John Janowiak
CPC Development Branch John.Janowiak@noaa.gov (301)763-8000 x 7537
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John Janowiak is currently the principal investigator on research proposals to NASA and NOAA that involve the development of techniques to estimate precipitation from satellite data and the use of the resulting analyses for diagnostic climate studies.
Mr. Janowiak serves as the manager of the Geostationary Satellite Center for the Global Precipitation Climatology Project and is a member of the GOES-R Hydrology Team. He also serves as liaison between CPC and the Earth Systems Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) at the University of Maryland.
Mr. Janowiak began his career in the NWS at the Techniques Development Laboratory (now called the Meteorological Development Laboratory) in 1977 and joined CPC (then called CAC) in 1981. During his tenure at CPC, he has assisted in the development of numerous CPC climate monitoring tools. These include the Climate Diagnostics Data Base which was the primary atmospheric monitoring tool and was the forerunner of CDAS/Reanalysis, the OLR data base, CAMS, CAMS-OPI (for real-time global precipitation monitoring), gridded US COOP data sets, and most recently the CMORPH high-resolution global precipitation analysis technique.
Mr. Janowiak received a B.S. degree in Meteorology from the University of Michigan in 1973 and M.S. in Computer Science from The Johns Hopkins University in 1985. He has co-authored more than 40 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters (including 17 as lead author) on topics that include climate variability, model validation and remote sensing. He is the recipient of several NOAA Service Awards, including three NOAA Bronze Medals and a Department of Commerce Gold Medal (shared).
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