Joseph Tribbia

Joseph J. Tribbia is a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and Head of its Atmospheric Modeling and Predictability Section in the Climate and Global Dynamics Division. He received a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1971, and a masters and doctoral degree in Atmospheric Science from the University of Michigan. He has been at NCAR since 1978 and his work has focused on the numerical simulation of the atmosphere and geophysically relevant flows. His more than 70 research articles include works on the application of dynamical systems theory in atmospheric dynamics, the problems of atmospheric data analysis and numerical weather prediction, atmospheric predictability and the prediction of forecast reliability, and recently the simulation and prediction of El Nino/Southern Oscillation and decadal climate projections. He has served as a section head at NCAR since 1992 and has been the deputy division director of CGD and served as the NCAR Science Advisor in 2005. He has served on external review as advisory committees for the Naval Research Laboratory, NASA and the NSF and been a visitor to several institutions in the US and abroad.