Robert A. Houze, Jr., is an American atmospheric scientist, researcher and author, Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington, and Laboratory Fellow of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. At the University of Washington, he led a research team known as the Mesoscale Group for 46 years. He and his group participated in international field projects around the world and global satellite programs employing weather radar and aircraft in the tropics and midlatitudes, in projects sponsored by NSF, NASA, DOE, and NOAA. Houze has been on the science teams for three NASA satellites for the global study of clouds and precipitation. The predominant areas of his research are tropical convective clouds, extreme storms, flooding in the Asian Monsoon, tropical cyclones, and midlatitude frontal systems in mountainous regions.
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