Mark J. Stevens

Me and Mt. McKinley Dr. Mark J. Stevens

Climate and Global Dynamics Division
Mesa Laboratory, Room 271

National Center for Atmospheric Research
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307-3000

E-mail: stevens@ucar.edu
voice: (303) 497-1755
another picture of me

Research Interests
Climate change on timescales from decades to milleniums. The joint use
of climate models and paleoclimate data in an effort to understand natural
climate variability. The detection of anthropogenic climate change.
Education
B.S. (Physics), University of Arizona, 1980
Ph.D. (Meteorology), Texas A & M University, 1997

Where I Have Lived and Worked
Mission Research Corp., Santa Barbara, California
Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space, Sunnyvale, California
National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson, Arizona
UCAR GPS Science & Technology Program, Boulder, Colorado
Canadian Center for Climate Modeling and Analysis, Victoria, BC

Dissertation
Stevens, M. J., Optimal Estimation of the Surface Temperature Response
to Natural and Anthropogenic Climate Forcings Over the Past Century,
Ph.D. dissertation, Texas A & M University, 157 pp., 1997. figures

Publications in Print

Stevens, M. J., and G. R. North, Detection of the climate
response to the solar cycle, Journal of the Atmospheric
Sciences, 53, 2594-2608, 1996.
North, G. R., and M. J. Stevens, Detecting climate
signals in the surface temperature record, Journal of
Climate, 11, 563-577, 1998.

Stevens, M. J., Optimal climate signal detection in four dimensions,
Journal of Geophysical Research, 104, 4089-4099, 1999.

G. R. North, Q. Wu, and M. J. Stevens, Detecting the 11-year Solar Cycle in
the Surface Temperature Field. Solar Variability and its Efffects on Climate,
Geophysical Monograph 141, American Geophysical Union, 2004.
Coauthor info: Gerald R. North

Images from cruise to Alaska (2002).
Images from trip to Alaska (2004).
My master webpage
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Climate and Global Dynamics Division