Chris Andersen
ISU
candersn@pircsds0.agron.iastate.edu

Ray Arritt
ISU
rwarritt@bruce.agron.iastate.edu

Dave Bader
LLNL - PCMDI
bader2@llnl.gov

Sébastian Biner
OURANOS
biner.sebastien@ouranos.ca

Sébastian Biner is a climate simulation specialist for the Ouranos Consortium in Montréal, Canada. As such, he contributes to the production, analysis and improvement of the regional climate simulations used by Ouranos users and partners. Scientifically, he is particularly interested in studies related to the internal variability, added value and uncertainties of Regional Climate Models. He is also strongly involved in maintaining and improving the operational infrastructure at Ouranos and in the distribution of climate simulation data. Sébastian is co-supervising graduate students and supervising interns. He has a M.Sc in atmospheric sciences and a B.Sc in physics from the Université du Québec á Montréal. Sébastian is a father of two and a ski and cycling enthusiast.

George Boer
CCCma
george.boer@ec.gc.ca

Melissa Bukovsky
NCAR
bukovsky@ucar.edu

Melissa S. Bukovsky is a post-doctoral fellow at the National Center for Atmospheric Research working directly with NARCCAP. Her research revolves around regional climate model credibility and diagnostics. She is interested in the determination of model credibility through process-based analysis and the impact of model bias/error and its propagation in simulations from the present-day to the future. Current, specific areas of research include the ability of the NARCCAP models to simulate central U.S. warm-season precipitation, the North American monsoon, observed trends, and the related processes behind these features. She is also working to further downscale select NARCCAP simulations over western North America.

Erasmo Buonomo
Hadley Centre
erasmo.buonomo@metoffice.gov.uk

Daniel Caya
OURANOS
caya.daniel@ouranos.ca

Daniel Caya holds a degree in Atmospheric Science from UQAM, and began his career as a consultant in meteorology and atmospheric science with a private firm. After earning his PhD in Environmental Science from UQAM, he headed the Canadian Regional Climate Modelling Network from 1997 to 2001. In 2001, Ouranos appointed him to plan, develop and manage the Canadian climate modelling program. Since then he has been directing the Climate Simulation group, in charge of developing and producing regional climate projections for Canadian scientists. Mr. Caya is also an associate professor at the regional climate study and modelling centre (ESCER) at UQA#M, at INRS-ETE and at ISMER (UQAR). He remains very involved in training highly skilled staff to maintain Canadian expertise in regional climate simulation.

Luca Cinquini
NCAR - CISL
luca@ucar.edu

James Correia
PNNL
james.correia@pnl.gov

Aiguo Dai
NCAR - CGD
adai@ucar.edu

Phil Duffy
LLNL
duffy2@llnl.gov

Dr. Duffy joined Climate Central in 2008 as the Scientific Director of the Palo Alto Office and Senior Research Scientist. Previously he had worked at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he was a physicist for 22 years. He is the founder and director of the University of California Institute for Research on Climate Change and its Societal Impacts, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at UC Merced. Dr. Duffy has a A.B. degree from Harvard in Astrophysics, and a Ph.D. from Stanford in Applied Physics. Dr. Duffy is a member of the Nobel-honored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers on many aspects of climate science. His recent work has focused on increasing the spatial resolution of climate projections, to make them more suitable for assessing potential societal impacts of climate change.

Dave Flory
ISU
flory@iastate.edu

Filippo Giorgi
ICTP
giorgi@ictp.trieste.it

Bill Gutowski
ISU
gutowski@iastate.edu

William J. Gutowski, Jr. is professor of meteorology in the Department of Geological and Atmospheric sciences at Iowa State University, with a courtesy appointment in agronomy.

Dr. Gutowski's research concentrates on the role of atmospheric dynamics in climate. Central focuses are the dynamics of the hydrologic cycle, regional climate and changes in extreme weather and climate. Because processes on a wide range of spatial and temporal scales are important for all of these, his research program entails a variety of modeling and data analysis approaches. The regional research uses models covering only a portion of the earth (limited-area models) and global models whose resolution varies with location (stretched-grid models). Data analysis approaches include study of spatial patterns and analysis of precipitation and energy spectra. His work includes regional modeling of African, Artic and East Asian climates and has significant collaboration with scientists in these regions. Much of his work is through the Regional Climate Modeling Laboratory, which he coordinates with Dr. Eugene Takle and Dr. Ray Arritt. Within NARCCAP, he is coordinating with Iowa State colleagues the NCEP-driven simulations and their analysis. He has also helped with development of the NARCCAP archive.

