Prof. Terrence R. Nathan
Atmospheric Science Program
Art-Science Fusion Program
Graduate Group in Applied Mathematics
University of California, USA
Professor for Atmospheric Science
Email: trnathan@ucdavis.edu
Qualifications
1985 Ph.D., Atmospheric Science, State
University of New York at Albany, USA
1982 M.S., Atmospheric Science, State
University of New York at Albany, USA
1978 B.S., Atmospheric Science and
Mathematics, State University of New York at Albany, USA
Publications
(Selected)
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Grogan, D., T. Nathan and S. Chen (2016) Saharan dust and
the nonlinear evolution of the African easterly jet-African easterly wave
system, J. Atmos. Sci., DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-16-0118.1, in press.
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Grogan, D. F. P., T. R. Nathan and S.-H. Chen (2016)
Effects of Saharan dust on the linear dynamics of African easterly waves, J.
Atmos. Sci., 73, DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-15-0143.1.
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Chen, S.-H., Y.-C. Liu, T. R. Nathan, C. Davis, R. Torn,
N.Sowa, C.-T. Cheng and J.P. Chen (2015) Modeling the effects of dust-radiative
forcing on the movement of Hurricane Helene, Quarterly Journal of the Royal
Meteorological Society, DOI: 10.1002/qj.2542.
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Albers, J. R. and T. R. Nathan (2013) Ozone loss and
recovery and the preconditioning of upward-propagating planetary wave
activity, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 70, 3977-3994.
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Albers, J. R., and J. McCormack and T. R. Nathan (2013)
Effect of stratospheric ozone on the morphology of the planetary
waveguide, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 118, 563-576,
DOI: 10.1029/2012JD017937.
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Grogan, D. F., T. R. Nathan, R. E. Echols and E. C. Cordero
(2012) A parameterization for the effects of ozone on the wave driving
exerted by equatorial waves in the stratosphere, Journal of the
Atmospheric Sciences, 69, 3715-3731.
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Albers, J. and T. R. Nathan (2012) Pathways for
communicating the effects of stratospheric ozone to the polar vortex: role of
zonally asymmetric ozone, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences (in
press).
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McCormack, J., T. R. Nathan and E. Cordero (2011) The
effect of zonally asymmetric ozone heating on the Northern Hemisphere winter
polar stratosphere, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 38, LO3802, DOI:
10.1029/2010GL045937.
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Nathan, T. R., J. Albers and E. C. Cordero (2010) Role
of wave-mean flow interaction in sun-climate connections: historical overview
and some new interpretations and results, Journal of Atmospheric and
Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 73, 1594-1605.
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Nathan, T. R. and D. Hodyss (2010) Troposphere-stratosphere
communication through local vertical waveguides, Quarterly Journal of the
Royal Meteorological Society, 136 (part A), 12-19.
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Hodyss, D. and T. R. Nathan (2007) Instability of marginally
stable streamwise varying shear flow to long Rossby waves, Communications in the Mathematical Sciences, 5, No. 4, 833-849.
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Nathan, T. R. and E. Cordero (2007) An ozone-modified
refractive index for vertically propagating planetary waves. Journal of
Geophysical Research–Atmospheres, 112, D02105, DOI: 10.1029/ 2006JD007357.
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Hodyss, D. and T. R. Nathan (2007) The role of forcing in
the local stability of stationary long waves. Part 1. Linear
dynamics, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 576, 349-376.
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Hodyss, D. H. and T. R. Nathan (2006) Instability of
variable media to long waves with odd dispersion relations, Communications
in the Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 4, No. 3, 669-676.
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Cordero, E. and T. R. Nathan (2005) A new pathway for
communicating the 11-year solar cycle signal to the QBO, Geophysical
Research Letters, Vol. 32, No. 18, L18805, DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023696.
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Hodyss, D. and T. R. Nathan (2004) On the connection
between coherent structures and low-frequency wave packets in large-scale
atmospheric flow, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 61, 2616-2626.
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Hodyss, D. and T. R. Nathan (2004) Long waves in streamwise
varying shear flows: new mechanisms for weakly nonlinear
instability, Physical Review Letters, 93: 074502.
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Hodyss, D. and T. R. Nathan (2004) Effects of topography
and potential vorticity forcing on solitary Rossby waves in zonally varying
flow, Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, 98, 175-202.
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Hodyss, D. and T. R. Nathan (2002) Solitary Rossby waves in
zonally varying jet flows, Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics,
96, No. 3, 239-262.
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