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Degrees

Ph.D. Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997 

B.S. Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, 1989

Research Interests

Supercell Thunderstorms 

Microbursts 

Numerical Modeling of mesoscale phenomena

3D visualization/animation of meteorological data

Teaching

Mesoscale Meteorology

Numerical Weather Prediction

Physical Meteorology

Atmospheric Thermodynamics

Atmospheric Dynamics

Contact Information

Office: 281 Dow Science Complex

Phone: (989)774-1923

Fax: (989)774-2907

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Recent Publications

Orf, L. G. and R. B.Wilhelmson (2002). Modeling Flanking Lines of Supercells. Nowcast, Bull. of the Amer. Met. Soc., 1124-1125.

Orf, L. G. (2002). Numerical simulations of gust front/microburst collision. Preprints, 21st Conf. on Severe Local Storms, San Antonio, 341-344.

Orf, L. G. and R. B. Wilhelmson (2002). Numerical simulations of flanking line phenomena. Preprints, 21st Conf. on Severe Local Storms, San Antonio, 268-270.

Orf, L. G. and J. R. Anderson (1999). A numerical study of traveling microbursts. Mon. Wea. Rev. 127, 1244-1257.