EDUCATION
Ph.D., Atmospheric Sciences (1996), University of Wisconsin
M.S., Atmospheric Sciences (1989), University of Wisconsin
B.S.E. Mechanical Engineering. and B.A. Russian (1983) University of Pittsburgh
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS (Student authors underlined, includes research done primarily as a student),PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Current:
Professor of Atmos. Sciences (July 2014 – present)
Associate Director NOAA Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean and Ecosystem Studies (CICOES)(July – 2020-present)
Past:
Director NOAA Cooperative Institute for Alaska Research (CIFAR) (July 2015 – June 2020)
Chair of Dept. of Atmos. Sciences (July 2013- Aug 2018)
Associate Professor Univ. Alaska Fairbanks in the Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences & Geophysical Institute (2004 – 2014, tenured 2008)
Research Associate Professor Univ. Alaska Fairbanks at IARC-Frontier (2003)
Research Assistant Professor Univ. Alaska Fairbanks at IARC-Frontier (1998 – 2003)
Post Doctoral Researcher, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (1997 – 1998)
Research Scientist at Ross Computational Resources (1996 – 1997)
US. Peace Corps Volunteer at Sochoi Secondary School, Kenya (1983 – 1985)
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156. Lader, R.T. and coauthors,
2024: Large-scale indicators for the
prediction of when the wildfire season-ending
rains will come in Alaska. International
Journal of Wildland Fire. in revision.
In
Press/Accepted
155. Bushuk, Mitch; Sahara Ali; David A.
Bailey; Qing Bao; Lauriane Batte; Uma S. Bhatt;
Edward Blanchard-Wrigglesworth; Ed Blockley; Gavin
Cawley; Junhwa Chi; Francois Counillon; Philippe
Goulet Coulombe; Richard I. Cullather; Francis X.
Diebold; Arlan Dirkson; Eleftheria Exarchou;
Maximilian Gobel; William Gregory; Virginie
Guemas; Lawrence Hamilton; Bian He; Sean Horvath;
Monica Ionita; Jennifer E. Kay; Eliot Kim; Noriaki
Kimura; Dmitri Kondrashov; Zachary M. Labe;
WooSung Lee; Younjoo J. Lee; Cuihua Li; Xuewei Li;
Yongcheng Lin; Yanyun Liu; Wieslaw Maslowski;
Francois Massonnet; Walter N. Meier; William J.
Merryfield; Hannah Myint; Juan C. Acosta Navarro;
Alek Petty; Fangli Qiao; David Schroder; Axel
Schweiger; Qi Shu; Michael Sigmond; Michael
Steele; Julienne Stroeve; Nico Sun; Steffen
Tietsche; Michel Tsamados; Keguang Wang; Jianwu
Wang; Wanqiu Wang; Yiguo Wang; Yun Wang; James
Williams; Qinghua Yang; Xiaojun Yuan; Jinlun
Zhang; Yongfei Zhang, 2024, Predicting
September Arctic Sea Ice: A Multi-Model
Seasonal Skill Comparison , Bulletin of the American Meteorological
Society, accepted.
2024
154. Ballinger, T., R.T. Lader, P.A. Bieniek, H.
Strader, R. Ziel, U.S. Bhatt, C. Borries-Strigle, J.
Hostler, E. Stevens, C.F. Waigl, and A. York 2024: Evaluating the
Alaska Blocking Index as an indicator of wildfire
potential in Alaska’s Central Eastern Interior.
International Journal of Climatology.
https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.8450
.
2023
152.
G.
V. Frost, M. J. Macander, U. S. Bhatt, L. T. Berner, J.
W. Bjerke, H. E. Epstein, B. C. Forbes, M. J. Lara, R.
Í. Magnússon, P. M. Montesano, G. K. Phoenix, S. P.
Serbin, H. Tømmervik, C. Waigl, D. A. Walker, and D.
Yang, Tundra Greenness. Arctic Report
Card 2023.
R.L. Thoman, T.A. Moon,
and M.L. Druckenmiller, Eds.,
DOI:
10.25923/s86a-jn24.
151. T. J. Ballinger, S. Bigaalke,
J. E. Walsh, B. Brettschneider, R. L. Thoman, U. S.
Bhatt, E. Hanna, I. Hanssen-Bauer, S. -J. Kim, J. E.
Overland, and M. Wang, Surface Air Temperature. Arctic Report Card 2023. R.L. Thoman, T.A.
Moon,
and M.L. Druckenmiller, Eds., DOI:
10.25923/5vfa-k694.
150. Meng, Jun; Jingfang Fan; US Bhatt; and Jürgen Kurths, 2023: Arctic weather variability and connectivity, Nat Commun 14, 6574 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-42351-x.
149. Hendricks, AS, USBhatt,
GV Frost, DA Walker, PA Bieniek, MK Raynolds, RT Lader,
HE Epstein, JE Pinzon, CJ. Tucker, and JC Comiso, 2023:
Decadal variability in
spring sea-ice concentration linked to summer
temperature and NDVI on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. Earth
Interactions,
DOI: 10.1175/EI-D-23-0002.1.
148. Ballinger,T. J., J. E. Overland, M. Wang, J. E.
Walsh, B. Brettschneider, R. L. Thoman, U. S. Bhatt, E.
Hanna,
I. Hanssen-Bauer, and S.-J. Kim, 2023. Surface Air Temperature [in “State of
the Climate in 2022”]. Bulletin of the
American Meteorological Society 104:S279–S281. https://ametsoc.net/sotc2022/SOTC2022_Ch5-TheArctic.pdf.
147. Frost, G. V., M. J. Macander, U. S. Bhatt, L. T. Berner, J. W. Bjerke, H. E. Epstein, B. C. Forbes, S. J. Goetz, M. J. Lara, R. Í. Magnússon, G. K. Phoenix, S. P. Serbin, H. Tømmervik, O. Tutubalina, D. A. Walker, and D. Yang. 2023. Tundra greenness [in “State of the Climate in 2022”]. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 104:S305–S308. https://ametsoc.net/sotc2022/SOTC2022_Ch5-TheArctic.pdf.
146.
Polyakov, I. V., Ingvaldsen, R. B., Pnyushkov, A. V., Bhatt,
U. S., Francis, J. A., Janout, M., Kwok, R., and Øystein
Skagseth & Skagseth, Ø. (2023). Fluctuating
Atlantic inflows modulate Arctic atlantification.
Science, 381(6661), 972-979.
associated stories, Science
News, UAF
press release, NSF
Highlights
D145. Pinzon, J.E.,
E.W. Pak, C.J. Tucker, U.S. Bhatt, G.V. Frost, and M.J.
Macander. 2023. Global Vegetation
Greenness (NDVI) from AVHRR GIMMS-3G+,
1981-2022. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/2187.
144. Mevenkamp, H., N. Wunderling, U. S. Bhatt, T. Carman, J. F. Donges, H. Genet, S. Serbin, R. Winkelmann, and E. S. Euskirchen. Reducing uncertainty of high-latitude ecosystem models through identification of key parameters. Environmental Research Letters, 18(8), 084032.
143. Ballinger, Thomas J., Uma S.
Bhatt, Peter A. Bieniek, Brian Brettschneider, Rick T.
Lader, Jeremy S. Littell, Richard L. Thoman,
Christine F. Waigl, John E. Walsh, and Melinda A. Webster,
2023: Alaska terrestrial
and marine climate trends, 1957-2021, J.
Climate, 36 (13), 4375–4391,https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0434.1.
142. Badola,
A., Panda, S. K., Thompson, D. R., Roberts, D. A.,
Waigl, C. F., & Bhatt, U. S. (2023). Estimation and Validation of
Sub-Pixel Needleleaf Cover Fraction in the Boreal
Forest of Alaska to Aid Fire Management.
