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Appendix A—
Biographical Information on Panel Members
John M. Wallace (Chair) is professor of atmospheric
sciences and co-director of the University of Washington Program on
the Environment. From 1981–98 he served as director of the
(University of Washington/NOAA) Joint Institute for the Study of
the Atmosphere and Ocean. His research specialties include the
study of atmospheric general circulation, El Niño, and
global climate. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences;
a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science, the American Geophysical Union (AGU), and the American
Meteorological Society (AMS); and a recipient of the Rossby medal
(AMS) and Revelle medal (AGU).
John R. Christy is professor of atmospheric science at
the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He specializes in
satellite microwave data in evaluating global climate change. He
has appeared as an expert at congressional hearings and is a member
of NASA's Global Hydrology and Climate Center which focuses on
climate research. He was recently named by the American
Meteorological Society to receive a special award, jointly with Dr.
Roy W. Spencer of the Marshall Space Flight Center, for developing
a global, precise record of earth's temperature from operational
polar-orbiting satellites which is regarded as having advanced
scientists' ability to monitor climate. Data from the
Spencer-Christy research project is used in both national and
international policy analyses relating to global climate change and
for validating climate models.break
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Appendix A—
Biographical Information on Panel Members
John M. Wallace (Chair) is professor of atmospheric
sciences and co-director of the University of Washington Program on
the Environment. From 1981–98 he served as director of the
(University of Washington/NOAA) Joint Institute for the Study of
the Atmosphere and Ocean. His research specialties include the
study of atmospheric general circulation, El Niño, and
global climate. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences;
a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science, the American Geophysical Union (AGU), and the American
Meteorological Society (AMS); and a recipient of the Rossby medal
(AMS) and Revelle medal (AGU).
John R. Christy is professor of atmospheric science at
the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He specializes in
satellite microwave data in evaluating global climate change. He
has appeared as an expert at congressional hearings and is a member
of NASA's Global Hydrology and Climate Center which focuses on
climate research. He was recently named by the American
Meteorological Society to receive a special award, jointly with Dr.
Roy W. Spencer of the Marshall Space Flight Center, for developing
a global, precise record of earth's temperature from operational
polar-orbiting satellites which is regarded as having advanced
scientists' ability to monitor climate. Data from the
Spencer-Christy research project is used in both national and
international policy analyses relating to global climate change and
for validating climate models.break
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Dian Gaffen leads the climate variability and trends
group at the NOAA Air Resources Laboratory in Silver Spring,
Maryland. Her recent research focuses on observational studies of
atmospheric temperature and water vapor changes, climate extremes,
and meteorological data quality. She is a member of the American
Meteorological Society and the American Geophysical Union and a
recipient of both the Prof. Dr. Vilho Vaisala Award from the World
Meteorological Organization and the NOAA Administrator's Award.
Norman C. Grody is affiliated with NOAA NESDIS (National
Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service) where he has
developed techniques to retrieve atmospheric parameters (e.g.,
temperature, water vapor, rainfall) and identify surface features
(e.g., snowcover, sea ice, flooding) using satellite-based
microwave radiometers. He has received the U.S. Department of
Commerce Bronze and Silver Medal Awards for the development of
operational products from the SSM/I and AMSU instruments,
respectively.
James E. Hansen is head of the NASA/Goddard Institute for
Space Studies. His research interests include radiative transfer in
planetary atmospheres, interpretation of remote sounding of
planetary atmospheres, development of simplified climate models and
three-dimensional global climate models, current climate trends
from observational data, and projections of man's impact on
climate. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a
fellow of the American Geophysical Union.
David E. Parker is with the Hadley Centre for Climate
Prediction and Research at The Meteorological Office in the United
Kingdom. Since 1979 his work has focused on climatic variability
and change and on near-real-time monitoring of climatic variations.
He has contributed to the development of global historical data
bases for sea surface temperature and sea ice, as well as marine
air temperature, mean sea level pressure, and radiosonde-based air
temperatures with a view to the detection and attribution of
climate changes and the forcing and verification of climate model
simulations. He is a fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society; a
contributor to the 1990, 1992, 1995, and current IPCC Assessments;
and a recipient of the Fitzroy Prize of the Royal Meteorological
Society.
Thomas C. Peterson is chief of the Scientific Services
Division at the NOAA National Climatic Data Center. His expertise
lies in assessing surface data and surface climate variability and
change, including analyses of various temperature characteristics.
He is a WMO CCI rapporteur on statistical methods for climatology
and serves as chair of the Joint WMO CCI/CLIVAR Working Group on
Climate Change Detection. He has received the U.S. Department
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Commerce Bronze Medal Award ''for developing revolutionary new
climatological baseline data sets and statistical techniques that
reveal accurate long-term climatic trends." He is a member of the
American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological
Society.
Benjamin D. Santer is a physicist/atmospheric scientist
at the Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison at
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. His research interests
include identifying human effects on climate and evaluating the
performance of global climate models. He is the recipient of a
MacArthur Fellowship, the 1998 Norbert Gerbier-MUMM International
Award from the World Meteorological Organization, and the 1997
NOAA/Environmental Research Laboratories "Outstanding Scientific
Paper" award.
Roy W. Spencer is Senior Scientist for Climate Studies at
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. His research has focused on
satellite information retrieval techniques, passive microwave
remote sensing, satellite precipitation retrieval, global
temperature monitoring, space sensor definition, and satellite
meteorology. He is a recipient of NASA's Exceptional Scientific
Achievement Medal and a co-recipient, along with Dr. John Christy,
of the American Meteorological Society's Special Award for their
global temperature monitoring work with satellites. Dr. Spencer is
the U.S. Science Team Leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning
Radiometer that will fly on NASA's Aqua spacecraft in 2000. He is a
member of the American Meteorological Society.
Kevin Trenberth is head of the Climate Analysis Section
at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). His main
scientific interests are in global climate variability and its
effects, including El Niño and global climate change, and
being from New Zealand, Southern Hemisphere meteorology. He is
currently a member of the NRC's Committee on Global Change
Research, the NOAA Advisory Panel on Climate and Global Change and
Council on Longterm Monitoring, the Joint Scientific Committee of
the WCRP, the National Science Foundation's Climate System Modeling
Advisory Board, and the ECMWF Reanalysis Project Advisory Group. He
is co-chair of the International Scientific Steering Group (SSG)
for the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Climate Variability
and Predictability (CLIVAR) Programme and chair of the Center for
Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies Scientific Advisory Committee. He has
also been prominent in the IPCC Scientific Assessment activities.
He is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society and the
American Association for the Advancement of Science and an Honorary
Fellow of the New Zealand Royal Society.break
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Frank J. Wentz established and currently serves as
director of Remote Sensing Systems, a research company specializing
in satellite microwave remote sensing of the earth. His research
focuses on radiative transfer models that relate satellite
observations to geophysical parameters, with the objective of
providing reliable geophysical data sets to the earth science
community. He is currently working on satellite-derived decadal
time series of atmospheric moisture and temperature, the
measurement of sea-surface temperature through clouds, and advanced
microwave sensor designs for climatological studies. He is a member
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