Jeffrey W. Frame is an American atmospheric scientist known for observational and modeling studies of severe convective storms and for teaching

meteorology Meteorology is a branch of the atmospheric sciences (which include atmospheric chemistry and physics) with a major focus on weather forecasting. The study of meteorology dates back millennia, though significant progress in meteorology did not ...

. He was a scientist for

VORTEX2 The Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment (or VORTEX) are field experiments that study tornadoes. VORTEX1 was the first time scientists completely researched the entire evolution of a tornado with an array of instrumentati ...

and other field research programs. Frame is from Michigan and graduated summa cum laude from the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

(UM) with a B.S. in Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences in 2001. Moving on to the

Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State or PSU) is a Public university, public Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related Land-grant university, land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvan ...

(PSU) for graduate studies, he earned a M.S. in 2003 with the thesis ''The Interaction of Simulated Squall Lines with Complex Terrain'' and a Ph.D. in 2008 with the dissertation ''The Dynamical Impact of Anvil Shading on Simulated Supercell Thunderstorms''. Since 2010 he has been an instructor and assistant professor at the

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Univ ...

(UIUC). Frame is a member of the

American Meteorological Society The American Meteorological Society (AMS) is the premier scientific and professional organization in the United States promoting and disseminating information about the Atmospheric sciences, atmospheric, Oceanography, oceanic, and Hydrology, hydr ...

(AMS) 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 ...

. He participated in th
International H2O Project
(IHOP)
Radar Observations of Tornadoes and Thunderstorms Experiment
(ROTATE)
Verification of the Origin of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment 2
(

), co- PI o
Ontario Winter Lake-effect Storms
(

OWLeS The Ontario Winter Lake-effect Systems (OWLeS) was a field project focused on three modes of lake-effect snow: Short- fetch, long-fetch, and downstream coastal and orographic effects. The project was conducted along Lake Ontario in the Great Lake ...

), and other field experiments. He participated with the Doppler on Wheels (DOW) team for the ROTATE, VORTEX2, and OWLeS projects and as mobile

mesonet In meteorology and climatology, a mesonet, portmanteau of mesoscale network, is a network of automated weather and, often, environmental monitoring stations designed to observe mesoscale meteorological phenomena and/or microclimates. Dry lines ...

leader for IHOP. He also participated in the DOW's deployment for teaching purposes at UIUC.

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UIUC page

Twitter account
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