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Research:
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My
general interest is in the general circulation of the atmosphere, climate
variability and climate change
as well as atmosphere-ocean interactions. My research has focused on the low
latitudes variability in
the upper troposphere, with emphasis on the mean meridional circulation, eddy
and transient momentum
fluxes and their role in the angular momentum budget. We have documented the
three-dimensional structure
of the tropical stationary waves, both in anomaly and climatology fields and
pointed out the important role
that these waves play in controlling the dynamics of the troposphere and
possibly the troposphere-to-
stratosphere exchange. Special emphasis was given to variability related to
the annual cycle, ENSO and MJO.
Other interests: tropical cyclones, tropics-extratropics interactions.
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Publications:
Theses:
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- Dima, Ioana M., Rei Uyema and John M. Wallace: Annular nonseasonal variability
of
the winds in the tropical troposphere (in preparation).
- Dima, Ioana M., John M. Wallace, 2007: Structure of annual-mean
equatorial planetary
waves. J. Atmos. Sci., 64, pp. 2862-2880. link
- Dima, Ioana M., John M.
Wallace and Ian P. Kraucunas, 2005: Tropical angular
momentum balance in the NCEP
Reanalyses. J. Atmos. Sci., 62, pp. 2499-2513. link
- Dima, Ioana M., John M. Wallace, 2003: On the seasonality of the
Hadley cell.
J. Atmos. Sci., 60, pp. 1522-1527. link
- Dima, Mihai, G. Lohmann and I. M. Dima, 2005: Solar
induced and internal climate
variability at decadal
timescales. Int. J. Climatol., 25, 713-733. link
- Dima, Mihai, N. Rambu, I.
M. Dima, 2002: Arctic Oscillation variability generated
through inter-ocean
interactions. Geophys. Res. Lett., 29, (2002GL014717). link
- Dima, Mihai, N. Rimbu, S. Stefan, I.
M. Dima, 2001: Quasi-decadal variability in the
Atlantic basin involving
tropics-midlatitude and ocean-atmosphere interactions.
J. Clim., 14, pp.
823-832. link
- Dima, Ioana M., PhD Thesis, Sept. 2005: An Observational Study of
the Tropical
Tropospheric
Circulation. Univ. of Washington. link
- Dima, Ioana M., 2002, Master Thesis: Annular structures in low
latitude wind and
temperature
variability. Univ.
of Washington,
QC852 Th51192; 39352058507450.
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