Simon de Szoeke

Curriculum Vitae

Simon Paul de Szoeke

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Earth System Research Laboratory
Physical Sciences Division 3
325 Broadway
Boulder, Colorado 80305

Phone: 1 303 497 6209
Fax: 1 303 497 6181
E-mail:

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 and Mathematics), Summa Cum Laude with departmental honors, University of Oregon Robert D. Clark Honors College
Thesis (passed with distinction): Determining tolerance for bubbles and dirt in the materials of fusion lasers.

Research Interests

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

Scientific Work Experience

National Research Council Associate, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Earth System Research Laboratory, Physical Sciences Division, Boulder, Colorado, 2007- .
Postdoctoral Fellow, International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2004-2006.
Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Washington, 1998-2004.
Teaching Assistant, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics: Atmospheric Sciences 509/Oceanography 512, Winter 2001.
Teaching Assistant, Weather: Atmospheric Sciences 101, Spring 1999
Senior Technical Professional, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, New Jersey, 1997-1998.
Summer Student, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, Livermore, California, 1996.

Awards and Honors

1997: Aaron Novick award: Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon
1997: Oregon Six, Phi Beta Kappa

Publications

de Szoeke, S. P., C. W. Fairall, and Sergio Pezoa, 2008: Ship observations coasting South America in the tropical Pacific Ocean. J. Climate, submitted.
de Szoeke, S. P. and S.-P. Xie, 2008: The tropical eastern Pacific seasonal cycle: Assessment of errors and mechanisms in IPCC AR4 coupled ocean-atmosphere general circulation models. J. Climate, 21, 11, 2573-2590.
de Szoeke, S. P., Y. Wang, S.-P. Xie, and T. Miyama, 2006: Effect of shallow cumulus convection on the eastern Pacific climate in a coupled model. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L17713, doi:10.1029/2006GL026715.
de Szoeke, S. P., S.-P. Xie, T. Miyama, K.J. Richards, and R. J. O. Small, 2007: What maintains the SST front north of the eastern Pacific equatorial cold tongue? J. Climate, 20, 2500-2514.
Garay, M. J., S. P. de Szoeke, and C. M. Moroney, 2008: Comparison of Cloud-top Heights Retrieved from ISCCP, MODIS, and MISR with Coincident Ship-based Measurements for the Marine Stratocumulus Region off the Western Coast of South America. J. Geophys. Res.-Atm., submitted.
Xie, S.-P., T. Miyama, Y. Wang, H. Xu, S. P. de Szoeke, R. J. Small, K. J. Richards, T. Mochizuki, and T. Awaji, 2007: A regional ocean-atmosphere model for eastern Pacific climate: Towards reducing tropical biases. J. Climate, 20, 1504-1522.
Small, R. J. O., S. P. de Szoeke, and S.-P. Xie, 2006: The Central American mid-summer drought: regional aspects and large scale forcing. J. Climate, 20, 4853-4873.
Small, R. J., S. P. de Szoeke, S.-P. Xie, L. O'Neill, H. Seo, Q. Song, P. Cornillon, M. Spall, and S. Minobe, 2007: Air-sea interaction over ocean fronts and eddies. Dynam. Ocean. Atmos., accepted.
de Szoeke, S. P. and C. S. Bretherton, 2005: Variability in the southerly flow into the eastern Pacific ITCZ. J. Atmos. Sci., 62, 4400-4411.
de Szoeke, S. P., C. S. Bretherton, N. A. Bond, M. Cronin, and B. M. Morley, 2005: EPIC 95° W observations of the eastern Pacific atmospheric boundary layer. J. Atmos. Sci., 62, 426-442.
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, 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, 9342-9347.

Presentations

November 2004	Meteorology Seminar, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI. (Powerpoint, 3.7 MB)
April 2004	Dissertation defence, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
September 2003	EPIC/PACS meeting, Boulder, CO.
February 2003	American Meteorological Society, Long Beach, CA.
December 2002	American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA.
November 2002	University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
October 2002	Commonwealth Science and Industry Research Organisation, Hobart, Australia.
September 2002	Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR.
March 2002	EPIC meeting, Seattle, WA.
January 2000	GCSS Boundary Layer Cloud working group, Boulder, CO.