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Meet the Soil, Environmental and Atmospheric Sciences Faculty

Neil I. Fox, Ph.D.

• Phone: 573-882-2144
• E-mail: FoxN@missouri.edu
• Address: 332 Anheuser-Busch Natural Resources Building

Education

• Post-graduate certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education 2001, University of Salford
• Ph.D. 1998, University of Salford, Atmospheric Science
• M.Phil. 1995, University of Reading, Meteorology
• B.Sc. 1988, University of Manchester, Physics

Research

• Fox's research has a number of threads which include:
  • The use of radar in the estimation and very short-period forecasting (nowcasting) of rainfall.
  • The representation of rainfall in models of runoff, soil detachment and stream flow.
  • Observation of winds at heights of interest to wind energy development and their relationship to the characteristics of the low-level jet.

Teaching

• ATMS 1050: Introductory Meteorology
• ATMS 1110: Introduction to Atmospheric Science
• ATMS 2720: Weather Briefing
• ATMS 4400: Micrometeorology
• ATMS 4510: Remote Sensing for Atmospheric Science and Natural Resources
• ATMS 4590: Radar Meteorology
• ATMS 4990: Daily Analysis and Forecasting
• ATMS 8500: Radiation in the Atmosphere
• ATMS 8550: Nowcasting

Selected Publications:

• Lack, S.A., and N.I. Fox, 2006.
  Quantifying the effect of wind drift on radar-derived surface rainfall estimations. Atmospheric Research (in press).
• Micheas, A., N.I. Fox, S.A. Lack and C.K. Wikle, 2006.
  Cell identification and verification of QPF ensembles using shape analysis techniques. Journal of Hydrology (accepted).
• Gochis, D., A. Barros, A. Gettelman, J. Wang, J. Braun, W. Cantrell, Y-Q. Chen, A. Clement, N. Fox, B. Geerts, W. Han, M. Herzog, P. Kucera, R. Kursinski, A. Laing, C. Liu, E.D. Maloney, S. Margulis, D. Schultz, S. Sherwood, A. Sobel, H. Vömel, and Z. Wang, 2005.
  Future Scientific Directions: The Water Cycle Across Scales. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 86 (12), 1743-1746.
• Xu, K., C.K. Wikle and N.I. Fox, 2005.
  A Kernel-based spatio-temporal dynamical model for nowcasting radar precipitation. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 100 (472), 1133-1144.
• Fox, N.I. and C.K. Wikle, 2005.
  A Bayesian quantitative precipitation nowcasting scheme. Weather and Forecasting, 20, 264-275.
• Fox, N.I. and C.K. Wikle, 2005.
  Providing distributed forecasts of precipitation using a Bayesian nowcast scheme. Atmospheric Science Letters, 6, 59-65.
• Fox, N.I. and J.W. Wilson, 2005.
  Very short period quantitative precipitation forecasting. Atmospheric Science Letters, 6, 7-11.
• Lack, S.A. and N.I. Fox, 2005.
  Errors in surface rainfall rates retrieved from radar due to wind drift. Atmospheric Science Letters, 6, 66-71.
• Fox, N.I., 2004.
  The representation of rainfall drop-size distribution and kinetic energy. Hydrology & Earth Systems Sciences, 8, 1001-1007.
• W. Hand, N. I. Fox and C.G. Collier, 2004.
  A study of extreme rainfall in the UK in the 20th Century with implications for forecasting. Meteorological Applications, 11, 15-31.
• Fox, N.I., R. Webb, J. Bally, M.W. Sleigh, C.E. Pierce, D.M.L. Sills, P.I. Joe, J.W. Wilson and C.G. Collier, 2004.
  The impact of advanced nowcasting systems on severe weather warning, a case study: 3 November 2000. Weather and Forecasting, 19 (1), 97-114.
• Sills, D., J. Wilson, P. Joe, D. Burgess, R. Webb and N.I. Fox, 2004.
  The 3 November tornadic event during S2000: Storm evolution and the role of low-level boundaries. Weather and Forecasting, 19 (1), 22-42.
• C. E. Pierce, A. Seed, E. E. Ebert, N.I. Fox, M. Sleigh, C. G. Collier, N. Donaldson, J. Wilson, R. Roberts and C. Mueller, 2004.
  The Nowcasting of precipitation during Sydney 2000: an appraisal of the QPF algorithms. Weather and Forecasting, 19 (1), 7-21.
• Keenan, T., P. Joe, J. Wilson, C. Collier, B. Golding, D. Burgess, P. May, C. Pierce, J. Bally, A. Crook, A. Seed, D. Sills, L. Berry, R. Potts, I. Bell, N.I. Fox, E. Ebert, M. Eilts, K. O'Laughlin, R. Webb, R. Carbone, K. Browning, R. Roberts and C. Mueller, 2003.
  The Sydney 2000 World Weather Research Programme Forecast Demonstration Project: Overview and current status. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 84, 1041-1054.
• Tilford, K.A., N.I. Fox and C.G. Collier, 2002.
  A weather radar system for urban hydrology. Meteorological Applications, 9, 95-104.