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Climate Variability and Change Analysis Research Topics
Past work on climate variability and change includes the following topics:
Surface and upper-air temperature and humidity (
Free and Seidel 2005 ,
Fu et al. 2004 ,
Lanzante et al. 2003 ,
Levitus et al. 2001,Ramaswamy et al. 2001,
Ross et al. 2002 ,
Santer et al. 2005 ,
Shine et al. 2001,
Seidel et al. 2004 ),
and clouds (
Seidel and Durre 2003 ,
Sun et al. 2007)
The Arctic Oscillation and the polar vortex
(
Angell 2006 ,
Li and Wang 2003)
The Quasi-Biennial Oscillation
(
Angell 2001 ,
Seidel et al. 2004 )
Extremes of temperature and
humidity, and heat wave occurrences (
Gaffen and Ross 1998 ,
Wang and Gaffen 2001)
Climatology and variability of the tropical
tropopause (
Randel et al. 2000 ,
Seidel et al. 2001 ,
Seidel and Randel 2006 )
Effects of volcanoes on climate (
Free and Angell 2002 )
Variability and trends in tropical available potential
energy (CAPE) and in the potential intensity of hurricanes (
Gettelman et al. 2002 ,
Free et al. 2004 )
Relationships between temperature
changes over mountain locations and in the free troposphere (
Seidel and Free 2003 ,
Pepin and Seidel 2005 )
The diurnal cycle in upper-air temperature (
Seidel et al. 2005 )
Changes in tropospheric and stratospheric ozone (
Angell 1998)
Current projects also include investigations of:
Widening of the tropical tropopause (
Seidel and Randel 2007 ,
Seidel et al. 2008 )
Climatology and trends in the planetary boundary
layer
Comparisons between observed and modeled changes in
the vertical temperature profile (
Lanzante and Free 2008,
Santer et al. 2008)