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This user helped Extratropical cyclone become a Featured Article.
This user created List of wettest tropical cyclones in the United States, and helped it become a Featured Article.
This user created Surface weather analysis, and helped it become a Featured Article.
This user helped Tropical cyclone become a Featured Article.
This helped 1981 Atlantic hurricane season become a Good Article.
This user created Atlantic hurricane reanalysis, then helped it become a Good Article.
This user created Bounded weak echo region, then helped it become a Good Article.
This helped Climate become a Good Article.
This user created Climate of Florida, then helped it become a Good Article.
This user helped Climate of North Carolina become a Good Article.
This user helped Cyclone become a Good Article.
This user created Cyclogenesis, then helped it become a Good Article.
This user created Effects of Hurricane Wilma in Florida, then helped it become a Good Article.
This user created Effects of tropical cyclones, then helped it become a Good Article.
This user created History of surface weather analysis, then helped it become a Good Article.
This user helped Hurricane Beulah become a Good Article.
This user helped Hurricane Cleo become a Good Article.
This user created Hurricane Flossy, and helped it become a Good Article.
This user helped Hurricane Gracie become a Good Article.
This user helped Hurricane Isidore become a Good Article.
This user helped Hurricane Ione become a Good Article.
This user helped Hurricane Lili become a Good Article.
This user helped Jet stream become a Good Article.
This user created Monsoon trough, and helped it become a Good Article.
This user created Station model, and helped it become a Good Article.
This user created Surface weather analysis, and helped it become a Good Article.
This user created Surface weather observation, and helped it become a Good Article.
This user created Tropical cyclogenesis, and helped it become a Good Article.
This user created Tropical cyclone forecasting, and helped it become a Good Article.
This user created Tropical cyclone observation, and helped it become a Good Article.
This user created Tropical cyclone rainfall climatology, and helped it become a Good Article.
This user created Tropical cyclone track forecasting, and helped it become a Good Article.
This user helped Tropical Storm Jerry (1995) become a Good Article.
This user created United States rainfall climatology, and helped it become a Good Article.
This user helped Volcanic ash become a Good Article.
This user helped Weather fronts become a Good Article.
This user helped Wind shear become a Good Article.

Greetings. My name is David Roth, and I'm a forecaster with the Hydrometeorological Prediction Center in Camp Springs, Maryland. My work-related research revolves around developing a Tropical cyclone rainfall climatology. My main work duties are Weather forecasting up to seven days into the future for the United States and adjacent areas, which includes diagnosing which model to use for various systems in or near the United States during that time frame. I act as the Surface Analysis Team Leader/Focal point, and am one of the co-focal points for our tropical cyclone program and our web page. The Hydrometeorological Prediction Center is the backup office to the National Hurricane Center with regards to tropical cyclone forecasting. My previous work places include the National Weather Service Forecast Offices (WFOs) in Miami, Florida during the summers of 1992-1994 and Lake Charles, Louisiana from January 1995 to November 1998.

My interest in weather may have been influenced by my mom at an early age (according to dad), but Hurricane David in 1979 passing by our old place in Miami probably helped it along. Weather became my hobby in the summer of 1983, and to some degree I still consider it a hobby, even if it is my means of employment.

I find wikipedia to be a good way/method of organizing information and sharing it with others. I like the idea of random quality control from others as well. As of last check, I'm number 1192 on the List of Wikipedians by number of edits.

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Three articles needed extensive improvement and modification to go through the GAC and FAC processes. The featured list was created by myself. Extratropical cyclone was improved from Stub class to FA class within one month in October 2006. Tropical cyclone required the input and help of numerous editors and reviewers over a 1 1/2 year period before it became featured early in 2008. Thirty-three articles have been improved enough by myself to go through the nomination for GA, and passed. Of the 33, I created 16 of them from scratch. Twenty-one pages have been created or improved significantly enough to be used in the Did You Know? section of the main wikipedia page. Below is a list of articles that I have either created, or improved, but have yet to reach GA or FA status.

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[edit] Current GAC nominations

[edit] Status

I'm still in the process of endorsing WP:DGAF and avoiding angry mastadons after dealing with a few incidents during the past couple years within Wikipedia. I have generally enjoyed working within the tropical cyclone and meteorology projects since January 2006.

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This user is a member of the Tropical cyclone Wikiproject.
This user is a member of WikiProject Meteorology and Weather Events.
This user has reviewed 7 Good Article nominations on Wikipedia.
This user has been awarded
9 barnstars.
16,000+ This user has made over 16,000 contributions to Wikipedia.
This user has been on Wikipedia for
2 years, 4 months and 19 days.
FSU Go 'Noles! This user is attending or has attended Florida State University.
d'oh! This user thinks The Simpsons is simply...excellent.
This user is a participant in WikiProject Maryland.
wiki-3 This user is an advanced Wikipedia editor.
AWW
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AWG
CAWA
IFDS
PBAT
DMTD		 This user is a member of Association of Wikipedians Who Dislike Making Broad Judgments About the Worthiness of a General Category of Article, and Who Are in Favor of the Deletion of Some Particularly Bad Articles, but That Doesn't Mean They are Deletionists.
This user reserves the right to completely screw up his or her edits.
This user believes that common sense trumps all other arguments.

[edit] Awards

The Working Man's Barnstar
For the incredible amount of effort you've put into the tropical cyclone wikiproject. :D Coredesat talk! 03:32, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
WikiProject Tropical cyclones, awards you this Cyclone Barnstar for your contributions to the knowledge of TC Rainfall. 00:38, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
WikiProject Tropical cyclones, awards you this Cyclone Barnstar for your contributions to the knowledge of TC Rainfall. 00:38, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
Great Editing Award
OK, its an award that I've just constructed especially for this, but your work on Extratropical cyclone is, and has been, exceptional. Crimsone 15:57, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
The Surreal Barnstar
This is for you using Wikipedia in great ways to escape for your daily work. Oh wait a sec.... :) Great job with everything. Hurricanehink (talk) 01:18, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
The E=mc² Barnstar
For significant and much needed improvements to as well as creating new articles on an assortment of meteorological topics. Evolauxia 04:51, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
Great work on getting the volcanic ash article up to GA status. Joyous! | Talk 23:57, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
Featured writer's barnstar
Here's this Featured writer's barnstar, due to your work in getting Tropical cyclone featured. Congrats, and thanks for all of your hours of dedication. ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 21:11, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
The Red Barnstar
You deserve this star for your excellent efforts, many of which have resulted in quality articles. Your research is greatly appreciated. CVW (Talk) 04:34, 28 February 2008
  • Congratulations on being able to pull off what I couldn't really do. :) Therefore, you very much deserve the following:
Image:Cyclone barnstar.png The Cyclone Barnstar
I award you this cyclone barnstar for your exceptional work in getting Tropical cyclone all the way to Featured article status, in addition to the multitude of Good articles you have produced about tropical cyclone meteorology. Titoxd(?!? - cool stuff) 19:05, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
For all your painstaking work determining starting and ending dates for old Atlantic hurricane seasons, as well as your use, collection, and production of rainfall information and graphics, I award you the Original Barnstar. You have long deserved this and now is the time for me to give it to you. Congratulations and keep up the great work! Miss Madeline | Talk to Madeline 01:31, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

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