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Barbara G. Brown |
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| Project Scientist Biographical Sketch Ms. Brown earned a B.S. degree in statistics from Colorado State University, and then studied environmental science, with an emphasis on atmospheric science, at the University of Virginia, where she received an M.S. degree. Her research at the University of Virginia involved the statistical design and evaluation of weather modification experiments. For the following two years, she worked at the Institute for Atmospheric Sciences at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, where shecontinued to work on statistical aspects of weather modification programs. Subsequently, she obtained an M.S. degree in statistics from Oregon State University. While at Oregon State, she was a research associate in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences, where her work concerned applications of statistics to the atmospheric sciences and the development of approaches to evaluate the quality, use, and value of eather and climate information. After leaving Oregon State University, Ms. Brown continued her work in the Environmental and Societal Impacts Group at the National Center for tmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. She subsequently obtained her current position as the lead of the verification group in the Research Applications Program at NCAR, where she is a Project Scientist. The verification group has primarily focused on applications to aviation weather forecasts, including forecasts of in-flight icing, turbulence, and convection. Ms. Brown is a member of the FAA's Aviation Weather Research Program In-flight Icing, Turbulence, Ceiling and Visibility, Convective Weather, Oceanic Weather, and Aviation Forecast and Quality Assessment Product Development Teams. She has developed verification approaches that are appropriate for aviation weather forecasts, has led efforts to improve and interpret the information available from verification studies, and has coordinated or helped to coordinate numerous intercomparisons of various types of forecasts. She also has contributed extensively to the development of methods used by the Real-Time Verification System at the Forecast Systems Laboratory. Ms. Brown has served as member and Chair of the AMS committee on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences and is a member of several working groups and committees on in-flight icing and forecast verification. She currently is associate editor for the journal Weather and Forecasting. Ms. Brown lives in Boulder with her husband, Ed Tollerud, and their two teenage sons. |
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