Remote Sensing, 15(10), 2484.
141.
Frost, G. V., Bhatt, U. S., Macander, M. J., Epstein, H. E.,
Raynolds, M. K., Waigl, C. F., & Walker, D. A. 2023: Eyes of the world on a warmer, less
frozen, and greener Arctic. Global Change
Biology.
140.
Blanchard-Wrigglesworth, E., Bushuk, M., Massonnet, F.,
Hamilton, L. C., Bitz, C. M., Meier, W. N., & Bhatt, U.
S., 2023: Forecast skill of the
Arctic Sea Ice Outlook 2008–2022. Geophysical
Research Letters, 50, e2022GL102531.
https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL102531.
139. Carreras, B.A.; Newman, D.E.;
Bhatt, U.S.; Reynolds Barredo, J.M.; Colet, P.; and Gomila
G., 2023: An Initial Analysis of
the Impact of Future Climate Change on the Efficiency
and Reliability of Solar, Wind and Hydro Energy
Sources. HICSS, Proceedings of the
56th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System
Sciences (HICSS'22).
138. Lader R, Sousanes P, Bhatt US,
Walsh JE, Bieniek PA., 2022: Climate
Indicators of Landslide Risks on Alaska National Park
Road Corridors. Atmosphere.
14(1):34. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos14010034.
137. T. J. Ballinger, J. E. Overland, M. Wang, J. E. Walsh, B. Brettschneider, R. L. Thoman, U. S. Bhatt, E. Hanna, I. Hanssen-Bauer, and S. -J. Kim, 2022: Surface Air Temperature. Arctic Report Card 2022. M.L. Druckenmiller, R.L. Thoman, and T.A. Moon (eds.). https://DOI: 10.25923/13qm-2576.
136. Frost, G.V., M.J. Macander, U.S. Bhatt, L.T. Berner, J.W. Bjerke, H.E. Epstein, B.C. Forbes, S.J. Goetz, M.J. Lara, G.K. Phoenix, S.P. Serbin, H. Tømmerik, D.A. Walker, and D. Yang, 2022: Tundra Greenness. Arctic Report Card 2022. M.L. Druckenmiller, R.L. Thoman, and T.A. Moon (eds.). https://doi.org/10.25923/g8w3-6v31.
135. T. J. Ballinger, J. E. Overland, R. Thoman, M. Wang, M. A. Webster, L. N. Boisvert, C. L. Parker, U. S. Bhatt, B. Brettschneider, E. Hanna, I. Hanssen-Bauer, S.-J. Kim, and J. E. Walsh, 2022: Surface Air Temperature [in “State of the Climate in 2021”], R. L. Thoman, M. L. Druckenmiller, and T. A. Moon Eds., Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 103 (8), S264-268, https://doi. org/10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0082.1.
134. G. V. Frost, M. J. Macander, U. S. Bhatt, L. T. Berner, J. W. Bjerke, H. E. Epstein, B. C. Forbes, S. J. Goetz, M. M. P. D. Heijmans, M. J. Lara, R. Í Magnússon, T. Park, G. K. Phoenix, J. E. Pinzon, S. P. Serbin, H. Tømmervik, C. J. Tucker, D. A. Walker, and D. Yang, 2022: Tundra Greeness [in “State of the Climate in 2021”]. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 103 (8), S291-293, https://doi. org/10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0082.1.
133. Lader, R.T.; Bhatt; U.S., Walsh J.E.; Bieniek, P.A.; 2022: Projections of Hydroclimatic Extremes in Southeast Alaska under the RCP8.5 scenario, Earth Interactions, 26(1), 180-194. Retrieved Sep 6, 2022, from https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/eint/26/1/EI-D-21-0023.1.xml.
132. Bhatt, U.S.; Carreras, B.A.; Newman, D.E.; Barredo, J.M.R.; Collet, P.; Gomila, D. 2022: The Potential Impact of Climate Change on the Efficiency and Reliability of Solar, Hydro, and Wind Energy Sources. Land, 11, 1275. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11081275.
131. Badola, A., Panda, S., Roberts, D.A., Waigl, C.F, Jandt, R.R., and U.S. Bhatt, 2022: A novel method to simulate AVIRIS-NG hyperspectral image from Sentinel-2 image for improved vegetation/wildfire fuel mapping, boreal Alaska, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 112, 102891, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2022.102891.
130. Bieniek, Peter, Hajo Eicken, Meibing Jin, Andrew R. Mahoney, Josh Jones, and Uma S. Bhatt, 2022: Seasonal forecasting of landfast ice in Foggy Island Bay, Alaska in support of ice road operations. Cold Regions Science and Technology.
129. Bennett, A.P., Troy J Bouffard, and Uma Bhatt, 2022: Arctic Sea Ice Decline and Geoengineering Solutions: Cascading Security and Ethical Considerations. Challenges 2022, 13(1), 22; https://doi.org/10.3390/challe13010022.
128. Carreras, Benjamín A., José M. Reynolds-Barredo, D. E. Newman, U. Bhatt, Pere Colet, Damiá Gomila, 2022: A first analysis of the potential impact of climate change on the efficiency and reliability of solar and hydro energy sources, HICSS, Proceedings of the 55th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'22). http://ffden-2.phys.uaf.edu/usbhatt/publications/Carreras_etal_2022_HICSS2022-Final.pdf
2021
127. Steele, M., Eicken, H., Bhatt, U., Bieniek, P., Blanchard-Wrigglesworth, E., Wiggins, H., Turner-Bogren, B., Hamilton, L., Little, J., Massonnet, F., Meier, W. N., Overland, J., Serreze, M., Stroeve, J., Walsh, J., & Wang, M. (2021). Moving Sea Ice Prediction Forward Via Community Intercomparison, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (published online ahead of print 2021). Retrieved Nov 30, 2021, from https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/aop/BAMS-D-21-0159.1/BAMS-D-21-0159.1.xml.
126. G. V. Frost, M. J. Macander, U. S. Bhatt, L. T. Berner, J. W. Bjerke, H. E. Epstein, B. C. Forbes, S. J. Goetz, M. J. Lara, T. Park, G. K. Phoenix, S. P. Serbin, H. Tømmervik, D. A. Walker, and D. Yang, 2021: Tundra Greenness. Arctic Report Card 2021, T. A. Moon, M. L. Druckenmiller, and R. L. Thoman, Eds., https://doi.org/10.25923/8n78-wp73.
125. T. J. Ballinger, J. E. Overland, M. Wang, U. S. Bhatt, B. Brettschneider, E. Hanna, I. Hanssen-Bauer, S. -J. Kim, R. L. Thoman, and J. E. Walsh, 2021: Surface Air Temperature. Arctic Report Card 2021, T. A. Moon, M. L. Druckenmiller, and R. L. Thoman, Eds., DOI: 10.25923/53xd-9k68.
124. G. V. Frost, M. J. Macander, U. S. Bhatt, H. E. Epstein, L. T. Berner, J. W. Bjerke, B. C. Forbes, S. J. Goetz, M. J. Lara, T. Park, G. K. Phoenix, M. K. Raynolds, H. Tømmervik, and D. A. Walker, 2021: Tundra Greeness [in “State of the Climate in 2020”]. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 102 (8), S297–S299, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0086.1.
123. A. YORK, U. S. BHATT, E. GARGULINSKI, Z. GRABINSKI, P. JAIN, A. SOJA, R. THOMAN, S. VERAVERBEKE, AND R. ZIEL, 2021: Wildland fires in the high northern latitudes [in “State of the Climate in 2020”]. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 102 (8), S274–S276, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0086.1.
