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Princeton University: Research Assistant, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Program (Jan-Aug, 1975). Graduate Student, September 1975 - December 1978, under Dr. I. Orlanski.

University of California Los Angeles: Adjunct Assistant Professor, January 1979 - June 1981. Assistant Professor of Atmospheric Dynamics, July 1981 - June 1986. Associate Professor of Atmospheric Dynamics, July 1986 - June 1991. Professor of Atmospheric Dynamics, July 1991.

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

Numerical modeling and simulation of the global atmosphere, in both scientifical and computational aspects. Coupled atmosphere-ocean interactions, stratospheric dynamics, impacts of cloud on the climate system, monsoon systems, distributed computing.

COMMITTEES

American Meteorological Society (AMS) and World Climate Research Program (WCRP)

AMS Committee on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography, 1986-1989.

Jacob Bjerknes Symposium on Air-Sea Interactions. AMS/World Meteorological Organization/ Norwegian Geophysical Society. Anaheim, California, 31 January - 5 February 1988, Organizing Committee, Chair.

International Commission on the Meteorology of the Upper Atmosphere (ICMUA) Working Group on Modelling, 1990-1991.

AMS Committee on Climate Variability, 1992–1995.

NOAA Pan American Climate Studies (PACS) Program, Modeling Group, Chair 1996-1997.

Conference on American Monsoons (CONAM). Mexico City, Mexico, 16-20 March 1997, Chair, Scientific Commitee.

WCRP/CLIVAR Panel on the Variability of American Monsoon Systems (VAMOS), Chair, 1997-2004.

NOAA Pan American Climate Studies (PACS) Program, Scientific Steering Group, 1997-1999.

AMS Annual Meeting. Dallas, Texas, 10-15 January 1999, CLIVAR/VAMOS session at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Amer. Meteor. Soc., Organizer and Session Chair.

U.S. CLIVAR Pan American Sector Implementation Panel, 1999-2002.

U.S. CLIVAR Seasonal-to-Interannual Modeling and Prediction (SIMAP) Panel, August 1999-January 2000.

WCRP Coordinated Enhanced Observing Period (CEOP) Program, Scientific Steering Group, 2001-present.

WCRP/CEOP Workshop on American Monsoons, Montevideo, Uruguay, 17-18 September 2004. International Science Committee, Co-Chair.

Third WMO International Workshop on Monsoon (IWM-III), 2-6 November, Hangzhou, China. International Organizing Committee.

First Pan-WCRP Workshop on the Monsoon Climate System: Toward Better Predictions of the Monsoons. 15-17 June 2005, Irvine, California. Steering Committee.

Fifth GEWEX International Scientific Conference on the Global Energy and Water Cycle. 20-24 June 2005, Irvine, California. Scientific Steering Committee

WCRP/CLIVAR/VAMOS Ocean-Cloud-Atmosphere-Land Studies (VOCALS). Science Working Group, Chair, 2005-.

WCRP/CLIVAR Panel on the Variability of American Monsoon System (VAMOS) 2005-2008.

WCRP/CLIVAR Scientific Steering Group. 2007-2009.

Other Committee Work

· San Diego Supercomputer Center Allocation Committee, 1988-1990.

NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Dynamics, Transport and Photochemistry in the Middle Atmosphere of the Southern Hemisphere, NATO/NASA/UCLA, San Francisco, California, 15-17 April 1989, Co-Director.

Third International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography. American Meteorological Society. Buenos Aires, Argentina, 13-17 November 1989, Program Committee.

Operations Committee of the University of California - Digital Corporation Sequoia 2000 Project, 1991-1994.

Department of Energy Computer Hardware Advanced Mathematics and Model Physics (CHAMMP) Program, Science Team, 1991-1998.

Fifth Conference on Climate Variation of the American Meteorological Society, 14-18 October 1991, Denver, Colorado. Chair of Local Committee.

Sixteenth Climate Diagnostics Workshop, 27 October-1 November 1991, Lake Arrowhead, California. Chair of Local Committee.

Executive Committee of the Gigabit Network/CASA Testbed Project, 1992–1994.

San Diego Supercomputer Center Steering and Executive Committees, 1992–1994.

Steering Committee, CNRS/NASA STRATEOLE Project, 1992–2003.

NASA High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) Earth and Space Sciences Project, Science Team, 1993-1999.

Second International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-2), Spokane, Washington, 21-23 July 1993 Program Committee.

Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA) Scientific Advisory Committee, 1994–1997.

Third International Workshop on Heterogeneous Distributed Computing (HCM-94), Cancún, Mexico, 12-14 March 1994 Program Committee.

Third International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-3), San Francisco, California, 3-5 August 1994 Program Committee.

Second UNAM-CRAY Supercomputing Conference: Numerical Simulations in the Environmental and Earth Sciences, Mexico City, Mexico, 21-24 June 1995 Scientific Committee.

Fourth International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-4), Pentagon City, Virginia, 1-4 August 1995 Program Committee.

MISSION EARTH '97, Phoenix, Arizona, 12-15 January 1997, Program Chair.

International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2000), Cancun, Mexico, 1-5 May 2000 Program Committee.

2001 Joint Assemblies of the International Association of the Physical Sciences of the Oceans and International Association for Biological Oceanography, 21-26 October 2001, Mar del Plata, Argentina. Co Convener of IC02 Symposium Role of Ocean on Climate Variability over South America.

Envirosoft 2002, 6-8 May 2002, Bergen, Norway. International Scientific Advisory Committee.

VORCORE/STRATEOLE Workshop, 16-17 November 2002, CNES Headquarters, Paris, France. Organizing Committee.

Workshop on Hydrology from Space, 29 September-1 October 2003, Toulouse, France. Member of Scientific Program Committee.

Noveno Congreso de Meteorologia (CONGREMET IX). Centro Argentino de Meteorologos (CAM), 3-7 de October 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Scientific Program Committee.

Fourteenth Conf. on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere of the Amer. Meteor. Soc., 28 January - 31 January 2006. Program Chair.

Fall Meeting of the Amer. Geophys. Union, 11-15 December 2006, San Francisco, California. Convener of the session Climate Variability over the Americas: Links with Oceans and Land

General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesign and Geophysics IUGG), July 2007, Perugia, Italy. Lead convener of IAMAS M18: The Dynamics of Eastern Tropical Oceans and Subtropical Highs (ICDM).

UCLA

· Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, Undergraduate Advisor, 1982-1985.

Legislative Assembly of the Academic Senate, 1981-1983.

Executive Committee of the College of Letters and Sciences, 1983-1985.

Supercomputer Planning Committee, 1984-1990.

Climate Dynamics Laboratory, Associate Director, 1986-1990.

Summer School in Nonlinear Science, 7-12 August 1988, Member of Organizing Committee.

College of Letters and Science Computing Committee, 1988-1992.

Committee on Privilege and Tenure, 1991-1992; Vice Chair, 1992-1993; Chair, 1993-1995.

Instruction and Research Computing Committee, 1995-1996.

University of California Systemwide Committee on Privilege and Tenure, 1995-1996.

Committee in Undergraduate Honors and Prizes, 1996.

UCLA Seminar Series, "Challenges in Computing: Role of Research Universities", Chair, 1997-2000.

Grievance and Disciplinary Procedures Committee, 1997-2001; 2002-present.

Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, Graduate Advising Committee, Chair, 2005-2006.

Grievance and Advising Committee, Chair; 2006-.

EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES

· Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, Associate Editor, 1990–1993.

Editorial Board, WCRP’s Coordinated Enhanced Period (CEOP) Newsletter, 2002-present.

Reviewer for J. Atmos. Sci., Mon. Wea. Rev., J. Climate, J. Applied Meteor., J. Geophys. Res., Geophys. Res. Lett., Climate Dynamics, Atmósfera, Meteorológica, Science.

HONORS AND SPECIAL RECOGNITION

Recognition for Excellence in Teaching, UCLA Department of Atmospheric Sciences 1985-1986, 1986-1987, 1988-1989.

San Diego Supercomputer Center, Senior Fellow, 1996-present.

University of the Republic, Uruguay, Honorary Professor, 1990–present.

NCAR Scientific Computing Division, Reviewer, 1996.

Cooperative Institute of Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS), U. Miami, Scientific Reviewer, 1998.

National Academy of Engineering, Uruguay, Corresponding Member, 1998.

American Meteorological Society, Fellow, 1999.

Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France, Directeur de Recherche, October-November, 2000.

NSF Center for Integrated Space Weather Model (CISM), Advisory Council, 2002-2004.

