Member Since 1991
Bill Drew Collins
Senior Scientist, Professor, and Associate Laboratory Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Chair, Global Environmental Change Nominations Canvassing Committee; Member, Atmospheric Sciences Fellows Committee
Dr. William Collins is an internationally recognized expert in climate modeling and climate change science. Dr. Collins is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Physical Society (APS), the American Geophysical Union (AGU), and the American Meteorological Society (AMS). Dr. Collins was awarded the DOE Secretarial Honor Award for launching DOE’s Accelerated Climate Model for Energy in 2015.
Professional Experience
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Senior Scientist, Professor, and Associate Laboratory Director
2007 - Present
University of California Berkeley
Professor in Residence
Education
Doctorate
1989
Honors & Awards
Jule Gregory Charney Lecture
Received December 2024
Union Fellow
Received December 2020
Citation
For pioneering contributions to the fundamental understanding of atmospheric radiation, radiative forcing, and the role of radiation in climate
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John Tyndall History of Global Environmental Change Lecture
Received December 2019
Publications
Contrasting Responses of Atlantic and Pacific Tropical Cyclone Activity to Atlantic Multidecadal Var...
This research assesses the influences of Atlantic Multidecadal Variability (AMV) on global tropical cyclones (TCs) using two large ensembles of ide...
May 17, 2023
Characteristics and Variability of Winter Northern Pacific A...
November 30, 2022
The Influence of Ocean Coupling on Simulated and Projected T...
October 15, 2021
Constraining and Characterizing the Size of Atmospheric Rive...
August 19, 2021
AGU Abstracts
The Role of Atmospheric River Sequencing and Land Preconditions on US West Coast Runoff
AGU 2024
atmospheric sciences | 13 december 2024
Yang Zhou, Joshua North, Alan Rhoades, Jing Tao, W...
This study investigates the factors influencing runoff response to atmospheric rivers (ARs) over the U.S. West Coast. We focused on runoff time series...
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Design and generation of ensemble weather forecasts using Spherical Fourier Neural Operators
AGU 2024
atmospheric sciences | 12 december 2024
Ankur Mahesh, William D. Collins, Peter Harrington...
Simulating low-likelihood high-impact extreme weather events in a warming world is a significant and challenging task for current ensemble forecasting...
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Challenges to predicting hydrological responses to future changes in regional and global aerosol burdens
AGU 2024
global environmental change | 11 december 2024
William D. Collins, Mark D. Risser, Michael F. Weh...
At regional scales, multimodel ensembles (MMEs) of current Earth System Models (ESMs) produce very heterogeneous projections of the human influence on...
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Volunteer Experience
2024 - 2026
Member
Atmospheric Sciences Fellows Committee
2023 - 2024
Chair
Global Environmental Change Nominations Canvassing Committee
2021 - 2022
Chair
Global Environmental Change Nominations Canvassing Committee
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