Eric Gilleland, Ph.D.
Project Scientist
Forecast Evaluation and Applied Statistics,
Weather Systems and Assessment Program (WSAP)
Research Applications Laboratory (RAL)

National Center for Atmospheric Research
Research Applications Laboratory
3450 Mitchell Lane
Boulder, CO 80301
USA

• Ph.D. (2005), Statistics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado.^*
• M.S. (1998), Statistics, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.
• B.A. (1996), Mathematics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado.

^*Dissertation Title: "Statistical models for quantifying the spatial distribution of seasonally derived ozone standards."

Advisers: Doug Nychka and Thomas C.M. Lee

Research Assistant with NCAR's Geophysical Statistics Project (GSP) while studying at CSU. GSP is now part of the Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences (IMAGe -- French pronunciation).

• Refereed Publications
• Book Chapter
• Other
• From the Desk

Abeysirigunawardena DS, E Gilleland, D Bronaugh, 2008. Extreme wind regime responses to climate variability and change in the inner-south-coast of British Columbia Canada. Accepted to Atmosphere-Ocean.

Gilleland E, TCM Lee, J Halley Gotway, RG Bullock, and BG Brown, 2008. Computationally efficient spatial forecast verification using Baddeley's image metric. Mon. Wea. Rev. 136(5):1747--1757.

Gilleland E and TL Fowler, 2006. Network design for verification of ceiling and visibility forecasts, Environmetrics 17(6):575--589.

Stephenson A and E Gilleland, 2005. Software for the Analysis of Extreme Events: The Current State and Future Directions, Extremes 8:87--109.

Gilleland E and D Nychka, 2005. Statistical Models for Monitoring and Regulating Ground-level Ozone, Environmetrics 16: 535--546.

Gilleland E, D Nychka, and U Schneider, 2006. Spatial models for the distribution of extremes, Hierarchical modelling for the Environmental Sciences: statistical methods and applications, Edts. JS Clark and A Gelfand. Oxford University Press, New York pp.170--183. ISBN 0-19-8569671

Gilleland E, M Pocernich, HE Brooks, BG Brown, and P Marsh, 2008. Large-scale indicators for severe weather. Proceedings of the American Statistical Association (ASA) Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), 3-7 August 2008, Denver, Colorado.

Ahijevych DA, E Gilleland, BG Brown, EE Ebert, L Holland, and C Davis, 2008. Intercomparison of spatial verification methods. 88th Annual American Meteorological Society (AMS) meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana. 9.1 Probability/Statistics conference.

Gilleland E and RW Katz. "Analyzing seasonal to interannual extreme weather and climate variability with the extremes toolkit (extRemes)", 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change, 86th American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting, 29 January - 2 February, 2006, Atlanta, Georgia. P2.15 (contributed poster).

Gilleland E and RW Katz, 2005. Tutorial for The Extremes Toolkit: Weather and Climate Applications of Extreme Value Statistics, http://www.isse.ucar.edu/extremevalues/evtk.html

Gilleland E, 2004. Optimizing METAR Network Design for Verification of Cloud Ceiling Height and Visibility Forecasts, conference proceedings (preprint) for the 2004 joint meeting of The Fifteenth Annual Conference of The International Environmetrics Society and The Sixth International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, 28 June - 1 July, 2004, Portland, ME.

Gilleland E, 2004. 2.5 Improving forecast verification through network design, proceedings of the 17th Conference on Probablity and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, 84th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), 10 - 15 January, 2004, Seattle, WA.

Gilleland E, 2008. Confidence intervals for forecast verification. 30 July 2008. (pdf)

• Project Organization
• Conferences/Workshops
• Reading Groups
• Visiting Excursions
• History of English Presentation

• Organizing Lead: Spatial Forecast Verification Methods Inter-Comparison Project (ICP)

• 2008 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) of the American Statistical Association (ASA): 3-7 August, Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.
  Large-scale indicators of severe weather: cape and shear (pdf)
• The 19th TIES Conference 8-13 June 2008 Kelowna, BC Canada.
  • Gilleland E. Spatial Extremes in Atmospheric Problems (invited talk, pdf, References pdf).
  • Lindström J, E Gilleland and F Lindgren. The Image Warp for Gridded Forecast Verification. (invited talk, ppt, pdf).
• DTC Verification Workshop, NCAR Foothills Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado. 16-18 April 2008.
  • Gilleland, E. Resampling methods for statistical inference: Bootstrap methods (pdf)
• ICP Spring 2008 Workshop, NCAR Foothills Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado. 14-15 April 2008 (Organizing Lead).
  • Lindström J., Gilleland E., and Lindgren F. Image warping for forecast verification (pdf)

• "Statistical analysis of Extremes in Geophysical Science"
• Forecast Verification

21 October to 3 November 2007. Mathematical Statistics, Centre for Mathe matical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
    Seminar: Method for Object-based Diagnostic Evaluation (MODE): A features-based spatial fo recast verification technique (ppt), 26 October 2008.

Gilleland, Eric, Katz, Rick, and Young, Greg (2004) extRemes: Extremes: Weather and Climate Applications of Extreme Value Statistics. Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) for extreme value software in the R (http://www.r-project.org) programming language.

Gilleland, Eric and Nychka, Douglas (2001) DI: Design Interface. S-Plus functions (Windows) for interactive network design problems (draws on previous work by Nancy Saltzman and J. Andrew Royle).

Hoar, Tim, Gilleland, Eric, and Nychka, Douglas (2000) RadioSonde. A package of R (http://www.r-project.org) functions for reading in radiosonde data, and making meteorological plots, such as skew-T diagrams.

Information page on Software for Extreme Value Theory originally created by Alec Stephenson, and now maintained at NCAR by Eric Gilleland.

Useful Links

• Libraries
• Professional Societies and Organizations

• NCAR
• University of Colorado
• Colorado State University

• American Meteorological Society
• American Statistical Association
• R Project for Statistical Computing
• The International Environmetrics Society (TIES)
• Spatial Accuracy Research Group

Fryske Ferwizings (Frisian links): Some information about the Frisian people and their language with links to various Frisian language sites.

Deaf Symphony (my 2^nd cousin Howard's heavy metal band)
Larry (far right) has a nice drumming site.

Piter Wilkens (right) writes and sings songs in Frisian.