Bette Otto-Bliesner is a
scientist in the Climate and Global Dynamics Division at the National Center for
Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, CO. She is head of the Paleoclimate Group
and deputy head of the Climate Change Research Section. ottobli@ucar.edu
(Ph.D.,University of Wisconsin, 1980)
Deputy Section Head, Climate Change Research
Scientist
Bette Otto-Bliesner is a
scientist in the Climate and Global Dynamics Division at the National Center for
Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, CO. She is head of the Paleoclimate Group
and deputy head of the Climate Change Research Section.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Otto-Bliesner first became interested in Meteorology as a child watching P.J. Hoff, the CBS affiliate weatherman. She earned her doctorate in Meteorology in 1981 at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. She worked at NCAR in the GCM group from 1974-1976 and rejoined NCAR in 1995, coming from a faculty position in the Geology Department at the University of Texas at Arlington.
Otto-Bliesner's research interest is to use climate system models to investigate past climate and climate variability across a wide range of time scales. She is particularly interested in the range and modes of climate variability forced naturally (internally generated, volcanic episodes, solar changes) over the last 1000 years and extending through the Holocene to the Last Glacial Maximum (21,000 years before present)
Bette Otto-Bliesner is co-chair of the Paleoclimate Working Group of the NCAR Climate
System Model (CSM). She is also a member of the American Geophysical Union
Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Committee, the Paleoenvironmental Arctic Sciences
(PARCS) Steering Committee, and the Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project (PMIP).
- Upchurch, G. R., Jr., and B. L. Otto-Bliesner, 1999: Terrestrial vegetation and its effects on climate during the latest Cretaceous, in E. Barrera and C.C. Johnson (Eds.), Geological Society of America Special Paper 332 (in press).
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- Otto-Bliesner, B. L., 1999: The role of mountains, polar ice, and vegetation in determining the tropical climate during the Middle Pennsylvanian: Climate model simulations, in Middle Pennsylvanian Sedimentation and Climate, C.B. Cecil (Ed.), SEPM Special Volume (accepted).
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| Paleoclimate Modeling Group | Climate Change Research | Climate and Global Dynamics | NCAR |
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Bette L. Otto-Bliesner
Climate Change Research
National Center for Atmospheric Research
1850 Table Mesa Drive / P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, Colorado 80307
Phone: 303-497-1723
Fax: 303-497-1348
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