Education. Professional Appointments. Selected Professional Service Activities

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1 Dr. Patrick A. Harr, Professor Department of Meteorology Naval Postgraduate School Monterey, CA Office Phone: (831) , Citizenship: USA Education Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Meteorology Ph.D., 1993 Colorado State University Atmospheric Science M.S., 1978 Miami University Aeronautics B.S., 1976 Professional Appointments Naval Postgraduate School Professor present Naval Postgraduate School Associate Professor Naval Postgraduate School Research Assoc. Professor Naval Postgraduate School Research Asst. Professor Naval Postgraduate School Adjunct Professor Fleet Numerical Oceanography Center Meteorologist Navy Environmental Prediction Research Center (now Naval Research Laboratory) Meteorologist Control Data Corporation Meteorologist Selected Professional Service Activities American Meteorological Society (AMS): Editor, Monthly Weather Review, 2009 present Chair, American Meteorological Society Committee on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, present Chair, American Meteorological Society 29th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, May 2010 Member, American Meteorological Society Committee on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology Program Committee Member, American Meteorological Society 28th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, April 2008 Associate Editor, Monthly Weather Review, National Science Foundation (NSF): Chair, Observing Facility Assessment Panel (OFAP), present Member, Observing Facility Assessment Panel (OFAP), present

2 World Meteorological Organization: WMO/CAS/WWRP/TMPR International Workshop on Tropical Cyclone (ITWC) Series: 1998: Topic Rapporteur, Tropical Cyclone Motion, 2002: Topic Chair, Tropical Cyclone Formation 2006; Topic Chair on Tropical Cyclone Formation 2010: Topic Chair on Tropical Cyclone Formation 2014: Topic Chair on Tropical Cyclone Structure and Structure Change WMO/CAS/WWRP/TMPR International Workshop on Extratropical Transition (IWET): 2002, Member, Science Committee. IWET II 2005, Chair, Science Committee, IWET III 2012, Member Science Committee, IWET IV Member, The Observing Research and Predictability Experiment (THORPEX) Working Group on Predictability and Dynamical Processes (PDP) present Co-Chair, Interest Group 4: High Impact Weather, THORPEX PDP ( ) Member, African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis (AMMA), Working Group V: High Impact Weather and Predictability ( ) Member, WMO/WWRP/THORPEX Predictability and Dynamical Processes Committee International Association for Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology (IAMAS) Member, International Commission on Dynamical Meteorology (ICDM) 2012-present Naval Postgraduate School (NPS): Graduate School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (GSEAS), Dean s Advisory Council: Faculty Council: 2004-present Naval Postgraduate School Faculty Secretary: Naval Postgraduate School Faculty Executive Council: Naval Postgraduate School Joint Policy Council: Academic Chairman, Department of Meteorology, 2011-Present NPS Financial and Accounting Systems Team Evaluation GSEAS Representative on Provost Tenure Committee, 2013 Awards and Recognitions: Naval Postgraduate School Foundation, Outstanding Research Award, 2009 Graduate School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Outstanding Research Award, 2009 Teaching recognition: Rated in top 5% of Naval Postgraduate School Faculty: 2007, 2010, 2011,

3 Other Key Experience Data Management Director, Tropical Cyclone Motion/SPECTRUM 1990, International field program (U.S., Japan, Taiwan, Russia) to study factors that govern tropical cyclone motion Experiment Operations Director, Tropical Cyclone Motion 1992 Experiment Operations Director, Tropical Cyclone Motion 1993 Field experiments to study the role of convective asymmetries in tropical cyclone motion Principal Investigator/Science Director, THORPEX-Pacific Asian Regional Campaign (T-PARC), International program to study the life cycle of a tropical cyclone over the western North Pacific and its impact on downstream weather patterns Principal Investigator/Science Director, Tropical Cyclone Structure-2008: Field program to study factors that contribute to tropical cyclone intensification and structural changes. Co- Principal Investigator/Science Director, Interaction of Typhoons and the Pacific (ITOP), 2010 Principal Investigator, Observance of Upper-level Typhoon Flow Lifecycle Over the West Pacific (OUTFLOW), Submitted to National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Co-Principal Investigator: Dynamics and Observations of the Waveguide: North-South Transport and Rossby wave Excitation over Atlantic Midlatitudes (DOWNSTREAM). Submitted to the National Science Foundation, Advisor Over 30 M.S. Students, Dissertation Supervisor to 4 PhD Students National Research Council Advisor Symposia Convened (since 2012) American Geophysical Union, 2012: Recent Field Experiments for Better Understanding and Prediction of Tropical Cyclones. AMS Annual Meeting, 2012: Special Symposium on Technical Advances and Impacts on Hurricane Research and Forecast Improvements 3

