The Regional Climate Section
The Regional Climate Group aims to improve our understanding and predictions of high impact weather and climate for societal benefit. Through high-resolution regional climate modeling, our research focuses on both the statistics and underlying physical processes of high impact events and their relationship to climate variability and change. In our research we combine dynamical downscaling using traditional limited area regional modeling with exploration of the opportunities of utilizing variable resolution global modeling, and the development of new statistical approaches for downscaling, assessing extremes and supporting societal needs. Strong collaboration with industry and societal groups ensures our research is aligned with the needs of end users and provides support for our exploration of ways to incorporate high impact event information into decision-making. In a related effort we are developing new paradigms for communicating scientific results to non-scientists in a manner that enables them to make optimal use of this information in their own decision-making.
| Name | Title | Interests | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brian Bonnlander | Software Engineer | The design and maintenance of Coupled Simulations, especially the design of maintainable component interfaces, and methods for verifying results. | bonnland@ucar.edu 303 497 8191 |
| Cindy Bruyere | Associate Scientist | Statistical and dynamical downscaling. Tropical cyclones and climate change. High-impact weather. | bruyerec@ucar.edu 303 497 8914 |
| James Done | Project Scientist and Willis Research Fellow | Tropical cyclogenesis and wave accumulation. Tropical cyclones, climate variability and change. Internally and externally forced variability of extreme events. | done@ucar.edu 303 497 8209 |
| Sherrie Fredrick | Software Engineer | WRF model runs and post-processing development. | sherrie@ucar.edu 303 497 8973 |
| Tom Galarneau | Project Scientist | Synoptic-dynamic and mesoscale meteorology and high-impact weather. Tropical cyclone environments and genesis pathways. | tomjr@ucar.edu 303 497 8210 |
| Ming Ge | Associate Scientist | Automated easterly wave and tropical cyclone tracking | mingge@ucar.edu 303 497 2832 |
| Greg Holland | Senior Scientist, Senior Willis Research Scientist - Group Head | High-impact weather, extreme value analysis, and science communication. | gholland@ucar.edu 303 497 8949 |
| Heather Lazrus | Postgraduate Scientist | Environmental anthropologist studying perceptions of, and responses to weather and climate risks. | hlazrus@ucar.edu 303 497 8227 |
| Rebecca Morss | Scientist | Use of weather-related information in decision making; communication of weather and climate risk. | morss@ucar.edu 303 497 8172 |
| Debasish PaiMazumder | Changing climate of floods and droughts, and uncertainty assessments. | ||
| Erin Towler | Postdocs Applying Climate Expertise (PACE) Fellow | Hydrologic and ecological impacts; climate risk in natural resource management. | towler@ucar.edu 303 497 2724 |