122. T. J. Ballinger, J. E. Overland, M. Wang, M. A. Webster, U. S. Bhatt, E. Hanna, I. Hanssen-Bauer, S.-J. Kim, R. L. Thoman, and J. E. Walsh, 2021: Surface Air Temperature [in “State of the Climate in 2020”]. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 102 (8), S270–S274, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0086.1.
121. Thomas Ballinger, John Walsh, Uma Bhatt, Peter Bieniek, Mark Tschudi, Brian Brettschneider, Hajo Eicken, Andrew Mahoney, Jacqueline Richter-Menge, Lewis Shapiro, 2021, Unusual west Arctic storm activity during winter 2020: Another "collapse" of the Beaufort High?, Geophysical Research Letters, Geophysical Research Letters, p.e2021GL092518, pdf.
120. Frost, JJ, US Bhatt, MJ Macander, AS Hendricks, and MT Jorgenson, 2021: Is Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta greening or browning? Resolving mixed signals of tundra vegetation dynamics and drivers in the maritime Arctic, 25(1), pp.76-93, Earth Interactions, pdf.
119. Christopher William Smith, Santosh K Panda, Uma Suren Bhatt, Franz Josef Meyer, Anushree Badola, Jennifer Hrobak, 2021: Assessing wildfire burn severity and its relationship with environmental factors in the Alaskan boreal forest, Remote Sensing, 13(10), 1966; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13101966, pdf.
118. Bhatt, Uma; Walker, Donald; Raynolds, Martha; Walsh, John; Bieniek, Peter; Cai, Lei; Comiso, Josefino; Epstein, Howard; Frost, Gerald; Gersten, Robert; Hendricks, Amy; Pinzon, Jorge; Stock, Larry; Tucker, Compton, 2021: Climate Drivers of Arctic Tundra Variability and Change using an Indicators Framework, Environ. Res. Lett., Volume 16, Number 5, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abe676. pdf.
special issue titled 'Focus on Indicators of Arctic Environmental Variability and Change'.
117. Badola, Anushree, Santosh K. Panda, Dar A. Roberts, Christine F. Waigl, Uma Suren Bhatt, Christopher William Smith, Randi R. Jandt, 2021: Hyperspectral Data Simulation (Sentinel-2 to AVIRIS-NG) for Improved Wildfire Fuel Mapping, Boreal Alaska, Remote Sens. 13(9), 1693; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13091693, pdf.
116. Sampath, A., US Bhatt, PA Bieniek, R Ziel, A York, H Strader, S Alden, R Thoman, B Brettschneider, E Petrescu, P Peng, S Mitchell, 2021: Evaluation of Seasonal Forecasts for the Fire Season in Interior Alaska, Weather and Forecasting 36 (2), 601-613. pdf.
115. Smith, Christopher William, Santosh Panda, Uma Bhatt, Franz Meyer, 2021: Improved Boreal Forest Wildfire Fuel Type Mapping using AVIRIS-NG Hyperspectral data, Interior Alaska, Remote Sensing, 13(5), 897; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13050897, special issue titled 'Remote Sensing of Natural Forest Disturbances', pdf.
114. Bhatt, Uma S., Richard T. Lader, John E. Walsh, Peter A. Bieniek, Richard Thoman, Matthew Berman, Cecilia Borries-Strigle, Kristi Bulock, Jonathan Chriest, Micah Hahn, Amy S. Hendricks, Randi Jandt, Joseph Little, Daniel McEvoy, Chris Moore, T. Scott Rupp, Jennifer Schmidt, Eric Stevens, Heidi Strader, James White, Christine Waigl, Alison York, and Robert Ziel, 2021: Emerging Anthropogenic influences on the Southcentral Alaska Temperature and Precipitation Extremes and Related Fires in 2019, Land 2021, 10, 82. https://doi.org/10.3390/land10010082 , special issue titled 'Fire in the Earth System: Humans and Nature'. pdf
113. Epstein, Howard; Walker, Donald; Frost, Gerald; Raynolds, Martha; Bhatt, Uma; Daanen, Ronald; Forbes, Bruce; Geml, Jozsef; Kaarlejarvi, Elina; Khitun, Olga; Khomutov, Artem; Kuss, Patrick; Leibman, Marina; Matyshak, Georgiy; Orekhov, Pavel; Romanovsky, Vladimir; Timling, Ina, 2021: Spatial patterns of arctic tundra vegetation biomass, NDVI, and LAI on different soils along the Eurasia Arctic Transect, and insights for a changing Arctic. Environmental Research Letters 16 014008. pdf
2020
112. York, A., U. S. Bhatt, E. Gargulinski, Z. Grabinski, P. Jain, A. Soja, R. L. Thoman, and R. Ziel, 2020: Wildland Fire in High Northern Latitudes. Arctic Report Card 2020, R. L. Thoman, J. Richter-Menge, and M. L. Druckenmiller, Eds., DOI: 10.25923/2gef-3964.
111. Ballinger, T. J., J. E. Overland, M. Wang, U. S. Bhatt, E. Hanna, I. Hanssen-Bauer, S. -J. Kim, R. L. Thoman, and J. E. Walsh, 2020: Surface Air Temperature, Arctic Report Card 2020, R. L. Thoman, J. Richter-Menge, and M. L. Druckenmiller, Eds., DOI: 10.25923/gcw8-2z06.
110. Frost, G. V., U. S. Bhatt, H. E. Epstein, I. Myers-Smith, G. K. Phoenix, L. T. Berner, J. W. Bjerke, B. C. Forbes, S. J. Goetz, J. T. Kerby, M. J. Macander, T. Park, M. K. Raynolds, H. Tømmervik, and D. A. Walker, 2020: Tundra Greenness, Arctic Report Card 2020, R. L. Thoman, J. Richter-Menge, and M. L. Druckenmiller, Eds., DOI: 10.25923/46rm-0w23.
109. Wassmann, P., Carmack, EC., Bluhm, BA., Duarte, CM., Berge, J., Brown, K.,Grebmeier, JM., Holding, J., Kosobokova, K., Kwok, R., Matrai, P., Agusti, SR., Babin, M., Bhatt, U., Eicken,H., Polyakov, I., Rysgaard, S., Huntington, HP., Towards a unifying pan-Arctic perspective: A conceptual modelling toolkit, Progress in Oceanography (2020), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2020.102455. pdf.
108. Rick T. Lader, Allison Bidlack, John E. Walsh, Uma S. Bhatt and Peter A. Bieniek, 2020: Dynamical downscaling for Southeast Alaska: Historical climate and future projections, J. Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 59 (10): 1607–1623. pdf.
107. G. V. Frost, U. S. Bhatt, H. E. Epstein, L. T. Berner, J. W. Bjerke, B. C. Forbes, S. J. Goetz, M. J. Lara, M. J. Macander, G. K. Phoenix, M. K. Raynolds, H. Tømmervik, and D. A. Walker, 2020: Tundra Greenness —The Arctic [in “State of the Climate in 2018”]. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 101 (8), Si–S429 https://doi.org/10.1175/2020BAMSStateoftheClimate.1.
106. J. E. Overland, T. J. Ballinger, E. Hanna, I. Hanssen-Bauer, S.-J. Kim, J. E. Walsh, M. Wang, U. S. Bhatt, and R. L. Thoman, 2020: Surface air temperature—The Arctic [in “State of the Climate in 2019”]. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 101 (8), Si–S429 https://doi.org/10.1175/2020BAMSStateoftheClimate.1.
105. Peter A. Bieniek, Uma S. Bhatt, Alison York, John Walsh, Rick Lader, Heidi Strader, Robert Ziel, Randi R. Jandt, and Richard L. Thoman, 2020: Lightning Variability in Dynamically Downscaled Simulations of Alaska’s Present and Future Summer Climate. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 59, 1139–1152, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-19-0209.1. pdf.
104. Wagner, Penelope, Nick Hughes, Pascale Bourbonnais, Julienne Stroeve, Lasse Rabenstein, Uma Bhatt, Joe Little, and Helen Wiggins, 2020: Sea-ice Information and Forecast Needs for Industry Maritime Stakeholders, Polar Geography, 43:2-3,160-187, DOI: 10.1080/1088937X.2020.1766592. pdf.
103. Ziel, R.H.; Bieniek, P.A.; Bhatt, U.S.; Strader, H.; Rupp, T.S.; York, A., 2020: A Comparison of Fire Weather Indices with MODIS Fire Days for the Natural Regions of Alaska. Forests 2020, 11, 516. pdf.
102. Myers-Smith, IH, JT Kerby, GK Phoenix, JW Bjerke, HE Epstein, J Assmann, C John, L Andreu-Hayles, S Angers-Blodin, PSA Beck, LT Berner, US Bhatt, AD Bjorkman, D Blok, A Bryn, CT Christiansen, JHC Cornelissen, AM Cunliffe, SC Elmendorf, BC Forbes, SJ Goetz, RD Hollister, R de Jong, M Loranty, M Macias-Fauria, K Maseyk, S Normand, J Olofsson, TC Parker, F-J W Parmentier, ES Post, G Schaepman-Strub, F Stordal, P Sullivan, HJD Thomas, H Tømmervik, R Treharne, CE Tweedie, DA Walker, M Wilmking, S Wipf, 2020: Complexity revealed in the greening of the Arctic. Nature Climate Change, 10, 106–117. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0688-1. pdf.
101. Thoman Jr.,Richard L., Uma S. Bhatt, Peter A. Bieniek, Brian R. Brettschneider, Michael Brubaker, Seth L. Danielson, Zachary Labe, Rick Lader, Walter N. Meier, Gay Sheffield, John E. Walsh, 2020: The Record Low Bering Sea Ice Extent in 2018: Content, Impacts and an Assessment of the Role of Anthropogenic Climate Change, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Special Report Explaining Extreme Events of 2018 from a Climate Perspective, BAMS. pdf.
2019
100. Cohen, J., X. Zhang, J. Francis, T. Jung, R. Kwok, J. Overland, T. Ballinger, U. S. Bhatt, H. W. Chen, D. Coumou, S. Feldstein, D. Handorf, G. Henderson, M. Ionita, M. Kretschmer, F. Laliberte, S. Lee, H. W. Linderholm, W. Maslowski, Y. Peings, K. Pfeiffer, I. Rigor, T. Semmler, J. Stroeve, P. C. Taylor, S. Vavrus, T. Vihma, S. Wang, M. Wendisch, Y. Wu, J. Yoon, 2019: Divergent consensus on the influence of Arctic amplification on mid-latitude severe winter weather, 2019: Nature Climate Change, 10.1038/s41558-019-0662-y. pdf.
99. Overland, JE, E Hanna, I Hanssen-Bauer, S-J Kim, JE Walsh, M Wang, US Bhatt, RL Thoman, and TJ Ballinger, 2019: Surface Air Temperature [in Arctic Report Card 2019] https://arctic.noaa.gov/Report-Card/Report-Card-2019. pdf.
98. Frost, GV, US Bhatt, HE Epstein, DA Walker, MK Raynolds, LT Berner, JW Bjerke, AL Breen, BC Forbes, SJ Goetz, CM Iversen, MJ Lara, MJ Macander, GK Phoenix, AV Rocha, VG Salmon, PE Thornton, H Tømmervik, and SD Wullschleger, 2019: Tundra Greenness, [in Arctic Report Card 2019] https://arctic.noaa.gov/Report-Card/Report-Card-2019. pdf.
97. Lader, RT, Walsh, JE, Bhatt, US, Bieniek PA, 2019: Anticipated changes to the snow season in Alaska: Elevation dependency, timing and extremes. International J. Climatology. pdf.
96. Epstein, H, U. Bhatt, M. Raynolds, D. Walker, B. Forbes, G. Phoenix, J. Bjerke, H. Tømmervik, S.-R. Karlsen, R. Myneni, T. Park, S. Goetz, and G. Jia, 2019: Tundra Greenness —The Arctic [in “State of the Climate in 2018”]. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 100 (9), S163–S165, doi:10.1175/2019BAMSStateoftheClimate.1
95. Overland, JE, E. Hanna, I. Hanssen-Bauer, S.-J. Kim, J. E. Walsh, M. Wang, and U. S. Bhatt, 2019: Surface air temperature—The Arctic [in “State of the Climate in 2018”]. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 100 (9), S142–S146, doi:10.1175/2019BAMSStateoftheClimate.1.
94. Park,Taejin, Chi Chen, Alexander Winkler, Hans Tømmervik, Sungho Choi, Marc Macias-Fauria, Uma S. Bhatt, Donald A. Walker, Shilong Piao, Victor Brovkin, Ramakrishna R. Nemani, Ranga B. Myneni, 2019: Changes in timing of seasonal peak photosynthetic activity in northern ecosystems, Global Change Biology, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14638. pdf.
93. Box, Jason; Colgan, William; Brown, Ross; Wang, Muyin; Overland, James; Walsh, John; Bhatt, Uma; Christensen, Torben; Schmidt, Niels; Lund, Magnus; Parmentier, Frans-Jan; Euskirchen, Eugenie; Romanovsky, Vladimir; Corell, Robert; Meier, Walter; Wouters, Bert; Mernild, Sebastian; Mård, Johanna; Pawlak, Janet; Andersen, Morten, 2019: Key Indicators of Arctic Climate Change: 1971-2017, Environmental Research Letters, 045010. pdf.
Associated materials: video available at journal web sitehttps://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aafc1b/meta .
92. Walker, D, H Epstein, J Šibík, US Bhatt, V Romanovsky, ABreen, S Chasnikova,R Daanen, L Druckenmiller, K Ermokhina, JJ Frost, J Geml, E Kaarlejärvi, O Khitun, A Khomutov, P Kuss, G Matyshak,N Moskalenko, P Orekhov, J Peirce, M Raynolds, I Timling, 2019: Vegetation on mesic loamy and sandy soils along a 1700‐km maritime Eurasia Arctic Transect. Journal of Vegetation Science, 22:150–167. https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12401. pdf.
91. Devi U, Shekhar MS, Singh GP, Rao NN, Bhatt US, 2019: Methodological application of quantile mapping to generate precipitation data over Northwest Himalaya. Int J Climatol., 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.6008. pdf.
2018
D69. Data set associated with Ref 69. Bhatt, U.S., 2018: ABoVE: Climate Drivers of Pan-Arctic Tundra Vegetation Productivity, 1982-2015. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1606 .
90. Overland, J.E., E. Hanna, I. Hanssen-Bauer, S. -J. Kim, J. E. Walsh, M. Wang, U. S. Bhatt, R. L. Thoman, 2018: Surface Air Temperature, [in Arctic Report Card 2018], https://www.arctic.noaa.gov/Report-Card.
89. Epstein,H., U. Bhatt, M. Raynolds, D. Walker, B. Forbes, G. Phoenix, J. Bjerke, H. Tømmervik, S. -R. Karlsen, R. Myneni, T. Park, S. Goetz, G. Jia, 2018: Tundra Greenness, [in Arctic Report Card 2018], https://www.arctic.noaa.gov/Report-Card.