Dr. Gutowski currently serves as an Editor for the Journal of Hydrometeorology. He is a lead author for the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (Working Group 1, Chapter 12). He also is a member of the U.S. National Academy/Water Science and Technology Board panel evaluating emerging challenges and opportunities in the hydrologic sciences. He was a Lead Author for two U.S. Climate Change Science Program reports (CCSP 3-1, Climate Models: An Assessment of Strengths and Limitations; CCSP 3-3, Weather and Climate Extremes in a Changing Climate) and a contributing author to the IPCC Third and Fourth Assessment Reports. In addition, he was a member of the U.S. National Academy/Transportation Research Board panel to study the impacts of climate change on transportation. Dr. Gutowski received a Ph.D. degree in meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Science degree in astronomy and physics from Yale University.

Isaac Held
NOAA - GFDL
isaac.held@noaa.gov

Dr. Isaac Held is a Senior Research Scientist at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, where he conducts research on climate dynamics and climate modeling, and is head of the Weather and Atmospheric Dynamics Group. He is also a lecturer with rank of Professor at Princeton University, in its Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program, and is an Associate Faculty member in Princeton's Applied and Computational Mathematics Program and in the Princeton Environmental Institute. Dr. Held is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (1991) and the American Geophysical Union (1995), and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (2003). He recently received the AMS Carl Gustav Rossby Gold Medal (2008). He was a lead author of Ch.11 of the WG1 AR4 report on regional projections. He is particularly interested in the connections between planetary scale aspects of climatic responses and regional issues. He has coordinated the contribution of GFDL to NARCCAP, working with Bruce Wyman both to provide time-resolution output from GFDL's AR4 model (CM2.1) for downscaling and to provide data over North America from a time slice simulation with a ~50km version of AM2.1, the atmospheric component of the GFDL model.

Tony Hoang
LLNL - PCMDI
hoang1@llnl.gov

Richard Jones
Hadley Centre
richard.jones@metoffice.gov.uk

Richard Jones is manager of regional predictions at the Meteorological Office Hadley Centre. His main responsibilities are to provide state of the art regional climate modelling systems and to provide and analyse regional climate change scenarios and advice on these as required under contracts for various UK government departments and international bodies. He developed regional climate modelling in the Hadley Centre involving development of a consistent GCM/RCM modelling system; domain-size experiments; climate simulations driven by numerical weather prediction analyses; multi-decade regional climate change experiments; development of GCMs to provide high quality boundary conditions for RCMs; ensemble regional climate change experiments. He is a lead or major contributing author to many publications in regional climate modelling and was a lead author of the IPCC Assessment Reports Three and Four. He led the development of the regional climate modelling system PRECIS, has worked with many European institutes and is currently working with institutes across all continents in the fields of climate prediction and climate scenario development and application. In the NARCCAP project he is responsible for providing boundary conditions from Hadley Centre global climate model projections for downscaling by NARCCAP RCMs, for downscaling the GCMs used in NARCCAP with PRECIS and assisting with interpretation of the model projections.

Bill Kuo
NCAR - MMM
kuo@ucar.edu

René Laprise
UQAM
laprise.rene@ouranos.ca

LAPRISE René is Professor in the Département des Sciences de la Terre et de l'Atmosphère at UQAM (Université du Québec à Montréal), founding Director of the ESCER "Centre pour l'Étude et la Simulation du Climat à l'Échelle Régionale", and member of the Steering Committee of the Global Environmental and Climate Change Centre (GEC3). He is specialised in numerical modelling of the atmosphere. He initiated the Canadian Regional Climate Modelling (CRCM) Network at UQAM in 1991 and led it as Principal Investigator till 2006. He was convenor of the ad hoc Panel on Regional Climate Modelling of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) from 2000 to 2004. He was co-organiser of the WCRP-sponsored regional-scale climate modelling Workshop in 2004 in Lund (Sweden). He was a Lead Author of Chapter 11 on "Regional Climate Projections" of Working Group I of the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC (2007).

