Brief Biography:            September 2013

Professor Dennis L. Hartmann

Department of Atmospheric Sciences

University of Washington

Seattle, Washington USA

Hartmann received his Ph.D. in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics from Princeton University.  After post-doctoral appointments at McGill University and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, he joined the faculty of the University of Washington in 1977, where he is currently professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Senior Fellow and Council Member of the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean.  He served as Chair of the Department of Atmospheric Sciences from 2002-2007.  He served as Interim Dean during the first two years of the College of the Environment from 2008-2010.

Hartmann's research interests include dynamics of the atmosphere, atmosphere-ocean interaction, and climate change. His primary areas of expertise are atmospheric dynamics, radiation and remote sensing, and mathematical and statistical techniques for data analysis.  Current research includes the study of climate feedback processes involving clouds and water vapor, which is approached using remote sensing data, in situ data and models, and attempts to take into account radiative, dynamical and cloud-physical processes. Another focus of his research is observational and modeling studies of the intraseasonal and interannual variability of the coupled ocean-atmosphere system, especially the role of eddy-zonal flow feedbacks and annular modes of variability.  Another current interest is the stratosphere and its role in climate.

Hartmann has published more than 140 articles in refereed scientific journals and published a textbook on Global Physical Climatology in 1994, for which he is currently preparing a second edition. He is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.  He was awarded the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal in 2005.  He was the 2011 Haurwitz Memorial Lecturer for the American Meteorological Society. In 2013 he was awarded the Carl Gustav Rossby Research Medal of the American Meteorological Society. He has served on numerous advisory, editorial and review boards for the NRC, NSF, NASA and NOAA.  He currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Climate of the American Meteorological Society, is co-editor of the International Geophysics Series of Academic Press and is a Coordinating Lead Author on IPCC AR5 WG I: The Physical Science Basis .