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Eric P. Salathé Jr.
Senior Research Scientist
JISAO/CSES Climate Impacts Group
Affiliate Assistant Professor
Department of Atmospheric Sciences
University of Washington

A.   Education

1987: B.A. with Honors in Physics, Swarthmore College

1994: Ph.D. in Geology and Geophysics, Yale University (Dissertation Title: The Interaction of Upper-Tropospheric Water Vapor and the Earth's Radiation Field; Advisor: Prof. Ronald B. Smith)

B.    Positions Held

September 1990 to September 1993: NASA Global Change Research Fellow, Yale University.

October 1993 to June 1995:National Research Council Associate, NASA Goddard Laboratory for Atmospheres.

July 1995 to July 1999: Research Associate, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington.

August 1999 to present: Research Scientist, JISAO/CSES Climate Impacts Group, University of Washington.

July 2005 to present: Affiliate Assistant Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington.

C.    Field Experience

1989: Participated in the Experiment on Rapidly Intensifying Cyclones over the Atlantic (ERICA) as part of the NCAR Sabreliner aircraft research staff

1991: Participated in the Chemical Layering Project in Champaign, IL and Edmonton, Alberta. Research Scientist on ten Sabreliner aircraft flights.

D.   Publications

E. P. Salathé and E. P. Salathé Jr., 1986: Transcapillary exchange during arteriolar vasomotion. Microvascular Research. 11, 115.

E. P. Salathé Jr. et al., 1986: A biomechanical model of the foot. J. Biomechanics. 19, 989.

E. P. Salathé Jr. et al., 1989: An application of beam theory to determine the stress and deformation of long bones. J. Biomechanics. 22, 189.

E. P. Salathé Jr. et al., 1990: The foot as a shock absorber. J. Biomechanics. 23, 655

E. P. Salathé Jr. and R. B. Smith, 1992: In situ observations of temperature microstructure above and below the tropopause. J. Atmos. Sci., 49, 2032-2036.

E. P. Salathé Jr. and D. Chesters, 1995: Variability of moisture in the upper troposphere, as inferred from TOVS satellite observations and ECMWF model analyses. J. Climate, 8, 120.

E. P. Salathé Jr., D. Chesters, Y. Sud 1995: Evaluation of upper-tropospheric moisture climatology in a GCM using TOVS radiance observations. J. Climate, 8, 2404

E. P. Salathé Jr. and R. B. Smith, 1996: Comparison of 6.7-micron radiances computed from aircraft soundings and observed from GOES-VAS. J. Geophys. Res., 101, 21,303-21,310

E. P. Salathé and D. L. Hartmann, 1997: A trajectory analysis of tropical upper-tropospheric moisture and convection. J. Climate, 10, 2533-2547.

E. P. Salathé Jr. and D L Hartmann, 1999: Subsidence and upper-tropospheric drying along trajectories in a general circulation model, J. Climate, 12.

B. Soden, et al., 2000: An intercomparison of radiation codes for retrieving upper-tropospheric humidity in the 6.3-micron band: a report from the 1st GVaP Workshop, Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc., 81, 797-808.

Contributing author, The IPCC Scientific Assessment. Report of Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). 2000.

Contributing author, SPARC Assessment of Upper Tropospheric and Stratospheric Water Vapour. Edited by D. Kley, J.M. Russell, and C. Phillips. 2000.

L. Garand, et al., 2001: Radiance and Jacobian intercomparison of radiative transfer models applied to HIRS and AMSU channels, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 24,017-24,031

Widmann, M., C. S. Bretherton, and E. P. Salathé, 2003: Statistical precipitation downscaling over the northwestern United States using numerically simulated precipitation as a predictor. J. Climate. 16, 799-816

E. P. Salathé Jr., 2003: The effect of various precipitation downscaling methods on the simulation of streamflow in a rainshadow river basin, Int. J. of Climatology, 23, 887-901.

E. P. Salathé Jr. 2004: Methods for selecting and downscaling simulations of future global climate with application to hydrologic modeling. International Journal of Climatology, 25, 419-436.

E. P. Salathé Jr, 2006: Influences of a shift in North Pacific storm tracks on Western US regional climate under global warming. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L19820, doi:10.1029/2006GL026882.

