Alex Anderson-Frey

Professor, Atmospheric and Climate Science

Alex Anderson Frey
Areas of Expertise
  • Mesoscale meteorology
  • Thunderstorms and tornadoes
  • Synoptic meteorology
  • Statistical applications and machine learning
Courses
  • ATMOS 103: Hurricanes and Thunderstorms: Their Science and Impact
  • ATMOS 301: Methods of Atmospheric Data Analysis
  • ATMOS 451: Instruments and Observations
Awards

NRC Research Associateship (declined, 2018)

Al and Betty Blackadar Graduate Scholarship in Meteorology, PSU (2017)

Postgraduate Scholarship, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (2012-2015)

Anne C. Wilson Graduate Student Research Award, PSU (2012-2013)

Dr. Dennis W. and Joan S. Thomson Distinguished Graduate Fellowship, PSU (2012-2013)

John C. Mather Nobel Scholarship, NASA (2011-2014)

Provost’s Graduate Fellowship, McGill University (2010-2012)

Lorne Trottier Science Acceleration Fellowship, McGill University (2010-2012)

Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (2010-2012)

Service

Associate Editor, Monthly Weather Review

Member, UW College of the Environment Scholarship Committee

Member, UW Atmos Committee on Graduate Studies

Member, AMS Board of Early Career Professionals

Steering Committee, AMS Early Career Leadership Academy

Member, AMS Scientific and Technological Activities Commission Committee on Probability and Statistics

National Science Foundation Proposal Review Panelist

Program Committee, AMS 29th Conference on Severe Local Storms

Peer reviewer for Nature; Atmosphere; Weather, Climate, and Society; NPJ Climate and Atmospheric Science; Journal of Climate; Electronic Journal of Severe Storms Meteorology; Geophysical Research Letters; Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences; Natural Hazards; Monthly Weather Review; Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology; International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction; Weather and Forecasting

Selected publications
  • Anderson-Frey, A. and H. Brooks, 2021: Compared to what? Establishing environmental baselines for tornado warning skill. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc, in press.

  • Anderson-Frey, A. and H. Brooks, 2019: Tornado Fatalities: An Environmental Perspective. Weather and Forecasting, 34, 1999-2015.

  • Anderson-Frey, A., Y. Richardson, A. Dean, R. Thompson, and B. Smith, 2019: Characteristics of tornado events and warnings in the southeastern United States. Weather and Forecasting, 34, 1017-1034.

  • Anderson-Frey, A., Y. Richardson, A. Dean, R. Thompson, and B. Smith, 2018: Near-storm environments of outbreak and isolated tornadoes. Weather and Forecasting, 33, 1397-1412.

  • Anderson-Frey, A., Y. Richardson, A. Dean, R. Thompson, and B. Smith, 2017: Self-organizing maps: Probing spatial patterns in tornadic near-storm environments. Weather and Forecasting, 32, 1467-1475.

  • Anderson-Frey, A., Y. Richardson, A. Dean, R. Thompson, and B. Smith, 2016: Investigation of tornado warning skill by environment. Weather and Forecasting, 31, 1771-1790.