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Professional Experience

 
 
EDUCATION

Ph.D., Atmospheric Sciences (1996), University of Wisconsin, (Dr. David Battisti and Dr. David Houghton)
M.S., Atmospheric Sciences (1989), University of Wisconsin, (Dr. Stefan Hastenrath)
B.S.E. Mechanical Engineering. and B.A. Russian (1983) University of Pittsburgh

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Associate Professor Univ. Alaska Fairbanks in the Atmospheric Science Program & Geophysical Institute (2004 - present)
Research Associate Professor Univ. Alaska Fairbanks at IARC-Frontier (2003)
Research Assistant Professor Univ. Alaska Fairbanks at IARC-Frontier (1998 - 2003)
Post Doctoral Researcher at Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (1997 - 1998)
Research Scientist at Ross Computational Resources (1996 - 1997)
US. Peace Corps Volunteer at Sochoi Secondary School in Kenya (1983 - 1985)

 

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

  • Bourne, S. M., U.S. Bhatt, J. Zhang, R. Thoman, 2008 (submitted): Observed and Modeled Surface-based Temperature Inversions in Alaska from a Climate Perspective, submitted to Atmospheric Research.

  • Polyakov, I.V., V. A. Alexeev, U.S. Bhatt, E.V. Polyakova, and X. Zhang, 2008 (submitted): North Atlantic warming: Patterns of long-term trend and multidecadal variability, submitted to Climate Dynamics.

  • Walker, D.A., U.S. Bhatt, M.K. Raynolds, V.E. Romanovsky, G.P. Kofinas, J.P. Kuss, B.C. Forbes, F. Stammler, T. Kumpula, E. Kaarlejärvi, M.O. Leibman, N.G. Moskalenko, A.A. Gubarkov, A.V. Khomutov, D.S. Drozdov,H.E. Epstein, Q. Yu, G.J. Jia,J.O. Kaplan,J.C. Comiso. 2008 (submitted). Cumulative effects of rapid land-cover and land-use changes on the Yamal Peninsula, Russia. In: Gutman, G. and P. Groisman, and Reissell. (ed.) Eurasian Arctic Land Cover and Land Use in a Changing Climate.

  • Goetz, S. J. ,Epstein, H,E, D. Alcaraz, U.S. Bhatt, J. Comiso, G.J. Jia, J.O. Kaplan, H. Lischke, A., Lloyd, Q. Yu, and D.A. Walker 2008 (submitted). Recent Changes in Arctic Vegetation: Satellite Observations and Simulation Model Predictions. In: Gutman, G. and P. Groisman, and Reissell. (ed.) Eurasian Arctic Land Cover and Land Use in a Changing Climate.

  • Bhatt, U. S., M.A Alexander, C. Deser, J.E.Walsh,  J.S. Miller, M. Timlin, J.D. Scott, and R. Tomas, 2008: The Atmospheric Response to Realistic Reduced Summer Arctic Sea Ice Anomalies, to appear in AGU monograph: E. DeWeaver and C. Bitz, (ed.) Arctic Sea Ice Decline: Observations, Projections, Mechanisms, and Implications. pdf text , pdf figures .

  • Li, Z., U.S. Bhatt, and N. Mölders, 2008. Impact of doubled CO2 on the interaction between the global and regional water cycles in four study regions. Climate Dynamics , pp 255-275, 10.1007/s00382-007-0283-4. download pdf here (link on right column).

  • Zhang, J., U. S. Bhatt, W. V. Tangborn, and C. S. Lingle, 2007: Climate downscaling for estimating glacier mass balances in northwestern North America: Validation with a USGS benchmark glacier, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L21505, doi:10.1029/2007GL031139. pdf version .

