Lynn McMurdie
Research associate professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences
Weather
Expertise: Weather, thunderstorms, storms over mountain ranges
Lynn McMurdie is a meteorologist whose work centers on storms. More specifically, she studies the structure of storms that form over the oceans and their modification as they traverse over mountain ranges. Her latest project was the Olympic Mountains Experiment (OLYMPEX) where midlatitude storms were sampled by aircraft, multiple specialized radars and ground instruments measuring the structure and amounts of falling rain and snow. These observations will be used to valid satellite estimates of global rainfall and to study the modification of storm systems as they move over coastal mountain ranges.
Her future work will be to study supercell thunderstorms in Argentina and east coast snowstorms. Her research approach applies observations to modeling and theory.
NOTE: In winter 2022, McMurdie is leading NASA’s IMPACTS field campaign monitoring East Coast snowstorms, and responses may be delayed.
