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Background/EducationT. J. Blasing graduated from Arrowhead High School, in Hartland WI, in 1962. He subsequently received undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin - Madison: Bachelor of Science in Meteorology, 1966; Master of Science in Meteorology, 1968; and Doctor of Philosophy, with a major in meteorology and a minor in statistics, 1975. He joined the faculty of the College of Geosciences, University of Arizona - Tucson, in September 1971, and he accepted a position on the research staff of the Environmental Sciences Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in September 1977. He became an adjunct faculty member in the Geography Department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in 1982 and taught courses there in meteorology and climatology from 1983 to 1998. His outside interests include soccer, Habitat for Humanity, and world religions. His biographical listings can be found in Who's Who in Technology and American Men and Women of Science. Research Interests [ Top ]T. J.'s primary research interest is in air quality, especially the changing concentrations of aerosols and trace gases and consequent effects on climate and the biosphere. (cf. Blasing, 1992). Tracking the sources, sinks, and atmospheric concentrations of certain trace gases (e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, oxides of nitrogen, chlorofluorocarbons, sulfur dioxide, sulfur hexafluoride) can help improve our knowledge of their current and potential future environmental effects; such tracking can also serve to improve our understanding of how various components of our environment function. A secondary research interest is the characterization of the diurnal behavior of the planetary boundary layer (cf. Blasing et al., 1998). Rapid and predictable changes that occur on large spatial scales are related to pollutant dispersion and transport, as well as to the transfer of energy from small to large scales in the atmosphere - something needing improved representation in general circulation models of climate. Another interest is synoptic climatology, in which climate and climate change are represented in terms of generalizations about weather events. Recently, T. J. has investigated changes in the annual cycle of climate (cf. Scott et al., 2002). There is increasing evidence that annual changes in the general circulation of the atmosphere that normally occur during the spring are now occurring earlier (Cayan et al., 2001) stimulating earlier occurrences of annual biospheric events such as flowering (IPCC 2001). Transitions from one "natural" season to another often have clear agricultural and/or hydrological consequences. Upsets could occur if, for example, the arrival of corn earworm in Texas (possibly influenced by climate) gets "out of synch" with the breeding cycle of the local bat populations (cf. Bat Patrol, National Geographic Magazine, April 2002). T.J. is an adjunct professor at the University of Tennessee and has advised or mentored students from several universities throughout the United States. He likes to actively involve students in his research, and student-authored publications frequently result (cf. Scott, et al. 2002; Blasing, Scott and Kaiser, 2003). References Blasing, T. J., Wang. J. L., and Lombardi, D. A., 1998: Temperature Inversions in the Vicinity of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, as Characterized by Tethersonde Data, ORNL/TM-13357, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee Blasing, T. J., 1992: Potential contribution of clean coal technologies to reducing global emissions of greenhouse gases. Proceedings: Air and Waste Management Association, Kansas City, Missouri. Cayan, D. R., S. A. Kammerdiener, M. D. Dettinger, J. M. Capiro, and D. H. Peterson. 2001. Changes in the Onset of Spring in the Western United States, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 82, 3, 399-415. IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), 2001. Synthesis of Observed Impacts, Chapter 19.2.2, In Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability, United Nations Environmental Program, World Meteorological Organization. Scott, D., T. J. Blasing, and D. P. Kaiser, 2002. Evidence for a Recent Advance in the Timing of a Surface-Air Warming Singularity in Late Winter over the North Central United States, 82nd Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, Orlando, FL, January 13-18, 2002. Blasing, T. J., D. B. Scott, and D. P. Kaiser. 2003. Evidence for Recent Changes in a Surface-Air Warming Singularity in Late Winter over Central North America. Geophysical Research Letters, 30(9). Professional Recognition and Honors [ Top ]Memberships:
