John Fasullo, Project Scientist

Research

Dr. John T. Fasullo is a Project Scientist in the Climate Analysis Section and actively collaborates with various scientists, both here at NCAR (e.g. Dr. Kevin Trenberth) and elsewhere*. He obtained his B.S. in Applied and Engineering Physics from Cornell Univeristy and his Ph.D. from the Univeristy of Colorado under the supervision of Dr. Peter J. Webster. His research interests include:

  • The Observed Global Energy and Water Budgets.
  • The Simulation of these Budgets by Global Coupled Models (e.g. CMIP3)
  • Tropical Dynamics and Meteorology with an empahisis on Monsoons.
  • Climate Change in the Eurasian/Indian Ocean sector and its coupling with oceanic biogeochemical cycles.

*Other current collaborators include Drs. Joaquim Goes, Fei Chai, and Sergio Derada. Our project is aimed at understanding climate change in Eurasia and the Arabian Sea, and its impacts on oceanic biogeochemstry and ecosystems.

(Contributor, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Scientific Assessment of Climate Change, WMO/UNEP, 2007)


To accomplish most data processing and graphical needs, I use IDL and NCL.


PDFs of recent publications [2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, pre-2002]

2009

Fasullo. J. T., and K. E. Trenbeth 2009: Exploring Present Day Proxies for Climate Sensitivity from the Energy Budget, J. Clim., submission fall 2009.

Fasullo, J. T., K. E. Trenberth, 2009: Mechanisms of simulated 21st century energy budget variability, J. Clim, submission fall 2009.

Fasullo, J. T., K. E. Trenberth, 2009: Comment on "On the determination of climate feedbacks from ERBE data", by Richard S. Lindzen and Yong-Sang Choi, Geo. Phys. Res. Lett., in review.

S.-H. Yoo, J.T. Fasullo,C.-H. Ho, S. Yang, 2009: On the Relationship between Indian Ocean SST and theTransition from El Nino to La Nina, J. Geo. Res., in review.

Fasullo, J.T. 2009:A Dominant Negative Climate Feedback Arising From the Interaction of the Water and Energy Cycles over Land, J. Clim., in review.

Goes, J. I., 1, P. G. Thoppil, H. R. Gomes, S.G.P., Matondkar, S. Parab, J. T. Fasullo, A. Al-Azri, C. Coit, R. M. Dwivedi, The response of the Arabian Sea ecosystem to recent climatic trends, in review.

K. E. Trenberth, and J.T. Fasullo, 2009 :Simulation of present day and 21st century energy budgets of the southern oceans , J. Clim, in press.

Surabi Menon, Dorothy Koch, Gufran Beig, S Sahu, J.T. Fasullo, and D. Orlikowski, 2009: Carbonaceous aerosols and the third polar ice cap, Nature, in review.

Trenberth, K. E., and J. T. Fasullo, 2009: Global warming due to increasing absorbed solar radiation. Geophys. Res. Lttrs., doi:10.1029/2009GL037527.

Trenberth, K. E. and J. Fasullo, 2009: Changes in the flow of Energy through the Earth's Climate System, Meteorologische Zeitschrift, 18, 4, 369-377.

Trenberth, K. E., J. Fasullo, and J.T. Kiehl, 2000: Earth's Global Energy Budget. Bull. Amer. Met. Soc.. 90, 3, 311-323.

2008

Trenberth, K. E., and J. Fasullo (2008), Energy budgets of Atlantic hurricanes and changes from 1970, Geochem. Geophys Geosyst., 9, Q09V08, doi:10.1029/2007GC001847.

Trenberth, K. E. and J. T. Fasullo, 2008: An observational estimate of ocean energy divergence, J.Phys. Ocn. 38, 5, 984-999.

Fasullo, J. T. and K. E. Trenberth, 2008: The annual cycle of the energy budget: Global mean and land-ocean exchanges, J. Clim, 21, 10, 2297-2313.

Fasullo, J. T. and K. E. Trenberth, 2008: The annual cycle of the energy budget: Meridional structures and poleward transports, J. Clim, 21, 10, 2314-2326.

2007

Trenberth, K. E. L. Smith, T. Qian, A. Dai. and J. Fasullo, 2007: Estimates of the global water budget and its annual cycle using observational and model data, J. Hydro. Met., 8 ,758-769.

Trenberth, K. E. , C. A. Davis, and J. T. Fasullo, 2007: The water and energy budget of hurricanes: Case studies of Ivan and Katrina. J. Geo. Res.-Atmos., 112 (D23).

Trenberth, K. E. and J. T. Fasullo, 2007: The water and energy budgets of hurricanes and implications for climate change. J. Geo. Res-Atmos., 112 (D23).*

2006

Fasullo, J. T., 2006: Assessing tropical cyclone trends in the context of potential sampling biases. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L24808, doi:10.1029/2006GL027852.*

2005

Fasullo, J. 2005: Atmospheric Hydrology of the Anomalous 2002 Indian Summer Monsoon, Mon. Wea. Rev, 10, 2996-3014.*

Trenberth, K.E., J. Fasullo, and L. Smith, 2005: Trends and variability in Column-integrated atmospheric water vapor. Clim. Dyn., 24, 741-758.*

Goes, J., P. G. Thoppil**, H.R. Gomes, J. Fasullo, 2005: Phytoplankton biomass enhancement in the Arabian Sea linked to Eurasian warming, Science, 308, 5721, 545-547.*

2004

Fasullo, J., 2004a: A stratified diagnosis of the Indian monsoon-Eurasian snow cover relationship. J. Clim., 17, 1110-1122. *

Fasullo, J. 2004b: Biennial characteristics of All India rainfall. J. Clim., 17, 2972-2982.*

2003

Fasullo, J. and P.J. Webster, 2003: A hydrological definition of Indian monsoon onset and withdrawal. J. Clim., 16, 3200-3211.*

Sun, D.Z., J. Fasullo, T. Zhang, and A. Roubicek, 2003: On the radiative and dynamical feedbacks over the equatorial Pacific cold tongue. J. Clim., 16, 2425-2432.*

1999-2002

Fasullo, J. and P.J. Webster, 1999: Warm pool SST variability in relation to the surface energy balance. J. Clim., 12, 1292-1305.*

Fasullo, J. and P.J. Webster, 2000: Atmospheric and surface variations during westerly wind bursts in the tropical western Pacific. Q J Roy Meteor Soc, 126, 899-924.

Fasullo, J. and D.Z. Sun, 2001: Radiative sensitivity to water vapor under all-sky conditions. J. Clim., 14, 2798-2807.*

Fasullo, J. and P.J. Webster, 2002: Hydrological signatures relating the Asian summer monsoon and ENSO. J. Clim., 15, 3082-3095.*

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