Jonathan Vigh
Project Scientist II at NSF NCAR - The National Center for Atmospheric Research
Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolJonathan Vigh is a Project Scientist II with eight years of professional experience (and a long research track) at NCAR/UCAR, specializing in tropical cyclones, probabilistic hazard modeling, and climate-driven risk tools. He leads development of operational products like the HurricaneRiskCalculator, Climate Risk Portal for the City and County of Denver, the Climate Risk Management engine (CRMe), and the Tropical Cyclone Guidance Project (TCGP), translating complex observational and model data into actionable guidance for forecasters and planners. His work blends user-centered co-design with model diagnostics, rapid intensification prediction, and aircraft reconnaissance data products to support the National Hurricane Center. A trained atmospheric scientist with a PhD from Colorado State University, he pairs deep domain expertise in inner-core storm physics with practical software and visualization development—his hurricane guidance plots have seen widespread public and operational use. Notably, he maintains a rare dual focus on rigorous scientific dataset creation (VDM+, FLIGHT+, TC-OBS) and delivering decision-ready tools for non-expert stakeholders.
8 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Atmospheric Science, PhD, Atmospheric Science at Colorado State UniversityBachelor of Science, Meteorology, Bachelor of Science, Meteorology at Penn State UniversityPhysics, Mathematics, Physics, Mathematics at Southern Adventist University
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Github Skills (17)
scripting10
evaluation9
toolbox9
index-html9
risk-assessment9
beancount9
python8
fairness-ml8
infrastructure8
reproducible-research8
experimental-design8
pyinstaller7
machine-learning7
evaluation-framework7
statistics1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
NCAR/wxrisk
Jan 2020 - Aug 2022
Repository for the landing page of the Hurricane Risk Calculator (wxrisk.ucar.edu)
Contributions:262 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 7 months
calculatorriskhurricaneedu
NCAR/TCDiag-Realtime
May 2023 - Feb 2024
The purpose of this repository is to hold examples of more complex use cases that go beyond the basic examples that illustrate the tool's use that are provided in the METplus repository.
Contributions:2 PRs, 28 pushes, 2 branches in 8 months
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