Dan Bikos received his BS in Meteorology at the State University of New York College at Brockport (1995), and MS in Meteorology from the University of Oklahoma (1998). His areas of interest include severe weather, lake-effect snow and applications of satellite imagery to weather forecasting, particularly on the mesoscale.  Dan has been a research associate at CIRA since 1998 working for the Virtual Institute for Satellite Integration Training (VISIT) project in which he develops training for NWS forecasters.  Distance learning software (VISITview) combined with a conference call are utilized to deliver the training to NWS forecast offices.  Dan has instructed more than 300 hours of live teletraining sessions, primarily dealing with operational applications of satellite imagery.

Finch, J., and D. Bikos, 2012: Russian Tornado Outbreak of 9 June 1984. Electronic J. Severe Storms Meteor., 7 (4), 1–28.

Bikos, D., Lindsey, D.T., Otkin, J., Sieglaff, J., Grasso, L., Siewert, C., Correia Jr., J., Coniglio, M., Rabin, R., Kain, J.S., and S. Dembek, 2012: Synthetic Satellite Imagery For Real-Time High Resolution Model Evaluation. Wea. Forecasting,27,784-795. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-11-00130.1

Finch, J., and D. Bikos, 2010: A long-lived tornadic supercell over Colorado and Wyoming, 22 May 2008. Electronic J. Severe Storms Meteor., 5 (5), 1–27.

Geerts, B., T. Andretta, S. Luberda, J. Vogt, Y. Wang, L. D. Oolman, J. Finch, and D. Bikos, 2009: A case study of a long-lived tornadic mesocyclone in a low-CAPE complex-terrain environment. Electronic J. Severe Storms Meteor., 4 (3), 1-29.

Bikos, D., Weaver, J., and J. Braun, 2006: The Role of GOES Satellite Imagery in Tracking Low-Level Moisture. Wea. Forecasting, 21, 232-241.

Anthony Mostek, John Weaver, Dan Bikos, Dan Lindsey, Bard Zajac, Scott Bachmeier, Tom Whittaker, Brian Motta, Brad Grant, Jim LaDue and John Ferree. 2004: VISIT: Bringing Training to Weather Service Forecasters Using a New Distance-Learning Tool. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Vol. 85, No. 6, pp. 823–829. 

John F. Weaver, Dan Lindsey, Dan Bikos, Chris C. Schmidt and Elaine Prins. 2004: Fire Detection Using GOES Rapid Scan Imagery. Wea. Forecasting, 19, 496–510.

Weaver, J.F., J. A. Knaff, D. Bikos, G. Wade, and J. Daniels, 2002: Satellite Observations of Severe Supercell Thunderstorm on 24 July 2000 Made during the GOES-11 Science Test. Wea. Forecasting, 17, 124-138.

Bikos, D., Weaver, J., and B. Motta, 2002: A Satellite Perspective of the 3 May 1999 Great Plains Tornado Outbreak within Oklahoma. Wea. Forecasting, 17, 635-646.    

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