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Jilliann Dufort

Jilliann Dufort

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Research
Associate I


  • MS, Atmospheric Science, Texas Tech University
  • BS, Meteorology, Valparaiso University

  • Transportation Applications Team

Jilliann is a research associate within the Transportation Applications Team at CIWRO/NSSL. Currently, she is analyzing how the NWS messages road weather hazards to their stakeholders and the public through surveys and focus groups. She is also using object-based identification to verify snowfall from the UFS by applying various snow-to-liquid ratio methods to the QPF field. Past project focused on implementing improvements and developing new decision support products for the Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor System (MRMS).

 


  • NWP post-processing and verification 
  • Object-based identification 
  • Analyzing how winter weather road hazards are messaged to stakeholders
  • Improvements to winter weather forecasting 
  • Winter weather impacts to transportation 
  • Road weather hazards 
  • Winter weather 
  • Developing new decision support products

  • Forecast Applications Improvements R&D
  • Subseasonal to Seasonal Predictions for Extreme Weather Events
  • Social and Socioeconomic Impacts of High-Impact Weather

  • Dufort, J.A., D.M. Tobin, H.D. Reeves, T. Maciag, K.L. Berry, J. Correia, W.M. Bartolini, 2024: Developing the “Next-Generation” Winter Weather Experiment Testbed: Integrating Road Hazards. 12th Sym. on Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise, Baltimore, MD, Amer. Meteor. Soc., P15B.1. https://ams.confex.com/ams/104ANNUAL/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/436828.
  • CIWRO Outreach Committee