4 AMS Annual Meeting, 2013: Special Symposium on the Next Level of Predictions in Tropical Meteorology: Techniques, Usage, Support, and Impacts AMS Annual Meeting, 2013: Special Session on the Historical Impacts of Predictions and the Decision-Making Process in Tropical Meteorology IAMAS/IUGG Davos Atmosphere and Cryosphere Assembly, 2013: Global monsoon, Tropical Cyclones, and Tropical Dynamics American Geophysical Union, 2014: Tropical Cyclones: Observations, Modeling, and Predictability WMO/WWRP World Weather Open Science Congress, 2014: Data Assimilation: THOPREX Field Programs AMS Annual Meeting 2015: Special Symposium on the South Asian Monsoon. IAMAS/IUGG 2015: Tropical Dynamics and Monsoons. Prague, Czechoslovakia. Refereed Journal Papers (in chronological order) Harr, P. A., T. L. Tsui, and L. R. Brody, 1983: Identification of systematic errors in a numerical weather forecast. Monthly Weather Review, 111, Harr, P. A., and R. L. Elsberry, 1991:Tropical cyclone track characteristics as a function of large-scale circulation anomalies. Monthly Weather Review, 119, Clune, W. M., P. A. Harr, and R. L. Brody, 1992: The man-machine mix in operational product quality control and verification at Fleet Numerical Oceanography Center. Weather and Forecasting, 7, Harr, P. A., R. L. Elsberry, T. F. Hogan, and W. M. Clune,1992: Forecasts of North Pacific maritime cyclones with the Navy Operational Global Atmospheric Prediction System. Weather and Forecasting, 7, Ford, D. M., R. L. Elsberry, P. A. Harr, P. H. Dobos, 1993: Forecasting tropical cyclone recurvature. Part II. An objective technique using an empirical orthogonal function representation of vorticity fields. Monthly Weather Review, 121, Chen, J.-M., and P. A. Harr, 1993: Interpretation of extended empirical orthogonal function (EEOF) analysis. Monthly Weather Review, 121,

5 Chen, J. M., C. P. Chang, and P. A. Harr, 1994: A technique for analyzing optimal relationships among multiple sets of data fields. Monthly Weather Review, 122, Harr, P. A., and R. L. Elsberry, 1995: Large-scale circulation variability over the tropical western North Pacific, Part I: Spatial patterns and tropical cyclone characteristics. Monthly Weather Review, 123, Harr, P. A., and R. L. Elsberry, 1995: Large-scale circulation variability over the tropical western North Pacific, Part II: Persistence and transition characteristics. Monthly Weather Review, 123, Harr, P. A., and R. L. Elsberry, 1996: Structure of a mesoscale convective system embedded in Typhoon Robyn during TCM-93. Monthly Weather Review, 124, Harr, P. A., M. S. Kalafsky, and R. L. Elsberry, 1996: Environmental Conditions Prior to Formation of a Midget Tropical Cyclone. Monthly Weather Review, 124, Chang, C. -P., J.-M. Chen, P. A. Harr, and L. E. Carr, 1996: Northwestward-propagating wave patterns over the tropical western North Pacific during summer. Monthly Weather Review, 124, Harr, P. A., R. L. Elsberry, and J. C. L. Chan, 1996: Transformation of a large monsoon depression to a tropical storm during TCM-93. Monthly Weather Review, 124, Elsberry, R. L., M. A., Boothe, G. A. Ulses, and P. A. Harr, 1999: Statistical postprocessing of NOGAPS tropical cyclone tack forecasts. Monthly Weather Review, Harr, P. A., and R. L. Elsberry, 2000: Extratropical transition of tropical cyclones over the western North Pacific. Part I: Evolution of structural characteristics during the transition process. Monthly Weather Review, 128, Harr, P. A., R. L. Elsberry, and T. F. Hogan, 2000: Extratropical transition of tropical cyclones over the western North Pacific. Part II: The impact of the midlatitude circulation characteristics. Monthly Weather Review, 129, Klein, P. M., P. A. Harr, and R. L. Elsberry, 2000: Extratropical transition of western North Pacific tropical cyclones: An overview and conceptual model of the transformation stage. Weather and Forecasting, 15,

