| Associate Scientist III
National Security Applications Program (NSAP)
303-497-8424
monaghan ucar.edu
Job Duties
Climate downscaling in support of chemical transport and dispersion modeling
Professional Interests
Numerical modeling as a tool for understanding and investigating weather and climate. I am particularly interested in recent and future climate change, with emphasis on the Antarctic.
Education
B.A., Civil Engineering, 1998, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK
M.S., Atmospheric Sciences, 2003, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Ph.D., Atmospheric Sciences, 2007, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Publications
Monaghan, A.J., D.H. Bromwich, and D.P. Schneider, 2008: 20th century Antarctic air temperature and snowfall simulations by IPCC climate models. Geophys. Res. Letts., 35, L07502, doi:10.1029/2007GL032630.
Monaghan, A.J., D.H. Bromwich, W. Chapman, and J.C. Comiso, 2008: Recent variability and trends of Antarctic near-surface temperature. J. Geophys. Res.,, 113 D04105, doi:10.1029/2007JD009094.
Monaghan, A.J., and D.H. Bromwich, 2008: Advances in describing recent Antarctic climate variability. Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc., in press.
Wee, T-K., Y-H. Kuo, D.H. Bromwich, and A.J. Monaghan, 2008: Assimilation of GPS radio occultation refractivity data from CHAMP and SAC-C missions over high southern latitudes with MM5 4DVAR. Mon. Wea. Rev., in press.
Monaghan, A.J., D.H. Bromwich, R.L. Fogt, S-H. Wang, P.A. Mayewski, D.A. Dixon, A.A. Ekaykin, M. Frezzotti, I.D. Goodwin, E. Isaksson, S.D. Kaspari, V.I. Morgan, H. Oerter, T.D. van Ommen, C.J. van der Veen, and J. Wen, 2006: Insignificant change in Antarctic snowfall since the International Geophysical Year. Science, 313, 827-831.
Monaghan, A.J., D.H. Bromwich, and S-H. Wang, 2006: Recent trends in Antarctic snow accumulation from Polar MM5. Philosophical Trans. Royal. Soc. A, 364, 1683-1708.
Wen, Jiahong, K.C. Jezek, A.J. Monaghan, S. Bo, R. Jiawen, P. Huybrechts, 2006: Accumulation variability and mass budgets of the Lambert Glacier-Amery Ice Shelf system at high elevations. Ann. Glaciol., 43, 351-360.
Monaghan, A.J., D.H. Bromwich, J.G. Powers, and K.W. Manning, 2005: The climate of the McMurdo, Antarctica region as represented by one year of forecasts from the Antarctic Mesoscale Prediction System. J. Climate, 18,1174-1189.
Bromwich, D.H., A.J. Monaghan, K.W. Manning, and J.G. Powers, 2005:Real-time forecasting for the Antarctic: An evaluation of the Antarctic Mesoscale Prediction System (AMPS). Mon. Wea. Rev.,133, 579-603.
Bromwich, D.H., A.J. Monaghan, and Z. Guo, 2004: Modeling the ENSO modulation of Antarctic climate in the late 1990s with Polar MM5. J. Climate, 17, 109-132.
Bromwich, D.H., A.J. Monaghan, J.G. Powers, J.J. Cassano, H. Wei, Y. Kuo, and A. Pellegrini, 2003: Antarctic Mesoscale Prediction System (AMPS): A case study from the 2000/2001 field season. Mon. Wea. Rev., 131, 412-434.
Carrasco, J.F., D.H. Bromwich, and A.J. Monaghan, 2003: Distribution and characteristics of mesoscale cyclones in the Antarctic: Ross Sea east to the Weddell Sea. Mon. Wea. Rev., 131, 289-301.
Monaghan, A.J., D.H. Bromwich, H. Wei, A.M. Cayette, J.G. Powers, Y.H. Kuo, and M. Lazzara, 2003: Performance of weather forecast models in the rescue of Dr. Ronald Shemenski from South Pole in April 2001. Wea. Forecasting, 18, 142-160.
Powers, J.G., A.J. Monaghan, A.M. Cayette, D.H. Bromwich, Y-H. Kuo, and K.W. Manning, 2003: Real-time mesoscale modeling over Antarctica: The Antarctic Mesoscale Prediction System (AMPS). Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 84, 1533-1545.
Van Woert, M.L., E.S. Johnson, L. Langone, D.L. Worthen, A.J. Monaghan, D.H. Bromwich, R. Meloni, and R.B. Dunbar, 2003: The Ross Sea circulation during the 1990s. In Antarctic Research Series, Biogeochemical Cycles in the Ross Sea, (G. Ditullio and R. Dunbar eds.), 78, 5-34.
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