Spring 2014 Newsletter


Spring Climate Outlook for the Southeast USA Variable rainfall and temperature patterns are likely this spring, according to State Climatologist David Zierden. More >	Project GOO (Gulf Oil Observers) The Deep-C Consortium brings together researchers and high school classes to collect oil samples along the Gulf coast. More >	Targeting Sea Level Rise to Save Archeological Evidence Shawn Smith examines climate change risks to cultural resources in Florida's National Parks. More >


Middle School Climate Change Education Materials Now Online From the NASA-funded Advancing Student Knowledge Through Teacher Education (ASK Florida), co-led by Dr. Mark Bourassa. More >	J-P Michael Receives Jim and Sheila O'Brien Graduate Fellowship J-P is a PhD student in meteorology working under the guidance of Drs. Vasu Misra, Eric Chassignet, and Zhaohua Wu.	CoCoRaHS Receives AMS Special Award Melissa Griffin and colleagues accepted the award for the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail & Snow Network for building a community of over 15,000 volunteer precipitation observers.

		New Funding to Study Ocean Currents Drs. Steve Morey, Dmitry Dukhovskoy, and Eric Chassignet, in collaboration with Fugro GEOS, have received funding from the Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America for a project titled "Hi-Resolution Environmental Data for Enhanced Ultra-Deepwater Operations Safety." The team will develop new methods of measuring surface currents during storms and conduct an observational and modeling program focused on deep-water currents.
Drs. Misra and Wu Awarded Tenure Congratulations to Drs. Vasu Misra and Zhaohua Wu on being award tenure in the field of meteorology through FSU's Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Science!	Dr. James O'Brien Recognized by American Geophysical Union as Emeritus Member Dr. O'Brien has been a member for over 50 years. He served as Editor in Chief of the Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans for 6 years and President of the Oceanic Sciences Section.

Upcoming Events in Tallahassee

Apr. 1, 10a-2p - FSU Day at the Capitol

Apr. 1, 6:15-7:30p - Mag Lab Science Cafe with Oceanographer Sandra Brooke

Apr. 5, 6-9p - Wild & Scenic Film Festival

May 22 - NOAA Hurricane Hunters Visit Tallahassee Regional Airport

Connect with Our Affiliates

Publications

COAPS authors are in bold.

Bastola, S.; Misra, V.; Li, H. (2013), Seasonal Hydrological Forecasts for Watersheds over the Southeastern United States for the Boreal Summer and Fall Seasons,

Earth Interact., 17, 1-22, doi:10.1175/2013EI000519.1.

Chand, CP; Rao, MV; Ramana, IV; Ali, MM; Patoux, J; Bourassa, MA (2014), Estimation of sea level pressure fields during Cyclone Nilam from Oceansat-2 scatterometer winds, Atmospheric Science Letters, 15(1), 65-71, doi:10.1002/asl2.473.

Chen, X.; Zhang, Y.; Zhang, M.; Feng, Y.; Wu, Z.; Qiao, F.; Huang, N.E. (2013), Intercomparison between observed and simulated variability in global ocean heat content using empirical mode decomposition, part I: modulated annual cycle, Climate Dynamics, 41(11-12), 2797-2815, doi:10.1007/s00382-012-1554-2.

Cocke, S; Boisserie, M; Shin, D-W (2013), A coupled soil moisture initialization scheme for the FSU/COAPS climate model, Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering, 21(3), 420-437, doi:10.1080/17415977.2012.712529.

Danabasoglu, G.; et al. (incl. Bozec, A.; Chassignet, E.) (2014), North Atlantic simulations in Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments phase II (CORE-II). Part I: Mean states,

Ocean Modelling, 73, 76-107, doi:10.1016/j.ocemod.2013.10.005.

Garcia-Pineda, O., I. MacDonald, C. Hu, J. Svejkovsky, M. Hess, D. Dukhovskoy, and S.L. Morey (2013), Detection of floating oil anomalies from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill with synthetic aperture radar, Oceanography, 26, 124-137, doi:10.5670/oceanog.2013.38.

Hiester, H. R.; Piggott, M. D.; Farrell, P. E.; Allison, P. A. (2014), Assessment of spurious mixing in adaptive mesh simulations of the two-dimensional lock-exchange, Ocean Modelling, 73, 30-44, doi:10.1016/j.ocemod.2013.10.003.

