Kramm invited to join editorial board of new journal
Dataset Papers in Atmospheric Sciences is a new academic journal published by Hindawi Publishing Corporation. The journal will publish papers from all areas of atmospheric sciences research. Gerhard Kramm, an associate professor with the UAF College of Natural Science and Mathematics and the GI Atmospheric Sciences Group, was invited to join the editorial board of the publication in February 2012.
Mölders to deliver overview talk at climate research conference
From June 18 to 20, 2012, more than 100 experts will convene in Boulder, Colo. to attend a Lower Atmospheric Observing Facilities Workshop, sponsored
Eroding islands, disappearing glaciers, lots of greenhouse gases
Kasatochi Island, pictured here one year after its 2008 eruption, is experiencing some of the fastest erosion on the planet, with about 3 feet of its muddy shoreline eaten away each day.
Photo by Ned Rozell.
The latest meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco in December 2011 featured hundreds of talks about Earth science, some of those relating to Alaska (and some of those comprehensible to a non-scientist). Here are a few items from the notebook I carried around the Moscone Center:
Kramm and Dlugi article in Natural Science
A paper in the journal Natural Science titled "Scrutinizing the atmospheric greenhouse effect and its climatic impact" by the Geophysical Institute's Gerhard Kramm and Ralph Dlugi has been downloaded almost 1,000 times since its recent appearance on the Scientific Research website.
Abstract:
Submit abstracts now for symposium to be held March 13 - 14, 2012
The 2012 Alaska Weather Symposium will be held at the University of Alaska Fairbanks on March 13 and 14. The deadline for presentation and/or poster abstracts is Tuesday, January 24.
All abstracts relating to weather and climate in Alaska are welcome. Some anticipated areas of focus are:
- Air quality
- Data assimilation
- High resolution modeling in complex terrain
- Observations/monitoring challenges
- Weather-scale sea ice
The symposium is being sponsored by:
Uma Bhatt
I majored in Mechanical Engineering as an undergraduate and was planning to attend graduate school in the area of alternate energy. After finishing my BS degree, I joined the U.S. Peace Corps and served as a high school math teacher in Kenya for two years (1983-85). The dramatic drought in East Africa during this time and the amazing atmospheric phenomena I experienced at our rural secondary school made me decide to pursue a graduate degree in Atmospheric Sciences.
- Associate Professor Univ. Alaska Fairbanks in the Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences & 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, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (1997 -1998)
- Research Scientist at Ross Computational Resources (1996 - 1997)
- US. Peace Corps Volunteer at Sochoi Secondary School, Kenya (1983 - 1985)
- Role of Sea Ice, Oceans, & Land in Climate Variability and Change
- Multi-decadal Climate Variability
- Climate in Alaska
- Complex Systems Research
- V. Masson-Delmotte, D. Swingedouw, A. Landais, M. Seidenkrantz, E. Gauthier, V. Bichet, C. Massa, B. Perren, V. Jomelli , G. Adalgeisdottir, J. Hesselbjerg Christensen, J.Arneborg, U.S. Bhatt, D.A. Walker, B. Elbering, F. Gillette-Chaulet, C. Ritz, H. Gallée, M. van den Boreke, X. Fettweis, A. de Vernal, and B. Vinter, 2011: Greenland climate change: from the past to the future, submitted to WIREs Climate Change.
- Dammann, D. O, U.S. Bhatt, P.L. Langen, J. Krieger, X. Zhang, 2011: Impact of Daily Arctic Sea Ice Variability in CAM3.0 During Fall and Winter, submitted to J. Climate.
- Polyakov, I.V., U.S. Bhatt, J. E. Walsh, E. P. Abrahamsen, 2011: Recent oceanic changes in the Arctic in the context of longer term observations, submitted to Ecological Applications.
- Epstein, H. E., M. K. Raynolds, D. A. Walker, U. S. Bhatt, C. J. Tucker, and J. E. Pinzon, 2011: Dynamics of aboveground phytomass of the circumpolar arctic tundra during the past three decades, in revision for Environmental Research Letters.
- Bieniek, P. A., U.S. Bhatt, R.L. Thoman, H. Angeloff, J. Partain, J. Papineau, F. Fritsch, E. Holloway, J.E. Walsh, C. Daly, M. Shulski, G. Hufford, D.F. Hill, S. Calos, and R. Gens, 2011: Climate divisions for Alaska based on objective methods, in revision for J. Applied Meteorology and Climatology.
