Paul Nutter, Assistant Professor of Meteorology

Paul Nutter

 

 

 

 

 

 

Full Curriculum Vita (pdf)

UNC Faculty Highlights Page

Education

  • Ph.D.  University of Oklahoma, 2003
  • M. S.  University of Arizona, 1996
  • B. S.  University of Massachusetts at Lowell, 1993

Contact Information

  • E-mail:  Paul.Nutter@unco.edu
  • Phone:  (970) 351-2398
  • Fax:      (970) 351-4197
  • Office:  Ross Hall 3235

Courses Taught

  • MET 110 Our Violent Atmosphere (3 Credit Hours LAC, Lecture)
  • MET 205 General Meteorology (4 Credit Hours LAC, Lecture/Lab)
  • MET 221 Weather Forecasting Seminar (1 Credit Hour, Lecture)
  • MET 401/501 Dynamic Meteorology I (3 Credit Hours, Lecture)
  • MET 402/502 Dynamic Meteorology II (4 Credit Hours, Lecture/Lab)
  • MET 442/542 Synoptic Meteorology Laboratory (3 Credit Hours, Lab with Lecture)
  • ESCI 599 Earth Science Seminar (1 Credit Hour, Coordinator)
  • ESCI 695 Special Topics: Problems and Methods in Geoscience Prediction (Lecture, Fall 2007 only)

Non-Scheduled Courses (non-FTE assignment)

  • MET 376 Meteorological COOP Education
    • Variable credit, typically for weather broadcast interns at area news stations.
  • MET 495 Directed Studies
    • Variable credit, typically advising undergraduate research.
  • ESCI 697/699 Graduate Research / Thesis
    • Variable credit, advising graduate research.

Areas of Specialization


Weather forecasting and analysis, Dynamic meteorology, Numerical methods, Ensemble forecasting, Predictability, Statistical forecast verification.

Research Interests


Colorado cyclogenesis, Communicating uncertainty in weather forecasts, Conflicts between forecast theory and practice, Ensemble prediction, Error propagation

Service Activities (ongoing and prior)


Faculty Advisor, UNC Student Chapter of the American Meteorological Society; Academic/Career Advising; Linux Network Administrator; Faculty Senate; Information Technology Committee; Manuscript Reviewer for Monthly Weather Review and Weather and Forecasting; Weather Education / Outreach through local K-12 schools.

Peer-reviewed Publications


Starkenburg, D. P., and P. A. Nutter, 2012: Quasigeostrophic dynamics of the Arctic coastal jet in summer. Mon. Wea. Rev., Submitted. [Manuscript and image loops available here]

Nutter, P. A., D. Gaarder, J. Gunderson, C. Drennen, 2010: Weather education for disaster recovery: Returning control in a time of personal crisis. Bull. Amer. Met. Soc. 91, 1691-1698.

Nutter, P. A., D. Stensrud, and M. Xue, 2004: Effects of coarsely-resolved and temporally-interpolated lateral boundary conditions on the dispersion of limited-area ensemble forecasts. Mon. Wea. Rev. 132, 2358-2377.

Nutter, P. A., M. Xue, and D. Stensrud, 2004: Application of lateral boundary perturbations to help restore dispersion in limited-area model ensemble forecasts. Mon. Wea. Rev., 132, 2378-2390.

Nutter, P. A., and J. Manobianco, 1999: Evaluation of the 29-km Eta model. Part I: Objective verification at three selected stations. Wea. Forecasting, 14, 5-17.

Manobianco, J., and P. A. Nutter, 1999: Evaluation of the 29-km Eta model. Part II: Subjective verification over Florida. Wea. Forecasting, 14, 18-37.

Nutter, P. A., S. L. Mullen, and D. P. Baumhefner, 1998: The impact of initial condition uncertainty on numerical simulations of blocking. Mon. Wea. Rev., 126, 2482-2502.