Ruby Leung
PNNL
ruby.leung@pnl.gov

Ruby Leung is a Laboratory Fellow at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and an Affiliate Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. She received her MS and Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from the Texas A&M University in 1988 and 1991. She has performed much of her research using regional climate models since the early 1990s when she developed a regional climate model with special features that account for the subgrid scale effects of topography, lake and vegetation. Her model enables the coupling of climate and hydrologic processes in regions with complex orography. Since then Dr. Leung has led several projects to examine the impacts of climate variability and change and the effects of aerosols on the regional hydrological cycle. In 2001, Dr. Leung organized the Workshop on "Regional Climate Research: Needs and Opportunities" co-sponsored by the National Science Foundation and Department of Energy to examine various approaches to modeling regional climate. In 2005, she organized the Workshop on "Research Needs and Directions of Regional Climate Modeling Using WRF and CCSM". The workshop identified the needs to develop capability for high resolution modeling, regional earth system modeling and up scaling. More recently, she is leading an effort to use a hierarchical evaluation approach to assess global high resolution, global variable resolution, and regional climate models for modeling climate at the regional scale. She is a member of the NRC study committee on "A National Strategy for Advancing Climate Modeling". Dr. Leung is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and American Meteorological Society.

Larry McDaniel
NCAR - IMAGe
mcdaniel@ucar.edu

Larry McDaniel is a software engineer in IMAGe who has worked on climate, climate change and climate impact on agriculture for the past twenty years here at NCAR. He prepares data sets (observed and model out put) for use in agricultural models, heat wave studies as well as other projects. Along with Seth McGinnis, he is doing the quality checking of the model data to be published on the Earth System Grid.

Larry plans to use the NARCCAP data for the above purposes as well as for health and city studies.

Seth McGinnis
NCAR - IMAGe
mcginnis@ucar.edu

Seth McGinnis has worked as an Associate Scientist in IMAGe at NCAR since 2003, shortly after he received his Ph.D. in geophysics from CU-Boulder. He has a strong background in computer programming and works on a variety of projects related to making atmospheric science data accessible and usable to end-users of all types. As NARCCAP's Data Manager, he works with Larry McDaniel to quality check (QC) the model data as it is submitted for archiving and publication, checking for errors and ensuring that it meets the formatting and metadata requirements of the project. He is also the User Community Manager, in charge of organizing and maintaining the program website, mailing lists, and workshops, and acting as the point of contact with end-users of NARCCAP results.

Linda Mearns
NCAR - IMAGe
lindam@ucar.edu

Linda O. Mearns is a Director of the Institute for the Study of Society and the Environment and Senior Scientist in ISSE & IMAGe (expand acros) and director of WCIASP and Exectuive director of NARCCAP. at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado. She holds a Ph.D. in Geography from UCLA. She has performed research and published mainly in the areas of climate change scenario formation, quantifying uncertainties, and climate change impacts on agro-ecosystems. She has particularly worked extensively with regional climate models. She has most recently published papers on the effect of uncertainty in climate change scenarios on agricultural and economic impacts of climate change, and quantifying uncertainty of regional climate change. She has been an author in the IPCC Climate Change 1995, 2001, and 2007 Assessments regarding climate variability, impacts of climate change on agriculture, regional projections of climate change, climate scenarios, and uncertainty in future projections of climate change. For the 2007 Report(s) she is Lead Author for the chapter on Regional Projections of Climate Change in Working Group 1 and for the chapter on New Assessment Methods in Working Group 2. She is also an author on two Synthesis Products of the US Climate Change Science Program. She leads the multi-agency supported North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP), which is providing multiple high-resolution climate change scenarios for the North American impacts community. She is a member of the National Research Council Climate Research Committee (CRC) and Human Dimensions of Global Change (HDGC) Committee. She was made a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society in January 2006.

