Ocean Surface from NOAA P-3 Hurricane Fabian 2003

Joe Sienkiewicz

mailto:joseph.sienkiewicz@noaa.gov

Education:

Boston Latin School - 1975

B.S., SUNY Maritime College - 1980 Meteorology and Oceanography (with honors)

M.S., University of Washington - 1988 Atmospheric Science

North Wall of the Gulf Stream from the NOAA P-3 looking NE. Winds were NE…Gulf Stream

to the right, slope waters to the left.

Professional Interests:

Remotely sensed ocean vector winds

Extreme cyclones

Large wave development and dynamic fetch

The Gulf Stream

Publications:

The Organization of Clouds and Precipitation on the Mid-Atlantic Coast of the United States: I: The Evolution of a Frontal System from the Rocky Mountains to the Mid-Atlantic Coast. (Journal of Atmospheric Science, 1989) Co-author.

The Organization of Clouds and Precipitation on the Mid-Atlantic Coast of the United States: II: The Mesoscale and Microscale Structure of Rainbands. (Journal of Atmospheric Science, 1989) Lead author.

An Example of the Importance of Ship Observations. (Weather and Forecasting, 1990).

The Observation (NOAA's Mariner's Weather Log, 1992)

Advances in Forecasting Extratropical Cyclones at the National Meteorological Center. (The Life Cycles of Extratropical Cyclones Conference, Bergen, Norway, June 1999). Uccellini, Kocin, and Sienkiewicz.

Mariner's Guide to the Use of 500 Millibar Charts. (NOAA's Mariner's Weather Log, 1995).

Destiny's Storm Analysis (Cruising World Magazine, September, 1995).

Another Look at Hurricane Marilyn. (Ocean Navigator Magazine, Jan., 1996).

Surface Analysis at NCEP's Marine Prediction Center (Weather and Forecasting Conference, August, 1996).

500 MB Charts, Cruising World Magazine, 1999.

The Effects of Marine Winds from Scatterometer Data on Weather Analysis and Forecasting. (Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 82, 1965-1990., Atlas, R.R., N. Hoffman, S.M. Leidner, J. Sienkiewicz, T.W. Yu, S.C. Bloom, E. Brin, J. Ardizzone, J. Terry, D. Bungato and J.C. Jusem (2001).