72_Australian_region_cyclone_season
 * 1971–72_South-West_Indian_Ocean_cyclone_season
 * 1972–73_Australian_region_cyclone_season
 * 1972–73_South-West_Indian_Ocean_cyclone_season
 * 1973–74_Australian_region_cyclone_season
 * 1973–74_South-West_Indian_Ocean_cyclone_season
 * 1974–75_Australian_region_cyclone_season
 * 1974–75_South-West_Indian_Ocean_cyclone_season
 * 1975–76_Australian_region_cyclone_season
 * 1975–76_South-West_Indian_Ocean_cyclone_season
 * 1976–77_Australian_region_cyclone_season
 * 1976–77_South-West_Indian_Ocean_cyclone_season
 * 1977–78_Australian_region_cyclone_season
 * 1977–78_South-West_Indian_Ocean_cyclone_season
 * 1978–79_Australian_region_cyclone_season
 * 1978–79_South-West_Indian_Ocean_cyclone_season
 * 1979–80_Australian_region_cyclone_season
 * 1979–80_South-West_Indian_Ocean_cyclone_season
 * 1980–81_Australian_region_cyclone_season
 * 1981–82_Australian_region_cyclone_season
 * 1993 Storm of the Century
 * 1996 Pacific typhoon season
 * 2004 Pacific typhoon season
 * Aeronomy
 * African easterly jet
 * Atlantic hurricane season
 * Atmosphere of Earth
 * Atmospheric convection
 * Atmospheric instability
 * Atmospheric optics
 * Atmospheric physics
 * Bill Proenza
 * Block (meteorology)
 * Canadian Hurricane Centre
 * Cape Verde-type hurricane
 * China tropical cyclone rainfall climatology
 * Climate of Africa
 * Climate of Alabama
 * Climate of Alaska
 * Climate of Asia
 * Climate of Beaumont, Texas
 * Climate of Europe
 * Climate of Georgia (U.S. state)
 * Climate of Illinois
 * Climate of New York
 * Climate of the Philippines


 * Climate of South Carolina
 * Climate of Texas
 * Climate of the United States
 * Climate of Virginia
 * Climatology
 * Cloud
 * Cold air damming
 * Convection
 * Derecho
 * Deutscher Wetterdienst
 * Drought
 * Drought in the United States
 * Dry line
 * Earth rainfall climatology
 * Effects of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation in the United States
 * El Niño
 * El Niño Southern Oscillation
 * Environmental Modeling Center
 * Erosion
 * Exfoliation (cosmetology)
 * Fahrenheit
 * Fiji Meteorological Service
 * Floods in the United States
 * Floods in the United States through 1900
 * Floods in the United States: 1901-2000
 * Floods in the United States: 2001–present
 * Fog
 * Fractal
 * Fujiwhara effect
 * Great Appalachian Storm of November 1950
 * Helmut Landsberg
 * Humid continental climate
 * Hurricane Camille
 * Hurricane Gilbert
 * Hurricane Jeanne
 * International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set
 * Intertropical Convergence Zone
 * Ivan Ray Tannehill
 * January 1886 Blizzard
 * Landfall (meteorology)
 * La Niña
 * Late November 1984 Nor'easter
 * Late November 2006 Nor'easter
 * List of Atlantic hurricanes in the 18th century
 * List of deadliest floods
 * List of historic tropical cyclone names
 * List of locations with a subtropical climate


 * March 1969 nor'easter
 * Mataafa storm
 * List of wettest tropical cyclones by country
 * Madden-Julian Oscillation
 * Mariners Weather Log
 * Marine weather forecasting
 * Mesocyclone
 * Meteorological instrumentation
 * Meteorology
 * Mexico tropical cyclone rainfall climatology
 * Microburst
 * Monsoon
 * New Year's Eve 1963 snowstorm
 * Norwegian cyclone model
 * Ocean Prediction Center
 * Oceanic climate
 * Parametrization (climate)
 * Polar vortex
 * Pre-1980 North Indian Ocean cyclone seasons
 * Pre-Christmas 2004 snowstorm
 * Precipitation types (meteorology)
 * Prognostic chart
 * Radius of outermost closed isobar
 * Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre
 * Servicio Meteorológico Nacional
 * Severe weather
 * Sky
 * South Atlantic convergence zone
 * South Pacific convergence zone
 * Spaghetti plot
 * Spatial Synoptic Classification system
 * Sprite (lightning)
 * Standard time
 * Storm
 * Storm (novel)
 * Summer
 * Synoptic scale meteorology
 * Tehuantepecer
 * Thermometer
 * Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre
 * Tropical upper tropospheric trough
 * Types of snow
 * Typhoons in the Philippines
 * UAH satellite temperature dataset
 * United States tropical cyclone rainfall climatology
 * Upper tropospheric cyclonic vortex
 * Warm front
 * Weather Prediction Center
 * Weather media in the United States
 * Weather station

Status
I'll visit sporadically. A work-related project is generally keeping me away.

Articles which deserve to be read by everyone on Wikipedia

 * William Windsor (goat)

Awards and barnstars



 * Congratulations on being able to pull off what I couldn't really do. :) Therefore, you very much deserve the following: