Catherine Smith

I primarily work on web and climate data storage and distribution. In particular, I create and help design web tools that allow researchers, students, resources managers, and others to analyze climate and weather data. I also have done research on different statistical techniques and how they can/ought to be used in meteorology. I have also studied ENSO and temperature/precipitation relationships. A hobby of mine is Boulder weather and I have maintained the NOAA/PSD Boulder weather and climate page for over 20 years.

Honors and Awards

2020 CIRES Silver Award for 20CR work
2013 AMS Special Award for making climate data and products easily accessible.
2002 NOAA Research Partner of the Month for research and support in preparing a report to Congress on the May 2003 tornado outbreak.
2001 CIRES Outstanding Performance Award

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Slivinski LC; Compo GP; Sardeshmukh PD; Whitaker JS; McColl C; Allan RJ; Brohan P; Yin X; Smith CA; Spencer LJ. (Feb 2021). An Evaluation of the Performance of the Twentieth Century Reanalysis Version 3. Journal of Climate , 34(4), 1417-1438. 10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0505.1
Ades M; Adler R; Allan R; Allan RP; Anderson J; Arguez A; Arosio C; Augustine JA; Azorin-Molina C; Barichivich J. (Aug 2020). GLOBAL CLIMATE. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society , 101(8), S17-S127.
Murray D; Hoell A; Hoerling M; Perlwitz J; Quan X-W; Allured D; Zhang T; Eischeid J; Smith CA; Barsugli J. (Jul 2020). Facility for Weather and Climate Assessments (FACTS) A Community Resource for Assessing Weather and Climate Variability. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society , 101(7), E1214-E1224. 10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0224.1
Slivinski, LC; Compo, GP; Whitaker, JS; Sardeshmukh, PD; Giese, BS; McColl, C; Allan, R; Yin, XG; Vose, R; Titchner, H; Kennedy, J; Spencer, LJ; Ashcroft, L; Bronnimann, S; Brunet, M; Camuffo, D; Cornes, R; Cram, TA; Crouthamel, R; Dominguez-Castro, F; Freeman, JE; Gergis, J; Hawkins, E; Jones, PD; Jourdain, S; Kaplan, A; Kubota, H; Le Blancq, F; Lee, TC; Lorrey, A; Luterbacher, J; Maugeri, M; Mock, CJ; Moore, GWK; Przybylak, R; Pudmenzky, C; Reason, C; Slonosky, VC; Smith, CA; Tinz, B; Trewin, B; Valente, MA; Wang, XL; Wilkinson, C; Wood, K; Wyszynski, P. (Oct 2019). Towards a more reliable historical reanalysis: Improvements for version 3 of the Twentieth Century Reanalysis system. QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY , 145(724). 10.1002/qj.3598
Arndt, DS; Blunden, J; Dunn, RJH; Stanitski, DM; Gobron, N; Willett, KM; Sanchez-Lugo, A; Berrisford, P; Morice, C; Nicolas, JP; Carrea, L; Woolway, RI; Merchant, CJ; Dokulil, MT; de Eyto, E; DeGasperi, CL; Korhonen, J; Marszelewski, W; May, L; Paterson, AM; Rusak, JA; Schladow, SG; Schmid, M; Verburg, P; Watanabe, S; Weyhenmeyer, GA; King, AD; Donat, MG; Christy, JR; Po-Chedley, S; Mears, CR; Haimberger, L; Covey, C; Randel, W; Noetzli, J; Biskaborn, BK; Christiansen, HH; Isaksen, K; Schoeneich, P; Smith, S; Vieira, G; Zhao, L; Streletskiy, DA; Robinson, DA; Pelto, M; Berry, DI; Bosilovich, MG; Simmons, AJ; Mears, C; Ho, SP; Bock, O; Zhou, X; Nicolas, J; Vose, RS; Adler, R; Gu, G; Becker, A; Yin, X; Tye, MR; Blenkinsop, S; Bosilovich, MG; Durre, I; Ziese, M; Collow, ABM; Rustemeier, E; Foster, MJ; Di Girolamo, L; Frey, RA; Heidinger, AK; Sun-Mack, S; Phillips, C; Menzel, WP; Stengel, M; Zhao, G; Kim, H; Rodell, M; Li, B; Famiglietti, JS; Scanlon, T; van der Schalie, R; Preimesberger, W; Reimer, C; Hahn, S; G. (Sep 2019). INTRODUCTION. BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY , 100(9).
