Cecilia Bitz's Homepage Tel: (206) 543-1339 office: Atmos Sci & Geophys Bld 502 bitz@atmos.washington.edu I am an Assistant Professor in the Atmospheric Sciences Department, an Affiliate Physicist for the Polar Science Center, and part of the Program on Climate Change, all at University of Washington I ported the Bitz and Lipscomb 1999 "Energy conserving" thermodynamic sea ice model for a teaching exercise that I gave at the International Sea Ice Summer School in July 2007, Longyearbyen, Svalbard. The model and exercises can be downloaded from: download a tarfile OR Goto a directory with the individual files and then subsequently download them

My research interests include

• Abrupt climate change. I am testing the hypothesis that the mean climate state and, in particular, the sea ice plays a major role in past climate change.

• Understanding the link between sea ice and ice core chemistry on Antarctica in our project to study MSA chemical transport
  

• Coupled biological-climate systems. I am a co-investigator on the Kuril Biocomplexity Project.
  

• Global coupled climate modeling. I'm a contributing author to the Community Climate System Model Version 3. I also have a project to model the Okhotsk Sea.

• High latitude climate, climate change and variability. I have a website for my work for IPCC 2007.

Publications (click here)

You may download Cecilia's Curriculum Vitae in pdf.

A few items just for fun

What is wrong with this picture? The image at left was shown at the end of the Day After Tomorrow, a recent blockbuster movie about climate change. Ice and snow on land cover large areas of North America. Click on the picture or here for a discussion about the impossibility of the sea ice cover!

The map of the Arctic with the United States on the left was created by Harry Stern of the University of Washington Polar Science Center. Click on the map or here for a description of the scaling. In September 2005 the ice cover was a record low, the departure from normal was equal to about twice the size of Texas (according to calculations by Ron Lindsay, also from the Polar Science Center).