Phillip Arkin

Deputy Director, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC)

 

Dr. Arkin is Director of the Cooperative Institute for Climate Studies (CICS) at the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) of the University of Maryland, where he also serves as Deputy Director and Senior Research Scientist.  He conducts research into the observation and analysis of precipitation and other aspects of the hydrological cycle of the global climate system.   Until January 2002, he served as Program Manager for Climate Dynamics and Experimental Prediction in the Office of Global Programs at NOAA, where he managed the Applied Research Centers that provide the research and development that enable NOAA to provide better climate forecasts.  From 1998-2000, he served as the Deputy Director of the International Research Institute for Climate Prediction (IRI) at Columbia University.  He has spent the last 25 years working at NOAA as a research scientist and administrator in various parts of the climate community, including the Climate Prediction Center, the Office of Global Programs and the National Centers for Environmental Prediction.  He invented the GOES Precipitation Index, a method for estimating rainfall from geostationary satellite observations, and led the Global Precipitation Climatology Project from 1985-1994.  His B.S. in mathematics and M.S. and Ph.D. in meteorology are from the University of Maryland.  Dr. Arkin has published more than 50 refereed papers in scientific journals, 22 atlases and chapters in books, and has had more than 100 non-refereed publications.  He has served as a member of many national and international scientific panels, and has presented invited papers at more than 100 workshops and scientific meetings.

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