| Address: |
CIRES Climate
Diagnostics Center |
| Telephone: | (303) 497-6115 |
| Fax: | (303) 497-6449 |
| Email: | Gilbert.P.Compo@noaa.gov |
| Citizenship: | USA |
| Nov 1997 | Ph. D., University of
Colorado, Boulder, CO: Astrophysical, Planetary, and Atmospheric Sciences. Title: Modulation of East Asian Pressure Surges. Advisors: Dr. Peter J. Webster and Dr. George N. Kiladis. |
| Dec 1994 | M.S.
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO: Astrophysical, Planetary, and Atmospheric Sciences. Advisors: Dr. Peter J. Webster and Dr. George N. Kiladis. |
| Dec 1994 | Certificate. University of Colorado,
Boulder, CO: Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences |
| May 1992 | B.S. Duke University, Durham, NC: Physics. |
| 2008-present | Research Scientist III, CIRES, University of Colorado. | 2001-2008 | Research Scientist II, CIRES, University of Colorado. |
| 1998-2001 | Research Scientist I, CIRES, University of Colorado. |
| 1992-1997 | Graduate
Research Assistant, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO. Tropical-Midlatitude interaction. Low frequency tropical modulation of high frequency atmospheric variability. Methodology of wavelet analysis. |
| Fall 1995 | Teaching
Assistant, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO. Physical Processes in Atmospheres and Oceans. |
| Fall 1994 | Teaching Assistant, University of Colorado,
Boulder, CO. Physical Processes in Atmospheres and Oceans. |
| 1992 | Student Research Assistant, Duke
University, Durham, NC. Non-Newtonian fluids in Couette-Taylor flow. |
| 1990-1991 | Student Research
Assistant, Duke University, Durham, NC. Relaxation in viscous liquids and glasses. |
| 2007 | US Dept of Energy Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment, The 20th Century Reanalysis Project. PI: G.P. Compo, Co-PIs: J.S. Whitaker and P.D. Sardeshmukh, 2 years, 20.6 million units (4.9 million hours) |
| 2004 | NOAA Clivar-Pacific, Predictability of Northern Hemisphere Stormtracks on Seasonal to Decadal Scales. PI: P.D. Sardeshmukh, Co-PI: G.P. Compo. 3 years, $210,193 award. |
| 2004 | Bull. Amer. Soc. Papers to Note at the Annual Meeting: Predictability of Extratropical Stormtracks. |
| 2002 | NOAA OAR Outstanding Scientific Paper, 2001: Sardeshmukh, Compo, and Penland, J. Climate. |
| 2001 | CIRES, Innovative Research Program, Feasibility of Reanalysis before the radiosonde era, $26,430 award. |
| 2000 | NOAA Clivar-Pacific, Change of variability and extreme event risks in ENSO years. PI: P.D. Sardeshmukh, Co-PIs: G.P. Compo and C. Penland. 3 years, $282,924 award. |
| 1993-1995 | University Fellowship, University of Colorado at Boulder. |
| 1988-1992 | Angier B. Duke Memorial
Scholarship, full tuition scholarship at Duke University. |
| 1997-present | American Meteorological Society, Member. |
| 1993-1997 | American Meteorological Society, Student Member. |
| 2005-present | American Geophysical Union, Member. |
| 2007-present | GCOS/WCRP Working Group on Observational Data Sets for Reanalysis. |
| 2003-present | GCOS AOPC/OOPC Working Group on Surface Pressure, Co-Convenor |
| 2001-2003 | GCOS AOPC/OOPC Working Group on Surface Pressure. |
Whitaker, J.S., G.P.Compo, and J.-N. Thepaut, 2008: A comparison of variational and ensemble-based data assimilation systems for reanalysis of sparse observations. Mon. Wea. Rev., in press. AMS copyright
Compo,G.P., and P.D. Sardeshmukh, 2009: Oceanic influences on recent continental warming. Climate Dynamics, 32, 333-342, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-008-0448-9. The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com
Compo,G.P., J.S. Whitaker, and P.D. Sardeshmukh, 2006: Feasibility of a 100 year reanalysis using only surface pressure data. Bull. Amer. Met. Soc., 87, 175-190. AMS copyright
Bronnimann,S., G.P. Compo, P.D. Sardeshmukh, R. Jenne, and A. Sterin, 2005: New approaches for extending the Twentieth Century climate record. Eos,86,1,2-6. AGU copyright
Compo, G.P., and P.D. Sardeshmukh, 2004: Storm Track predictability on seasonal and decadal scales. J. Climate, 17, 3701-3720. AMS copyright
