User:Runningonbrains
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I never get sad when people abandon Wikipedia. It probably means they got a girlfriend.
My policies, beliefs, and principles
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This week in weather history...
November 4
1993: China Airlines Flight 605 overran the runway at Kai Tak Airport, Hong Kong and crashed into Victoria Harbour while attempting to land during Tropical Storm Ira. There were no major injuries, and all passengers and crew were able to escape safely before the plane sank.
November 5
1991: Tropical Storm Thelma caused major flooding in the Philippines, killing more than 5000 people.
November 6
2001: An extratropical storm system, formed partially from the remnants of two hurricanes, struck Atlantic Canada with winds as high as 96 miles per hour (154 km/h).
November 7
2006: Japan's deadliest tornado since World War II destroyed several buildings and killed 9 people in Saroma, Hokkaido.
November 8
2008: Hurricane Paloma, the second-strongest tropical cyclone ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean in November, reached peak intensity near the Cayman Islands, with maximum sustained winds of 125 knots (145 mph; 230 km/h).
November 9
1913: The deadliest storm ever to hit the Great Lakes destroyed 19 ships and killed 250 people.
November 10
1997: Hurricane Rick made landfall in southern Mexico, the second-latest Pacific hurricane ever to do so.
No situation needs the drama that humans bring to it.
I'm actually a really nice person. If you disagree with something I have done, I will be willing to discuss and reconsider my actions. I do not tolerate assuming bad faith or being overly harsh to new editors. But I am also slow to block and quick to forgive honest mistakes.
- Essays
My academic background
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I received my Bachelor of Science degree in Physics at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the spring of 2008. I completed my Major Qualifying Project around the same time: a search for sand dune movement on Mars. I hope to turn it into an article at some point (see User:Runningonbrains/Aeolian processes on Mars if you'd like to help).
My main interest, however, is in meteorology, and I do a lot of research on the topic. At Texas A&M University I received my Master of Science in atmospheric science in August of 2011. My research involved baroclinic waves the Martian atmosphere, and my results were published in the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.
I currently work as an Associate Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), working in the Research Applications Laboratory. I work on a bunch of different projects, including work on the operational NWP models, HRRR and GFS-FV3.
As far as my time on Wikipedia, my contributions will mainly be towards meteorology articles (especially tornadoes and other meso- to microscale phenomena), Mars, computer modeling and related subjects. I am the primary maintainer of Portal:Weather, however, I am currently fairly inactive due to my continuing adult responsibilities and recreations. I may become more active one of these days, but I'm probably kidding myself: there's too many things to do in this world that don't involve sitting behind a computer.
Here's what I've done:
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- My first two major projects
- Tornado: Nursed this article from a sloppy stub-like mess to an FA in about 9 months
- Eye (cyclone): My first FA created from scratch, this one took about 9 months as well, and had major help from User:Thegreatdr and User:Titoxd.
Tornado articles
During and after my project to improve Tornado, I created a long list of tornado-related articles.
- Codell, Kansas
- Enhanced Fujita Scale
- Four-State Tornado Swarm
- List of tornadoes causing 100 or more deaths
- 1899 New Richmond tornado
- 1989 Northeastern United States tornado outbreak
- Power flash
- Rear flank downdraft
- Severe weather
- Skipping tornado
- 1948 Tinker Air Force Base tornadoes
- Tornado intensity and damage
- Tornadoes in Bermuda
- Tornadoes in New England
- Tornadogenesis
- TOtable Tornado Observatory
- 1878 Wallingford tornado
Working on these
- /Aeolian processes on Mars
- /List of North American blizzards
- /1986 New England tornado outbreak
- /Tornado prediction and detection
Tornado lists
Later on, I began a very ambitious effort to make a series of nation-wide lists of tornadoes by state (currently, I've only done two + DC)
- Working on these
- User:Runningonbrains/Tornadoes in Israel
- User:Runningonbrains/List of Maine tornadoes
- User:Runningonbrains/List of Massachusetts tornadoes
- User:Runningonbrains/List of New Hampshire tornadoes
- User:Runningonbrains/List of Vermont tornadoes
- User:Runningonbrains/List of Utah tornadoes
- User:Runningonbrains/List of Idaho tornadoes
- User:Runningonbrains/List of Wyoming tornadoes
Other articles created
Big surprise, more weather-related articles!
- List of weather records
- Mid-latitudes
- Rapid deepening
- Snow flurry
- Solenoid (meteorology)
- The Great Snow of 1717
- Zonal flow
- Trace (precipitation)
Articles re-written
- Annular hurricane: Before and after
- Tornadoes of 2001: Before and after
- Windsor Locks, Connecticut tornado: before and after
- Tornado myths: before and after
WikiProjects
Was highly active in restarting WikiProject Meteorology, and created a new sub-project WikiProject Severe Weather.
Portals
Overhauled the Weather Portal, eventually improving it into a Featured Portal. I am currently actively maintaining this portal.
Milestones
- First edit: Hurricane Katrina talk page
- First mainspace edit: Very silly vandalism Although this was my friend, not really me.
- First constructive mainspace edit: List of Atlantic hurricanes
- First edit under my username: You're not going to believe it, but I started an article in my userspace
- 100th edit: Working on userspace version of my first from-scratch featured article
- First whack-a-vandal: Hurricane Gilbert
- 1,000th edit: Discussion on Hurricane Camille's importance
- First appearance on WP:MOSTEDITS: 5097 edits!
- First Huggle rv: Quonochontaug, Rhode Island
- 10,000th edit: Tagging/categorizing new article "Rough Wood"
- I am most proud of this edit.
- Admins make mistakes too.
Other Contributions
Recognition for accomplishments
Works in progress
My ongoing Featured Topic projects
Me
So, about me, huh?
As I said, I have a BS in Physics from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. After graduating, I attended Western Connecticut State University part-time for a year, taking atmospheric/oceanic science courses, before transferring to Texas A&M University's atmospheric science program. I graduated with a MS in atmospheric science in 2011, and in 2012 got a job at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. I've been obsessed with nature, especially meteorology, since I was very young. My first storm experience was in utero, when my mom was in the eye of Hurricane Gloria. At 10 a tornado skipped over my house, downing several trees in my back yard. Among my craziest childhood experiences were sitting outside with a -40ºF wind chill to watch blowing snow, climbing a mountain during a Nor'easter with 60 mph winds at the top, and getting caught in a hailstorm which formed right on top of me. As an adult, I now am lucky enough to live right next to tornado alley, and have been on dozens of storm chases that have yielded so many tornadoes I have lost count.
I also enjoy skiing, hiking, camping, and rock climbing.
Hopefully, someday, I'll get to sit through a good hurricane.
My randonimity*
*No, randonimity is not a word, but it sounds cool
- Wikipedia administrators
- Wikipedia administrators open to recall
- Wikipedia administrators open to trout slapping
- WikiProject Severe weather participants
- Wikipedians interested in severe weather
- WikiProject Meteorology participants
- Wikipedians interested in meteorology
- WikiProject Tropical cyclones participants
- Wikipedians by alma mater: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Wikipedians by alma mater: Texas A&M University
- Wikipedian SKYWARN spotters
- Wikipedia Did you know contributors
- Wikipedia good article contributors
- Wikipedia featured article contributors
- Wikipedia featured list contributors