| HAP Deputy Director
Hydrometeorology Applications Program (HAP)
303-497-8440
dixon ucar.edu
Job Duties
Project management. Software engineering management. Development
of software infrastructure, algorithms and applications for decision
support systems related to weather forecasting and analysis.
Professional Interests
Radar hydrodrology, radar meteorology, short-term convective forecasting,
weather modification, aviation weather.
Education
B.Sc., University of Natal, South Africa, 1975, Civil Engineering
M.Sc., University of Natal, South Africa, 1977, Civil Engineering
/ Hydrology
M.S., Colorado State University, 1980, Civil Engineering / Hydraulics
/ Hydrology
Ph.D., University of Colorado, 1994, Civil Engineering / Hydrometeorology
Selected Publications
Dixon M, Rasmussen R and Landolt S, October 1994. Short-term forecasting
of Airport Surface Visibility using Radar and ASOS. 10.6, 11th AMS
Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace, Hyannis.
Rasmussen R, Dixon M, et al., January 2003. Snow nowcasting using
real-time correlation of radar reflectivity with snow gauge accumulation.
J. Appl. Meteorol. 42 (1): 20-36
Rasmussen R, Dixon M, Hage F, et al., April 2001. Weather support
to deicing decision making (WSDDM): A winter weather nowcasting
system. B. Am. Meteorol. Soc. 82 (4): 579-595
Tapia A, Smith JA, Dixon M, Nov 1998. Estimation of convective
rainfall from lightning observations. J. Appl. Meteorol. 37 (11):
1497-1509
Wilson JW, Crook NA, Mueller CK, Dixon M. et al., Oct 1998. Nowcasting
thunderstorms: A status report. B. Am. Meteorol. Soc. 79 (10): 2079-2099
Dixon M, Wiener G, Dec 1993. TITAN - Thunderstorm identification,
tracking, analysis, and nowcasting - a radar-based methodology.
J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech. 10 (6): 785-797
Mather GK, Dixon MJ, DeJager JM, Sept 1996. Assessing the potential
for rain augmentation - The Nelspruit randomized convective cloud
seeding experiment. J. Appl. Meteorol. 35 (9): 1465-1482
Dixon MJ, 1977: Proposed mathematical model for the estimation
of the areal properties of high intensity, short duration storms,
Masters thesis, University of Natal, S. Africa.
Morgan G and Dixon MJ, 1992: Analisi automatica di dati radar volumetrici
relatiivi ai temporali estivi forti. Alta Frequenza Rivista Di Elettronica,
Vol. IV, No. 6., November-December.
Restrepo PJ, GH Leavesley, MJ Dixon and LG Stannard, 1992: The
Modular Hydrologic Modeling System. Abstracts, AGU Spring Meeting,
Montreal, Canada, May.
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