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Selected Publications [ Top ]Meteorology and General-Circulation Climatology Blasing, T. J., D. B. Scott, and D. P. Kaiser. 2003. Evidence for Recent Changes in a Surface-Air Warming Singularity in Late Winter over Central North America. Geophysical Research Letters, 30(9). Scott, D., T.J. Blasing, and D.P. Kaiser, 2002. Evidence for a Recent Advance in the Timing of a Surface-air Warming Singularity in Late Winter over the North Central United States, 82nd Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, Orlando, FL, January 13-18. Blasing, T.J., Wang. J.L., and Lombardi, D.A., 1998. Temperature Inversions in the Vicinity of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, as Characterized by Tethersonde Data, ORNL/TM-13357, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN. Blasing, T.J., 1981. Characteristic anomaly patterns of summer sea-level pressure for the Northern Hemisphere, Tellus, 33, 428-437. Blasing, T.J. and G.R. Lofgren, 1980. Seasonal climatic anomaly types for the North Pacific sector and western North America, Monthly Weather Review, 108, 700-719. Blasing, T.J., 1977. Our changing climate, University of Washington Arboretum Bulletin, 4, 2-6. Applied Statistics Blasing, T.J. 2001. Climatological Paradox, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 82, 7. Blasing, T.J., A.M. Solomon, and D.N. Duvick, 1984. Response Functions Revisited, Tree-Ring Bulletin, 44, 1-15. McLaughlin, S.B., T.J. Blasing, and D.J. Downing, 1994. Two hundred year variation of southern red spruce radial growth as estimated by spectral analysis, Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 24, 2299-2304. Meko, D.M., C.W. Stockton, and T.J. Blasing, 1985. Periodicity in tree rings from the corn belt, Science, 229, 381-384. Blasing, T.J., D.N. Duvick, and E.R. Cook, 1983. Filtering the effects of competition from ring-width series, Tree-Ring Bulletin, 43, 19-30. Blasing, T.J., D.N. Duvick, and D.C. West, 1981. Dendroclimatic calibration and verification using regionally averaged and single-station precipitation data, Tree-Ring Bulletin, 41, 37-43. Blasing, T.J., 1979. Map pattern classification at a prescribed level of generality, Sixth Conference on Probability and Statistics in Atmospheric Science, American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA. Blasing, T.J., 1978. Time series and multivariate analysis in paleoclimatology, Time Series and Ecological Processes, H.H. Shugart, Ed., Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA. Blasing, T.J., 1975. A comparison of map-pattern correlation and principal component eigenvector methods for analyzing climatic anomaly patterns, Fourth Conference on Probability and Statistics in Atmospheric Sciences, American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA. Moran, J.M. and T.J. Blasing, 1972. Statistical approaches to "alpine" glacier response, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 11, 237-246. Fritts, H.C., T.J. Blasing, B.P. Hayden, and J.E. Kutzbach, 1971: Multivariate techniques for specifying tree-growth and climate relationships and for reconstructing anomalies in paleoclimate, Journal of Applied Meteorology, 10, 845-864. Air Quality Miller R.L and T.J. Blasing, 2001. Results of Modeling a Proposed CFB Combustor Project at an Existing Power Plant, Proceedings 94th Annual Conference and Exhibition, Air and Waste Management Association, Orlando, FL, June 24-28 (Paper No. 348). Blasing, T.J., R.L. Miller, and L.N. McCold, 1996. Potential Consequences of the Clean Coal Program for Air and Waste Issues, Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association, 46, 517-529. Blasing, T.J., R.L. Miller, and L.N. McCold, 1993. Potential Effects of Clean Coal Technologies on Acid Precipitation, Greenhouse Gases, and Solid Waste Disposal, ORNL/TM-12633, Energy Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN. Greenhouse Effect Blasing, T.J. C.T. Broniak and G. Marland, 2005. The annual cycle of fossil-fuel carbon dioxide emissions in the United States. Tellus, 57B, 107-115. Blasing. T.J., Gregg Marland, and C.T. Broniak. 2004. Accuracy of CO2 Emissions Estimates for the United States. Page 12 of Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory, Annual Meeting, May 26-27, Boulder CO. Broniak, C.T., T.J. Blasing, and G. Marland. 2003. Spatial and Temporal Patterns in Carbon Emissions to the Atmosphere. Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 84(46), Fall Meeting Suppl. Abstract B51F-06. Blasing, T.J., G. Marland, and C. Broniak. 2003. The Annual Cycle of Fossil-Fuel CO2 Emissions from the United States. Page 18 of Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory, Annual Meeting, April 30-May1, Boulder, CO. Blasing, T.J., C.T. Broniak, and G. Marland. 2002. Refinements in the Spatial and Temporal Resolution of Fossil-Fuel CO2 Emissions Data. Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 83(47), Fall Meeting Suppl. Abstract GC72B-0212. Blasing, T.J., 1992. Potential contribution of clean coal technologies to reducing global emissions of greenhouse gases, Proceedings: Air and Waste Management Association, Kansas City, MO. Blasing, T.J. 1991. The Greenhouse Effect and the Clean Coal Program, Position Paper prepared for U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Fossil Energy. Blasing, T.J., 1985. Background: Carbon cycle, climate, and vegetation responses, Characterization of Information Requirements for Studies of CO2 Effects: Water Resources, Agriculture, Fisheries, Forests and Human Health, M.R. White, Ed., U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, D.C. White, M.R., T.J. Blasing, and 11 others, 1985. The integration