Holbach, H. M., and M. A. Bourassa (2014), The Effects of Gap-Wind-Induced Vorticity, the Monsoon Trough, and the ITCZ on East Pacific Tropical Cyclogenesis, Monthly Weather Review, 142(3), 1312-1325, doi:10.1175/MWR-D-13-00218.1.

Hu, A.; Meehl, G.A.; Han, W.; Lu, J.; Strand, W.G. (2013), Energy balance in a warm world without the ocean conveyor belt and sea ice,Geophys. Res. Lett., 40(23), 6242-6246, doi:10.1002/2013GL058123.

Juang, H.-M. H., S.-C. Chen, S.-Y. Hong, H. Kanamaru, T. Reichler, T. Enomoto, D. Putrasahan, B. T. Anderson, A. Gershunov, H. Li, K. Yoshimura, N. Buenning, and D. Boomer (2013), Regional Spectral Model Workshop in Memory of John Roads and Masao Kanamitsu, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00124.1.

Kozar, M.E.; Mann, M.E.; Emanuel, K.A.; Evans, J.L. (2013), Long-term variations of North Atlantic tropical cyclone activity downscaled from a coupled model simulation of the last millennium, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 118(24), 13,383-13,392, doi:10.1002/2013JD020380.

Li, H., and V. Misra (2014), Thirty-two-year ocean-atmosphere coupled downscaling of global reanalysis over the Intra-American Seas,Climate Dynamics, doi:10.1007/s00382-014-2069-9.

Li, H., M. Kanamitsu, S.-Y. Hong, K. Yoshimura, D. R. Cayan, V. Misra, and L. Sun (2013), Projected climate change scenario over California by a regional ocean-atmosphere coupled model system, Climatic Change, doi:10.1007/s10584-013-1025-8.

Misra, V.; Li, H. (2014), The seasonal climate predictability of the Atlantic Warm Pool and its teleconnections, Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1002/2013GL058740.

Perron, M; Sura, P (2013), Climatology of Non-Gaussian Atmospheric Statistics, Journal of Climate, 26(3), 1063-1083, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00504.1.

Skiba, A. W.; Zeng, L.; Arbic, B. K.; Mueller, M.; Godwin, W. J. (2013), On the Resonance and Shelf/Open-Ocean Coupling of the Global Diurnal Tides, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 43(7), 1301-1324, doi:10.1175/JPO-D-12-054.1.

Strazzo, S.; Elsner, J.B.; LaRow, T.; Halperin, D.J.; Zhao, M. (2013), Observed versus GCM-Generated Local Tropical Cyclone Frequency: Comparisons Using a Spatial Lattice, Journal of Climate, 26(21), 8257-8268, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00808.1.

Sturges, W; Bozec, A (2013), A Puzzling Disagreement between Observations and Numerical Models in the Central Gulf of Mexico, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 43(12), 2673-2681, doi:10.1175/JPO-D-13-081.1.

Timko, PG; Arbic, BK; Richman, JG; Scott, RB; Metzger, EJ; Wallcraft, AJ (2013), Skill testing a three-dimensional global tide model to historical current meter records, Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, 118(12), 6914-6933, doi:10.1002/2013JC009071.

Vose, R. S. et al. (incl. M. A. Bourassa) (2014), Monitoring and Understanding Changes in Extremes: Extratropical Storms, Winds, and Waves, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00162.1.

Weijer, W., V. Zharkov, D. Nof, H. A. Dijkstra, W. P. M. de Ruijter, A. T. van Scheltinga, F. Wubs (2013), Agulhas ring formation as a barotropic instability of the retroflection, Geophys. Res. Lett., 40(20), 5432-5438, doi:10.1002/2013GL057751.

Yatagai, A.; Krishnamurti, T.N.; Kumar, V.; Mishra, A.K.; Simon, A. (2014), Use of APHRODITE Rain Gauge-Based Precipitation and TRMM 3B43 Products for Improving Asian Monsoon Seasonal Precipitation Forecasts by the Superensemble Method,

Journal of Climate, 27(3), 1062-1069, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00332.1.

Zheng, Y., R. Zhang, and M. A. Bourassa (2014), Impact of East Asian Winter and Australian Summer Monsoons on the Enhanced Surface Westerlies over the Western Tropical Pacific Ocean Preceding the El Nino Onset, J. Climate,27(5), 1928-1944, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00369.1.

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