|
   
| |
Global Climate Laboratory
National Climatic Data Center
151 Patton Avenue
Asheville, NC 28801
Phone: (704) 271-4311
FAX: (704) 271-4328
Email: deasterl@ncdc.noaa.gov
Vitae
Education
University of North Carolina Ph.D. 1987 Physical Geography
University of North Carolina M.S. 1984 Physical Geography
University of North Carolina B.A. 1979 Geography
Professional Experience
1990-present Research Meteorologist, Global Climate Lab, National Climatic Data
Center, Asheville, NC; Outstanding Job Performance Rating, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993,
1994, 1995.
Adjunct Faculty, Climate/Meteorology Program, Dept. of Geography, Indiana University,
Bloomington
1987-1990 Assistant Professor, Climate/Meteorology Program, Dept. of Geography, Indiana
University, Bloomington
1985-1987 Computer Programmer II, Health Services Research Center, University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill
1984,1985,1987 Teaching Fellow, Dept. of Geography, University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill
1981-1984 Graduate Assistant, Dept. of Geography, University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill
Research Focus
Analysis of observed climate variability and change, development of climate
change scenarios for use in climate impacts assessment, development of methods of
homogeneity analysis for climatic time series.
 | Selected Publications
 | Groisman, P. Ya., and D.R. Easterling, 1994: Variability and trends of
precipitation and snowfall over the United States and Canada, J. Climate, 186-205. |
| Carleton, A.M., D.E. Jelinski, D. Travis, D. Arnold, R. Brinegar, and D.R.
Easterling, 1994:
· Climatic-scale vegetation-cloud interactions during drought using satellite data., Int.
J. Climatol., 593-623. |
| Peterson, T.C., and D.R. Easterling, 1994: Creation of homogeneous climatological
reference series, Int. J. Climatol., 671-679. |
| Groisman, P. Ya., and D.R. Easterling, 1994: Precipitation changes over the
Northern Hemisphere extratropics during the last one hundred years, Global Precipitation
and Climate Change, NATO ASI Series, V. I26, 119-133. |
| Karl, T.R., R.W. Knight, D.R. Easterling, and R.G. Quayle, 1995: Trends in U.S.
climate in the twentieth century, Consequences, V. 1, 2-12. |
| Easterling, D.R., and T.C. Peterson, 1995: A new method for detecting
undocumented discontinuities in climatological time series, Int. J. Climatol., 369-377. |
| Easterling, D.R., and T.C. Peterson, 1995: The effect of artificial
discontinuities on recent minimum and maximum temperature trends, Atmos. Res., V. 37,
19-26. |
| Karl, T.R., V. Derr, D.R. Easterling, C. Folland, S. Levitus, N. Nicholls, D.
Parker, and G.W.
Withee, 1995: Critical issues for long-term climate monitoring, Climatic Change, in press. |
| Karl, T.R., R.W. Knight, D.R. Easterling, and R.G. Quayle, 1996: Indices of
climate change for the United States, Bull. of the Amer. Met. Soc. |
| Groisman, P.Ya., D.R. Easterling, R.G. Quayle, V.S. Golubev, A.N. Krenke, A.Ya.
Mikhailov,1996: Reducing biases in estimates of precipitation over the United States:
Phase three adjustments, J. Geophys. Res., in press. |
| Easterling, D.R., T.C. Peterson, and T.R. Karl, 1996: On the development and use
of homogenized climatological data sets, J. Climate, in press. |
| Easterling, D.R., T.R. Karl, T.C. Peterson, P.D. Jones, M.J. Salinger, B. Horton,
D. Bowman, D. Parker, 1996: A new look at asymmetric maximum and minimum temperature
trends for the globe, submitted to Nature
|
|
Current and Pending Support
Easterling, D.R., 1996: Statistical generation of surface air temperature and
precipitation for the Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas (MINK) region using a transient
General Circulation Model simulation, to be submitted to J. Climate C. Collaborators Dr.
Pavel Ya. Groisman, Dept. Of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst and State
Hydrologic Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia (trends in precipitation and homogeneity of
precipitation) Dr. Kenneth Kunkel, Director, Midwest Regional Climate Center, Illinois
State Water Survey (analysis of heavy multi-day precipitation events in the USA). Dr.
Thomas C. Peterson, Global Climate Laboratory, NOAA/NCDC, (development of methods for
homogeneity analysis of climatic time series, analysis of climatic trends) Thomas R. Karl,
Senior Scientist, NOAA/NCDC, (down-scaling of GCM simulations for development of climate
scenarios, analysis of climatic trends)
Co-Investigator (with Thomas R. Karl): NOAA-Department of Energy Interagency Agreement:
Data Preparation and Analysis for Annex III, United States/People's Republic of China
Cooperation in the Field of Atmospheric Trace Gases, $250,000 per year, FY94-96,
Interagency Agreement DE-AI05-90ER60952.
| |
|
