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MCCLEAN, JULIE

Research Oceanographer

Degrees:

• B.S., Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
• M.S., University of Sydney, Australia
• Ph.D., Old Dominion University

Research Interests:

• Large-scale general circulation numerical modeling of the ocean and sea-ice.
• Climate change and variability in the ocean/sea-ice system
• Tropical ocean dynamics

Honors and Awards:

• Outstanding Research Achievement Award, Department of Oceanography, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, 2000
• Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society, 1992-Present
• Phi Kappa Phi Outstanding Oceanography Ph.D Student, 1992
• Poster Presentation Award, Australian Physical Oceanography Conference, 1985

Mentoring:

• Delman, Andrew (Graduate; 2009-)
• Ivanova, Detelina (Post Doc; 2007-2009)
• Griesel, Alexa (Post Doc; 2005-2010)
• Thoppil, Prasad (Post Doc; 2002-2005)
• Martinho, Antonio (Graduate; 1999-2003)
• Pelton, Jimmy (Masters; 1998-2000)
• Lemon, Michael (Masters; 1995-1997)

Peer Reviewed Publications:

Ivanova, D.P., J.L. McClean, and E.C. Hunke, Interaction of ocean temperature advection, surface heat fluxes and sea ice in the marginal ice zone during the North Atlantic Oscillation in the 1990s: A modeling study, Journal of Geophysical Research, 117,C02031,doi:10.1029/2011JC007532, 2012.

Gawarkiewicz, G., S. Jan, P. Lermusiaux, J.L. McClean, L. Centurioni, K. Taylor, B. Cornuelle, T. F. Duda, J. Wang, Y. J. Yang, T. Sanford, R.-C. Lien, C. Lee, M.-A. Lee, W. Leslie, P. Haley Jr., P. P. Niiler, G. Gopalakrishnan, P. Velez-Belchi, D.-K. Lee, and Y. Y. Kim, Circulation and intrusions northeast of Taiwan? Chasing and predicting uncertainty in the Cold Dome. Oceanography, 24(4): 110-121, 2011.

Carman, J.C., and J. L. McClean, Investigation of IPCC AR4 coupled climate model North Atlantic mode water formation, Ocean Modelling, 40, 14-34, 2011.

McClean, J.L., D.C. Bader, F.O. Bryan, M.E. Maltrud, J.M. Dennis, A.A. Mirin, P.W. Jones, Y.Y. Kim, D. P. Ivanova, M. Vertenstein, J.S. Boyle, R.L. Jacob, N. Norton, A. Craig, and P. H. Worley, A prototype two-decade fully-coupled fine-resolution CCSM simulation, Ocean Modelling, 39, 10-30, 2011.

Lenn, Y.D., T. K. Chereskin, J. Sprintall, and J.L. McClean: Near-surface eddy heat and momentum fluxes in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current in Drake Passage, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 41(7), 1385-1407, 2011.

Bryan, F.O, R. Thomas, J. Dennis, D. Chelton, N. G. Loeb, and J. L. McClean: Frontal scale air-sea interaction in high-resolution coupled climate models, Journal of Climate, 23(23), 6277-6291, 2010.

Griesel, A., S.T. Gille, J. Sprintall, J. L. McClean, J. H. LaCase, and M.E. Maltrud, Isopycnal diffusivities in the Antarctic Curcumpolar Current inferred from Lagrangian floats in an eddying ocean model, Journal of Geophysical Research, C06006, doi:10.1029/2009JC005821, 2010.

Jayne, S. R., N.G. Hogg, S. N. Waterman, L. Rainville, K. A. Donohue, D. R. Watts. K. L. Tracey, J. L. McClean, M. E. Maltrud, B. Qui, S. Chen, and P. Hacker, The Kuroshio Extension and it recirculation gyres, Deep-Sea Research I, 56,2088-2099, 2009.

Griesel, A., S. T. Gille, J. Sprintall, J. L. McClean, and M. E. Maltrud: Parameterizing eddy heat flux in a 1/10° Ocean Simulation: A Wavenumber Perspective, Ocean Modelling, 29, 248-260, doi:10.1016/j.ocemod. 2009.05.004, 2009.

Arbic, B. K., J. F. Shriver, R., P. J. Hogan, H. E. Hurlburt, J. L. McClean, E. J. Metzger, R. B. Scott, A. Sen, O. M. Smedstad and A. J. Wallcraft, Estimates of bottom flows and bottom boundary layer dissipation of the oceanic general circulation from global high resolution models. Journal of Geophysical Research, 114, C02024, doi:10.1029/2008JC005072, 2009.

Wolfe, C. L. P. Cessi, J. L. McClean, and M.E. Maltrud, Vertical heat transport and vertical turbulent diffusivity in eddying ocean models. Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L23605, doi:10.1029/2008GL036138, 2008.

Piacsek, S., R. Allard, and J. McClean: Watermass census in the Nordic and Arctic Seas using climatological and observational data sets, Il Nuovo Cimento C, 31,2,215-240. doi: doi:10.1393/ncc/2008-10290-8, 2008.

