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Keith W. Dixon

research meteorologist
Climate Impacts & Extremes Group
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Office of Oceanic & Atmospheric Research
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
US Department of Commerce
Princeton, New Jersey USA


contact info:

email: Keith.Dixonatnoaa.gov
phone:
609-452-6574
fax:
609-987-5063

postal address:
Keith Dixon
NOAA / GFDL
201 Forrestal Road
Princeton, NJ 08540-6649
USA
[Keith Dixon NOAA/GFDL photo Nov 2010]

things related to some of
my climate research activities
things related to some of my
communications & outreach activities

• GFDL's PI for the DOI South-Central Climate Science Center: Web page at GFDL describing GFDL's role in the South-Central CSC 

• Recipient of the first NOAA Science Communicator Award
— the Dr. Daniel L. Albritton Outstanding Science Communicator Award

Ocean circulation features of the GFDL CM2.6 and CM2.5 high-resolution global climate models: Web pages and poster describing some of the High Resolution Climate Modeling efforts of the GFDL Climate Change, Variability, & Prediction Group.

Public Speaker on the Science of Climate Change

Online bibliography

Museum Collaborations

• Sensitivity of the North Atlantic Ocean Circulation to an Abrupt Change in the Nordic Sea Overflow in a High Resolution Global Coupled Climate Model: Web page with animations, graphics, & links to this GFDL CM2.5 climate model paper (JGR_Oceans, in press)

GFDL Climate Research Highlights Two–page Research Summaries & Graphics Galleries I helped assemble to coincide with the release of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report

• Decadal Climate Predictability:
from the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Decadal Prediction - Can It Be Skillful?

Climate Modeling 101 Videos & Audio mp3s that I helped develop

Assessing the predictability of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation and associated fingerprints, Msadek, Dixon, Delworth, & Hurlin (2010), Geophysical Research Letters.

Broadcast, Print, & Electronic Media Experiences

Decadal Climate Variability, Predictability, and the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation web page from GFDL's CCVP group

Participant in the ten day American Meteorological Society's Summer Policy Colloquium (June 2008)