Dennis Shea, Associate Scientist
Publications
PRINCIPAL PUBLICATIONS
Shea, D. J. and W. Gray, 1973: The hurricane's inner core region. I. Symmetric and asymmetric structure. J. Atmos. Sci., 30a, 1544--1564.
Gray, W., and D. J. Shea, 1973: The hurricane's inner core region. II. Thermal stability and dynamics characteristics. J. Atmos. Sci., 30, 1565--1576.
Madden, R. A., and D. J. Shea, 1978: Estimates of the natural variability of time-averaged temperatures over the United States. Mon. Wea. Rev., 106, 1695--1703.
Hide, R., N. T. Birch, L. V. Morrison, D. J. Shea, and A. A. White, 1980: Atmospheric angular momentum fluctuations and changes in the length of the day. Nature, 286, 114--117.
van Loon, H., and D. J. Shea, 1984: The origin of a warm event in the Southern Oscillation. Tropical Ocean--Atmosphere Newsletter, JISAO, University of Washington, AK-40, Seattle, WA 98195, 1--2.
van Loon, H., and D. J. Shea, 1985: The Southern Oscillation. Part IV: The precursors south of 15 degrees S to the extremes of the oscillation. Mon. Wea. Rev., 113, 2063--2074.
van Loon, H., and D. J. Shea, 1987: The Southern Oscillation. Part VI: Anomalies of sea level pressure on the Southern Hemisphere and of Pacific sea surface temperature during the development of a Warm Event. Mon. Wea. Rev., 115, 370--379.
Trenberth, K. E., and D. J. Shea, 1987: On the evolution of the Southern Oscillation. Mon. Wea. Rev., 115, 3078-3096.
van Loon, H., and D. J. Shea, 1988: A survey of the atmospheric elements at the ocean's surface south of 40 degrees S. Scientific Seminar on Antarctic Ocean Variability and its Influence on Marine Living Resources, Particularly Krill, 2--6 June, Paris. In Antarctic Ocean and Resources Variability, D. Sahrhage, ed., Springer-Verlag, 3--20.
Shea, D. J., and R. A. Madden, 1990: On the potential for long-range predictability of monthly mean surface temperatures over North America. J. Clim., 3, pp. 1444--1451.
Salby, M. L., and D. J. Shea, 1991: Correlations between solar activity and the atmosphere: An unphysical explanation. J. Geo. Res., 96, pp. 22579--22595.
van Loon, H., and D. J. Shea, 1992: Atlas of Point Correlations at 30 mb and between 500 and 30 mb. Bull. Am. Met. Soc., 73, No. 12, 2010--2012.
Shea, D. J, K. E. Trenberth, and R. W. Reynolds, 1992: A global monthly sea surface temperature climatology. J. Clim., 5, pp. 987--1001.
Madden, R.A., D. J. Shea, G. W. Branstator, J. J. Tribbia, and R. Weber, 1993: The effects of imperfect spatial and tempor sampling on estimates of the global mean temperature: Experiments with model data. J. Clim., 6, 1057--1066.
Shea, D. J., van Loon, H. and Hurrell, J. W., 1995: The tropical-subtropical semi-annual oscillation in the upper troposphere. Inter. J. Climatology, 15, 975-983.
------, Jenne, R., and W.M. Spangler, 1995: Daily Maximum and Minimum Temperature Datasets Archived at NCAR and Some Applications. Atmos. Res., 37, 11-17.
Salby, M.L., P. Callaghan, and D.J. Shea, 1997: On the interdependence of the tropical and extratropical QBO and its relationship to the solar cycle. J. Geo. Res., 102, pp. 29789-29798.
Hurrell, J.W., H. van Loon, and D.J. Shea, 1998: The Mean State of the Troposphere: Meteorology of the Southern Hemisphere. Amer. Met. Soc. Mono., 27, No. 49, 410pp
Madden, R.A., D.J. Shea, R.W. Katz, and J.W. Kidson, 1999: The potential for long-range predictability of precipitation over New Zealand. Inter. J. Climatology, 19, 405-421.
van Loon, H. and D. J. Shea, 1999: A Probable Signal of the 11-Year Solar Cycle in the Troposphere of the Northern Hemisphere. Geo. Res. Lett., 26, No. 18, 2893-2896.
Madden, R.A., and D.J. Shea, 1999: The potential for long-range predictability of temperature and precipitation over Japan. Journal of the Met. Soc. of Japan: 77: 1111-1121.
Berliner, M., R.A. Levine, and D.J. Shea, 2000: Baysian Climate Change Assessment. J. Clim., 13, No. 21, pages 3805-3820.
van Loon, H. , D.J. Shea, 2000: The Global 11-Year Solar Signal in July-August. Geo. Res. Lett., 27 ,2965-2968.
Sontakke, N.A., D.J. Shea, R.A. Madden, R.W. Katz (2001): Potential for Long-range Regional Precipitation Prediction over India, Mausam, 52, pp 1-9.
NCAR TECHNICAL REPORTS
Levanon, N., Y. Eyal, P. R. Julian, D. Shea, V. E. Suomi and W. Massman, 1979: Daily high-latitude 150~mb pressure maps from TWERLE and rawinsondes. Part 1. 16 November 1975 -- 31 January 1976. Technical Note NCAR/TN--141+STR, NCAR, Boulder, CO, 89 pp.
Shea, D. J., 1984: The annual cycle. Part I: The annual variation of surface temperature over the United States and Canada. Technical Note NCAR/TN--242+STR, NCAR, Boulder, CO, 77 pp., plus 3 microfiche.
------, 1984: The annual cycle. Part II: The annual variation of precipitation over the United States and Canada. Technical Note NCAR/TN--243+STR, NCAR, Boulder, CO, 67 pp., plus 3 microfiche.
------, 1986: Climatological atlas: 1950--1979. Surface air temperature, precipitation, sea--level pressure, and sea--surface temperature (45 degrees S--90 degrees N). Technical Note NCAR/TN--269+STR, NCAR, Boulder, CO, 35 pp plus 158 figures and 10 microfiche.
-----, K. E. Trenberth, and R. W. Reynolds, 1990: A global monthly sea surface temperature climatology. Technical Note NCAR/TN--345+STR, NCAR, Boulder, CO, 167 pp.
-----, H. van Loon, and K. Labitzke, 1992: Point correlations of geopotential height and temperature at 30 mb and between 500 mb and 30 mb. Technical Note NCAR/TN--368+STR, NCAR, Boulder, CO, 292 pp.
May, W., D. J. Shea, and R. A. Madden, 1992: The annual variation of surface temperatures over the world. Technical Note NCAR/TN--372+STR, NCAR, Boulder, CO, 133 pp. and 17 microfische.
Shea, D.J., S.J. Worley, I.A. Stern and T.J. Hoar, 1994: An Introduction to Atmospheric and Oceanographic Data. NCAR/TN-404+IA. 132pp.
------, and N. A. Sontakke, 1995: The Annual Cycle of Precipitation over the Indian Subcontinent: Daily, Monthly and Seasonal Statistics. NCAR/TN-401+IA. 168pp.
Shea, D.J., N.A. Sontakke, R.A. Madden and R.W. Katz, 1995: The Potential for Long-Range Prediction of Precipitation over India for the Monsoon Season: An Analysis of Variance Approach; Harry van Loon Symposium: Studies in Climate II NCAR/TN-433+PROC.
NON--NCAR TECHNICAL REPORTS and PROCEEDINGS
Shea, D. J., 1972: The structure and dynamics of the hurricane's inner core region. Atmospheric Science Paper No. 182, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523.
Gray, W., and D. J. Shea, 1973: Data summary of NOAA's hurricane inner core radial leg flight penetrations 1957--1967 and 1969. Atmospheric Science Paper 257, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523.
Madden, R. A., and D. J. Shea, 1982: Potential long range predictability of precipitation over North America. Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Climate Diagnostics Workshop, 18--22 October, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, 423--426.
Shea, D. J., 1983: Sensitivity studies on the estimates of climate noise and potential long range predictability of temperature and precipitation over the U.S. and Canada. Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Climate Diagnostics Workshop, 16--21 October, Toronto, Canada, 313--321.
Shea, D. J., and W.M.L. Spangler, 1985: NCAR's global monthly surface station climatology. Proceedings, Third Conference on Climate Variations and Symposium on Contemporary Climate, 8--11 January, Los Angeles, CA, 12--13.
------, 1986: COADS: A climatological atlas and other uses at NCAR. In Proceedings of a COADS Workshop, Boulder, CO, 22--24 January, NOAA Technical Memorandum ERL ESG--23, Scott D. Woodruff, Ed., NOAA/ERL, Boulder, CO.
Trenberth, K. E., and D. J. Shea, 1986: Lead and lag relationships in the Southern Oscillation. Climate Diagnostics Workshop, 14--17 October, University of Illinois, Urbana.
Shea, D. J., 1989: Some applications of statistics to solar-atmospheric relationships. Proceedings of the Fourth International Meeting on Statistical Climatology, 27--31 March, Rotorua, New Zealand, 93--97.
------, and R. A. Madden, 1989: Potential for long-range predictability of monthly mean surface temperatures over North America. Proceedings 14th Annual Climate Diagnostics Workshop, La Jolla, CA, 9--13 October, pp. 344--349.
Madden, R. A., and D. J. Shea, 1990: The effect of changing poor spatial coverage on estimates of the global mean surface temperature. Proceedings of the 15th Annual Climate Diagnostics Workshop, Asheville, N.C., 29 October--2 November.
Shea, D. J. and M. L. Salby, 1992, Correlations Between Solar Activity and the Atmosphere: An Unphysical Explanation. In preprint vol. AMS 8th Conference on the Middle Atmophere, Atlanta, GA, 5--10 January 1992, pp. 96--101.
------, K. E. Trenberth, and R. W. Reynolds, 1992: Improvements to an SST Climatology Using COADS, Proceedings of the International COADS Workshop, Boulder, CO 13--15, January 1992. Eds: H. F. Diaz; K. Wolter; S. D. Woodruff, pp. 245--252.
------, and Jenne, R. and Ropelewski, C., 1992, NCAR data sets with daily maximum and minimum temperatures, International Temperature Workshop, Boulder, CO., 16 January 1992, Climate Research Technical Note, pp. 27-29.
------ and Madden, R. A., 1993: Estimates of Climate Noise and the Potential Long Range Prediction of Monthly Temperature and Precipitation over Australia. Fourth International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography, Hobart, Australia, pp. 298--299.
------ and van Loon, H., 1993: Temporal and Spatial Variability of the tropical semi annual oscillation in the upper troposphere, Fourth International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography, Hobart, Australia, pp. 404--405.
------ and Jenne, R., 1993: NCAR's historical and Analysis Methods of Precipitation on a Global Scale, Report of a GEWEX Workshop, Koblenz, Germany, 14--17 September 1992, Organized by GPCC, climatological precipitation data base'', WCRP-81, June 1993 p. A/18--21.
------, van Loon, H. and Hurrell, J. W., 1994: The tropical-subtropical semi-annual oscillation in the upper troposphere Sixth Conference on Climate Variations, January 23--28, 1994, Nashville, TN, p. 224--228.
------, Jenne, R., and Spangler, W. M., 1994: Daily Maximum and Minimum Temperature Datasets Archived at NCAR and Some Applications. Dept. of Energy Conference Proceedings Series, CONF--9309350: Proceedings of the International MINIMAX Workshop, 27--30 September, 1993, College Park, MD, p. 13--18.
------, N.A. Sontakke, R.A. Madden and R.W. Katz, 1995: The Potential for Long-Range Prediction of Precipitation over India for the Monsoon Season: An Analysis of Variance Approach; 6 th International Meeting on Statistical Climatology, Galway, Ireland, June 19-23: 475--478.
Jones, R.H., R.A. Madden, and D.J. Shea, 1995: A new method for investigating long range predictability. 6th International Meeting on Statistical Climatology, Galway, Ireland, June 19-23: 531--534.
Rossow, W.B., M.H. Frelich, V. Griffin, D. Halpern, S. Levitus, P. Sellers, D. Shea, A. Shortridge, S. Worley, 1995: Chapter 5: Persistent Information Production for Research. Proceedings: EOSDIS Potential User Model Development Effort Conference, Leesburg, Virginia, June 19-22: 5.1-5.12.
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Dennis Shea, Associate Scientist