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Simon Paul de Szoeke

Postdoctoral Fellow
[Past Staff]

International Pacific Research Center
School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology
University of Hawaii
Honolulu, Hawaii 96822

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Education

2004 - Ph.D. (Atmospheric Sciences), University of Washington.
Dissertation: Evolution of the cross-equatorial atmospheric boundary layer in the east Pacific: observations and models.
1997 - B.A. (Physics), Summa Cum Laude with departmental honors and Mathematics, University of Oregon Robert D. Clark Honors College
Thesis (passed with distinction): Determining tolerance for bubbles and dirt in the materials of fusion lasers.

Tropical meteorology and equatorial dynamics
Planetary boundary layer meteorology and atmosphere-ocean interaction
Processes affecting interannual variability and climate change
Teaching intuition-building fluid dynamics and geophysical fluid dynamics courses

Postdoctoral Fellow, International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2004–11/2006
Teaching Assistant, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics: Atmospheric Sciences 509/Oceanography 512, Winter 2001
Teaching Assistant, Weather: Atmospheric Sciences 101, Spring 1999
Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Washington, 1998–2004
Senior Technical Professional, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, New Jersey,
1997–1998
Summer Student, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, Livermore, California, 1996

Raymond, D.J., S.P. de Szoeke, C.S. Bretherton, and J. Molinari, 2004: Dynamics and variability of the intertropical convergence zone of the east Pacific. J. Atmos. Sci., in preparation.
de Szoeke, S.P., C.S. Bretherton, N.A. Bond, M. Cronin, and B. Morley: EPIC 95˚W observations of the eastern Pacific atmospheric boundary layer. J. Atmos. Sci., in press.
de Szoeke, S.P., Y. Wang, S.-P. Xie, and T. Miyama: The effect of shallow cumulus convection on the eastern Pacific climate in a coupled model. Geophys. Res. Lett., in press.
Xie, S.-P., T. Miyama, Y. Wang, H. Xu, S.P. de Szoeke, R.J. Small, K.J. Richards, T. Mochizuki, and T. Awaji: A regional ocean-atmosphere model for eastern Pacific climate: Towards reducing tropical biases. J. Climate, in press.
de Szoeke, S.P., and C.S. Bretherton, 2005: Variability in the southerly flow into the eastern Pacific ITCZ. J. Atmos. Sci., 62 (12), 4400 – 4411.
de Szoeke, S.P., and C.S. Bretherton, 2004: Quasi-Lagrangian large eddy simulations of cross-equatorial flow in the east Pacific atmospheric boundary layer. J. Atmos. Sci., 61 (15), 1837 – 1858.
Widmayer, C.C., D. Milam, and S.P. de Szoeke, 1997: Nonlinear formation of holographic images of obscurations in laser beams. Applied Optics, 36 (36), 9342 – 9347.