Sara Pryor

• Pryor S.C., Coburn J.J., Barthelmie R.J. and Shepherd T. (2023): Projecting future energy production from operating wind farms in North America: Part 1: Dynamical downscaling. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 62 63-80 doi: 10.1175/JAMC-D-22-0044.1
• Coburn J.J. and Pryor S.C. (2023): Evolution of the internal climate modes under future warming. Journal of Climate 36 511-529 doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0200.1
• Coburn J.J. and Pryor S.C. (2022): Do machine learning approaches offer skill improvement for short-term forecasting of wind gust occurrence and magnitude? Weather and Forecasting 37 525-543
• Pryor S.C., Barthelmie R.J. and Shepherd T.J. (2021): Wind power production from very large offshore wind farms. Joule 5 2663-2886 doi: 10.1016/j.joule.2021.09.002
• Pryor S.C. and Barthelmie R.J. (2021): A global assessment of extreme wind speeds for wind energy applications. Nature Energy 6 268-276 doi: 10.1038/s41560-020-00773-7
• Pryor S.C., Barthelmie R.J., Bukovsky M.S., Leung L.R. and Sakaguchi K. (2020): Climate change impacts on wind power generation. Nature Reviews: Earth and Environment 1 627-643 doi: 10.1038/s43017-020-0101-7
• Pryor S.C., Barthelmie R.J. and Shepherd T.J. (2020): 20% of US electricity from wind will have limited impacts on system efficiency and regional climate. Nature: Scientific Reports 10 541 doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-57371-1
• Pryor S.C., Shepherd T.J., Volker P., Hahmann A.N. and Barthelmie R.J. (2020):  ‘Wind theft’ from onshore wind turbine arrays: Sensitivity to wind farm parameterization and resolution. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 59 153-174
• Letson F., Barthelmie R.J., Hu W., and Pryor S.C. (2019): Characterizing wind gusts in complex terrain.Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 19 3797-3819
• Sullivan R.C., Crippa P., Matsui H., Leung, L.R., Zhao C., Thota A., and Pryor S.C. (2018): New particle formation leads to cloud dimming. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science 1:9 doi:10.1038/s41612-018-0019-7
• Sullivan R.C., Levy R., da Silva A. and Pryor S.C. (2017): Developing and diagnosing climate change indicators of regional aerosol optical properties. Nature: Scientific Reports 7 art # 18093, doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-18402-x
• Pryor S.C., Sullivan R.C. and Schoof J.T. (2017):  Modeling the contributions of global air temperature, synoptic-scale phenomena and soil moisture to near-surface static energy variability using artificial neural networks. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 17 14457-14471
• Pryor, Sara C., J T Schoof.  2016. "Evaluation of near-surface temperature, humidity, and equivalent temperature from regional climate models applied in type II downscaling."  Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres 121 (7): 3326-3338.
• Crippa, Paola, Ryan C. Sullivan, A. Thota, Sara C Pryor.  2016. "Evaluating the skill of high-resolution WRF-Chem simulations in describing drivers of aerosol direct climate forcing on the regional scale.."  Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 16 (1): 397-416.
• Pryor, Sara C., K. E. Hornsby, K. A. Novick.  2014. "Forest canopy interactions with nucleation mode particles."  Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 14 (21): 11985-11996.
• Pryor, Sara C., R. Conrick, C. Miller, J. Tytell, R. J. Barthelmie.  2014. "Intense and extreme wind speeds observed by anemometer and seismic networks: An eastern U.S. case study."  Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 53: 2417-2429.
• Schoof, J. T., Sara C Pryor.  2014. "Assessing the fidelity of AOGCM-simulated relationships between large-scale modes of climate variability and wind speeds."  Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres 119 (16): 9719-9734.

• Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) 2021
• Research and Extension Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in Research (CALS, Cornell University) 2018
• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 2014 (AAAS) 2014
• North American representative; CORDEX-ESD ((CORDEX-Coordinated Regional Downscaling Experiment is an international project under the World Climate Research programme. ESD - Empirical Statistical Downscaling) 2014
• Convening Lead Author (Midwest Region for the National Climate Assessment) 2011
• National Climate Assessment and Development Advisory Committee (NCADAC) (U.S. Department of Commerce's National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration) 2011
• Editor (Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres) 2010

Prof. Pryor has taught across the spectrum of atmospheric science courses including air pollution meteorology, climate science and climate change mitigation, and physical meteorology and climatology.

She currently teaches:

• EAS 2500 - Meteorological Observations and Instruments
• EAS 3340 - Microclimatology
• EAS 4350/5350 - Statistical Methods in Meteorology and Climatology