GFDL Collaborations
Individual Collaborations
Morris Bender
FLEET Numerical Center, U. S. Navy, California
Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC), Guam (Strahl)
National Center for Environmental Prediction (NCEP), Maryland (Surgi)
National Hurricane Center, Florida (Pasch)
Project:
Operational runing of GFDL hurricane forecasting model to provide track
and intensity guidence forecasts for JTWC, NCEP and the National Hurricane
Center. For JTWC, forecasts are for the Western Pacific and
the entire southern hemisphere. For NCEP and the National Hurricane
Center,
forecasts are for the Atlantic, East Pacific, Central Pacific and Gulf
of Mexico.
Thomas Delworth
Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Virginia
(Mann)
Project:
Research on decadal to multidecadal variability using models and observations
Center for Research on the Changing Earth System (CRCES), Maryland (Mehta)
Project:
Research on decadal to multidecadal variability using models and observations
Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada
(Greatbatch)
Project:
Research on decadal to multidecadal variability using models and observations
Keith Dixon
Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP): Coordinated Experiments
(Gregory)
Project:
Standard sensitivity tests For the response of the Atlantic meridional
overturning to Surface Forcing
Leo J. Donner
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Colorado (Hack, Rasch)
Project:
Research on cumulus convection in general circulation models
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Colorado (Collins,
Rasch)
Project:
Co-chair of Atmospheric Model Working Group for Community
Climate System Model
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Maryland (Hou)
Project:
Research on cumulus convection in data assimilation
Max Planck Institute, Germany (Salzmann, Schulz)
Project:
Research on tracer transport by cumulus convection
University of Washington, Washington (Bretherton)
Project:
Research on climate processes through NOAA/NSF Climate Processes Team
NASA Langley Research Center, Virginia (Wielicki)
Science team for CERES
Project:
Clouds in the Earth's Radiant Energy System
Boston College, Massachusetts (Andronache)
Project:
Research on microphysical properties of cirrus clouds
Tony Gordon - Global Land Atmosphere Coupling Experiment (GLACE) experiment
(Koster, Malyshev)
Project:
Model intercomparison study between various AGCMs, focusing on the
response of precipitation and other atmospheric variables to anomalies
in the
land surface state, particularly on hourly to monthly time scales.
Anand Gnanadesikan
Princeton University, N. J. (Sarmiento)
University of California-Los Angeles, California (Gruber)
State University of New York-Stony Brook, N.Y. (Armstrong)
Project:
Carbon sequestration through patchy fertilization: An integrated biogeochemical
assessment
Princeton University, N. J. (Sarmiento)
Project:
Anthropogenic carbon uptake in the Southern Ocean
Princeton, N. J. (Sarmiento)
Geological Survey of Japan, Japan (Matsumoto)
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI), Massachusetts (Doney)
LEA, France (Orr)
Project:
Ocean carbon model intercomparison project (OCMIP)
Stephen Griffies
NCAR, Colorado (Large)
Project:
Ocean and climate model development and research, including the
development of a common dataset for use in ocean model intercomparison
projects.
NCAR, Colorado (Large); MIT, Massachusetts (Ferrari) and WHOI (Legg)
Project:
Climate Process Team work aimed at improving the
physical integrity of ocean climate models.
MIT (Adcroft); Harvard (Tziperman)
Project:
Ocean data assimilation development
MIT (Adcroft)
Project:
Ocean model development and research into subgrid scale
parameterizations
CSIRO, Australia (McDougall)
Project:
Fundamental ocean processes, such as the
equation of state and subgrid scale parameterizations.
Baltic Sea Research Institute, Germany (Schmidt)
Project:
Ocean model development, especially free surface and fresh water forcing.
University of Alaska and Frontier Research System for Global Change,
Alaska
(Simmons)
Project:
Ocean climate and tides, and development of common dataset for forcing
ocean climate models as part of the ocean model intercomparison
project.
