Allen Research Group Homepage

Welcome to the website of Dr. John T. Allen's Research Group

Hi, I'm John Allen, an Assistant Professor of Meteorology in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Central Michigan University. My research spans a variety of interdisciplinary topics, but primarily focuses on severe convective storms around the globe, their characteristics, climatology and response to factors such as climate variability and change.

Our group pursues problems that aren't your typical mesoscale meteorology, and brings together insights from climate dynamics through synoptic meteorology and explores their respective influences on the storm scale. We leverage modeling, statistical and big data analysis techniques to better understand problems like:

How can we best forecast hail incidence and size at operational timescales?

How can we estimate the true frequency of severe thunderstorms when we don't have observations?

By what mechanisms does climate variability influences tornado and hail occurrence?

How do extreme phenomena respond to a warming climate?

If you are a student and you think you’d like to join our research group, feel free to contact me! For more information, check out the pages above to see more information about our group and research projects.

Opportunities

We are always looking for students to join our group. Feel free to email Dr. Allen with questions.

Contact Details

Dr. John T. Allen
j [dot] t [dot] allen [at] cmich [dot] edu
Assistant Professor of Meteorology
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Director, Earth and Ecosystem Science Ph.D. Program
Central Michigan University
Brooks Hall 326
Mt Pleasant, MI, 48858

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