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James F. Booth
Marshak Building Room 930, 160 Convent Avenue, New York, NY 10031
[email protected] Telephone: 212-650-6471
www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~jfbooth
Assistant Professor, Fall 2013 - present
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, City College of New York
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, City University of New York (CUNY)
National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration Cooperative Remote Sensing
Science and Technology (NOAA-CREST) Center at CUNY
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Midlatitude atmospheric dynamics; Ocean-atmosphere interactions in the midlatitudes; The
influence of teleconnections on the jet stream, weather and the seasonal cycle; Extratropical
cyclone hazards.
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY
Postdoctoral Research Scientist: Nov. 2010 – Aug. 2013
Advisor: Anthony Del Genio
Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University of New York
Postdoctoral Research Scientist: Dec. 2012 – Feb. 2013
Advisor: Yochanan Kushnir
Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics,
Columbia University of New York
Postdoctoral Fellow: Sept. 2010 – Dec. 2012
Advisor: Lorenzo Polvani
EDUCATION
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington
• PhD.: Aug. 2010. Advisors: LuAnne Thompson and Jerome Patoux.
Thesis Title: The influence of the Gulf Stream on midlatitude storms.
• M.S.: 2006. Advisor: Igor Kamenkovich.
Thesis Title: Investigating the role of mesoscale variability using a passive tracer in an
eddy resolving model of the North Atlantic Ocean.
Mathematics Department, University of Kentucky
M.S. Applied Mathematics, 2003. Research Principal Investigator: Peter Hislop.
Research Area: Mapping numerically modeled turbulence into a phase space.
Thesis Talk: Turbulence scaling and large eddy simulation applied to the forced Burger’s
equation.
School of Public Health, University of North Carolina
B.S. with Highest Honors, 2000. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Degree: Environmental Science and Engineering.
Honors Thesis Advisor: Jose Ríal. Thesis Title: Analysis of a mathematical model for the
ice ages: The Delayed Logistic equation, its behavior, roots and history.
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AWARDS
• NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow, Fall 2010 – Winter 2012
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
• Hall, T. and J. F. Booth, 2017: SynthETC: A Statistical Model for Severe Winter Storm
Hazard on Eastern North America. Accepted J. Clim.
• Booth J. F., Y.-K. Kwon, S. Ko, J. Small, R. Madsek, 2017: Spatial Patterns and Intensity
of the Surface Storm Tracks in CMIP5 Models. Accepted J. Clim.
• Hamidi. A., N. Devineni, J. F. Booth, A. Hosten, R. R. Ferraro, R. Khanbilvardi, 2017:
Classifying Urban Rainfall Extremes using Weather Radar Data: An Application to
Greater New York Area, J. Hydrometeor., 18, 611–623, doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-16-0193.1
• Booth, J. F., H. Reider, Y. Kushnir, 2016: Comparing hurricane and extratropical storm
surge for the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast Coast of the United States for 1979-2013. Env.
Res. Lett. 11, 9. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/11/9/094004
• Naud, C. M., J. F. Booth, A. D. Del Genio, 2016: The relationship between boundary
layer stability and cloud cover in the post-cold frontal region. J. Climate, 29, 8129–8149,
doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0700.1.
• Tedesco, M., T. Mote, X. Fettweis, E. Hanna, J. Jeyaratnam, J. F. Booth, R. Datta, and K.
Briggs, 2016: Arctic cut-off high drives the poleward shift of a new Greenland melting
record. Nat. Comm. 7, 11723.
• Colle, B. A., J. F. Booth, E. K. M. Chang, 2015: A review of historical and future
changes of extratropical cyclones and associated impacts along the U.S. east coast.
Current Climate Change Reports. Current Climate Change Reports 1, 125-143.
• Booth, J. F., H. Reider, D. E. Lee, Y. Kushnir, 2015: The paths of extratropical cyclones
associated with wintertime high wind events in the Northeast United States. Journal of
Applied Meterol. and Clim. 54, 1871-1885.
• Booth, J. F., L. Polvani, P. O’Gorman, and S. Wang, 2015: Effective Stability in a Moist
Baroclinic Wave, Atmospheric Research Letters, 16: 56–62. doi: 10.1002/asl2.520.
