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Justin Monroe

Justin Monroe

Justin Monroe.

Research
Associate II

jwmonroe@ou.edu
justin.monroe@noaa.gov
National Weather Center 2826

Education

  • MS, Meteorology, University of Oklahoma
  • BBA, Management Information Systems, University of Oklahoma
  • BS, Meteorology, University of Oklahoma

Affiliated CIWRO Team

  • Testbed and Visualization Support

About

Justin Monroe is a Research Associate working in the Testbed and Visualization Support group. He primarily works to develop and implement the technical and software resources needed to facilitate the vision and goals of experimental PIs and stakeholders for simulated National Weather Service severe-weather warning operations in NOAA’s Hazardous Weather Testbed (HWT). This role includes constructing, configuring, and managing local and cloud-based computer resources and software necessary for each HWT experiment, and providing technical support during their operations.

His expertise is focused on installing, configuring, and debugging the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS II) and supporting software used in experiments for data interrogation and warning issuance, as well as cloud computing, data management, and software development.

Research Focus

  • Testbeds and Experimental Design
  • AWIPS II Configuration and Management
  • Cloud Computing
  • Data Management, Processing, and Visualization
  • Software Development

CIWRO Research Themes

  • Weather Radar and Observations
  • Mesoscale and Stormscale Modeling R&D
  • Social and Socioeconomic Impacts of High Impact Weather
Publications
  • Wilson, K. A., P. A. Burke, B. T. Gallo, P. S. Skinner, T. T. Lindley, C. Gravelle, S. W. Bieda III, J. G. Madden, J. W. Monroe, J. E. Guerra, and D. A. Morris, 2024: Collaborative Exploration of Storm-Scale Probabilistic Guidance for NWS Forecast Operations. Wea. Forecasting, https://doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-23-0174.1.
  • Martinaitis, S. M., K. A. Wilson, N. Yussouf, J. J. Gourley, H. Vergara-Arrieta, T. C. Meyer, P. L. Heinselman, A. Gerard, K. L. Berry, A. Vergara-Arrieta, and J. Monroe, 2023: A path towards short-term probabilistic flash flood prediction. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., E585-E605, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0026.1.
  • Sandmael, T. N., B. R. Smith, J. G. Madden, J. W. Monroe, P. T. Hyland, B. A. Schenkel, and T. C. Meyer, 2023: The 2021 Hazardous Weather Testbed Experimental Warning Program Radar Convective Applications Experiment: A Forecaster Evaluation of the Tornado Probability Algorithm and the New Mesocyclone Detection Algorithm, Wea. Forecasting, https://doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-23-0042.1.
  • Kassianov, E., Cromwell, E., Monroe, J., Riihimaki, L., Flynn, C., Barnard, J., Michalsky, J., Hodges, G., Shi, Y., and J. Comstock, 2021: Harmonized and high-quality datasets of aerosol optical depth at a US continental site, 1997–2018. Sci Data 8, 82. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00866-2.
  • Vogelman, A.M., G. M. McFarquhar, J. A. Ogren, D. D. Turner, J. M. Comstock, G. Feingold, C.N. Long, H. H. Jonsson, A. Bucholtz, D. R. Collins, G. S. Diskin, H. Gerber, R. P. Lawson, R. K. Woods, E. Andrews, H. Yang, J. C. Chiu, D. Hartsock, J. M. Hubbe, C. Lo, A. Marshak, J. W. Monroe, S. A. McFarlane, B. Schmid, J. M. Tomlinson, and T. Toto, 2012: RACORO Extended-Term Aircraft Observations of Boundary Layer Clouds, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc.
  • Monroe, J. W., M. T. Ritsche, M. Franklin, and K. Kehoe, 2008: Comparison of Meteorological Measurements from Sparse and Dense Surface Observation Networks in the U.S. Southern Great Plains. Argonne Tech. Rep., ANL/EVS/R-07/8, 24 pp.
  • Peppler, R. A., C. N. Long, D. L. Sisterson, D. D. Turner, C. P. Bahrmann, S. W. Christensen, K. J. Doty, R. C. Eagan, T. D. Halter, M. D. Ivey, N. N. Keck, K. E. Kehoe, J. C. Liljegren, M. C. Macduff, J. H. Mather, R. A. McCord, J. W. Monroe, S. T. Moore, K. L. Nitschke, B. W. Orr, R. C. Perez, B. D. Perkins, S. J. Richardson, K. L. Sonntag, J. W. Voyles, and R. Wagener, 2008: An Overview of ARM Program Climate Research Facility Data Quality Assurance. Open Atmos. Sci. J., 2, 192-216.
Conference presentations
  • Monroe, J. W., J. G. Madden, K. L. Berry, and K. A. Calhoun, 2024: Activities of the 2023 Hazardous Weather Testbed Experimental Warning Program, 14th Conference on Transition of Research to Operations, Baltimore, MD, Amer. Meteor. Soc, 8C.3.
  • Monroe, J. W., J. G. Madden, A. E. Reinhart, K. L. Berry, and K. M. Calhoun, 2023: An Overview of the 2022 Hazardous Weather Testbed Experimental Warning Program. 13th Conf. on Transition of Research to Operations, Denver, CO, Amer. Meteor. Soc, 6B.2.
  • Monroe, J. W., Madden, J. G., Reinhart, A. E., Berry, K. L., and K. M. Calhoun, 2022: The Use of AWIPS in the Cloud for Experiments in the 2021 Hazardous Weather Testbed Experimental Warning Program. 12th Conference on Transition of Research to Operations, Houston, TX, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 7B.2.
  • Monroe, J., E. Kassianov, L. Riihimaki, C. Flynn, E. Cromwell,, and A. Koontz, 2018: Development of AOD Best Estimate Product at ARM SGP Site, Atmospheric System Research Science Team Meeting, Vienna, VA.
  • Monroe, J., 2016: New VAP Data Quality Efforts Supporting MFRSR, Spectral Shortwave, Atmospheric System Research Science Team Meeting, Vienna, VA.
  • Monroe, J., K. Lazar, S. Beus, and R. Peppler, 2012: Improving Quality Control Tools and Procedures for ARM Value-added Products, Atmospheric System Research Science Team Meeting, Arlington, VA.
  • Monroe, J., S. Moore, R. Peppler, and K. Kehoe, 2010: Quality Control Tools at the ARM Climate Research Facility Data Quality Office, Atmospheric System Research Science Team Meeting, Bethesda, MD.
  • Monroe, J. W., J. B. Basara and D. L. Toll, 2008: Evaluating NARR surface variables and NLDAS using observations from the Oklahoma Mesonet, 22nd Conf. on Hydrology, New Orleans, LA, Amer. Meteor. Soc., JP1.5.
  • Monroe, J. W., K. L. Nemunaitis, and J. B. Basara, 2006: The development of an operational quality assurance system for OASIS Super Site data at the Oklahoma Mesonet, 10th Symp. on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS), Atlanta, GA, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 7.1. 
Professional organizations
  • American Meteorological Society
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