Lindsey Long
CPC Development Branch
Lindsey.N.Williams@noaa.gov

BioGraphical Sketch:
Lindsey Long began working for the Climate Prediction Center (CPC) as a RS Information Systems (RSIS) contractor in August 2005. Her main role involves working as part of the NOAA Climate Test Bed in assessment of the Climate Forecast System (CFS). Her work includes looking at the United States warm-season precipitation, with an emphasis on the North American Monsoon. She has been involved with the North American Monsoon Experiment (NAME) Model Assessment Project 2 (NAMAP2) since joining CPC in 2005. NAMAP2 focuses on the ability of global and regional climate models to predict the 2004 North American monsoon season. For this project, Ms. Long has served as one of the main contacts at CPC and collected all model output for the project. She is also responsible for assessment and comparisons of the spatial output.

    Recently, Ms. Long has begun to analyze the ability of the CFS to predict tropical cyclones in the global ocean basins, with an emphasis on the Northern Hemisphere basins. For this project she is using CFS hindcasts at multiple horizontal resolutions to examine the tropical cyclones produced by the CFS at interannual and seasonal timescales. The characteristics and structure of the model-produced storms are also being investigated, such as minimum sea level pressure and wind speeds.

    Ms. Long, formerly Ms. Williams, received a B.S. degree in Geography and a Certificate in Atmospheric Science from the University of Georgia in 2003. She then received a M.S. degree in Meteorology from the Pennsylvania State University in 2005. At Penn State, she studied the dynamics of the Southern Hemisphere spiral jet under Dr. Sukyoung Lee. Her main objective was to examine whether the spiral connecting the subtropical and polar front jets is eddying-driven or an extension of the Hadley circulation. She published her first article in the Journal of Atmospheric Science based on this work. Ms. Long has been honored by the CPC and RSIS with an award for Technical Excellence and Customer Service Ms. Long's principal research interests are climate variability and model assessment. Specific interests include the North American Monsoon, jet dynamics, and model-produced tropical cyclones.