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Randall M. Dole

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982

Director, Climate Diagnostics Center [ About CDC ]
Deputy Director for Research
NOAA/ESRL Physical Sciences Division

E-mail: Randall.M.Dole@noaa.gov
Office: David Skaggs Research Center 1D116
Phone: 303-497-5812
Web: Director, Climate Diagnostics Center

Research Interests

Dynamical extended-range prediction; extreme large-scale weather and climate events, e.g., major droughts and floods; storm track dynamics and baroclinic wave life cycles; tropical·midlatitude interactions.

Current Research Projects

Short-term climate extremes and El Niño·Southern Oscillation; influences of planetary scale deformation on storm tracks and low-frequency dynamics; development of prediction strategies for extreme large-scale weather and climate events.

Selected Publications

• Cai, M., R. M. Dole, K. L. Paine, and J. S. Whitaker, 1996: Dynamics of systematic errors in the National Meteorological Center medium range forecast model. Mon. Wea. Review, 124, 265-274.
• Dole, R. M., 1996: Blocking. Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather. Oxford University Press, New York, NY, 10016, pp. 93-99.
• Dole, R.M., 1999: Prospects for drought forecasts in the United States. Drought: A Global Assessment. D.A. Wilhite, Ed. Routledge Publishers, London. Volume 1: pp. 83-99.
• Wolter, K., R.M. Dole, and C.A. Smith, 1999: Short-term climate extremes over the continental U.S. and ENSO. Part I: Seasonal temperatures. J. Climate, 12, 3255-3272.
• Black, R.X., and R.M. Dole, 2000: Storm tracks and barotropic deformation in climate models. J. Climate, in press.