Richard Grotjahn: Refereed Publications


Banner Peak Panorama 09/2006
Banner Peak, Ansel Adams Wilderness, September 2005

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A short biographical sketch (limited to 2 pages).


Extreme (as in rare) Weather and Climate Publications


Selected Conference Presentations


Other Climate Research

    1. I am among the lead authors on the Agriculture chapter in the 2014 National Climate Assessment, organized by USGCRP. A link to the chapter is Hatfield, et al., 2013 in the National Climate Assessment. The full draft NCA report can be found: here
      Related to that is an unrefereed pdf of my UCS webinar on the NCA discussion of climate change impacts on California agriculture. Much of it is based on Chapters 2, 3, 6, and 20 of that report.
    2. Blocking algorithm and climatology study. Pinheiro, et al., 2019 Atmospheric blocking and intercomparison of objective detection methods: flow field characteristics In: Climate Dynamics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-019-04782-5
    3. Aquaplanet study of atmospheric river changes caused by sea surface temperature changes. McClenny, et al., 2020 Sensitivity of Atmospheric River Vapor Transportand Precipitation to Uniform Sea SurfaceTemperature Increases In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2020JD033421
    4. Assessing the Large-Scale Drivers of Precipitation in the Northeastern United States Via Linear Orthogonal Decomposition in Climate Dynamics Sukhdeo et al., 2022 4.9MB

Climate Model Simulation of Arctic Surface Conditions


Theoretical and Observational Dynamic Meteorology:

    1. Grotjahn 1996a (0.9 Mb pdf file) This paper shows the evolution of 27 different troughs before and during cyclogenesis. It shows the upper and lower troughs are always both separate and have no upstream tilt prior to onset of development, a key point in showing that large nonmodal growth does not occur in the atmosphere since the necessary trough tilts are not observed.
    2. Grotjahn 1996b (1.5 Mb pdf file) This paper shows horizontal patterns at several levels of all the terms in the complete vorticity equation. The figures illustrate how the terms interact to maintain an upstream tilt of the trough axis, how the magnitudes compare, how energy for growth is distributed vertically, etc. One note: figures 5 and 6 are labeled as 'schematic' but in fact all the quantities depicted on them are traced from raw plots of the composite fields.
    3. Hodyss & Grotjahn 2001 (0.4 Mb pdf file)
    4. Grotjahn & Castello 2002 (2.4 Mb pdf file)
    5. Grotjahn 2002 (0.3 Mb pdf file) a overview for the Encyclopedia of Atmos. Sci.
    6. Hodyss & Grotjahn 2003 (0.5 Mb pdf file)
    7. Grotjahn et al 2003 (0.6 Mb pdf file)
    8. Grotjahn 2005 (1.4 Mb pdf file)
    9. Grotjahn 2015a (2.3 Mb pdf file) a overview of baroclinic instability for the Encyclopedia of Atmos. Sci. 2nd Edition

Understanding Subtropical Highs


General Circulation Books and Topics

    1. Grotjahn 2002a (1.7 Mb pdf file) a overview of mean state for the Encyclopedia of Atmos. Sci.
    2. Grotjahn 2002b (0.3 Mb pdf file) a overview of energetics for the Encyclopedia of Atmos. Sci.
    3. Grotjahn 2007a (0.1 Mb pdf file) Preface to part 1 of the DAO special issue on Current Contributions to Understanding of the General Circulation of the Atmosphere
    4. Grotjahn 2007b (0.3 Mb pdf file) Overview & 'Deduction' of the General Circulation (DAO special issue, part 1)
    5. Grotjahn 2008a (11.8 Mb pdf file, large file due to hi-res graphics, preprint) Comparison: NCEP/DOE AMIP II versus ERA-40 (DAO special issue, part 2)
    6. Grotjahn 2008b (0.1 Mb pdf file) Preface to part 2 of the DAO special issue on Current Contributions to Understanding of the General Circulation of the Atmosphere
    7. Grotjahn 2015b (3.6 Mb pdf file) a overview of mean state for the Encyclopedia of Atmos. Sci. 2nd Edition
    8. Grotjahn 2015c (2.3 Mb pdf file) a overview of energetics for the Encyclopedia of Atmos. Sci. 2nd Edition