Grant Petty
Sole Proprietor at Sundog Publishing
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGrant Petty is a seasoned atmospheric scientist and publisher with over three decades of research and teaching experience, including 24 years as a professor at UW–Madison and leadership as department chair. He combines deep expertise in satellite microwave retrievals, radiative transfer in inhomogeneous clouds, and Bayesian retrieval techniques with practical software development in Fortran, C, and Python and hands-on aircraft-based field work. As sole proprietor of Sundog Publishing he turns niche academic research into college-level textbooks and monographs, bridging the gap between cutting-edge science and accessible scholarship. His background as a Navy aerographer and a PhD from the University of Washington give him a rare mix of operational weather experience, rigorous theory, and entrepreneurial publishing practice.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Atmospheric Science, PhD, Atmospheric Science at University of Washington
German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (91)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
gpetty/classification
Jan 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:18 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
gpetty/GRL-2023
Apr 2023 - Jul 2023
Contributions:1 release, 1 push, 1 branch in 2 months
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