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Robert Palmer

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Prof. Palmer joined the faculty of the School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma (OU) in August of 2004, where he holds the Tommy C. Craighead Chair of Meteorology. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at OU.
From 1989 to 1991 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Radio Atmospheric Science Center of Kyoto University, Japan. His major accomplishments were the development of advanced atmospheric Doppler radar techniques for studies of the lower and middle atmosphere.
After his stay in Japan, Dr. Palmer held the position of research associate in the Physics and Astronomy Department of Clemson University, South Carolina, where he continued his work with atmospheric radar.
From 1993 to 2004 he was a member of the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), where his interests broadened into areas including wireless communications, remote sensing, and pedagogy.
Dr. Palmer is a senior member of IEEE, and member of Eta Kappa Nu, the American Geophysical Union, the American Meteorological Society, and the International Union of Radio Science-Commission F. He has recently served (1997-2003) as an Associate Editor for Radio Science.

Current Course (Spring 2008)

METR 2013, Introduction to Meteorology I
Administered through Desire2Learn

Research Interests

Various aspects of atmospheric Doppler radars, including spatial and frequency diversity methods. The application of signal processing techniques to remote sensing problems. The study of atmospheric dynamics using Doppler radar. Imaging methods applied to the study of the spatial structure of the atmosphere. Many of these topics, and other related work, are described in more detail at the Atmospheric Radar Research Center, for which Dr. Palmer serves as Director.

Current Research Projects

  • Hands-On Interdisciplinary Laboratory Program: An Approach to Strengthen the Weather Radar Curriculum (NSF-DUE)
  • Resolution Enhancement for Weather Radar Using Deconvolution Techniques
  • Measurement of Moisture Fields Using Radar Ground Clutter With the Phased Array Radar (NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory)
  • Mitigation of Wind Turbine Clutter Using Adaptive Filtering Techniques (NOAA Radar Operations Center)
  • Studies of radio-wave scatter and dynamical processes in the polar summer mesopause region over Norway (NSF)
  • Work Practices for Ethics Education in Science and Engineering (NSF-SEC)
  • Characterization of the Daytime Convective Boundary Layer Using Numerical Simulations and Radar Field Experiments (NSF)

Selected Publications