E. P. Salathé Jr, P W Mote, M W Wiley, 2007: Considerations for selecting downscaling methods for integrated assessments of climate change impacts. Int. J. of Climatology, 27, 1611-1621.

P. Mote, A. Hamlet, and E. Salathé, 2008: Has spring snowpack declined in the Washington Cascades? Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 4, 2073-2110.

E. P. Salathé Jr, P Zahn, R Steed, and CF Mass. 2008. A high-resolution climate model for the United States pacific northwest: Mesoscale feedbacks and local responses to climate change. J. Climate, in press.

Submitted for publication or in draft:

Avise, J., J. Chen, E. Salathe, C. Mass, A. Guenther, C. Wiedinmyer, L. Horowitz, and B. Lamb, 2007.  Attribution of projected changes in U.S. ozone and PM2.5 concentrations to specific global changes, for submission to Atmos. Chem. & Phys.

Avise, J., J. Chen, E. Salathe, C. Mass, A. Guenther, C. Wiedinmyer, J. Lamarque, and B. Lamb, 2007.  Impact of episodic long-range transport of Asian emissions on ozone levels in the western U.S., today and in the future, for submission to Atmos. Chem & Phys.

Chen, J. J. Avise, C. Mass, E. Salathe, A. Guenther, C. Wiedinmyer, D. McKenzie, N. Larkin, S. O’Neill, and B. Lamb, 2007.  Global Change Impacts on Future Regional Air Quality in the United States, for submission to Atm Chem & Physics.

Mote, P.W., E. P. Salathé Jr (In review). Possible future climate. Chapter 5 in A. K. Snover, E.L. Miles, and the Climate Impacts Group, Rhythms of Change: An Integrated Assessment of Climate Impacts on the Pacific Northwest, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.

M. W. Wiley R. N. Palmer E. P. Salathé Jr., 2007: The Development of CGM Based Climate Scenarios for use in Water Resource System Impact Evaluations. ASCE, J of Water Res Plan and Mngt, Submitted

Recent technical reports:

Mote, P.W., E.P. Salathé, and C. Peacock. 2006. Energy-relevant Impacts of Climate Change in the Pacific Northwest. Report prepared for Portland General Electric by the Climate Impacts Group, University of Washington, Seattle. 19 pp.

Mote, P.W., E.P. Salathé, and C. Peacock. 2005. Scenarios of Future Climate for the Pacific Northwest. A report prepared for King County (Washington)'s October 27, 2005 climate change conference "The Future Ain't What It Used to Be: Preparing for Climate Disruption". Climate Impacts Group, University of Washington, Seattle.

E.    Funded research

Current:

Modeling the Effects of Climate Change and Variability on the Pacific Northwest: Mesoscale Processes and Climate Impacts. NSF Climate Dynamics. $393,778, Jan 2007 – Dec 2010. (PI: Salathé)

Ensemble Analyses of the Impact and Uncertainties of Global Change on Regional Air Quality in the U.S. EPA STAR. $313,256. Feb 2006 – Jan 2010. (UW PI: Salathé)

Distributed computing project: Pacific Northwest regional climate change. Microsoft Research. $172,926. (PI: Philip Mote, Co-PI: Salathé). Nov 2007-April 2009.

Ensemble Analyses of the Impact and Uncertainties of Global Change on Regional Air Quality in the U.S. NCAR Climate Simulation Laboratory. 164,000 GAU, December 2007 – May 2009.

Integrating mesoscale downscaling with hydrologic and process models in the Pacific Northwest. NOAA Climate Dynamics and Environmental Prediction (CDEP). $225,000. (PI: Miles, Co-PI: Salathé)

Submitted:

Application of Regional Ensemble Climate Change Modeling to Water Quality Assessment in the U.S. and King County, Washington. EPA STAR. $799,364, April 2009-March 2011. PI: Salathé.

Modeling the interactions among land cover, land use, hydrology, and climate. NASA. (PI: M. Alberti)

F.     Graduate students and post-docs

Current Post-docs:
Valérie Dulière
Yongxin Zhang

Current Graduate Students:
Richard Steed
Michael Warner

Past Graduate Students:
Patrick Zahn (M.S., now at Sonoma Technology Inc.)

G.   Contact information

JISAO
University of Washington
Box 355672
Seattle WA, 98195-5672

Phone: 206-616-5351
E-mail:
salathe@washington.edu
Web:
<http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~salathe/>