Jerry Meehl
NCAR - CGD
meehl@ucar.edu

Don Middleton
NCAR - CISL
don@ucar.edu

Don E. Middleton leads the Visualization and Enabling Technologies Section in NCAR's Computational and Information Systems Laboratory. He is responsible for developing and managing an emerging technologies program that encompasses data and knowledge management, analysis and visualization, collaborative visual computing environments, Grid computing, digital preservation, and education and outreach activities. Don's professional interests center on the frontiers of managing, preserving, and analyzing large, complex earth system datasets and communication using advanced visual technologies. Don is currently serving in a PI or co-PI capacity on a number of projects, including: the Earth System Grid, the Earth System Curator, the Virtual Solar Terrestrial Observatory, the North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program, the Cooperative Arctic Data and Information Service, and NCAR's Cyberinfrastructure Strategic Initiative. Don recently completed a term on a National Research Council committee for NEES/NEESGrid and Earthquake Engineering and was a contributing author for the new publication, The Visualization Handbook.

Wilfran Moufouma-Okia
Hadley Centre
wilfran.moufouma-okia@metoffice.gov.uk

Wilfran Moufouma-Okia is a regional climate modelling scientist working at the Met Office Hadley Centre on developing and evaluating the Met Office climate modelling systems for detailed future regional climate projections. The main goal of his research is to improve the regional scale performances of the new generation of Hadley Centre climate models over the USA. He is investigating issues of reliability and uncertainty of current regional climate models (RCMs) for simulating the physical mechanisms behind the climate variability over both the North American Monsoon region and the south east USA. He is particularly interested in the intra-seasonal variability of precipitation and atmospheric circulation, the structure of the Low Level Jet, and features of the North American monsoon system in the projected future climate. His role in NARCCAP is the running of and post-processing of data from the PRECIS/HadRM3 model.

Eric Nienhouse
NCAR - CISL
ejn@ucar.edu

Ana Nunes
Scripps/UCSD
anunes@ucsd.edu

Dr. Ana Nunes is a weather/climate modeler at the Experimental Climate Prediction Center (ECPC) at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Formerly, she worked with the Modeling Development Division of the Center of Weather Prediction and Climate Studies at the National Institute for Space Research in Brazil, which is considered one of the most prestigious scientific institutions in South America. One of the subjects of her research is improving our understanding of atmospheric dynamics, and dynamical downscaling in particular, via the assimilation of precipitation, as well as the applications of precipitation assimilation to water cycle modeling. Dr. Nunes is a member of the NARCCAP team, and in charge of the ECPC-Regional Spectral Model (RSM) participation in this program.

Doug Nychka
NCAR - IMAGe
nychka@ucar.edu

Jeremy Pal
ICTP
jpal@ictp.trieste.it

Yun Qian
PNNL
yun.qian@pnl.gov

Phil Rasch
NCAR

John Roads
Scripps/UCSD

Dr. John Roads was a Senior Scripps Research Meteorologist, Sr. Lecturer and Director of the Experimental Climate Prediction Center (ECPC) at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. He was also the co-chair of the Global Energy and Water-cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Coordinated Energy and water-cycle Project (CEOP). Dr. Roads was a previous chair of the National Centers For Environmental Research (NCEP) Regional Reanalysis Scientific Advisory Committee, several international Regional Spectral Model workshops, and the National Research Council GEWEX committee. He had also been a Principal Investigator on many NOAA, NASA, USFS; and other US agency grants. He was a Fellow of the AMS and had published more than 140 refereed articles. Dr. Roads was the ECPC principal investigator in charge of contributing the Regional Spectral Model (RSM) simulations to NARCCAP.

Dr. Roads died in June, 2008.

Toni Rosati
NCAR - IMAGe

Toni Rosati is a Masters candidate in Environment and Society at the University of Colorado Denver. Using GIS and social theory, Toni studies societal impacts of natural hazards. She is the student assistant for Seth McGinnis at NARCCAP.

Steve Sain
NCAR - IMAGe
ssain@ucar.edu

Stephan R. Sain is the head of the Geophysical Statistics Project in the Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. He received undergraduate degrees in mathematical sciences and statistics as well as a masters and PhD in statistics from Rice University in Houston, TX. His research area involves nonparametric function estimation, spatial statistics, statistical computing, environmental statistics, and applications in the geosciences. As a NARCCAP co-Pi, he is reasonable for the development of statistical methodology to assess and quantify uncertainty in addition to other statistical issues that arise in the design of the NARCCAP experiments and the analysis of the model output.