Byrne, D. A., and J. McClean: Sea level anomaly signals in the Agulhas Current region, Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L13701, doi:10.1029/2008GL034584, 2008.

Donohue, K., D. R. Watts, K. Tracey, M. Wimbush, J.-H. Park, N. Bond, M. Cronin, S. Chen, B. Qiu, P. Hacker, N. Hogg, S. Jayne, J. McClean, L. Rainville, H. Mitsudera, Y. Tanimoto, S.-P. Xie, Program Studies in the Kuroshio Extension, EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 89 (17), pp 161-162, 22 April 2008.

McClean, J.L., S. Jayne, M.E. Maltrud, D.P. Ivanova: The Fidelity of Ocean Models with Explicit Eddies. In “Eddy-Resolving Ocean Modelling”, M. Hecht and H. Hasumi, Eds., AGU Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 170, pp.149-163, 2008.

Bala G., R. B. Rood, A. Mirin, J. McClean, K. Achuta Rao, D. Bader, P. Gleckler,, R. Neale, and P. Rasch: Evaluation of a CCSM3 Simulation with a Finite Volume Dynamical Core for the Atmosphere at 1°x 1.25° Longitude Resolution. Journal of Climate, 21(7), 1467-1486, 2008.

Rainville, L., S. R. Jayne, J. L. McClean, and M. E. Maltrud: Formation of Subtropical Mode Water in a High ¬Resolution POP Simulation of the Kuroshio Extension Region, Ocean Modelling, 17, 338-356, 2007.

Batteen, M. L., A.S. Martinho, H. A. Miller, and J.L. McClean: A process-oriented modelling study of the Coastal Canary and Iberian Current. Ocean Modelling, 18, 1-36, 2007.

Middleton, J. F., C. Arthur, P. Van Ruth, T. M. Ward, J. McClean, M. Maltrud, P. Gill, and S. Middleton, 2007: El Niño effects and upwelling off Australia. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 37, No. 10, 2458-2477, 2007.

Barnier, B., G. Madec, T. Penduff, J.-M. Molines, A.-M. Treguier, A. Beckmann, A. Biastoch, C. Böning, J. Dengg, S. Gulev, J. Le Sommer, E. Remy, C. Talandier, S. Theetten. M. Maltrud, J. McClean, and B. De Cuevas, Recent progress in modelling the global ocean circulation at eddy permitting resolution. Ocean Dynamics, DOI 10.1007/s10236-006-0082-1, 2006.

McClean, J. L., M. E. Maltrud, and F. O. Bryan, Measures of the fidelity of eddying ocean models. Oceanography, 19, No. 1, 104-117, March 2006.

McClean, J. L., D. P. Ivanova, and J. Sprintall, Remote origins of interannual variability in the Indonesian Throughflow region from data and a global POP simulation. Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, C10013, doi:10.1029/2004JC002477, 2005.

Prasad, T. G., J. L. McClean, E. C. Hunke, A. J. Semtner, and D. P. Ivanova, A Numerical Study of the Western Cosmonaut Polynya in a Coupled Ocean-Sea Ice Model. Journal of Geophysical Research, 110,C10008, doi:10.1029/2004JC002858, 2005.

Prasad, T. G. M. Ikeda, and J. L. McClean, Response of the Northern Indian Ocean to the winter monsoon: the generation of the Arabian Sea Dome. Deep Sea Research, I, 52, 1155-1177, 2005.

Maltrud, M. E., and J. L. McClean, An eddy resolving global 1/10° ocean simulation Ocean Modelling, 8, 1-2, 31-54, 2005.

Prasad, T. G., and J. L. McClean, Mechanisms for anomalous warming in the western Indian Ocean during Dipole Mode events. Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, C02019, doi:10.1029/2003JC001872, 2004.

Tokmakian, R., and J. L. McClean, How realistic is the high frequency signal of a 0.1° resolution ocean model? Journal of Geophysical Research, 108(C4), 3115, doi:10.1029/2002JC001446, 2003.

McClean, J. L., P-M. Poulain, J.W. Pelton, and M. E. Maltrud. Eulerian and Lagrangian statistics from surface drifters and a high-resolution POP simulation in the North Atlantic. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 32, 2472-2491, 2002.

McClean, J. L., W. Maslowski, and M. Maltrud, Towards a coupled environmental prediction system, Computational Science - ICCS 2001 (Eds: Alexandrov, Dongorra, Juliano, Renner, and Tan), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2073, Springer-Verlag, pp. 1098-1107, 2001.

Gordon, A. L., and J. L. McClean, Thermohaline stratification of the Indonesian Seas-model and observations. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 29, 198-216, 1999.

McClean, J. L., A. J. Semtner, and V. Zlotnicki, Comparisons of mesoscale variability in the Semtner-Chervin quarter-degree model, the Los Alamos sixth-degree model, and TOPEX/POSEIDON Data. Journal of Geophysical Research, 102(C11), 25203-25226, 1997.