Isaac Held
NASA Goddard (Suarez)
Project:
Idealized General Circulation Models
Columbia University (Sobel)
Project:
Models of water vapor climatology
University of Washington (Bretherton)
Project:
Clouds in climate models
NCAR (Keihl)
Project:
GFDL/NCAR Atmospheric Model Intercomparisons
IFREMER, France (Lapeyre)
Project:
Effects of moisture of baroclinic waves
Larry W. Horowitz
University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin (Holloway)
Project:
Couple the MOZART global atmospheric chemistry model with a
regional model of air quality in the U.S. (the EPA Community Multi-scale
Air Quality model)
NCAR/ACD (Hess, Tie, Lamarque, Walters)
Project:
Development and application of the MOZART chemical transport model
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (Brasseur, Schultz, Diehl)
Project:
Development and application of the MOZART chemical transport model
Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, N. J. (Mauzerall)
Project:
Use of the MOZART chemical transport model to study the science
and policy of transboundary air pollution
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, N. J. (Pacala,
Purves)
Project:
Study of the influence of biogenic hydrocarbon emissions on air
quality, using the MOZART chemical transport model
Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico (Dubey)
Project:
Investigation of the impacts of a hydrogen economy on atmospheric
chemistry, using MOZART
Stephen Klein
NOAA CDC/CERES (Pincus)
Project:
DOE Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) -
Development and evaluation of a statistical cloud parameterization
with prognostic higher order moments
Rutgers University, N. J. (Weaver)
UCSD/SIO (Norris)
Project:
Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) - Parameterization of
Mesoscale Circulations and Frontal Cloudiness in GCMs Based on ARM
Observations
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Colorado
Project:
Collaboration, workshops for global atmospheric modeling
and analysis of climate sensitivity
NCAR and NASA/NSIPP - Climate Process Team (CPT) (Bretherton)
Project:
Study Low-latitude Cloud Feedbacks on Climate Sensitivity;
improving representation of low-latitude clouds aand their resulting
feedbacks on climate models.
Tom Knutson
Hadley Centre, United Kingdom (Stott)
Project:
Climate change detection/attribution studies
Old Dominion University, Virginia (Tuleya)
Project:
Hurricane/climate change studies
CMIP2+ modeling groups
Projects:
Investigating future changes in hurricane intensity and precipitation.
Intercomparison of model data to investigate dependence on the
particular climate model used. The groups are: Hadley Centre,
NCAR,
CSIRO Australia), CCCMA (Canada), MRI (Japan), and MPI (Germany).
Also PCMDI/LLNL is organizing and distributing the CMIP2+ data.
John Lanzante
Air Resources Lab (ARL), Maryland (Seidel, Free, Angell)
National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), North Carolina (Peterson, Durre,
Lawrimore)
Project:
Development of NOAA radiosonde atmospheric temperature products for
use in
monitoring climate, which will be continually updated in the future.
Air Resources Lab (ARL), Maryland (Seidel, Free, Angell)
University of Alabama, Alabama (Christy, Spencer)
Remote Sensing Systems, California (Schabel, Wentz)
British Meteorological Office, United Kingdom (Parker, Thorn,
All-Russian Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information,
Russia
(Sterin)
Project:
Examination of the uncertainty in signals of large-scale climate variations
in
radiosonde and satellite upper-air temperature datasets.
Yale University, Connecticut (Sherwood, Park, Allen)
Project:
Use of an advanced, multivariate statistical method to extract and
separate
real and artificial (instrument-related) climate signals in the upper-air
data
record.
National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), North Carolina (Durre)
Project:
Combining satellite and radiosonde-based measures of atmospheric water
vapor
to produce an improved product to document long-term climate changes.
Air Resources Lab (ARL) Maryland (Seidel, Free)
Project:
Comparison of radiosonde temperature records with simulations of climate
change
from a number of major GCMs. Design of a future radiosonde observing
network
using GCM output, Reanalysis and satellite data.
Remote Sensing Systems (Mears)
Air Resources Laboratory (ARL), Maryland (Seidel, Free)
University of Alabama, Alabama (Christy, Spencer)
Project:
Comparison of radiosonde data with two differing versions of MSU satellite
temperatures.