• Naud, C. M., J. F. Booth, A. D. Del Genio, 2014: Evaluation of ERA-interim and
MERRA Cloudiness in the Southern Oceans. J. Climate. 27, 2109-2124.
• Booth, J. F., C. Naud, A. D. Del Genio, 2013: Diagnosing warm frontal cloud formation
in a GCM: A novel approach using conditional subsetting. Journal of Climate, 26, 58275845.
• Naud, C. M., J. F. Booth, D. J. Posselt, S. C. van der Heever, 2013: Multiple satellite
observations of cloud cover in extratropical cyclones. J. Geophys. Res., 118, 9982–9996.
• Booth, J. F., S. Wang, L. M. Polvani, 2013: Midlatitude storms in a moister world:
lessons from idealized baroclinic life cycle experiments. Climate Dynamics, 41, 787 –
802, 10.1007/s00382-012-1472-3.
• Booth, J. F., L. Thompson, J. Patoux, and K. A. Kelly, 2012: Sensitivity of midlatitude
storm intensification to perturbations in the sea surface temperature near the Gulf Stream.
Monthly Weather Review, 140, 1241–1256, 2012.
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• Booth, J. F., L. Thompson, J. Patoux, K. A. Kelly, S. Dickinson, 2010: The signature of
the midlatitude tropospheric storm tracks in the surface winds. Journal of Climate. 23,
1160-1174.
-Featured in Research Highlights section of Nature GeoSciences Jan. 2010.
• Monitoring ocean-atmosphere interactions in western boundary current extensions. M. F.
Cronin, N. Bond, J. Booth, H. Ichikawa, T. M. Joyce, K. Kelly, M. Kubota, B. Qiu, C.
Reason, M. Rouault, C. Sabine, T. Saino, J. Small, T. Suga, L. D. Talley, L. Thompson,
R. A. Weller. In Proceedings of the "OceanObs'09: Sustained Ocean Observations and
Information for Society" Conference (Vol. 2), Venice, Italy, Hall, J., Harrison, D.E. and
Stammer, D., Eds., ESA Publication WPP-306, 2009.
• Booth J. and I. Kamenkovich, 2008: Isolating the role of mesoscale eddies in mixing of a
passive tracer in an eddy resolving model. Journal of Geophysical Research. 113,
C05021, doi:10.1029/2007JC004510.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
• Robinson, W. and J. F. Booth, How will storms and storm tracks change. Lectures in
Climate Change honoring David Rind. 2015.
SELECTED RECENT TALKS AND POSTERS
• The Surface Storm Tracks in CMIP5 Global Climate Models, J. Booth, Y.-O. Kwon, S.
Ko, R. J. Small, R. Msadek, American Meteorological Society Air-Sea Interactions
Meeting, Aug 2016
• The Surface Storm Tracks in Three CMIP5 Global Climate Models, J. Booth, Y.-O.
Kwon, S. Ko, R. J. Small, R. Msadek, American Geophysical, Ocean Sciences Meeting,
Feb. 2016
• A Multivariate Analysis of Extratropical Cyclone Environmental Sensitivity. Greg
Tierney, Derek Posselt, J. F. Booth. American Geophysical Union Meeting Dec. 2015
• A-Train Based Observational Metrics for Model Evaluation in Extratropical Cyclones.
Catherine Naud, James F. Booth, Derek Posselt, Sue Vander Heevan, Anthony Del
Genio. American Geophysical Union Meeting Dec. 2015
• Classifying Intensity and Area of Extreme Rainfall Events in Greater New York Area
Using Weather Radar Data. Ali Hamidi, Naresh Devineni, James F. Booth, Ralph
Ferraro, Reza Khanbilvardi. American Geophysical Union Meeting Dec. 2015
• Statistical Analysis of the Links between Blocking and Nor’easters. James F. Booth and
Stephan Pfahl. American Geophysical Union Meeting Dec. 2015
• The Surface Storm Tracks in the Three CMIP5 Global Climate Models. James F. Booth,
Young-Oh Kwon, Stanley Ko, Justin Small, Rym Msadek. American Geophysical Union
Meeting Dec. 2015
• Observing the Vertical Extent of the Urban Boundary Layer Over Jersey City, NJ: A
Diurnal and Seasonal Analysis. Mark Dempsey, James F. Booth, Mark Arend. American
Geophysical Union Meeting Dec. 2015
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• Enhancing extreme heat health-related intervention and preparedness activities using
remote sensing analysis of daily surface temperature, surface observation networks and
ECMWF reanalysis. Rocky Garcia, James F. Booth. American Geophysical Union
Meeting Dec. 2015
• INVITED TALK: Stability, Convection and Resolution: Understanding Vertical Motion
in Modeled Extratropical Cyclones, Department of Atmospheric and Environmental
Sciences at the University at Albany, May 2015.
