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Research Interests

  • Air-Sea Interaction
  • Climate Variability of the Atmosphere and Ocean
  • Weather-Wildland Fire Management Interface
Selected Publications
  • Chiodi, A.M. and D.E. Harrison (2020) Tropical Pacific surface wind energy spectra and coherence: Basin-wide observations and their observing system implications J. Climate, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-190836.1.

  • Chiodi, A.M. (2019) Diagnosing and predicting ENSO SSTA development from moored-buoy and scatterometer winds J. Climate, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0183.1.

  • Chiodi, A.M., J.P. Dunne and D.E. Harrison (2019) Estimating Air-Sea Carbon Flux Uncertainty Over the Tropical Pacific: Importance of Winds and Wind Analysis Uncertainty Global Biogeochemical Cycles , doi: 10.1029/2018GB006047.

  • Chiodi, A.M., N.K. Larkin and J.M. Varner, J.K. Hiers (2019) Sensitivity of prescribed burn weather windows to atmospheric dispersion parameters over southeastern USA. International Journal of Wildland Fire , doi: 10.1071/WF18209.

  • Chiodi, A.M., N.K. Larkin and J.M. Varner (2018) An analysis of Southeastern US prescribed burn weather windows: seasonal variability and El Niño associations International Journal of Wildland Fire , 27, 176-189, doi: 10.1071/WF17132.

  • Chiodi, A.M. and D.E. Harrison (2017) Simulating ENSO SSTA from TAO/Triton winds: The impacts of 20 years of buoy observations in the Pacific waveguide and comparison with reanalysis products J. Climate , 30(3), 1041-1059, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0865.1.

  • Chiodi, A.M. and D.E. Harrison (2017) Observed El Niño SSTA development and the effects of Easterly and Westerly Wind events in 2014-2015. J. Climate, 30(4), 1505-1519, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0385.1.

  • Harrison, D.E. and Chiodi, A.M. (2017) Comment on 'Characterizing ENSO coupled variability and its impact on North American seasonal precipitation and temperature' by L'Heureux, Tippet, and Barnston J. Climate, 30(1), 427-436, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0678.1.

  • Chiodi, A.M. and D.E. Harrison (2017) 2015-16 El Niño seasonal weather impacts from the OLR event perspective. In 41st NOAA Climate and Diagnostics Prediction Workshop Special Issue, NWS Science & Technology Infusion Climate Bulletin Supplement, National Weather Service, Office of Science and Technology Integration, Orono, ME, 3.6 October 2016, 16-20 Published Online

  • Chiodi, A.M., N.A. Bond, N.K. Larkin and J. Barbour (2016) Summertime rainfall events in eastern Washington and Oregon. Weather Forecast., 31(5), 1465-1480, doi: 10.1175/WAF-D-16-0024.1.

  • Chiodi, A.M. and D.E. Harrison (2015) Global Seasonal Precipitation Anomalies Robustly Associated with El Niño and La Niña Events - An OLR Perspective J. Climate , 28, 6133-6159, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00387.1.

  • Chiodi, A.M. and D.E. Harrison (2015) Equatorial Pacific easterly wind surges and the onset of La Niña events. J. Climate , 28, 776-792, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00227.1.

  • D.E. Harrison and A.M. Chiodi (2015) Multi-decadal variability and trends in the El Niño-Southern Oscillation and tropical Pacific fisheries implications. Deep-Sea Res. II , 113, 9-21, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2013.12.020

  • Chiodi, A.M., D.E. Harrison and G.A. Vecchi (2014) Subseasonal atmospheric variability and El Niño waveguide warming: Observed effects of the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Westerly Wind Events. J. Climate , 27, 3619-3642, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00547.1

  • Chiodi, A.M. and D.E. Harrison (2014) Comment on Qian et al. 2008: La Niña and El Niño composites of atmospheric CO2 change Tellus B, 66, 20428, http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/tellusb.v66.20428

  • Chiodi, A.M. and D.E. Harrison (2013) El Niño impacts on seasonal U.S. atmospheric circulation, temperature, and precipitation anomalies: The OLR-event perspective. J. Climate, 23(3), 822-837. doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00097.1.

Recent Presentations
  • Simulating ENSO SSTA with moored buoy and scatterometer winds. US Clivar Workshop: Briding Sustained Observations and Data Assimilation for TPOS 2020, 1-3 May 2018. Boulder, CO. (Poster)

  • Identifying sub-seasonal wind events and their effects on ENSO SSTA development: Impacts of combining moored buoy and scatterometer winds. 2018 Ocean Sciences Meeting, 11-16 February 2018. Portland, OR. (Talk)

  • Simulating ENSO SSTAs from tropical mooring array winds. A.M. Chiodi. TPOS 2020 Steering Committee Meeting-4. 17-19 October 2017, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA. (Talk)

  • Observed El Niño SSTA development and the effects of Easterly and Westerly Wind events in 2015-16, with comparison to 2014-15. A.M. Chiodi and D.E. Harrison. NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction, Mini-workshop on 2015/16 El Niño and its western USA impacts. 19 July 2017. College Park, MD (remote). (Talk)

  • Simulating ENSO SSTA from TAO/Triton winds: The impacts of 20 years of buoy observations in the waveguide and comparison with wind analysis products. Annual AMS Meeting, 22-26 Jan 2017, Seattle, WA. (Poster)

  • Observed El Niño SSTA development and the effects of Easterly and Westerly Wind events in 2014 and 2015. 2016 Fall AGU Meting, 12-16 December 2016, San Francisco, CA. (Talk)

  • Wintertime El Niño and La Niñna weather associations of the Northwest re-examined from an outgoing-longwave-radiation event perspective. 7th Annual Northwest Climate Conference, 14-16 November 2016, Stevenson, WA. (Poster)

  • The 2015-16 El Niño from onset to impacts. 41st Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop, 3-6 October 2016, Orono, ME. (Talk)

  • The role of easterly wind surges in La Niña and El Niño events. 2015 Fall AGU Meting, 14-18 December 2015, San Francisco, CA. (Poster)

  • Reconstructing 2012 and 2014 El Niño SSTA development from subseasonal wind events, A.M. Chiodi and D.E. Harrison. 2015 Fall AGU Meting, 14-18 December 2015, San Francisco, CA. (Poster)

  • Reconstructing recent ENSO SSTA variability: A subseasonal wind event perspective, 4th CLIVAR Workshop on the Evaluation of ENSO Processes in Climate Models, 8-10 July 2015, IPSL/IPMC, Paris, France. (Talk)