Mesoanalysis placefiles
Fields from SPC's hourly surface objective analysis, such as CAPE, shear, and STP, packaged as placefiles to overlay on radar in Gibson Ridge software.
Meteorologist · Professor · Manager
Weather, probability, and the code in between.
I lead the Science and Mission Integration Division at the NOAA Storm Prediction Center. I am also an Assistant Professor of Natural Science at Oklahoma Baptist University, where I hold the W.B. Blackstock Family Chair of Science Education. I write about forecasting, forecast verification, and the data behind both.
Views here are my own, not those of NOAA or the National Weather Service.
At the Storm Prediction Center
My division moves new science and technology into SPC forecast operations, and it keeps the computing systems behind those forecasts running.
In the classroom
At Oklahoma Baptist University I teach Earth Science, Environmental Science, College Physics, and two courses in data science.
At the keyboard
I build tools for seeing weather data, from a desktop radar app to a live weather dashboard for the OBU campus.
Projects
OBU Weather Awareness
Live radar, warnings, and watches for the campus in Shawnee, Oklahoma.
Course labs
Simulations and hands-on labs for the courses I teach at Oklahoma Baptist University.
Earlier work
- Founder and initial developer of SHARPpy, a Python port of SPC’s SHARP sounding analysis program. It is no longer maintained.
- Added county boundaries to Basemap, the map toolkit for Matplotlib.
- Bug fixes for Matplotlib, the Python plotting library.
Selected publications
- Brooks, H. E., G. W. Carbin, and P. T. Marsh, 2014: Increased variability of tornado occurrence in the United States. Science, 346, 349–352. doi:10.1126/science.1257460
- Gensini, V. A., A. M. Haberlie, and P. T. Marsh, 2020: Practically perfect hindcasts of severe convective storms. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 101, E1259–E1278. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0321.1
- Marsh, P. T., and H. E. Brooks, 2012: Comments on “Tornado Risk Analysis: Is Dixie Alley an Extension of Tornado Alley?” Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 93, 405–407. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00200.1
- Marsh, P. T., J. S. Kain, V. Lakshmanan, A. J. Clark, N. M. Hitchens, and J. Hardy, 2012: A method for calibrating deterministic forecasts of rare events. Weather and Forecasting, 27, 531–538. doi:10.1175/WAF-D-11-00074.1
- Marsh, P. T., 2013: A method for calibrating probabilistic forecasts. Doctoral Thesis, University of Oklahoma. hdl:11244/318661
From the archive
Playing with Data, 2011 to 2013
Posts from my original blog, kept for reference. Their data and links may be out of date.