Adam Phillips, Associate Scientist

Research

I am an associate scientist in the Climate Analysis Section, and work with Dr. Clara Deser and Dr. Jim Hurrell. My research interests include climate variability, the simulated climate of coupled models, and the regional effects of global warming. I am the CCSM Climate Variability Working Group liason, and organize/run simulations on behalf of the working group.

To accomplish most data processing and graphical needs, I use NCL, an interpreted language similar to IDL or MATLAB.

Education

  • M.S., Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999, Thesis: "A Climatological Study of the Evolution and Thermodynamics of Severe Arctic Cold Waves East of the Rockies"
  • B.S., Atmospheric Sciences, University of Missouri, 1997.

References

Deser, C., M. A. Alexander, S. -P. Xie, and A. S. Phillips, 2009: Sea surface Temperature variability: Patterns and mechanisms. Ann. Rev. Mar. Sci., submitted. [Complete Article (.pdf)]

Schubert, S., D. Gutzler, H. Wang, A. Dai, T. Delworth, C. Deser, K. Findell, R. Fu, W. Higgins, M. Hoerling, B. Kirtman, R. Koster, A. Kumar, D. Legler, D. Lettenmaier, B. Lyon, V. Magana, K. Mo, S. Nigam, P. Pegion, A. Phillips, R. Pulwarty, D. Rind, A. Ruiz-Barradas, J. Schemm, R. Seager, R. Stewart, M. Suarez, J. Syktus, M. Ting, C. Wang, S. Weaver, N. Zeng, 2009: A USCLIVAR project to assess and compare the responses of global climate models to drought-related SST forcing patterns: Overview and results.J. Climate, 22, 5251-5272, doi:10.1175/2009JCLI3060.1 [Complete Article (.pdf)]

Deser, C., and A.S. Phillips, 2009: Atmospheric Circulation Trends, 1950-2000: The Relative Roles of Sea Surface Temperature Forcing and Direct Atmospheric Radiative Forcing. J. Climate, 22, 396-413, doi:10.1175/2008JCLI2453.1. [Complete Article (.pdf)]

Jochum, M., C. Deser, and A. Phillips, 2007: Tropical atmospheric variability forced by oceanic internal variability. J. Climate, 20, 765-771. [Print Version (.pdf)]

Deser, C., and A. S. Phillips, 2006: Simulation of the 1976/1977 climate transition over the North Pacific: Sensitivity to tropical forcing. J. Climate, 19, 6170-6180. [Print Version (.pdf)]

Deser, C., A. Capotondi, R. Saravanan, and A. S. Phillips, 2006: Tropical Pacific and Atlantic climate variability in CCSM3. J. Climate, 19, 2451-2481. [Print Version (.pdf)] [Supplementary Figures]

Hurrell, J. W., J. J. Hack, A. S. Phillips, J. Caron, and J. Yin, 2006: The dynamical simulation of the Community Atmosphere Model Version 3 (CAM3). J. Climate, 19, 2162-2183. [Print Version (.pdf)]

Cassou, C., L. Terray, and A. S. Phillips, 2005: Tropical atlantic influence on European heat waves J. Climate, 18, 2805-2811. [Print Version (.pdf)]

Hurrell, J. W., M. P. Hoerling, A. S. Phillips, and T. Xu, 2004: Twentieth century North Atlantic climate change. Part I: Assessing determinism. Climate Dyn., 23, 371-389. [Print Version (.pdf)]

Hoerling, M. P., J. W. Hurrell, T. Xu, G. T. Bates, and A. S. Phillips, 2004: Twentieth century North Atlantic climate change. Part II: Understanding the effect of Indian Ocean warming. Climate Dyn., 23, 391-405. [Print Version (.pdf)]

Deser, C., A. S. Phillips, and J. W. Hurrell, 2004: Pacific interdecadal climate variability: Linkages between the tropics and North Pacific during boreal winter since 1900. J. Climate, 17, 3109-3124. [Print Version (.pdf)] [Supplementary Figures (.html, added 2/12/04)]

Deser, C., G. Magnusdottir, R. Saravanan, and A. Phillips, 2004: The effects of North Atlantic SST and sea-ice anomalies on the winter circulation in CCM3, Part II: Direct and indirect components of the response. J. Climate, 17, 877-889. [Print Version (.pdf)]

Walsh, J. E., A. S. Phillips, D. H. Portis, W. L. Chapman, 2001: Extreme cold outbreaks in the United States and Europe, 1948-99. J. Climate, 14, 2642-2658. [Print Version (.pdf)]