stratman@ou.edu
derek.stratman@noaa.gov
National Weather Center 4349
Dr. Stratman has been a research scientist with CIWRO since 2017 and has been working within NSSL’s Warn-on-Forecast group since 2016. His research interests primarily focus on storm-scale ensemble data assimilation and short-term forecasts of severe convective weather, including data assimilation techniques, stochastic physics, phased-array radar data assimilation, storm-scale predictability, and forecast verification using spatial and object-based techniques. More broadly, his research largely aims to provide guidance for future generations of NSSL’s Warn-on-Forecast System (WoFS), including a 1-km version.
Some of his previous research at CIWRO and NSSL involves correcting storm displacement errors in WoFS using a feature-alignment technique he developed, developing a 1-km version of WoFS with other scientists at CIWRO, researching and developing stochastic physics methods and their potential beneficial impacts for WoFS, researching ways to best assimilate temporally-frequent (every ~1 min) phased-array radar (PAR) volumetric data into WoFS, and evaluating WoFS analyses and forecasts using novel verification techniques.
