Dr. Ryan Fogt, Assistant Professor and Scalia Lab Director

fogtr@ohio.edu, Clippinger Labs 103A, (740) 593–1151; Scalia Lab in Clippinger Labs 402B, (740) 593–1353
Dr. Timothy G. Anderson

Web site:

oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~fogtr

Present Position:

Assistant Professor and Scalia Lab Director, Department of Geography, Ohio University

Education:

Ph.D., The Ohio State U., Atmospheric Sciences, 2007
M.S., The Ohio State U., Atmospheric Sciences, 2003
B.S., Creighton U., Atmospheric Sciences, 2000

Employment History:

Assistant Professor and Scalia Lab Director, Department of Geography, Ohio U., 2009–present

Postdoctoral Fellow, National Research Council Research Associate Programs, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, 2007–2009

Graduate teaching and research associate, Department of Geography, Atmospheric Sciences Program, The Ohio State U., 2001–2007

Research Interests:

Polar meteorology and climatology, climate variability and change (including climate modeling), stratosphere-troposphere interactions

Illustrative Publications:

In press
Historical SAM Variability. Part I: Century Length Seasonal Reconstructions of the Southern Hemisphere Annular Mode. J. Climate (with Jones, J. M., M. Widmann, G. J. Marshall, P. D. Jones, and M. Visbeck).

Historical SAM Variability. Part II: 20th Century Variability and Trends from Reconstructions, Observations, and the IPCC AR4 Models. J. Climate (with J. Perlwitz, A. J. Monaghan, D.H. Bromwich, J. M. Jones, and G. J. Marshall).

2009
Intra-annual relationships between polar ozone and the SAM. Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L04707, doi:10.1029/2008GL036627 (with J. Perlwitz, S. Pawson, and M. A. Olsen).

2008
Atmospheric moisture and cloud cover characteristics forecast by AMPS. Wea. Forecasting, 23, 914-930 (with D.H. Bromwich).

Impact of stratospheric ozone hole recovery on Antarctic climate. Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L08714, doi:10.1029/2008GL033317 (with Perlwitz, J., S. Pawson, J. E. Nielsen, and W. D. Neff).

2007
Contributing author, IPCC Working Group 1 (WG1) Fourth Assessment Report, for “Chapter 3: Observations: Surface and Atmospheric Climate Change”; subsections 3.4.1.3, “Changes in the Free Atmosphere: Temperature of the Upper Air: Troposphere and Stratosphere” and 3.5.2, “Changes in Atmospheric Circulation: Geopotential Height, Winds, and the Jet Stream”.

A tropospheric assessment of the ERA-40, NCEP, and JRA-25 global atmospheric reanalyses in the polar regions. J. Geophys. Res., 112, doi:10.1029/2006JD007859 (with D.H. Bromwich, K.I. Hodges, and J.E. Walsh).

2006
Insignificant change in Antarctic snowfall since the International Geophysical Year, Science, 313, 827-831. (with A.J. Monaghan, D.H. Bromwich, S-H. Wang, P.A. Mayewski, D.A. Dixon, A.A. Ekaykin, M. Frezzotti, I.D. Goodwin, E. Isaksson, S.D. Kaspari, V.I. Morgan, H. Oerter, T.D. van Ommen, C.J. van der Veen, and J. Wen)

Decadal variability of the ENSO teleconnection to the high-latitude South Pacific governed by coupling with the Southern Annular Mode. J. Climate, 19, 979-997 (with D.H. Bromwich).

2004
Strong trends in the skill of the ERA-40 and NCEP/NCAR reanalyses in the high and middle latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere, 1958-2001. J. Climate, 17, 4603-4619 (with D.H. Bromwich).

Instructional Areas:

GEOG 101: Physical Geography
GEOG 302/502: Meteorology
GEOG 303/503: Climatology