JISAO

Todd P. Mitchell

Observational studies of the mean conditions and variations of the atmosphere, ocean, and biosphere, including El Niño and the El Niño / Southern Oscillation.


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Curriculum Vitae and recent publications

Curriculum Vitae (includes publications): PostScript file | PDF file

Recent Publications:

  • Mitchell, T. P. and J. M. Wallace, 2003: Recent trends in the Southern Oscillation. (PDF file). Rejected by the Journal of Climate.
  • _____, and _____, 2002: Negative COADS 1c sea-level pressure anomalies in the 1850s (PDF file). Wkshp Adv. use Hist. Mar. Clim. Data, GCOS and WMO, Boulder CO, 2002.
  • _____, and _____, 2001: The instrumental record of ENSO: 1840s to 2000. (PDF file). Rejected by the Journal of Climate.
    
    
    Analyses of interest

  • temperature and precipitation anomalies associated with ENSO, PDO, NAM, SAM, ...
  • Leading EOFs of Northern Hemisphere sea-level pressure
  • recent climate trends
  • 2005 upwelling along the Oregon and Washington coasts
  • Update of the GR and CT* timeseries of Zhang, Wallace, and Battisti (1997, J. Clim.)
    
    
    Miscellaneous science

    Citizens must do more than accept the plan; they must become knowledgeable, enthusiastic advocates for Puget Sound and be willing to practice what the plan preaches. The future of the Sound depends upon a massive effort to change the attitudes and habits of everyone who lives in the Puget Sound basin. December 1986 (yes, 20 years ago), the Puget Sound Water Quality Authority
    The Seattle Post-Itelligencer and Seattle Times have published several series on the environmental health of Puget Sound and regional climate change, and I recommend them to anyone and everyone who lives in the Puget Sound region.
    Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Puget Sound 2002, 2006 | Pacific Northwest
    Seattle Times: Bering Sea
    Groups involved in the environmental health of Puget Sound:
    Puget Sound Partnership | Puget Sound Action Team | Shared Salmon Strategy

    University of Washington and Seattle-area global health efforts:
    UW global health resource center Puget Sound Partners for Global Health

    A climate reference compendium: references, in no particular order.

    Reviewer Guide for J. Climate

    How not to write email requesting help

    
    
    Miscellaneous non-science

    Estimates of death tolls for ongoing or recent natural or human calamities:
    • AIDS: 2 million in 2007
    • Malaria: > 1 million a year
    • Darfur genocide: hundreds of thousands

    Pictures:

  • Olympic National Park Beach Cleanup every April
    2004 2 3 6 7
    2007 Mary Rohlman's amazing pictures and description
  • Todd sings "Happy Birthday" (in Romanian) and karaoke love songs (in Spanish)
  • A barbecue in the backyard.
  • Eating, eating: 1 2 2 big 3 4 5 6 7
  • With Bahram and Lauren
  • Sailing on the Chesapeake Bay: 1 2
    
    
    Phone: (206) 685-3786
    Fax: (206) 685-3397
    JISAO mailing address and street map
    Home address: 520 N. 101st St., Seattle WA 98133 map
    Home phone: (206) 297-7176, no calls after 9pm please

    
    

    May 2006
    Todd Mitchell ( mitchell@atmos.washington.edu )
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