• Statistical Analysis of the Links between Blocking and Nor’easters, Cyclones Workshop,
Monterey CA, April 2015
• INVITED TALK: Stability, Convection and Resolution: Understanding Vertical Motion
in Modeled Extratropical Cyclones, European Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, April
2015.
• INVITED TALK: Stability, Convection and Resolution: Understanding Vertical Motion
in Modeled Extratropical Cyclones, Department of Applied Physics and Applied
Mathematics, Columbia University of New York. April, 2015
• INVITED TALK: Wintertime high wind events in the Northeast United States and their
relationship to Extratropical Cyclone Paths, Department of Environmental Sciences
Rutgers University, Dec. 2014.
• New York Metro-Area Boundary Layer Catalogue: Boundary Layer Height and Stability
Conditions from Long-Term Observations, D. Melecio-Vazquez, J. Gonzalez-Cruz, M.
Arend, E. Gutierrez, M. Dempsey, J. F. Booth. 9th International Conference on the Urban
Climate, July 2015.
• Synoptic Patterns Associated with Northeast and Southeast Ice Storms. R. Vargas, J. F.
Booth, American Geophysical Union, Fall 2014.
• A-Train Observations in Extratropical Cyclones: A Comprehensive Tool for Model
Evaluation. C. M. Naud, J. F. Booth, D. J. Posselt, S. C. van den Heever, A. D. Del
Genio, American Geophysical Union, Fall 2014.
• Testing the Sensitivity of Extratropical Cyclones to Variations in Environmental
Conditions. G. Tierney, J. F. Booth, D. Posselt, American Geophysical Union, Fall 2014.
• Revisiting the cold season surge generating storms of the east coast in the 20th century.
D. E. Lee, J. F. Booth, Y. Kushnir, American Geophysical Union, Fall 2014.
• Investigating the impact of sea ice concentration extremes on atmospheric moisture
transport and low-level winds over Greenland and surrounding seas. E. U. Noble, M.
Tedesco, J. F. Booth, Å. K. Rennermalm, J. Stroeve, X. Fettweis, P. Alexander, American
Geophysical Union, Fall 2014.
• Regional Patterns of Blowing Snow Dynamics on the Antarctic Ice Sheet from the
Modèle Atmosphérique Régionale (MAR), Assessed with In Situ and Remote Sensing
data (2000-2011). R. Datta, M. Tedesco, X. Fettweis, H. Gallee, J. F. Booth, American
Geophysical Union, Fall 2014.
• Using Sea Level to Probe Linkages Between Heat Transport Convergence, Heat Storage
Rate, and Air-Sea Heat Exchange in the Subtropical North Atlantic. L. Thompson, K.
Kelly, J. F. Booth, American Geophysical Union, Fall 2014.
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• Storm track sensitivity to changes in moist circulation in a general circulation model. J.
F. Booth. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2012.
• Projections of zonal and meridional temperature gradients in CMIP5 models, F. Cioffi, C.
Karamperidou, J. F. Booth, U. Lall. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2012.
TEACHING
City College of New York
• Primary Instructor for advanced undergraduate and graduate class
- Fundamentals of Atmospheric Science. EAS 0309/B3090. Fall 2016
- Natural Environmental Hazards. EAS 328. Spring 2016
- Fundamentals of Atmospheric Science. EAS 0309/B3090. Fall 2015
- Climate and Climate Change. EAS 4880/8800. Spring 2015
- Fundamentals of Atmospheric Science. EAS 0309/B9014. Fall 2014
- Climate and Climate Change. EAS 4880/8800. Spring 2014
- Fundamentals of Atmospheric Science. EAS31107/B9605. Fall 2013
University of Washington
• Primary Instructor for undergraduate class.
- Atmospheric Science. ATMS 111: Global Warming. Summer 2009.
• Teaching Assistant for undergraduate and graduate classes.
- The Global Carbon Cycle, Winter 2007. (Graduate class)
- Introduction to Atmospheric Sciences, Fall 2006. (Graduate class)
- Introduction to Weather, Winter 2006. (Undergraduate class)
University of Kentucky
• Primary Instructor for undergraduate class.
-College Algebra, Fall 2001.
• Teaching Assistant for undergraduate classes.
Calculus III: Vectors and Multivariate Calculus; Elementary Calculus and its
Applications; Math for Business Majors; Advanced Pre-calculus.
RESEARCH ADVISING
• Graduate Advising:
Doctoral Students
- Katherine Towey. Research Focus: Understanding extratropical and tropical
precipitation in the Northeast US. Fall 2016-present.
- Rocky Garcia. Research Focus: Hazards associated with extratropical cyclones
and blocking in North America. Fall 2014-present.
- Mark Dempsey. Research Focus: Planetary Boundary Layer conditions in and
around New York City during extratropical cyclone passages. Fall 2013-present.
Masters Students
- Rafael Rafael Uryayev, Research Focus: Extratropical Cyclones Clouds and
Precipitation in Global Climate Models. Fall 2016-present.
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Ricardito Vargas, Graduated with M.S., May 2015 Thesis title: Synoptic patterns
associated with northeast and southeast ice storms. Fall 2013-Spring 2015
• Graduate student mentoring: provided guidance for parts of the doctoral dissertation of
Christina Karamperidou, PhD. Civil Engineering, Columbia University, 2012.
Research Focus: surface temperature gradients in global warming projections.
• Undergraduate Advising:
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Elizama Pons-Montalvo, City College of New York, Research focus: sea level
rise on the US East Coast. Spring 2016.
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Amana Hosten, City College of New York, Research focus: extreme
precipitation in the New York City Region. Fall 2014-Summer 2015.
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Julian Kelly, Univ. of Washington. Research Focus: developing computer code
for time-filtering data. Summer 2007.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND ACTIVITIES
• Associate Editor, Atmospheric Research Letters (Wiley Publishing). March 2017 present.
• Founder and Organizer for the Climate in Context at the Graduate CUNY Center
(CCGCC) conference. Feb 2014, Mar. 2015.
• Co-Organizer for the New York City and Long Island American Meteorological Society
Lecture Series at Columbia University. Fall 2013 – present.
• Steering Committee member for City College Fellowship Program
• Panelist for the City College Academy of Professional Development
• Reviewer for NYC Mayors Hazards Pamphlets on Weather
• Participant in the Early Career Geoscience Faculty Workshop: Teaching, Research and
Managing Your Career. July 2013. The workshop is part of On the Cutting Edge, a
professional development program funded by a grant from the National Science
Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education.
• Outreach Speaker
- New York City Research Initiative (NYCRI) at NASA GISS.
Present NASA climate research to programs such as the NYCRI summer interns,
the NSF Diversity in Geosciences program. 2010-2013.
• Convener for a session on midlatitude storm tracks at the American Geophysical Union
Fall Meeting. 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
• Reviewer
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Journal of Climate, Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, Climate Dynamics
Journal of Geophysical Research, Atmospheres, Journal of
Meteorological Society of Japan, Geophysical Research Letters.
• Colloquium and Research Group Coordinator, in the Applied Physics Applied
Mathematics Department at Columbia University
- Reading group of students and faculty, to discuss midlatitude storms. Spring 2011.
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- SEAS Colloquium in Climate Science (SCICS) in the Applied Physics Applied
Mathematics Department at Columbia University. Spring 2011.
• Panelist and Instructor for Univ. of Washington Center for Instructional Development
Research and Teaching Assistant Workshop, Summer 2007, 2008.
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