User:Tillman/John Nielsen-Gammon

John Nielsen-Gammon is an American meteorologist and climatologist. He is a Professor of Meteorology at Texas A&M University, and the Texas State Climatologist, holding both appointments since 2000. His research group uses a combination of observational and computational techniques to study the characteristics, dynamics, and forecasting of certain weather phenomena. Much of his recent work has involved air pollution meteorology. He writes a popular online column on climate science for the Houston Chronicle.

Nielsen-Gammon earned his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D degrees at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Selected publications

 * John Nielsen-Gammon and Howard Johnson, Texas and Oklahoma's Greatest Hits: The most significant weather events to strike Texas and Oklahoma, 2004, Office of the State Climatologist, Texas


 * John W. Nielsen-Gammon, An Inconvenient Truth: The Scientific Argument, 2008, GeoJournal, doi:10.1007/s10708-008-9126-z


 * MC Morgan, JW Nielsen-Gammon, Using Tropopause Maps to Diagnose Midlatitude Weather Systems, 1998, Monthly Weather Review, Volume 126, Issue 10.


 * JW Nielsen-Gammon, Initial Modeling of the August 2000 Houston-Galveston Ozone Episode, 2001, Report to the Technical Analysis Division, Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission.

Sources and external links

 * Nielsen-Gammon's profile at TAMU
 * Office of the Texas State Climatologist
 * Atmo.Spere, Nielsen-Gammon's online column at the Houston Chronicle

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