Taneil Uttal

Taneil Uttal, a supervisory meteorologist with NOAA’s Physical Sciences Laboratory and has been studying the Arctic atmosphere through field work for 24 years. Before that, she worked for the NOAA Wave Propagation Laboratory and Environmental Technology Laboratories specializing on interpreting the results from new technologies (radars, lidar, radiometers) to study clouds. She is currently the team lead for the Polar Observations and Processes Team. Uttal recently returned from a 5-month stint during the winter months in the central Arctic Ocean on the MOSAiC Expedition, an ambitious Arctic research effort led by the Alfred Wegener Institute. The project she was supporting measured surface energy balances with a tower and three autonomous systems on the Arctic icepack. She is currently working through the Polar Prediction Project to create observation-model data products that are harmonized to allow integrated system science research as well as reduce data latency in order to promote environmental intelligence for services.