NASA’s Computational Modeling Technologies for Earth and Space Sciences (COMTESS), Project Scientist, 2002-2005.

International Pacific Research Center, U. Hawaii , Science Advisory Committee, 2002-present.

National Environment Research Council (NERC), Centres for Atmospheric Sciences, United Kingdom. Moderating Panel, 11-12 March 2005.

Academy of Finland, Finnish Programme for Centres of Excellence in Research 2008-2013. Proposal Evaluator.

Distinguished Visitors Program. Universidad Complutense, de Madrid, Spain, 1 October- 17 November 2006.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

American Meteorological Society (Fellow)

American Geophysical Union

PUBLICATIONS

1974

1. Garcia, R. V., I. G. Fabian and C. R. Mechoso, 1974: Stability of a jet stream with density stratification. Boletin de la Facultad de Ingenieria, University of Uruguay, 13, 3-50. REFEREED PAPER

2. Mechoso, C. R., 1974: Numerical treatment of water-hammer in bifurcating pipelines. Boletin de la Facultad de Ingenieria, University of Uruguay, 13, 51-67. REFEREED PAPER

1975

1. Mechoso, C. R., 1975: Un modelo matemático del Río Uruguay. Revista de Ingeniería, Uruguay, 16, 23-27. REFEREED PAPER

1979

1. Mechoso, C. R., M. J. Suarez and A. Arakawa, 1979: July simulation by the UCLA general circulation model. Fourth Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction, Silver Spring, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 282-289. CONF. PAPER

1980

1. Mechoso, C. R., 1980: Baroclinic instability of flows along sloping boundaries. J. Atmos. Sci., 37, 1393-1399. REFEREED PAPER

2. Mechoso, C. R., 1980: The atmospheric circulation around Antarctica: Linear stability and finite-amplitude interactions with migrating cyclones. J. Atmos. Sci., 37, 2209-2233. REFEREED PAPER

1981

1. Mechoso, C. R., and D. M. Sinton, 1981: Instability of baroclinic flows with horizontal shear along topography. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 11, 813-821. REFEREED PAPER

2. Mechoso, C. R., M. J. Suarez, K. Yamazaki, J. Spahr and A. Arakawa, 1981: Winter simulation of standing and traveling waves with the UCLA general circulation model. Fifth Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 60-67. CONF. PAPER

3. Mechoso, C. R., 1981: Topographic influences on the general circulation of the Southern Hemisphere: A numerical experiment. Mon. Wea. Rev., 109, 2131-2139. REFEREED PAPER

1982

1. Mechoso, C. R., and D. L. Hartmann, 1982: An observational study of traveling planetary waves in the Southern Hemisphere. J. Atmos. Sci., 39, 1921-1935. REFEREED PAPER

2. Mellor, G., C. R. Mechoso and E. Keto, 1982: A diagnostic calculation of the general circulation of the Atlantic Ocean. Deep Sea Research, 29, 1171-1192. REFEREED PAPER

3. Mechoso, C. R., M. J. Suarez, K. Yamazaki, J. A. Spahr and A. Arakawa, 1982: A study of the sensitivity of numerical forecasts to an upper boundary in the lower stratosphere. Mon. Wea. Rev., 110, 1984-1993. REFEREED PAPER

1983

1. Mechoso, C. R., and D. M. Sinton, 1983: On the energy analysis of the two-layer frontal model. J. Atmos. Sci., 40, 2069-2074. REFEREED PAPER

2. Mechoso, C. R., M. J. Suarez, K. Yamazaki, J. Spahr and A. Arakawa, 1983: Experiments in medium-range forecasting: Sensitivity to model resolution and vertical extent. Sixth Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction, Omaha, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 412-4l8. CONF. PAPER

3. Mechoso, C. R., D. L. Hartmann and K. Yamazaki, 1983: Observations of traveling planetary waves and of wave mean-flow interactions in the Southern Hemisphere. First International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 29-32. CONF. PAPER

4. Mechoso, C. R., M. J. Suarez, K. Yamazaki, J. A. Spahr and A. Arakawa, 1983: The behavior and predictability of planetary waves during the Winter of 1979. IAMAP-WMO Symposium on Maintenance of the Quasi-Stationary Components of the Flow in the Atmosphere and in Atmospheric Models, Paris, France, 179-182. CONF. PAPER

1984

1. Hartmann, D. L., C. R. Mechoso and K. Yamazaki, 1984: Observations of wave-mean flow interaction in the Southern Hemisphere. J. Atmos. Sci., 41, 351-362. REFEREED PAPER

2. Sinton, D. M., and C. R. Mechoso, 1984: Nonlinear evolution of frontal waves. J. Atmos. Sci., 41, 3501-3517. REFEREED PAPER

1985

1. Mechoso, C. R., K. Yamazai, A. Kitoh and A. Arakawa, 1985: Numerical forecasts of stratospheric warming events during the winter of 1979. Mon. Wea. Rev., 113, 1015-1029. REFEREED PAPER

2. Yamazaki, K., and C. R. Mechoso, 1985: Observations of the final warming in the stratosphere of the Southern Hemisphere during 1979. J. Atmos. Sci., 42, 1198-1205. REFEREED PAPER

3. Mechoso, C. R., D. L. Hartmann and J. D. Farrara, 1985: Climatology and interannual variability of wave, mean-flow interaction in the Southern Hemisphere. J. Atmos. Sci., 42, 2189-2206. REFEREED PAPER

4. Mechoso, C. R., A. Kitoh and A. Arakawa, 1985: Numerical simulations of the atmospheric response to sea-surface temperature anomalies. Sixteenth Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Houston, Texas, Amer. Meteor. Soc., l34-l35. CONF. PAPER

5. Mechoso, C. R., 1985: Stratospheric warmings during the winter of 1979. Proceedings of the First National Workshop on the Global Weather Experiment, National Academy Press, 563-590. REPORT

6. Mechoso, C. R., M. J. Suarez, K. Yamazaki, A. Kitoh and A. Arakawa, 1985: Effects of the stratosphere on tropospheric forecasts. Report of the Seminar on Progress in Numerical Modelling and the Understanding of Predictability as a Result of the Global Weather Experiment. GARP Special Report, 43, I-66-I-82. REPORT

7. Mechoso, C. R., A. Kitoh and A. Arakawa, 1985: Atmospheric response to a sea surface temperature anomaly over the equatorial eastern Pacific Ocean: Numerical simulation using the UCLA GCM. Research Activities in Atmospheric and Oceanic Modelling. World Climate Research Programme, Report No. 8, 6.l4-6.l5. REPORT

8. Mechoso, C. R., A. Kitoh, S. Moorthi and A. Arakawa, 1985: Numerical experiments on the atmospheric response to a sea surface temperature anomaly over the equatorial eastern Pacific Ocean. Workshop on Comparison of Simulations by Numerical Models of the Sensitivity of the Atmospheric Circulation to Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies, Boulder, Colorado, World Climate Programme, 19-28. CONF. PAPER

1986

1. Mechoso, C. R., M. J. Suarez, K. Yamazaki, A. Kitoh and A. Arakawa, 1986: Numerical forecasts of tropospheric and stratospheric events during the winter of 1979: Sensitivity to the model's horizontal resolution and vertical extent. R. Benzi, B. Saltzman and A. C. Wiin-Niesen, Eds., Anomalous Atmospheric Flows and Blocking, Academic Press, Adv. Geophys., 29, 459 pp, 375-413. REPORT

2. Farrara, J. D., and C. R. Mechoso, 1986: An observational study of the final warming in the Southern Hemisphere stratosphere. Geophys. Res. Lett., 13, 1232-1235. REFEREED PAPER

3. Mechoso, C. R., M. J. Suarez, K. Yamazaki, A. Kitoh, J. A. Spahr and A. Arakawa, 1986: Medium-range (l0-day) forecasts with the UCLA General Circulation Model. Naval Environmental Prediction Research Facility Report, CR 86-01, 406. REPORT

4. Kitoh, A., C. R. Mechoso and A. Arakawa, 1986: Atmospheric response to a sea surface temperature anomaly over the equatorial eastern Pacific Ocean: Numerical simulation using the UCLA GCM. Workshop on 40-day Mode & ENSO Division of Meteorology, Meteorological Research Report, Geophysical Institute, University of Tokyo, 1-9 April 1986. REFEREED PAPER

5. Mechoso, C. R. and J. D. Farrara, 1986: Climatology and interannual variability of wave, mean-flow interaction during winter and spring in the Southern Hemisphere. Second International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology, Wellington, New Zealand, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 304-307. CONF. PAPER

