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Texas A&M University
O&M Building 1210 Q
Department of Atmospheric Sciences
MS 3150
College Station, Texas 77843

Advisor:

Dr. John Nielsen-Gammon

Mr. Matthew Raper

Masters Student

B.S. Meteorology, Texas A&M University, 2008

B.B.A. Management Information Systems, Southern Methodist University, 1998

Research Interests

Weather forecast modeling
Numerical weather prediction
Data assimilation

Research Skills

Programming Languages: IDL, MATLAB
Numerical Models: WRF
Data Assimilation Schemes: EnKF, 3D-Var
General Software: MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)

Affiliations

American Meteorological Society, Student Member 2008-Present
Texas A&M Student Chapter of the AMS (TAMSCAMS), 2006-Present
Texas Aggie Storm Chasers, 2006-Present

Presentations

Raper, M.; C. Schumacher, K. Brugman, L. Hopper. Drop-Size Distribution and Z-R Relation Variability of Storm Types in Southeast Texas. Undergraduate research poster presented at January 2009 AMS Student Conference in Phoenix, AZ.