of data and research needs, Characterization of Information Requirements for Studies of CO2 Effects: Water Resources, Agriculture, Fisheries, Forests and Human Health, M.R. White, Ed., U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, D.C. Bioclimatology McLaughlin, S.B., A.H. Johnson, and T.J. Blasing, 1987. Forest Decline: Modeling the effect of climate in tree rings, Tree Physiology, 3, 27-40. McLaughlin, S.B., D.J. Downing, T.J. Blasing, E.R. Cook, and H.S. Adams, 1987. An analysis of climate and competition as contributors to decline of red spruce in high elevation Appalachian forests of the eastern United States, Oecologia, 72, 487-501. Adams, H.S., S.L. Stephenson, T.J. Blasing, and D.N. Duvick, 1985. Growth-trend declines of spruce and fir in mid-Appalachian subalpine forests, Environmental and Experimental Botany, 25, 315-325. Blasing, T.J., and A.M. Solomon, 1984. Response of the North American corn belt to climatic warming, Progress in Biometeorology, 3, 311-319. McLaughlin, S.B., D.C. West, and T.J. Blasing, 1984. Measuring effects of air pollution stress on forest productivity: Perspectives, problems and approaches, Journal of the Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry, 67, 74-80. McLaughlin, S.B., T.J. Blasing, L.K. Mann, and D.N. Duvick, 1983. Effects of acid rain and gaseous pollutants on forest productivity: A regional scale approach, Journal of the Air Pollution Control Association, 33, 1042-1049. McLaughlin, S.B., D.C. West, and T.J. Blasing, 1983. Measuring effects of air pollution stress on forest productivity: Some perspectives, problems, and approaches, Proceedings of the Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry, 1983 Annual Meeting, Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry, Inc., Atlanta, GA. Clark, N.E., T.J. Blasing, and H.C. Fritts, 1975. Influence of interannual climatic fluctuations on biological systems, Nature, 256, 302-305. Paleoclimatology Blasing, T.J., D.W. Stahle, and D.N. Duvick, 1988. Tree-ring based reconstruction of annual precipitation in the south-central United States from 1750 to 1980, Water Resources Research, 24, 163-171. Blasing, T.J. and D.N. Duvick, 1984. Reconstruction of precipitation history in North American corn belt using tree rings, Nature, 307, 143-145. Duvick, D.N and T.J. Blasing, 1983. Iowa's oldest oaks, Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Sciences, 90, 32-34. Solomon, A.M., T.J. Blasing, and J.A. Solomon, 1982. Interpretation of floodplain pollen in alluvial sediments from an arid region, Quaternary Research, 18, 52-71. Duvick, D.N. and T.J. Blasing, 1981. A dendroclimatic reconstruction of annual precipitation amounts in Iowa since 1680, Water Resources Research, 17, 1183-1189. Solomon, A.M., H.R. Delcourt, D.C. West, and T.J. Blasing, 1980. Testing a simulation model for reconstruction of prehistoric forest-stand dynamics, Quaternary Research, 14, 275-293. Fritts, H.C., T.J. Blasing, and G.R. Lofgren, 1977. Climatic variations reconstructed from tree rings, Man and Nature -- Makers of Climatic Variation, John F. Griffiths, Ed., Texas A & M University, College Station, TX. Blasing, T.J. and H.C. Fritts, 1976. Reconstructing past climatic anomalies in the North Pacific and western North America from tree-ring data, Quaternary Research, 6, 563-579. Blasing, T.J., and H.C. Fritts, 1975. Past Climate of Alaska and northwestern Canada as reconstructed from tree rings, Climate of the Arctic, Gunter Weller, and Sue Ann Bowling, Eds., Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK. Blasing, T. J. 1975. Methods for Analyzing Climatic Variations in the North Pacific Sector and Western North America for the Last Few Centuries, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Meteorology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. Environmental Assessment Ensminger, J.T., and T.J. Blasing, 1995. The Use of Explosives by the U.S. Antarctic Program, ORNL/TM-13031, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN. McCold, L.N., G.K. Eddlemon, and T.J. Blasing, 1995. Environmental Effects of the U.S. Antarctic Program's Use of Balloons in Antarctica, ORNL/TM-13032, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN. Lombardi, D.A., T.J. Blasing, C.E. Easterly, and C.B. Hamilton, 1995. Environmental Resources of Selected Areas of Hawaii: Climate, Ambient Air Quality, and Noise, ORNL/TM-12861, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN. Socolof, M.L., M.S. Salk, A.H. Curtis, L.K. Mann, V.R. Tolbert, and T.J. Blasing 1995. Environmental Data and Analysis for the Proposed Management of Spent Nuclear Fuel on the DOE Oak Ridge Reservation, ORNL/TM-13065, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN. Terry, J.W., T.J. Blasing, and 7 others, 1995. Disposal of Chemical Agents and Munitions Stored at Pueblo Depot Activity, Colorado: Final Phase I Environmental Report, ORNL/TM-11210, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN. Blasing, T.J., and 15 others, 1992. Phase I Environmental Report for the Advanced Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL/TM-12069, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN. September 2005 |
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