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  • 2008 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Dudley B. Chelton is affiliated with Oregon State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, contributing extensively to the fields of Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, and Atmospheric Science. Their work also touches on Ecological Modeling and Ecology.

The main topics addressed in Chelton's research include:

  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
  • Arctic and Antarctic Ice Dynamics
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Climate Variability and Models
  • Precipitation Measurement and Analysis
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change

The scientist has published multiple papers, notably in the following venues:

  • Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology
  • Journal of Hydrometeorology
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Monthly Weather Review

Recent publications include:

  • "The Effects of Uncorrelated Measurement Noise on SWOT Estimates of Sea Surface Height, Velocity, and Vorticity" (2022) in the Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology
  • "A Postlaunch Update on the Effects of Instrumental Measurement Errors on SWOT Estimates of Sea Surface Height, Velocity, and Vorticity" (2024) in the Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology
  • "A Hybrid Precipitation Index Inspired by the SPI, PDSI, and MCDI. Part I: Development of the Index" (2020) in the Journal of Hydrometeorology
  • "The spectral color of natural and anthropogenic time series and its impact on the statistical significance of cross correlation" (2022) in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "A Hybrid Precipitation Index Inspired by the SPI, PDSI, and MCDI. Part II: Application to Investigate Precipitation Variability along the West Coast of North America" (2020) in the Journal of Hydrometeorology

Dudley B. Chelton collaborates frequently with other researchers, including:

  • R. M. Samelson
  • Craig M. Risien
  • J. Thomas Farrar
  • Ismael Núñez-Riboni
  • Valentina Marconi

The scientist has received recognition as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2008.

Best Publications

  • Daily High-Resolution-Blended Analyses for Sea Surface Temperature

    Richard W. Reynolds;Thomas M. Smith;Chunying Liu;Dudley B. Chelton

  • Global observations of nonlinear mesoscale eddies

    Dudley B. Chelton;Michael G. Schlax;Roger M. Samelson

  • Geographical Variability of the First Baroclinic Rossby Radius of Deformation

    Dudley B. Chelton;Roland A. deSzoeke;Michael G. Schlax;Karim El Naggar

  • Global observations of large oceanic eddies

    Dudley B. Chelton;Michael G. Schlax;Roger M. Samelson;Roland A. de Szoeke

  • Global Observations of Oceanic Rossby Waves

    Dudley B. Chelton;Michael G. Schlax

  • Satellite measurements reveal persistent small-scale features in ocean winds.

    Dudley B. Chelton;Michael G. Schlax;Michael H. Freilich;Ralph F. Milliff

  • Satellite measurements of sea surface temperature through clouds

    Frank J. Wentz;Chelle Gentemann;Deborah Smith;Dudley Chelton

  • The Influence of Nonlinear Mesoscale Eddies on Near-Surface Oceanic Chlorophyll

    Dudley B. Chelton;Peter Gaube;Michael G. Schlax;Jeffrey J. Early

  • Observations of coupling between surface wind stress and sea surface temperature in the Eastern Tropical Pacific

    Dudley B. Chelton;Steven K. Esbensen;Michael G. Schlax;Nicolai Thum

  • A Global Climatology of Surface Wind and Wind Stress Fields from Eight Years of QuikSCAT Scatterometer Data

    Craig M. Risien;Dudley B. Chelton

  • Monthly Mean Sea-Level Variability Along the West Coast of North America

    Dudley B. Chelton;Russ E. Davis

  • Coupled ocean-atmosphere interaction at oceanic mesoscales

    Dudley B. Chelton;Shang-Ping Xie

  • The Speed of Observed and Theoretical Long Extratropical Planetary Waves

    Peter D. Killworth;Dudley B. Chelton;Roland A. de Szoeke

  • Satellite Observations of Mesoscale Eddy-Induced Ekman Pumping

    Peter Gaube;Dudley B. Chelton;Roger M. Samelson;Michael G. Schlax

  • Scatterometer-Based Assessment of 10-m Wind Analyses from the Operational ECMWF and NCEP Numerical Weather Prediction Models

    Dudley B. Chelton;Michael H. Freilich

  • Regional variations in the influence of mesoscale eddies on near‐surface chlorophyll

    Peter Gaube;Dennis J. McGillicuddy;Dudley B. Chelton;Michael J. Behrenfeld

  • Chapter 1 Satellite Altimetry

    Dudley B. Chelton;John C. Ries;Bruce J. Haines;Lee-Lueng Fu

  • Eddy dynamics from satellite altimetry

    Lee-Lueng Fu;Dudley B. Chelton;Pierre Yves Le Traon;Rosemary Morrow

  • Geosat altimeter observations of the surface circulation of the Southern Ocean

    Dudley B. Chelton;Michael G. Schlax;Donna L. Witter;James G. Richman

  • Satellite observations of chlorophyll, phytoplankton biomass, and Ekman pumping in nonlinear mesoscale eddies

    Peter Gaube;Peter Gaube;Dudley B. Chelton;Peter G. Strutton;Michael J. Behrenfeld

  • High-Resolution Satellite Measurements of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer Response to SST Variations along the Agulhas Return Current

    Larry W. O’Neill;Dudley B. Chelton;Steven K. Esbensen;Frank J. Wentz

  • A geosat altimeter wind speed algorithm and a method for altimeter wind speed algorithm development

    Donna L. Witter;Dudley B. Chelton

  • Observations of SST-Induced Perturbations of the Wind Stress Field over the Southern Ocean on Seasonal Timescales

    Larry W. O'Neill;Dudley B. Chelton;Steven K. Esbensen

Frequent Co-Authors

Roger M. Samelson
Roger M. Samelson Oregon State University
Lee-Lueng Fu
Lee-Lueng Fu Jet Propulsion Lab
Rosemary Morrow
Rosemary Morrow Paul Sabatier University
James C. McWilliams
James C. McWilliams University of California, Los Angeles
Ananda Pascual
Ananda Pascual National Research Council (CNR)
Frank J. Wentz
Frank J. Wentz Remote Sensing Systems (United States)
Ernesto Rodriguez
Ernesto Rodriguez Jet Propulsion Lab
Eric D. Maloney
Eric D. Maloney Colorado State University
Mark A. Bourassa
Mark A. Bourassa Florida State University
Michael J. Behrenfeld
Michael J. Behrenfeld Oregon State University

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