{"id":707,"date":"2026-05-07T14:16:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T14:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/weatherconference\/?page_id=707"},"modified":"2026-05-07T14:16:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T14:16:37","slug":"michael-french","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/weatherconference\/michael-french\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael French"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My research interests revolve around using Doppler radar data to better understand the dynamics of mesoscale weather phenomena. In particular I use high spatial and temporal resolution datasets from phased array radars and dual-polarization radars, in addition to data from other observing tools, to gain insight into severe storm and tornado processes. I hope to extend these studies to cool season mesoscale weather systems such as lake effect snow and mesoscale snow banding. I also am interested in using data from research radars to investigate radar signatures and their causes so that operational forecasters may use them as proxies for mesoscale processes and\/or indicators of environmental conditions in short-term forecasting and nowcasting of hazardous weather events.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-708\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/weatherconference\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/137\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-07-at-10.16.00-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"151\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/weatherconference\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/137\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-07-at-10.16.00-AM.png 151w, https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/weatherconference\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/137\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-07-at-10.16.00-AM-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 151px) 100vw, 151px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My research interests revolve around using Doppler radar data to better understand the dynamics of mesoscale weather phenomena. In particular I use high spatial and temporal resolution datasets from phased array radars and dual-polarization radars, in addition to data from &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-707","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/weatherconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/weatherconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/weatherconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/weatherconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/weatherconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/weatherconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/weatherconference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}