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'A Recent Alteration in North American Winter Climate Regime - Impacts on the Western U.S. ' Plenary Speaker Abstract: The dramatic switch from extreme drought to severe flooding in the Western U.S., and the accompanying flip from atmospheric ridge to trough in the Pacific Northwest, has exemplified the pathways to an intensified water cycle under a warming climate.
SPEAKER INFORMATION
PRESENTER(S): Rob Gillies - Bio: Dr. Gillies grew up in Scotland. He received his Masters in geography from the University of Glasgow, and studied meteorology at the Pennsylvania State University. He was a research associate at Penn State while working on a PhD in meteorology and remote sensing from the University of Newcastle. Dr. Gillies joined the faculty of Utah State University in 1996 with a joint appointment in the departments of Geography and Earth Resources and Plants, Soils and Biometeorology. In 2006, Dr. Gillies became the director of the Utah Climate Center, where he set a new course for the center by making the center’s databases of Utah climate information accessible on-line. Dr. Gillies is an author or co-author of dozens of refereed journal articles and official reports. He has conducted numerous presentations within the State of Utah, as well as at national and international venues in the science behind inversion prediction, climate precipitation cycles (particularly for the Intermountain West) and, global climate change.