Leadership
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Dr. William Collins is an internationally recognized expert in climate modeling and climate change science.
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Characterizing and identifying weather drivers of extremes
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Variability and change in the spatio-temporal characteristics of extreme events
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Statistics of observed and simulated extremes
Senior Personnel
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Extreme weather and climate variability
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Atmospheric science, climate dynamics, monsoons, Earth’s hydrological cycle
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Application performance engineer on "Toolkit for Extreme Climate Analysis (TECA)"
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Understanding the limits of predictability for low-likelihood, high-impact events.
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Gaussian processes, machine learning, and constrained function optimization
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Statistical methods for climate data
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Understanding and simulating changes in mountain hydroclimate systems
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Weather and climate extremes, climate data metrics and evaluation
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Regional and global climate modeling, data analysis algorithms and tools, climate data metrics and evaluation
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Feature detection and visualization for climate data
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Extreme weather events and their impacts in a changing climate
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Variability and predictability of extreme events
Postdoctoral, Graduate, & Undergraduate Researchers
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Coupled atmosphere-ocean modeling of extreme events
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Influences of climate change and land-atmosphere interactions on mesoscale convective systems.
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Applying statistical techniques towards understanding different atmospheric phenomenon
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Seasonal variability and change of tropical cyclone activity
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Constraining future projections of extreme rainfall with machine learning
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Evaluating ML weather forecast models
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Statistical methods for orthonormal matrices and dynamic systems
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Atmospheric Rivers detection, attribution, and morphology using climate models and ARTMIP catalog
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Simulating and analyzing projected changes in tropical cyclone activity