Associate Professor of Meteorology
B.S (1984) University of Texas at Austin; Ph.D. (1991) University of Washington
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Phone: (405) 325-3881
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Dr. Biggerstaff's research focuses on the variability of the strength and distribution of convection within large storm systems. This research has lead to improvement of the understanding of storm evolution and interactions between convection and the larger-scale circulations that form in response to the convective activity. His research has also been applied to improve quantitative estimates of rainfall from weather radar for the NASA Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, and the radar detection and prediction of severe hail and damaging straight-line winds. He is currently one of the lead investigators behind the Shared Mobile Atmospheric Research and Teaching (SMART)-radar program, a collaborative effort between the University of Oklahoma, the National Severe Storms Laboratory, Texas Tech University, and Texas A&M University to build and deploy two mobile C-band Doppler radars for storm-scale research. He has already used the SMART-radar in a NASA sponsored project studying tropical precipitation in Florida during 2001 and continues to be active in field campaigns. Dr. Biggerstaff joins the department after serving 10 years onthe faculty at Texas A&M University where he received awards in teaching and advising.