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APPENDIX B
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
OF PANEL MEMBERS
Dennis L. Hartmann (chair), is chair of the Department of Atmospheric
Sciences at the University of Washington, Seattle. He holds a Ph.D. in
geophysical fluid dynamics Dom Princeton University. His early work used
newly acquired satellite data to investigate the dynamical climatology of the
Southern Hemisphere stratosphere. Dr. Hartmann has published more than
100 papers on a wide variety of topics, including radiative-chemical
dynamical interactions in the stratosphere, Earth's radiation balance, the role
of clouds in climate sensitivity, large-scale dynamics, and numerical
modeling. His NRC experience includes the Panel on the Tropical Ocean
Global Atmosphere Program, the Committee on Earth Studies, and the
Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Research. He is a fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Meterological
Society, and the American Geophysical Union.
Alan K Betts holds a Ph.D. in meteorology from Imperial College (U.K.~.
In the 1980s Dr. Betts and Martin Miller developed a parameterization of
convection for use in global atmospheric models. In contrast to increasingly
complex parameterizations involving detailed models of cloud processes, the
Betts-Miller scheme takes an "external" view of convection and adjusts the
large-scale convective environment toward thermodynamic profiles. Dr.
Betts is the chief scientist of Atmospheric Research (Pittsford, Vermont) and
is a visiting scientist at the European Centre for Medium Range Weather
Forecasts and at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Dr. Betts has served
on the NRC Advisory Panel for the International Satellite Cloud
Climatology Project and has been a reviewer of the NRC reports Emerging
Global Water and Energy Initiatives: An Integrated Perspective (1999) and
Improving the Effectiveness of U.S. Climate Modeling (2001~.
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Gordon B. Bonan is a senior scientist in the National Center for
Atmospheric Research's (NCAR) Climate and Global Dynamics Division
and is an associate professor adjoins in the University of Colorado's Program
in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences. Since 1989 he has worked at NCAR
studying the ecological and hydrological processes by which natural and
human-mediated changes in land cover affect climate. He serves as an editor
for the Journal of Climate and holds a Ph.D. in environmental sciences from
the University of Virginia.
Lee E. Branscome received his Ph.D. in meteorology from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1981. He spent several years on
the faculty of the University of Miami teaching courses in geophysical fluid
dynamics and performing climate dynamics research sponsored by the
National Science Foundation and National Aeronautics and Space
Administration. As president of Environmental Dynamics Research, Inc.,
Dr. Branscome has performed weather and climate studies for businesses,
law firms, and government agencies since 1988. He has served as president
of the National Council of Industrial Meteorologists and chairman of the
Board of Certified Consulting Meteorologists of the American
Meteorological Society. His current research activities are primarily focused
on helping businesses understand and manage their weather and climate risk.
Dr. Branscome is a member of the National Council of Industrial
Meteorologists, the American Meteorological Society, and the American
Geophysical Union.
Antonio J. Busalacchi, Jr., is the Director of the Earth System Science
Interdisciplinary Center and professor of meteorology at the University of
Maryland, College Park. His research interests include climate variablity, the
development and application of numerical models combined with in situ and
space-based ocean observations to study the tropical ocean response to
surface fluxes of momentum and heat, as well as tropical ocean circulation
and its role in the coupled climate system. Dr. Busalacchi has NRC
experience as a member of the Panel on the Tropical Ocean Global
Atmosphere Program, the Panel on Ocean Atmosphere Observations
Supporting Short-Term Climate Predictions, Committee on Earth Studies,
and is presently chair of the Climate Research Committee. He holds a Ph.D.
in oceanography from Florida State University.
Amanda H. Lynch is an assistant professor in the Program in Atmospheric
and Oceanic Science and a fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research
in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Dr.
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Lynch received her Ph.D. in meteorology from the University of Melbourne
in 1993. Her research interests include climate system modeling, process
modeling, and fieldwork on high-latitude climate. Current projects include
studies on the interactions atmospheric circulation and sea-ice cover, the
effects of vegetation and snow distribution on climate, both past and present,
and the hydrological cycle. Dr. Lynch is a member of the American
Meteorological Society and the American Geophysical Union and serves on
the National Science Foundation's Office of Polar Programs Advisory
Committee.
