Bob joined NESDIS in November 1999. Since then, his research has pursued
numerous avenues related to satellite-based precipitation estimates:
Bob also was involved with the International H2O Project
(IHOP_2002) as a field forecaster and in providing GOES-11
data for the project.
Scofield, R., and R. J. Kuligowski, 2007: Satellite Precipitation
Algorithms for Extreme Precipitation Events. Measuring Precipitation
from Space – EURAINSAT and the Future (eds. V. Levizzani, P. Bauer,
and F. J. Turk), Springer Publishing, pp. 485-496.
Tuleya, R. E., M. DeMaria, and R. J. Kuligowski, 2007: Evaluation of
GFDL model rainfall forecasts for U.S. landfalling tropical storms.
Wea. Forecasting, 22, 56-70.
Vasiloff, S. V., D.-.J. Seo, K. W. Howard, J. Zhang, D. H. Kitzmiller,
M. G. Mullusky, W. F. Krajewski, E. A. Brandes, R. M. Rabin, D. S.
Berkowitz, H. E. Brooks, J. A. McGinley, R. J. Kuligowski, and B. G.
Brown, 2007: Improving QPE and very short term QPF: An initiative for
a community-wide integrated approach. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 88,
1899-1911.
Ferraro, R., P. Pellegrino, M. Turk, W. Chen, S. Qiu, R. Kuligowski,
S. Kusselson, A. Irving, S. Kidder, and J. Knaff, 2005: The Tropical
Rainfall Potential (TRaP) Technique. Part 2: Validation. Wea.
Forecasting, 20, 465-475.
Kidder, S. Q., S. J. Kusselson, J. A. Knaff, R. R. Ferraro,
R. J. Kuligowski, and M. Turk, 2005: The Tropical Rainfall
Potential (TRaP) Technique. Part 1: Description and examples.
Wea. Forecasting, 20, 456-464.
Market, P., S. Allen, R. Scofield, R. Kuligowski, and A.
Gruber, 2003: Precipitation efficiency of warm-season
midwestern mesoscale convective systems. Wea. Forecasting,
18, 1273-1285.
Scofield, R. A., and R. J. Kuligowski, 2003: Status and
outlook of operational satellite precipitation algorithms
for extreme precipitation events. Wea. Forecasting, 18, 1037-1051.
Vila, D. A., R. A. Scofield, R. J. Kuligowski, and J.
C. Davenport, 2003: Satellite rainfall estimation over
South America: Evaluation of two major events. NOAA Tech.
Rept. NESDIS 114, 17 pp.
Bob Kuligowski received a B.S.
degree in Meteorology from Penn State University in 1991. Following three
years as an operational weather forecaster at Accu-Weather, Inc., he
returned to Penn State for graduate work, receiving his M.S. in Meteorology
in 1996. To enhance his background in hydrology, he then switched to the
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Penn State for his
Ph.D., which was completed in 2000. His primary research interest is in
estimating and predicting precipitation, as evidenced by his Master's
work on using artificial neural networks to predict short-term precipitation
from recent observations, and his Ph.D. work on assimilating satellite-based
sounding estimates into a mesoscale numerical weather prediction model to
improve fine-scale precipitation forecasts. 