MET Associates

MET Associates provides litigation support services and expert witness testimony for civil and criminal investigations and insurance industry cases that involve Air Quality Modeling, Forensic Meteorology and Weather Event Re-Construction. MET's Air Modeling expertise, combined with their advanced knowledge of Meteorological Data Processing and Weather Event Analysis, provides strong support to the attorney and client for cases involving Air Pollution, Visibility, Severe Storms, Wind Damage and Flood which result in accidents, personal injury and property damage.

Services

MET Associates provides the following services:

• Forensic Meteorology Services for the Legal Profession
• Industrial Air Pollution Expert Witness
• Toxic Tort Strategy for Plaintiff or Defense/Environmental Air Pollution
• Insurance Industry Services including Meteorological Re-Construction of Weather Events
• Expert Witness Testimony/Litigation Consulting/Air Pollution Meteorology
• Air Quality Computer Modeling/Air Dispersion Analysis/Hazardous Plume Releases
• Meteorological Data Acquisition, Processing and Analysis (Domestic and International)
• Aviation Meteorology/Visibility Studies/Wind Analysis
• Observational Field Programs/Air Sampling/Air Quality
• Atmospheric Dynamics and Severe Storm Analysis
• Climate Studies/Weather Patterns/Flooding
• Short Range and Long Range Weather Forecasting

Litigation Support Services

MET Associates provides litigation support services and expert witness testimony for civil and criminal investigations and insurance industry cases (both plaintiff and defendant) that involve Air Quality Modeling and Forensic Meteorology Analysis including Weather Event Re-Construction and Force Majeure cases. MET can assist attorneys and insurance claim professionals in obtaining, analyzing, modeling, and interpreting the correct atmospheric and weather data for their case.

Areas of Expertise

• Accident
• Accident Analysis
• Accident Investigation
• Accident Reconstruction
• Air Modeling
• Air Quality
• Airports
• Aviation
• Chemical Accidents
• Claims
• Climate Studies
• Climatology
• Damages

• Energy
• Environmental
• Explosion
• Explosives
• Flooding
• Geology
• Geology Petroleum
• Harbors and Ports
• Hazardous Materials
• Industrial Chemical Products
• Insurance
• Insurance, Property Casualty
• Investigation

• Litigation
• Meteorological Data Acquisition
• Meteorology
• Offshore
• Personal Injury
• Physics
• Records Management
• Research
• Safety
• Weather Accidents
• Wrongful Death

Profile

David L. Mitchell is an authority on the numerical modeling of geophysical and atmospheric data with a Doctorate in Meteorology from Purdue University. Dr. Mitchell has over 25 years of technical modeling experience in industry and consulting. His business experience includes various research and technical consulting positions with Conoco, Getty Oil Company, Texaco, Tenneco, British Petroleum and IBM Corporation. Dr. Mitchell has extensive knowledge of Forensic Meteorology and has published his research results on the modeling of atmospheric stability and convection.

Dr. Mitchell is an expert in the field of Air Pollution Meteorology with over 25 years of experience with the mathematical modeling of wave propagation in elastic media, atmospheric fluid dynamics and air dispersion modeling. He has extensive knowledge of air pollution modeling software and air quality modeling techniques approved by the US Environmental Protection Agency.

Dr. Mitchell is a specialist in Weather Event Re-Construction for litigation. He has provided forensic meteorology support for criminal investigations and insurance cases involving weather related accidents, personal injury and property damage.

He is a member of the Air and Waste Management Association, the American Meteorological Society and the National Association of Environmental Professionals. Dr. Mitchell is also an Associate Member of the American Bar Association with affiliation with the Litigation Division and is a Certified Professional Geoscientist.

Consulting Practice

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