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Brian Colle

Professor

Division Head, Atmospheric Sciences

Education:

Ph.D.1997

- University of Washington

Research Topics:

Extreme weather, coastal meteorology, weather forecasting, regional climate change

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  • Bio/Research

    Bio/Research

    The COastal Meteorological And Prediction (COMAP) group focuses on improving the understanding and forecasting of extreme weather in the coastal margins of North America. The group investigates severe convective storms, extratropical and tropical storms, low-level jets and sea breezes, precipitation bands and microphysics, orographic flows, and heavy precipitation using conventional data, field observations, and numerical models (e.g., Weather Research and Forecasting). The WRF is also nested within global climate models to understand how extreme weather may change during the next century. He also utilizes high-resolution atmosphere and ocean models for storm surge, fire weather, and offshore wind power resource assessments and forecasting.

    For more information, please visit the COMAP web page.

  • Publications

    Publications

    Publications (since 2018):

    Leonardo, N., and B.A. Colle, 2024: Analysis of snow multi-bands and their environments with high-resolution idealized simulations. Mon. Wea. Rev., 152, 925-943, https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-23-0211.1.

    Ghanbari, M., T. Dell, F. Saleh, Z. Chen; J. Cherrier, B.A. Colle, J. Hacker, L. Madaus, P. Orton, and M. Arabi, 2024: Compounding Effects of Changing Sea Level and Rainfall Regimes on Pluvial Flooding in New York City. Nat. Hazards, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-024-06466-8.

    Kiel, B., and B.A. Colle, 2024: Comparison of Clustering Approaches in a Multi-Model Ensemble for U.S. East Coast Cold Season Extratropical Cyclones. Wea. Forecasting, 3, 461-484. https://doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-23-0017.1.

    Oue, M., B.A. Colle, S. E. Yuter, P. Yeh, L. Tomkins, 2024: Microscale Updrafts Within the U.S. Northeast Coastal Snowstorms Using High-Resolution Cloud Radar Measurements. In Press to Mon. Wea. Review.

    Boorboor, S., Y. Kim, P. Hu, J.M. Moses, B.A. Colle, and A.E. Kaufman, 2023: Submerse: Visualizing Storm Surge Flooding Simulations in Immersive Display Ecologies. IEEE Trans Vis Comput Graph. DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2023.3332511.

    Colle, B.A., P. Yeh, J. Finlon, L. McMurdie, V. McDonald, and A. DeLaFrance, 2023: An Investigation of a Northeast U.S. Cyclone Event Without Well-Defined Snow Banding During IMPACTS. Mon. Wea. Rev., 151, 2465-2484,  https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-22-0296.1.

    Colle, B.A., J, R. Hathaway, E. J. Bojsza, J. M. Moses, S. J. Sanders, K. E. Rowan, A. L. Hils, E. C. Duesterhoeft, S. Boorboor, A. E. Kaufman, and S. E. Brennan, 2023: Risk Perception and Preparation for Storm Surge Flooding: A Virtual Workshop with Visualization and Stakeholder Interaction. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0145.1.

    Yang, K., R. A. Davidson, B. Blanton, B. Colle, and co-authors, 2022: Evaluation of Hurricane Evacuation Order Plans: A Hurricane Florence Case Study. Natural Hazards Review, 23, 05022010.

    McMurdie, L, and co-authors: 2022: Chasing Snowstorms: The Investigation of Microphysics and for Atlantic Coast-threatening Snowstorms (IMPACTS) Campaign. Bull Amer. Meteor. Soc. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0246.1

    Miller, M.A., S. E. Yuter, N. P. Hoban, L. M. Tomkins, and B. A. Colle, 2022: Detecting Wave Features in Doppler Radial Velocity Radar Observations. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 10, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2021-256.

    Zhao X., Y, Lin, Y. Luo, Q. Qian, X. Liu, X, Liu, B. Colle, 2021: A Double-Moment SBU-YLIN Cloud Microphysics Scheme and its Impact on a Squall Line Simulation. J. of Adv. In Modeling Earth Systems. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021MS002545

    Colle, B.A., R. Auld, K. Johnson, C. O’Connell, T.G. Taylor, and J. Rice, 2021: Improving communication of uncertainty and risk of high-impact weather through innovative forecaster workshops. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Society, 102, 1424-1430. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0108.1

    Leonardo, N.M., and B.A. Colle, 2021: An investigation of large cross-track errors in North Atlantic tropical cyclone GEFS ensemble forecasts. Mon. Wea. Rev., 149, 395-417.

    Naeger, A., B.A. Colle, N. Zhou, and A. Molthan, 2020: Evaluating warm and cold rain processes in cloud microphysical schemes using OLYMPEX field data. Mon. Wea. Rev., 148, 2163-2190.

