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Thomas L. Delworth
Birth Place:St. Louis Missouri
Education:Northwestern University, University of Wisconsin
Workplaces:GFDL, NOAA, Princeton University

Thomas L. Delworth is an atmospheric and oceanic climate scientist and Senior Scientist at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), part of NOAA.He also serves on the faculty of Oceanic Science at Princeton University.[1]

Delworth is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union and received its 2021 Bert Bolin Award for Climate research, for "major contributions in atmosphere ocean interactions through pioneering climate modeling that has advanced the understanding of climate variations, change, and extremes." He has been recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics for 2021[2] and multiple previous years for having "demonstrated significant influence through publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade".[3] [4]

Early life and education

Delworth grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. He received his B.S. in Integrated Science in 1979 from Northwestern University. He earned his MS in meteorology (1983) and his Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science (1994) from the University of Wisconsin.[5] [6]

Career

In 1984,[5] Delworth joined the Climate Dynamics Group of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), part of the Office of Oceanic & Atmospheric Research of the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the U.S. Department of Commerce, in Princeton, NJ. He has served as a Research Meteorologist (1984–2001), a Group Leader (2001–2012) and Supervisory Physical Scientist (2012-). In addition Delworth has been a lecturer in atmospheric and oceanic sciences at Princeton University since 2008.[5] [7]

Delworth has collaborated with many others including 2021 Nobel Laureate Syukuro Manabe, who created the first climate models to show the effects of carbon dioxide building up in the atmosphere, Ronald J. Stouffer, Michael E. Mann, and Rong Zhang.[8] [9] [10] [11] Delworth serves on the Syukuro Manabe Climate Research Award Committee of the American Meteorological Society.[12]

Research

Delworth studies the global climate system through long-term global climate modeling at timescales ranging from seasons to decades and centuries with an emphasis on understanding climate variability, change and predictability.He has helped to develop climate modelling systems including CM2.1[13] and SPEAR.[14] He has used hierarchies of models to examine climate variability and related changes. He compares the natural variability of the climate (changes that would occur without human influence) with responses to atmospheric changes in greenhouse gases and aerosols that result from human actions.

Delworth's research focuses on the impact of oceans throughout the global climate system, affecting both oceans and continents worldwide. Delworth has done key research into the operation of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) and the related Atlantic Multidecadal Variability (AMV) and North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO).[15] [16] [17] He is credited with "major contributions in atmosphere ocean interactions through pioneering climate modeling that has advanced the understanding of climate variations, change, and extremes." He has collaborated widely on studies of the role of the ocean in extreme weather such as warming temperatures, drought, tropical cyclones, flooding and winter storms.

Awards and honors

Selected publications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Delworth . Thomas . Tom Delworth Homepage . Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, NOAA . 21 November 2022.
  2. News: Alvich . Jason . GFDL scientists among worldwide 2021 Highly-Cited Researchers . 22 November 2022 . GFDL/NOAA . January 7, 2022.
  3. Web site: GFDL Awards and Honors – Research, Development, and/or Application 2014 ‐2019 . GFDL Laboratory Review . 2019 . 22 November 2022.
  4. Web site: GFDL Awards and Honors – Research, Development, and/or Application 2000-2014 . GFDL Laboratory Review . 2014 . 22 November 2022.
  5. Setzer . Maria . Thomas Delworth Elected Fellow of AGU . 22 November 2022 . AOS & CICS Newsletter . 3. 12 . 4 . 2018.
  6. Web site: Thomas L. Delworth . GFDL/NOAA . 22 November 2022.
  7. Web site: 95th Annual Review, New Fellows, and Featured Awards . American Meteorological Society . 22 November 2022.
  8. News: Papers by Nobel prize winners Manabe and Hasselmann . 28 November 2022 . American Geophysical Union . 11 October 2021. 10.1002/(ISSN)1944-8007 .
  9. Delworth . Thomas L. . Manabe . Syukuro . Stouffer . Ronald J. . Multidecadal climate variability in the Greenland Sea and surrounding regions: A coupled model simulation . Geophysical Research Letters . 1 February 1997 . 24 . 3 . 257–260 . 10.1029/96GL03927 . 8459065 . en. free .
  10. Web site: Syukuro Manabe Senior Meterologist 2010 William Bowie Medal Winner . American Geophysical Union . 28 November 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20131203121016/https://honors.agu.org/winners/syukuro-manabe/. December 3, 2013.
  11. Witt . Stephen . The Man Who Predicted Climate Change . 29 November 2022 . The New Yorker . 10 December 2021.
  12. Web site: The Syukuro Manabe Climate Research Award Committee . American Meteorological Society . 28 November 2022 . en.
  13. Barreiro . Marcelo . Fedorov . Alexey . Pacanowski . Ronald . Philander . S. George . Abrupt Climate Changes: How Freshening of the Northern Atlantic Affects the Thermohaline and Wind-Driven Oceanic Circulations . Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences . 1 May 2008 . 36 . 1 . 33–58 . 10.1146/annurev.earth.36.090507.143219 . en . 0084-6597.
  14. Yang . Xiaosong . Delworth . Thomas L. . Zeng . Fanrong . Zhang . Liping . Cooke . William F. . Harrison . Matthew J. . Rosati . Anthony . Underwood . Seth . Compo . Gilbert P. . McColl . Chesley . On the Development of GFDL's Decadal Prediction System: Initialization Approaches and Retrospective Forecast Assessment . Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems . November 2021 . 13 . 11 . 10.1029/2021MS002529 . 244604299 . en . 1942-2466. free .
  15. Book: Mechoso . Carlos R. . Interacting Climates of Ocean Basins: Observations, Mechanisms, Predictability, and Impacts . 26 November 2020 . Cambridge University Press . 978-1-108-65087-8 . 12–14 . 28 November 2022 . en.
  16. Sun . Cheng . Zhang . Jing . Li . Xiang . Shi . Chunming . Gong . Zhanqiu . Ding . Ruiqiang . Xie . Fei . Lou . Panxing . Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation reconstructions and instrumentally observed multidecadal climate variability: A comparison of indicators . International Journal of Climatology . January 2021 . 41 . 1 . 763–778 . 10.1002/joc.6695 . 225431561 . en . 0899-8418. free .
  17. Si . Dong . Hu . Aixue . Wang . Huijun . Chao . Qingchen . Predicting the Atlantic Multidecadal Variability from Initialized Simulations . Journal of Climate . 15 December 2019 . 32 . 24 . 8701–8711 . 10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0055.1 . 204266066 . EN . 0894-8755. free .
  18. News: Tom Delworth Receives 2021 AGU Bert Bolin Global Environmental Change Award . 21 November 2022 . Cooperative Institute for Modeling the Earth System . September 13, 2021 . en.
  19. News: Alvich . Jason . Delworth earns prestigious AGU Bert Bolin Award in climate science . 22 November 2022 . GFDL/NOAA . September 10, 2021.
  20. Web site: Alvich . Jason . Thomas L. Delworth Elected AGU Fellow . GFDL/NOAA . 21 November 2022.
  21. Web site: AMS NAMES 2015 FELLOWS . American Meteorological Society . 22 November 2022.
  22. Web site: GFDL Awards and Honors – Research, Development, and/or Application 1998-2009 (1d) . GFDL Laboratory Review . 2009 . 22 November 2022.

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