Fiona Horsfall, Ph.D.
Meteorologist
Climate Services Division
Office of Climate, Water, and Weather Services/NWS/NOAA
301 713 1970 x 137
FAX 301 713 1520

Fiona.Horsfall@noaa.gov

Provides primary support for strategic planning and program coordination for the division. She actively participates in NWS strategic planning for climate services and provides principal support for NWS participation in climate components of the NOAA strategic planning and budget process.

1996

Ph.D., Division of Meteorology and Physical Oceanography, University of Miami, Florida

1989

B.S., Ocean Engineering, Florida Atlantic University, Florida

2002-Present

NOAA, National Weather Service, Climate Services Division, Silver Spring, MD

1995-2002 

Meteorologist, National Hurricane Center, Miami, Florida 

1997-1998

Research Scientist, Florida International University, Miami, Florida

NOAA Representative, Human Contributions and Responses Interagency Working Group, U.S. Climate Change Science Program, July 2006-present

Chair, U.N. World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Expert Team on El Niño and La Niña Definitions, 2005

U.S. Delegation, U.N. WMO 2nd Conference on Women in Meteorology and Hydrology, Geneva, Switzerland, 2003

NOAA EEO Council, 1998-2001.

President, Greater Miami Chapter, American Meteorological Society, 1996-2001.

Horsfall, Fiona, Jim Laver, and Peter Schultz, 2007: Decision Support in NOAA’s National Weather Service. Extended Abstracts, 16th Conference on Applied Climatology, Amer. Meteo. Soc. 87th Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX.

Horsfall, Fiona, Harvey Hill, Roger Pulwarty, and Kelly Redmond, 2005: NOAA Climate Cores: Enhancing the National Climate Decision Support Capacity. Extended Abstracts, 16th Conference on Climate Variability and Change, San Diego, CA. Amer. Meteor. Soc. CD-ROM 14.1.

Mel Gelman, Fiona Horsfall, Huug van den Dool, Pedro Restrepo, 2004: NOAA Climate Forecast Products for Water Resources Applications, Water Resources Impact, 6, 4-6.

Horsfall, Fiona, Harvey Hill, Roger Pulwarty, and Kelly Redmond, 2004: Meeting the climate needs of the US public: the next big challenge, 14th Conference on Applied Climatology, Seattle, Washington. Amer. Meteor. Soc. CD-ROM 6.3.

Horsfall, Fiona and Harvey Hill, 2004: NOAA Climate Transition Program: a method for transitioning research to operations. 14th Conference on Applied Climatology, Seattle, Washington. Amer. Meteor. Soc.

Livezey, Robert E., Judith Koepsell, Marina Timofeyeva, Robert Leffler, Fiona Horsfall, Andrea Bair, Gary Hufford, Preston Leftwich, Victor Murphy, Harvey Thurm, and James Weyman, 2004: The National Weather Service's role as a partner for providing climate services at the regional and local levels. 14th Conference on Applied Climatology, Seattle, Washington. Amer. Meteor. Soc.

Fiona Horsfall and Kerry Emanuel, 2002:  Forecast skill of a simple coupled hurricane intensity prediction model. Extended Abstracts, 25^th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical meteorology, San Diego, California.

Chen, Shuyi S., M. Lonfat, J. Tenerelli, R. Rogers, and F. Horsfall, 2002: Tropical Cyclone Intensity and Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting. Extended Abstracts, 25^th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, San Diego, California.

Fiona Horsfall and M. DeMaria, 2000: Climatological Analysis of Tropical  Cyclogenesis in the North Atlantic and Eastern North Pacific Basins.  Extended Abstracts, 24^th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

Mark DeMaria, R. M. Zehr, C. S. Velden and F. M. Horsfall, 2000:  Further Improvements to the Statistical Hurricane Intensity Prediction Scheme Using GOES Imagery. Extended Abstracts, 24^th Conference on Hurricanes and  Tropical Meteorology, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.