Syukuro Manabe is a visiting research collaborator of the Program in
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at Princeton University. During most of
his career he was the leader of the Climate Dynamics Group at Geophysical
Fluid Dynamics Laboratory of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration. His group developed a hierarchy of climate models of
various complexities, ranging from one-dimensional, radiative-convective
models of the atmosphere to three-dimensional models of the coupled ocean-
atmosphere-land surface system. Using these models they explored the
physical mechanisms that are responsible for the forced and unforced
climatic changes of the past, present, and future, in particular, global
warming. Dr. Manabe's NRC service includes the Panel on Climate
Variability on Decade-to-Century Time Scales, Board on Atmospheric
Sciences and Climate, and Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and
Resources. He is a honorary member of the American Meteorological
Society and the Japan Meteorological Society, and a fellow of the American
Geophysical Union and American Association for the Advancement of
Science. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Douglas G. Martinson is a Doherty Senior Research Scientist at Lamont-
Doherty Earth Observatory and an adjunct professor in the Department of
Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University. Dr. Martinson's
primary research foci are the oceans and their role in climate. In particular,
he studies the interactions of air, sea, and ice in high-latitude oceans; how
these interactions govern the distribution of sea ice; and how changes in sea-
ice cover can affect the world's deep-ocean circulation and global climate.
Dr. Martinson's research includes both modeling and observational studies
in polar regions, typically during winter months, from ships or camps set up
on the sea ice. He is also interested in the relationship between oceans and
climate over longer time scales, typically focusing on the role of high-
latitude oceans in the onset and termination of the ice ages. Dr. Martinson
has previous NRC experience as chairman of the Panel on Climate
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Variability on Decade-to-Century Time Scales and as a member of the
Climate Research Committee.
Raymond Najjar is an associate professor at the Pennsylvania State
University. He is an oceanographer with broad research interests. He has
studied the global-scale cycles of carbon, oxygen, and nutrients in the ocean,
using both observations and models. He is also interested in photochemically
produced gases in the sea, particularly carbon monoxide, and is engaged in
fieldwork and modeling of this gas. Dr. Najjar also makes simple models of
estuaries and their watersheds and uses them to quantify the potential impact
of climate change on these systems. He has used numerical models to study
past changes in ocean circulation and dissolved oxygen. Dr. Najjar served on
the steering committee of the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study and has written
numerous articles in both U.S. and foreign scientific publications.
Eugene M. Rasmusson is a Research Professor Emeritus at the University
of Maryland, College Park. His research expertise lies broadly in seasonal-
to-interannual climate variability, with emphasis on the global hydrologic
cycle, tropical variability, and the nature and predictability of the E1 Nino-
Southern Oscillation phenomenon. Dr. Rasmusson's NRC experience is
wide-ranging and includes membership on the Board on Atmospheric
Sciences and Climate, the Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System Panel,
the Panel on Model-Assimilated Datasets for Atmospheric and Oceanic
Research, the Committee on USGS Water Resources Research, and the
Advisory Panel for the Tropical Ocean/Global Atmosphere (TOGA)
Program. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
A. R. Ravishankara is a senior scientist at the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration's Aeronomy Laboratory and a professor adjoins
at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has made fundamental
contributions to understanding and quantifying important processes critical
to the chemistry of the atmosphere. He has used highly innovative
techniques to advance the knowledge of ozone depletion, climate change,
and atmospheric pollution, and has thereby played a leadership role in
shaping understanding of global chemical changes. Dr. Ravishankara's
major research interest is to understand what happens to molecules released
into the atmosphere and how these molecules affect the atmosphere. He
identifies and quantifies middle- and lower-atmospheric chemical processes
through laboratory studies. His group studies the thermal gas phase
reactions, photochemical processes, and heterogeneous and multiphase
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reactions of various chemical species known or expected to be present in the
atmosphere.
Dian J. Seidel leads the climate variability and trends group at the NOAA
Air Resources Laboratory in Silver Spring, Maryland. Her recent research
focuses on observational studies of atmospheric temperature and water vapor
changes, climate extremes, and meteorological data quality. She is a member
of the American Meteorological Society and the American Geophysical
Union and a recipient of the Professor Dr. Vilho Vaisala Award and the
Norbert Gerbier-Mumm Award, both from the World Meteorological
Organization, as well as the NOAA Administrator's Award. Dr. Seidel is a
fellow of the American Meteorological Society and a former member of the
NRC Climate Research Committee.
