Brian Etherton Email & Phone Number

London, GB

Swindon, England, United Kingdom

Westminster, CO

Using the cloud to forecast clouds: leveraging Amazon Web Service (AWS) to run global numerical weather prediction at scale.

Boulder, Colorado

Jupiter provides data and analytics services to better predict and manage risks from weather and sea level rise, storm intensification and changing temperatures caused by medium- to long-term climate change. www.jupiterintel.com

Boulder, CO

Investigate existing data assimilation systems to discern the scientific and technical directions for future research. Deepen the understanding of the approaches (4DVar, 4DEnsVar, etc.) in terms of scientific developments and the computational scalability of those approaches.Mentor others in the section with regards to the meteorology science of the problem.

Boulder, CO

Design, lead, & execute forecast quality assessments: develop code to assess forecasts, analyze results, & report results to sponsors. Serve as Project Lead for impact-based decision support. Develop tools & technologies that connect forecasts to operational decisions. Develop and coordinate impact-based activities with GSD Branches and external.

Boulder, CO

Responsible for testing and evaluation of new numerical weather prediction techniques (from the broader meteorology community) and helping transition promising techniques into operations. Oversee a staff of about 12 NOAA and NCAR personnel.Modeling experience: WRF (ARW and NMM), WRF-VAR, WPS, LAPSFile formats: GRIB1, GRIB2, NetCDFProgramming languages.

Chapel Hill, NC

• Responsible for real-time numerical weather prediction for North Carolina.
• Configured WRF for tropical cyclones (deterministic) and Carolinas (ensemble).
• Wrote and compiled Fortran, Perl, and Bash for high performance computing.
• Coordinated modeling efforts with area WFOs, Universities, and DOE laboratory.
• Liaison between universities, state, and federal agencies (such as NOAA, NWS, and EPA).The Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), a multi-institutional… Show more
• Liaison between universities, state, and federal agencies (such as NOAA, NWS, and EPA).The Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), a multi-institutional organization, brings together multidisciplinary experts and.

Charlotte, NC

• Developed meteorology program at UNC Charlotte
• Advised undergraduate and graduate students, including primary advisor for 6 M.S. Students
• Conducted research in Numerical Weather Prediction, including initialization and post-processing.
• Applied WRF model output to Duke Energy, NWS WFO Greer, SC, and WFO Columbia, SC
• Courses Taught: METR 4250 – Advanced Dynamic Meteorology METR 3250 – Dynamic MeteorologyMETR 3240 – Boundary Layer Meteorology METR 3220 – Physical… Show more
• Courses Taught: METR 4250 – Advanced Dynamic Meteorology METR 3250 – Dynamic MeteorologyMETR 3240 – Boundary Layer Meteorology METR 3220 – Physical MeteorologyMETR 3245 - Synoptic Meteorology ESCI 1101 - Earth Science.

Virginia Key, FL

· Lead tropical weather discussions at the Hurricane Research Division of NOAA/AOML. · Gave weather briefings for the National Collegiate Weather Forecasting Contest. · Conducted research with WFO Miami and HRD NOAA/AOML · Courses Taught: MSC 243 ­ Introduction to Weather Forecasting MSC 116 ­ Current Weather Topics

· Produced forecasts in a real-time environment for the institute and its clients (radio station, web-site) in an interim capacity.

· Programmed algorithms for the ground-station prototype of the NPOESS polar-orbiting weather satellite.

Ph. D., Meteorology

Activities and Societies: Chi Epsilon Pi - Meteorology Honor Society

Education record

B.S, Applied Mathematics / Physics