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The Trapp Severe Weather Research Group conducts basic and applied research on thunderstorms and associated weather hazards. Here are some examples of our active projects:

• the dynamics of deep convective storms as viewed at storm top by weather satellites;
• quasi-linear convective systems (QLCS), tornadogenesis, and mechanisms of damaging winds;
• the trends and spatial climatology of tornadoes;
• hail detection and estimation using weather satellites and weather radars;
• severe thunderstorm prediction and predictability, over short- and long-term intervals;
• the effects of human-induced global warming on severe thunderstorm frequency and intensity.

Our research tools include observations, computer simulation models, and basic theory. Currently, our projects are funded by the National Science Foundation, NASA, and private industry.

Robert Jeffrey Trapp