Graeme L. Stephens is a professor in the Department of Atmospheric
Science at Colorado State University. He received his Ph.D. in 1977 from
the University of Melbourne. Dr. Stephens's research activities focus on
atmospheric radiation and on the application of remote sensing in climate
research, with particular emphasis on understanding the role of hydrological
processes in climate change. His work has focused on understanding cloud
radiation interactions as relevant to Earth's climate using both theory and
numerical modeling as well as analysis of cloud properties from
measurements made by satellites and aircraft. Dr. Stephens is currently the
principle investigator of NASA's Cloudsat Mission. Dr. Stephens's
professional activities currently include editor of a number of leading
atmospheric science journals, past chairman of the WCRP GEWEX
radiation panel and the American Meteorological Society Atmospheric
Radiation panel. He is a fellow of both the American Geophysical Union and
the American Meteorological Society. Dr. Stephens is a former member of
the NRC Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, the Climate Research
Committee, and the Committee on Earth Sciences.
Lynne D. Talley is a professor of oceanography at the Scripps Institution of
Oceanography at the University of California San Diego. Dr. Talley's
expertise and research interests lie in general ocean circulation, water mass
formation, and ocean heat transport. She has an extensive NRC background
and currently serves on the Climate Research Committee and was a member
of the recent Abrupt Climate Change Committee. She has also served on the
Global-Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System Panel and Panel to Review the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center. Dr. Talley is a
member of the American Geophysical Union, American Meteorological
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Society, and Oceanography Society, and is a trustee of the University
Corporation for Atmospheric Research. She was a National Science
Foundation Presidential Young Investigator in 1987 and received the
Rosenstiel Award in 2001 . She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences.
John M. Wallace is a professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of
Washington, Seattle. His research specialties include the study of general
climate circulation and tropical meteorology. Dr. Wallace has applied
innovative dynamical and statistical techniques to pioneer the
characterization of atmospheric circulation systems in time and space and
their links to ocean and land surface conditions. He discovered the pattern
that relates tropical El Nino events to North American climate anomalies. He
has contributed to the identification and understanding of a number of
atmospheric phenomena, including the vertically propagating planetary
waves that drive the quasi-biennial oscillation in zonal winds in the
equatorial stratosphere, the four- to five-day easterly waves that modulate
daily rainfall over the tropical oceans, and the dominant spatial patterns in
month-to-month and year-to-year climate variability. He is a member of the
American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union, and
the National Academy of Sciences.
Andrew J. Weaver is a professor and Canada Research Chair in Climate
Modelling and Analysis in the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences,
University of Victoria. He was involved as a lead author in the U.N.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change second and third scientific
assessments of climate change and currently serves on the U.N. World
Climate Research Programme Working Group on Coupled Modelling. He is
an editor of the Journal of Climate and a fellow of the Royal Society of
Canada. His research expertise concerns the role of the ocean in past,
present, and future climate.
Steven C. Wofsy is the Abbott Lawrence Rotch Professor of Atmospheric
and Environmental Sciences in the Department of Earth and Planetary
Sciences at Harvard University. Dr. Wofsy holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from
Harvard University. He studies a variety of atmospheric gases using
instruments aboard aircraft and also on the ground at long-term
measurement sites. His research interests include undertaking theoretical and
modeling studies to understand depletion of stratospheric ozone in polar
regions, to assess future impacts of pollutants injected into the stratosphere,
and to examine ecological and historical factors affecting atmospheric
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concentrations of CO2. In 2001 Dr. Wofsy received the Distinguished Public
Service Medal from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. He
is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the American
Association for the Advancement of Science.
Eric F. Wood is a professor of civil and environmental engineering at
Princeton University, where he has taught since 1976. He received his Sc.D.
in civil engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From
1974 to 1976 he was a resident scholar at the Institute of Applied Systems
Analysis in Austria. His research areas include hydroclimatology with an
emphasis on land-atmospheric interaction, hydrological remote sensing, and
hydrologic impact of climate change. He is also a member of the NRC
Committee on Hydrological Sciences, where he serves as chair. He is a
former member of the NRC Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate
and the Water Science and Technology Board. Dr. Wood is a fellow of the
American Geophysical Union and of the American Meteorological Society.
He has received the Robert E. Horton Award and the Rheinstein Award and
has conducted a Robert E. Horton Memorial Lectureship.
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