Jamie Scott
Jamie Scott
NOAA/CIRES/Earth System Research Laboratory
R/PSD1, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80305-3328
email: James.D.Scott@noaa.gov
voice: (303) 497-6257 fax: (303) 497-6449
Edu cat ion
MS, Atmospheric Sciences, Colorado State University, 1994. GPA 3.9/4.0. Advisor: Steven A. Rutledge
Thesis title: Doppler Radar Observations of an Asymmetric MCS and Associated Vortex Couplet.
BS, Meteorology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1991. GPA 3.6/4.0. Graduated with distinction.
Exper ience
• Associate Scientist III, NOAA/CIRES/ESRL Physical Sciences Division (10/94 to present)
• Research Assistant, Colorado State University (8/92-10/94)
• Forecaster, Weather Central, Inc. (8/91-8/92)
• Upper Air Operator: Lake Michigan Ozone Study, Sonoma Technology, Inc. (6/91-8/91)
Current Res pons ibilit ies
• Modification and Management of Atmospheric General Circulation Model (AGCM) Code.
• Execution and Quality Control of AGCM Experiments.
• Computation of Climate Statistics from Computer Model Output and Observations.
• Quality Control and Data Management of Statistical Products Derived from Model Output and
Observations.
• Generation and Management of FORTRAN Code for Statistical Analyses.
• Development and Implementation of Techniques to Present Research Products and Results to the
Scientific Community.
• Member of Computer Users' Advisory Committee for PSD.
Resear ch Inter ests
• Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction
• Interannual Climate Variability
• Numerical Modeling
• Ensemble Forecasting
• Short-term Atmospheric Variability in Middle Lattitudes
• Remote Sensing
Progr amming Skills
• Fortran 77/90 IMSL/NAG/LaPack
• Python/Perl/tcsh/sh
• GrADS/NCL
• UNIX/Solaris/MacOSX/Windows
Graphics/ Visualizatio n
• GrADS/NCL
• Imagemagic/Ghostscript
• MS Word/Powerpoint/Excel
• Adobe Ilustrator/Photoshop/Framemaker/Acrobat
• html/cgi/css
Data For mat s
• Grib
• netCDF/HDF
• binary (big Endian, little Endian, sequential or direct access)
Refe ree d Pu blications
Hare, J., M. Alexander, M. Fogarty, E. Williams, J. Scott, 2008: Forecasting the dynamics of a coastal
fishery species using a coupled climate population model. Ecological Applications, submitted.
Alexander, M. A. and J. D. Scott, 2008: The role of Ekman ocean heat transport in the Northern
Hemisphere Response to ENSO. J. Climate, 21, 5688-5707.
Bhatt, U. S., M. A. Alexander, C. Deser, J. E. Walsh, J.S. Miller, M. Timlin, J. D. Scott, and R. Tomas,
2008: The Atmospheric Response to Realistic Reduced Summer Arctic Sea Ice Anomalies. In Arctic
Sea Ice Decline: Observations, Projections, Mechanisms, and Implications, eds. E. Deweaver and C.
Bitz. AGU Monograph. accepted.
Alexander, M. A., L. Matrosova, C. Penland, J. D. Scott, and P. Chang, 2008: Forecasting Pacific SSTs:
Linear Inverse Model Predictions of the PDO. J. Climate, 21, 385-402.
Alexander, M., J. Yin, G. Branstator, A. Capotondi, C. Cassou, R. Cullather, Y.-O. Kwon, J Norris, J.
Scott, I. Wainer, 2006. Extratropical Atmosphere-Ocean Variability in CCSM3. J. Climate, 19, 2496-
2525. Special Issue (June 1, #11) on the CCSM3.
Alexander, M. A., N.-C. Lau, and J. D. Scott, 2004: Broadening the atmospheric bridge paradigm: ENSO
teleconnections to the North Pacific in summer and to the tropical west Pacific-Indian Oceans over the
seasonal cycle. Earth Climate: The Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction. , eds. C. Wang, S.-P. Xie and J.
Carton. AGU Monograph. pp. 85-104.
Alexander, M. A., U. S. Bhatt, J. E. Walsh, M. S. Timlin, J. S. Miller and J. D. Scott, 2004: The
atmospheric response to realistic Arctic sea ice anomalies in an AGCM during Winter. J. Climate, 17,
890-905.
Alexander, M. A. and J. D. Scott, 2002: The influence of ENSO on air-sea interaction in the Atlantic.
Geophys. Res. Lett., 29 (14), 10.1029/2001GL014347.
Alexander, M. A., I. Blade, M. Newman, J. R. Lanzante, N.-C. Lau, and J. D. Scott, 2002: The
Atmospheric Bridge: the Influence of ENSO Teleconnections on Air-Sea Interaction Over the Global
Oceans. J. Climate, 15, 2205-2231.
Alexander, M. A., M. S. Timlin, and J. D. Scott, 2001: Winter-to-Winter recurrence of sea surface
temperature, salinity and mixed layer depth anomalies. Progress in Oceanography, 49, 41-61.
Alexander, M. A., J. D. Scott, and C. Deser, 2000: Processes that influence sea surface temperature and
ocean mixed layer depth variability in a coupled model. J. Geophys. Res. - Oceans, 105, 16, 823-842.
Newman, M., M. A. Alexander, C. R. Winkler, J. D. Scott, and J. J. Barsugli, 2000: A linear diagnosis of
the coupled extratropical Ocean-Atmosphere system in the GFDL GCM. Atmospheric Sciences Letters,
1.
Scott, J. D. and M. A. Alexander, 1999: Net shortwave fluxes over the ocean. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 29,
3167-3174.
Alexander, M. A., and J. D. Scott, 1997: Surface Flux Variability over the North Pacific and North Atlantic
Oceans. J. Climate, 10, 2963-2978.
Scott, J. D., M. A. Alexander, J. A. Collins, and C. A. Smith, 1997. Interactive Visualization of Climate
Data on the WWW. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 78, 1985-1989.
Scott, J. D., and S.A. Rutledge, 1995: Doppler Radar Observations of an Asymmetric Mesoscale
Convective System and Associated Vortex Couplet. Mon. Wea. Rev, 123, 3437-3457.
Ot her Publicat io ns
Alexander, M. A. and J. D. Scott, 1995: Atlas of Climatology and Variability in the GFDL R30S14 GCM.
U.S. Government Printing Office: 1996-774-842.
Collins, J. A., J. D. Scott, C.A. Smith, and M. A. Alexander, cited 1996: The GFDL R30S14 Reanalysis
Electronic Atlas. [Available on-line from http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/gfdl/]
