User:Thegreatdr

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Greetings. My name is David Roth, and I'm a forecaster with the Hydrometeorological Prediction Center in Camp Springs, Maryland. My work-related research revolves around developing a Tropical cyclone rainfall climatology. My main work duties are Weather forecasting up to seven days into the future for the United States and adjacent areas, which includes diagnosing which model to use for various systems in or near the United States during that time frame. I act as the Surface Analysis Team Leader/Focal point, and am one of the co-focal points for our tropical cyclone program and our web page. The Hydrometeorological Prediction Center is the backup office to the National Hurricane Center with regards to tropical cyclone forecasting. My previous work places include the National Weather Service Forecast Offices (WFOs) in Miami, Florida during the summers of 1992-1994 and Lake Charles, Louisiana from January 1995 to November 1998.

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.

1 Pages created
2 Pages modified
3 Projects involved in
4 Awards
5 External Links

[edit] Pages created

Fourteen pages have been created or improved significantly enough to be used in the Did You Know? section of the main wikipedia page.

Tropical cyclone rainfall climatology was created in May 2006 out of information uncovered when doing a search for tropical cyclone rainfall information for areas surrounding Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. Out of this page sprang tropical cyclone rainfall forecasting, United States tropical cyclone rainfall climatology, and China tropical cyclone rainfall climatology.
Helmut Landsberg page was created in May 2006 when it was noticed that one of the most important climatologists of the 20th century was left off the climatology page.
Fiji Meteorological Service page was created as there was demand for its creation from the tropical cyclone project.
Floods in the United States page was created when it was uncovered no one had created such a page, which could potentially be a very large page indeed.
Monsoon trough page was created when it was realized one of the main sources of tropical cyclogenesis did not have an article.
Tropical cyclogenesis was created after seeing there was demand within the project for this article, and is current a GA article.
Cyclogenesis was created with much of the information from the old Mid-latitude cyclone article, and still requires some work. It is a current GA article.
Late November 1984 Nor'easter was created when a similar storm was forecast offshore the Southeast United States.
Christmas 1994 Nor'easter was created due to its interesting effects across New England and its unusual storm interaction with another cyclone moving up from the south.
Late November 2006 Nor'easter was created soon after the anticipated event was moving out into the Atlantic Ocean.
Great Appalachian Storm of November 1950 was created when it was discovered that the early history of meteorological forecast models were based on data from this cyclone.
New Year's Eve 1963 snowstorm was created soon after discovering its snow impact on the Deep South in late November 2006.
Xavier William Proenza was created when he was announced to be the next National Hurricane Center director.
Tropical cyclone observation was created due to a request from the TC wikiproject. It earned GA in March 2007.
Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre was created due to a request from the tropical cyclone article.
Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre was created due to a request from the tropical cyclone article.
Storm (novel) was created due to a request from the TC wikiproject.
Ivan Ray Tannehill was created in February 2007 as a cross-reference to the tropical cyclone rainfall climatology article.

[edit] Pages modified

Surface weather analysis has been modified to add information as well as references. It is now of GA status.
The 1981, 1982, 1983, and 1984 Pacific typhoon season stub articles were filled out with enough information, pictures, and references to be elevated to B class. The 2003 and 2004 articles were completed with information for each storm, which elevated them to start class. The 1982 Pacific hurricane season and 2002 Pacific typhoon season have been modified to add histories for tropical cyclones now mentioned in the Tropical cyclone rainfall climatology so people on Wikipedia can cross reference. Most of these modifications were made during the summer of 2006 and winter of 2006/2007.
Extratropical cyclone was merged with some information from the old Mid-Latitude cyclone article, while the rest of the information from that article was used to create Cyclogenesis. Extratropical cyclone was the first article where my contributions helped lead to either a GA, A, or FA grade, which took a little over two weeks of responding to feedback and the help of one other contributor, who kept it understandable for the layman. It became a featured article (from a stub) within a month. Most of the work was done in October 2006.
Subtropical ridge has been expanded from a stub into a start class article, as of February 2007.
Various Atlantic hurricane seasons have been modified to include United States storm total rainfall graphics and include information that is otherwise very difficult to find on the internet.
Groundhog Day gale of 1976, one of the older pages in the project, underwent an overhaul in late November 2006.
Columbus Day Storm of 1962 underwent a slight reorganization with an image and a reference section being added to the page during late November 2006.
Tropical cyclone underwent important changes, such as reordering the sections in a more logical order, correcting unreferenced factual errors, and adding references where requested or appropriate.
2004 Christmas Eve Snowstorm has been restructured in early December 2006 and lengthened to conform to wikipedia standards, and other non-tropical cyclone related articles with the inclusion of an infobox.

[edit] Projects involved in

This user is a member of the Tropical cyclone Wikiproject.

This user is a member of WikiProject Meteorology and Weather Events.

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This user is a participant in WikiProject Maryland.

[edit] Awards

		The Working Man's Barnstar
		For the incredible amount of effort you've put into the tropical cyclone wikiproject. :D Coredesat talk! 03:32, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Tropical cyclones, awards you this Cyclone Barnstar for your contributions to the knowledge of TC Rainfall. 00:38, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

		Great Editing Award
		OK, its an award that I've just constructed especially for this, but your work on Extratropical cyclone is, and has been, exceptional. Crimsone 15:57, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

		The Surreal Barnstar
		This is for you using Wikipedia in great ways to escape for your daily work. Oh wait a sec.... :) Great job with everything. Hurricanehink (talk) 01:18, 5 January 2007 (UTC)