Welcome

Thank you for visiting my website. I am a visitor in the paleoclimatology group at NCAR, and a researcher at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR). My principal research interests center on understanding past, present, and future climate changes, especially in the polar regions. I use climate models to test hypotheses about past and present Arctic and Antarctic climates. To provide a longer term perspective on climate change than the instrumental record provides, and to provide test cases for models, I also work on the development and interpretation of climate proxy data from ice cores and other natural archives. Finally, I have worked with a number of large-scale meteorological and satellite-derived datasets.

Research areas

• Modeling of the climate system
• Interpretation of climate data from ice cores, lake sediments, and other natural archives
• Climate change in the Arctic, last 2000 years
• Volcanic eruptions and climate
• Contemporary climate variability and climate change in the Antarctic
  

Selected recent publications

in press or submitted

Schneider DP, Ammann CM, Otto-Bliesner BL, and Kaufman, DS,  "Climate response to large, high latitude and low-latitude volcanic eruptions in the NCAR community climate system model, " Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, accepted for publication preprint (here's a link to a related talk at CCSM workshop 2008 link)

published

Steig EJ, Schneider DP, Rutherford SD, Mann ME, Comiso JC, and Shindell DT, 2009: Warming of the Antarctic ice sheet surface since the 1957 International Geophysical Year, Nature, 457, 459-463, doi:10.1038/nature07669. link | Steig's page

Schneider DP, and Steig EJ, 2008: "Ice cores record significant 1940s Antarctic warmth related to tropical climate variability, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105, 12154-12158, doi:10.1073/pnas.0803627105. link | UCAR press release | UCAR Quarterly article.

Monaghan AJ, Bromwich DH and Schneider DP, 2008: Twentieth-century Antarctic air temperature and snowfall simulations by IPCC Climate models. Geophys Res. Lett., 35, L07502, doi:10.1029/2007GL032630. link | press release | featured research highlight in Nature

Schneider DP, and Noone DC, 2007: Spatial covariance of water isotope records in a global network of ice cores spanning twentieth-century climate change, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D18105, doi:10.1029/2007JD008652. link

Schneider DP, Steig EJ, van Ommen TD, Dixon DA, Mayewski PA, Jones JM and Bitz CM, 2006: Antarctic temperatures over the past two centuries from ice cores, Geophysical Res. Lett., 33, L16707, doi:10.1029/2006GL027057. link | data page | press release | Editor's research highlight

Bio

I have lived in beautiful Boulder, Colorado since 2006. Before that I lived in Seattle while working on my Ph.D. at the University of Washington. I earned my masters in 2001 from the University of Pennsylvania (not Penn State) in Philadelphia and my B.A. in geology in 1999 from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. I was born in Vermont, but spent most of my formative years around Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.