- Legatt, R., I.V. Polyakov, U.S. Bhatt, X. Zhang, 2011: North Atlantic Variability Driven by Atmospheric and Oceanic Stochastic Forcing in a Simple Box Model, in revision for Tellus A.
- Walker, D.A., H.E. Epstein, M.K. Raynolds, P. Kuss, M.A. Kopecky, G.V. Frost, F.J.A. Daniëls, M.O. Leibman, N.G. Moskalenko, G.V. Matyshak, O.V. Khitun, A.V. Khomutov, B.C. Forbes, U.S. Bhatt, A.N. Kade, C.M. Vonlanthen, 2011: Environment, vegetation and greenness (NDVI) along the North America and Eurasia Arctic transects, Environmental Research Letters, in press.
GI Professor Emeritus Glenn Shaw pens autobiography
Glenn Shaw, GI Professor Emeritus of Physics and a fixture in these parts since 1971, has just written a memoir, Fingerprints on the Moon: My Life in Physics. It is available from the man himself or here.
Gerd Wendler
- 1959 Abitur, Hansa Gymnasium, Hamburg, Germany
- 1964 Ph.D, Atmospheric Science and Astronomy
- Leopold Franzens Universität zu Innsbruck, Austria
- 2000 Professor Emeritus
- 1998 Director, Alaska Climate Research Center
- 1981 Professor of Geophysics
- 1971 Associate Professor of Geophysics
- 1967 Assistant Professor of Geophysics
- 1966 Assistant Geophysicist, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska
- 1964 Research Associate, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Innsbruck, Austria
- Climatology
- Micro-meteorology
- Glacio-meteorology
- Climate-sea ice interactions
- Wendler, G., J. Conner, B. Moore, M. Shulski and M. Stuefer 2011: Climatology of Alaskan wildfires with special emphasis on the extreme year of 2004. Theor. Appl. Clim DOI 10.1007/s00704
- Wendler, G., M. Shulski and B. Moore 2010: Changes in the climate of the Alaskan North Slope and the ice concentration in the adjacent Beaufort Sea. Theor. Appl. Clim 99: 67-74
- Wendler, G and M. Shulski 2009. A Century of Climate Change for Fairbanks, Alaska: Arctic, 62 (3), 295-300
- Weller, G., M. Nolan, G. Wendler, C. Benson, K. Echelmeyer and N. Untersteiner 2007: Fifty years of McCall Glacier Research: From the International Geophysical Year to the International Polar Year 2007-2008. Artic, 60(1), 1001-1011
- Shulski, M. and G. Wendler, 2007. The Climate of Alaska. University of Alaska Press, 216pp.
- Wendler, G., 2006. Book Review of The Arctic Climate System by Serreze and Barry, Polar Rec., 42(223), 370-372.
- Wendler, G., 2006. Climate of the Polar Realms. Chapter 5 In: The Global Climate System by H. Bridgman and J. Oliver, Cambridge University Press, 131-169.
- Stuefer, M. and G. Wendler 2005: MM5 Contrail forecasting in Alaska. Mon. Wea. Rev., 3517-3526
- Hartmann, B. and G. Wendler 2005: On the significance of the 1976 Pacific climate shift in the climatology of Alaska. : J. Clim.18,4824-4839
- Wendler, G., M. Shulski and B. Hartmann 2004: Potential climatic effects of cirrus contrails for the subarctic setting of Fairbanks, Alaska, Theor. Appl. Clim. 81, 149-159
- Nakanishi, S., J. Curtis and G. Wendler 2001: The influence of increased jet airline traffic on the amount of high cloudiness in Alaska. Theor. Appl. Clim., 68, 197-205
- Stafford, J., G. Wendler and J. Curtis 2000: Temperature and precipitation of Alaska: 50 year trend analyses. Theor. Appl. Clim., 67, 33-44
- Magee, N., J. Curtis and G. Wendler 1999: The urban heat island effect at Fairbanks, Alaska. Theor. Appl. Clim., 64, 39-47
- Dissing, D., and G. Wendler 1998: Solar radiation climatology of Alaska. Theor. Appl. Clim., 61, 161-175.
- Curtis, J., G. Wendler, R. Stone and E. Dutton 1998: Precipitation decrease in the Western Arctic, with special emphasis on Barrow and Barter Island, Alaska. Intl. J. Clim., 18, 1687-1707