Dole, RM, JR Spackman, iman, W Otto, O Persson, XW Quan, I RangwalaM Newman, GP Compo, CA Smith, LM Hartten, JJ Barsugli, RS Webb, MP Hoerling, R Cifelli, K Wolter, CD Barnet, M Gehne, R Gelaro, GN Kiladis, S Abbott, E Akish, J Albers, JM Brown, CJ Cox, L Darby, G de Boer, B DeLuisi, J Dias, J Dunion, J Eischeid, C Fairall, A Gambacorta, BK Gorton, A Hoell, J Intrieri, D Jackson, PE Johnston, R Lataitis, KM Mahoney, K McCaffrey, HA McColl, MJ Mueller, D Murrrray, PJ Ne, AJ Ray, D Reynolds, ER Dellaripa, K Rosenlof, N Sakaeda, PD Sardeshmukh, LC Slivinski, L Smith, A Solomon, D Swales, S Tulich, A White, G Wick, MG Winterkorn, DE Wolfe and R Zamora. (May 2018). ADVANCING SCIENCE AND SERVICES DURING THE 2015/16 EL NINO The NOAA El Nino Rapid Response Field Campaign. BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY , 99(5). 10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0219.1
Newman, M, AT Wittenberg, LY Cheng, GP Compo and CA Smith. (Jan 2018). THE EXTREME 2015/16 EL NINO, IN THE CONTEXT OF HISTORICAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND CHANGE. BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY , 99(1). 10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0116.1
Newman, M, MA Alexander, TR Ault, KM Cobb, C Deser, E Di Lorenzo, NJ Mantua, AJ Miller, S Minobe, H Nakamura, N Schneider, DJ Vimont, AS Phillips, JD Scott and CA Smith. (Jun 2016). The Pacific Decadal Oscillation, Revisited. JOURNAL OF CLIMATE , 29(12). 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0508.1
Alexander, MA, JD Scott, D Swales, M Hughes, K Mahoney and CA Smith. (Jun 2015). Moisture Pathways into the US Intermountain West Associated with Heavy Winter Precipitation Events*. JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY , 16(3). 10.1175/JHM-D-14-0139.1
Smith, CA, GP Compo and DK Hooper. (Nov 2014). Web-Based Reanalysis Intercomparison Tools (WRIT) for Analysis and Comparison of Reanalyses and Other Datasets. BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY , 95(11). 10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00192.1
Waliser, D, K Weickmann, R Dole, S Schubert, O Alves, C Jones, M Newman, HL Pan, A Roubicek, S Saha, C Smith, H van den Dool, F Vitart, M Wheeler and J Whitaker. (Apr 2006). The experimental MJO prediction project. BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY , 87(4). 10.1175/BAMS-87-4-425
Smith, CA and PD Sardeshmukh. (Nov 2000). The effect of ENSO on the intraseasonal variance of surface temperatures in winter. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY , 20(13). 10.1002/1097-0088(20001115)20:13<1543::AID-JOC579>3.0.CO;2-A
Wolter, K, RM Dole and CA Smith. (Nov 1999). Short-term climate extremes over the continental united states and ENSO. Part I: Seasonal temperatures. JOURNAL OF CLIMATE , 12(11). 10.1175/1520-0442(1999)012<3255:STCEOT>2.0.CO;2
Deser, C and CA Smith. (Jul 1998). Diurnal and semidiurnal variations of the surface wind field over the tropical Pacific Ocean. JOURNAL OF CLIMATE , 11(7). 10.1175/1520-0442(1998)011<1730:DASVOT>2.0.CO;2
Liebmann, B and CA Smith. (Jun 1996). Description of a complete (interpolated) outgoing longwave radiation dataset. BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY , 77(6).
BRETHERTON, CS, C SMITH and JM WALLACE. (Jun 1992). AN INTERCOMPARISON OF METHODS FOR FINDING COUPLED PATTERNS IN CLIMATE DATA. JOURNAL OF CLIMATE , 5(6). 10.1175/1520-0442(1992)005<0541:AIOMFF>2.0.CO;2
WALLACE, JM, C SMITH and CS BRETHERTON. (Jun 1992). SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION OF WINTERTIME SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURE AND 500-MB HEIGHT ANOMALIES. JOURNAL OF CLIMATE , 5(6). 10.1175/1520-0442(1992)005<0561:SVDOWS>2.0.CO;2
WALLACE, JM, C SMITH and QR JIANG. (Sep 1990). SPATIAL PATTERNS OF ATMOSPHERE OCEAN INTERACTION IN THE NORTHERN WINTER. JOURNAL OF CLIMATE , 3(9). 10.1175/1520-0442(1990)003<0990:SPOAOI>2.0.CO;2