    Leonardo, N.M., and B.A. Colle, 2020: An investigation of large along-track errors in North Atlantic tropical cyclone ECMWF ensemble forecasts. Mon. Wea. Rev., 148, 457-476.

    Catto J., D. Ackerley, J. Booth, A. Champion, B.A. Colle, S. Pfahl, J. Pinto, J. Quinting, 2019: The future of extratropical cyclones.  Current Climate Change Reports. 5, 407-420.

    Ge, K., and B.A. Colle, 2019: Multi-decadal trends in tropical cyclone intensity and evolution characteristics for two north-Atlantic sub-basins. J. Geophys. Res., 124, 9893-9904.

    Connelly, R., and B.A. Colle, 2019: Validation of snow multi-bands in the comma head of a cyclone using a 40-member ensemble. Wea. Forecasting, 34, 1343-1363.

    Gonzales, J., L. Ortiz, B.K. Smith, N. Devineni, B. Colle, J. Booth, A. Ravindranath, L. Rivera, R. Horton, K. Towey, Y. Kushnir, and D. Manley (2019), Chapter 2: New Methods for Extreme Temperatures, Heavy Downpours, and Droughts, Third Report, New York City Panel on Climate Change. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1439, 30-70.

    Orton, P., N. Lin, V. Gornitz, B.A. Colle, J. Booth, K. Feng, M. Buchanan, M. Oppenheimer, L. Patrick, (2019), Chapter 4: Coastal flooding, Third Report, New York City Panel on Climate Change. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1439, 95-114.

    Lin, N., R. Marsooli, and B.A. Colle, 2019: Storm surge return levels induced by the mid-to-late-21st century extratropical cyclones in the northeastern United States. Climatic Change. doi: 10.1007/s10584-019-02431-8.

    Zheng, M., E. Chang, and B.A. Colle: 2019: Evaluation of a multi-model ensemble for extratropical cyclones using a fuzzy clustering approach.  Wea. Forecasting, 147, 1967-1987.

    Yang, K, and R.A. Davidson, B. Blanton, B.A. Colle, K. Dresbeck, K. Desback, R. Kolar, and L Nozick, 2019: Hurricane evacuations in the face of uncertainty: Use of integrated models to support robust, adaptive, and repeated decision-making. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 36, 101093.

    Yang, K., R.A. Davidson, H. Vergara, R. Kolar, K. Dresback, B.A. Colle, B. Blanton, T. Wachtendorf, J. Trivedi, and L. Nozick, 2019: Incorporating Inland Flooding into Hurricane Evacuation Support Modeling. Natural Hazards, 96, 857-878.

    Schultz, D.M., L. Bosart, B.A. Colle, H.C. Davies, C. Deardone, D. Keyser, O. Martius, P. Roebber, W. Steenburgh, H. Volkert, and A. Winters, 2019: Extratropical Cyclones: A Century of Research on Meteorology’s Centerpiece. A Century of Progress in Atmospheric and Related Sciences: Celebrating the American Meteorological Society Centennial, Meteorological Monographs, 59, 16.1-16.56.

    Ganetis, S.A, B.A. Colle, S.E. Yuter, and N.P. Hoban, 2018: Environmental conditions associated with observed snowband structures within Northeast U.S. winter storms. Mon. Wea. Rev., 146, 3675-3690.

    Zhang, Z, and B.A. Colle, 2018: Impact of dynamically downscaling two CMIP5 models on the historical and future changes in winter extratropical cyclones along the East Coast of North America. J. Climate, 31, 8499-8525.

    Blanton, B., K. Dresback, B.A. Colle, R. Kolar, H. Vergara, Y. Hong, N. Leonardo, R. Davidson, L. K. Nozick, and T. Wachtendorf, 2018: An Integrated scenario ensemble-based framework for hurricane evacuation modeling: Part 1 – Evacuation modeling. Risk Analysis. https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.13004.

    Davidson, R.A., B. Blanton, B. A. Colle, R. Kolar, L. K. Nozick, T. Wachtendorf, K. Dresback, S. DeYoung, K.Y., Wenqi Yi, N. Leonardo, 2018: An Integrated scenario ensemble-based framework for hurricane evacuation modeling: Part 2 – Evacuation modeling. Risk Analysis. https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.12990.

    Erickson, M.J., B.A. Colle, and J. Charney, 2018: Evaluation and post-processing of ensemble fire weather predictions over the Northeast U.S. J. Appl. Meteor. and Clim., 57, 1135-1153.

    Korfe, N.G., and B.A. Colle, 2018: Evaluation of cool season extratropical cyclones in a multi-model ensemble for eastern North America and the western Atlantic Ocean. Wea. Forecasting, 33, 109-127.
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