Brandon Wolding
Position
Research Scientist
Division
Atmosphere-Ocean Processes and Predictability
Affiliation
Contact
About
Brandon Wolding began his work at NOAA PSL as a NOAA Climate and Global Change fellow in 2018, investigating the role of moisture in convective coupling. In August of 2020 he joined the Atmosphere-Ocean Processes team, helping develop process-oriented diagnostics aimed at improving model representation of tropical convective variability, convective organization, and air-sea coupling. His previous work includes examining how tropical-extratropical interactions will change in a warming climate, furthering understanding of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO), and the role of air-sea interactions in the MJO. Brandon first worked for NOAA as an observer biologist aboard longline tuna and swordfish boats in the Hawaiian and American Samoan fisheries.
Research Interests
- thermodynamic-convection coupling of tropical convection
- tropical-extratropical interactions in present and future climates
- ocean-atmosphere interactions
- development of process-oriented diagnostics to guide model development
- convectively-coupled equatorial waves
Education
- Ph.D., Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, May 2017
- M.Sc., Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Dec 2013
- M.Sc., Applied Marine Science, University of Cape Town, South Africa, Jun 2010
Selected Publications
- Wolding, B., A. Rydbeck, J. Dias, F. Ahmed, M. Gehne, G. Kiladis, E. Riley Dellaripa, X. Chen, and I. McCoy (2023), Atmosphere-ocean coupled energy budgets of shallow and deep tropical convective discharge-recharge cycles, J. Atm. Sci., 81(1), 3-29
- Chen, X., J. Dias, B. Wolding, R. Pincus, C. DeMott, G. Wick, E. J. Thompson, and C. W. Fairall (2023), Ubiquitous sea surface temperature anomalies increase spatial heterogeneity of trade-wind cloudiness on daily timescale, J. Atm. Sci., 80(12), 2969-2987
- Wolding, B., S. W. Powell, F. Ahmed, J. Dias, M. Gehne, G. Kiladis, and J. D. Neelin (2022), Tropical thermodynamic–convection coupling in observations and reanalyses, J. Atm. Sci., 79 (7), 1781–1803
- Wolding, B. O., J Dias, G. Kiladis, F. Ahmed, S.W. Powell, E. D. Maloney, and M. Branson (2020), Interactions between moisture and tropical convection. Part I: The co-evolution of moisture and convection, J. Atm. Sci., 77(5), 1783-1799
- Wolding, B. O., E. D. Maloney, S. Henderson, and M. Branson (2017), Climate change and the Madden-Julian Oscillation: A vertically resolved weak temperature gradient analysis, J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 9(1), 307-331
Professional Activities
- Host of 2024 NOAA Climate and Global Change Summer Institute
- Associate Editor of Monthly Weather Review
- Co-chair of 9th, 10th, and 11th MJO Symposium at the AMS Annual Meeting and Convection session at AMS Tropical Conference
- Co-chair of Convection Symposium at AMS Tropical Conference
- Mentor in Research Experience for Community College Students (RECCS) program, administered by University of Colorado Boulder
Professional Memberships
- American Meteorological Society
- American Geophysical Union
Honors and Awards
- NOAA Climate and Global Change Fellow, UCAR CPAESS
- SoGES Sustainability Leadership Fellow, Colorado State University
- Teaching Fellow, Colorado College
- Outstanding Student Paper Award, American Geophysical Union
- Outstanding Student Presentation, American Meterological Society
- Distinction Awarded, University of Cape Town
- Outstanding Student in Oceanography, Hawaii Pacific University