Yvette Richardson is an American meteorologist with substantial contributions on

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dynamics, tornadogenesis, the environments of tornadoes, supercells, and severe convection, and radar observations of these. She was a

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(PI) of VORTEX2.

Career

Richardson graduated with Special Academic Honors (''sigma cum laude'') at the University of Wisconsin–River Falls (UWRF) with a B.S. in

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in 1990. She earned a M.S. and Ph.D. in meteorology from the

University of Oklahoma The University of Oklahoma (OU) is a Public university, public research university in Norman, Oklahoma. Founded in 1890, it had existed in Oklahoma Territory near Indian Territory for 17 years before the two Territories became the state of Oklahom ...

(OU) in 1993 and 1999, respectively. Richardson was a visiting assistant professor at OU from 1998 to 2000, was a research scientist at OU from 2000 to 2001, and has been a professor at

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) since 2002. She is a member of

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and

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. Richardson was on the steering committee, was a scientific-PI, and was co-coordinator of mobile mesonets for VORTEX2. She previously collaborated in other field projects, including PAMREX, (2003–2004), IHOP (2002), ROTATE (2000, 2001, 2004), and VORTEX1 (1994–1995). She co-authored the textbook, ''Mesoscale Meteorology in Midlatitudes'', with Paul Markowski with whom she also wrote a major ''

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'' magazine article, "How to Make a Tornado". Richardson is a co-writer of a rebuttal to a ''

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'' opinion piece by physicist

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, challenging his contention that tornadic activity had decreased in the U.S. and his tying the alleged decline to

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PSU profile

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