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Appendix E: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Appendix E: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Pages 226-234
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Carbone received the 2001 AMS Cleveland Abbe Award for distinguished service to atmospheric science by an individual and the 2003 NCAR Publication Prize. He has served on several National Research Council committees including the Committee on Weather Forecasting Accuracy for FAA Air Traffic Control and the Panel on the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX)
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on seven snow and ice control projects for state departments of transportation. He also served as PI on three Transportation Research Board projects, including the Strategic Highway Research Program project investigating road weather information systems.
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He is presently chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the World Meteorological Organization Urban Environment Research Program and serves on the steering committee of the Commission on Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution. He has been a member and chair of the American Meteorological Society's Committee on Atmospheric Chemistry and on numerous other committees and boards.
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He has played a key role in developing the CSU-CHILL National Radar facility as one of the most advanced meteorological radar systems available for research, and continues to work actively with the CSU-CHILL radar by supporting its research and education mission and by serving as co-principal investigator of the facility. In addition he also serves as the associate director of the newly established National science Foundation Engineering Research Center, Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere.
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Dr. Krajewski's special fields of knowledge include hydrology and hydrometeorology, water resources systems, radar and satellite remote sensing, uncertainty modeling, and systems analysis.
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His research focuses on remote sensing of the earth and its environment from space, as well as the development and evolution of atmospheric convection, with an emphasis on the study of mesoscale processes using satellite data. He received the Department of Commerce Silver Medal in 1994, the National Weather Association Special Award in 1996, and the American Meteorological Society Special Award in 1997.
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His service on national and international boards and committees includes atmospheric science editor of Earth Science Reviews, associate editor of Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, and chair of the Transferability Working Group of the Hydrometeorology Panel of the World Climate Research Programme. He has more than 200 publications and research presentations on topics such as climate change, turbulent flow through agricultural shelterbelts, and roadway weather.
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. For the past 10 years, he helped build WeatherFlow from a small regional sailing weather service to a national business offering commercial marine meteorological products with over 60,000 customers nationwide.
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234 APPENDIX E Rob Greenway is a senior program assistant at the National Academies Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate. He has worked on National Research Council studies that produced the reports Assessment of the Benefits of Extending the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission: A Perspective from the Research and Operations Communities, Review of NOAA's Plan for the Scientific Stewardship Program, Where the Weather Meets the Road: A Research Agenda for Improving Road Weather Services, and Completing the Forecast: Characterizing and Communicating Uncertainty for Better Decisions Using Weather and Climate Forecasts, among others.
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