1987

1. Mechoso, C. R., and A. Arakawa, 1987: Sensitivity of stratospheric forecasts to tropospheric forecasts. Short and Medium-Range Numerical Weather Prediction. Collection of Papers Presented at the WMO/IUGG NWP Symposium, Tokyo, 4-8 August 1986, 387-395. REFEREED PAPER

2. Mechoso, C. R., A. Kitoh, S. Moorthi and A. Arakawa, 1987: Numerical simulations of the atmospheric response to a sea surface temperature anomaly over the equatorial eastern Pacific Ocean. Mon. Wea. Rev., 115, 2936-2956. REFEREED PAPER

3. Mechoso, C. R., S. Moorthi and A. Arakawa, 1987: Simulations of the atmospheric response to sea surface temperature anomalies. Research in Air-Sea Interaction and Short-Term Climate Variability at the University of California, C. R. Mechoso and J. O. Roads, Editors, 72-83. REPORT

4. Horel, J. D., and C. R. Mechoso, editors, 1987: Research in Air-Sea Interaction and Short-Term Climate Variability at the University of California. REPORT

5. Horel, J. D., and C. R. Mechoso, 1987: Intraseasonal variability of the wintertime planetary circulation over the north Pacific Ocean. Research in Air-Sea Interaction and Short-Term Climate Variability at the University of California, C. R. Mechoso and J. O. Roads, Editors, 46-53. REPORT

6. Mechoso, C. R., J. D. Farrara, A. O'Neill and V. D. Pope, 1987: Stratospheric final warmings in the Southern and Northern Hemispheres. Proceedings of the II Interamerican Meteorological Congress and the V Argentinean Meteorological Congress, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 4.5.1-4.5.5. CONF. PAPER

7. Mechoso, C. R., and S. W. Lyons, 1987: On the atmospheric response to SST anomalies associated with the Atlantic warm event during 1984. Proceedings of the II Interamerican Meteorological Congress and the V Argentinean Congress, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 4.6.1-4.6.5. CONF. PAPER

1988

1. Horel, J. D., and C. R. Mechoso, 1988: Observed and simulated intraseasonal variability of the wintertime planetary circulation. J. Climate, 1, 582-599. REFEREED PAPER

2. Mechoso, C. R., and S. W. Lyons, 1988: On the atmospheric response to SST anomalies associated with the Atlantic warm event during 1984. J. Climate, 1, 422-428. REFEREED PAPER

3. Mechoso, C. R., A. O'Neill, V. D. Pope and J. D. Farrara, 1988: A study of the stratospheric final warming of 1982 in the Southern Hemisphere. Quart. J. R. Meteor. Soc., 114, 1365-1384. REFEREED PAPER

4. Mechoso, C. R., J. A. Spahr and S. Lee, 1988: A version of GEMPAK for the IBM VM/CMS operating system. Unidata Newsletter, Winter 1988. REPORT

5. Mechoso, C. R., and K. K. Tung, 1988: Dynamical aspects of the Antarctic "ozone hole" phenomenon. Anales. II Interamerican Congress of Meteorology and V Argentinean Meteorological Congress, Vol. II, VII-1 - VII-19. CONF. PAPER

1989

1. Farrara, J. D., M. Ghil, C. R. Mechoso and K. C. Mo, 1989: Empirical orthogonal functions and multiple flow regimes in the Southern Hemisphere winter. J. Atmos. Sci., 46, 3219-3223. REFEREED PAPER

2. Mechoso, C. R., J. D. Farrara, A. O'Neill and V. D. Pope, 1989: Interhemispheric comparison of the spring circulations in the middle atmosphere. Review papers and abstracts Vol. 1, IAMAP Symposium, Reading, England, MA-20-MA-24. CONF. PAPER

3. Mechoso, C. R., 1989: The Jacob Bjerknes symposium on air-sea interactions. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 70, 1128-1137. REPORT

4. Mechoso, C. R., A. O'Neill, J. D. Farrara, V. D. Pope and D. Pan, 1989: Interhemispheric comparison of the fall and spring circulations in the middle atmosphere. Third International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 421-428. CONF. PAPER

5. Mechoso, C. R., S. W. Lyons and J. A. Spahr, 1989: The impact of sea surface temperature anomalies on the rainfall over northeast Brazil. Third International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 62-65. CONF. PAPER

6. Farrara, J. D., C. R. Mechoso and M. Fisher, 1989: Troposphere-stratosphere connections during early winter in the Southern Hemisphere. Third International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 438-441. CONF. PAPER

7. Quintanar, A. I., and C. R. Mechoso, 1989: Generation mechanisms of quasi-stationary waves in the Southern Hemisphere. Third International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 271-274. CONF. PAPER

8. O’Neill, A., and C. R. Mechoso, 1989: The NATO advanced research workshop in dynamics, chemistry, and photochemistry in the Middle Atmosphere of the Southern Hemisphere. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 70, 1546-1552. REPORT

1990

1. Mechoso, C. R., S. W. Lyons and J. A. Spahr, 1990: The impact of sea surface temperature anomalies on the rainfall over northeast Brazil. J. Climate, 3, 812-826. REFEREED PAPER

2. Mechoso, C. R., 1990: The final warming of the stratosphere. Dynamics, Transport and Photochemistry of the Middle Atmosphere of the Southern Hemisphere, A. O'Neill, Editor, Kluwer Academic Publishers, P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 55-69. REFEREED PAPER

3. Fisher, M., M. Ghil, D. Halpern, C. R. Mechoso, and J. A. Spahr, 1990: Preliminary coupling experiments of an atmospheric and an oceanic GCM. Fourteenth Annual Climate Diagnostics Workshop, 271-276. CONF. PAPER

4. Konor, C., C. R. Mechoso and A. Arakawa, 1990: Simulation of upper and middle level frontogenesis with an isentropic vertical coordinate model. Fourth Conference on Mesoscale Processes, Boulder, Colorado, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 77-78. CONF. PAPER

5. Hines, K. M., and C. R. Mechoso, 1990: Frontogenesis processes in the middle and upper-troposphere. Fourth Conference on Mesoscale Processes, Boulder, Colorado, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 79-80. CONF. PAPER

1991

1. Manney, G. L., J. D. Farrara and C. R. Mechoso, 1991: The behavior of wave 2 in the southern hemisphere stratosphere during late winter and early spring. J. Atmos. Sci., 48, 976-998. REFEREED PAPER

2. Mechoso, C. R., J. D. Farrara and M. Ghil, 1991: Intraseasonal variability of the winter circulation in the Southern Hemisphere atmosphere. J. Atmos. Sci., 48, 1387-1404. REFEREED PAPER

3. Hines, K. M., and C. R. Mechoso, 1991: Frontogenesis processes in the middle and upper troposphere. Mon. Wea. Rev., 119, 1225-1241. REFEREED PAPER

4. Manney, G. L., C. R. Mechoso, L. S. Elson and J. D. Farrara, 1991: Planetary-scale waves in the southern hemisphere winter and early spring stratosphere: Stability analysis. J. Atmos. Sci., 48, 2509-2523. REFEREED PAPER

5. Mechoso, C. R., C. -C. Ma, J. D. Farrara, J. A. Spahr and R. W. Moore, 1991: Distribution of a climate model across high-speed networks. Supercomputing '91, Albuquerque, New Mexico, IEEE Computer Society, 253-260. CONF. PAPER (REFEREED)

6. Mechoso, C. R., C. -C. Ma, J. D. Farrara and J. A. Spahr, 1991: Simulations of interannual variability with a coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation model. Fifth Conference on Climate Variations, Denver, Colorado, Amer. Meteor. Soc., J1-J4. CONF. PAPER

7. Ma, C. -C., Y. Chao, C. R. Mechoso and W. M. Weibel, 1991: Comparison of vertical mixing schemes for ocean general circulation model. Fifth Conference in Climate Variations, Denver, Colorado, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 388–391. CONF. PAPER

8. Ose, T., C. R. Mechoso and D. Halpern, 1991: Sensitivity of UCLA atmospheric general circulation model simulations to different global sea surface temperature distributions. Fifth Conference in Climate Variations, Denver, Colorado, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 449-45. CONF. PAPER

9. Konor, C. K., K. M. Hines, C. R. Mechoso and A. Arakawa, 1991: Simulations of frontogenesis with sigma and isentropic vertical-coordinate models. Ninth Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction, Denver, Colorado, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 305-308. CONF. PAPER