Ngar-Cheung Lau
Climate Diagnostics Center/NOAA, Boulder, Colorado (Alexander)
Project:
Research on global ocean-atmosphere interactions associated with ENSO
Climate Prediction Center/NOAA, Camp Springs, Maryland (Kumar)
Project:
Near real-time assessment of climate anomalies related to SST variability
International Research Institute for Climate Prediction, Palisades,
New York
(Goddard)
Project:
Skill assessment of GFDL models in hindcasting and forecasting climate
variability on seasonal and interannual time scales
International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii, Hawaii
(Wang)
Project:
Research on interactions between ENSO and Asian monsoon systems
Goddard Laboratory for Atmospheres/NASA, Greenbelt, Maryland (Schubert)
Project:
Simulation of diurnal variability by GCMs
Hiram Levy
Princeton University, N. J. (Pacala)
Project:
Development of a dynamic terrestrial carbon model for earth
system impact studies
Princeton University, N. J. (Sarmiento)
Project:
Development of a dynamic ocean biogeochemistry model for earth
system impact studies
Princeton University, N. J. (Pacala, Hedin, Oppenheimer)
Project:
Development of a dynamic terrestrial nitrogen model for earth
system impact studies
University of Iowa, Lowa (Carmichael)
Aeronomy Lab/NOAA, Colorado
Project:
Intercontinental transport and chemistry
Shian-Jiann.Lin
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Maryland (Putman)
Project:
Development of a highly scalable "Cubed Sphere" finite-volume dynamical
core
for climate and weather models
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Maryland (Atlas)
Project:
Development and applications of a high-resolution GCM for real-time
weather predictions
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Colorado (Rasch, Boville)
Project:
Implementation of the finite-volume dynamical core in the CAM/CCSM
Isidoro Orlanski
Centro de Investigaciones para el Mar y la Atmosfera (CIMA) (Nunez)
Project:
Creator and Scientific Advisor of center - review and advise plans
of the
center. Also assisting on recent research that is being performed on
the
Southern Hemispheric storm tracks.
Ron Pacanowski
Princeton University, N. J. (Philander)
Project:
Collaboration is focused on the role of the ocean's thermocline in
affecting climate on short timescales (decades) and long timescales
(centuries); specifically, the tropical thermocline
V. Ramaswamy
NCAR: Climate and Global Dynamics Division, Atmospheric Chemistry
Division (Collins, Randel)
Project:
Radiation modeling and radiative forcing, aerosols and atmospheric
chemistry, stratospheric processes and observed trends, model-observation
comparisons, climate trends
University of Reading (Allan, Shine, Forster, Slingo)
Project:
Stratospheric processes and modeling, trends; water vapor, clouds and
radiation; trace gas radiative effects
Hadley Center (UK) (Haywood, Stott)
Project:
Aerosol modeling and interpretations of field observations;
aerosol-climate effects
CNRS Service d' Aeronomie, Paris, France (Keckhut)
Project:
Stratospheric temperature trends
Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India (Ramachandran)
Project:
Volcanic aerosols and climate variations
Rutgers University, NJ (Robock, Stenchikov)
Project:
Stratospheric radiative perturbations and Arctic climate
Naval Research Laboratory, Washington D. C. (althore, Lean)
Project:
Solar radiation transfer, solar irradiance variations and climate
University of California, San Diego (Ramanathan, Russell)
Project:
Direct and indirect aerosol radiative forcing
NOAA/ Aeronomy Laboratory, Boulder (Solomon)
Project:
Ozone and climate; aerosol radiative effects
NOAA/ Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory, Boulder (Ogren,
Dutton)
Project:
Aerosol optical observations and their interpretation, surface
radiation budget
University of Lille, France (Boucher)
Project:
Aerosol distributions and radiative effects
NOAA/ CPC, Washington, D. C. (Miller, Gelman)
Project:
Stratospheric temperature trends
Canadian Climate Center, Canada (Barker,Li)
Project:
Radiation modeling
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel (Erlick)
Project:
Aerosol effects on climate
Boston College, Massachusetts (Andronache)
Projects:
The use of a limited area non-hydrostatic model to investigate the impact
of aerosols on cloud properties
Study of the effect of ITCS on aerosols during the INDOEX experiment
Study of the effects of aerosols and meteorological conditions on ice
crystal properties in cirrus anvils (current project)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), International in scope
Collaborative report of state-of-the-art research on potential climate
change in response to increasing greenhouse gases
Anthony Rosati
International Research Institute (IRI), Columbia University (Zebiac)
Applied Research Centers (ARCs)
Project:
Develop and conduct coupled ocean/atmosphere model ensemble of experiments
to determine the best forecast of seasonal and interannual oceanic
conditions.
IRI deals with the operational aspects of oceanic forecasts whereas
the
ARCs deal with the research aspects.
Ocean Data Assimulation Experiment (ODAE)
Project:
Participate in experiments designed for developing initialization and
data
assimulation techniques to obtain best forecasts of oceanic conditions.
