Weather And Forecasting Expert Witnesses
Weather and forecasting expert witnesses and consultants listed here may be able to form expert opinions, draft expert witness reports, provide expert witness testimony at deposition and/or trial as or serve as consulting (non-testifying) experts on weather and forecasting. The weather and forecasting expert witness listings on this page are typically from fields/areas of expertise such as: Hydrology and Meteorology.
Matthew J. Bunkers, Ph.D., CCM Northern Plains Weather Services, LLC
Rapid City, South Dakota
Meteorology, Hydrology
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forensic meteorology, weather and forecasting, radar, satellite, severe storms, hail, rainfall and flooding, fog, winter weather, heavy snow, icing, slip and falls, fire weather, high winds, lightning verification, applied climate and meteorology, agriculture weather, and education and training
My clients include lawyers and industries of construction, insurance, mining, and power generation.
I have worked on cases involving:
• analyses of hail/wind/tornado damage to businesses, crops, farm property, and housing units for insurance-related claims/lawsuits,
• climate and weather analyses for a mining operation, preventative planting insurance claim, crop spraying, and livestock operations,
• rainfall recurrence interval analyses for flooding of homes,
• snowfall and rainfall analyses for insurance protection claims for recreational events,
• climate and severe weather documentation for construction delays and adverse weather days,
• cloud cover/moonlight, rainfall, fog, and icing/snow/wind analyses for automobile accidents,
• slips and falls related to snowfall, icing/refreezing, and freezing drizzle,
• windstorm and drought analysis for a wildfire,
• fire-weather observations and research papers for a fellow consulting meteorologist,
• a technical review of a weather book...