Nadine Salzmann
NCAR - ISSE
salzmann@ucar.edu

Chi-Fan Shih
NCAR - CISL
chifan@ucar.edu

Lisa Sloan
UCSC
lcsloan@emerald.ucsc.edu

Lisa Cirbus Sloan is a Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and the Director of the Climate Change and Impacts Laboratory the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC). She is also the Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies at UCSC. Sloan received her B.S. from Allegheny College and her Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University, and did postdoctoral work at the University of Michigan. Sloan joined the faculty at UCSC in 1995. Sloan has been the National Secretary of the American Geophysical Union's Ocean Sciences Section, a scientific Fellow of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Global and Planetary Change, editor of the international journal Paleoceanography, and has co-chaired the National Center for Atmospheric Research's Paleoclimate Working Group. She has served and continues to serve on and many national scientific advisory boards that deal with past and future climate change as well as scientific computing challenges. Sloan's research is concentrated in two broad areas: (1) understanding the mechanisms of climate changes in the geologic past and (2) studying and modeling future climate change at regional scales and investigating the possible impacts of future climate change on human and natural systems. She has authored or coauthored more than 60 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, and is a frequent public speaker in California on issues of climate change. For more information, see http://www.es.ucsc.edu/~lcsloan/

Mark Snyder
UCSC
msnyder@pmc.ucsc.edu

Ron Stouffer
NOAA - GFDL
ronald.stouffer@noaa.gov

Gary Strand
NCAR - CGD
strandwg@ucar.edu

Gene Takle
ISU
gstakle@iastate.edu

Eugene S. Takle is professor of Atmospheric Sciences and Agricultural Meteorology at Iowa State University.

Eugene's current climate-related research includes both basic research on climate change and impacts of climate change. Basic research centers on how the features of the earth surface influence turbulent flow and exchange processes that influence surface momentum, energy, and moisture fluxes. Research on climate-change impacts includes assessing the interactive roles of climate and land-manager choices on land-use/land-cover change in agricultural area, development and evaluation of downscaling tools for near-surface flow and impacts of climate change on wind power, evaluating effects of climate changes on Midwest agroecosystems using a climate-crop coupled model, and assessment of variability and trends in Iowa climate data on pavement performance by use of a mechanistic-empirical pavement design model. The land-use/land-cover project uses SWAT (Soil and Water Assessment Tool) to simulate streamflow in large complex watersheds in agricultural areas under current and future scenario climates. Changes in surface wind speed and wind power over the 20th and 21st Centuries are explored through use of statistical downscaling and regional climate models. By coupling crop models with regional climate models we explore the impact of crop selection on carbon uptake and evapotranspiration over the Midwest during the growing season. Roadways in Iowa have been designed under assumptions of average climate conditions that do not reflect actual climate variability or future climate change. Working with civil engineers we are using a standard pavement design model to explore expected changes in various roadway failure modes under actual variability and projected trends in climate over the next 60 years.

Eugene's role in NARCCAP is as part of the ISU team organizing and analyzing the reanalysis-driven runs and contributing to the scenario-driven runs. A central focus is promoting appropriate and effective use of regional climate model information in impacts studies.

Josh Thompson
NCAR - IMAGe
josht@ucar.edu

Josh Thompson is currently a student at the Metropolitan State College of Denver, persuing a Bachelors of Science in Meteorology. He is a student assistant in the NARCCAP program, and works alongside Seth McGinnis.

Kevin Trenberth
NCAR - CGD
trenbert@ucar.edu

Simon Tucker
Hadley Centre
simon.tucker@metoffice.gov.uk

Warren Washington
NCAR
wmw@ucar.edu

Tom Wigley
NCAR - CGD
wigley@ucar.edu

Nate Wilhelmi
NCAR - CISL
wilhelmi@ucar.edu

Dean Williams
LLNL - PCMDI
williams13@llnl.gov

Bruce Wyman
NOAA - GFDL
bruce.wyman@noaa.gov