WMOD00263 ‎(2)‎

• Applicant: CWCB
• Sponsor Name: USBR
• Project Name: Response to RFP
• Title: Numerical Simulations of Snowpack Augmentation for Drought Mitigation Studies in the Colorado Rocky Mountains
• Prepared For: USBR
• Prepared By: Joe Busto, CWCB
• Date: 8/20/2003
• Weather Modification - Doc Type: Application

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MCANELLY, RAY L.
Research Associate, Department of Atmospheric Science,
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado. Born November 16, 1953,
San Antonio, Texas.

Mr. McAnelly received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Meteorology from Texas A&M
University in 1976 and 1980, respectively.

After receiving his B.S. degree, Mr. McAnelly served as 2nd Lt. in the Air Weather
Service, Military Airlift Command, U.S. Air Force, from 1976--1978. His position of
Base Forecaster at Holloman Air Force Base, Alamogordo, NM, provided him with
operational experience in terminal and en-route aviation forecasting for bases in the U.S.
and abroad, in pilot briefing and weather training, and in specialized forecasting in
support of military exercises and scientific experiments at White Sands Missile Range.

While working on his M.S. degree as a Graduate Assistant at Texas A&M from 1978--
1980, Mr. McAnelly was an instructor, assistant instructor, and grader for various
undergraduate meteorology courses. His research focused on the objective analysis and
synthesis of digital radar data and digital satellite data. During the summer of 1980, he
was a Research Associate at Texas A&M, where he developed software for the reduction
and analysis of HIP LEX radar and aircraft data. Also during this period at graduate
school, Mr. McAnelly was a NOAA Summer Intern in the summer of 1979. As a
Meteorological Technician, he worked on a climatological solar radiation project at
NOAA/EDIS/CEAS, Washington, D.C.

From August 1980 to present, Mr. McAnelly has been a Research Associate at Colorado
State University. His primary research has focused on the analysis of mesoscale
convective systems. He has gained much experience in the analysis and interpretation of
radar, satellite and precipitation data, and has worked extensively with data sets from
specialized field experiments such as SPACE, HIPLEX, CCOPE and PRE-STORM. He
has experience in Doppler radar analysis, for both ground-based and airborne data. He
served as a radar scientist on the NOAA P-3 aircraft in the AIMCS and PRE-STORM
projects. During the summers of 1992-94, Mr. McAnelly was Co-P.I. ofa field program
in northeastern Colorado. Sponsored by minigrants from the CSU-CHILL Radar facility,
this project was designed for dual-Doppler radar documentation of the genesis of
mesoscale convective systems.

Since 1999, Mr. McAnelly has participated in the development of, and has been the
primary caretaker of, the real-time forecast operations at CSU, wherein the Regional
Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS) is run to produce 2-day mesoscale forecasts over
Colorado and other regions. He has performed numerous case studies in collaboration
with forecasters and scientists from the National Weather Service and other
institutions, involving the evaluation of the RAMS forecast simulations based
on observational analysis. He has applied the real-time modeling experience to more in-
depth scientific modeling studies of extreme convective precipitation and orographic
precipitation in Colorado.

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