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| Isaac Held's Home Page |
Senior Research Scientist
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
P. O. Box 308, Princeton, NJ 08542 USA
Lecturer
Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Department of Geosciences
Princeton University
email: Isaac.Held@noaa.gov
phone: 609-452-6512
FAX: 609-987-5063
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Research Interests
- Atmospheric and oceanic fluid dynamics
- Climate dynamics
- Global warming
- Geophysical Turbulence
Bibliography
FMS
Lectures:
- Tokyo 2002
postscript
pdf
- Woods Hole GFD Summer School, 2000
- AMS Haurwitz Lecture, 1999: Equatorial superrotation in Earth-like atmospheric models:
- Simulated reduction in Atlantic hurricane frequency under twenty-first-century warming conditions (Knutson, Sirutis, Garner, Vecchi, Held ; Nature Geoscience 2008) FAQ
- Simulation of the recent multi-decadal increase of Atlantic hurricane activity using an 18km grid regional model (Knutson, Sirutis, Garner, Held, Tuleya; BAMS 2007)
- Horizontally homogeneous rotating radiative-convective equilibria at GCM resolution (Held, Zhao; accepted J. Atmos Sci.)
- A global climate system perspective on African environmental change (Giannini, Biasutti, Held, Sobel; Climate change, accepted)
- SST forcings and Sahel rainfall variability in simulations of the 20th and 21st centuries (Biasutti, Held, Giannini, Sobel; J. Climate, accepted)
- Simulation of Sahel drought in the 20th and 21st centuries (Held, Delworth, Lu, Findell, and Knutson; published in PNAS)
- Quantifying climate feedbacks using radiative kernels (Soden, Held, Coleman, Shell, Kiehl, Shields; J. Climate, accepted)
- The response of the ITCZ to extratropical thermal forcing: idealized slab-ocean experiments with a GCM (Kang, Held, Frierson, and Zhao; J. Climate, accepted)
- Phase speed spectra and the recent poleward shift of the Southern Hemisphere surface westerlies (Chen and Held; GRL 2007)
- Dynamic radiative-convective equilibrium with GCM column physics (Held, Zhao, Wyman; J. Atmos Sci., 2007)
- A gray-radiation aquaplanet moist GCM. Part II: Energy transports in altered climates (Frierson, Held, and Zurita-Gator; J. Atmos Sci., 2007)
- A gray-radiation aquaplanet moist GCM. Part I: Static stability and eddy scale (Frierson, Held, and Zurita-Gator; J. Atmos. Sci., 2006)
- Progress and problems in large-scale atmospheric dynamics (Global Circulation of the Atmosphere, eds. T. Schneider and A Sobel, 2006)
- Sensitivity of the latitude of the surface westerlies to surface friction (Chen, Held and Robinson; J. Atmos. Sci, 2007)
- Robust responses of the hydrological cycle to global warming (Held and Soden)
Some Former Students
- Gang Chen
- Dargan Frierson
- Tapio Schneider
- Olivier Pauluis
- Yunqing Zhang
- Sukyoung Lee
- Mingfang Ting
- Valentina Pavan
- Saravanan
- David Neelin
- Sumant Nigam
- Prashant Sardeshmukh
click here for figure
From "Surface Quasi-Geostrophic Dynamics" (see bibliography)
Journals, Preprint servers, meetings etc
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Meteorological and Geoastrophysical abstracts
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American Meterological Society
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American Geophysical Union
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Atmosphere-Ocean sciences
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Nonlinear dynamics
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Physics
Atmospheric models
| Thanks for visiting |
Isaac M. Held (Isaac.Held@noaa.gov)