Amy B. Solomon

ESRL/NOAA and CIRES/University of Colorado
325 Broadway
Boulder, CO 80309-0216
Voice: (303) 497-4398
FAX: (303) 497-7013
E-mail: amy.solomon@noaa.gov

Education

• Ph.D. (Atmospheric Dynamics), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998.
  Dissertation title: The role of large-scale eddies in the nonlinear equilibration
  of a multi-level model of the mid-latitude troposphere.
  
• M.S. (Applied Mathematics), University of Colorado at Boulder.
• B.A. (Physics),University of California at Berkeley.

Research Interests

• Indo-Pacific basin climate variability
• Arctic cloud-atmospheric boundary layer-surface layer feedbacks

Professional Experience

• Research Scientist III, May 2009 - Present
• Research Scientist II, May 2002 - April 2009

• Visiting Scientist, February 2004, February 2006
• Assistant Research Scientist, February 1998 - May 2002

• Research Assistant, September 1991 - October 1997

• Visiting Scientist, July-September 1992, July-September 1994, August-October 1995
• Scientific Applications Programmer, September 1989 - August 1991

Service

• NOAA Modeling, Analysis, Predictions, and Projections Panel Review (2012) -- Panel Member


• US Department of Energy Earth System Modeling Review (2011) -- Panel Member


• NASA Modeling, Analysis, and Prediction ROSES Review (2008) -- Panel Member


• US CLIVAR Decadal Climate Prediction Working Group (2008-2011) -- Co-chair


• DOE ARM Cloud Modeling Working Group (2008-) -- Member


• JGR Atmospheres (2005-) -- Associate Editor


• AMS Meetings Oversight Committee (2007-2011) -- Committee Member


• 16th AMS Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics, Santa Fe, NM, June 2007 -- Program Chairperson


• AMS Committee on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics (2004-2007) -- Committee Member


• Reviewer for The Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, The Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences,
  The Journal of Climate, The Journal of Physical Oceanography, Climate Dynamics, Progress in Oceanography, JGR-Atmospheres,
  Geophysical Research Letters, NOAA Office of Global Programs, and the National Science Foundation.

Awards

• 2010 NOAA OAR Outstanding Scientific Publication Award for "Investigation of
  microphysical parameterizations of snow and ice in Arctic clouds during M-PACE through
  model-observation comparisons", MWR, 2009.


• 2011-12 Principal Investigator, NSF/RAPID,
  "Predictability of Atmospheric Teleconnections in Initialized Decadal Forecasts".


• 2011-14 Co-Investigator, DOE/ASR, "Investigations of the Microphysical,
  Radiative, and Dynamical Properties of Mixed-Phase Clouds", PI: Matt Shupe.


• 2010-13 Co-Principal Investigator, NSF/ARC,
  "Understanding and Modeling Key Arctic Cloud-ABL-Surface Processes and Interactions",
  PI: Ola Persson, Co-PI: Matt Shupe.


• 2009-12 Principal Investigator, NOAA Office of Global Programs,
  "The Impact of Systematic Biases in Pacific and Indian Ocean SSTs on Predictability
  of the Hydrological Cycle over North America in Decadal Climate Prediction Studies".


• 2007 Principal Investigator, NOAA/PSD Innovative Research Proposal,
  "The Remote Forcing of the Arctic:Putting Observed Arctic Warming in Global Context".


• 2006-09 Co-Principal Investigator, NSF (ATM-0553111), "The Role of Extratropical Cooling in
  Determining the Level of El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Activity",
  PI: Dezheng Sun, Co-PI: Sang-Ik Shin.


• 2005-08 Principal Investigator, NOAA Office of Global Programs (GC05-170),
  "Extratropical Forcing of the Tropical Pacific: The Role of Pacific Subtropical Cells in Climate",
  Co-PIs: S.-I. Shin, J.P. McCreary, M.A. Alexander.


• 2005 Principal Investigator, NOAA OGP CMEP,
  "Pacific Subtropical Cells in coupled climate model simulations of the late 19th-20th Century".


• 2004-06 Principal Investigator, NCAR Climate Simulation Laboratory,
  "The Role of Pacific Subtropical Cells in Climate",
  Co-PIs: S.-I. Shin, J.P. McCreary, M.A. Alexander.