88. Cai, L., VA Alexeev, JE. Walsh, and US Bhatt, 2018: Patterns, Impacts, and Future Projections of Summer Variability in the Arctic from CMIP5 Models, Journal of Climate, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0119.1. pdf.
87. Lader, RT, Walsh, JE, Bhatt, US, Bieniek PA, 2018: Agro-climate projections for a warming Alaska, Earth Interactions, https://doi.org/10.1175/EI-D-17-0036.1. pdf.
86. Walsh, J.E., US Bhatt, J Littell, M Leonawicz, M Lindgren, PA Bieniek, R Thoman, S Gray, TS Rupp, 2018: Downscaling climate model output for Alaskan stakeholders, Environmental Modelling and Software, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2018.03.021. pdf.
85. Reichle, L., H. Esptein, U.S. Bhatt, M.K.Raynolds, and DA Walker, 2018: Spatial Heterogeneity of the Temporal Dynamics of Arctic Tundra Vegetation. Geophysical Research Letters, 45, 9206–9215. https://doi.org/10.1029/ 2018GL078820, pdf.
84. J. Overland, E. Hanna, I. Hanssen-Bauer, S.-J. Kim, J. E. Walsh, M. Wang, U. S. Bhatt, and R. L. Thoman, 2018: Surface air temperature—The Arctic [in “State of the Climate in 2017”]. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 99 (8), S144–S146, doi:10.1175/2018BAMSStateoftheClimate.1.
83. A. York, U. Bhatt, R. Thoman, AND R. Ziel, 2018: Wildland fire in Boreal and Arctic North America —The Arctic [in “State of the Climate in 2017”]. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 99 (8), S167–S169, doi:10.1175/2018BAMSStateoftheClimate.1.
82. H. Epstein, U. Bhatt, M. Raynolds, D. Walker, J. Pinzon, C. J. Tucker, B. C. Forbes, T. Horstkotte, M. Macias-Fauria, A. Martin, G. Phoenix, J. Bjerke, H. Tømmervik, P. Fauchald, H. Vickers, R. Myneni, T. Park, and C. Dickerson, 2018: Tundra Greenness —The Arctic [in “State of the Climate in 2017”]. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 99 (8), S165–S166, doi:10.1175/2018BAMSStateoftheClimate.1.
81. Bieniek, P., US Bhatt, JE Walsh, RT Lader, B Griffith, J. Roach, and R Thoman, 2018: Variability, drivers, and impacts of Alaska winter rain-on-snow events, J. Met and Applied Climatology, 57(8), 1847–1863, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-17-0276.1, pdf.
News Stories: Arctic Today,
80. Cohen, J., X. Zhang, J. Francis, T. Jung, R. Kwok, J. Overland, P. C. Tayler, S. Lee, F. Laliberte, S. Feldstein, W. Maslowski, G. Henderson, J. Stroeve, D. Coumou, D. Handorf, T. Semmler, T. Ballinger, M. Hell, M. Kretschmer, S. Vavrus, M. Wang, S. Wang, Y. Wu, T. Vihma, U. Bhatt, M. Ionita, H. Linderholm, I. Rigor, C. Routson, D. Singh, M. Wendisch, D. Smith, J. Screen, J. Yoon, Y. Peings, H. Chen, and R. Blackport, 2018: Arctic change and possible influence on mid-latitude climate and weather. US CLIVAR Report 2018-1, 41pp, doi:10.5065/D6TH8KGW.
79. Deemer, G.J., U. S. Bhatt, H. Eicken, P.G. Posey, J.K. Hutchings, J. Nelson, R. Heim, R. Allard, H. Wiggins, and K. Creek, 2018: Broadening the sea-ice forecaster toolbox with community observations: A case study from the northern Bering Sea, Arctic Science, 4 (1), 42-70, https://doi.org/10.1139/as-2016-0, pdf.
2017
78. Mård, J., J.E. Box, R. Brown, M. Mack, S.H. Mernild, D. Walker, J. Walsh, U.S. Bhatt, H.E. Epstein, I.H. Myers-Smith, M.K. Raynolds, and E.A.G. Schuur. 2017. Cross-cutting scientific issues. In: Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic (SWIPA) 2017. Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme, Oslo, Norway.
77. Walsh, J. E., R. L. Thomen, U.S. Bhatt, P.A. Bieniek, B. Brettschneider, M. Brubaker, S. Danielson, R. Lader, F. Fetterer, K. Holderied, K. Iken, A. Mahoney, M. McCammon, J. Partain, 2017: The high latitude marine heat wave of 2016 and its impacts on Alaska, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Special Report Explaining Extreme Events of 2016 from a Climate Perspective. pdf.
76. York, A., U. Bhatt, R. Thoman, and R. Ziel, 2017: Wildland Fire in High Latitudes [in Arctic Report Card 2017], http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/Report-Card.
75. Overland, J. E., E. Hanna, I. Hanssen-Bauer, S. -J. Kim, J. E. Walsh, M. Wang, U. S. Bhatt, and R. L. Thoman, 2017: Surface Air Temperature [in Arctic Report Card 2017], http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/Report-Card.
74. Epstein, H., U. Bhatt, M. Raynolds, D. Walker, B. C. Forbes, T. Horstkotte, M. Macias-Fauria, A. Martin, G. Phoenix, J. Bjerke, H. Tømmervik, P. Fauchald, H. Vickers, R. Myneni, and C. Dickerson, 2017: Tundra Greenness [in Arctic Report Card 2017], http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/Report-Card.
73. Lader, RT, JE Walsh, US Bhatt, and PA Bieniek, 2017: Projections of 21st century climate extremes for Alaska via dynamical downscaling and quantile mapping. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 56 (9), 2393-2409, DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-16-0415.1., pdf.
Press: Alaska Dispatch News story,
72. Overland, J., E. Hanna, I. Hanssen-Bauer, S.-J. Kim, J. E. Walsh, M. Wang, U. S. Bhatt, and R. L. Thoman, 2017: Surface air temperature [in “State of the Climate in 2016”]. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc.,98(8), S130–S131, doi:10.1175/2017BAMSStateoftheClimate.1.
71. Epstein, H.E., U.S. Bhatt, M.K. Raynolds,D. A. Walker, B. C. Forbes, M. Macias-Fauria, M. Loranty, G. Phoenix,and J. Bjerke, 2017: Tundra greenness [in “State of the Climate in 2016”]. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc.,98(8), S145–S147, doi:10.1175/2017BAMSStateoftheClimate.1.
70. Bhatt, US, DA Walker, MK Raynolds, PA Bieniek, HE Epstein, JC Comiso, JE Pinzon, CJ Tucker, MA Steele, W. Ermold, and J. Zhang, 2017: Changing seasonality of Panarctic tundra vegetation in relationship to climatic variables. (special biomass issue) Environmental Research Letters. 12 (2017) 055003 https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa6b0b, pdf.
2016
69. JL Partain, S Alden, US Bhatt, PA Bieniek, BR Brettschneider, RT Lader, PQ Olsson, TS Rupp, H Strader, RL Thoman, JE Walsh, AD York, and RH Ziel, 2016: An assessment of the role of anthropogenic climate change in the Alaska fire season of 2015, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Special Report Explaining Extreme Events of 2015 from a Climate Perspective, S14-S18 pp., pdf.
news stories: GI newsletter, Washington Post, Alaska Public Radio, Japan Times, Salon, Daily Mail, and USA Today.
68. Overland, J., E. Hanna, I. Hanssen-Bauer, S. -J. Kim, J. E. Walsh, M. Wang, U. S. Bhatt, R. L. Thoman 2016: Surface Air Temperature [in Arctic Report Card 2016], http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/Report-Card.
