Research Interests

• Convective Dynamics, Severe Storms, Mesoscale Meteorology

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Bartos, Elissa. A., P. M. Markowski, and Y. P. Richardson, 2022: Three-Dimensional Thermodynamic Observations in Supercell Thunderstorms from Swarms of Balloon-Borne Sondes. Monthy Weather Review, 150, 1689–1723, https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-21-0122.1
• Bartos, Elissa A., A. D. Rapp, and K. Wodzicki, 2018: Increasing Frequency of Midtropospheric Dry Layers in the Pacific Intertropical Convergence Zone. Geophysical Research Letters, 45, 13,523–13,529, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL080799

Conference Oral Presentations

• Bartos, Elissa A., P. M. Markowski, and Y. P. Richardson, 2022: “Three-Dimensional Thermodynamic Observations in a Supercell Thunderstorm on 31 May 2022 near Arkansas City, KS, via a Swarm of Balloon-Borne Sondes,” AMS 30th Conference on Severe Local Storms, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
• Bartos, Elissa A., P. M. Markowski, and Y. P. Richardson, 2021: “Three-Dimensional Thermodynamic Observations in Supercell Thunderstorms from Swarms of Balloon-Borne Sondes,” AMS “Virtual Student and Early Career Conference on Severe Local Storms,” ZOOM.
• Bartos, Elissa, Y. Richardson, and P. Markowski (2019), Spring 2019 above-ground thermodynamic observations in convective storms from balloon-borne probes acting as pseudo-Lagrangian drifters, Oral presentation at the 100^th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, January 2020.

Conference Poster Presentations*

• Bartos, Elissa A., P. M. Markowski, and Y. P. Richardson, 2022: “Gridded Three-Dimensional Thermodynamic Analyses of Supercell Thunderstorms from Swarms of Balloon-Borne Sondes: Error Analysis Based on Synthetic Data Collection in a Numerically Simulated Storm,” AMS 30th Conference on Severe Local Storms, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
• Smith, Elissa A., R. Grumm, and C. Ross, 2018: “Patterns in Cold Season Severe Weather and Tornado Outbreaks,” AMS 17th Annual Student Conference, Austin, Texas. Earned the Outstanding Student Conference Poster Award 
• Larson, K. C., E. A. Smith, C. J. Nowotarski, R. E. Orville, and J. Marshall, 2017: “A spectral analysis of intracloud lightning,” AMS 16th Annual Student Conference, Seattle, Washington.
• Smith, Elissa A., A. D. Rapp, and K. Wodzicki, 2017: “Frequency of Mid-Tropospheric Dry Layers in the Pacific ITCZ using ERA-Interim Reanalysis,” AMS 16th Annual Student Conference, Seattle, Washington.

*née Smith