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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2002 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 1992 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Dennis L. Hartmann is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans several subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, and Astronomy and Astrophysics.

The scientist's research topics focus on Climate variability and models, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Atmospheric aerosols and clouds, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, and Cosmology and Gravitation Theories.

Hartmann has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • The Antarctic ozone hole and the pattern effect on climate sensitivity (2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Tropical Anvil Clouds: Radiative Driving Toward a Preferred State (2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres)
  • A Lagrangian Perspective on Tropical Anvil Cloud Lifecycle in Present and Future Climate (2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres)
  • Diurnal Differences in Tropical Maritime Anvil Cloud Evolution (2021, Journal of Climate)
  • Greater climate sensitivity implied by anvil cloud thinning (2024, Nature Geoscience)

Frequent co-authors include Adam B. Sokol, Brittany Dygert, Casey J. Wall, Blaž Gasparini, and Peter N. Blossey.

Hartmann frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Journal of Climate
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

They have also authored a book titled The Atmospheric General Circulation, published by Cambridge University Press in 2023.

Awards received by Dennis L. Hartmann include:

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2016)
  • Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU) (2002)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (1992)

Best Publications

  • Observations: Atmosphere and surface

    Dennis L. Hartmann;Albert M.G. Klein Tank;Matilde Rusticucci;Lisa V. Alexander

  • Cloud-radiative forcing and climate: results from the Earth radiation budget experiment.

    V. Ramanathan;R. D. Cess;E. F. Harrison;P. Minnis

  • The Seasonal Cycle of Low Stratiform Clouds

    Stephen A. Klein;Dennis L. Hartmann

  • Global physical climatology

    Dennis L. Hartmann

  • The Effect of Cloud Type on Earth's Energy Balance: Global Analysis

    Dennis L. Hartmann;Maureen E. Ockert-Bell;Marc L. Michelsen

  • Modulation of Eastern North Pacific Hurricanes by the Madden–Julian Oscillation

    Eric D. Maloney;Dennis L. Hartmann

  • The Life Cycle of the Northern Hemisphere Sudden Stratospheric Warmings

    Varavut Limpasuvan;David W. J. T Hompson;Dennis L. Hartmann

  • An important constraint on tropical cloud ‐ climate feedback

    Dennis L. Hartmann;Kristin Larson

  • Wave-Maintained Annular Modes of Climate Variability*

    Varavut Limpasuvan;Dennis L. Hartmann

  • Modulation of Hurricane Activity in the Gulf of Mexico by the Madden-Julian Oscillation

    Eric D. Maloney;Dennis L. Hartmann

  • Eddy–Zonal Flow Feedback in the Southern Hemisphere

    David J. Lorenz;Dennis L. Hartmann

  • Can ozone depletion and global warming interact to produce rapid climate change

    Dennis L. Hartmann;John M. Wallace;Varavut Limpasuvan;David W. J. Thompson

  • Spatial Variability of Liquid Water Path in Marine Low Cloud: The Importance of Mesoscale Cellular Convection

    Robert Wood;Dennis L. Hartmann

  • Some Implications of the Mesoscale Circulations in Tropical Cloud Clusters for Large-Scale Dynamics and Climate

    Dennis L. Hartmann;Harry H. Hendon;Robert A. Houze

  • The Madden-Julian Oscillation, Barotropic Dynamics, and North Pacific Tropical Cyclone Formation. Part I: Observations.

    Eric D. Maloney;Dennis L. Hartmann

  • Eddies and the annular modes of climate variability

    Varavut Limpasuvan;Dennis L. Hartmann

  • Frictional Moisture Convergence in a Composite Life Cycle of the Madden–Julian Oscillation

    Eric D. Maloney;Dennis L. Hartmann

  • Eddy–Zonal Flow Feedback in the Northern Hemisphere Winter

    David J. Lorenz;Dennis L. Hartmann

  • Cloud feedback mechanisms and their representation in global climate models

    Paulo Ceppi;Florent Brient;Mark D. Zelinka;Dennis L. Hartmann

  • The dynamics of the stratospheric polar vortex and its relation to springtime ozone depletions

    Mark R. Schoeberl;Dennis L. Hartmann

  • Connections Between Clouds, Radiation, and Midlatitude Dynamics: a Review

    Paulo Ceppi;Dennis L. Hartmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark D. Zelinka
Mark D. Zelinka Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Robert Wood
Robert Wood University of Washington
Elizabeth A. Barnes
Elizabeth A. Barnes Colorado State University
Chaim I. Garfinkel
Chaim I. Garfinkel Hebrew University of Jerusalem
David S. Battisti
David S. Battisti University of Washington
Daniel P. Grosvenor
Daniel P. Grosvenor University of Leeds
Stephen A. Klein
Stephen A. Klein Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Eric D. Maloney
Eric D. Maloney Colorado State University
Dargan M. W. Frierson
Dargan M. W. Frierson University of Washington
Qiang Fu
Qiang Fu University of Washington

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