Ramp, S. R., J. L. McClean, C. A. Collins, A. J. Semtner, and K. A. S. Hays, Observations and modeling of the 1991-1992 El Niño signal off Central California. Journal of Geophysical Research, 102(C3), 5553-5582, 1997.

McClean, J. L., and J. M. Klinck, Description and vorticity analysis of 50-day oscillations in the western tropical region of the CME model. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 25, No. 11(Part 1), 2498-2517, 1995.

McClean-Padman, J., and L. P. Atkinson, Observations of a cyclonic-Gulf Stream coalescence event over the Blake Plateau. Journal of Geophysical Research, 96(C11), 20,421-20,432, 1991.

McClean-Padman, J., and L. Padman, Summer upwelling on the Sydney inner continental shelf: the relative roles of local wind forcing and mesoscale eddy encroachment. Continental Shelf Research, 11(4), 321-345, 1991.

Tokmakian, R., P. T. Strub, and J. McClean-Padman, Evaluation of the maximum cross-correlation method of estimating sea surface velocities from sequential satellite images. Journal of Atmospheric and Ocean Technology, 7(6), 852-865, 1990.

Other Publications:

Maltrud, M., F. Bryan, M. Hecht, E. Hunke, D. Ivanova, J. McClean, S. Peacock, Global Ocean Modeling in the Eddying Regime using POP, CLIVAR Exchanges, 13, no. 1, pp. 5-8, 2008.

Thompson, L., and J.L. McClean, Ocean model metrics: what we currently use and how we can advance these methodologies. Report from the Workshop held at IPRC, Honolulu, Hawaii, 25 February 2006.

McClean, J., J. Carton, B. Giese, D. Ivanova, E. Hunke, M. Maltrud, Fine-resolution global sea-ice/ocean modeling and data assimilation. IEEE Computer Society Proceedings, DoD HPCMP User Group Conference, pp 275-277, 2006.

McClean, J. L., D. Ivanova, J. Carton, B. Giese, M. E. Maltrud, E. Hunke, W. Lipscomb, and T.G. Prasad. Towards a High-Resolution Global Coupled Navy Prediction System. IEEE Computer Society Proceedings, DoD HPCMP User Group Conference, pp 244-249, 2005.

McClean, J. L., M. Maltrud, P. May, J. Carton, D. Ivanova, P. Thoppil, E. Hunke, and B. Giese: Towards a high-resolution global coupled Navy prediction system. Application Briefs 2004, Maui High Performance Computing Center, Kihei-Maui, Hawaii, pp 24-26, 2004.

McClean, J. L., P. May, J. Carton, M. E. Maltrud, D. Ivanova, B. Giese, T. G. Prasad, E. Hunke, D. Stark, and B. Giese. Towards a High-Resolution Global Coupled Navy Prediction System. IEEE Computer Society Proceedings, DoD HPCMP User Group Conference, pp 233-237, 2004.

McClean, J. L., M. Maltrud, D. Ivanova, P. Thoppil, and E. Hunke: Towards a high-resolution global coupled Navy prediction system: Ocean and ocean/ice components. Application Briefs 2003, Maui High Performance Computing Center, Kihei-Maui, Hawaii, pp 34-35, 2003.

Chassignet, E. P., M. J. Bell, P. Brasseur, G. Evensen, S. M. Griffies, H. E. Hurlburt, C. LeProvost, G. Madec, J. McClean, J. Verron, and A.J. Wallcraft, The modeling component of ocean forecasting, Proceeedings of the International Symposium "En route to GODAE", 13-15 June 2002, Biarritz, France. pp. 41-46.

McClean, J. L. and M. E. Maltrud, Towards a high-resolution global coupled prediction system: the ocean component, Proceedings, DoD User Group Conference, Austin, Texas, June, 2002.

McClean, J., and M. Maltrud, Towards a high-resolution global coupled Navy prediction system: The ocean component, NAVO MSRC Navigator, pp. 14-17, Spring 2002.

McClean, J. L., and M. E. Maltrud, Global high-resolution ocean circulation experiments, An Information Technology Infrastrcuture Plan to Advance Ocean Science, Office of Naval Research and National Science Foundation, January 2002, pp. 15.

Maslowski, W., J. L. McClean, and M. E. Maltrud, Advanced modeling of the Navy operational environments, Proceedings, DoD User Group Conference, Biloxi, Mississippi, June, 2001.

Maslowski, W., J. McClean, and M. Maltrud, Modeling for Climate Change, Challenges in Science and Engineering, 8, 2, pp. 4-5, Fall 2000.

McClean, J. L., and W. Maslowski, Towards a coupled environmental prediction system, Proceedings, DoD User Group Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, June, 2000.

McClean, J. L., Evaluations of a 0.1° North Atlantic POP simulation for Navy forecasting use, Proceedings, RCI Weather, Ocean Climate SpecialInterest Group: A Global Look at Computing in Ocean, Climate and Weather Forecasting, Maui, Hawaii, April, 2000.

McClean, J. L., M. E. Maltrud, and A. J. Semtner, Comparisons of the LANL POP Model and Observations in the South Atlantic. International WOCE Newsletter, 28, pp. 5-7, 1997.