67. Epstein,H. E., U. S. Bhatt, M. K. Raynolds, D. A. Walker, B. C. Forbes, M. Macias-Fauria, M. Loranty, G. Phoenix, J. Bjerke 2016: Tundra Greenness [in Arctic Report Card 2016], http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/Report-Card.
66. Overland, J.,E. Hanna, I. Hanssen-Bauer, S.-J. Kim, J. Walsh, M. Wang, U. S. Bhatt, and R. L. Thoman, 2016: Air temperature [in “State of the Climate in 2015”]. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 97 (8), S132–S134.
65.Young-Robertson, J. M., Bolton, W. R., Bhatt, U. S., Cristobal, J., & Thoman, R. Deciduous trees are a large and overlooked sink for snowmelt water in the boreal forest. Scientific Reports, 6 (12 July 2016), 29504. doi: 10.1038/ srep29504. pdf.
news stories: Science Daily
webinar by Jessie and Uma on this paper: USGS
Gallery:
https://www.usgs.gov/media/videos/surprising-role-trees-boreal-water-cycle,
Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWOOdc_fkpY, NCCWSC website:
https://nccwsc.usgs.gov/webinar/TreesBorealWater
64. Walker, Donald; Daniëls, Fred; Alsos, Inger; Bhatt, Uma; Breen, Amy; Buchhorn, Marcel; Bültmann, Helga; Edwards, Mary; Ehrich, Dorothee; Epstein, Howard; Gould, William; Ims, Rolf; Meltofte, Hans; Murray, David; Raynolds, Martha; Talbot, Stephen, 2016: Circumpolar Arctic vegetation: A hierarchic review and roadmap toward an internationally consistent approach to survey, archive and classify tundra plot data, special issue on biomass of Environmental Research Letters, 11, 055005 doi:10.1088, pdf.
63. Lader, R.T., U.S. Bhatt, J.E. Walsh, T.S. Rupp, and P.A. Bieniek: 2016: Evaluation of Reanalysis Products for Alaska to Facilitate Climate Impact Studies, J. Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 55, 901-922. DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-15-0162.1, pdf.
62. Bieniek, P.A., U.S. Bhatt, J.E. Walsh, T.S. Rupp, J. Zhang, J.R. Krieger, and R.T. Lader, 2016: Dynamical downscaling of ERA-Interim temperature and precipitation for Alaska, J. Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 55, 635–654, pdf.
61. Zhang, J., J. R. Krieger, U. Bhatt, C. Lu, X. Zhang, 2016: Alaskan Regional Climate Changes in Dynamically Downscaled CMIP5 Simulations, Proceedings of the 2013 National Conference on Advances in Environmental Science and Technology, Springer.
2015
60. Bieniek, P.A., US Bhatt, DA Walker, MK Raynolds, JC Comiso, HE Epstein, JE Pinzon, CJ Tucker, RL Thoman, H Tran, N Mölders, M Steele, J Zhang, and W Ermold, 2015: Climate drivers of changing seasonality of Alaska coastal tundra vegetation productivity, Earth Interactions, 19 (19), DOI: 10.1175/EI-D-15-0013.1, pdf.
other resources: Bulletin of American Meteorological Society June 2016 papers of note, page 904-5.
59. Overland, J., E. Hanna, I. Hanssen-Bauer, S. -J. Kim, J. E. Walsh, M. Wang, U. S. Bhatt, R. L. Thoman, 2015: Air Temperature [in Arctic Report Card 2015], http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/reportcard.
58. Epstein,H. E., U. S. Bhatt, M. K. Raynolds, D. A. Walker, P. A. Bieniek, C. J. Tucker, J. Pinzon, I. H. Myers-Smith, B. C. Forbes, M. Macias-Fauria, N. T. Boelman, S. K. Sweet, 2015: Tundra Greeness [in Arctic Report Card 2015], http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/reportcard.
57. Overland, J., E. Hanna, I. Hanssen-Bauer, S.-J. Kim, J. Walsh, M. Wang, and U.S. Bhatt, 2015: The Arctic Air temperature—[in "State of the Climate in 2014"]. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 96 (7), S217-S219.
56. Kontar, Y.Y., U.S. Bhatt, S.D. Lindsey, E.W. Plumb, and R.L. Thoman, 2015: Interdisciplinary approach to hydrological hazard mitigation and disaster response and effects of climate change on the occurrence of flood severity in central Alaska, Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences. Proc. IAHS, 369, 13–17, 2015, proc-iahs.net/369/13/2015/, doi:10.5194/piahs-369-13-2015, pdf.
2014
55. Epstein,H.E., U.S. Bhatt, M.K. Raynolds, D.A. Walker, P.A. Bieniek, C.J. Tucker, J. Pinzon, H. Zeng, G.J. Jia, K.C. Guay, S.J. Goetz, 2014: Tundra Greenness [in Arctic Report Card 2014], http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/reportcard.
54. Overland, J., E. Hanna, I. Hanssen-Bauer, S.-J. Kim, J. Walsh, M. Wang, U. S. Bhatt, 2014: Air Temperature [in Arctic Report Card 2014], http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/reportcard.
53. Overland,J., E. Hanna, I. Hanssen-Bauer, S.-J. Kim, J. Walsh, M. Wang, and U.S. Bhatt, 2014: The Arctic Air temperature—[in "State of the Climate in 2013"]. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 95 (7).
52. Bhatt, U.S., D.A. Walker, J.E. Walsh, E.C. Carmack, K.E. Frey, W.N. Meier, S.E. Moore, F.J.W. Parmentier, E. Post, V.E. Romanovsky, and W.R. Simpson, 2014: Implications of Arctic Sea Ice Decline for the Earth System, Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 39, 57-89, pdf.
51. Bieniek, P.A., J.E. Walsh, R.L. Thoman and U.S. Bhatt, 2014: Using Climate Divisions to Analyze Variations and Trends in Alaska Temperature and Precipitation, J. Climate, 27 (8), 2800-2818, pdf. Press: 2015 story on the blessing of climate divisions here; 2020 story on 2019 extreme warmth in Alaska & role of climate divisions here
2013
50. Rolf
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Donald A Walker, Phillip A Wookey, Dominique Berteaux, Uma
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Scott Gilbert, Maria Leung, Irina E. Menyushina, Nikita
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49. Polyakov, I.V., U.S. Bhatt, J.E. Walsh, E.P. Abrahamsen, A.V. Pnyushkov, and P.F. Wassmann, 2013: Recent oceanic changes in the Arctic in the context of longer term observations, Ecological Applications 23:1745–1764. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/11-0902.1, pdf.
48. Overland, J., E. Hanna , I. Hanssen-Bauer, B.-M. Kim, S.-J. Kim, J. Walsh, M. Wang, and U. Bhatt, 2013: Air Temperature [in Arctic Report Card 2013], http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/reportcard.
47. Epstein, H,E, U.S. Bhatt, D.A. Walker, M.K. Raynolds, P.A. Bieniek, J. Comiso, J. Pinzon, C.J. Tucker, I.V. Polyakov, G.J. Jia, H. Zeng, B.C. Forbes, M. Macias-Fauria, L. Xu, R. Myneni, G.V. Frost, G.R. Shaver, M.S. Bret-Harte, M.C. Mack, and A.V. Rocha, 2013: Vegetation [in Arctic Report Card 2013], http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/reportcard.
46. Basu,S., X. Zhang, I. Polyakov, and U.S. Bhatt, 2013: North American Winter-Spring Storms: Modeling Investigation on Tropical Pacific Sea Surface Temperature Impacts, Geophys. Res. Lett., 40, 5228–5233, doi:10.1002/grl.50990, pdf.
45. Boone, R.D. and U.S. Bhatt, 2013: Climate Change, In Land and Environment I (BCS 311), Bachelor’s of Circumpolar Studies, University of the Arctic. (Web-based Course Module), pdf.
44. Bhatt, U.S., D.A. Walker, M.K. Raynolds, P.A. Bieniek, H.E. Epstein, J.C. Comiso, J.E. Pinzon, C.J. Tucker, and I.V. Polyakov, 2013: Recent Declines in Warming and Arctic Vegetation Greening Trends over Pan-Arctic Tundra, Remote Sensing (Special NDVI3g Issue), 5, 4229-4254; doi:10.3390/rs5094229, pdf.
43. Post, E., U.S. Bhatt, C.M. Bitz, J. F. Brodie, T.L. Fulton, M. Hebblewhite, J. Kerby, S.J. Kutz, I. Stirling, and D A. Walker, 2013: Ecological Consequences of Sea Ice Decline, Science, 341, 519-524, pdf.
42. Dammann, D.O., U.S. Bhatt, P.L. Langen, J. Krieger, X. Zhang, 2013: Impact of Daily Arctic Sea Ice Variability in CAM3.0 During Fall and Winter, J. Climate, 26 (6), 1939-1955, pdf.
2012
41. Masson-Delmotte, V., D. Swingedouw, A. Landais., M.-S. Seidenkrantz, E. Gauthier,, V. Bichet, C. Massa, B. Perren, V. Jomelli, G. Adalgeirsdottir, J. Hesselbjerg Christensen, J. Arneborg, U. Bhatt, D.A.Walker, B. Elberling, F. Gillet-Chaulet, C. Ritz, H. Gallée, M. van den Broeke, X. Fettweis, A. de Vernal, and B.Vinther, 2012: Greenland climate change: from the past to the future. WIREs Clim Change, 3: 427–449. doi: 10.1002/wcc.186, pdf.
40. Overland, J., U. Bhatt, J. Key, Y. Liu, J. Walsh, and M. Wang, 2012: [The Arctic] Air temperature, atmospheric circulation, and clouds— [in "State of the Climate in 2011"]. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 93 (7), S127-S129, pdf.
39. Walker, D.A., U.S. Bhatt, H.E. Epstein, P. Bieniek, J. Comiso, G.V. Frost, J. Pinzon, M.K Raynolds, and C.J. Tucker, 2012: [The Arctic] Changing Arctic Tundra Vegetation Biomass and Greenness— [in "State of the Climate in 2011"]. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 93 (7), S138-S139, pdf.
38. Bieniek, P. A., U.S. Bhatt, R.L. Thoman, H. Angeloff, J. Partain, J. Papineau, F. Fritsch, E. Holloway, J.E. Walsh, C. Daly, M. Shulski, G. Hufford, D.F. Hill, S. Calos, and R. Gens, 2012: Climate divisions for Alaska based on objective methods, J. Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 51 (7), 1276-1289, pdf.
37. Legatt, R., I.V. Polyakov, U.S. Bhatt, X. Zhang, 2012: North Atlantic Variability Driven by Atmospheric and Oceanic Stochastic Forcing in a Simple Box Model, Tellus A, 64, 18695, http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v64i0.18695, pdf.
36. Epstein, H.E., M.K. Raynolds, D.A. Walker, U.S. Bhatt, C.J. Tucker, and J.E. Pinzon, 2012: Dynamics of aboveground phytomass of the circumpolar arctic tundra during the past three decades, Environ. Res. Lett., doi:10.1088/1748-9326/7/1/015506, pdf.
35. Walker, D.A., H.E. Epstein, M.K. Raynolds, P. Kuss, M.A. Kopecky, G.V. Frost, F.J.A. Daniëls, M.O. Leibman, N.G. Moskalenko, G.V. Matyshak, O.V. Khitun, A.V. Khomutov, B.C. Forbes, U.S. Bhatt, A.N. Kade, C.M. Vonlanthen, 2012: Environment, vegetation and greenness (NDVI) along the North America and Eurasia Arctic transects, Environ. Res. Lett.,doi:10.1088/1748-9326/7/1/015504, pdf.
2011
32. Bieniek, P. A., U. S. Bhatt, L. A. Rundquist, S. D. Lindsey, X. Zhang, R. L. Thoman, 2011: Large-Scale Climate Controls of Interior Alaska River Ice Breakup. J. Climate, 24, 286–297. pdf.
31. Walker, D.A., U.S. Bhatt, M.K. Raynolds, V.E. Romanovsky, G.P. Kofinas, J.P. Kuss, B.C. Forbes, F. Stammler, T. Kumpula, E. Kaarlejärvi, M.O. Leibman, N.G. Moskalenko, A.A. Gubarkov, A.V. Khomutov, D.S. Drozdov, H.E. Epstein, Q. Yu, G.J. Jia, J.O. Kaplan, J.C. Comiso, 2011: Cumulative effects of rapid land-cover and land-use changes on the Yamal Peninsula, Russia. In:Eurasian Arctic Land Cover and Land Use in a Changing Climate Gutman, Garik; Reissell, Anni (Eds.) 1st Edition., 2011, VI, 226 p. 100 illus., Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-9117-8, DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-9118-5_2. pdf.
30. Goetz, S.J., H.E., Epstein, D. Alcaraz, U.S. Bhatt, J. Comiso, G.J. Jia, J.O. Kaplan, H. Lischke, A., Lloyd, Q. Yu, and D.A. Walker, 2011: Recent Changes in Arctic Vegetation: Satellite Observations and Simulation Model Predictions. In: Eurasian Arctic Land Cover and Land Use in a Changing Climate Gutman, Garik; Reissell, Anni (Eds.) 1st Edition., 2011, VI, 226 p. 100 illus., Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-9117-8, DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-9118-5_2. pdf.
2010
29. Bhatt, U.S., D.A. Walker, M.K. Raynolds, J.C. Comiso, H.E. Epstein, G.Jia, R. Gens, J.E. Pinzon, C.J. Tucker, C.E. Tweedie, and P.J. Webber, 2010: Circumpolar Arctic tundra vegetation change is linked to sea-ice decline, Earth Interactions. August 2010, Vol. 14, No. 8: 1-20. doi: 10.1175/2010EI315.1. pdf.
28. Walker, D.A., U.S. Bhatt, J.C. Comiso, H.E. Epstein, W.A. Gould, G.H.R. Henry, G.J. Jia, S.V. Kokelj, T.C. Lantz, J.A. Mercado-Díaz, J.E. Pinzon, M.K. Raynolds, G.R. Shaver, C.J. Tucker, C.E. Tweedie, P.J. Webber, 2010: Arctic: Land: Vegetation [in "State of the Climate in 2009"]. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc.,91 (6), S79-S82. pdf.
27. Polyakov, I.V., V. A. Alexeev, U.S. Bhatt, E.V. Polyakova, and X. Zhang, 2010: North Atlantic warming: Patterns of long-term trend and multidecadal variability, Climate Dynamics, doi:10.1007/s00382-008-0522-3. pdf .
26. Nance, K., U.S. Bhatt, B. Hay, 2010: The PATH Project: Partnerships for Automated Transformations of Heterogeneous Datasets, HICSS, Proceedings of the 43th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'10). pdf.
25. Bourne, S. M., U.S. Bhatt, J. Zhang, R. Thoman, 2010: Surface-based Temperature Inversions in Alaska from a Climate Perspective, Atmospheric Research, doi:10.1016/j.atmosres.2009.09.013. pdf.
2009
24. Walker, D.W., M.O. Leibman, H.E. Epstein, B.C. Forbes, U.S. Bhatt, M.K. Raynolds, J.C. Comiso, A.A. Gubarkov, A V. Khomutov, G J. Jia, E. Kaarlejärvi, J O. Kaplan, T. Kumpula, P. Kuss, G. Matyshak, N.G. Moskalenko, P. Orekhov, V.E. Romanovsky, N.K. Ukraientseva, and Q. Yu, 2009: Spatial and temporal patterns of greenness on the Yamal Peninsula, Russia: Interactions of ecological and social factors affecting Arctic NDVI , Environ. Res. Lett. 4, 045004 (16pp) doi:10.1088/1748-9326/4/4/045004. pdf.
23. Walker, D.A, U.S. Bhatt, M.K. Raynolds, J.E. Comiso, H.E. Epstein and G.J. Jia, 2009: Land: Vegetation, in State of the Climate in 2008: Arctic. Peterson, T. and M. Baringer eds., Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
2008
22. Bhatt, U. S., M.A Alexander, C. Deser, J.E.Walsh, J.S. Miller, M. Timlin, J.D. Scott, and R. Tomas, 2008: The Atmospheric Response to Realistic Reduced Summer Arctic Sea Ice Anomalies, in Arctic Sea Ice Decline: Observations, Projections, Mechanisms, and Implications, Geophys. Monogr. Ser., vol. 180, edited by E. T. DeWeaver, C. M. Bitz, and L.-B. Tremblay, pp. 91-110, AGU, Washington, D. C. pdf.
21. Li, Z., U.S. Bhatt, and N. Mölders, 2008: Impact of doubled CO2 on the interaction between the global and regional water cycles in four study regions. Climate Dynamics , pp 255-275, 10.1007/s00382-007-0283-4. pdf.
2007
18. Zhang, J., U.S. Bhatt, W.V. Tangborn, C.S. Lingle, 2007: Response of Glaciers in Northwestern North America to Future Climate Change: an Atmosphere/Glacier Hierarchical Modeling Approach, Annals of Glaciology, Vol. 46, 283 – 290. pdf.
2006
17. Polyakova, E.I., A.G. Journel, I.V. Polyakov, and U.S. Bhatt, 2006: Changing relationship between the North Atlantic Oscillation and key North Atlantic climate parameters, Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L03711, doi:10.1029/2005GL024573. pdf.
2005
16. Polyakov, I.V., U.S. Bhatt, H.L. Simmons, D. Walsh, J.E. Walsh, X. Zhang, 2005: Multidecadal Variability of North Atlantic Temperature and Salinity during the Twentieth Century, J. Climate, (18)21, 4562-4581. pdf.
15. Bhatt, U.S., D.E. Newman, B.A. Carreras, I. Dobson, 2005: Understanding the Effect of Risk Aversion on Risk, HICSS, p. 64b, Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'05) - Track 2, 2005. pdf.
2004
14. Polyakov, I.V. , G.V. Alekseev, L. Timokhov, U.S. Bhatt, R.L. Colony, H.L. Simmons, D. Walsh, J. Walsh, 2004: Variability of the intermediate Atlantic Water of the Arctic Ocean over the last 100 years, J. Climate,17(23), 4485-4497. pdf.
13. Hu, Z.-Z., E.K. Schneider, U.S. Bhatt, and B.P. Kirtman, 2004: Potential mechanism for response of El Niño–Southern Oscillation variability to change in land surface energy budget, J. Geophys. Res., 109, D21113, doi:10.1029/2004JD004771. pdf .
12. Zhang, X., J.E. Walsh, J. Zhang, U.S. Bhatt, and M. Ikeda. 2004: Intensifying Arctic cyclone activity. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. 85: 949-950. [summary in Papers of Note, invited].
11. Zhang, X., J.E. Walsh, J. Zhang, U.S. Bhatt, and M. Ikeda, 2004: Climatology and Interannual Variability of Arctic Cyclone Activity, 1948 – 2002, J. Climate, 2300-2317. pdf.
10. Alexander, M.A., U.S. Bhatt, J. Walsh, M. Timlin, and J. Miller, 2004: The Atmospheric Response to Realistic Arctic Sea Ice Anomalies in an AGCM during Winter, J. Climate 17, 890-905. pdf.
2003
7. Polyakov, I.V., G. Alekseev, R. Bekryaev, U.S. Bhatt, R. Colony, M. Johnson, V. Karklin, D. Walsh, and A. Yulin, 2003: Long-term variability of ice in the arctic marginal seas, J. Climate 16, 2078-2085. pdf.
2002
6. Polyakov, I.V., S. Akasofu, U.S. Bhatt, R. Colony, M. Ikeda, A. Makshtas, C. Swingley, D. Walsh, and J. Walsh, 2002: Long-term trends and variations of the arctic climate system, EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 83 (47) : 547-548. pdf.
5. Polyakov, I.V., G. Alekseev, R. Bekryaev, U.S. Bhatt, R. Colony, M. Johnson, V. Karklin, A. Makshtas, D. Walsh, and A. Yulin, 2002: Observationally-based assessment of polar amplification of global warming, Geophysical Research Letters, 1878, doi:10.1029/2001GL011111. pdf.
2000 and earlier
4. Schneider, E.K., and U.S. Bhatt, 2000: A dissipation integral with application to ocean diffusivities and structure, J. Physical Oceangr., 30, 1158-1171. (COLA Tech Report 59). pdf.
3. Bhatt, U.S., M.A. Alexander, D.S. Battisti, D.D. Houghton and L.M. Keller, 1998: Atmosphere-ocean interaction in the North Atlantic: near surface climate variability, J. Climate, 11, 1615-1632. pdf.
2. Battisti, D.S., U.S. Bhatt, and M.A. Alexander, 1995: A modeling study of the interannual variability of sea-surface temperature in the wintertime N. Atlantic Ocean, J. Climate, 8, 3067-3083. pdf.
1. Bhatt, U.S.,1989: Circulation regimes of rainfall anomalies in the African - South Asian monsoon belt, J. Climate, 2, 1133 - 1144. pdf.
Theses
Bhatt, U.S., 1996: Role of atmosphere-ocean interaction in the midlatitude North Atlantic on climate variability, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Wisconsin, 159 pp. to download page.
Bhatt, U.S., 1989: On mechanisms of Subsaharan rainfall anomalies, M.S. Thesis, University of Wisconsin, 88pp.
Bhatt, U. and D.E. Newman, 2007: Ecosystem modeling and the International Polar Year, Computing in Science & Engineering, 9 (4): 13-13 JUL-AUG 2007.
Bhatt, U. S. and D.E. Newman, 2007: A special track on the International Polar Year, Computing in Science & Engineering, 9 (1): 59-60, JAN-FEB, pdf.
Tilley, J.S., J.E. Walsh, U.S. Bhatt, N. Mölders and S.A. Vavrus, 2003: Arctic Atmospheric and System Modeling: A Survey of IARC-related activities. Tohoku Geophys. Journal, 36 (4), 397-409.
Sprott, C. , D. Newman, C. Watts, and U.S.Bhatt,
1992: Physics Experiments You Can
Do At Home, Pamphlet
Bhatt, U.S., D.E. Newman, contributions from many Peace Corps Volunteers, 1985: plus Steve Varner (illustrations) and Barbara Stanford (Exhumer from the land of dead manuscripts, 1989), Cookin' in Kenya: Vegetarian Cookbook, Secondary Peace Corps Project. 119 pp. This project was undertaken in 1984-5 to help PCVs prepare vegetarian food in rural Kenyan kitchens. download pdf here. (Thanks to Craig Dorman for making the pdf version happen. 3/14/2005, if it was left to us, then it would have probably been another 20 years!).
