Employment

IT Specialist (Systems Analyst), NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL)

A US Government employee since 1975 (starting with the US Geological Survey), and a NOAA employee since 1976. Currently Principal Investigator at ESRL for the International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS) Project.

Professional Activities

Chair, Organizing Committee: Third JCOMM Workshop on Advances in Marine Climatology (CLIMAR-III), 5-9 May 2008, Gdynia, Poland

Member (2006-): Joint CCl-CLIVAR-JCOMM Expert Team on Climate Change Detection and Indices (ETCCDI)

Chair (2005-): JCOMM Expert Team on Marine Climatology

Co-organizer: Second International Workshop on Advances in the Use of Historical Marine Climate Data (MARCDAT-II), 17-20 October 2005, Met Office, Exeter, UK

Scientific Advisor (2005-): JCOMM Voluntary Observing Ship (VOS) Climate Project (VOSClim)

Member (2005-): CDC Data Users Advisory Committee (DUAC)

Chair, Organizing Committee: Second JCOMM Workshop on Advances in Marine Climatology (CLIMAR-II), 17-22 November 2003, Brussels, Belgium; and Member: Organizing Committee, International Seminar to Celebrate the Brussels Maritime Conference of 1853--An Historical Perspective of Operational Marine Meteorology and Oceanography, 17-18 November 2003

Co-organizer: CLIVAR Workshop on Advances in the Use of Historical Marine Climate Data, Boulder, Colorado, 29 January-1 February 2002

Member (2001-2005): JCOMM Expert Team on Marine Climatology

Rapporteur on historical marine formats for the JCOMM Subgroup on Marine Climatology meeting, Asheville, 10-14 April 2000

Member (2001-): GCOS (AOPC/OOPC) Surface Pressure Working Group (SPWG)

Member (1999-2001): GCOS (AOPC/OOPC) Sea Surface Temperature and Sea-Ice Working Group (SST/SI WG)

Member (1995-2000): CDC Computer Users Advisory Committee (CUAC)

Chair (1990-1992) and Vice-Chair (1988-90): Dept. of Commerce/Boulder Computer Users Group (BCUG)

Co-organizer: International COADS Workshop, Boulder, Colorado, 13-15 January 1992.

Contributor: WMO/UNEP Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Working Group I, 1990 Scientific Assessment (Section 7: Observed Climate Variations and Change)

Co-organizer: COADS Workshop, Boulder, Colorado, 22-24 January 1986

Education

Graduate Courses in Computer Science, University of Colorado (3 courses, 1978-79)

BS in Computer Science, Colorado State University, June 1975

Publications

• Brohan, P., R. Allan, J.E. Freeman, A. Waple, D. Wheeler, C. Wilkinson, and S. Woodruff, 2008: Marine observations of old weather. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. (accepted).

• Woodruff, S.D., H.F. Diaz, E.C. Kent, R.W. Reynolds, and S.J. Worley, 2008: The evolving SST record from ICOADS. In Climate Variability and Extremes during the Past 100 Years (S. Broennimann, J. Luterbacher, T. Ewen, H.F. Diaz, R.S. Stolarski, and U. Neu, Eds.), Advances in Global Change Research, Vol. 33, Springer, 65-83.

• Kent, E., S. Woodruff, N. Rayner, T. Arbetter, C. Folland, F. Koek, D. Parker, R. Reynolds, R. Saunders, V. Smolyanitsky, S. Worley, and T. Yoshida, 2007: Advances in the use of historical marine climate data (Second International Workshop on Advances in the Use of Historical Marine Climate Data). Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 88, 559-564.

• Kent, E.C., S.D. Woodruff and D.I. Berry, 2007: WMO Publication No. 47 metadata and an assessment of observation heights in ICOADS. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 24, 214-234.

• Kent, E.C., D.I. Berry, S.D. Woodruff, and P.K. Taylor, 2006: Voluntary Observing Ships: A vital observing system in decline. CLIVAR Exchanges, No. 38 (Vol. 11, No. 3, July 2006), 15 & 20-21.

• Woodruff, S. and S. Worley, 2006: Ocean fluxes and ICOADS: A status report. FLUX News, No. 1 (January 2006), 10-11.

• Kent, E., S. Woodruff, N. Rayner, C. Folland, D. Parker, and T. Yoshida, 2006: Report on the 2nd International Workshop on Advances in the Use of Historical Marine Climate Data. CLIVAR Exchanges, No. 36 (Vol. 11, No. 1, January 2006), 29-30.

• Woodruff, S.D., H.F. Diaz, S.J. Worley, R.W. Reynolds, and S.J. Lubker, 2005: Early ship observational data and ICOADS. Climatic Change, 73, 169-194.

• Worley, S.J., S.D. Woodruff, R.W. Reynolds, S.J. Lubker, and N. Lott, 2005: ICOADS Release 2.1 data and products. Int. J. Climatol., 25, 823-842.