  • Bhatt U.S., J. Zhang, W.V. Tangborn, and C.S. Lingle, L. Phillips, 2007. Examining Glacier Mass Balances with a Hierarchical Modeling Approach, Computing in Science and Engineering, 9 (2), 61-67. pdf version.
  • Zhang J. , U.S. Bhatt, W. V. Tangborn, C.S. Lingle, 2007: Response of Glaciers in Northwestern North America to Future Climate Change: an Atmosphere/Glacier Hierarchical Modeling Approach, Annals of Glaciology, Vol. 46, 283 – 290. pdf version.
  • Polyakova E.I. , A.G. Journel, I.V. Polyakov, and U.S. Bhatt, 2006: Changing relationship between the North Atlantic Oscillation and key North Atlantic climate parameters, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L03711, doi:10.1029/2005GL024573. pdf version.
  • Polyakov I. V., U.S. Bhatt, H.L. Simmons, D. Walsh, J.E. Walsh, X. Zhang, 2005: The 20th Century Variability of North Atlantic Temperature and  Salinity, J. Climate, (18)21, 4562-4581. pdf version.
  • Bhatt U.S., D. E. Newman, B. A. Carreras, I. Dobson, Understanding the Effect of Risk Aversion on Risk, HICSS, p. 64b, Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'05) - Track 2, 2005. pdf version.
  • Polyakov I.V. , G.V. Alekseev, L. Timokhov, U.S. Bhatt, R.L. Colony, H.L. Simmons, D. Walsh, J. Walsh, 2004: Variability of the intermediate Atlantic Water of the Arctic Ocean over the last 100 years, J. Climate,17(23), 4485-4497. pdf version.
  • Hu Z.-Z., E.K. Schneider, U.S. Bhatt, and B.P. Kirtman, 2004: Potential mechanism for response of El Niño–Southern Oscillation variability to change in land surface energy budget, J. Geophys. Res., 109, D21113, doi:10.1029/2004JD004771. pdf version and COLA TECH Report 126, download.
  • Zhang X., J.E. Walsh, J. Zhang, U.S. Bhatt, and M. Ikeda. 2004. Intensifying Arctic cyclone activity. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. 85: 949-950. [summary in Papers of Note, invited].
  • Zhang X., J.E. Walsh, J. Zhang, U.S. Bhatt, and M. Ikeda, 2004: Climatology and Interannual Variability of Arctic Cyclone Activity, 1948 – 2002, J. Climate, 2300-2317. pdf version. Link to page containing cyclone data, click here.
  • Alexander M. A., U.S. Bhatt, J. Walsh, M. Timlin, and J. Miller, 2004: The Atmospheric Response to Realistic Arctic Sea Ice Anomalies in an AGCM during Winter, J. Climate 17, 890-905. pdf version. Other formats and supplemental figures can be found here.
  • Bhatt U. S., E.K. Schneider, and D. Dewitt, 2003: Influence of North American land processes on North Atlantic SST variability, Global and Planetary Change, 37, 33-56. doi:10.1016/S0921-8181(02)00190-X. (COLA Tech Report 112). pdf version.
  • Polyakov I.V. , R. Bekryaev, G. Alekseev, U.S. Bhatt, R. Colony, M. Johnson, and A. Makshtas, 2003: Variability and trends of air temperature and pressure in the maritime Arctic, 1875-2000, J. Climate, 16, 2067-2077. pdf version. Link to data, click here.
  • Polyakov I.V., G. Alekseev, R. Bekryaev, U.S. Bhatt, R. Colony, M. Johnson, V. Karklin, D. Walsh, and A. Yulin, 2003: Long-term variability of ice in the arctic marginal seas, J. Climate 16, 2078-2085. pdf version. Link to ice data, click here.
  • Polyakov I.V., S. Akasofu, U.S. Bhatt, R. Colony, M. Ikeda, A. Makshtas, C. Swingley, D. Walsh, and J. Walsh, 2002: Long-term trends and variations of the arctic climate system, EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union83 (47) : 547-548.
  • Polyakov I.V., G. Alekseev, R. Bekryaev, U.S. Bhatt, R. Colony, M. Johnson, V. Karklin, A. Makshtas, D. Walsh, and A. Yulin, 2002: Observationally-based assessment of polar amplification of global warming, Geophysical Research Letters, 1878, doi:10.1029/2001GL011111. pdf version.
  • Schneider E.K., and U.S. Bhatt, 2000: A dissipation integral with application to ocean diffusivities and structure, J. Physical Oceangr., 30, 1158-1171. (COLA Tech Report 59). pdf version.
  • Bhatt U.S., M.A. Alexander, D.S. Battisti, D. D. Houghton and L.M. Keller, 1998: Atmosphere-ocean interaction in the North Atlantic: near surface climate variability, J. Climate, 11, 1615-1632. pdf version.
  • Battisti D.S., U.S. Bhatt, and M.A. Alexander, 1995: A modeling study of the interannual variability of sea-surface temperature in the wintertime N. Atlantic Ocean, J. Climate, 8, 3067-3083. pdf version.
  • Bhatt, U.S., Circulation regimes of rainfall anomalies in the African - South Asian monsoon belt, 1989: J. Climate, 2, 1133 - 1144. pdf version
 
THESES
  • Bhatt, U.S., 1996: Role of atmosphere-ocean interaction in the midlatitude North Atlantic on climate variability, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Wisconsin, 159 pp. to download page.
  • Bhatt, U.S., 1989: On mechanisms of Subsaharan rainfall anomalies, M.S. Thesis, University of Wisconsin, 88pp.

 

OTHER SELECT PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS
  • Bhatt U. and D. E. Newman, 2007: Ecosystem modeling and the International Polar Year, Computing in Science & Engineering, 9 (4): 13-13 JUL-AUG 2007.

  • Bhatt, U. S. and D. E. Newman, 2007: A special track on the International Polar Year, Computing in Science & Engineering, 9 (1): 59-60, JAN-FEB, pdf available here.

  • J.S. Tilley, J. E. Walsh, U. S. Bhatt, N. Mölders and S. A. Vavrus, 2003: Arctic Atmospheric and System Modeling:  A Survey of IARC-related activities. Tohoku Geophys. Journal, 36 (4), 397-409.
  • Sprott, C. , D. Newman, C. Watts, and U. S., Bhatt, 1992: Physics Experiments You Can Do At Home, Pamphlet and online [http://scifun.chem.wisc.edu/WOP/HomeExpPhys.html].
  • Bhatt, U. S., D. E. Newman, contributions from many PCVs,(1985) plus Steve Varner (illustrations) and Barbara Stanford (Exhumer from the land of dead manuscripts, 1989), Cookin' in Kenya: Vegetarian Cookbook, Secondary Peace Corps Project. 119 pp. This project was undertaken in 1984-5 to help PCVs prepare vegetarian food in rural Kenyan kitchens. download pdf First half, Second Half . (Thanks to Craig Dorman for making the pdf version happen. 3/14/2005, left to us it would have probably been another 20 years!)

   
     

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