The US CLIVAR Extremes Working Group was formed in 2012 to evaluate whether current climate models produce extremes for the right reasons and whether they can be used for predicting and projecting short-term extremes in temperature and precipitation over North America. The WG concluded their activities in 2015.
Their scientific objectives include:
Extremes Working Group | |
Matt Barlow, co-chair | University of Massachusetts |
Richard Grotjahn, co-chair | University of California, Davis |
Tony Barnston | Columbia University/International Research Institute for Climate and Society |
Robert Black | Georgia Tech University |
Mike Bosilovich | NASA/GSFC |
Tereza Cavazos | ICIESE, Mexico |
Joshua Xiouhua Fu | University of Hawaii |
Alexander Gershunov | University of California, San Diego/SIO |
Bill Gutowski | Iowa State University |
John Gyakum | McGill University, Canada |
Rick Katz | NCAR |
Arun Kumar | NOAA/NCEP |
Lai-Yung (Ruby) Leung | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
Young-Kwon Lim | NASA/GSFC/GMAO |
Russ Schumacher | Colorado State University |
Michael Wehner | University of Berkeley/LBL |