Cecilia Bitz
Publications
Curriculum Vitae |
Cecilia Bitz has moved to UW Atmospheric Sciences.
Dr. Bitz's research interest is in high-latitude climate. The primary tools for her work are a variety of climate models, from a simple Arctic vertical column to fully coupled atmosphere, ice, and ocean general circulation models. She has worked extensively in improving the simulation of sea ice thermodynamic processes in climate models. Her most recent work involved developing a model to resolve the sea ice thickness distribution that is efficient enough for longterm (century-scale) climate modeling. With her assistance, this model is being implemented in the next version of the National Center for Atmospheric Research Climate System Model. Cecilia received the 2002 Community Climate System Model (CCSM) Distinguished Achievement Award for her contributions to the development of the new state-of-the-art sea ice model for the CCSM model.
Although her background is in atmospheric sciences, she has studied coupled sea ice-ocean interactions in the North Atlantic that give rise to variability in the ocean's thermohaline circulation. Dr. Bitz originally joined PSC as a visiting scholar with a NOAA Climate and Global Change Fellowship. |
Publications
Bitz, C.M., M.M. Holland, E. Hunke, and R.E. Moritz, 2005: Maintenance of the sea-ice edge, J. Climate, 18, p 2903-21.
Bitz, C.M., P.R. Gent, R.A. Woodgate, M.M. Holland, and R. Lindsay, 2005: The influence of sea ice on ocean heat uptake in response to increasing CO2, J. Climate, accepted
Bitz, C.M., and G.H. Roe, 2004: An Explanation for the High Rate of Sea-ice Thinning in the Arctic Ocean, J. Climate, 17, 3622-31.
Schidmt, G.A., C.M. Bitz, U. Mikolajewicz and L.B. Tremblay, 2004: Ice-ocean boundary conditions for coupled models. Ocean Modeling, 7, 59-74, DOI:10.1016/S1463-5003(03)00030-1.
Holland, Marika M., and Cecilia M. Bitz, 2003: Polar Amplification of climate change in coupled models, Climate Dynamics, 21, 221-232 DOI: 10.1007/S00382-0332-6.
Bitz, C.M., J. Fyfe, and G. Flato, 2002: Sea ice response to wind forcing from AMIP models, J. Climate, 15, 522-536.
Gent,
Peter R., Anthony Craig, Cecilia Bitz, and
John Weatherly, 2002.
Parameterization Improvements in an Eddy-Permitting Ocean
Model for Climate. Journal of Climate, 15, 1447-1459.
Bitz, Cecilia,2001: The Relation Among Sea Ice, Surface Temperature, and Atmosopheric Circulation in Simulations of Future Climate, 4 pp. Extended abstract from meeting on "Arctic Feedbacks to Gloal Chane" in Rovaniemi, Finland.
Holland,
Marika M., and Cecilia M. Bitz, Polar
Amplification of climate change in coupled models, Climate
Dynamics, in press, published online : DOI: 10.1007/s00382-0332-6.
Bitz,
C.M., M.M. Holland, M. Eby, A.J. Weaver: Simulating the ice-thickness
distribution in a coupled climate model, submitted to J. Geophys.
Res.
Holland,
M.M., C.M. Bitz, A.J. Weaver, M. Eby: The role of ice ocean
interactions in the variability of the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation, submitted to J. Climate.
Dettinger,
M.D., D.S. Battisti, G.J. McCabe, C.M. Bitz, and R.D. Garreaud:
Interhemispheric Effects of Interannual and Decadal Enso-Like
Climate Variations on the Americas In Present and Past Inter-hemispheric
climate linkages in the Americas and their Societal Effects.
in press.
Bitz,
C.M., and W.H. Lipscomb, 1999: An Energy-Conserving Thermodynamic
Model of Sea Ice, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 15,669-16,677,
1999.
Bitz,
C.M., and D.S. Battisti, 1999: Interannual to Decadal Variability
in Climate and the Glacier Mass Balance in Washington, Western
Canada, and Alaska, J. Climate, 12, 3181-3196.
Weaver,
A.J., C.M. Bitz, A.F. Fanning, and M.M. Holland, 1999: Thermohaline
circulation: High latitude phenomena and the difference between
the Pacific and Atlantic, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary
Sciences, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 27,
231-285.
Bitz,
C.M., 1997: A Model Study of Natural Variability in the Arctic
Climate, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Washington, 199
pp.
Battisti,
D.S., C.M. Bitz and R.E. Moritz, 1997: Do General Circulation
Models Underestimate the Natural Variability in the Arctic
Climate, J. Climate, 10, 1909-1920.
Bitz,
C.M., D.S. Battisti, R.E. Moritz and J.A. Beesley, 1996: Low-frequency
variability in the Arctic atmosphere, sea ice, and upper-ocean
climate system, J. Climate, 9, 394-408.
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