10. Mechoso, C. R., C. -C. Ma, J. D. Farrara, J. A. Spahr and R. W. Moore, 1991: Distribution of a coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation model across high-speed networks. Fourth International Symposium on Computational Fluid Dynamics, Davis, California, 795–800. CONF. PAPER

11. Chao, Y., D. Halpern, and C. R. Mechoso, 1991: A Pacific Ocean General Circulation Model for Satellite Data Assimilation. JPL Publication 91-9, 32pp. REPORT

12. Mechoso, C. R., S. W. Lyons and J. A. Spahr, 1991: SST anomalies and variability of the tropical Atlantic climate. Nineteenth Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Miami, Florida, Amer. Meteor. Soc. CONF. PAPER

13. Ose, T., C. R. Mechoso and D. Halpern, 1991: Sensitivity of UCLA atmospheric general circulation model simulations to different global sea surface temperature distributions. Sixteenth Annual Climate Diagnostics Workshop, Lake Arrowhead, California, 28 October - 1 November 1991, 86-91. CONF. PAPER

1992

1. Neelin, J. D., M. Latif, M. A. F. Allaart, M. A. Cane, U. Cubasch, W. L. Gates, P. R. Gent, M. Ghil, C. Gordon, N. C. Lau, C. R. Mechoso, G. A. Meehl, J. M. Oberhuber, S. G. H. Philander, P. S. Schopf, K. R. Sperber, T. Tokioka, J. Tribbia and S. E. Zebiak, 1992: Tropical air-sea interaction in general circulation models. Climate Dynamics, 7, 73-104. REFEREED PAPER

2. Ghil, M., and C. R. Mechoso, 1992: Data assimilation and predictability studies for the coupled ocean–atmosphere system. Oceanography, 5, 19–24. REFEREED PAPER

3. Farrara, J. D., M. Fisher, C. R. Mechoso and A. O'Neill, 1992: Planetary-scale disturbances in the southern stratosphere during early winter. J. Atmos. Sci., 49, 1757–1775. REFEREED PAPER

4. Mechoso, C. R., and G. Perez-Iribarren, 1992: Streamflow in southeastern South America and the Southern Oscillation. J. Climate, 5, 1535–1539. REFEREED PAPER

5. Farrara, J. D., and C. R. Mechoso, 1992: Simulations of the seasonal evolution of planetary waves in the stratosphere. Eighth Conference on the Middle Atmosphere. Atlanta, Georgia, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 16–21. CONF. PAPER

6. Manney, G. L., J. D. Farrara and C. R. Mechoso, 1992: Simulations of stratospheric warmings in the northern and southern hemispheres. Eighth Conference on the Middle Atmosphere, Atlanta, Georgia, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 2–7. CONF. PAPER

7. Mechoso, C. R., C. -C. Ma, J. D. Farrara, J. A. Spahr, R. W. Moore, W. P. Dannevik, M. F. Wehner, P. Eltgroth and A. A. Mirin, 1992: Distributing a climate model across gigabit networks. First IEEE International Symp. High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-1), Syracuse, New York, IEEE Computer Society Press, 16-25. CONF. PAPER (REFEREED)

8. Quintanar, A. I., and C. R. Mechoso, 1992: Generation mechanisms of planetary waves in the Southern Hemisphere. Third Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography and Sixth Conference on Mountain Meteorology, Portland, Oregon, Amer. Meteor. Soc., J1.8-J1.11. CONF. PAPER

9. Moore, R., C. R. Mechoso, C. Scarbnick, C. -C. Ma and G. Hanyzewski, 1992: Parallelizing and distributing an ocean circulation model across “CASA” gigabit-per-second network links. PARALLEL PROCESSING at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, November Report, 4. REPORT

10. Robertson, A. W., C.-C. Ma, C. R. Mechoso and M. Ghil, 1992: Simulations of the Tropical-Pacific climate with the UCLA coupled GCM. Seventeenth Annual Climate Diagnostics Workshop, Norman, Oklahoma, 272-276. CONF. PAPER

11. Bergman, L., H.-W. Braun, B. Chinoy, K. Claffy, G. Hanyzewski, A. Kolawa, A. Kuppermann, P. Lyster, C.-C. Ma, C. R. Mechoso, P. Messina, W. St. John and M. Wu, 1992: CASA Gigabit Testbed: 1992 Annual Report. Caltech Concurrent Supercomputing Facilities, Report CCSF-20-92, available from CCSF Techpubs, California Institute of Technology, Mail Code 158-79, Pasadena, California 91125, 54. REPORT

12. Arakawa, A., C. R. Mechoso, and C. S. Konor, 1992: An isentropic vertical coordinate model: design and application to atmospheric frontogenesis studies. Meteorol. Atmos. Phys., 50, 31-45. REFEREED PAPER

1993

1. Mechoso, C. R., C.-C. Ma, J. D. Farrara, J. A. Spahr and R. W. Moore, 1993: Parallelization and distribution of a coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation model. Mon. Wea. Rev. 121, 2062–2076. REFEREED PAPER

2. Hines, K. M., and C. R. Mechoso, 1993: Influence of surface drag on the evolution of fronts. Mon. Wea. Rev., 121, 1152–1175. REFEREED PAPER

3. Scarbnick, C., C. R. Mechoso, C.-C. Ma, J. A. Spahr, J. D. Farrara, R. Moore and G. Hanyzewski, 1993: An update on the CASA Gigabit Testbed Project. Proceedings of the Sixth SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, Norfolk, Virginia, Vol. 2, 878-882. CONF. PAPER

4. Wehner, M. F., J. J. Ambrosiano, J. C. Brown, W. P. Dannevick, P. G. Elgroth, A. A. Mirin, J. D. Farrara, C. -C. Ma, C. R. Mechoso and J. A. Spahr, 1993: Toward a high performance distributed memory climate model. Second IEEE International Symp. High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-2), Spokane, Washington, IEEE Computer Society Press, 102-113. CONF. PAPER (REFEREED)

5. Bergman, L., H-W. Braun, B. Chinoy, A. Kolawa, A. Kuppermann, P. Lyster, C. R. Mechoso, P. Messina, J. Morrison, D. Stanfill, W. St. John and S. Tenbrink, 1993: CASA Gigabit Testbed: 1993 Annual Report. Caltech Concurrent Supercomputing Facilities, Report CCSF-33, available from CCSF Techpubs, California Institute of Technology, Mail Code 158-79, Pasadena, California 91125, 68. REPORT

6. Waliser, D. E., C. R. Mechoso, C. Gautier and J. D. Neelin, 1993: A simple research paradigm in the context of the Sequoia 2000 Project and its application to an ocean-atmosphere interaction study. Sequoia 2000 Technical Report 93/94, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, 12. REPORT

1994

1. Kar, S. K., R. P. Turco, C. R. Mechoso and A. Arakawa, 1994: A locally one-dimensional semi-implicit scheme for global grid-point shallow-water models. Mon. Wea. Rev., 122, 205-222. REFEREED PAPER

2. Manney, G. L., J. D. Farrara and C. R. Mechoso, 1994: Simulations of the February 1979 sudden warming: Model comparisons and three-dimensional evolution. Mon. Wea. Rev., 122, 1115-1140. REFEREED PAPER

3. Ose, T., C. R. Mechoso and D. Halpern, 1994: A comparison between general circulation model simulations using two sea surface temperature datasets for January 1979. J. Climate , 7, 498-505. REFEREED PAPER

4. Pisciottano, G., A. Díaz, G. Cazes and C. R. Mechoso, 1994: El Niño-Southern Oscillation impact on rainfall in Uruguay. J. Climate, 7, 1286-1302. REFEREED PAPER

5. Mechoso, C. R., J. D. Farrara and J. A. Spahr, 1994: Achieving superlinear speedup on a heterogeneous, distributed system. Parallel & Distributed Technology (Invited), 2, 57-61. REPORT

6. Ma, C. -C., C. R. Mechoso, A. Arakawa and J. D. Farrara, 1994: Sensitivity of a coupled ocean-atmosphere model to physical parameterizations. J. Climate, 7, 1883-1896. REFEREED PAPER

7. Arakawa, A., M.-D. Cheng, J. D. Farrara, Y.-J. Kim, C. Konor, C.-C. Ma, and C. R. Mechoso, 1994: Development of an advanced finite-difference atmospheric general circulation model. Fifth Conference on Global Change Studies, Nashville, Tennessee, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 83-90. CONF. PAPER

8. Mechoso, C. R., C.-C. Ma, J. D. Farrara and J. A. Spahr, 1994: Climate studies using a coupled atmosphere-ocean several circulation model. Research Activities in Atmospheric and Oceanic Modeling. World Climate Research Programme, Reprint No. 17, G. J. Boer, Editor, 9.12–9.13. REPORT

9. Robertson, A. W., C. R. Mechoso and C. -C. Ma, 1994: The seasonal cycle in surface heat fluxes over the Tropical-Pacific in a coupled GCM. Eighteenth Climate Diagnostics Workshop, 118-121. CONF. PAPER

10. Arakawa, A., C. S. Konor and C. R. Mechoso, 1994: A generalized vertical coordinate and the choice of vertical grid for atmospheric models. Tenth Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction, Portland, Oregon, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 32-34. CONF. PAPER

11. Ma, C. -C., C. R. Mechoso, A. Arakawa and J. D. Farrara, 1994: Impact of physical parameterizations on the performance of a coupled general circulation model. Tenth Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction, Portland, Oregon, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 505-507. CONF. PAPER

12. Mechoso, C. R., J. D. Farrara and J. A. Spahr, 1994: Running a climate model in a heterogeneous, distributed computer environment. Third IEEE International Symp. High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-3), San Francisco, California, IEEE Computer Society Press, 79-84. CONF. PAPER (REFEREED)

13. Mesrobian E., R. Muntz, J. R. Santos, E. C. Shek, C. R. Mechoso, J. D. Farrara and P. Stolorz, 1994: Extracting spatio-temporal patterns from geoscience datasets. IEEE Workshop on Machine Vision. Seattle, Washington, IEEE Society Press, 92-103. CONF. PAPER (REFEREED)

14. Mesrobian, E., R. Muntz, E. C. Shek, C. R. Mechoso, J. D. Farrara and P. Stolorz, 1994: QUEST: Content-based access to geophysical databases. Workshop on AI Technologies for Environmental Applications, Seattle, Washington, 31 July – 4 August 1994, 42-50. CONF. PAPER

15. Yu, J. -Y., C. R. Mechoso and C.-C. Ma, 1994: The UCLA coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation model simulation of the surface heat flux in the Tropical Pacific. Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting. Taiwan, Republic of China, 24-26 November 1994, 285-289. CONF. PRES.

16. Davis, F., W. Farrell, J. Gray, C.R. Mechoso, R. Moore, S. Sides, and M. Stonebraker, 1994: EOSDIS Alternative Architecture. REPORT

17. Ma, C.-C., J.-Y. Yu and C. R. Mechoso, 1994: Effects of physical parameterizations on the performance of a coupled ocean-atmosphere GCM. Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting. Taiwan, Republic of China, 24-26 November 1994, 337-343. CONF. PAPER

18. Konor, C. S., C. R. Mechoso and A. Arakawa, 1994: Comparison of frontogenesis simulations with isentropic and normalized pressure vertical coordinates. International Symposium on the Life Cycles of Extratropical Cyclones, Bergen, Norway, Amer. Meteor. Soc. and Norwegian Geophysical Soc., 2, 464-468. CONF. PAPER

19. Mesrobian, E., R. Muntz, E. Shek, C.R. Mechoso, J. Farrara, J. Spahr, and P. Stolorz, 1994: Real Time Data Mining, Management, and Visualization of GCM Output. Supercomputing ’94, IEEE Computer Society, 81-87. CONF. PAPER (REFEREED)

1995

1. Mesrobian, E., R. Muntz, E. Shek, J. Santos, J. Yi, K. Ng, S. Chien, C. R. Mechoso, J. Farrara, P. Stolorz, and H. Nakamura, 1995: Exploratory Data Mining and Analysis Using CONQUEST. IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers, Visualization and Signal Processing, Victoria, British Colombia, Canada, May 17-19 1995. CONF. PAPER

2. Halpern, D., Y. Chao, C. -C. Ma and C. R. Mechoso, 1995: Comparison of tropical Pacific temperature and current simulations with two vertical mixing schemes embedded in an ocean general circulation model and reference to observations. J. Geophys. Res., 100, 2515-2522. REFEREED PAPER

3. Mechoso, C. R., A. W. Robertson, N. Barth, M. K. Davey, P. Delecluse, P. R. Gent, S. Ineson, B. Kirtman, M. Latif, H. Le Treut, T. Nagai, J. D. Neelin, S. G. H. Philander, J. Polcher, P. S. Schopf, T. Stockdale, M. J. Suarez, L. Terray, O. Thual and J. J. Tribbia, 1995: The seasonal cycle over the Tropical Pacific in General Circulation Models. Mon. Wea. Rev., 123, 2825-2838. REFEREED PAPER

4. Mechoso, C. R., J. D. Farrara and J. A. Spahr, 1995: Heterogeneous computing for climate research. CRAY Channels, 17, No. 2, 8-13. REFEREED PAPER

5. Robertson, A. W., C. -C. Ma, C. R. Mechoso and M. Ghil, 1995: Simulation of the Tropical-Pacific climate with a coupled ocean-atmosphere general circulation model. Part I: The seasonal cycle. J. Climate, 8, 1178-1198. REFEREED PAPER

6. Robertson, A. W., C.-C. Ma, M. Ghil and C. R. Mechoso, 1995: Simulation of the Tropical-Pacific climate with a coupled ocean-atmosphere general circulation model. Part II: Interannual Variability. J. Climate, 8, 1199-1216. REFEREED PAPER

7. Mechoso, C. R., 1995: High performance computing and networking for climate research. High Performance Computing and Networking, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 919, B. Hertberger and G. Serazzi, Editors, Springer, 142-147. REFEREED PAPER

8. Trounday, B., L. Perthuis, S. Strebelle, J. D. Farrara and C. R. Mechoso, 1995: Dispersion properties of the flow in the southern stratosphere during winter and spring. J. Geophys. Res., 100, 13,901-13,917.

9. Quintanar, A. I., and C. R. Mechoso, 1995: Quasi-stationary waves in the Southern Hemisphere. Part I: Observational data. J. Climate, 8, 2659-2672. REFEREED PAPER

10. Quintanar, A. I., and C. R. Mechoso, 1995: Quasi-stationary waves in the Southern Hemisphere. Part II: Generation mechanisms. J. Climate, 8, 2673-2690. REFEREED PAPER

11. Wehner, M. F., A. A. Mirin, P. G. Elgroth, W. P. Dannevik, C. R. Mechoso, J. D. Farrara and J. A. Spahr, 1995: Performance of a distributed memory finite difference atmospheric general circulation model. Parallel Computing, 21, 1655-1675. REFEREED PAPER

12. Vial, F., A. Babiano, B. Brioit, C. Basdevant, B. Legras, R. Sadourny, H. Ovarlez, J. Ovarlez, H. Teitelbaum, D. Cariolle, F. Lefèvre, P. Simon, F. Valero, C. R. Mechoso, J. Farrara, H. Kelder, C. Camy-Peyret, T. Hart and M. E. McIntyre, 1995: STRATEOLE: A project to study Antarctic polar vortex dynamics and its impact on ozone chemistry. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 20, 83-96. REFEREED PAPER

13. Mechoso, C. R., and A. Kitoh, 1995: Simulations of the stratospheric circulation. Proceedings of the First International AMIP Scientific Conference. Monterey, California, 15-19 May 1995, World Climate Programme, RESEARCH, WCRP-92, WMO/TD-No.732, 233-238. REFEREED PAPER

14. Muntz, R., R. E. Mesrobian and C. R. Mechoso, 1995: Integrating data analysis, visualization, and data management in a heterogeneous, distributed environment. NASA Science Information Systems Newsletter, 36, 7-13. CONF. PAPER

15. Stolorz, P. E., E. Mesrobian, R. R. Muntz, E. C. Shek, J. R. Santos, J. Yi, K. Ng, S. -Y. Chien, H. Nakamura, C. R. Mechoso, and J. D. Farrara: Fast Spatio-Temporal Data Mining of Large Geophysical Datasets. The First Int. Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Montreal, Canada, August 1995, 300-305. CONF. PAPER

16. Weare, B. C., I. Mokhov, M. Blackburn, G. Boer, D. Burridge, K. Campana, D. Cariolle, V. Dymnikov, W. Ebisuzaki, L. Ferranti, L. Fowler, V. Galin, C. Hall, T. Hogan, B. Hunt, T. Iwasaki, W. K.-M. Lau, E. Kalnay, J.-W. Kim, A. Kitoh, H. Le Treut, X.-Z. Liang, K. Lo, J.-F. Mahfouf, V. Meleshko, B. McAvaney, N. McFarlane, C. Mechoso, KI. Miyakoda, J.H. Oh, C.-K. Park, D. A. Randall, E. Roeckner, R. Rood, T. Rosmond, M. Sato, U. Schlese, M. Schlesinger, J. Slingo, W. Stern, D. Straus, T. Tokioka, T. Tsuyuki, H. van den Dool, W.-C. Wang, R. Wetherald, D. Williamson, and Q.-C. Zeng, 1995: Evaluation of Total Cloudiness and its Variability in the Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project. J. Climate, 8, 2224-2238.

1996

1. Mechoso, C. R., S. G. H. Philander, C.-C. Ma and J.-Y. Yu, 1996: Modelling of the eastern Pacific climate. Conference on the Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System (GOALS), Atlanta, Georgia, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 368-372. CONF. PAPER

2. Mechoso, C. R., 1996: A general circulation model of the atmosphere-ocean system: Numerical simulations in the environmental and earth sciences. Proceedings of the Second UNAM-CRAY Supercomputing Conference, F. Garcia-Garcia, G. Cisneros, A. Fernandez-Eguiarte and R. Alvarez, Editors, Cambridge University Press, 3-15. REFEREED PAPER

3. Ma, C. -C., C. R. Mechoso, A. W. Robertson and A. Arakawa, 1996: Peruvian stratus clouds and the tropical Pacific circulation - a coupled ocean-atmosphere GCM study. J. Climate, 9, 1635-1645. REFEREED PAPER

4. Kim, Y. -J., C. R. Mechoso and A. Arakawa, 1996: Impact of gravity-wave drag and envelope orography on climate simulated by a general circulation model. Eleventh Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction, Norfolk, Virginia, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 319-321. CONF. PAPER

5. Mesrobian E., R. Muntz, E. Shek, S. Nittel, M. La Rouche, M. Kriguer, C. R. Mechoso, J. Farrara, P. E. Stolorz, and H. Nakamura, 1996: Mining geophysical data for knowledge. IEEE, Expert: Intelligent Systems and Applications, 11, 34-44. REFEREED PAPER

6. Kim, Y. -J., J. D. Farrara and C. R. Mechoso, 1996: Simulations of the zonal mean flow with the UCLA AGCM: Sensitivity to parameterizations of subgrid scale orographic and radiative effects. First SPARC General Assembly, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 2-6 December 1996, 291-294. CONF. PAPER

1997

1. Farrara, J. D., Y.-J. Kim and C. R. Mechoso, 1997: Simulation of the stratospheric circulation with a General Circulation Model. Seventh Conference on Climate Variations, Long Beach, California, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 21-26. CONF. PAPER

2. Ma, C.-C., J.-Y. Yu, C. R. Mechoso and A. Arakawa, 1997: New aspects of the UCLA coupled GCM-global ocean circulation and improved cloud representations. Seventh Conference on Climate Variations, Long Beach, California, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 45-48. CONF. PAPER

3. Chi, Y., C. R. Mechoso, K. Sklower, M. Stonebraker, R. R. Muntz and E. Mesrobian, 1997: An output management system for an Earth System Model. Thirteenth International Conf. on IIPS, Long Beach, California, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 409-414. CONF. PAPER

4. Köhler, M., C. R. Mechoso and A. Arakawa, 1997: Ice cloud formulation in climate modeling. Seventh Conference on Climate Variations, Long Beach, California, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 237-242. CONF. PAPER

5. Tseng, L., and C. R. Mechoso, 1997: Relationships between the Atlantic climate variability and El Niño Southern Oscillation. Seventh Conference on Climate Variations of the American Meteorological Society, Long Beach, California, 2-7 February 1997, 189-194. CONF. PAPER

6. Drummond, L. A., J. D. Farrara, C. R. Mechoso, J. A. Spahr, Y. Chao, J. Z. Lou and P. Wang, 1997: Parallel optimization of an earth system model (100 gigaflops and beyond?). Simulation Multiconference '97 (SMC '97). Atlanta, Georgia, 6-10 April 1997, 263-271. CONF. PAPER

7. Mechoso, C. R., A. Mariotti, B. Legras and Y.-C. Chi, 1997: Transport processes in the southern polar stratosphere. Fifth International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography, Pretoria, South Africa, 7-11 April 1997, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 254-255. CONF. PAPER

8. Chen, M.-Y., J. D. Farrara and C. R. Mechoso, 1997: Variations in the stratospheric circulation. Fifth International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography, Pretoria, South Africa, 7-11 April 1997, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 206-207. CONF. PAPER

9. Mechoso, C. R., and J. D. Farrara, 1997: Dispersion properties of the flow in the southern stratosphere during winter and spring. Fifth International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography, Pretoria, South Africa, 7-11 April 1997, 294-295. CONF. PAPER

10. Drummond, L. A., J. D. Farrara, C. R. Mechoso and J. Z. Lou, 1997: Performance optimization of an atmospheric model in massively parallel computers. High Performance Computing and Networking. 1225, 263-271. CONF. PAPER

11. Chi, Y., C. R. Mechoso, M. Stonebraker, K. Sklower, R. Troy, R. R. Muntz and E. Mesrobian, 1997: ESMDIS: Earth System Model Data Information System. Ninth International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, Olympia, Washington, IEEE Computer Society, 116-118. CONF. PAPER

12. Yu, J.-Y., C. R. Mechoso, J. D. Farrara, C.-C. Ma, Y.-J. Kim, J.-L. Li, A. R. Robertson, M. Kohler, L. Tseng and A. Arakawa, 1997: The UCLA coupled model of the atmosphere-ocean system. Mission Earth '97: Modeling and Simulation of the Earth System, Phoenix, Arizona, 13-18. CONF. PAPER

13. Yu, J.-Y., and C. R. Mechoso, 1997: Impact of cloud radiative effects on the simulation of Tropical Pacific Climate. Research Activities in Atmospheric and Ocean Modelling. A. Staniforth, ed., WMO Report No. 25., 7.81-7.82. CONF. PAPER

14. Yu, J.-Y., C. R. Mechoso, J. D. Farrara, Y.-J. Kim, J.-L. Li, M. Kohler and A. Arakawa, 1997: Recent development of the UCLA coupled atmosphere-ocean GCM. Research Activities in Atmospheric and Ocean Modelling. A. Staniforth, ed., WMO Report No. 25., 9.24-9.25. CONF. PAPER

15. Yu, J. -Y., and C. R. Mechoso, 1997: On the asymmetry of SST in the Tropical Pacific. Twenty Second AMS Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Fort Collins, Colorado, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 613-614. CONF. PAPER

16. Yu, J.-Y., and C. R. Mechoso, 1997: Impact of cloud processes on the annual variations of SST in the tropical Pacific. Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop, Berkeley, California, 6-10 October 1997, 228-231. CONF. PAPER

1998

1. Yu, J. -Y., and C. R. Mechoso, 1998: Simulations of Tropical Climate and Variability with the UCLA Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean GCM. 1998 Conference on Mission Earth: Modeling and Simulation of the Earth System, San Diego, California, 11-14 January 1998, 3-8. CONF. PAPER

2. Yu, J. -Y., and C. R. Mechoso, 1998: Impact of cloud processes on the annual evolution of SST in the Tropical Pacific. Ninth Symposium on Global Change Studies, Phoenix, Arizona, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 331-334. CONF. PAPER

3. Chi, Y., C. R. Mechoso, R. Troy, K. Sklower and M. Stonebraker, 1998: A Data Information System for an Earth System Model. 1998 Conference on Mission Earth: Modeling and Simulation of the Earth System, San Diego, California, 11-14 January 1998, 111-114. CONF. PAPER

4. Robertson, A. W., and C. R. Mechoso, 1998: Interannual and decadal cycles in river flows of southeastern South America. J. Climate, 11, 2570-2581. REFEREED PAPER

5. Genta, J. L., G. Perez-Iribarren and C. R. Mechoso, 1998: A recent increasing trend in the streamflow of rivers in Southeastern South America. J. Climate, 11, 2858-2862. REFEREED PAPER

6. Mechoso, C. R., L. A. Drummond, J. D. Farrara and J. A. Spahr, 1998: The UCLA AGCM in High Performance Computing Environments. Supercomputing '98, Orlando, Florida, IEEE Computer Society. REFEREED PAPER

7. Kim, Y. -J., J. D. Farrara and C. R. Mechoso, 1998: Sensitivity of AGCM simulations to modifications in the ozone distribution and refinements in selected physical parameterizations. J. Meteor. Soc., Japan, 76, 695-709. REFEREED PAPER

8. Farrara, J. D., C. R. Mechoso and A. W. Robertson, 1998: An ensemble of AGCM two-tier predictions and simulations of the circulation anomalies during winter 1997-98. Proceedings of the 23^rd Annual Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop, Miami, Florida, 178-181. CONF. PAPER

9. Mechoso, C. R., L. A. Drummond, J. D. Farrara and J. A. Spahr, 1998: Development of an earth system model in high performance computing environments. HPCCP/CAS Workshop 98, NASA/CP-1999, 208757, 119-124. CONF. PAPER

10. Diaz, A. F., C. D. Studzinski and C. R. Mechoso, 1998: Relationships between precipitation anomalies in Uruguay and southern Brazil and sea surface temperature in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. J. Climate, 11, 251-271. REFEREED PAPER

1999

1. Robertson, A. W., C. R. Mechoso and Y.-J. Kim, 1999: Interannual variations in the South American Monsoon and their teleconnection with the North Atlantic oscillation. Tenth Symposium on Global Change Studies, Dallas, Texas, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 434-437. CONF. PAPER

2. Mechoso, C. R., 1999: The CLIVAR/VAMOS programme on the American Monsoon Systems. Tenth Symposium on Global Change Studies, Dallas, Texas, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 427-430. CONF. PAPER

3. Li, J. -L., A. Arakawa and C. R. Mechoso, 1999: Revised planetary boundary layer moist processes in the UCLA general circulation model. Tenth Symposium on Global Change Studies, Dallas, Texas, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 423-426. CONF. PAPER

4. Yu, J. -Y., C. R. Mechoso and A. Arakawa, 1999: Multivariate structures of the ENSO cycle in the atmosphere and ocean. Second Hayes Symposium on Seasonal to Interannual Climate Variability, Dallas, Texas, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 105-109. CONF. PAPER

5. Yu, J. -Y., and C. R. Mechoso, 1999: El Niño simulation and prediction using a coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation model. Proceedings of the 1999 International Conference on Mission Earth, 17-20 January 1999, San Francisco, California, 43-48. CONF. PAPER

6. Drummond, L. A., J. D. Farrara, M. Gupta, C. R. Mechoso and J. A. Spahr, 1999: The UCLA Earth System Model: Computational Challenges. Proceedings of the 1999 International Conference on Mission Earth, San Francisco, California, 38-42. CONF. PAPER

7. Farrara, J.D., C.R. Mechoso, and A.W. Robertson, 1999: The UCLA Earth System Model: Scientific Challenges. Proceedings of the 1999 International Conference on Mission Earth, 17-20 January 1999, San Francisco, California, 33-37. CONF. PAPER

8. Govindasamy, B., M. F. Wehner, C. R. Mechoso and P. Duffy, 1999: The Influence of a Soil-Atmosphere Transfer Scheme on the Simulated Climate of LLNL/UCLA AGCM. Global and Planetary Change, 20, 67-86. REFEREED PAPER

9. Yu, J. -Y., and C. R. Mechoso, 1999: A discussion on the errors in the surface heat fluxes simulated by a coupled GCM. J. Climate, 12, 416-426. REFEREED PAPER

10. Yu, J. -Y., and C. R. Mechoso, 1999: Links between annual variations of Peruvian stratocumulus clouds and of SST in the eastern equatorial Pacific. J. Climate, 23, 305-318. REFEREED PAPER

11. Mechoso, C. R., 1999: VAMOS Panel Meeting – 2^nd Session. CLIVAR Exchanges, 4(2), 15-18.

12. Drummond, L. A., J. D. Farrara, C. R. Mechoso and J. A. Spahr, 1999: An Earth System Model for MPP environments: Issues in coupling components with different complexities. High Performance Computing 1999 Grand Challenge in Computer Simulation, 11-15 April 1999, San Diego, California, 123-127. REPORT

13. Yih, H. and C.R. Mechoso, 1999: Characteristics of southern ocean sea-ice distribution modeled using cavitating fluid rheology and climatological atmospheric data. J. Korean Soc. Oceanography, 34, 59-72. CONF. PAPER

2000

1. Mariotti, A., C. R. Mechoso and B. Legras, 2000: The evolution of the ozone "collar" in the Antarctic lower stratosphere during early August 1994. J. Atmos. Sci., 57(3), 402-414. REFEREED PAPER

2. Robertson, A. W., and C. R. Mechoso, 2000: Interannual-to-interdecadal variability of the South Atlantic Convergence Zone and riverflow predictability. Proceedings of the 24^rd Annual Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop, Tucson, Arizona, 337. CONF. PAPER

3. Robertson, A. W., C. R. Mechoso and Y.- J. Kim, 2000: The influence of Atlantic sea surface temperature anomalies on the North Atlantic Oscillation. J. Climate, 13, 122-138. REFEREED PAPER

4. Pawson, S., K. Kodera, K. Hamilton, T. G. Shepherd, S. R. Beagley, B. A. Boville, J. D. Farrara, T. D. A. Fairlie, A. Kitoh, W. A. Lahoz, U. Langematz, E. Manzini, D. H. Rind, A. A. Scaife, K. Shibata, P. Simon, R. Swinbank, L. Takacs, R. J. Wilson, J. A. Al-Saadi, M. Amodei, M. Chiba, L. Coy, J. de Grandpré, R. S. Eckman, M. Fiorino, W. L. Grose, H. Koide, J. N. Koshyk, D. Li, J. Lerner, J. D. Mahlman, N. A. McFarlane, C. R. Mechoso, A. Molod, A. O'Neill, R. B. Pierce, W. J. Randel, R. B. Rood and F. Wu, 2000: The GCM-Reality Intercomparison Project for SPARC (GRIPS): Scientific Issues and Initial Results. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 81(4), 781-796. REFEREED PAPER

5. Robertson, A. W. and C. R. Mechoso, 2000: Interannual and interdecadal variability of the South Atlantic Convergence Zone. Mon. Wea. Rev., 128, 2947-2957. REFEREED PAPER

6. Mechoso, C. R., J.-Y. Yu and A. Arakawa, 2000: A coupled GCM pilgrimage: From climate catastrophe to ENSO simulations. General Circulation Model Development: Past, present and future. Proceedings of a Symposium in Honor of Professor Akio Arakawa. D. A. Randall. Ed., Academic Press, 539-575. REFEREED PAPER

7. Yu, J. -Y., W. T. Liu, and C. R. Mechoso, 2000: An SST anomaly dipole in the northern subtropical Pacific and its relationships with ENSO. Geophys. Res. Let., 27, 1931-1934. REFEREED PAPER

8. Mechoso, C. R., 2000: Introduction to VAMOS. CLIVAR Exchanges, 5(2), 4-6. REPORT

9. Berbery, E. H., and C. R. Mechoso, 2000: The hydrologic cycle of the Rio de la Plata basin. CLIVAR Exchanges, 5(2), 9-11. REPORT

10. Yu, J. -Y., W. T. Liu and C. R. Mechoso, 2000: The SST anomalies dipole in the extratropical Pacific and its relationships with the ENSO cycle. Eleventh Symposium on Global Change Studies, Long Beach, California, 9-14 January 2000, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 265-268. CONF. PAPER

11. Mechoso, C. R., 2000: Selected aspects of oceanic influences on climate variability in South America. Sixth International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography, Santiago, Chile, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 3-7 April 2000, 368-369. CONF. PAPER

12. Robertson, A. W., and C. R. Mechoso, 2000: Interannual-to-interdecadal variability of river flows in Southeastern South America: Description and predictability. Sixth International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography, Santiago, Chile, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 3-7 April 2000, 168-169. CONF. PAPER

13. Mechoso, C. R., J. D. Farrara, L. A. Drummond, J. Spahr and J. -Y. Yu, 2000: An atmospheric-ocean model: Code optimization and application to El Niño. Development and Application of Computer Techniques to Environmental Studies VIII. Gabriel Ibarra-Berastegi, C. A. Brebbia and P. Zanetti, Eds., WIT Press, Southampton, Boston, 261-278. REFEREED PAPER

14. Terra, R., A. Arakawa and C. R. Mechoso, 2000: Towards a formulation of the impact of mesoscale orographic on a cloud-topped PBL for use in GCMs. Ninth Conference on Mountain Meteorology, Aspen, Colorado, 7-11 August 2000, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 423-426. CONF. PAPER

15. Li, J.-L. F., M. Köhler and C. R. Mechoso, 2000: The impact of improved stratocumulus cloud optical properties on a general circulation model. Thirteenth International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation (ICCP), Reno, Nevada, 14-18 August 2000, 811-814. CONF. PAPER

16. Farrara, J. D., C. R. Mechoso and A. W. Robertson, 2000: Ensembles of AGCM two-tier predictions and simulations of the circulation anomalies during winter 1997-1998. Mon. Wea. Rev., 128, 3589-3604. REFEREED PAPER

17. Mechoso, C.R., W. Baetghen, E. Berbery, N. García, J. Genta, C. Martínez, A. Menéndez, M. Núñez, J. Paegle, G. Pisciottano, A. Robertson, L. Silveira, C. Tucci, and J. Valdez, 2000: Climatology and Hydrology of the Rio de la Plata Basin. Report of a Study Group Meeting held in Montevideo, Uruguay, 9-12 December 1999, 36 pp. REPORT

18. Mechoso, C.R. and A. Villwock, 2000: Monsoon Variability in the Americas. Sea Technology, 41, 10-14. REPORT

19. Nogués-Paegle J., A. W. Robertson, and C. R. Mechoso, 2000: Relationship between the North Atlantic Oscillation and river flow regimes of South America. Twenty-fifth Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop, 23-27 October 2000, Palisades, New York. 323-326. CONF. PAPER

20. Yu, J.-Y., C. R. Mechoso, and A. Arakawa, 2000: Reduction in systematic errors in the UCLA atmospheric GCM and its impact on coupled atmosphere-ocean GCM simulations of seasonal cycle and interannual variability. BMRC-WGNE Workshop on Systematic Errors, 16 to 20 October 2000, Melbourne, Australia, 277. CONF. PAPER

21. Mechoso, C. R., 2000: Report of the 3^rd Session of the CLIVAR VAMOS Panel, 8-9 April 2000, Santiago de Chile, Chile. International CLIVAR Project Office (ICPO) No. 37, WCRP Informal Report No. 4/2000. REPORT

2001

1. Chen, M., C. R. Mechoso and J. D. Farrara, 2001: Interannual variations in the stratospheric circulation with a perfectly steady troposphere. J. Geophys. Res., 106, 5161-5172. REFEREED PAPER

2. Tseng, L. and C. R. Mechoso, 2001: A quasi-biennial oscillation in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean. Geophys. Res. Let., 28, 187-190. REFEREED PAPER

3. Yu, J.-Y., and C. R. Mechoso, 2001: A coupled atmosphere-ocean GCM study of the ENSO cycle. J. Climate, 14, 2329-2350. REFEREED PAPER

4. Gupta, M. L., R. P. Turco, C. R. Mechoso and J. Spahr, 2001: On-line simulations of passive chemical tracers in the University of California, Los Angeles, Atmospheric General Circulation Model: 1. CFC-11 and CFC-12. J. Geophys. Res., 106, 12401-12417. REFEREED PAPER

5. Robertson, A. W., C. R. Mechoso, and N. O. Garcia, 2001: Interannual prediction of the Paraná River. Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 4235-4238. REFEREED PAPER

6. Yu, J. -Y., and C. R. Mechoso, 2001: An Indo-Pacific SST teleconnection pattern during ENSO. 12^th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations, 14-18 January 2001, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 293-296. CONF. PAPER

7. Jung, J. -H., C. S. Konor, C. R. Mechoso, and A. Arakawa, 2001: A study of the stratospheric major warming and subsequent flow recovery during the winter of 1979 with an isentropic vertical coordinate model. J. Atmos. Sci., 58, 2630-2649. REFEREED PAPER

8. Hertzog, A., F. Vial, C. R. Mechoso, P. Cocquerez and C. Basdevant, 2001: Stratospheric dynamics as revealed by CNES superpressure balloons. Proceedings of the 15^th Symposium on European Rocket and Balloon Programmes and Related Research of the European Space Agency, Biarritz, France, 28-31 May 2001, 145-149. CONF. PAPER

9. Drummond, L. A., C. R. Mechoso, J. A. Spahr, J Demmel, H. Robinson, and K. Sklower, 2001: A data broker for distributed computing environments. Proceedings of the 2001 Int. Conf. on Computational Issues, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, San Francisco, 30 May 2001, Springer-Verlag, 31-40. CONF. PAPER

10. Vial, F., A. Hertzog, C. R. Mechoso, C. Basdevant, P. Cocquerez, V. Dubourg, F. Nouel, 2001: A study of the dynamics of the equatorial lower stratosphere by use of ultra long duration balloons; Part I: Planetary scales. J. Geophys. Res., 106, D19, 22,725-22,743. REFEREED PAPER

11. Mechoso, C. R., P. Silva Dias, W. Baethgen, V. Barros, E. H. Berbery, R. Clarke, H. Cullen, C. Ereño, B. Grassi, D. Lettenmaier, 2001: Climatology and hydrology of the Plata Basin. A document of VAMOS Scientific Study Group on the Plata Basin, 55 pp. REPORT

12. Latif, M., K. Sperber, J. Arblaster, P. Braconnot, D. Chen, A. Colman, U. Cubasch, C. Cooper, P. Delecluse, D. DeWitt, L. Fairhead, G. Flato, T. Hogan, M. Ji, M. Kimoto, A. Kitoh, T. Knutson, H. Le Treut, T. Li, S. Manabe, O. Marti, C. Mechoso, G. Meehl, S. Power, E. Roeckner, J. Sirven, L. Terray, A. Vintzileos, R. Voß, B. Wang, W. Washington, I. Yoshikawa, J. Yu, S. Zebiak, 2001: ENSIP: the El Niño simulation intercomparison project. Climate Dynamics, 18, 255-276. REFEREED PAPER

13. Fourth Session of the CLIVAR VAMOS Panel, 26-30 March 2001, Montevideo, Uruguay. International CLIVAR Project Office, CLIVAR Publications Series No. 49. REPORT

2002

1. Davey, M. K., M. Huddleston, K. R. Sperber, P. Braconnot, F. Bryan, D. Chen, R. A. Colman, C. Cooper, U. Cubasch, P. Delecluse, D. DeWitt, L. Fairhead, G. Flato, C. Gordon, T. Hogan, M. Ji, M. Kimoto, A. Kitoh, T. R. Knutson, M. Latif, H. Le Treut, T. Li, S. Manabe, C. R. Mechoso, G. A. Meehl, S. B. Power, E. Roeckner, L. Terray, A. Vintzileos, R. Voss, B. Wang, W. M. Washington, I. Yoshikawa, J. -Y. Yu, S. Yukimoto and S. E. Zebiak, 2001: STOIC: a study of coupled model climatology and variability in tropical ocean regions. Climate Dynamics, 18, 403-420. REFEREED PAPER

2. Yu, J. -Y., C. R. Mechoso, J. C. McWilliams, and A. Arakawa, 2002: Impacts of the Indian Ocean on the ENSO cycle. Geophys. Res. Letters, 29, 46-1/46-4. REFEREED PAPER

3. Hertzog, A., F. Vial, C. R. Mechoso, C. Basdevant, P. Cocquerez, V. Dubourg, and F. Nouel, 2002: Planetary and gravity wave activity in the equatorial lower stratosphere as seen by ultra-long duration balloons. Adv. Space Res., 30, 1381-1386. REFEREED PAPER

4. Hertzog, A., F. Vial, C. R. Mechoso, C. Basdevant, and P. Cocquerez, 2002: Quasi-Lagrangian measurements in the lower stratosphere reveal an energy peak associated with near-inertial waves. Geophys. Res. Letters, 29, 70-1/70-4. REFEREED PAPER

5. Li, J. -L. F., M. Köhler, J. D. Farrara and C. R. Mechoso, 2002: The impact of stratocumulus cloud radiative properties on surface heat fluxes simulated with a general circulation model. Mon. Wea. Rev., 130, 1433-1441. REFEREED PAPER

6. Mechoso, C. R. 2002: Introduction to CLIVAR. CEOP Newsletter, 1, 2. REPORT

7. Robertson, A.W. and C. R. Mechoso, 2002: Links between Atlantic Ocean and South American climate variability. CLIVAR Exchanges, 7 (3/4), 16-18. REPORT

8. Ereño, C. and C. R. Mechoso, 2002: WCRP/CLIVAR VAMOS Panel Report on the Fifth Annual Meeting, Clivar Exchanges, 7 (2), 31-33. REPORT

9. Nogués-Paegle, C. R. Mechoso, R. Fu, E. H. Berbery, W. C. Chao, T. -C. Chen, K. Cook, A. F. Diaz, D. Enfield,