David Jonathan Stensrud (born 1961) is an American meteorologist recognized for numerical modeling and forecasting of hazardous synoptic and mesoscale weather and for incorporating new data into models. Stensrud earned a B.A. in meteorology and

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at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. At

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(PSU) he earned M.S. in meteorology in 1985 with the thesis ''On the Development of Boundary Layer Rolls from the Inflection Point Instability'' and in 1992 a Ph.D. with the dissertation ''Southward Burst Mesoscale Convective Systems: An Observational and Modeling Study''. He joined the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) in 1986 as a research meteorologist and is an adjunct professor at the affiliated University of Oklahoma (OU). He was an inaugural awardee of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 1996 and was a contributor to the Physical Science Basis portion of

Fourth Assessment Report ''Climate Change 2007'', the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was published in 2007 and is the fourth in a series of reports intended to assess scientific, technical and soci ...

of the IPCC, an organisation that was co-awarded the

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. He is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and a member of Sigma Xi and

Chi Epsilon Pi Chi Epsilon Pi () (Also known as XEP) is a national honor society for outstanding students in the field of meteorology/atmospheric sciences. The purpose of the society is mainly twofold: to serve as a means for awarding distinction to students wh ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Stensrud, David American meteorologists Fellows of the American Meteorological Society University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences alumni University of Oklahoma faculty Living people 1961 births Recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers