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Neven S. Fučkar Postdoctoral Fellow[Past Staff] International Pacific Research Center School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology University of Hawaii Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 Email: |
Education
- 2010 – Ph.D. in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Dissertation: Adaptive Scaling Model of the Main Pycnocline and the Associated Overturning Circulation - 2003 – M.S. in Oceanography, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA Thesis: Elements of Tropical Pacific Decadal Variability
- 2000 – Diploma in Physics, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia Thesis: Nuclear State Density up to High Energy for the Systematics of Medium Heavy Nuclei
Research Interests
- General circulation of the atmosphere and oceans
- Climate dynamics and predictability
- Ocean-atmosphere interaction
- Numerical modeling
Professional Experience
- Postdoctoral Fellow, International Pacific Research Center, SOEST, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA, April 2010 - December 2012
- Assistant in Research and Instruction, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program, Princeton University, New Jersey, Princeton, USA, February 2004 - March 2010
- NOAA Sea Grant John A. Knauss Fellow, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA/Satellite Oceanography Division, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA, April 2003 - January 2004
- Research and Teaching Assistant, Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA, September 2000 - March 2003
Sea Expeditions
- CLIMODE cruise, R/V Knorr 188 leg 2, North Atlantic (March 2007), CDT and water samplings
Journal Reviews
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Journal of Climate, Journal of Physical Oceanography, Climate Dynamics, Journal of Marine Systems, and Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans
Refereed Publications
- Frierson, D.M.W., Y.-T. Hwang, N.S. Fučkar, R. Seager, S.M. Kang, A. Donohoe, E.A. Maroon, X. Liu, and D.S. Battisti, 2013: Contribution of ocean overturning circulation to tropical rainfall peak in the Northern Hemisphere. Nature Geoscience, 6, 940-944, doi:10.1038/ngeo1987. IPRC-1021
- Fučkar, N.S., S.-P. Xie, R. Farneti, E.A. Maroon, and D.M.W. Frierson, 2013: Influence of the extratropical ocean circulation on the intertropical convergence zone in an idealized coupled general circulation model. J. Climate, 26 (13), 4612-4629, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00294.1. IPRC-938.
- Thakur, G., E. Brevdo, N.S. Fučkar, and H.-T. Wu, 2013: The Synchrosqueezing algorithm for time-varying spectral analysis: robustness properties and new paleoclimate applications Signal Processing, 93 (5), 1079-1094, doi:10.1016/j.sigpro.2012.11.029. IPRC-936.
- Reperant, L.A., N.S. Fučkar, A.D.M.E. Osterhaus, A.P. Dobson, and T. Kuiken, 2010: Spatial and Temporal Association of Outbreaks of H5N1 Influenza Virus Infection if Wild Birds with the 0C Isotherm, PLoS Pathog 6(4): e1000854. doi:10/1371/journal.ppat.1000854.
- Fučkar, N.S., and G.K. Vallis, 2007: Interhemispheric influence of surface buoyancy conditions on a circumpolar current. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L14605, doi:10.1029/2007GL030379.
- Giese, B.S., S.C. Urizar, and N.S. Fučkar, 2002: Southern Hemisphere Origins of the 1976 Climate Shift, Geophys. Res. Lett., 29 (2), 1014, doi:10.1029/2001GL013268.