J. David Neelin


neelin@atmos.ucla.edu

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Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, UCLA

Office
7961 Math Sciences Building
Phone: (310) 206-3734
Fax: (310) 206-5219

Mailing Address
Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences
University of California, Los Angeles
405 Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90024-1565

Education
  • Doctorate: October, 1987, Princeton University, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Program
  • Master of Science: August, 1983, University of Toronto, Department of Physics
  • Bachelor of Science, Hon.: June, 1981, University of Toronto, Department of Physics

Positions
  • Professor, Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences and Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, UC Los Angeles
    July 1995--present
  • Associate Professor, Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, UC Los Angeles
    July 1992--July 1995
  • Visiting Associate Professor, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Houghton Lectureship),
    January 1994--May 1995
  • Assistant Professor, Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles.
    Sept. 1988--June 1992
  • Postdoctoral Associate, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
    Sept. 1987--Aug. 1988

Selected Honors and Awards
  • Fellow American Meteorological Society, 2002
  • Fellow Royal Meteorological Society, 2001
  • NSF Special Creativity Award 1999-2000
  • C. L. Meisinger Award of the American Meteorological Society, 1996
  • Houghton Lectureship, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT, 1994--95
  • Presidential Young Investigator Award 1991-1996

Research interests
  • Research group web page
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction
    El Nino/Southern oscillation.
    Climate variations on interannual and longer time scales.
    Sea-ice - ocean interaction.
    Land-surface - climate interaction.
  • Tropical atmospheric dynamics
    Interaction between moist convection and large-scale motions.
    Evaporation-wind feedback.
    Intraseasonal oscillations.
  • Modeling Building atmospheric and ocean-atmosphere models of intermediate complexity.
    Hybrid coupled models.
    Theoretical models of atmospheric and climate phenomena.
    Use of asymptotic methods to simplify more complex models.
  • Research description from Department al Brochure

Publications
(Last Modified: Sept, 2002)