Dan Vimont - University of Wisconsin, Madison

Personal Information

In July, 2003, I joined the faculty at the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, after a short appointment as a research associate through the Earth Institute at Columbia University, and through JISAO at the University of Washington. I am also affiliated with the Center for Climatic Research.

Research Interests

I am generally interested in climate variability involving coupled processes in the atmosphere and ocean. Recent projects include:

The role of midlatitude atmospheric variability in forcing tropical climate through coupled interactions in the subtropics and tropics (e.g., the "seasonal footprinting mechanism").
Downscaling precipitation over Indonesia under present and future climate scenarios.
Meridional modes in the tropical Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans.
Climate variability and hurricane activity.
Modeling ENSO impacts in a warmer world.
Pacific interannual and decadal variability in models and observations.
Statistical analysis of climate variability, with emphasis on integrating statistics and physical processes.

For more information, feel free to visit my research web page.

Education

2002: Ph.D., Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Dissertation title: "The Seasonal Footprinting Mechanism in the CSIRO Coupled General Circulation Models and in Observations".
2000: M.S., Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Title: "Pacific Interannual to Interdecadal Variability in a 1000 Year Simulation of the CSIRO Coupled General Circulation Model".
1996: B.S. Physics, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA

Publications

2007 Kossin, J. P. and D. J. Vimont: "A more general framework for understanding Atlantic hurricane variability and trends". Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., In Press, publication 11/2007.

2007 Chang, P., L. Zhang, R. Saravanan, D. J. Vimont, J. C. H. Chiang, L. Ji, H. Seidel, and M. K. Tippett: "Pacific meridional mode and El Niño - Southern Oscillation". Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L16608, doi:10.1029/2007GL030302, 2007
: 2007 Naylor, R. L., D. S. Battisti, D. J. Vimont, W. P. Falcon, and M. B. Burke, Assessing risks of climate variability and climate change for Indonesian rice agriculture. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., Publication Date: May 8, 2007.
: 2007 Vimont, D. J., and J. P. Kossin: "The Atlantic Meridional Mode and hurricane activity", Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L07709, doi:10.1029/2007GL029683
: 2007 Kossin, J. P., K. R. Knapp, D. J. Vimont, R. J. Murnane, and B. A. Harper: "A globally consistent reanalysis of hurricane variability and trends", Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L04815, doi:10.1029/2006GL028836
: 2007 Evan , A. T., A. K. Heidinger, and D. J. Vimont: "Arguments against a physical long-term trend in global ISCCP cloud amounts", Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L04701, doi:10.1029/2006GL028083
: 2005 Vimont, D. J.: "The contribution of the interannual ENSO cycle to the spatial pattern of ENSO-like decadal variability." J. Climate, 18(2), 2080-2092.

2004 Chiang, J. C. H., and D. J. Vimont: “Analagous meridional modes of atmosphere-ocean variability in the tropical Pacific and tropical Atlantic.” J. Climate,17(21), 4143–4158.

2003 Vimont, D. J., J. M. Wallace, and D. S. Battisti: “Seasonal Footprinting in the Pacific: Implications for ENSO.” J. Climate, 16.

2003 Vimont, D. J., D. S. Battisti, and A. C. Hirst: “The Seasonal Footprinting mechanism in the CSIRO coupled general circulation models.” J. Climate, 16.

2002 Vimont, D. J., D. S. Battisti, and A. C. Hirst: “Pacific interannual and interdecadal equatorial variability in a 1000 year simulation of the CSIRO coupled general circulation model.” J. Climate, 15(2), 160–178.

2001 Vimont, D. J., D. S. Battisti, and A. C. Hirst: “Footprinting: a seasonal link between the mid-latitudes and tropics.” Geophys. Res. Lett., 28(20), 3923–3926.

1995 Ulrickson, B. L., J. S. Hoffmaster, J. Robinson, and D. Vimont: “A numerical modeling study of the Catalina Eddy.” Mon. Wea. Rev., 123, 1364-1373.

Other Publications

2003 Sarachik, E. S., and D. J. Vimont: “Decadal variability in the Pacific.” Lecture notes for ISSAOS Summer School on Chaos in Geophysical Flows.

2000 Hurrell, J. W., Z. Wu, and D. J. Vimont: “Observations of extratropical variability.” Lecture notes for 2000 NCAR ASP on Decadal and Centennial Climate Variability.

2000 Saravanan, R., D. J. Vimont, and Z. Wu: “Exotic mechanisms for coupled ocean atmosphere variability in mid-latitudes.” Lecture notes for 2000 NCAR ASP on Decadal and Centennial Climate Variability.

Classes

AOS 100/101: Weather and Climate
This is a general survey course on the fundamental processes that produce our Earth's weather and climate variations.
(Fall 2004, Fall 2005, Fall 2007)

AOS 528: Past Climates and Climate Change
(Spring, 2006)

AOS 575: Climatological Analysis
This course introduces and applies various techniques in Statistical Analysis, with an emphasis on analysis of atmospheric and oceanic data.
(Fall 2003, Spring 2005, Fall 2006)

AOS 760: Large-scale Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Interactions
An advanced treatment of coupled ocean-atmosphere interactions is presented, including ENSO dynamics, tropical Meridional Modes, stochastic models of ocean / atmosphere interaction, and mid-latitude coupled modes.
(Spring 2004; Spring 2007)

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