# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vernon-dvorak
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:18:00.096Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vernon-dvorak"
name: "Vernon Dvorak"
slug: "vernon-dvorak"
description: "Vernon Francis Dvorak was an American meteorologist. He studied meteorology at the University of California, Los Angeles and wrote his Master thesis An investigation of the inversion-cloud regime over the subtropical waters west of California in 1966. In 1973 he developed the Dvorak technique to analyze tropical cyclones from satellite imagery. He worked with the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service. He lived in Ojai, California, until his death on September 19, 2022."
tagline: "American meteorologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Vernon_Dvorak.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1928-11-15"
deathDate: "2022-09-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.671490666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Dvorak"
    title: "Vernon Dvorak"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Dvorak"
    title: "Vernon Dvorak"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Dvorak"
    title: "Vernon Dvorak"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BC%97%E8%BE%B2%C2%B7%E5%BE%B7%E6%B2%83%E5%A4%8F%E5%85%8B"
    title: "弗農·德沃夏克"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_F._Dvorak"
    title: "Vernon F. Dvorak"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Dvorak"
    title: "Vernon Dvorak"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3108381"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump