Courtenay Strong

COURTENAY STRONG, Ph.D.

Professor

Office: 702 WBB
Phone: (801) 585-0049
Fax: (801) 585-3681
Email: court.strong@utah.edu

University of Utah
Department of Atmospheric Sciences
135 S 1460 E, Rm 819
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-0110

Curriculum vitae


ATMOSPHERE-CRYOSPHERE RESEARCH GROUP

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My research group studies climate - especially processes involving the atmosphere and cryosphere (includes sea ice and snow). We analyze observational data and simulate atmosphere-cryosphere interactions using models run on powerful supercomputers. Our research is supported by the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, NOAA, NASA,the Global Change and Sustainability Center, and the Center for High Performance Computing.

I am always looking for graduate students interested in climate analysis and modeling, and welcome inquiries about open positions in my research group: court.strong@utah.edu

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PUBLICATIONS

Stone L, Strong C, Bai H, Reichler T, McCabe G, 2023. Mace G, Strong C, Krueger S, 2023. Atlantic-Pacific influence on western U.S. hydroclimate and water resources, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 6, Article number: 139. [link].

Li X, Mace G, Strong C, Krueger S, 2023. Wintertime Cooling of the Arctic TOA by Low-Level Clouds, Geophysical Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL104869. [link].

Li J, Strong C, Wang J, Burian S, 2023. Flood resilience: an event-based index to assess impacts of land cover and climate changes on urban flooding, Water, https://doi.org/10.3390/w15142663. [link].

Hasan MM, Strong C, Brooks P, Burian SJ, Barber ME, 2023. Quantifying climate change impacts on low flows of small high mountain watersheds, Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2023.101463. [link].

Bai H, Strong C, 2023. Modeling Study on Teleconnections Driving the Summer North American Dipole, Journal of Climate, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0015.1. [link].

Wolf MA, Jamison LR, Solomon DK, Strong C, Brooks P, 2023. Multi-year Controls on Groundwater Storage in Seasonally Snow-Covered Headwater Catchments, Water Resources Research, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022WR033394.[link].

Widick I, Young M, LaMontagne J, Strong C, Zuckerberg B, 2023. Poleward Shifts and Altered Periodicity in Boreal Bird Irruption Over Six Decades. Journal of Animal Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13917.[link].

Bai H, Strong C, Zuckerberg B. 2022. Drivers of an Ecologically-Relevant Summer North American Dipole, Journal of Climate, doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0542.1.[link].

Johnson RJ, Wolf M, Jamison L, Burian SJ, Oroza CA, Brooks PD, Strong C, Stewart J, Kirkham T. 2021. Drought in the West: embedded water demand stationarity compromises system vulnerability analysis, Open Water Journal, Open Water Journal: Vol. 7, Iss. 1, https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/openwater/vol7/iss1/6, [link].

Khatri, KB, Pokharel B, Strong C, 2021. Development of hydrologically-based cloud seeding suspension criteria in the Western United States, Atmospheric Research, 262, 105768, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2021.105768.5, [link].

Brooks PD, Gelderloos A, Wolf MA, Jamison LR, Strong C, Solomon DK, Bowen GJ, Burian S, Tai X, Arens S, Briefer L, Kirkham T, Stewart J. 2021. Groundwater memory of past climate controls water yield in snowmelt-dominated catchments, Water Resources Research, doi: 10.1029/2021WR030605,[link].

Su J-Y, Goel R, Burian S, Hinners SJ, Kochanski A, Strong C, Barber ME, 2021. Water Quality Trading Framework with Uncertainty for River Systems due to Climate and Population Characteristics, Water, 12(3), 355, doi.org/10.3390/w13131738, [link].

Riley C, Rupper S, Steenburgh JW, Strong C, Kochanski A, Wolvin S. 2021. Characteristics of Historical Precipitation in High Mountain Asia Based on a 15-Year High Resolution Dynamical Downscaling, Atmosphere, 12(3), 355, doi: 10.3390/atmos12030355, [link].

Putman AL, Bowen GJ, Strong C, 2021. Local and regional modes of hydroclimatic change expressed in modern multidecadal precipitation oxygen isotope trends, Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1029/2020GL092006, [link].

Golden K, Bennetts LG, Cherkaev E, Eisenman I, Feltham D, Horvat C, Hunke E, Jones C, Perovich DK, Ponte-Castaneda P, Strong C, Sulsky D, Wells AJ. 2020. Modeling sea ice, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, doi: https://doi.org/10.1090/noti2171, [link].

Dars GH, Sattar M, Touseef M, Strong C, Najafi MR. 2021. Multi-model ensemble high-resolution projections of major climatic variables over the Indus River Basin and Pakistan, Mehran University Research Journal of Engineering and Technology, doi: https://doi.org/10.22581/muet1982.2101.10, [link].

Lambert A, Hallar AG, Garcia M, Strong C, Andrews E, Hand JL, 2020. Dust impacts of rapid agricultural expansion on the Great Plains, Geophysical Research Letteres doi: 10.1029/2020GL090347, [link].

Li X, Krueger S, Strong C, Mace G, 2020. Relationship between wintertime leads and low clouds in the Pan-Arctic, Journal of Geophysical Research, doi:10.1029/2020JD032595, [link].

Strong C, McCabe G, Weech A, 2020. Step increase in eastern U.S. precipitation linked to Indian Ocean warming, Geophysical Research Letteres, doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL088911, [link].

Bohne L, Strong C, Steenburgh J, 2020. Climatology of orographic precipitation gradients in the contiguous western United States, Journal of Hydrometeorology, doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-19-0229.1, [link].

Hasan M, Strong C, Kochanski A, Burian S, Barber M, 2020. Validating dynamically downscaled climate projections for mountainous watersheds using historical runoff data coupled with the Distributed Hydrologic Soil Vegetation Model (DHSVM), Water, doi:10.3390/w12051389, [link].

Zuckerberg B, Strong C, LaMontagne J, St George S, Betancourt J, Koenig W, 2020. Climate Dipoles as Continental Drivers of Plant and Animal Populations, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, doi:10.1016/j.tree.2020.01.010, [link].

Dars GH, Strong C, Kochanski A, Ansari K, Ali S, 2020. The spatiotemporal variability of temperature and precipitation over the Upper Indus Basin: an evaluation of 15-year WRF simulations, Applied Sciences, doi:10.3390/app10051765, [link].

Li X, Krueger S, Strong C, Mace G, Benson S, 2020. Midwinter Arctic Leads Form and Dissipate Low Clouds, Nature Communications, doi:10.1038/s41467-019-14074-5, [link].

Khatri K, Strong C, von Stackelberg N, Buchert M, Kochanski A, 2019. Impact of climate and land use change on streamflow and sediment yield in a snow dominated semiarid mountainous watershed, Journal of the American Water Resources Association, doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.12803, [link].

Ma Y, Sudokov I, Strong C, Golden K, 2019. Ising model for melt ponds on Arctic sea ice, New Journal of Physics, 21, doi:10.1088/1367-2630/ab26db, [link].

Lin J et al., 2018. CO2 and carbon emissions from cities: linkages to air quality, socioeconomic activity and stakeholders in the Salt Lake City urban area, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0037.1, [link].

Smith K, Strong C, Rassoul-Agha F, 2018. Multisite Generalization of the SHArP Weather Generator, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, doi: 10.1175/JAMC-D-17-0236.1, [link].

Bowen B, Strong C, Golden K, 2018. Modeling the fractal geometry of Arctic melt ponds using the level sets of random surfaces, Journal of Fractal Geometry, doi:10.4171/JFG/58 [link].

Khatri K, Strong C, Kochanski K, Burian S, Miller C, Hassenyager C, 2018. Water resources criticality due to future climate change and population growth: case of river basins in Utah, USA, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, doi:10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0000959 [link].

Tulley-Cordova C, Strong C, Brady I, Bekis J, Bowen G, 2018. Navajo Nation, USA, precipitation variability from 2002 to 2015, Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education, 163: 109-123. doi:10.1111/j.1936-704X.2018.03273.x, [link].

Cherniavskaia EA, Sudakov I, Golden KM, Strong C, Timokhov L, 2018. Observed winter salinity fields in the surface layer of the Arctic Ocean and statistical approaches to predicting large-scale anomalies and patterns. Annals of Glaciology, 1-18. doi:10.1017/aog.2018.10. [link].

Mitchell L et al., 2018. Long-term urban carbon dioxide observations reveal spatial and temporal dynamics related to urban characteristics and growth, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1702393115, [link].

Zhao B, Reichler T, Strong C, Penland C, 2017. Simultaneous Evolution of Gyre and Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Anomalies as an Eigenmode of the North Atlantic System, Journal of Climate, 30, 6737-6755, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0751.1, [link].

Cael BB, Strong C, 2017. A Laplacian characterization of phytoplankton shape, Journal of Mathematical Biology, doi: 10.1007/s00285-017-1176-8, [link].

Strong C, McCabe G, 2017. Observed variations in U.S. frost timing linked to atmospheric circulation patterns, Nature Communications, doi: 110.1038/ncomms15307, [link].

Strong C, Foster D, Cherkaev E, Eisenman I, Golden K, 2017. On the definition of marginal ice zone width, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-16-0171.1, [link].

Strong C, Khatri K, Kochanski A, Lewis C, Allen N, 2017. Reference evapotranspiration from coarse-scale and dynamically downscaled data in complex terrain: sensitivity to interpolation and resolution, Journal of Hydrology, doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2017.02.045, [link].

Smith K, Strong C, Rassoul-Agha F, 2017. A new method for generating stochastic simulations of daily air temperature for use in weather generators, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, doi: 10.1175/JAMC-D-16-0122.1, [link].

McCabe-Glynn S, Johnson K, Zou Y, Yu J, Sellars S, Strong C, Welker JM, 2016. Isotopic signature of extreme precipitation events in the Western US and associated phases of Arctic and tropical climate modes, Journal of Geophysical Research, doi: 10.1002/2016JD025524 [link].

Scalzitti J, Strong C, Kochanski A, 2016. Climate change impact on the roles of temperature and precipitation in western U.S. snowpack variability, Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1002/2016GL068798 [link]. Media: [NPR], [AGU Blogosphere],[Fox13].

Strong C, Golden K, 2016. Filling the polar data gap in sea ice concentration fields using partial differential equations, Remote Sensing, doi:10.3390/rs8060442 [link]. Media: [SIAM News].

Scalzitti J, Strong C, Kochanski A, 2016. A 26 year high-resolution dynamical downscaling over the Wasatch Mountains: Synoptic effects on winter precipitation performance, Journal of Geophysical Research, doi: 10.1002/2015JD024497 [link].

Liptak J, Strong C, 2016. A Modeling Investigation of the Arctic Sea Ice-Atmosphere Feedback. Climate Dynamics, doi: 10.1007/s00382-016-2976-z [link].

Goharian E, Burian S, Bardsley T, Strong C. 2016 Incorporating potential severity into vulnerability assessment of water supply systems under climate change conditions, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0000579, 04015051.[link].

Strong C, Zuckerberg B, Betancourt J, Koenig W. 2015. Climatic dipoles drive two principal modes of North American boreal bird irruption. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1418414112, [link]. Media: [NPR], [The Why Files], [Conservation Magazine],[Wildlife Society], [Northern Woodlands Magazine], [BirdWatching Magazine].

Smith K, Strong C, Wang S. 2015. Connectivity between historical Great Basin precipitation and Pacific Ocean variability: A CMIP5 model evaluation. Journal of Climate, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00488.1, [link].

Hale R et al. 2015. iSAW: Integrating Structure, Actors, and Water to study socio-Hydro-ecological systems. Earth's Future, doi: 10.1002/2014EF000295 [link].

Gorski G, Strong C, Good SP, Bares R, Ehleringer JR, Bowen GJ. 2015. Vapor hydrogen and oxygen isotopes reflect water of combustion in the urban atmosphere. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, doi:10.1073/pnas.1424728112, [link].

Strong C, Kochanski A, Crosman E. 2014. A slab model of the Great Salt Lake for regional climate simulation. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 06, doi: 10.1002/2014MS000305, [link].

Liptak J, Strong C, 2014. A model-based decomposition of the sea ice-atmosphere feedback over the Barents Sea during winter. Journal of Climate, 27, 2533-2544, [link].

Liptak J, Strong C, 2014. The winter atmospheric response to sea ice anomalies in the Barents Sea. Journal of Climate, 27, 914-924, [link].

Strong C, Rigor I, 2013. Arctic marginal ice zone trending wider in summer and narrower in winter. Geophysical Research Letters, 40, 4864-4868, doi:10.1002/grl.50928, [link].

McCabe-Glynn S, Johnson KR, Strong C, Berkelhammer M, Sinha A, Cheng H, RL Edwards, 2013. Variable North Pacific influence on drought in southwestern North America since AD 854. Nature Geoscience, 6, 617-621, doi:10.1038/ngeo1862, [link].

Liptak J, Strong C, 2013. Propagating atmospheric patterns associated with sea ice motion through the Fram Strait. Journal of Climate, 26, 2292-2297 [link].

Strong C, 2012. Atmospheric influence on Arctic marginal ice zone position and width in the Atlantic sector, February-April 1979-2010. Climate Dynamics, 39, 3091-3102 [link].

Strong C, Liptak J, 2012. Propagating atmospheric patterns associated with Midwest winter precipitation. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 13, 1371-1382 [link].

Strong C, Stwertka C, Bowling D, Stephens B, Ehleringer J, 2011. Urban carbon dioxide cycles within the Salt Lake Valley: a multiple box model validated by observations. Journal of Geophysical Research, 116, doi:10.1029/2011JD015693 [link].

Strong C, Maberly SC, 2011. The influence of atmospheric wave dynamics on interannual variation in the surface temperature of lakes in the English Lake District. Global Change Biology, 17, 2013-2022 [link].

Strong C, Magnusdottir G, 2011. Dependence of NAO variability on coupling with sea ice. Climate Dynamics, 36, 1681-1689 [link].

Strong C, Magnusdottir G. 2010. The role of Rossby wave breaking in shaping the equilibrium atmospheric circulation response to North Atlantic boundary forcing. Journal of Climate, 23, 1269-1276 [link].

Strong C, Magnusdottir G. 2010. Modeled boreal winter sea ice variability and the North Atlantic Oscillation: a multi-century perspective. Climate Dynamics, 34, 515-525 [link].

Strong C, Magnusdottir G, Stern H. 2009. Observed feedback between winter sea ice and the North Atlantic Oscillation. Journal of Climate, 22, 6021-6032 [link].

Strong C, Magnusdottir G. 2009. The role of tropospheric Rossby wave breaking in the Pacific Decadal Oscillation. Journal of Climate, 22, 1819-1833 [link].

Strong C, Davis RE. 2008. Comment on "Historical trends in the jet streams" by C. L. Archer and K. Caldeira, Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1029/2008GL034829 [link].

Strong C, Magnusdottir G. 2008. Tropospheric Rossby wave breaking and the NAO / NAM. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 65, 2861-2876 [link].

Strong C, Magnusdottir G. 2008. How Rossby wave breaking over the Pacific forces the North Atlantic Oscillation. Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L10706, doi:10.1029/2008GL033578 [link].

Strong C, Davis RE. 2008. Variability in the position and strength of winter jet stream cores related to Northern Hemisphere teleconnections. Journal of Climate, 21, 584-592 [link].

Strong C, Davis RE. 2007. Winter jet stream trends over the Northern Hemisphere. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 133, 2109-2115 [link].

Strong C, Davis RE. 2006. Temperature-related trends in the vertical position of the summer upper tropospheric surface of maximum wind. International Journal of Climatology, 26, 1977-1997, doi: 10.1002/joc1344 [link].

Strong C, Davis RE. 2006. Variability in the altitude of fast upper tropospheric winds over the Northern Hemisphere during winter. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 111, D10106, doi: 10.1029/2005JD006497 [link].

Strong C, Davis RE. 2005. The surface of maximum wind as an alternative to the isobaric surface for wind climatology. Geophysical Research Letters, 32: L04813, doi: 10.1029/2004GL022039 [link].

Strong C, Fuentes JD, Garstang M, Betts AK. 2005. Daytime cycle of low-level clouds and the tropical convective boundary layer in southwestern Amazonia. Journal of Applied Meteorology, 44, 1607-1619 [link].

Strong C, Fuentes JD, Baldocchi D. 2004. Reactive hydrocarbon flux footprints during canopy senescence. Agricultural & Forest Meteorology 127, 159-173 [link].

Strong C, Fuentes JD, Davis RE, Bottenheim JW. 2002. Thermodynamic attributes of Arctic boundary layer ozone depletion. Atmospheric Environment, 36: 2641-2652 [link].

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