Prof. Terrence R. Nathan

Atmospheric Science Program

Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources

University of California, Davis, USA

Professor

Email: [email protected]

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)

1. Bercos-Hickey, E., Nathan, T. R., & Chen, S. H. (2022). Effects of Saharan dust aerosols and West African precipitation on the energetics of African easterly waves. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 79(7), 1911-1926.
2. Turner, W., & Nathan, T. R. (2022). El Nino-Southern Oscillation and the transatlantic slave trade. Weather Climate and Society, 14(1), 257-271.
3. Grogan, D. F. P., & Nathan, T. R. (2021). Passive versus active transport of Saharan dust aerosols by African easterly waves. Atmosphere, 12(11), Article 1509.
4. Chen, S. H., McDowell, B., Huang, C. C., et al. (2021). Formation of a low-level barrier jet and its modulation by dust radiative forcing over the Hexi Corridor in Central China on March 17, 2010. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 147(736), 1873-1891.
5. Bercos-Hickey, E., Nathan, T. R., & Chen, S. H. (2020). On the relationship between the African easterly jet, Saharan mineral dust aerosols, and West African precipitation. Journal of Climate, 33(9), 3533-3546.
6. Grogan, D. F. P., Nathan, T. R., & Chen, S. H. (2019). Structural changes in the African easterly jet and its role in mediating the effects of Saharan dust on the linear dynamics of African easterly waves. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 76(11), 3351-3365.
7. Bercos-Hickey, E., Nathan, T. R., & Chen, S. H. (2017). Saharan dust and the African easterly jet-African easterly wave system: Structure, location and energetics. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 143(708), 2797-2808.
8. Nathan, T. R., Grogan, D. F. P., & Chen, S. H. (2017). Subcritical destabilization of African easterly waves by Saharan mineral dust. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 74(4), 1039-1055.
9. Grogan, D. F. P., Nathan, T. R., & Chen, S. H. (2017). Saharan dust and the nonlinear evolution of the African easterly jet-African easterly wave system. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 74(1), 27-47.
10. Grogan, D. F. P., Nathan, T. R., & Chen, S. H. (2016). Effects of Saharan dust on the linear dynamics of African easterly waves. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 73(2), 891-911.
11. Chen, S. H., Liu, Y. C., Nathan, T. R., et al. (2015). Modeling the effects of dust-radiative forcing on the movement of Hurricane Helene (2006). Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 141(692), 2563-2570.
12. Albers, J. R., & Nathan, T. R. (2013). Ozone loss and recovery and the preconditioning of upward-propagating planetary wave activity. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 70(12), 3977-3994.
13. Albers, J. R., McCormack, J. P., & Nathan, T. R. (2013). Stratospheric ozone and the morphology of the northern hemisphere planetary waveguide. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 118(2), 563-576.
14. Grogan, D. F. P., Nathan, T. R., Echols, R. S., et al. (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(12), 3715-3731.
15. Albers, J. R., & Nathan, T. R. (2012). Pathways for communicating the effects of stratospheric ozone to the polar vortex: Role of zonally asymmetric ozone. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 69(3), 785-801.
16. Nathan, T. R., Albers, J. R., & Cordero, E. C. (2011). 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(11-12), 1594-1605.
17. McCormack, J. P., Nathan, T. R., & Cordero, E. C. (2011). The effect of zonally asymmetric ozone heating on the Northern Hemisphere winter polar stratosphere. Geophysical Research Letters, 38, Article L03802.
18. Nathan, T. R., & Hodyss, D. (2010). Troposphere-stratosphere communication through local vertical waveguides. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 136(646), 12-19.

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WOS ResearcherID: F-5958-2011