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Evan, Amato

Assistant Professor

Assistant Research Scientist, Step III

Degrees:

  • B.S., Oregon State University
  • M.S., University of Wisconsin - Madison
  • Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison

Research Interests:

  • Aerosol variability and radiative forcing
  • Land-ocean-atmosphere coupling
  • Climate variability of the tropics and tropical cyclones
  • Cloud feedbacks
  • Remote sensing

Honors and Awards:

  • 2006 Lettau Award for outstanding MS Thesis, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin at Madison.
  • 2009 NOAA-CIMSS Collaboration Award, Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, University of Wisconsin at Madison.
  • 2009 Colloquium Student Service Award for creative dedication to the department's intellectual life, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin at Madison.
  • 2011 National Academy of Sciences invitation to the 1st Arab-American Frontiers of Science, Engineering, and Medicine symposium.
  • 2012 Maury-Tice Award for Faculty Research, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia.

Mentoring:

  • Yu, Qin (Post Doc; 2012-2013)
  • Palko, Diane (Undergrad; 2011-2012)
  • Lynn, Stacy (Masters; 2010-2012)
  • Ostendorff, Anna (Masters; 2010-2012)
  • Rawley, Justin (Undergrad; 2010-2011)
  • Strong, Jeffery (Undergrad; 2010-2011)
  • Wang, Weijie (Masters; 2010-2012)

Home Department:
Scripps Dept

Mailing Address:
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla CA, 92093
Mail Code: CASPO

Email: aevan@ucsd.edu


Scripps Scholars Profile: http://scrippsscholars.ucsd.edu/aevan

Lab Website: http://evan.ucsd.edu
WWW:

Publications:

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Evan, A. T. (2012) Climate Science: Aerosols and Atlantic aberrations, Nature, 484, 170-171, doi:10.1038/nature11037.

Evan, A. T. (2012) Atlantic hurricane activity following two major volcanic eruptions, J. Geophys. Res., 117, D06101, doi:10.1029/2011JD016716.

Evan, A. T., R. J. Allen, D. J. Vimont and R. Bennartz (2012) The modification of sea surface temperature anomaly linear damping time scales by stratocumulus clouds, J. Clim., in press.

Evan, A. T., G. R. Foltz and D. Zhang (2012) Physical response of the tropical-subtropical North Atlantic Ocean to decadal-multidecadal forcing by African dust, J. Clim., doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00438.

Evan, A. T., J. P. Kossin, C. E. Chung and V. Ramanathan (2012) Reply to “Intensified Arabian Sea tropical storms”, Nature, 489, E2–E3, doi:10.1038/nature11471.

Evan, A. T., J. R. Norris (2012) On global changes in effective cloud height, Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L19710, doi:10.1029/2012GL053171.

Heidinger, A. K., A. T. Evan, M. J. Foster and A. Walther (2012) A Naive Bayesian Cloud Detection Scheme Derived from CALIPSO and Applied to PATMOS-x, J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 51, 1129–1144. doi:10.1175/JAMC-D-11-02.1.

Wang, C., S. Dong, A. T. Evan, G. R. Foltz and S.-K. Lee (2012) Multidecadal Co-variability of North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature, African dust, and Sahel Rainfall, J. Clim., doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00413.1.

Evan, A. T., J. P. Kossin, C. E. Chung and V. Ramanathan (2011) Strengthening of Arabian Sea tropical cyclones and the South Asian atmospheric brown cloud, Nature, 479, 94–97, doi:10.1038/nature10552.

Evan, A. T., G. R. Foltz, D. Zhang and D. J. Vimont (2011) Influence of African dust on ocean-atmosphere variability in the tropical Atlantic, Nature Geoscience, 4, 762–765 (2011) doi:10.1038/ngeo1276.

Evan, A. T. and S. J. Camargo (2011) A Climatology of Arabian Sea Cyclonic Storms, J. Climate, 24, 140–158, doi: 10.1175/2010JCLI3611.1.

Evan, A. T. and S. Mukhopadhyay (2010) African dust over the northern tropical Atlantic: 1955–2008, J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 49, 2213–2229, doi: 10.1175/2010JAMC2485.1.

Evan, A. T., D. J. Vimont, R. Bennartz, J. P. Kossin and A. K. Heidinger (2009) The role of aerosols in the evolution of tropical North Atlantic Ocean temperature, Science, Vol. 324. no. 5928, pp. 778 - 781, doi:10.1126/science.1167404.

Evan, A. T., R. Bennartz, V. Bennington, H. Corrada-Bravo, A. K. Heidinger, N. M. Mahowald, C. S. Velden, G. Myhre and J. P. Kossin (2008) Ocean temperature forcing by aerosols across the Atlantic tropical cyclone development region. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 9, Q05V04, doi:10.1029/2007GC001774.

Ramankutty, N., A. T. Evan, C. Monfreda and J. A. Foley (2008), Farming the planet: 1. Geographic distribution of global agricultural lands in the year 2000, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 22, GB1003, doi:10.1029/2007GB002952.

Evan, A. T. (2007) Comment on “How Nature Foiled the 2006 Hurricane Forecasts.” EOS Trans., 88(26), pp. 271. The original, longer document.

Evan, A. T., A. K. Heidinger and D. J. Vimont (2007) Arguments against a physical long-term trend in global ISCCP cloud amounts. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L04701, doi:10.1029/2006GL028083.

Evan, A. T., J. Dunion, J. Foley, A. Heidinger and C. Velden (2006) New evidence for a relationship between Atlantic tropical cyclone activity and African dust outbreaks. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L19813, doi:10.1029/2006GL026408.

Evan, A. T., A. K. Heidinger and M. J. Pavolonis (2006), Development of a new over–water advanced very high resolution radiometer dust detection algorithm, Int. J. Remote Sens, 27(18), pp. 3903-3924.

Evan, A. T., A. K. Heidinger and P. Knippertz (2006), Analysis of winter dust activity off the coast of West Africa using a new 24-year over-water advanced very high resolution radiometer satellite dust climatology, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D12210, doi:10.1029/2005JD006336.


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