Jack Scheff

PhD student, Atmospheric Sciences Dept., University of Washington, Seattle, USA

advisor: Dargan Frierson

email: jscheff (atsymbol) uw (period) edu

office: 620, ATG Building

favorite interdisciplinary program: UW's Program on Climate Change

Research interest: Physical consequences of global change. Greenhouse gas changes are spatially uniform, yet the temperature changes they induce create rectified, structured changes in various non-temperature variables (circulation, precipitation, clouds, ...) as well as changes in dimensionless quantities like relative humidity and soil moisture. Why?

Pre-publication:

Scheff, J., and D. Frierson, 2013: Scaling potential evapotranspiration with greenhouse warming. J. Clim., revised.

Published work:

Scheff, J., and D. Frierson, 2012: Robust future precipitation declines in CMIP5 largely reflect the poleward expansion of model subtropical dry zones. Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L18704, doi:10.1029/2012GL052910. (supplementary figure S1) (supplementary figure S2)

Scheff, J., and D. Frierson, 2012: Twenty-first-century multimodel subtropical precipitation declines are mostly midlatitude shifts. J. Clim., 25, 4330-4347, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00393.1.

Other work

Scheff, J., 2011: CMIP3 21st century robust subtropical precipitation declines are mostly mid-latitude shifts. M.S. thesis, Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, 66 pp.