Kelly T. Redmond

Deputy Director and
Regional Climatologist,
Western Regional Climate Center
Division of Atmospheric Sciences

Dr. Kelly Redmond maintains an interest in all facets of climate and climate behavior, its temporal variability, spatial characteristics and physical causes, how climate interacts with other human and natural processes, and how such information is acquired, used, communicated, and perceived. Dr. Redmond serves as Regional Climatologist for the western United States , working in settings that span a diverse range from coasts to mountains, desert to rainforest, and tropical to polar climates. He has played an active role nationally in development of the climate services sector. He has taught graduate and undergraduate classes in climatology, forecasting and synoptics, and atmospheric dynamics.

This has entailed work on topics such as climate variability, the observational process, instrumentation, data management, quality control, the interpretation of weather and climate information, drought frequency and characterization, energy consumption, climate indices, trends and variability in climate properties, flood frequency analysis, design criteria, spatial patterns of western U.S. climate variability, El Nino / Southern Oscillation, paleoclimate, wind energy, heavy precipitation and landslides, climate prediction, wildfire, Crater Lake climate and hydrology, salmon, atmospheric stability and inversions, western hydroclimate, and the national snow data set. Interdisciplinary interactions have included agriculture, fisheries, wildlife, forestry, limnology, engineering, water resources and hydrology, land management, entomology, horticulture, marine and terrestrial systems.

Dr. Redmond is currently participating in several national and regional activities, initiatives and projects, including: NOAA Regional Climate Center Program, National Weather Service Coop Modernization, the NOAA Climate Reference Network, the Consortium for Integrated Climate Research in Mountain Regions (CIRMOUNT), the National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS), NOAA Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessment (RISA) Program under the Climate Program Office, the California Energy Commission PIER and CIEE programs, and the CalFed Bay-Delta Program.

RESEARCH AREAS:

• Climate Dynamics, Large-Scale Dynamic Meteorology

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Abatzoglou, J.T., and K.T. Redmond, 2007.

Asymmetry between trends in spring and autumn temperature and circulation regimes over western North America. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34(18), L18808, 10.1029/2007GL030891, www.agu.org/journals/gl/gl0718/2007GL030891/2007GL030891.pdf

Kunkel, K.E., K.G. Hubbard, D. Easterling, D. Robinson, and K.T. Redmond, 2007:

Trend identification of Twentieth-Century snowfall: The challenges. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol, 24 (1), 64-73.

Redmond, K.T., 2007:

Evaporation and the hydrologic budget of Crater Lake, Oregon. Hydrobiologia, 574(1), 29-46, DOI 10.1007/s10750-006-0345-3.

Christy, J.R., W.B. Norris, K.T. Redmond, and K. Gallo, 2006:

Methodology and Results of Calculating Central California Surface Temperature Trends: Evidence of Human-Induced Climate Change? J. Climate, 19(4), 548-563.

Hubbard, K.G., a.T. DeGaetano, K.E. Kunkel, and K.T. Redmond, 2005:

Sources of uncertainty in the calculations of design weather conditions. RP-1171. ASHRAE Transactions, 111(2), 317-326.

Hayes, M., M. Svoboda, D. LeComte, K. Redmond, and P. Pasteris, 2005:

Drought Monitoring: New Tools for the 21st Century. pp. 53-70, in Drought and Water Crises: Science, Technology, and Management Issues. D.A. Wilhite, ed., Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 406 pp.

Kunkel, K.E., D.R. Easterling, K. Hubbard, K.. Redmond, K. Andsager, M.C. Kruk, and M.L. Spinar, 2005:

Quality control of pre-1948 cooperative observer network data. J. Atmos. and Oceanic Technol., 22(11), 1691-1705.

Dettinger, M.D., K.T. Redmond, and D.R. Cayan, 2004:

Winter orographic-precipitation ratios in the Sierra Nevada : Large-scale atmospheric circulations and hydrologic consequences. J. Hydrometeorology, 5, 1102-1116.

Pagano, T., P. Pasteris, M. Dettinger, D. Cayan, and K. Redmond, 2004:

Spring 2004 – Western water managers feel the heat. Eos, v. 85, pp. 385, 392-393.

Kunkel, K.E., D.R. Easterling, K.T. Redmond, K.G. Hubbard, 2004:

Temporal trends in frost-free season in the United States: 1895-2000. Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L03201, Feb 2004, doi:10.1029/2003GL018624.

Lewis, J.M., Koracin, D., and K.T. Redmond, 2004:

Sea Fog Research in the United Kingdom and United States: A Historical Essay Including Outlook. Bull. Amer. Met. Soc., 85(3), 395–408.

Janis, M.J., K.G. Hubbard, and K.T. Redmond, 2004:

Station Density Strategy for Monitoring Long-Term Climatic Change in the Contiguous United States. J. Climate, 17(1), 151–162.

Hayes, M., M. Svoboda, D. LeComte, K. Redmond, and P. Pasteris, 2004:

Drought Monitoring: New Tools for the 21st Century. pp. 53-70, in Drought and Water Crises: Science, Technology, and Management Issues, D.A. Wilhite, ed., Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 406 pp.

Cayan, D.R., M.D. Dettinger, K.T. Redmond, G.J. McCabe, N. Knowles, and D.H. Peterson, 2003:

The transboundary setting of California 's water and hydropower systems. Chapter 10, p. 237-262, In Climate and Water: Transboundary Challenges in the Americas, eds H.F. Diaz and B.J. Morehouse, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 424 pp.

Kunkel, K.E., D.R. Easterling, K.T. Redmond, K.G. Hubbard, 2003:

Temporal variations of extreme precipitation events in the United States: 1895-2000. Geophys. Res. Lttrs., 30(17), 1900, 09 Sept. 2003, doi:10.1029/2003GL018052.

Redmond, K.T., 2003:

Climate variability in the intermontane West: Complex spatial structure associated with topography, and observational issues. Chapter 2, p. 29-48, in Water and Climate in the Western United States, ed. W.M. Lewis Jr., University Press of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado.