Full CV (pdf) follows (last updated on 27 January 2023).
Education
Ph.D., 2005, Statistics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
M.S., 1998, Statistics, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
B.A., 1996, Mathematics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
Recent Appointments
12/03/2002 to Present: Research Applications Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research
- Project Scientist II (12/18/2013 to Present)
- Project Scientist I (10/30/2006 to 12/18/2013)
- Associate Scientist III (6/1/2006 to 10/30/2006)
- Associate Scientist II (12/03/2002 to 6/1/2006)
Honors, awards, citations
- 2022 UCAR Technical Advancement in Support of Science Award
- 2020 American Meteorological Society Editor's Award for Monthly Weather Review
- 2014 Editors' Citation for Excellence in Refereeing for Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
- 2010 UCAR Scientific and Technical Advancement Award
Selected Refereed Publications
Brunner, M. I., D. L. Swain, R. R., Wood, F., Willkofer, J.M., Done, E. Gilleland, and R. Ludwig, 2021. An extremeness threshold determines the regional response of floods to changes in rainfall extremes. Communications Earth & Environment, doi: 10.1038/s43247-021-00248-x.
Jha, S., M. Goyal, B. B. Gupta, C.-H. Hsu, E. Gilleland, and J. Das, 2021. A methodological framework for extreme climate risk assessment integrating satellite and location based datasets in Intelligent Systems. International Journal of Intelligent Systems, (in press), doi: 10.1002/int.22475.
Gilleland, E., 2021. Novel measures for summarizing high-resolution forecast performance. Advances in Statistical Climatology, Meteorology and Oceanography, 7 (1), 13 - 34, doi: 10.5194/ascmo-7-13-2021.
Gilleland, E., 2020. Bootstrap methods for statistical inference. Part I: Comparative forecast verification for continuous variables. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 37 (11), 2117 - 2134, doi: 10.1175/JTECH-D-20-0069.1.
Gilleland, E., 2020. Bootstrap methods for statistical inference. Part II: Extreme-value analysis. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 37 (11), 2135 - 2144, doi: 10.1175/JTECH-D-20-0070.1.
Brunner, M. I., E. Gilleland, A. Wood, D. L. Swain, and M. Clark, 2019. Spatial dependence of floods shaped by spatiotemporally varying land surface processes. Geophysical Research Letters, 47 (13), e2020GL088000, doi: 10.1029/2020GL088000.
Gilleland, E., A. S. Hering, T. L. Fowler, and B. G. Brown, 2018. Testing the tests: What are the impacts of incorrect assumptions when applying confidence intervals or hypothesis tests to compare competing forecasts? Mon. Wea. Rev., 146 (6), 1685 - 1703, DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-17-0295.1
Ekström, M. and Gilleland, E., 2017. Assessing convection permitting resolutions of WRF for the purpose of water resource impact assessment and vulnerability work; a southeast Australian case study. Water Resour. Res., 53 (1), 726 - 743, DOI: 10.1002/2016WR019545.
Shen, L., L. J. Mickley, and E. Gilleland, 2016. Impact of increasing heatwaves on U.S. ozone episodes in the 2050s: Results from a multi-model analysis using extreme value theory. Geophysical Research Letters, 43 (8), 4017 - 4025, DOI: 10.1002/2016GL068432.
Cheng, L., E. Gilleland, M. J. Heaton, and A. AghaKouchak, 2014. Empirical Bayes estimation for the conditional extreme value model. Stat, 3 (1) 391 - 406, DOI: 10.1002/sta4.71.
Gilleland, E., 2013. Testing competing precipitation forecasts accurately and efficiently: The spatial prediction comparison test. Mon. Wea. Rev., 141, (1), 340 - 355, doi: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00155.1.
Gilleland, E., B. G. Brown, and C. M. Ammann, 2013. Spatial extreme value analysis to project extremes of large-scale indicators for severe weather. Environmetrics, 24 (6), 418 - 432, DOI: 10.1002/env.2234.
Heaton, M.J., M. Katzfuss, S. Ramachandar, K. Pedings, E. Gilleland, E. Mannshardt-Shamseldin, and R.L. Smith, 2010. Spatio-Temporal Models for Large-scale Indicators of Extreme Weather. Environmetrics, 22, 294 - 303, doi: 10.1002/env.1050.
Gilleland, E. and D.W. Nychka, 2005. Statistical Models for Monitoring and Regulating Ground-level Ozone. Environmetrics, 16, 535 - 546, doi: 10.1002/env.720.
Committee Service
1. Program Chair-Elect 2022 for the American Statistical Association Statistics and the Environment (ENVR) Section (9/2021 – 9/2022). Program Chair (9/2022 – 9/2023).
2. Member: World Meteorological Organization (WMO) World Weather Research Devision's Joint Working Group on Forecast Verification Research (JWGFVR), 2/22/2018 – 12/31/2021.
3. NCAR node director for STATMOS (1/1/14 – 6/1/2019), https://www.statmos.washington.edu/?page_id=266).
4. American Meteorological Society's Probability and Statistics Committee (Committee Member: 1/16/2011 – 2/15/15, Committee Chair, 2/15/15 – 1/15/18).
5. Organizing committee of the Mesoscale Verification Intercomparison in Complex Terrain (Meso-VICT) project.
6. Lead organizer of the Spatial Forecast Verification Methods Inter-Comparison Project (ICP, http://www.ral.ucar.edu/projects/icp/).
Conference Organization
1. Co-organizer of the 30th Conference on Climate Variability and Change, 24th Conference on Probability and Statistics, and 16th Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 28 – 29 July 2017, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
2. Co-chair for the 4th International Workshop on Climate Informatics. 25 - 26 September 2014, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A. (https://www2.image.ucar.edu/event/ci2014).
3. Organizing Chair for the 4th Annual UCAR/NCAR Early Career Scientists Assembly (ECSA) Junior Faculty Forum on Future Scientific Directions, 1 – 3 August 2006, Boulder, CO.
Software Development
• R software packages (author and maintainer): distillery, extRemes/in2extRemes, smoothie, and SpatialVx.
• Advisory role on the stand-alone software package: Model Evaluation tools (MET, https://dtcenter.org/met/users/).
• Contributor to R packages: RadioSonde, fields.
• Maintainer of R packages: ismev, verification.
Journal Service
Associate Editor: Monthly Weather Review, 1/2014 – present.
Journal reviewer for: Agricultutral and Forest Meteorology, American Water Resources Association, Annals of Applied Statistics, J. Applied Meteorology and Climatology, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Atmospheric Research, Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Chance Magazine, J. Climate, Climatic Change, Climate Dynamics, Communications in Statistics, Environmetrics, J. Environmental Management, Environmental Modelling and Software, Environmental Processes, Eos, Extremes, J. Geophys. Res., Geophys. Res. Lett., J. Hydrology, J. Hydrometeorology, Meteorol. Appl., Meteorologische Zeitschrift, Mon. Wea. Rev., Nature, Nonlin. Proc. Geophys., Journal of the Royal Statistical Society C, SIAM J. Uncertainty Quant., Stoch. Environ. Res. Risk Assess., Water Resources Research, Weather and Forecasting, Wind Energy.
Professional Society Memberships
American Geophysical Union, American Meteorological Society, American Statistical Association, and The International Environmetrics Society.
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