**Meet the editor**

Dr. Anthony R. Lupo is a professor of Atmospheric Sciences in the Soil, Environmental, and Atmospheric Sciences Department at the University of Missouri. He earned his BS degree in Meteorology from the State University of New York at Oswego in 1988 and his MS and PhD degrees from Purdue University in 1991 and 1995, respectively. His research has been in the areas of large-scale atmo-

spheric dynamics, tropical meteorology, climate dynamics, and climate change, including modeling, and has several peer-reviewed publications in each of these areas. Additionally, he edited and contributed to the book *Recent Hurricane Research: Climate, Dynamics, and Societal Impacts* (published in 2011). He is a member of the American Meteorological Society and the National Weather Association. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Russia during the summer of 2004 at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow and Belgorod State University in 2014–2015.