Publications

• Solomon, A., 2012: Using initialized decadal hindcasts to assess simulations of natural variability and externally forced
  trends in the tropical Indo-Pacific Ocean. J. Climate, under second review.


• Solomon, A., and M. Newman, 2012: Reconciling disparate 20th century Indo-Pacific ocean temperature trends
  in the instrumental record. Manuscript, Supplementary Material. Nature Climate Change, DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE1591.


• Goddard, L., A. Kumar, A. Solomon and the U.S. CLIVAR Decadal Predictability Working Group, 2012:
  A Verification Framework for Interannual-to-Decadal Predictions Experiments.Climate Dyn.,doi:10.1007/s00382-012-1481-2.


• Solomon, A., M.D. Shupe, P.O.G. Persson, and H. Morrison, 2011: Moisture and dynamical interactions
  maintaining decoupled Arctic mixed-phase stratocumulus in the presence of a humidity inversion.
  ACP, 11, 10127-10148, doi:10.5194/acp-11-10127-2011.


• Solomon, A., and M. Newman, 2011: Decadal predictability of tropical Indo-Pacific Ocean temperature trends
  due to anthropogenic forcing. Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L02703, doi:10.1029/2010GL045978.


• Solomon, A., L. Goddard, A. Kumar, J. Carton, C. Deser, I. Fukumori, A. Greene, G. Hegerl, B. Kirtman,
  Y. Kushnir, M. Newman, D. Smith, D. Vimont, T. Delworth, J. Meehl, and T. Stockdale, 2011:
  Distinguishing the roles of natural and anthropogenically forced decadal climate variability: Implications for prediction.
  Bull. Amer. Met. Soc., doi: 10.1175/2010BAMS2962.1.


• Solomon, A., 2010: Interannual ENSO variability due to coupled ocean-atmosphere bridges.
  GRL, 37, L02706, doi:10.1029/2009GL041622.


• Solomon, A., H. Morrison, P.O.G. Persson, M.D. Shupe, and J.-W. Bao, 2009: Investigation of
  microphysical parameterizations of snow and ice in Arctic clouds during M-PACE through
  model-observation comparisons. MWR. doi:10.1175/2009MWR2688.1.
  Awarded NOAA OAR 2010 Outstanding Scientific Publication Award


• Zhang, Y., P.H. Stone, and A. Solomon, 2009: The role of boundary layer processes in eddy equilibration
  in a modified quasi-geostrophic model. JAS. doi:10.1175/2008JAS2914.1.


• Solomon, A., S.-I. Shin, M.A. Alexander, and J.P. McCreary, 2008: The relative importance of tropical variability
  forced from the North Pacific through ocean pathways. Climate Dyn. doi:10.1007/s00382-007-0353-7.


• Wainer, I., A. Lazar, and A. Solomon, 2006: Tropical extra-tropical thermocline water mass exchanges
  in the Community Climate Model v.3 Part I: the Atlantic Ocean. Ocean Sci., 2, 137-146.


• Solomon, A., 2006: The impact of latent heat release on polar climate.
  GRL, 22, L07716,doi:10.1029/2005GL025607.


• Solomon, A., and D. Zhang, 2006: Pacific Subtropical Cell variability in coupled climate
  model simulations of the late 19th- 20th Century. Ocean Modelling, doi:10.1016/j.ocemod.2006.03.007.


• Solomon, A., and I. Wainer, 2006: Pacific tropical-extratropical thermocline water mass
  exchanges in the NCAR CCSM3. Ocean Modelling, doi:10.1016/j.ocemod.2006.04.003.


• Solomon, A., and F.-F. Jin, 2005: A study of the impact of off-equatorial Warm-Pool
  SST anomalies on ENSO cycles.* J. Clim., 18, 274-286.


• Solomon, A., J.P. McCreary, R. Kleeman, and B.A. Klinger, 2003: Interactions between
  interannual tropical oscillations and decadal extratropical oscillations in an intermediate
  coupled model of the Pacific basin.* J. Clim., 16, No. 3, 2395-2410.


• Solomon, A., and P.H. Stone, 2001b: On the sensitivity of an intermediate model of the
  mid-latitude troposphere's equilibrium to changes in radiative forcing.*
  J. Atmos. Sci., 58, 2395-2410. IPRC-58.


• Solomon, A., and P.H. Stone, 2001a: 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, No. 23, 3799-3816.


• Solomon, A., 1997: 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.