Education:

1988-1994

University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences, August 1994. Dissertation title: Arctic Process and Climate Studies with the TOVS Satellite Sounder.

NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program Fellowship (1990-1993).

1985-1988

San Jose State University, San Jose, California. B.S. in Meteorology, May 1988.

1975-1978

University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire. Zoology major.

Employment:

10/1994-pres.

7/2003-pres.

7/1995-pres.

1/1997-pres.

Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, New Jersey

Associate Research Professor, member of Graduate Program faculty

Assistant Research Professor, member of Graduate Program faculty

Departments of Environmental Sciences and Meteorology, Rutgers University

Adjunct member of Graduate Program faculty.

1988-1994

Polar Science Center, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

Graduate Research Assistant (Advisor: Dr. Drew Rothrock)

1987-1988

NASA-Ames Research Center, Mountain View, California

Research Assistant (Advisor: Dr. Thomas Ackerman)

1986-1987

Woodward-Clyde Consultants, Inc., Walnut Creek, California

Staff Scientist

Awards:

4/1999

1990-1993

1988

1988

1988

1987

NASA CERES Program: Group Achievement Award

NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program Fellowship

C. A. Riegal Award for academic excellence

Ford Aerospace/American Meteorology Award for best thesis

Miller Award for best senior thesis

ARCS Foundation Scholarship

Professional

Activities:

10/2003-

9/2000-

4/1999-

10/1998

1/2004-

11/2003-

1/1997-1/2003

4/1996-

5/1996-2/2004

4/1995-1999

10/2003-

1/2002

4/1996-2001

1990-1994

3-4/1992

1986-

NSF/Arctic System Science Program science committee and executive committee

NSF/ HIAPER Advisory Council

NSF/OFAP Review Panel, Vice Chair in 2000, Chair in 2001

NSF/ HIAPER Review Panel

Program Chair of 2005 AMS Annual Meeting

American Meteorological Society (AMS) Councilor and Executive Committee member

AMS Committee on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography, Chair (2000-2003)

NASA Polar (NSIDC) DAAC Advisory Group

NASA Langley DAAC Advisory Panel

NASA Polar Pathfinder Working Group

Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH) Science Steering Committee

DOE Review Panel for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Program.

Guest Investigator on NASA CERES Team

NASA TOVS Pathfinder Evaluation and Implementation Committees

LeadEx Experiment, participant in airborne measurement component

Member of AMS, AGU, AAAS, and Asso. Women in Science

Service to Rutgers:

2/2000-present

7/1999-present

9/1999-present

9/2004-present

9/2000-present

4/1998-10/00

10/98-1/2001

10/1997

Search committees Professor of Physical Oceanographer, Rutgers University.

Graduate admissions committee for Dept. of Marine Sciences, Rutgers University.

Yonghua Chen, Co-Advisor for Ph.D. in Phys. Oceanog., Rutgers U., 5/2005.

Natasa Skific, Advisor for M.S. in Environmental Sci., exp. 11/2005.

Linong Yan, Advisor for M.S. in Physical Oceanography, Rutgers U., 10/2003.

Marc Chiacchio, Advisor for M.S. in Meteorology, Rutgers University, 1/2001.

David Groves, thesis comm. for M.S. in Atmospheric Sciences, U. Washington, 1/2001.

Kyoko Ohashi, thesis committee for M.S. in Meteorology, Rutgers University, 10/1997.

Recent Publications and Presentations

(*reviewed)

*Francis, J.A., E. Hunter, and C.-Z. Zou, 2005: Arctic tropospheric winds derived from TOVS satellite retrievals. J. Clim., 18, 2270-2285.

*Serreze, M.C. and J.A. Francis, 2005: The Arctic amplification debate. Clim. Dyn., in press.

*Overpeck, J.T., M. Sturm, J.A. Francis, D.K. Perovich, M.C Serreze, and 16 others, 2005: Arctic system on trajectory to new, seasonally ice-free state. Eos Trans., 86.

*Francis, J.A., E. Hunter, J. Key, and X. Wang, 2005: Clues to variability in Arctic minimum sea ice extent. Geophys. Res. Lett., in press.

*Chen, Y., F. Aires, J.A. Francis, J.R. Miller, 2005: Observed relationships between Arctic longwave cloud forcing and cloud parameters using a neural network. J. Clim., accepted.

Francis, J.A., 2005: Invited presentation: Data fusion meets Arctic change: Teachings from wise elder sensors. NASA Terra Data Fusion Workshop, Williamsburg, VA.

Francis, J.A., E. Hunter, J.R. Key, and X. Wang, 2005: Invited Presentation: Attribution of variability in Arctic minimum sea ice extent. Annual meeting of the American Meteorological Society, 11-14 Jan. 2005, San Diego, CA.

Francis, J.A., E. Hunter, and J. Secora, 2004: Clues to sea ice change from satellite-derived atmospheric parameters. Poster. Annual meeting of Arctic Research Consortium of the U. S., 13-14 May 2004, Washington, DC.

Francis, J.A., 2004: Arctic change observed by satellite sounders. Central Arctic: Battleground of Natural and Man-made Climate Forcing, 7-9 Jan. 2004, LDEO, Palasaides, NY.

Francis, J.A. 2004: Is the Arctic going where no climate has gone before? IMCS invited seminar, Rutgers University.

Francis, J.A., 2004: Two decades of Arctic Change: A perspective from space, invited seminar at U. of Delaware.

Francis, J.A., 2004: Two decades of Arctic Change: A perspective from space, Invited Presentation, IGARSS 2004, Anchorage, AK.

Francis, J.A., J. Miller, W. Chan, Y. Chen, and D. Groves, 2004: Pieces of the Arctic freshwater puzzle: Clues from space, the surface and a GCM. Poster. NSF Science Team meeting for the Freshwater Initiative, 4-7 May, 2004, Woods Hole, MA.

Francis, J.A., 2004: Arctic Change Observed from Satellite Sounders, Lecture, 19 May 2004, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Sciences, New York, NY.

Francis, J.A., 2003: New satellite observations of recent change in the Arctic Climate. SEARCH Open Science Meeting, 27-30 October 2003, Seattle, Washington.

Francis, J.A. and J. Secora, 2004: A 22-year data set of downwelling longwave flux at the Arctic surface from TOVS satellite data. DOE/Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Science Team Meeting, 19-23 April 2004, Albuquerque NM.

*Chen, Y., J. R. Miller, J.A. Francis, G.G. Russell, and F. Aires, 2003: Observed and modeled relationships among Arctic climate variables. J. Geophys. Res., 108(D24), 4799, doi:10.1029/2003JD003824.

Francis, J.A., A. Schweiger, and J. Key, 2003: A 20-Year Data Set of Downwelling Longwave Flux at the Arctic Surface from TOVS Satellite Data. 7th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography, Am. Meteor. Soc., 12-16 May 2003, Hyannis, MA.

Francis, J.A. and E. Hunter, 2003: Arctic Upper-Level Winds from Reanalyses and TOVS Satellite Retrievals. 7th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography, Am. Meteor. Soc., 12-16 May 2003, Hyannis, MA.

Groves, D. and J. A. Francis, 2003: Variability of the Arctic Atmospheric Moisture Budget Derived from TOVS Satellite Data. 7th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography, Am. Meteor. Soc., 12-16 May 2003, Hyannis, MA.

Chen, Y., J. A. Francis, J. R. Miller, and G. L. Russell, 2003: Observed and Modeled Relationships Among Arctic Climate Variables. 7th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography, Am. Meteor. Soc., 12-16 May 2003, Hyannis, MA.

Wang, S.-H., J. A. Francis, and D. H. Bromwich, 2003: Evaluation of the NCEP/NCAR and ECMWF 15-year Reanalyses over the Data Sparse Arctic Ocean. 7th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography, Am. Meteor. Soc., 12-16 May 2003, Hyannis, MA.

Yan, L. and J. A. Francis, 2003: Cloud Properties in the Winter Arctic from MODIS Data. 7th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography, Am. Meteor. Soc., 12-16 May 2003, Hyannis, MA.

Francis, J.A., 2003: 20 Years of Downwelling Longwave Fluxes at the Arctic Surface from TOVS Satellite Data (Invited). Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program Science Team Meeting, 1-3 April 2003, Broomfield, CO.

*Francis, J.A., 2002: Validation of reanalysis upper-level winds in the Arctic with independent rawinsonde data, Geophysical Research Letters, 29, 10.1029/2001GL014578.

*Groves, D.G. and J.A. Francis, 2002: The moisture budget of the Arctic atmosphere from TOVS satellite data, J. Geophys. Res., D19, 4391, doi:10.1029/2001JD001191.

*Groves, D.G. and J.A. Francis, 2002: Variability of the Arctic Atmospheric Moisture Budget from TOVS Satellite Data, J. Geophys. Res., D24, 4785, doi:10.1029/2002JD002285.

*Chen, Y., J.A. Francis, and J. R. Miller, 2002: Surface temperature of the Arctic: comparison of TOVS satellite retrievals with surface observations, J. Clim., 15, 3698-3708.

*Chiacchio, M. and J.A. Francis, 2002: Evaluation of methods ot estimate the surface downwelling longwave flux during Arctic winter, J. Applied Meteor., 41, 306-318.

*Schweiger, A.J., R.W. Lindsay, J.A. Francis, J. Key, J. Intrieri, and M. Shupe, 2002: Validation of TOVS Path-P data during SHEBA. J. Geophys. Res., 107(C10), 8041, 10.1029/2000JC000453.

Francis, J.A., 2002: Observations of the Arctic Atmosphere for Assimilation by and Validation of Models: New Data Sets, New Problems, and New Solutions. Workshop on Sea Ice Data Assimilation Annapolis, MD, 23-24 July 2002.

Chen, Y., J.A. Francis, and J.R. Miller, 2002: Surface temperature of the Arctic: comparison of TOVS satellite retrievals with surface observations, Workshop on Measurements and Modeling of Arctic Ocean Circulation, Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs., NY, 17-20 June 2002.

Francis, J.A., Y. Chen, D. Groves, A. Schweiger, E. Hunter, R. Cermak, 2001: Arctic climate parameters and changes observed with 20 years of satellite retrievals. NSF Ocean-Atmosphere_Ice-Interactions All-Hands Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, 14-16 Nov. 2001.

Chen, Y., J. Miller, and J.A. Francis, 2001: Arctic surface temperature: A comparison among satellite retrievals and conventional observations. 6th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography, Am. Meteor. Soc., 14-18 May 2001, San Diego, CA.

*Francis, J.A. and A.J. Schweiger, 2000: A new window opens on the Arctic, Eos Trans., AGU, 81, 77-78.

*Scott, N.A., A. Chedin, R. Armante, J. Francis, C. Stubenrauch, J.-P. Chaboureau, F. Chevallier, C. Claud, and F. Cheruy, 1999: Characteristics of the TOVS Pathfinder Path-B dataset. Bulletin of the Am. Meteor. Soc., 80, 2679-2701.

*Schweiger, A.J., R.W. Lindsay, J.R. Key, and J.A. Francis, 1999: Arctic clouds in multiyear satellite data sets. Geophys. Res. Lett., 26, 1845-1848.

Francis, J.A., 1999 (invited): Polar clouds: Now you see them, now you don't. IUGG General

Assembly, 18-30 July 1999, Birmingham, U.K.

*Francis, J.A., 1997: A Method to Derive Downwelling Longwave Fluxes at the Arctic Surface from TOVS Data, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 1795-1806.

*Lindsay, R.W, J.A. Francis, P.O.G. Persson, D.A. Rothrock, and A.J. Schweiger, 1997: Surface turbulent fluxes over pack ice inferred from TOVS observations, Ann. Geophys., 25, 393-399.

Presently and Recently Funded Research

P.I.: Roles of Moist Static Energy Transport in the Changing Arctic System, NSF, 7/05 - 6/08, $256,769.

Co.I.: Improving Arctic Energy Budget Estimates by Combining New EOS-Era Products from Multiple Satellite Sensors, NASA (248342,APR 2004 - APR 2007)

Co.I.: Polar Winds from Satellite Imagers and Sounders, NASA (175925,APR 2004 - MAR 2007)

P.I.: NSF, Interactions among Observations of Lateral Advection, Cloud, and Surface Properties in the Arctic, 6/03 - 5/06, $288,567.

P.I.: NOAA/U. of AK, Correction of Systematic Errors in TOVS Radiances, 8/03 - 7/06, $160,030.

P.I.: NASA, Retrieval of Nighttime Polar Cloud Parameters, 6/00 - 6/02, $68,099.

Co.I.: NASA: Variability of Net Precipitation over Antarctic Sea Ice and its Effects on Ice-Ocean Interactions. P.I.: Dr. Axel Schweiger. 1/99 - 12/02, $72,405.

P.I.: NOAA/U. of AK, Interactions of Laterally Advected Heat and Moisture with Arctic Cloud Properties. 7/01 - 6/03, $142,755.

P.I.: NSF, Evaluation of a New Method to Retrieve Horizontal Heat and Moisture Transport from Satellite Sounder Products in the Arctic. 2/01 - 1/02, $80,443.

P.I.: DOE/ARM, A 20-Year Data Set of Surface Longwave Fluxes in the Arctic, 11/01-10/03, $142,417.

Co.I.: NASA, An Improved GCM Simulation of the Arctic Hydrologic Cycle using Satellite-Derived Products, 2/02-1/05, $278,463.

P.I.: NASA, A Polar-Specific 20-Year Data Set of Cloud Fraction and Height Derived from Satellite Radiances, 2/02 - 1/04, $154,335.