NCAR's Geophysical Statistics Project (GSP)

Eric Gilleland
Project Scientist, Forecast Verification
Weather Systems and Assessment Program (WSAP)
Research Applications Laboratory (RAL)
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR); Boulder, Colorado

Education
Refereed Publications

Book Chapter

Other Publications

Conferences/Workshops

Software

Professional Interests

Links

Contact

Education

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.

Refereed Publications

Gilleland, Eric and Fowler, Tressa L. (2006). Network design for verification of ceiling and visibility forecasts, Environmetrics 17 (6):575--589.
Stephenson, Alec and Gilleland, Eric (2005). Software for the Analysis of Extreme Events: The Current State and Future Directions, Extremes 8:87--109.
Gilleland, Eric and Nychka, Douglas (2005) Statistical Models for Monitoring and Regulating Ground-level Ozone, Environmetrics 16: 535--546.

Book Chapter

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, Edited by JS Clark and A Gelfand. Oxford University Press, New York pp.170--183. ISBN 0-19-8569671

Other Publications

Gilleland, Eric and Katz, Richard W. "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, Eric and Katz, Richard W. (2005), Tutorial for The Extremes Toolkit: Weather and Climate Applications of Extreme Value Statistics,

Gilleland, Eric (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, Eric (2004), 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.

Conferences/Workshops

86th American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting
, 29 January - 2 February, 2006, Atlanta, Georgia.
- Gilleland, Eric and Katz, Richard W. "Analyzing seasonal to interannual extreme weather and climate variability with the extremes toolkit (extRemes)", 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change (contributed poster).
- "Evaluating spatial quantitative precipitation forecasts in the form of binary images", 18th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences (contributed talk).
4th Conference on Extreme Value Analysis: Probabilistic and Statistical Models and their Applications, 15 - 19 August, 2005, Gothenburg, Sweden.
- Gilleland, Eric. The Extremes Toolkit: Weather and Climate Applications of Extreme Value Statistics (invited talk).
2005 Joint Statistical Meetings of the American Statistical Association, Using Our Discipline to Enhance Human Welfare, 7 - 11 August, 2005, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
- Schneider, Uli, Nychka, Douglas, Cooley, Daniel, and Gilleland, Eric. Statistical Methods for Spatial Data (contributed talk).
International Verification Methods Workshop, 15 - 17 Sep., 2004, Montreal, Québec, Canada.
- Lee, Thomas C.M., Gilleland, Eric, Brown, Barbara, and Bullock, Randy. Verification of quantitative precipitation forecasts using Baddeley's delta metric (contributed talk).
- Gilleland, Eric. Optimizing METAR network design to remove potential bias in verification of cloud ceiling height and visibility forecasts (contributed talk).
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, Maine.
- Gilleland, Eric. Optimizing METAR Network Design for Verification of Cloud Ceiling Height and Visibility Forecasts (contributed talk/paper).
Graybill Conference 2004, Spatial Statistics: Agricultural, Ecological, and Environmental Applications, 16 - 18 June, 2004, Fort Collins, Colorado.
- Gilleland, Eric, Nychka, Douglas and Schneider, Uli. Spatial models for the distribution of extremes (contributed talk).
R users conference (useR!2004), 20 - 22 May, 2004, Vienna, Austria.
- Gilleland, Eric, Katz, Rick, and Young, Greg. extRemes (contributed talk).
17th Conference on Probablity and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, 84th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), 10 - 15 January, 2004, Seattle, Washington.
- Gilleland, Eric. Improving forecast verification through network design (contributed talk/paper).
2003 Joint Statistical Meetings of the American Statistical Association, Statistics: A bridge to discovery and knowledge, 3 - 7 August, 2003, San Francisco, California.
1st Intl. Conf. on Environmental Statistics and Health., 16 - 18 July 2003, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
- Gilleland, Eric. Statistical Models for Monitoring and Regulating Ground-level Ozone (contributed poster).

Software

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.

¹ Gilleland, Eric and Nychka, Douglas (2001) DI: Design Interface. S-Plus functions (Windows) for interactive network design problems.

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.

² fields: Tools for spatial data. An R ( http://www.r-project.org) package.

Professional Interests

Links (Ferwizings)

Statistical Analysis of Extremes in the Geophysical Sciences Reading Group

GSP (My CVS Sandbox)

UCAR

NCAR

NCAR's Library

Forecast Verification

Extreme Value Toolkit

Research Applications Laboratory (RAL)

Eric Gilleland

R Project

My CSU Home Page

My Resume

Contact Information

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

Phone:	(303)	497-	2849
Fax:	(303)	497-	8401
electronic mail:	ericg	@	ucar.edu

¹DI is developed by Eric Gilleland and Doug Nychka and draws on previous work by Nancy Saltzman and J. Andrew Royle.
²fields has drawn heavily from its predecessor, FUNFITS, to the extent that it is hard to separate who is primarily responsible for what. With that in mind, giving credit to everyone involved in FUNFITS and Fields seems appropriate. In no particular order, they are: Doug Nychka, Barbara Bailey, Stephen Ellner, Perry Haaland, Michael O'Connell, Sarah Hardy, Jungmin Baik, Wendy Meiring, J. Andrew Royle, Montserrat Fuentes, Tim Hoar, Claudia Tebaldi and Eric Gilleland.