Lisa Bengtsson

Dr Lisa Bengtsson is a research scientist III at CIRES and NOAA ESRL PSL. She joined CIRES/NOAA in 2017 after working as a research scientist at the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) since 2006, which is a scientific agency (national weather service) under the Ministry of the Environment in Sweden. Lisa Bengtsson’s research interests have to a large extent been geared towards making weather forecasts more valuable to the real-world customers by making them more reliable (in a true statistical sense). Her work has played a role in both national and international efforts to enhance theoretical understanding of how to account for model uncertainty, as well as mapping this understanding into practical solutions. In addition, she has a strong interest in seeing this improved understanding transferred to weather prediction operations. On that note, she has developed a stochastic parameterization of cumulus convection currently being tested and evaluated in the NOAA’s Global Forecast System (GFS), and has written numerous peer-reviewed articles on the theoretical justification, design and performance of this scheme. She is currently the subproject lead for the Unified Forecast System’s model physics development in the Research to Operations (R2O) project. Dr. Bengtsson earned her MSc and PhD degrees at Stockholm University in Sweden, and her BSc degree in atmospheric sciences from University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA.