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Alberto Mestas-Nunez, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
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Education
- Ph.D. in Physical Oceanography, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA, 1996
- M.S. in Physical Oceanography, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA, 1993
- Licenciado en Oceanografia, Instituto Tecnologico de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1985
Research Interests
- Physical oceanography
- Oceanographic remote sensing
- Air-sea fluxes
- Atmospheric moisture transport
- Role of the ocean in climate
- Multivariate statistical analysis
Publications
Lavin, M.F., P.C. Fiedler, J.A. Amador, L.T. Ballance, J. Farber-Lorda, and A.M. Mestas-Nuñez, 2006: A review of eastern tropical Pacific oceanography: Summary. Progress in Oceanography, 69(2-4), 391-398.
Mestas-Nuñez, A.M., and A.J. Miller, 2006: Interdecadal variability and climate change in the eastern tropical Pacific: A review. Progress in Oceanography, 69(2-4)267-284.
Mestas-Nuñez, A.M., A. Bentamy, and K.B. Katsaros 2006: Seasonal and El Niño variability in weekly satellite evaporation over the global ocean during 1996-1998. J. Climate, 19, 2025-2035.
Mestas-Nuñez, A.M., C. Zhang, and D.B. Enfield 2005: Uncertainties in estimating moisture fluxes in the Intra-Americas Sea. J. Hydrometeor., 6, 696–709.
Bentamy, A., K.B. Katsaros, A.M. Mestas-Nuñez, W.M. Drennan, E.B. Forde, and H. Roquet, 2003: Satellite estimates of wind speed and latent heat flux over the global oceans. J. Climate, 16, 637-656.
Katsaros, K.B., A.M. Mestas-Nuñez, A. Bentamy, and E.B. Forde, 2003: Wind bursts and enhanced evaporation in the tropical and subtropical Atlantic Ocean. In Interhemispheric Water Exchange in the Atlantic Ocean, G. Goni and P. Malanotte-Rizzoli (eds.). Elsevier Oceanographic Series, 68, 463-474.
Molinari, R.L., and A.M. Mestas-Nuñez, 2003: North Atlantic decadal variability and the formation of tropical storms and hurricanes, Geophys. Res. Lett., 30, 1541, doi:10.1029/2002GL016462.
Goldenberg, S. B., C.W. Landsea, A.M. Mestas-Nuñez, and W.M. Gray, 2001: The recent increase in Atlantic hurricane activity: Causes and implications. Science, 293, 474-479.
Enfield, D. B., and A.M. Mestas-Nuñez, 2001: Interannual to multidecadal climate variability and its relationship to global sea surface temperatures. In: Interhemispheric Climate Linkages, V. Markgraf, (ed.), Academic Press, 17-29.
Enfield, D. B., A.M. Mestas-Nuñez and P.J. Trimble, 2001: The Atlantic multidecadal oscillation and its relation to rainfall and river flows in the continental U.S. Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 2077-2080.
Mestas-Nuñez, A.M., and D. B. Enfield, 2001: Eastern equatorial Pacific SST Variability: ENSO and Non-ENSO components and their Climatic Associations. J. Climate, 14, 391-402.
Enfield, D.B., and A.M. Mestas-Nuñez, 2000: Global modes of ENSO and non-ENSO sea surface temperature variability and their associations with climate. In: El Niño and the Southern Oscillation: Multiscale Variability and Global and Regional Impacts, H.F. Diaz and V. Markgraf, (eds.), Cambridge University Press. 89-112.
Mestas-Nuñez, A.M., 2000: Orthogonality properties of rotated empirical modes. I. J. Climatol., 20, 1509-1516.
Enfield, D.B. and A.M. Mestas-Nuñez, 1999: Multiscale variabilities in global sea surface temperatures and their relationships with tropospheric climate patterns. J. Climate, 12, 2719-2733.
Enfield, D.B, A.M. Mestas-Nuñez, D.A. Mayer, and L. Cid-Serrano, 1999: How ubiquitous is the dipole relationship in tropical Atlantic sea surface temperatures? J. Geophys. Res., 104, 7841-7848.
Landsea, C.W., R.A. Pielke, Jr., A.M. Mestas-Nuñez, and J.A. Knaff, 1999: Atlantic basin hurricanes: Indices of climatic changes. Climatic Change, 42, 89-129.
Mestas-Nuñez, A.M. and D.B. Enfield, 1999: Rotated global modes of non-ENSO sea surface temperature variability. J. Climate, 12, 2734-2746.
Dietrich, D.E., C.A. Lin, A.M. Mestas-Nuñez, and D.-S. Ko, 1997: A high resolution numerical study of the Gulf of Mexico fronts and eddies. Meteorol. Atmos. Phys., 64, 187-201.
Dietrich, D.E., M.J. Bowman, C.A. Lin, and A.M. Mestas-Nuñez, 1996: Numerical studies of small island wakes in the ocean. J. Geophys. Astrophys. Fluid Dyn., 83, 195-231.
Mestas-Nuñez, A.M., D.B. Chelton, M.H. Freilich and J.G. Richman, 1994: An evaluation of ECMWF-based climatological wind stress fields. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 24, 1532-1549.
Mestas-Nuñez, A.M., D.B. Chelton and R.A. deSzoeke, 1992: Evidence of time-dependent Sverdrup circulation in the South Pacific from the Seasat scatterometer and altimeter. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 22, 934-943.
Chelton, D.B., A.M. Mestas-Nuñez and M.H. Freilich, 1990: Global wind stress and Sverdrup circulation from the Seasat scatterometer. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 20, 1175-1205.