• Woodruff, S.D., S.J. Worley, and R.W. Reynolds, 2004: Early ship observational data and global climate studies. An International Seminar to Celebrate the Brussels Maritime Conference of 1853--An Historical Perspective of Operational Marine Meteorology and Oceanography, WMO/TD-No. 1226 (JCOMM Technical Report No. 27)--on CD-ROM.

• Woodruff, S., J. Elms, R. Reynolds, R. Garcia, F. Guo, S. Worley, and T. Yoshida, 2004: Rescuing marine data. World Climate News, No. 25 (June 2004), WMO, Geneva, 10.

• Parker, D., E. Kent, S. Woodruff, D. Dehenauw, D.E. Harrison, T. Manabe, M. Meitus, V. Swail, and S. Worley, 2004: The Second JCOMM Workshop on Advances in Marine Climatology (CLIMAR-II). WMO Bulletin, 53(2), 157-159.

• Woodruff, S.D., S.J. Worley, J.A. Arnott, H.F. Diaz, J.D. Elms, M. Jackson, S.J. Lubker, and D.E. Parker, 2003: COADS updates and the blend with the UK Met Office Marine Data Bank. Advances in the Applications of Marine Climatology--The Dynamic Part of the WMO Guide to the Applications of Marine Meteorology, WMO/TD-No. 1081 (JCOMM Technical Report No. 13), 3-10--on CD-ROM.

• Wolter, K., S.J. Lubker, and S.D. Woodruff, 2003: Quality control in recent and pending COADS Releases. Advances in the Applications of Marine Climatology--The Dynamic Part of the WMO Guide to the Applications of Marine Meteorology, WMO/TD-No. 1081 (JCOMM Technical Report No. 13), 116-123--on CD-ROM.

• Diaz, H., C. Folland, T. Manabe, D. Parker, R. Reynolds, and S. Woodruff, 2002: Workshop on Advances in the Use of Historical Marine Climate Data. WMO Bulletin, 51(4), 377-380.

• Diaz, H., C. Folland, T. Manabe, D. Parker, R. Reynolds, and S. Woodruff, 2002: Workshop on Advances in the Use of Historical Marine Climate Data. CLIVAR Exchanges, No. 25 (Vol. 7, No. 3/4, September 2002), 71-73.

• Woodruff, S.D., S.J. Worley, and R.W. Reynolds, 2002: COADS data and information handling. 18th International Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA, 239-241.

• Woodruff, S.D., 2001: COADS updates including newly digitized data and the blend with the UK Meteorological Office Marine Data Bank. Proceedings of International Workshop on Preparation, Processing and Use of Historical Marine Meteorological Data, Tokyo, Japan, 28-29 November 2000, Japan Meteorological Agency and the Ship & Ocean Foundation, 9-13.

• Woodruff, S.D., 2001: Quality control in recent COADS updates. Proceedings of International Workshop on Preparation, Processing and Use of Historical Marine Meteorological Data, Tokyo, Japan, 28-29 November 2000, Japan Meteorological Agency and the Ship & Ocean Foundation, 49-53.

• Diaz, H.F., and S.D. Woodruff (Eds.), 1999: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Digitization and Preparation of Historical Surface Marine Data and Metadata (Toledo, Spain, 15-17 September 1997), WMO/TD-No.957, MMROA Report No. 43, World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, 114 pp.

• Woodruff, S., E. Wishman, F. Silva, S. Lubker, and M. Nitter, 1999: Incorporation of the Norwegian Ship Logbook Collection into COADS. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Digitization and Preparation of Historical Surface Marine Data and Metadata (Toledo, Spain, 15-17 September 1997), H.F. Diaz and S.D. Woodruff, Eds., WMO/TD-No.957, MMROA Report No. 43, World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, 99-103.

• Farrington, A.J., S. Lubker, U. Radok, and S. Woodruff, 1999: South Atlantic winds and weather during and following the Little Ice Age--A pilot study of English East India Company (EEIC) ship logs. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Digitization and Preparation of Historical Surface Marine Data and Metadata (Toledo, Spain, 15-17 September 1997), H.F. Diaz and S.D. Woodruff, Eds., WMO/TD-No.957, MMROA Report No. 43, World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, 69-72.

• Farrington, A.J., S. Lubker, U. Radok, and S. Woodruff, 1998: South Atlantic winds and weather during and following the Little Ice Age--A pilot study of English East India Company (EEIC) ship logs. Meteorol. Atmos. Phy., 67, 253-257.

• Woodruff, S.D., H.F. Diaz, J.D. Elms, and S.J. Worley, 1998: COADS Release 2 data and metadata enhancements for improvements of marine surface flux fields. Phys. Chem. Earth, 23, 517-526.

• Elms, J., R. Quayle, and S. Woodruff, 1998: Detecting climate change over the oceans. World Climate News, No. 12 (January 1998), WMO, Geneva, 8.

