Carl Schreck

Dr. Schreck completed his Ph.D. in 2010 at the University at Albany, State University of New York. In his dissertation, he used rainfall estimates from NASA’s Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) to explore sources of tropical intraseasonal variability, including the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) and equatorial waves. Dr. Schreck identified the influences of these systems on tropical cyclone formation around the globe.

Dr. Schreck is actively engaged in the tropical forecast community. He is developing new diagnostics of the MJO and equatorial waves with the goal of improving forecasts on time scales of 5–30 days. Dr. Schreck participates on the Climate Prediction Center’s global tropical hazards forecast team and on the forecast team for the DYNAMO (Dynamics of the MJO) field experiment. He is also serving as an Associate Editor for Monthly Weather Review.

Dr. Schreck joined CICS-NC as a Postdoctoral Fellow in August 2010. He is investigating the MJO using climate data records that have recently been developed here at NCDC. He is also part of the team that maintains the International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS). Using these data, Dr. Schreck is examining the relationships between climate variability and tropical cyclones.