About METSTAT

METSTAT is a committed leader in detailed precipitation analysis, real-time gauge-adjusted radar rainfall products, weather frequency analysis, weather event reconstructions, forensic meteorology and the spatial interpolation of meteorological and climatological variables. For over 15 years, we have provided accurate, innovative, and detailed meteorological and hydrometeorological information to the private and public sectors. The technical expertise of METSTAT and its partnering companies provides the comprehensive technical knowledge required to complete tasks effectively and efficiently. The METSTAT team has nearly 100 years combined meteorological experience, multiple degreed employees and several organization affiliations that makes us highly qualified and capable of a wide variety of meteorological services.

METSTAT has proven history of providing accurate, high-resolution data products to hydrologists for hydrologic model calibration and validation. In fact, METSTAT is the U.S. leader in providing the necessary components (dew point climatologies, extreme rainfall analyses, depth-area-duration curves, sea surface temperature climatologies, and surface analysis) for Probable Maximum Precipitation (PMP) estimation. Our strong Geographical Information System (GIS) emphasis has allowed us to develop output compatible with our client needs. For 11 years, METSTAT supported NOAA’s National Weather Service precipitation frequency atlas development. From this, METSTAT developed the unique capability of calibrating real-time gauge-adjusted radar rainfall into precipitation frequency estimates. This has brought a new, innovative and powerful new tool to the industry that provides an objective perspective of rainfall intensities in near real-time. Our comprehensive understanding of precipitation has allowed us to develop reliable techniques to blend weather radar data together with observed data to reconstruct weather events to support a wide variety of purposes, including legal, insurance, modeling and design. Given our extreme rainfall/precipitation specialty, we are on the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) extreme precipitation evaluation committee, which is responsible for assessing the validity of potentially new world record rainfall intensities. METSTAT has provided data and analyses for several legal cases involving flooding and wind damage, as well as snow climatologies to support the structural design of buildings.

METSTAT Team Bios
> Tye W. Parzybok – President, Chief GIS Meteorologist
> Douglas M. Hultstrand, MS - Sr. Hydrometeorologist
> Christina Callaway - Staff Meteorologist
> Steven V. Finley - Systems Engineer
> John Kleist - Scientific Programmer and System Administrator

Tye W. Parzybok – President, Chief GIS Meteorologist
E-mail tyep@metstat.com
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With nearly 20 years of GIS and meteorological/climatological experience, Tye is a Certified GIS Professional (GISP) with a bachelor's degree from Oregon State University (OSU). Author of "Weather Extremes of the West", as well as several other technical articles, Tye has been a weather hobbyist since childhood. His expertise in spatial interpolation, GIS, meteorology/climatology and quality control have played key roles in several projects for the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) , USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), National Forest Service and NOAA's National Weather Service (NOAA/NWS). Tye is also lead programmer/developer of the Storm Precipitation Analysis System (SPAS) and a cost-effective derivation algorithm used to spatially interpolate precipitation frequency estimates as part of NOAA Atlas 14.

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Douglas M. Hultstrand, MS - Senior Hydrometeorologist
E-mail dmhultst@metstat.com
Vitae (.pdf) (.doc)
With nearly ten years of hydrology and hydrometeorological experience, Doug has received a Bachelor's Degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU) (Physical Geography, and Hydrology Certificate), a Master of Science degree from Colorado State University (CSU) (Watershed Science), and is currently pursuing a Doctorate degree in Earth Sciences at Colorado State University (CSU). Doug has worked with U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Alpine Hydrology Research Group (AHRG), the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), and the U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station (RMRS). Doug has a passion for scale and spatial variability in precipitation processes as related to hydrology and hydrometeorology. His research and expertise are in modeling the spatial variability in snowpack processes and rainfall as function of terrain parameters and atmospheric energy to better understand and model hydrologic regimes.

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Christina Callaway - Staff Meteorologist
E-mail christina@metstat.com
Vitae (.pdf) (.doc)
Christina has over nine years of combined experience in operational meteorology, support and system maintenance of practical meteorological applications and GIS. Christina holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Northland College (Meteorology, Earth Science). Previous to her time at METSTAT, Christina spent four years at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) working with a team of scientists and engineers in the implementation and maintenance of a high-resolution mesoscale modeling, short-term thunderstorm prediction, multi-dimensional integrated display, and fine-scale climatological analysis system (4DWX). Christina has also worked as an operational meteorologist for WeatherData and the North Dakota Atmospheric Resource Board, as well as a research intern for the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

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Steven V. Finley - Systems Engineer
E-mail finley@metstat.com
Vitae (.pdf)
With over 20 years of scientific computing experience and a background in meteorology, Steve is a systems engineer with a master's degree in Agricultural Meteorology from Iowa State University. He draws experience from a diversity of areas, that are well grounded in his basic interests in weather, climate, and aviation. He has played key roles in supporting research, education, systems development, and systems operations across a spectrum of projects with Iowa State University, Colorado State University, the Federal Aviation Administrationr (FAA), the National Aeronauticsand Space Administration (NASA), the Defense Treat Reduction Agency (DTRA), and other entities. This has led to the development a unique skill set, enabling him to contribute within all phases of a project life cycle.

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John Kleist - Scientific Programmer and System Administrator
Vitae (.pdf)
John has 35 years of scientific programming experience. He has a BS degree in mathematics from Metropolitan State College. He worked formore than 26 years at Colorado State University's Department of Atmospheric Science where he worked as a programmer, system administrator and field technician. Notable projects that he worked on include: ASOS temperature and precipitation comparisons, ASCOT and FIRE field studies, Transcom climate modeling studies and Colorado drought analysis. He was one of the principal developers of the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI), a commonly used drought index. John retired from CSU in 2006. Since then he has worked as a software engineer.