
Contact Information
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Areas
Education
Meteorology, PhD, University of Utah
Meteorology, MS, Texas A&M University
Meteorology, BS with Honors, State University of New York College at Oswego
Courses Taught
- ATMS 207: Weather and Climate Data Science
- ATMS 305: Geophysical Data Analysis
- ATMS 315: Meteorological Instrumentation
- ATMS 406: Tropical Meteorology
- ATMS 410: Radar Remote Sensing
- ATMS 523: Weather and Climate Data Analytics
- ATMS 597: Mesoscale Modeling
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies
Professor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
External Links
Recent Publications
Corrales, P. B., Galligani, V., Ruiz, J., Sapucci, L., Dillon, M. E., García Skabar, Y., Sacco, M., Schwartz, C. S., & Nesbitt, S. W. (2023). Hourly assimilation of different sources of observations including satellite radiances in a mesoscale convective system case during RELAMPAGO campaign. Atmospheric Research, 281, [106456]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2022.106456
Hong, Y., Nesbitt, S., Trapp, R., & Di Girolamo, L. (2023). Near-global distributions of overshooting tops derived from Terra and Aqua MODIS observations. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 16(5), 1391-1406. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-1391-2023
Rea, D., Rauber, R. M., Hu, H., Tessendorf, S. A., Nesbitt, S. W., Jewett, B. F., & Zaremba, T. J. (2023). The Contribution of Subtropical Moisture Within an Atmospheric River on Moisture Flux, Cloud Structure, and Precipitation Over the Salmon River Mountains of Idaho Using Moisture Tracers. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 128(6), [e2022JD037727]. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JD037727
Bechis, H., Galligani, V., Alvarez Imaz, M., Cancelada, M., Simone, I., Piscitelli, F., Maldonado, P., Salio, P., & Nesbitt, S. W. (2022). A case study of a severe hailstorm in Mendoza, Argentina, during the RELAMPAGO-CACTI field campaign. Atmospheric Research, 271, [106127]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2022.106127
Chase, R. J., Nesbitt, S. W., McFarquhar, G. M., Wood, N. B., & Heymsfield, G. M. (2022). Direct Comparisons between GPM-DPR and CloudSat Snowfall Retrievals. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 61(9), 1257-1271. https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-21-0081.1