Mr. Jacob Stuivenvolt Allen

Graduate student, Utah State University

Abstract
A prominent circulation pattern featuring a ridge-trough dipoleover North America has been associated with drought, cold-air outbreaks and extreme winter storms and results in drastically different conditions between the Western and Eastern United States. Observations have shown an increase in the fluctuation of this stationary pattern and its associated impacts. With Community Earth System Model projections showing increasing variance in the dipole extremes, there is heightened interest to understand the dipole impacts and improve the sub-seasonal-to-seasonal predictability.

Bio.
Jacob Stuivenvolt Allen is a current graduate student in Climate Science at Utah State University. His research focuses on the impacts of winter climate variability, sub-seasonal to seasonal prediction, and winter climate extremes for North America. He is interested in research that provides valuable information for natural resource management or environmental mitigation. As climate change impacts us in diverse and complex ways, Jacob aims to contribute to the understanding of a changing climate’s impact on ecological and economic systems.