• Woodruff, S.D., 1997: The Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (COADS): Project status and data availability. Changing Oceans and Changing Fisheries: Environmental Data for Fisheries Research and Management--A Workshop, G.W. Boehlert and J.D. Schumacher, Eds., NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries Science Center (NOAA-TM-NMFS-SWFSC-239), 127.

• Woodruff, S.D., 1995: COADS Project report I: Update plans and unresolved issues. Proceedings of the International COADS Winds Workshop, Kiel, Germany, 31 May-2 June 1994, H.F. Diaz and H.-J. Isemer, Eds., NOAA Environmental Research Laboratories, Boulder, Colo., 12-28.

• Woodruff, S.D., S.J. Lubker, K. Wolter, S.J. Worley, and J.D. Elms, 1994: Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (COADS) Release 1a: 1980-92. Proceedings of the 18th Annual Climate Diagnostics Workshop, Boulder, Colorado, November 1-5, 1993, NOAA Climate Analysis Center, Washington, DC, 295-298.

• Wolter, K., M.Y. Liu, S.D. Woodruff, and S.J. Lubker, 1994: COADS Release 1a (1980-92)--impacts of changes in composition and quality control. Proceedings of the 18th Annual Climate Diagnostics Workshop, Boulder, Colorado, November 1-5, 1993, NOAA Climate Analysis Center, Washington, DC, 342-345.

• Welsh, J.G., D.R. Mock, and S.D. Woodruff, 1994: A dataset description language. Preprints, 10th International Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA, 125-127.

• Woodruff, S.D., and J.D. Elms, 1994: Sampling climate variables over the oceans. Report on Second NOAA Data Quality and Continuity Workshop, April 19-20, 1993, Rockville, MD, T. Karl, D. Easterling, and V. Derr, Eds., NOAA National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC.

• Elms, J.D., S.D. Woodruff, S.J. Worley, and C. Hanson, 1993: Digitizing Historical Records for the Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (COADS). Earth System Monitor, 4, No. 2, 4-10.

• Woodruff, S.D., S.J. Lubker, K. Wolter, S.J. Worley, and J.D. Elms, 1993: Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (COADS) Release 1a: 1980-92. Earth System Monitor, 4, No. 1, 1-8.

• Diaz, H.F., K. Wolter, and S.D. Woodruff (Eds.), 1992: Proceedings of the International COADS Workshop, Boulder, Colorado, 13-15 January 1992. NOAA Environmental Research Laboratories, Climate Research Division, Boulder, CO, 390 pp.

• Elms, J.D., R.G. Quayle, and S.D. Woodruff, 1992: Where have all the data gone? Mar. Wea. Log, 36, No. 2, 9-13.

• Woodruff, S.D., S.J. Lubker, R.G. Quayle, U. Radok, and E.D. Doggett, 1991: Differences Within and Among Surface Marine Datasets. NOAA Environmental Research Laboratories, Climate Research Division, Boulder, CO, 216 pp.

• Woodruff, S.D., 1990: Preliminary comparison of COADS (US) and MDB (UK) ship reports. Observed Climate Variations and Change: Contributions in Support of Section 7 of the 1990 IPCC Scientific Assessment, D. Parker, Ed., WMO/UNEP Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Geneva, Switzerland.

• Wolter, K., S.J. Lubker, and S.D. Woodruff, 1989: Trimming--a potential error source in COADS. Trop. Ocean-Atmos. Newslett., No. 51, 4-7.

• Woodruff, S.D., R.J. Slutz, R.L. Jenne, and P.M. Steurer, 1987: A comprehensive ocean-atmosphere data set. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 68, 1239-1250.

• Diaz, H.F., C.S. Ramage, S.D. Woodruff, and T.S. Parker, 1987: Climatic Summaries of Ocean Weather Stations. NOAA Environmental Research Laboratories, Climate Research Division, Boulder, CO, 363 pp.

• Woodruff, S.D. (Ed.), 1986: Proceedings of a COADS Workshop, Boulder, Colorado, January 22-24, 1986. NOAA Environmental Research Laboratories, Climate Research Program, Boulder, CO, 218 pp.

• Slutz, R.J., S.J. Lubker, J.D. Hiscox, S.D. Woodruff, R.L. Jenne, D.H. Joseph, P.M. Steurer, and J.D. Elms, 1985: Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set; Release 1. NOAA Environmental Research Laboratories, Climate Research Program, Boulder, CO, 268 pp.

• Woodruff, S.D., 1985: The Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set. Third Conference on Climate Variations and Symposium on Contemporary Climate: 1850-2100, American Meteorological Society, Boston, Mass., 14-15.

• Fletcher, J.O., R.J. Slutz, and S.D. Woodruff, 1983: Towards a Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set. Trop. Ocean-Atmos. Newslett., No. 20, 13-14.

• Partridge, G., and S. Woodruff, 1981: Changes in Global Surface Temperature Derived from Historical Records of Sea Surface Temperature. Mon. Wea. Rev., 109, 2427-2433.