Essentials of Meteorology

Robert Henson is a weather and climate science writer at Weather Underground (part of The Weather Company, an IBM Business) and coauthor of WU’s Category 6 news site, where he covers breaking weather and climate news and emerging research. From 1990 through 2015, he was a science writer at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, where he produced many hundreds of articles on UCAR/NCAR research and served as managing editor for several UCAR annual reports, including “UCAR at 40” and “UCAR at 50,” and for the newsletters UCAR Quarterly and UCAR Magazine. While at UCAR, Henson also contributed to a number of public exhibits and helped develop the Walter Orr Roberts Weather Trail, the first weather-oriented nature trail in North America. Henson received his B.A. degree in meteorology and psychology from Rice University and an M.A. in journalism with a focus in meteorology from the University of Oklahoma. He participated in lightning research at the National Severe Storms Laboratory and writes often on severe weather.