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Overview

D. E. Harrison is affiliated with the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in the United States. Their research focuses predominantly on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with particular attention to subfields including Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, Ocean Engineering, and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's work addresses a variety of topics, such as:

  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Maritime Navigation and Safety
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Climate variability and models
  • Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
  • Marine animal studies overview

Among the recent publications by D. E. Harrison are:

  • Exploring the Pacific Arctic Seasonal Ice Zone With Saildrone USVs, 2021, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Exploring the Pacific Arctic Seasonal Ice Zone With Saildrone USVs., 2021, IOC of UNESCO (Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission)
  • Tropical Pacific Surface Wind Energy Spectra and Coherence: Basinwide Observations and Their Observing System Implications, 2020, Journal of Climate
  • Multifactor Change in Western U.S. Nighttime Fire Weather, 2025, Journal of Climate

Frequent coauthors collaborating with D. E. Harrison include:

  • A. M. Chiodi
  • Chidong Zhang
  • Edward D. Cokelet
  • Qiong Yang
  • Calvin W. Mordy

The scientist's publications are often featured in these venues:

  • Journal of Climate
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • IOC of UNESCO (Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission)

Best Publications

  • On the definition of El Niño and associated seasonal average U.S. weather anomalies

    Narasimhan K. Larkin;D. E. Harrison;D. E. Harrison

  • Global seasonal temperature and precipitation anomalies during El Niño autumn and winter

    Narasimhan K. Larkin;D. E. Harrison;D. E. Harrison

  • ENSO Warm (El Niño) and Cold (La Niña) Event Life Cycles: Ocean Surface Anomaly Patterns, Their Symmetries, Asymmetries, and Implications.

    Narasimhan K. Larkin;D. E. Harrison

  • Monsoon Breaks and Subseasonal Sea Surface Temperature Variability in the Bay of Bengal

    Gabriel Andres Vecchi;D. E. Harrison

  • El Niño-Southern Oscillation sea surface temperature and wind anomalies, 1946-1993

    D. E. Harrison;Narasimhan K. Larkin

  • Tropical Pacific Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies, El Niño, and Equatorial Westerly Wind Events*

    Gabriel Andres Vecchi;D. E. Harrison

  • Westerly Wind Events in the Tropical Pacific, 1986–95

    D. E. Harrison;Gabriel A. Vecchi

  • Zonal winds in the central equatorial pacific and el nino.

    D. S. Luther;D. E. Harrison;R. A. Knox

  • On the variability of the net longwave radiation at the ocean surface

    Inez Y. Fung;D. E. Harrison;Andrew A. Lacis

  • On the termination of El Niño

    D. E. Harrison;D. E. Harrison;Gabriel Andres Vecchi;Gabriel Andres Vecchi

  • The Pacific decadal oscillation, air-sea interaction and central north Pacific winter atmospheric regimes

    Nicholas A. Bond;D. E. Harrison

  • On Climatological Monthly Mean Wind Stress and Wind Stress Curl Fields over the World Ocean

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  • El Niño Impacts on Seasonal U.S. Atmospheric Circulation, Temperature, and Precipitation Anomalies: The OLR-Event Perspective*

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  • Aspects of the Kelvin wave response to episodic wind forcing

    Benjamin S. Giese;D. E. Harrison

  • January 1999 Indian Ocean Cooling Event

    D. E. Harrison;Gabriel A. Vecchi

  • Episodes of surface westerly winds as observed from islands in the western tropical Pacific

    D. E. Harrison;Benjamin S. Giese

  • Kelvin-Wave-Induced Anomalous Advection and the Onset of Surface Warming in El Niño Events

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  • The structure and evolution of seasonal wind anomalies over the near-equatorial eastern Indian and western Pacific Oceans

    David S. Gutzler;D. E. Harrison

  • ASSESSMENT OF THE AIR-SEA EXCHANGE OF CO2 IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC DURING AUSTRAL AUTUMN

    Paulette P. Murphy;Richard A. Feely;Richard H. Gammon;D. E. Harrison

  • The Termination of the 1997–98 El Niño. Part I: Mechanisms of Oceanic Change*

    Gabriel Andres Vecchi;D. E. Harrison

  • Eastern equatorial Pacific response to three composite westerly wind types

    Benjamin S. Giese;D. E. Harrison

  • The COADS Sea Level Pressure Signal: A Near-Global El Niño Composite and Time Series View, 1946–1993

    D. E. Harrison;Narasimhan K. Larkin

  • Is the World Ocean Warming? Upper-Ocean Temperature Trends: 1950–2000

    D. E. Harrison;Mark Carson

  • Darwin sea level pressure, 1876–1996: Evidence for climate change?

    D. E. Harrison;D. E. Harrison;N. K. Larkin

Frequent Co-Authors

Gabriel A. Vecchi
Gabriel A. Vecchi Princeton University
Benjamin S. Giese
Benjamin S. Giese Texas A&M University
William S. Kessler
William S. Kessler Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
Richard A. Feely
Richard A. Feely University of Washington
Nicholas A. Bond
Nicholas A. Bond Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean
John P. Dunne
John P. Dunne Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Ray F. Weiss
Ray F. Weiss University of California, San Diego
Taro Takahashi
Taro Takahashi Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Anthony Rosati
Anthony Rosati National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Michael J. McPhaden
Michael J. McPhaden Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory

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