Dr. Sytske Kimball
- Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University, PA, U.S.A., 2000
- M.S. Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1993
- B.S. Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands, 1988
Dr. Kimball's research interests focus on hurricanes and hurricane modeling. She has published various papers on this topic and given numerous presentations at professional conferences. She has received grants from USARC, NASA, SUN Microsystems and NSF to support hurricane research. After her move to South Alabama, Dr. Kimball diversified her research interests to include working with real observations. She established the University of South Alabama Mesonet using funding from NOAA. The Mesonet is a network of 26 weather stations that observe 18 meteorological parameters at 1-minute intervals. Running the Mesonet, analyzing its data, and promoting its importance to the community have become an additional passion to her work on hurricanes.
- Composing Gridded Surface Wind Field Data through Observations and Numerical Modeling