6 Chang, C. P., P. A. Harr, and J. Ju, 2001: Possible Roles of Atlantic Circulations on the Weakening Indian Monsoon-ENSO Relationship. Journal of Climate, 14, Klein, P. M., P. A. Harr, and R. L. Elsberry, 2002: Extratropical transition of western North Pacific tropical cyclones: Midlatitude and tropical cyclone contributions to re-intensification. Monthly Weather Review, 132, Jones, S. C., P. A. Harr, J. Abraham, L. F. Bosart, P. J. Bowyer, J. L. Evans, D. E. Hanley, B. N. Hanstrum, R. E. Hart, F. LaLaurette, M. R. Sinclair, R. K. Smith, C. Thorncroft, 2003: The extratropical transition of tropical cyclones: forecast challenges, current understanding, and future directions. Weather and Forecasting. 18, Chang, C. -P., P. A. Harr, and H.-J. Chen, 2004: Synoptic disturbances over the equatorial South China Sea and western Maritime Continent during boreal winter. Mon. Wea. Rev., 133, Regnier, Eva and P. A. Harr, 2006: A dynamic decision model applied to hurricane landfall. Weather and Forecasting. 21, Elsberry, R. L., and Harr, P. A., 2008: Tropical Cyclone Structure (TCS-08) Field Experiment Science Basis, Observational Platforms, and Strategy, Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 44, Anwender, D., Harr, P. A., and Jones, S. C., 2008: Predictability Associated with the Downstream Impacts of the Extratropical Transition of Tropical Cyclones: Case Studies, Monthly Weather Review, 136, Harr, P. A., Anwender, D., and Jones S. C., 2008: Predictability Associated with the Downstream Impacts of the Extratropical Transition of Tropical Cyclones: Methodology and a Case Study of Typhoon Nabi (2005), Monthly Weather Review, 136, Harr, P.A., and J. M. Dea, 2009: Downstream development associated with the extratropical transition of tropical cyclones over the western North Pacific. Monthly Weather Review, 137, , Elsberry, R. L., P. A. Harr, G. Elliott, and W. M. Clune, 2009: Evaluations of global model performance during the combined TCS-08 and T-PARC field experiment. Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 44,

7 Anwender, D., S. Jones, M. Leutbecher, and P. Harr, 2010: Sensitivity experiments for ensemble forecasts of the extratropical transition of Typhoon Tokage. Quart. J. Royal Meteor. Soc., 136, Keller, J. H., S. C. Jones, J. L. Evans, P. A. Harr, 2011: Characteristics of the TIGGE multimodel ensemble prediction system in representing forecast variability associated with extratropical transition. Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L12802 doi:1029/2011gl D Asaro, E., P. Black, L. Centurioni, P. Harr, S. Jayne, I.-I. Lin, C. Lee, J. Morzel,R. Mrvalkevoc, P. Niiler, L. Rainville, T. Sanford, T.-Y. Tang, 2011: Typhoon- Ocean Interaction in the western North Pacific. Part 1. Oceanography, 24, 4, Waliser, D. E., M. Moncrieff, D. Burridge, A. H. Fink, D. Gochis, B. N. Goswami, B. Guan, P. A. Harr, J. Heming, H.-H. Hsu, C. Jakob, M. Janiga, R. Johnson, S. C. Jones, P. Knippertz, J. Marengo,, H. Nguyen, M. Pope, Y. Serra, C. Thorncroft, M. Wheeler, R. Wood, and S. Yuter, 2011: The Year of Tropical Convection (May 2008 to April 2010): Climate Variability and Weather Highlights. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 93, Park, M.-S., R. L. Elsberry, and P. A. Harr, 2012: Vertical wind shear and ocean heat content as environmental modulations of western north Pacific tropical cyclone intensification and decay, Tropical Cyclone Research and Review, 1, Cohn, Steven A., T. Hock, P. Cocquerez, J. Wang, F. Rabier, D. Parsons, P. Harr, C.-C. Wu, P. Drobinski, F. Karbou, S. Venel, A. Vargas, N. Fourrie, N., Saint-Ramond, V. Guidard, A. Doerenbecher, H.-H. Hsu, P-H. Lin, M.-D. Chou, J.-L., Redelsperger, C. Martin, J. Fox, N. Potts, K. Young, and H. Cole, 2013: Driftsondes: Providing in-situ long-duration dropsondes observations over remote regions., Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 94, D Asaro, E., P. G. Black, L. R. Centurioni, Y.-T. Chang, S. Chen, R. C. Foster, H. C. Graber, P. A. Harr, V. Hormann, R.-C. Lien, I.-I. Lin, T. B. Sanford, T.-Y. Tang, C.-C. Wu, 2014: Impact of Typhoons on the Ocean in the Pacific: ITOP, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., (in press). Grams, C. M., S. C. Jones, C. A. Davis, and P. A. Harr, 2013: The impact of Typhoon Jangmi (2008) on the midlatitude flow. Part I: Upper-level ridgebuilding and modification of the jet. Quart. J. Royal Meteor. Soc. DOI: /qj

