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Employment

Title : Research Meteorologist
Job Description : Conducting research into the seasonal and climatic relationships of Atlantic tropical cyclones, African Sahel rainfall and the El Nino-Southern Oscillation. Results of these investigations have been published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Geophysical Research Letters, the Journal of Climate, Weather and Forecasting, Tellus, Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, Monthly Weather Review and Weather.
• Issuing, with Profs. William M. Gray, Paul W. Mielke, Jr. and Kenneth J. Berry, seasonal hurricane and Sahel rainfall forecasts and their verifications.
• Have flown into over a dozen hurricanes including Hurricanes Gilbert (1988) and Opal (1995) aboard the NOAA P-3 aircraft and into Supertyphoon Flo (1990) aboard the NASA DC-8 jet.

Awards, Honors & Fellowship

• Invited to be a participant on a World Meteorological Organization committee to assess state-of-the-art research on tropical cyclones and global warming. A report on our findings was published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society in early 1998.
• Serving as Chair of the American Meteorological Society's (AMS) Committee on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones for the years 2000-2002.
• Recipient of a NOAA Post-doctoral Fellowship in Climate and Global Change for the period 1995-1996. Postdoctorate research was conducted at the NOAA/AOML Hurricane Research Division.
• Co-recipient of the American Meteorological Society's Banner I. Miller Award along with William M. Gray, Paul W. Mielke, Jr., and Kenneth J. Berry for our paper "Predicting Atlantic Seasonal Hurricane Activity 6-11 Months in Advance" at the May 1993 meeting of the 20th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology. The award was given for the "best contribution to the science of hurricane and tropical weather forecasting published during the years 1990 - 1992."
• Recipient of NASA Graduate Student Fellowship in Global Change Research, 1991 to 1994 to support doctoral research while at Colorado State University.
• Recipient of the American Meteorological Society's Max A. Eaton Prize for the Best Student Paper given at the 19th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology in May 1991.
• Second place in the American Meteorological Society's Macelwane Awards (given for undergraduate research papers) for my report "A Quantitative Comparison of Two BASIN Lidar Images" in 1986.
• Honorable mention in the American Meteorological Society's Macelwane Awards for my paper "Convective Scale Characteristics of a Hurricane during Landfall from WSR-57 Radar Data" in 1984.

 

 

Professional

• Board of Trustees, Biscayne Nature Center, 1998-Present.
• Member of the American Meteorological Society, 1985-Present.
• Member of the American Geophysical Union, 1992-Present.
• Member of Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity, 1983-1987.
• President UCLA Chapter of Tau Kappa Epsilon, 1986-1987.
• Awarded 'Top Teke Nationally' in 1987 at National Conclave.
• Played goalie on UCLA Varsity Water Polo team, 1983-1987.
• Chosen as alternate team member of US Olympic Festival, 1985, 1986, 1987.
• Eagle Scout Award earned in 1982 from the Boy Scouts of America.
  Open letter to BSA.

Education

• August 1994 Doctoral Degree in Atmospheric Science Colorado State University Advisor, Prof. William M. Gray Dissertation: "Climatic Variability of Intense Tropical Cyclones"
• May 1991 Master's Degree in Atmospheric Science Colorado State University Advisor, Prof. William M. Gray Thesis: "West African Monsoonal Rainfall and Intense Hurricane Associations"
• December 1987 Bachelor's Degree in Atmospheric Sciences University of California, Los Angeles

Personal

Recent Publications and Submissions

• Landsea, C.W. Comment on "Changes in the Rates of North Atlantic Major Hurricane Activity During the 20th Century" July 15, 2001 Geophysical Research Letters Vol. 28 No. 14, pp. 2871-2872
• Goldenberg, S.B., C.W. Landsea, A.M. Mestas-Nuñez, and W.M. Gray "The recent increase in Atlantic hurricane activity : Causes and implications" 2001 Science v.293 no.5529 pp.474-479

• R. J. Murnane, C. Barton, E. Collins, J. Donnelly, J. Elsner, K. Emanuel, I. Ginis, S. Howard, C. Landsea, K. Liu, D. Malmquist, M. McKay, A. Michaels, N. Nelson, J. O'Brien, D. Scott, and T. Webb, 2000: Model estimates hurricane wind speed probabilities. Eos, v.81, pp.433-438.
• Landsea,C.W., Knaff,J.A., 2000: "How much skill was there in forecasting the very strong 1997-98 El Nino?" Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, v.81, pp.2107-2119.
• Landsea, C. W., 2000: "El Niño-Southern Oscillation and the seasonal predictability of tropical cyclones" El Niño and the Southern Oscillation : Multiscale Variability and Global and Regional Impacts, edited by H. F. Diaz and V. Markgraf. pp.149-181
• Landsea, C. W., 2000: "Climate variability of tropical cyclones: Past, Present and Future" Storms edited by R. A. Pielke, Sr. and R. A. Pielke, Jr, Routledge, New York, p.220-241

1999

• Landsea, C.W., Pielke, Jr., R.A., Mestas-Nuñez, A.M., Knaff, J.A., 1999: Atlantic basin hurricanes: Indices of climatic changes, Climatic Change, 42, 89-129.
• Pielke, R. A., Jr., C. W. Landsea, R. T. Musulin, and M. Downton, 1999: Evaluation of catastrophe models using a normalized historical record: Why it is needed and how to do it. Journal of Risk and Insurance, v.18, pp.177-194.
• Pielke, Jr., R. A., and Landsea, C.W., 1999: "La Niña, El Niño, and Atlantic Hurricane Damages in the United States" , Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 80, 2027-2033.

