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Senior Research Scientist/ GFDL / NOAA

Lecturer with rank of Professor / AOS Program / Geosciences / Princeton University

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Research Interests:

• Atmospheric and oceanic fluid dynamics/geophysical turbulence
• Climate dynamics/global warming

My Climate Dynamics Blog

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Some lectures and essays:

• Tokyo, 2002
• Woods Hole 2000
• AMS Haurwitz Lecture, 1999: Equatorial superrotation in Earth-like atmospheric models
• The Gap between Simulation and Understanding in Climate Modeling, BAMS, 2005.

Two papers that have not been easily available for a while:

• Stationary and quasi-stationary eddies in the extratropical troposphere: Theory,  1983, in Large-Scale Dynamical Processes in the Atmosphere,   B.J. Hoskins and R. P. Pearce, Eds, ISBN 0-12-356680-0, LCCCN 82-73231, Academic Press, pp. 127-168.
• Held and Hoskins, 1985:  Large-scale eddies and the general circulation of the troposphere, Advances in Geophysics, 28, Part A, 3-31.

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Some recent papers

• Flannaghan,Fueglistaler, Held, Po-Chedley, Wyman, and Zhao, 2014:  Tropical temperature trends in AMIP simulations and the impact of SST uncertainties, Journal of the Geophysical Sciences: Atmosphere
• Jansen and Held, 2014:  Parameterizing subgrid-scale eddy effects using energetically consistent backscatter , Ocean Modelling.
• Merlis, Held, Stenchikov, Zeng, Horowitz, 2014:  Constraining transient climate sensitivity using coupled model simulations of volcanic eruptions .  Journal of Climate
• Hill, Ming, Held, 2014:  Mechanisms of forced tropical meridional energy flux change .  Journal of Climate,
• Zhou, Held, Garner, 2014:  Parameter study of tropical cyclones in rotating radiative-convective equilibrium with column physics and resolution of a 25km GCM .  Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.
• Kang, Held, Xie, 2014:  Contrasting the tropical responses to zonally symmetric extratropical and tropical thermal forcing .  Climate Dynamics.

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