Education

Bachelor of Science (1994)

Meteorology Major 

St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN

Master of Science (1997)

Agricultural Meteorology Major 

Iowa State University, Ames, IA

Doctor of Philosophy (2004)

Agricultural Meteorology Major, Statistics Graduate Minor 

Iowa State University, Ames, IA

Employment

Research Associate II (1997-2001)

Iowa State University, Ames, IA

Postdoctoral Research Associate (2004-2005)

Iowa State University, Ames, IA

Lead Mesoscale Modeler (2005-2008)

NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory Global Systems Division, Boulder, CO

Scientist, Assistant Director Climate Science Initiative (2008-current)

Iowa State University, Ames, IA 

Tools

Weather prediction and analysis models (MM5, WRF) and submodels for convection and surface physics 

Regression models: linear, neural net, classification tree

Basis functions: empirical orthogonal functions, wavelets

Bootstrap methods

Stochastic models: hierarchical models,  ARMA

Synergistic Activities

Contributed to preliminary analysis of and technical guidance on the usage of statistical downscaling techniques in support of grant proposal submitted by Colorado Front Range Water managers to the American Water Works Association Research Foundation

Contributed analysis of and technical guidance on statistical downscaling for Climate Change in Colorado: A Synthesis to Support Water Resources Management and Adaptation published by the Western Water Assessment (wwa.colorado.edu).

Consultant team member that will develop a climate modeling science guidance document for the Water Utility Climate Alliance Science and Research Committee.

Peer Reviewed Publications

Correia, Jr., James, Raymond W. Arritt, and Christopher J. Anderson, 2008: Idealized mesoscale convective system structure and propagation using convective parameterization. Mon. Wea. Rev., 136, 2422--2442.

Yuan, J., C. Lu, J. McGinley, P. Schultz, B. Jamison, L. Wharton, and Christopher J. Anderson, 2008: Short-range precipitation forecasts using time-lagged multimodel ensembles. J. Hydrometeor., 9, 477--491.    

Anderson, Christopher J., Raymond W. Arritt, and John S. Kain, 2007: Tests of a modified Kain-Fritsch scheme in a regional climate model. J. Hydrometeor., 8, 1128--1140.

Anderson, Christopher J., and Christopher K. Wikle, 2007: Population influences on tornado reports. Wea. Forecasting, 22, 571--279.

Jankov, Isidora, Paul J. Schultz, Christopher J. Anderson, and Steven E. Koch, 2007: The impact of different physical parameterizations and their interactions on cold-season QPF. J. Hydrometeor., 8, 1141--1151.

 Eugene S. Takle, Manoj Jha, and Christopher J. Anderson, 2005: Hydrological cycle in upper Mississippi River basin: 20th century simulations using multiple GCMs. Geophys. Res. Let., 32, doi:10.1029/2005GL023630

Pan, Zaitao, Raymond W. Arritt, Eugene S. Takle, William J. Gutowski, Jr., Christopher J. Anderson, and Moti Segal, 2004: Altered hydrologic feedback in a warming climate introduces a "warming hole".  Geophys. Res. Let., 32, doi:10.1029/2004GL020528

Wikle, Christopher K., and Christopher J. Anderson, 2003: Climatological analysis of tornado counts using a heirarchical Bayesian spatio-temporal model. J. Geophys. Res., 108(D24), 9005, doi:10.1029/2002JD002806.

Anderson, Christopher J., Raymond W. Arritt, Eugene S. Takle, Zaito Pan, William J. Gutowski, Jr., Francis O. Otieno, Renato da Silva, Daniel Caya, Jens H. Christensen, Daniel Luthi, Miguel A. Gaertner, Clemente Gallardo, Filippo Giorgi, Song-You Hong, Colin Jones, H.-M. H. Juang, J. J. Katzfey, William M. Lapenta, Rene Laprise, Jay W. Larson, Glen E. Liston, John L. McGregor, Roger A. Pielke, Sr., John O. Roads, John A. Taylor, 2003: Hydrological processes in regional climate model simulations of the central United States flood of June-July 1993. J. Hydrometeor., 4, 584--598.

Anderson, Christopher J., and Raymond W. Arritt, 2001: Representation of summertime low-level jets in the central United States by the NCEP-NCAR reanalysis. J. Climate, 14, 234--247.

Anderson, Christopher J., and Raymond W. Arritt, 2001: Mesoscale convective systems over the United States during the 1997-98 El Nino. Mon. Wea. Rev., 126, 578--599.

Arritt, Raymond W., Dustin C. Goering, and Christopher J. Anderson, 2000: The North American monsoon system in the Hadley Centre coupled ocean-atmosphere GCM. Geophys. Res. Let., 27, 565--568.

Daniel, Chad J., Raymond W. Arritt, and Christopher J. Anderson, 1999: Accuracy of 404-mhz radar profilers for detection of low-level jets over the central United States. J. Appl. Meteor., 38, 1391--1396.

Anderson, Christopher J., and Raymond W. Arritt, 1998: Mesoscale convective complexes and persistent elongated convective systems over the United States during 1992 and 1993. Mon. Wea. Rev., 126, 578--599.

Segal, Moti, Raymond W. Arritt, and Christopher J. Anderson, 1997: On the clearing of cumulus clods downwind from lakes. Mon. Wea. Rev., 125, 639--646.

Segal, Moti, Mark Leuthold, Raymond W. Arritt, Christopher J. Anderson, and J. Shen, 1997: Small lake daytime breezes: some observational and conceptual evaluations. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 78, 1135--1147.