Ron Przybylinski
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September 15, 1953 South Bend, Indiana, U.S. |
| Died | March 12, 2015 (aged 61) Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Fields | Meteorology |
| Institutions | National Weather Service |
| Alma mater | Saint Louis University (B.S., 1977; M.S., 1981) |
| Thesis | A Case Study of Intense Convection Occurring on 4 July 1978 in North Dakota (1981) |
| Academic advisors | Yeong-Jer Lin |
| Known for | Weather radar and squall line research |
| Notable awards | NOAA Distinguished Career Award, Charles L. Mitchell Award |
Ronald William Przybylinski (September 15, 1953 - March 12, 2015) was an American meteorologist with primary areas of interest in bow echoes, mesovortices, and quasi-linear convective system (QLCS) tornadoes.
Przybylinski was born near South Bend, Indiana to Casimir and Helen (Jaworski) Przybylinski and graduated from Washington High School in 1972.
Przybylinski earned his B.S. and M.S. in meteorology at Saint Louis University (SLU) in 1977 and 1981, respectively. He worked as the station scientist at the Indianapolis National Weather Service office until 1991, when he moved to the St. Louis NWSFO as Science and Operations Officer (SOO). During the late 1980s he served as a project leader on the Operational Test and Evaluation of the WSR-88D Doppler radar. He most recently was a principal investigator on the severe straight-line winds component of the COMET Cooperative Project with Saint Louis University as well as involved with the Cooperative Institute for Precipitation Systems (CIPS). He was an organizer of the Bow Echo and Mesoscale Convective Vortex Experiment (BAMEX) of 2003 and a researcher with the Pre-STORM Project of 1985.
Przybylinski was a leading expert on quasi-linear convective systems (QLCS), bow echoes, and mesoscale convective systems (MCSs), and convective winds and tornadogenesis associated with these thunderstorm structures. He intensively studied quasi-linear thunderstorms and their associated winds and tornadoes throughout the 1980s, writing a seminal paper in 1995. Subjects in which he made substantial contributions were derechos, mesoscale convective vortices (MCV), rear-inflow jets (RIJ), line echo wave patterns (LEWP), and high-precipitation (HP) supercells. He was also a leading scientist on tornadoes in general and was on the NWS Quick Response Team (QRT), a group of experts who rush to assess damage from particularly damaging tornadoes.
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