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