Whitaker, J.S., G.P. Compo, X. Wei, and T.M. Hamill, 2004: Reanalysis without radiosondes using ensemble data assimilation. Mon. Wea. Rev., 132, 1190-1200.AMS copyright
Newman, M., G.P. Compo, and M.A. Alexander, 2003: ENSO-forced variability of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation. J. Climate, 16, 3853-3857.AMS copyright
Loschnigg, J., G.A. Meehl, P.J. Webster, J.M. Arblaster, and G.P. Compo, 2003: The Asian Monsoon, the Tropospheric Biennial Oscillation, and the Indian Ocean Zonal Mode in the NCAR CSM. J. Climate, 16, 1617-1642.AMS copyright
Compo, G. P., P. D. Sardeshmukh, and C. Penland, 2001: Changes of subseasonal variability associated with El Niño. J. Climate, 14, 3356-3374. AMS copyright
Sardeshmukh, P. D., G. P. Compo, and C. Penland, 2000: Changes of probability associated with El Niño. J. Climate, 13, 4268-4286. AMS copyright
Compo, G. P., G. N. Kiladis, and P. J. Webster, 1999: East Asian winter Monsoon pressure surges and their relationship to Tropical variability. Quart. J. Roy. Met. Soc., 125, 29-54. RMS copyright
Torrence, C. and G. P. Compo, 1998: A practical guide to wavelet analysis. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 79, 61-78. AMS copyright
Meehl, G. A., G. N. Kiladis, K. M. Weickmann, M. Wheeler, D. S. Gutzler, and G. P. Compo, 1996: Modulation of equatorial subseasonal convective episodes by Tropical-extratropical interaction in the Indian and Pacific Ocean regions. J. of Geophys. Res., 101, 15033-15049. AGU copyright
Compo, G.P., P.D. Sardeshmukh, and C. Penland, 2001: Changes of subseasonal variability associated with El Niño. Symposium on Climate Variability, the Oceans, and Societal Impacts, Albuquerque, NM, 14-18 January 2001, pp.74-81.
Sardeshmukh, P.D., G.P. Compo, and C. Penland, 1999: Changes of probability associated with El Niño. Eighth Conference on Climate Variations, Denver, CO, 13-17 September 1999, pp.16-19.
Compo, G.P., G.N. Kiladis, and P.J. Webster, 1998: The relationship between East Asian pressure surges and the Madden-Julian Oscillation. COARE 98: Proceeding of a conference on the TOGA Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment (COARE), Boulder, CO, 7-14 July 1998, pp. 173-174.
Torrence, C., P.J. Webster, and G.P. Compo, 1997: Interannual predictability and interdecadal variability. Seventh Conference on Climate Variations, Long Beach, CA, 2-7 February 1997, pp. 145-148.
Compo, G.P., B.E. Mapes, G.N. Kiladis, and P.J. Webster, 1996: The relationship between Tropical western Pacific westerly anomalies and East Asian pressure surges. Conference on the Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System (GOALS), Atlanta, GA, 28 January - 2 February 1996, pp. J77-J80.
Meehl, G.A., G.N. Kiladis, M. Wheeler, K.M. Weickmann, D.S. Gutzler, G.P. Compo, 1996: Tropical-extratropical interaction during subseasonal eastward progressions of convection from the Indian Ocean to the western Pacific. Conference on the Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System (GOALS), Atlanta, GA, 28 January - 2 February 1996, pp. J74-J77.
Compo, G.P, G.N. Kiladis, and, P.J. Webster, 1996: A Study of interannual, seasonal, and intraseasonal modulation of the high frequency global circulation using wavelet analysis. Proceedings of the 21st Annual Climate Diagnostics Workshop, Huntsville, AL, 28 October - 1 November 1996, pp.251-254.
Torrence, C., P.J. Webster, and G.P. Compo, 1996: Interannual predictability and interdecadal variability. Proceedings of the 21st Annual Climate Diagnostics Workshop, Huntsville, AL, 28 October - 1 November 1996, pp. 150-153.
Compo, G.P., G.N. Kiladis, and P.J. Webster, 1995: Modulation of tropical-extratropical interaction by the Madden-Julian Oscillation. Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference on the Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere (TOGA) Programme, WCRP-91 -- WMO/TD No. 717, Melbourne, Australia, 2-7 April 1995, pp. 147-151.
Compo, G.P, B.E. Mapes, G.N. Kiladis, and, P.J. Webster, 1995: The relationship between Tropical western Pacific westerly anomalies and East Asian pressure surges. Proceedings of the 20th Annual Climate Diagnostics Workshop, Seattle, WA, 23 October - 27 October 1995, pp. 93-95.