Peter S. Dailey, Ph.D.

Assistant Vice President and Director of Atmospheric Science, AIR Worldwide

Dr. Dailey is responsible for the management and direction of the AIR Worldwide climate and weather research teams. His specialty is the numerical modeling of the environment. At AIR, Dr. Dailey has applied his Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) experience to oversee several projects, including the development of the next-generation European Wind Model — based on a high-resolution mesoscale modeling of windstorms over Europe. He has also led the development of a coupled climate-regional model used for seasonal forecasting, real-time forecasting (including ALERTTM), and other specialized applications such as crop-yield modeling.

Dr. Dailey is the author of numerous papers related to environmental simulation for various military and civilian applications with a focus on modeling at the regional scale. Prior to joining AIR, Dr. Dailey was principal meteorologist at Litton-TASC (now Northrop Grumman), where he served as technical lead on numerous governmental and commercial projects involving the development of modeling and simulation technologies. He was principal investigator on projects aimed at developing operational weather-simulation software for the media, including a modeling system currently used at The Weather Channel for regional weather forecasting. Dr. Dailey also led an effort to develop Synthetic Natural Environments for military training simulations (known as “war-gaming”).

Dr. Dailey received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in meteorology from the University of California, Los Angeles.

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