David Schultz (University of Manchester)

Prof. David M. Schultz

Phone:
Within university: 63909
Within UK: 0161 306 3909
From US: 011 44 161 306 3909
From outside UK: +44 161 306 3909
david.schultz at manchester dot ac dot uk

Chief Editor, Monthly Weather Review
Co-Founder and former Assistant Editor, Electronic Journal of Severe Storms Meteorology

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I am a Professor of Synoptic Meteorology at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. I am a US citizen, formerly at the Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies at the University of Oklahoma and the NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory, the Finnish Meteorological Institute, and the University of Helsinki.

My research interests are numerous, but include:

synoptic and mesoscale meteorological phenomena such as extratropical cyclones, fronts, windstorms, banded precipitation, and instabilities
synoptic climatologies
interaction between meteorological research and operational forecasting
snowstorms
numerical weather prediction and air chemistry forecasting
convective storms
cloud and precipitation processes
the peer-review process and scientific communication
interaction between the solid earth and the atmosphere, including Earth history

My scientific achievements and career highlights include:

revised the 90-year old model of occluded fronts (Schultz and Vaughan 2011)
author, Eloquent Science: A Practical Guide to Becoming a Better Writer, Speaker and Scientist: eloquentscience.com
taught over 7000 students in my Coursera MOOC Our Earth: Its Climate, History, and Processes
National Weather Service forecaster for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City
proposed that sting jets are associated with the frontolytical circulation at the end of the bent-back front (Schultz and Sienkiewicz 2013)
popularized the use of frontogenesis as a tool for synoptic and mesoscale meteorology
2014 Teaching Excellence Award, University of Manchester
2013 Most Innovative Use of eLearning, Best in eLearning Competition, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences
2012 Manchester Teaching Awards: Best Teacher in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, and Best Teacher in the School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences
Chief Editor, Monthly Weather Review (2008-present)
helped standardize approaches and terminology to symmetric instability (Schultz and Schumacher 1999)
first use of potential vorticity inversion for understanding the environments of convective storms (Roebber et al. 2002)
leader in understanding how mammatus form (Schultz et al. 2006; Kanak et al. 2008)

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Last update: 26 August 2015