8 Lin, I.-I., P. Black, J. F. Price, C.-Y. Yang, S. S. Chen, C. C. Lien, P. A. Harr, N. H Chi, C. C. Wu, and E. A. D Asaro, 2013: An ocean cooling potential intensity index for tropical cyclones, Geophysical Research Letters, 40, , doi: /grl Keller, J. H., S. C. Jones, and P. A. Harr, 2014: An eddy kinetic energy view of physical and dynamical processes in distinct forecast scenarios for the extratropical transition of two tropical cyclones. Monthly Weather Review, (in press). Quinting, J., M. M. Bell, P. A. Harr, and S. C. Jones, 2014: Structural Characteristics of T-PARC Typhoon Sinlaku during its extratropical transition. Monthly Weather Review, (in press). Foerster, A., M. M. Bell, P. A. Harr, and S. C. Jones, 2014: Observations of the Eyewall Structure of Near-Extratropical Typhoon Sinlaku (2008) in Vertical Wind Shear. Monthly Weather Review, (in press). Book Chapters: Chang, C. P., P. A. Harr, J. M. McBride, and H.-H. Hsu, 2004: Maritime Continent Monsoon. Chapter in East Asian Monsoon (World Scientific Series on Meteorology of East Asia). World Scientific Press, ISBN: Harr, P. A., 2010: The Extratropical Transition of Tropical Cyclones: Structural Characteristics, Downstream Impacts, and Forecast Challenges. Global Perspectives on Tropical Cyclones, World Scientific Series on Asia-Pacific Weather and Climate, Vol. 4, J. C. L. Chan and J. D. Kepert, Eds. World Scientific Press, Harr, P. A., and C.-C. Wu, 2011: Tropical Cyclone Characteristics and Monsoon Circulations. The Global Monsoon System: Research and Forecast, 2 nd Edition, World Scientific Series on Asia-Pacific Weather and Climate, Vol. 5, C. P. Chang, Y. Ding, N.-C. Lau, R. H. Johnson, B. Wang, and T. Yasunari, Eds., World Scientific Press, Invited Presentations in most recent 5 years International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences, 2009: THORPEX- Pacific Asian Regional Campaign/Tropical Cyclone Structure-08 Experiments and Collaborative Efforts, Montreal, Canada 8

9 Keynote Presentation: Second PANDOWAE Workshop, 2009: The Extratropical Transition of Tropical Cyclones: Downstream Impacts and Predictability. Murnau, Germany International Commission on Dynamic Meteorology, Dynamics and Predictability of High-Impact Weather and Climate Events, 2012: Tropical-Extratropical Interactions Associated with the Poleward Movement of Tropical Cyclones. Kunming, China Keynote Speaker: Annual Meeting, American Association of Geographers, 2013: Tropical Cyclones over the Western North Pacific: Impacts on the Northern Hemisphere Storm Track, Downstream Cyclone Development, and High-Impact Weather over North America. Los Angeles, CA National Science Foundation, DLR, Joint Meeting on HIAPER-HALO Coordination, 2013, Invited Presentation on T-NAWDEX, DOWNSTREAM Coordination. Keynote Speaker: WMO/WWRP/World Weather Open Science Congress, The THORPEX Asian-Pacific Regional Campaign: Results. 9