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- Senior Scientist
- National Climatic Data Center
- National Ocean Atmosphere Association
- Email: tkarl@ncdc.noaa.gov
Vitae
Education
Northern Illinois Univ., DeKalb, IL B.S. 1969-73
Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI M.S. 1973-74
North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC PhD.1977-78
Professional Experience
Position - Senior Scientist, National Climatic Data Center
Professional Background - NOAA, National Climatic Data Center
1980-present National Weather Service
1979-1980 Environmental Resources Laboratory
1975-1979 Univ. of NC/Math Adjunct,1977-78
Weather Central, Madison WI, 1975
TV/Radio Weather Forecaster, 1975
Awards
Amer. Meteor. Soc., Fellow (1993)
Amer. Assoc. of State Climatologists, Landsberg Award(1993)
Amer. Meteor. Soc. Editors Award, J. Climate (1988)
Dept. of Commerce Gold Medal (1991)
NOAA Administrator's Award (1989)
Dept. of Commerce Bronze Medal (1988)
Committees
Editor Journal of Climate
Associate Editor Climatic Change
National Research Council
Climate Research Committee (1991-present)
Panel on EOSDIS (1992-94)
Panel on Policy Implications of Greenhouse
Warming (1990-1992)
Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change
Lead Author 1995
Lead Author 1992
Lead Author 1990
Public Affairs: Numerous news media interviews, testimony to U.S. Congress and briefings
to cabinet level officials and Vice President of the US.
Selected Publications
 | 85 Peer-reviewed journal articles; 200 Scientific reports and publications; 7
Commercial books (3 as co-author, 1 as co-editor, 3 as contributor)
 | Karl,T.R. , R.W. Knight, R.G. Quayle, and D.R. Easterling, 1995: Trends in the
U.S. climate during the Twentieth Century. CONSEQUENCES: The Nature and Implications of
Environmental Change 1, 2-10. |
| Karl, T.R., V. Derr, D. Hofmann, D.R. Easterling, C. Folland, S. Levitus, N.
Nicholls, D. Parker, and G.W. Withee, 1995: Critical Issues for Long-term Climate
Monitoring. Climatic Change, 31, 185-221. |
| Karl, T.R., F. Bretherton, W. Easterling, and K. Trenberth, 1995: Long-term
Climate Monitoring of the Global Climate Observing Systems (GCOS). Climatic Change, 31,
135-147. |
| Karl, T.R., R.W. Knight and N. Plummer, 1995: Trends in high-frequency climate
variability in the twentieth century. Nature,377, 217-220. |
| Karl, T.R., R. W. Knight, and T.C. Peterson, 1995: A new method for calculating
long-term large-scale changes of temperature and other geophysical quantities. Submitted
Geophys. Res. Lett. |
| Kukla, G., J. Gavin, M. Schlesinger and T.R. Karl, 1995: Comparison of observed
seasonal temperature maxima and diurnal range in North America with simulations from three
global climate models. Atmos. Res., 37, 267-275. |
| Nicholls, N., G. Gruza, J. Jouzel, T.R. Karl, L. Ogallo, and D. Parker, 1995:
Observed variability and change, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Second
Scientific Assessment of Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, U.K. In press. |
| Editor, 1995: Climatic Change, Special Issue # 1, 2, & 3. GCOS Meeting held
in Asheville, NC. |
| Co-editor, 1995: Atmos. Res., Special Issue: Minimax Meeting, held in Greenbelt,
MD. |
| Editor, August, 1995: Journal of Climate, American Meteorological Society. |
| Co-Editor, National Research Council, 1995: Natural Climate Variability on
Decade-to-Century Time Scales. National Academy Press, Wash. DC, in press. |
| Editor, 1995: Climatic Change, Long-term Climate Monitoring by the Global Climate
Observing System (GCOS), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 31. |
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