 

 

• Bove, M. C., J. B. Elsner, C. W. Landsea,, X. Niu and J. J. O'Brien, 1998: Effect of El Nino on U.S. landfalling hurricanes, revisited. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc.,79, 2477-2482.
• Henderson--Sellers, A., H. Zhang, G. Berz, K. Emanuel, W. Gray, C. Landsea, G. Holland, J. Lighthill, S-L. Shieh, P. Webster, K. McGuffie, 1998: Tropical cyclones and global climate change: A post-IPCC assessment. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 79, 19-38.
• Nicholls, N., C.W. Landsea, and J. Gill, 1998: Recent trends in Australian region tropical cyclone activity. Meteorol. Atmos. Phys., 65, 197-205.
• Pielke, Jr., R. A., and Landsea, C.W., 1998: Normalized U.S. hurricane damage, 1925--1995. Wea. Forecasting, 13, 621-631.
• Landsea, C.W., G.D. Bell, W.M. Gray, and S.B. Goldenberg, 1998: The extremely active 1995 Atlantic hurricane season: Environmental conditions and verification of seasonal forecasts. Mon. Wea. Rev., 126, 1174-1193.

 

 

• Landsea, C.W., 1997: Comments on "Will greenhouse gas--induced warming over the next 50 years lead to higher frequency and greater intensity of hurricanes?", Tellus, 49A, 622--623.
• Knaff, J.A, and C.W. Landsea, 1997: An El Nino--Southern Oscillation CLImatology and PERsistence (CLIPER) Forecasting Scheme. Wea. Forecasting, 12,633--652.
• Gray, W.M., J.D. Sheaffer, and C.W. Landsea, 1997: Climate trends associated with multidecadal variability of Atlantic hurricane activity. "Hurricanes: Climate and Socioeconomic Impacts." H.F. Diaz and R.S. Pulwarty, Eds., Springer--Verlag, New York, 15-53.
• Landsea, C.W., N. Nicholls, W.M. Gray, and L.A. Avila, 1997: Reply to Comments on "Downward trends in the frequency of intense Atlantic hurricanes during the past five decades". Geo. Res. Letters, 24, 2205.

 

 

• Landsea, C.W., N. Nicholls, W.M. Gray, and L.A. Avila, 1996: Downward trends in the frequency of intense Atlantic hurricanes during the past five decades. Geo. Res. Letters, 23, 1697-1700.
• Mielke, Jr., P.W., K.J. Berry, C.W. Landsea, and W.M. Gray, 1996: Artificialskill and validation in weather forecasting. Wea. Forecasting, 11, 153-169.

 

 

• Fitzpatrick, P.J., J.A. Knaff, C.W. Landsea, and S.V. Finley, 1995: A systematic bias in the Aviation model's forecast of the Atlantic tropical upper tropospheric trough: Implications for tropical cyclone forecasting. Wea. Forecasting, 10, 433-446.

 

 

• Landsea, C.W., W.M. Gray, P.W. Mielke, Jr., and K.J. Berry, 1994: Seasonal forecasting of Atlantic hurricane activity. Weather, 49, 273-284.
• Gray, W.M., C.W. Landsea, P.W. Mielke, Jr., and K.J. Berry, 1994: Predicting Atlantic basin seasonal tropical cyclone activity by 1 June. Wea. Forecasting, 9, 103-115.

 

 

• Landsea, C.W., 1993: A climatology of intense (or major) Atlantic hurricanes. Mon. Wea. Rev., 121, 1703-1713.
• Gray, W.M., C.W. Landsea, P.W. Mielke, Jr., and K.J. Berry, 1993: Predicting Atlantic basin seasonal tropical cyclone activity by 1 August. Wea. Forecasting, 8, 73-86.
• Gray, W.M., and C.W. Landsea, 1993: Examples of the large modification in US East Coast hurricane spawned destruction by prior occurring West African rainfall conditions. "ICSU/WMO International Symposium on Tropical Cyclone Disasters", J. Lighthill, Z. Zhemin, G. Holland, and K. Emanuel, Eds. Peking University Press, Beijing, 182-189.

 

 

• Landsea, C.W., W.M. Gray, P.W. Mielke, Jr., and K.J. Berry, 1992: Long-term variations of Western Sahelian monsoon rainfall and intense U.S. landfalling hurricanes. J. Climate, 5, 1528-1534.
• Gray, W.M., C.W. Landsea, P.W. Mielke, Jr., and K.J. Berry, 1992: Predicting Atlantic seasonal hurricane activity 6-11 months in advance. Wea. Forecasting, 7, 440-455.
• Gray, W.M., and C.W. Landsea, 1992: African rainfall as a precursor of hurricane-related destruction on the U.S. East Coast. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc.,73, 1352-1364.
• Landsea, C.W., and W.M. Gray, 1992: The strong association between Western Sahelian monsoon rainfall and intense Atlantic hurricanes. J. Climate, 5, 435-453.

 

 

• Willoughby, H.E., J.M. Masters, and C.W. Landsea, 1989: A record minimum sealevel pressure observed in Hurricane Gilbert. Mon. Wea. Rev., 117, 2824-2828.