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Biography

Andy Wood (MSE, PhD) is an expert in streamflow forecasting, hydrologic modeling and applications, land monitoring and prediction (e.g., for flooding and droughts), climate change downscaling and impact assessment, water resources management and planning, and seasonal climate and hydrologic forecasting. His current research focus areas include improving operational hydrologic prediction at local to global scales, sub-seasonal to seasonal hydroclimate applications, climate change impact assessment, and advancing the implementation of hydrology and land representations in Earth System Models.

Andy splits his time between Mines and the NCAR Climate and Global Dynamics laboratory, Terrestrial Sciences Section, in Boulder, Colorado, where he is a project scientist.

Education

• PhD in Hydrology and Water Resources, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington
• MSE in Water Resources and Systems Engineering, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington
• BA in English, Amherst College

Publications

A more complete list of publications (Google Scholar) is here.

• Slater, L., Arnal, L., Boucher, M.-A., Chang, A. Y.-Y., Moulds, S., Murphy, C., Nearing, G., Shalev, G., Shen, C., Speight, L., Villarini, G., Wilby, R. L., Wood, A., and Zappa, M.: Hybrid forecasting: using statistics and machine learning to integrate predictions from dynamical models, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss. [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2022-334, in review, 2022.
• Q Duan, F Pappenberger, AW Wood, H Cloke, JC Schaake (Eds) 2018. Handbook of Hydrometeorological Ensemble Forecasting, Springer-Verlag GmbH, Berlin Heidelberg (Live Reference ISBN 978-3-642-40457-3)
• Baker, SA, AW Wood, B Rajagopalan, J Prairie, C Jerla, E Zagona, RA Butler, R Smith, 2022, The Colorado River Basin Operational Prediction Testbed: a tool for improving water management through benchmarking seasonal to interannual forecasts of streamflow and reservoir system projections, J. Amer. Water Res. Assn., https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.13038.
• Troin, M., Arsenault, R., Wood, A. W., Brissette, F., & Martel, J.-L., 2021. Generating ensemble streamflow forecasts: A review of methods and approaches over the past 40 years. Water Resources Research, 57, e2020WR028392. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020WR028392
• Wood, AW, T Hopson, A Newman, L. Brekke, J. Arnold, M Clark, 2016, Quantifying streamflow forecast skill elasticity to initial condition and climate prediction skill. J. Hydromet. 17, 651–668. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-14-0213.1
• Harding, BL, Wood, AW, and Prairie, JR, 2012. The implications of climate change scenario selection for future streamflow projection in the Upper Colorado River Basin, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 16, 3989-4007, doi:10.5194/hess-16-3989-2012.
• Wood, AW and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2008. An ensemble approach for attribution of hydrologic prediction uncertainty, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L14401, doi:10.1029/2008GL034648.
• Barnett, T., D.W. Pierce, H. Hidalgo, C. Bonfils, B.D. Santer, T. Das, G. Bala, AW Wood, T. Nazawa, A. Mirin, D. Cayan, M. Dettinger, 2008, Human-induced changes in the hydrology of the western United States, Science, published online 31 Jan 2008, doi:10.1126/science.1152538.
• Wood, AW and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2006, A testbed for new seasonal hydrologic forecasting approaches in the western U.S., Bull. Amer. Met. Soc. 87(12), 1699-1712, doi:10.1175/BAMS-87-12-1699.
• Wood, AW, L.R. Leung, V. Sridhar and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2004, Hydrologic implications of dynamical and statistical approaches to downscaling climate model outputs, Clim. Change Vol. 62, 1-3, 189-216.
• Wood, AW, Maurer, E.P., Kumar, A. and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2002. Long Range Experimental Hydrologic Forecasting for the Eastern U.S., J. Geophys. Res., 107(D20), doi:10.1029/2001JD000659.

Additional Information

NCAR website:
https://www.cgd.ucar.edu/people/andy-wood

Teaching

• As an assistant research professor at the University of Washington, Andy taught an undergraduate class in Systems Engineering and a graduate class in Snow Hydrology. He recently developed and taught a CUAHSI short course on Ensemble Hydrologic Forecasting.

Professional Experience

• 2013-present, Project Scientist III, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics (CGD); Research Applications Laboratory (RAL), Boulder, CO
• 2010-2013, Development and Operations Hydrologist, NOAA NWS River Forecast Centers: Colorado Basin, Salt Lake City, UT; Northwest, Portland, OR
• 2008-2010, Senior / Lead Scientist, 3TIER Environmental Forecast Group, Inc., Seattle, WA
• 2004-2008, Research Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil & Envir. Engineering, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
• 2003-2004, Research Scientist, Dept. of Civil & Envir. Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
• 1998-2003, Research Assistant, Dept. of Civil & Envir. Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
• 1996-1998, Visiting Fellow, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Institute for Water Resources, Policy and Special Studies Division, Alexandria, VA
• 1994-1996, Research Staff, Dept. of Civil & Envir. Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA