Physical Scientist
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
http://climate.gsfc.nasa.gov/~ewilcox/
RESEARCH AREA EXPERIENCE
Aerosol/Cloud Interactions, Atmospheric Convection and Rainfall, Climate Modeling
EDUCATION
2002
Ph.D. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego
1995
B.Sc. Physics, UC San Diego
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2005
Adjunct Instructor, Department of Earth and Environmental Studies, Montclair State Univeristy, Montclair NJ
2003-2005
Visiting Fellow, NOAA Postdoctoral Program in Climate & Global Change, Princeton University Program in Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences, NOAA/GFDL
2002-2003
Postgraduate Research Atmospheric Physicist, Center for Atmospheric Sciences, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
1996-2002
Graduate Student Researcher, Center for Atmospheric Sciences, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS
American Meteorological Society, American Geophysical Union
HONORS AND AWARDS
2007
Laboratory for Atmospheres Peer Award, Scientific Recognition
2003-2005
NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship
2001
Best Student Poster Award, 11th American Meteorological Society Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography
1998
Universities Space Research Association/NASA Graduate Student Summer Program Fellowship, Goddard Space Flight Center, Maryland
1994
University of California President’s Undergraduate Research Fellowship
SPECIAL EXPERIENCE
• Associate editor: Journal of the Environment and Development, 1998 • Reviewed manuscripts for Journal of Climate, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, and Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics • Scientific judge: National Ocean Sciences Bowl regional and national competition, 2003 • Scripps Inst. Oceanography Ad-hoc Student Committee for Faculty Evaluations, 1996-1999 • Climate Sciences student representative: Scripps Inst. Oceanography Student Committee, 1996-1999 • Spring, 2004 Cloud Indirect Forcing Experiment (CIFEX), Northeast Pacific Ocean. Co-directed an airborne research experiment investigating aerosol-cloud interactions in midlatitude oceanic cloud systems. Principal flight scientist for six research flights in U. Wyoming King Air aircraft • Winter, 1999 Indian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX), Kaashidhoo Climate Observatory, Republic of Maldives. Conducted radiosonde and surface radiative flux measurements • Spring, 2005 Taught PHMS210, Introduction to Marine Science, Department of Earth and Environmental Studies, Montclair State University.
Recent Invited Lectures and Conference Presentations
Dec 2006
Aerosol-Cloud Interactions in Observations and a Parameterization Designed for Global Climate Models. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco CA.
Jul 2006
Aerosol indirect forcing in observations and single-column model simulations. AMS Conference on Clouds and Atmospheric Radiation, Madison WI
Dec 2005
Springtime Aerosol Indirect Forcing Across the North Pacific Ocean, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco
Jan 2005
Radiative Forcing of North Pacific Cloud Systems Under the Influence of Asian Aerosols 7th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, AMS Annual Meeting, San Diego
Dec 2004
Aerosol-Cloud Interactions Over the North Pacific Ocean: an Integrated Assessment Using Aircraft, Satellites and a Global Model AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco
Oct 2004
Testing Climate Model Representations of Atmospheric Physics using Satellite and Aircraft Observations, University of Wyoming Dept. of Atmospheric Science
Aug 2004
Rainfall, Convection and Aerosol Transport in Climate Models and Satellite Observations, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Jul 2004
How Well Do Global Climate Models Simulate Rain? NOAA/UCAR Climate and Global Change Summer Institute, Steamboat Springs, Colorado
Dec 2003
Instantaneous Rain Rates in Satellite Observations and a General Circulation Model AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco
Jan 2003
Spatial Scales of Tropical Cloud Systems and Their Impact on the Atmospheric Environment, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton University
May 2002
Satellite Observations of the Spatio-Temporal Scales of Tropical Cloud Systems: Implications for the Parameterization of Aerosol Scavenging, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz Germany
Show Refereed Publications
1.
Hellman, F., M. Q. Tran, A. E. Gebala, E. M. Wilcox, and R. C. Dynes, 1996: Metal-Insulator Transition and Giant Negative Magnetoresistance in Amorphous Magnetic Rare Earth Silicon Alloys. Phys. Rev. Lett., 77, 4652-4655.
2.
Wilcox, E. M., and V. Ramanathan, 2001: Scale Dependence of the Thermodynamic Forcing of Tropical Monsoon Clouds: Results from TRMM Observations. J. Climate, 14, 1511-1524.
3.
Wilcox, E. M., 2003: Spatial and Temporal Scales of Precipitating Tropical Cloud Systems in Satellite Imagery and the NCAR CCM3. J. Climate, 16, 3545-3559.
4.
Wilcox, E. M., and V. Ramanathan, 2004: The Impact of Observed Precipitation upon the Transport of Aerosols from South Asia.. Tellus 56B, 435-450.
5.
Wilcox, E. M., G. Roberts, and V. Ramanathan, 2006: Influence of aerosols on the shortwave cloud radiative forcing from north Pacific Oceanic Clouds: Results from the Cloud Indirect Forcing Experiment (CIFEX). Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L21804, doi:10.1029/2006GL027150.
6.
Wilcox, E. M., and L. J. Donner, 2007: The Frequency of Extreme Rain Events in Satellite Rain Rate Estimates and an Atmospheric General Circulation Model. J. Climate, 20, 53-69.
7.
Wilcox, E. M., Harshvardhan, and S. Platnick, 2009: Estimate of the impact of absorbing aerosol over cloud on the MODIS retrievals of cloud optical thickness and effective radius using two independent retrievals of liquid water path. J. Geophys. Res., 114, D05210, doi:10.1029/2008JD010589.
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Sud, Y. C., E. M. Wilcox, K.-M. Lau, G. K. Walker, X.-H. Liu, A. Nenes, D. Lee, K.-M. Kim, Y. Zhou, and P. S. Bhattacharjee, 2009: Sensitivity of Boreal-Summer Circulation and Precipitation to Atmospheric Aerosols in Selected Regions, Part I: Africa and India. Annales Geophysicae, 27, 3989-4007.
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Wilcox, E. M., Y. C. Sud, and G. K. Walker, 2009: Sensitivity of Boreal-Summer Circulation and Precipitation to Atmospheric Aerosols in Selected Regions, Part II: The Americas. Annales Geophysicae, 27, 4009-4021.
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Wilcox, E. M., W. K. M. Lau, and Kim, 2009: A Northward Shift of the North Atlantic Ocean Inter-tropical Convergence Zone in Response to Summertime Saharan Dust Outbreaks. Geophys. Res. Lett. (Submitted)
