Research Interests

• Data Assimilation
• Mesoscale Meteorology
• Numerical Weather Prediction

Current Research:

Simultaneous data assimilation of novel radar and all-sky satellite observations to improve ensemble forecasts of severe weather.

Past Research:

May 2018 - Aug 2018: Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric Research and Science (SOARS), National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, "Physical mechanisms of tropical cyclone intensification in environments with temporally varying vertical wind shear"

Nov 2016 - Aug 2018: Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, "Can ensemble spread be used to forecast regime instabilities in a chaotic system?"

May 2017 - Aug 2017: Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric Research and Science (SOARS), National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, "The influence of ENSO on the North Pacific Ocean on a Daily Time Scale"

May 2016 - Aug 2016: Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, "Factors that influence the growth of supercells into MCSs after sunset"

Aug 2015 - May 2016: Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD, "Using WDSS-II to understand the correlation between lightning jumps and severe weather"

May 2015 - Aug 2015: Department of Physics, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC, "Environmental factors leading to the storm surge of Hurricane Lili and Hurricane Ike"

Presentations:

• Eure, K., D. Stensrud, and Y. Zhang (2023): How can simultaneous dual-polarization radar and all-sky satellite data assimilation improve convection forecasts? 14 Nov 2023 Naval Research Lab Seminar, Monterey, CA
• Eure, K., Y. Zhang, D. Stensrud, M. Kumjian, H. Greatrex, and S. Greybush (2023): Simultaneous assimilation of polarimetric radar and all-sky satellite observations for ensemble convection forecasts. 9th International Symposium on Data Assimilation, Bologna, Italy (poster)
• Eure, K., Y. Zhang, D. Stensrud, and M. Kumjian (2023): Simultaneous assimilation of novel polarimetric radar and all-sky satellite data for ensemble convection forecasts. 20th Conference on Mesoscale Processes, Madison, WI (oral)
• Eure, K., Y. Zhang, D. Stensrud, and M. Kumjian (2023): Simultaneous assimilation of novel polarimetric radar and all-sky satellite data for ensemble convection forecasts. 103rd AMS Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (poster)
• Eure, K., P. Mykolajtchuk, Y. Zhang, D. Stensrud, F. Zhang, S. Greybush, and M. Kumjian (2022): Assimilation of radar and satellite data to improve the depiction of trigger mechanisms for Convection Initiation. 30th AMS Severe Local Storms Conference, Santa Fe, NM (oral)
• Eure, K., Y. Zhang, D. Stensrud, and M. Kumjian (2022): Simultaneous assimilation of novel polarimetric and satellite data to for ensemble convection forecasts. 102nd AMS Annual Meeting, Houston, TX (virtual; poster)
• Eure, K., P. Mykolajtchuk, Y. Zhang, D. Stensrud, F. Zhang, S. Greybush, and M. Kumjian, 2021: Simultaneous assimilation of WSR-88D and GOES-16 observations to improve ensemble forecasts of convection initiation, 101th AMS Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (virtual; oral)
• Eure, K., P. Mykolajtchuk, Y. Zhang, D. Stensrud, F. Zhang, S. Greybush, and M. Kumjian, 2020: Simultaneous assimilation of WSR-88D and GOES-16 observations to improve ensemble forecasts of convection initiation, 100th AMS Annual Meeting, Boston, MA (poster)
• Eure, K., R. Rios-Berrios, and C. Davis, 2019: Physical mechanisms of tropical cyclone intensification in environments with temporally varying vertical wind shear, 99th AMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ (poster)
• Eure, K., R. Rios-Berrios, and C. Davis, 2018: Physical mechanisms of tropical cyclone intensification in environments with temporally varying vertical wind shear, 2018 AGU Fall Meeting, Washington, DC (poster)
• Eure, K., E. Lynch, E. Kalnay, and S. Sharma, 2018: Predicting regime changes in the Lorenz nature model using ensemble statistics, 98th AMS Annual Meeting, Austin, TX (oral)
• Eure, K., M. Newman, and M. Alexander, 2018: The influence of ENSO on the North Pacific Ocean on a daily scale, 17th Annual AMS Student Conference, Austin, TX (poster)
• Eure, K., J. Peters, and R. Schumacher, 2017: Factors that influence the growth of supercells into MCSs after sunset, 97th AMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA (poster)

Publications:

• Mykolajtchuk, P., K. Eure, D. Stensrud, Y. Zhang, S. Greybush, and M. Kumjian, 2023:
  Diagnosing factors leading to an incorrect supercell thunderstorm forecast. Wea. Forecasting., 38, 1935-1951, https://doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-23-0010.1.
• Eure, K., P. Mykolajtchuk, Y. Zhang, D. Stensrud, F. Zhang, S. Greybush, and M. Kumjian, 2023:
  Simultaneous assimilation of planetary boundary layer observations from radar and all-sky satellite observations to improve forecasts of convection initiation. Mon. Wea. Rev., 151, 795-813, https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-22-0188.1.