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Educated at Harvard and MIT

He is currently working with data from reconnaissance aircraft in the research division of the NHC

Burpee has flown through the eyes of storms more than 260 times aboard hurricane hunter aircraft. 

He helped pioneer the use of reconnaissance data to fine-tune forecasts after starting his career as an assistant professor at the University of Illinois.

Black, M.L., R.W. Burpee, and F.D. Marks, Jr. The asymmetric distribution of vertical motions and precipitation in the hurricane eyewall. Preprints, 22^nd Conference no Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, May 19-23, 1997, Ft. Collins, Colorado. American Meteorological Society, 100-101 (1997).

NOAA/ERL/NHEML

General Circulation, Tropical Waves, and ITCZ Phenomena of Both the Atmosphere and the Ocean (principal organizer): Large-Scale Mean State, Large-Scale Disturbances

(News-Journal Corp., 1997) 

(National Science Foundation, 1977)