Harold Brooks
Norman WAS*IS
April 2006

I grew up in Saint Louis and went to William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri where I majored in physics and math. I took a year abroad there to do archaeology and anthropology at Cambridge. My graduate work spanned a range of atmospheric sciences, with a M.A. from Columbia modelling volcanic aerosols in the stratosphere and a Ph.D. from Illinois modelling severe thunderstorms. I came to NSSL in 1990 as a National Research Council post-doc and became federal in 1992. Since then, I've worked on a variety of aspects of severe and tornadic thunderstorms and their impacts, and the evaluation of weather forecasts. Outside of work, I try to do as much as I can with my family, and I'm a sports fan, particularly major league baseball. I've published a couple of articles on baseball, focuing on the (non-)existence of clutch hitters and the effects of rest on September performance.