Ultimate goal is to accurately forecast El-Nino Southern Oscillation
(ENSO)
thereby providing better predictions of future conditions over land
regions
affected by El-Nino such as North America, Europe, Indonesia and Australia.
Brian Soden
Rutgers University, N. J. (Robock, Stenchikov)
Project:
Collaboration in connection with GCM simulations of Mt. Pinatubo studies
Rutgers University, N. J. (Broccoli)
Project:
Climate Sensitivity and Feedbacks
ESSC, University of Reading (Slingo), United Kingdom
Project:
Model / Satellite Comparisons
University of Utah, Utah (Mace)
Project:
Cloud Diagnostic Studies
University of Miami, Flordia (Clement)
Project:
Climate Sensitivity and Feedbacks
University of Miami, Florida (Evans)
Project:
Model / Satellite Comparisons
NOAA/ETL (Jackson)
Project:
Model / Satellite Comparisons
NOAA/AOM (Dunion)
Project:L
Model / Satellite Comparisons
NCAR (Collins)
Project:
Climate Sensitivity and Feedbacks
NASA/GSFC (Whiteman)
Project:
Model / Satellite Comparisons
NASA/LaRC (Ferrare)
Project:
Model / Satellite Comparisons
Colorado State University, Colorado (Stephens)
Project:
Model / Satellite Comparisons
University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin (Turner)
Project:
Model / Satellite Comparisons
DOE/Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois (Lesht)
Project:
Model / Satellite Comparisons
Ronald Stouffer
University of Victoria, Canada (Andrew)
Project: Coupled climate experiments and initialization
Hadley Centre, United Kingdom (Mitchell)
Projects: Ice age experiments, Ensembles and PRISM projects
Meteorological Office, United Kingdom (Hewitt, Mitchell)
Working Group on Climate Modeling (WGCM)
Coupled Model Intercomparison project (CMIP)
Rutgers University, N. J. (Broccoli)
Project: 20th century simulation and other climate studies
Air Resources Laboratoryi (ARL), Colorado (Seidel)
Project: Comparison of model and radiosounde temperature trends
Penn State University, Pennsylvania (Haupt)
Project: Investigating influence of the southern hemisphere meltwater
pulses
on the earth's climate
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI), Massachusetts
Project: Comparison of model data and observations from the Younger
Dryas
period
Max Planck Institute, Germany (Harrison)
Project:
Coordination of Paleo Modeling Intercomparison Project (PMIP)
Program for the Comparison of Model Data and Intercomparison (PCMDI)
(Taylor,
Covey)
Project:
CMIP panel
Organizations:
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), International in scope
Collaborative report of state-of-the-art research on potential climate
change in response to increasing greenhouse gases
CMIP panel - (Meehl, Latif, McAvaney, Covey)
CMIP coordinated experiments (Gregory)
investigate cause for weakening of the thermohaline circulation (THC)
in response to increasing greenhouse gases (GHG)
Richard T. Wetherald
Princeton University, N.J. (Manabe)
United States Geological Survey (USGS) (Milly)
Project:
Investigations of hydrologic response to greenhouse warming
Rutgers University, N. J. (Robock, Stenchikov)
Project:
Simulation of Mt. Pinatubo studies
United States Geological Survey (USGS) (Milly)
Project:
Studies of river discharge and its response to greenhouse warming
Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project (AMIP), Lawrence Livermore
(Gates)
Laboratory, California
Project:
Partcipate in international atmospheric GCM data intercomparison project
Feedback Analysis and Intercomparison for GCMs and Observations (FANGIO)
(Cess)
State University of New York - Stony Brook, N. Y.
Project:
Participate in international GCM data intercomparison with regard to
cloud
feedback mechanisms
Forecast Systems Laboratory (FSL), Colorado (Himes)
Project:
Supplying model data to "Science on a Sphere" project
Liberty Science Center (Fabor)
Project:
Consultant for greenhouse warming exhibits
QUEST; Princeton University, N. J. (Carson)
Project:
Lectures for elementry and middle school teacher's workshop
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation (WWNFF), Princeton University,
N. J. (Anderson)
Project:
Mentoring and lecturing for middle and high school teacher's workshop
John Wilson
Caltech, Dept. of Geological and Planetary Sciences
Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Standford University, CA
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD (Richardson, Rodin, Banfield,
Hinson,
Smith)
Project:
NASA Mars Planetary Atmospheres, Data Analysis studies/grants