Uncertainty and Extremes

A talk at the 2014 ASP Summer Colloquium at NCAR by Claudia Tebaldi, NCAR Scientist Claudia Tebaldi obtained her Ph.D. in Statistics from Duke University in 1997 and was a postdoc and then a project scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research between 1997 and 2007. From January 2008 to September 2013 she has worked as a recent scientist for Climate Central, a research and communication organization committed to educating the US public on climate change, its impacts and solutions. She is now back at NCAR, in the Climate and Global Dynamics division, as a Project Scientist. Her research focuses on the analysis and statistical characterization of climate change projections and their uncertainty, as derived from climate models. She is a lead author of IPCC AR5, Chapter 12, Long Term Projections, Commitments and Irreversibility, a member of the Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate of the NRC, of the Working Group on Coupled Models of WMO, of the Science Review Group of theMet Office/Hadley Centre and of the Scientific Steering Committee of the International ad hoc Detection and Attribution Group. She remains a Science Fellow of Climate Central.