Arthur DeGaetano

Professor

Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Bradfield Hall, Room 1119

Biography

Art DeGaetano received an interdisciplinary Ph.D. focusing on Climatology and Horticulture from Rutgers University in 1989. He was an assistant professor in the Department of Meteorology at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City, South Dakota until 2001. Art began his career at Cornell in 2001 as a research climatologist in the federally-supported Northeast Regional Climate Center (NRCC) on Cornell's main campus. He is currently a professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and Director of the NRCC. The mission of the NRCC is to enhance the use and dissemination of climate information to a wide variety of sectors in the Northeast. Art serves as an editor for the American Meteorological Society Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology.

Research Interests

Applied climatology which involves the development of methods and data sets that provide climatological information to decision-makers in a variety of fields. Four more specific research areas make up this general focus: modeling climate influences on man-made and biological systems, documenting observed variations in the climate system, improving climate data quality, and assessing climate impacts.

Research Group Members

Teaching Interests

Foremost is Dr. DeGaetano's contribution to a nationally recognized undergraduate atmospheric science program. DeGaetano teaches a course on global warming as well as two required undergraduate courses: Atmospheric Thermodynamics and Hydrostatics, and Physical Meteorology.

Service Interests

Outreach through the Northeast Regional Climate Center (NRCC). The NRCC is one of six federal centers that disseminates climate data, data products and decision tools to regional stakeholders and is on the forefront of developing online data dissemination systems that are in use nationally. Increasingly, these systems are being tailored to address issues related to climate change adaptation.

Selected Publications

Kerr, Gaige Hunter, Arthur DeGaetano, Cathelijne R. Stoof, Daniel Ward. 2016."Climate change effects on wildland fire risk in the Northeastern and Great Lakes states predicted by a downscaled multi-model ensemble.."Theoretical and Applied Climatology.
Castellano, Christopher M., Arthur DeGaetano. 2016."A multi-step approach for downscaling daily precipitation extremes from historical analogues."International Journal of Climatology36(4): 1797-1807.
DeGaetano, Arthur, Brian Belcher, William Noon. 2015."Temporal and Spatial Interpolation of the Standardized Precipitation Index for Computational Efficiency in the Dynamic Drought Index Tool.."Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology54: 795-810.
DeGaetano, Arthur, W. Noon, K. L. Eggleston. 2014."Efficient Access to Climate Products in Support of Climate Services using the Applied Climate Information System (ACIS) Web Services."Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
Vose, R. S., S. Applequist, M. Bourassa, S. Pryor, et. al., Arthur DeGaetano. 2014."Monitoring and understanding changes in extremes: Extratropical storms, winds, and waves."Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society95: 377-386.