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Amy Solomon Assistant Researcher[Past Staff] International Pacific Research Center School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology University of Hawaii Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 Email: |
Education
- 1982, B.A. (Physics),University of California at Berkeley.
- 1990, M.S. (Applied Mathematics), University of Colorado at Boulder.
- 1997, Ph.D. (Atmospheric Dynamics),
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.
Dissertation title: The role of large-scale eddies in the nonlinear equilibration
of a multi-level model of the mid-latitude troposphere. October, 1997.
Advisor: Peter H. Stone
Research Interests
- Tropical-extratopical interactions in the Pacific basin
- The sensitivity of the free troposphere's climate to changes in sea surface temperature
- Climate variability due to coupled ocean-atmosphere feedbacks
- The role of baroclinic turbulence in determining the observed climate
Professional Experience
International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
- Assistant Research Scientist, February 1998 - Present
Program in Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Research Assistant, September 1991 - October 1997
Climate Analysis Section,Climate and
Global Dynamics Division,
National Center for Atmospheric Research
- Visiting Scientist, July 1992 - September 1992
- Visiting Scientist, July 1994 - September 1994
- Visiting Scientist, August 1995 - October 1995
- Scientific Applications Programmer, September 1989 - August 1991
Publications
- Solomon, A., J.P. McCreary, R. Kleeman, and B.A. Klinger, 2001:
Interactions between
interannual tropical oscillations and decadal extratropical oscillations in an intermediate
coupled model of the Pacific basin. Submitted to Journal of Climate - Solomon, A., and S.-P. Xie, 2001: A numerical investigation of the
atmospheric response to
extratropical sea surface temperature anomalies. Work in progress. - Solomon, A., and F.-F. Jin, 2001: Interannual
tropical-extratropical interaction in the Pacific
basin due to wind-evaporation-SST feedbacks. Geophysical Research Letters. In revision. -
Solomon, A., and P.H. Stone, 2001: On the sensitivity of an
intermediate model's mid-latitude
troposphere to changes in radiative forcing. J. Atmos. Sci., 58, 2395-2410. -
Solomon, A., and P.H. Stone, 2001: Equilibration in an eddy
resolving model with
simplified physics. J Atmos. Sci., 58, 561-574. -
Solomon, A., and R.S. Lindzen, 2000: The impact of resolution on a
numerical simulation
of the barotropic point jet. J. Atmos. Sci. , 57, 3799-3816. -
Solomon, A. B., 1996: An observational study of the spatial and
temporal scales of
transient eddy sensible heat fluxes. J. Clim., 10, No. 3, 508-520. -
Trenberth, K. E., J. W. Hurrell, and A. Solomon, 1994:
Conservation of mass in
three dimensions. J. Clim., 8, No. 4, 692-708. - Trenberth,
K.E. and A. Solomon, 1994: The global heat balance: Heat
transports
in the atmosphere and ocean. Climate Dynamics , 10, 107-134. -
Trenberth, K. E., and A. Solomon, 1993: Implications of global
atmospheric spatial
spectra for processing and displaying data. J. Clim., 6, 531-545.
Proceedings
- Solomon, A., and J.P. McCreary, 2001: Feedbacks between
interannual tropical oscillations
and decadal extratropical oscillations in an intermediate coupled model of the Pacific basin.
Proceedings of the AMS 13th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics,
Breckenridge, Colorado. - Solomon, A., and J.P. McCreary, 2001: Tropical-extratropical
interactions in an intermediate
coupled model of the Pacific basin. Proceedings of the EGS Annual Meeting, Nice, France. - Solomon, A., and R.S. Lindzen, 1999: The impact of resolution on a
numerical simulation
of the barotropic point jet. Proceedings of the AMS 12th Conference on
Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics, Columbia University, New York, New York. - Solomon, A., and P.H. Stone, 1997: Equilibration in an eddy
resolving model with
simplified physics . Proceedings of the AMS 11th Conference on Atmospheric and
Oceanic Fluid Dynamics, Tacoma, Washington. - Solomon, A., and P.H. Stone, 1996: A study of the dynamics which
maintain the
equilibrated state of an intermediate model of the mid-latitude troposphere.
Proceedings of the AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California. - Solomon, A. B., 1995: An observational study of the spatial and
temporal scales of
transient eddy sensible heat fluxes. Proceedings of the AMS Waves and Stability
Conference, Big Sky, Montana.
Membership
- The American Meteorological Society
- The American Geophysical Union
Reviewer
- The Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
- The Journal of Climate
- Progress in Oceanography