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Ronald E. Rinehart first worked with radar as an undergraduate at Asbury
College where he graduated in 1962. He continued working with radar as
a graduate student at Oregon State University;
he also attended Florida State University
for two trimesters in 1964/65. In 1965 he started as a radar meteorologist
with the Illinois
State Water Survey in Urbana, Illinois, where he worked on the detection
of hail with radar and other uses of radar.
In 1969 Rinehart went to the Kericho Hail Suppression Project (Kenya, East Africa) as project meteorologist. Upon his return to the United States, he continued graduate studies at Colorado State University, again using radar for studying various aspects of thunderstorms and weather detection. In 1972 he went to South Africa as project director of the Vaalharts Weather Modification Project which was operated near Hartswater, South Africa. He completed his Ph.D. at Colorado State University in 1979. In 1974 Rinehart joined the staff at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, working on the National Hail Research Experiment. He remained at NCAR until 1985, working on hail suppression studies, the detection of hail with radar, especially dual-wavelength radars, and other studies relating radar to storm structure and motion. In 1985 Rinehart joined the staff of MIT Lincoln Laboratory where he worked with radar for the detection of wind shear, microbursts and other weather which is hazardous to aviation. In 1987 he became a faculty member in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the Center for Aerospace Sciences, University of North Dakota where he was a professor teaching radar meteorology and other courses and doing research using radar for hazardous weather detection and hail storm studies. In addition to the text Radar for Meteorologists, Rinehart coauthored Meteorological Experiments, A Laboratory Manualwith Dr. Cedric A. Grainger, a text for an introductory course in meteorology. Rinehart has published a variety of papers in various journals over the years, almost all of which are somehow related to radar meteorology. He has consulted with business and industry and taught short courses on radar meteorology to various people and groups, including the National Weather Service of Cyprus, the Moroccan Weather Service, the Indian Meteorological Service, the Meteorological Service of Thailand, and Digital Weather Platforms of Japan. After completing fourteen years at the University of North Dakota, Rinehart recently moved from Grand Forks, North Daktoa, to Columbia, Missouri, where he continues to consult and write on topics related to radar meteorology. He has also designed and is producing sundials which are individualized and constructed for specific locations. |