Kelton Halbert

Atmospheric Scientist / Meteorologist · High Performance Computing Enthusiast · Software Developer

Hi there! I'm an atmospheric scientist and meteorologist with a heavy interest and skillset in software development. I've worked in high-performance supercomputing environments conducting petabyte-scale numerical weather simulations, and have a deep passion for high performance code and interactive data visualization. My primary employment is as a Techniques Development Meteorologist (TDM) for the National Weather Service (NWS) Storm Prediction Center (SPC), where I build tools and workflows to enable world-class severe weather forecasters to do their jobs well. I am also a co-founder of WxByte LLC, and started Stormscale Laboratories, LLC to house my personal projects and endeavors.

I have recently migrated all of my code and projects to self-hosting in the interest of reclaiming some agency in the chaos of the current digital landscape. Feel free to check out the public repositories! Please reach out to me if you have any questions, or if you are interested in hosting your code here too. Maybe this can be a community resource for like-minded researchers and developers.

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Code

Self-hosted repositories, projects, and experiments.

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Writing

Long-form thoughts on weather, software, and various projects.

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Weather

Curated forecasting tools and operational meteorology links.

Open weather links →

Languages

Notable Projects

Creator of Heimdall - CONUS-Scale Severe Weather Monitoring and Alerting
Author/Creator of SHARPlib - Open-Source, High Performance, Cross-Platform Sounding Computations
Creator/Maintainer of SPC's 3-km Mesoanalysis - Low-Latency, HRRR-based Objective Mesoscale Analysis
Co-Authored Publication in Science (AAAS) - Hydraulic Jump Dynamics Above Supercell Thunderstorms
Backend Cloud Infrastructure - Developed and maintained Google Cloud infrastructure for SatSquatch
Co-Author/Creator of SHARPpy - Open-Source Atmospheric Sounding Analysis and Visualization

Professional Interests

Numerical weather prediction & postprocessing — petabyte-scale simulations, efficient postprocessing of numerical weather forecasts
High-performance computing — focus on parallel and throughput optimized computing... code doesn't have to be slow
Interactive data visualization — the tools of a meteorologist should work, get out of the way, and be efficient and fast
Self-hosted infrastructure — I like to learn by tinkering, and owning my data and hardware is a net bonus

Links

Where	What
labs.stormscale.io	Self-hosted Forgejo
stormscale.io/blog	Pontifications
stormscale.io/wx	Weather forecasting resources

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