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Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
www.isse.ucar.edu/staff/katz/
PO Box 3000
Boulder, Colorado USA 80307
Tel: 303-497-8114; Fax: 303-497-2483
Email: rwk@ucar.edu
Present position: Senior Scientist, NCAR
Education: B.A., Mathematics, Univ. Virginia, 1970
Ph.D., Statistics, Pennsylvania State Univ., 1974
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Awards
Research Topics
- Argentine Pampas Project
-- GLM Weather Generator - Economic Value of Weather and Climate Forecasts
- Statistics of Weather and Climate Extremes
Collaborators (non-NCAR)
- Eva Furrer
- Will Kleiber
- Philippe Naveau
- Marc Parlange
- Guillermo Podesta
- Balaji Rajagopalan
- Jana Sillmann
Other Links
- AMS Committee on Probability and Statistics
- ASA Advisory Committee on Climate Change Policy
- International Meetings on Statistical Climatology
- NCAR Geophysical Statistics Project
- Statistical Methods for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
- The International Environmetrics Society
Quotes
- "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted" -- Albert Einstein
- "Whenever you can, count" -- Sir Francis Galton
- "There may be occasions when it is best to behave irrationally, but whether there are should be decided rationally" -- I.J. Good
- "A random sequence is simply one in which any one of several things can happen next, even though not necessarily anything that can ever happen can happen next" -- Edward Lorenz
- "We shall have to give still more attention to doing the approximately right, rather than the exactly wrong" -- John Tukey
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