Paul Schopf

Professor of Oceanography, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Earth Sciences

Paul Schopf

Professor of Oceanography Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Earth Sciences
Research Hall, Room 116
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA 22030
pschopf@gmu.edu

Education

Ph.D. Geophysical Fluid DynamicsPrinceton University, 1978
Sc.M. EngineeringBrown University, 1972
Sc.B. EngineeringBrown University, 1971

Positions

2013- Chair, AOES
2008-2012 Director, Mason Center for Science and Society
2006-2010Associate Dean for Research, College of Science, George Mason University
2003-2006Assistant Dean for Research, School of Computational Sciences, George Mason University
1997- Professor of Oceanography, George Mason University
1997-2006Adjunct Senior Scientist, COLA, Calverton, MD
1978-1997Oceanographer, Oceans and Ice Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD

Activities

Lecturer, NATO Advanced Study Institute on Seasonal to Interannual Climate Variability, May 2005
Co-Chair, US CLIVAR Process Studies and Model Improvement Panel, 2005-2007
Scientific Steering Committee, US CLIVAR, 2002-2005.
Advisory Board, Earth-Sun Systems Laboratory (ESSL), NCAR
Advisory Panel, Climate and Global Dynamics Division, NCAR
Chair, Earth System Modeling Framework Advisory Board, 2002-2005.
Climate Process Team on Gravity Current Entrainment
US CLIVAR Pacific Implementation Panel, 2001-2003.
US CLIVAR Seasonal-to-Interannual Prediction Panel
Pacific Basin Extended Climate Study, Implementation Plan Team

Publications

  • Narapusetty, Balachandrudu, Cristiana Stan, Ben P Kirtman, Paul S Schopf, Lawrence Marx, and James L Kinter III. 2012. "The Role of Atmospheric Internal Variability on the Tropical Instability Wave Dynamics." Journal of Geophysical Research 117 (August 25): C00J31. doi:10.1029/2012JC007906. pdf
  • Hoskins, Brian, and Paul S Schopf. 2008. Nato Science Series: IV: Earth and Environmental Sciences. Ed. Alberto Troccoli, Mike Harrison, David L T Anderson, and Simon J Mason. Vol. 82. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-6992-5_4.pdf
  • Hoskins, Brian, Paul S Schopf, and Antonio Navarra. 2008. "Modelling the Atmospheric, Oceanic and Coupled System." In Nato Science Series: IV: Earth and Environmental Sciences, ed. Alberto Troccoli, Mike Harrison, David L T Anderson, and Simon J Mason, 82:127-161. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-6992-5_6. 2007
  • Vikhliaev, Yury, Paul Schopf, Tim DelSole, and Ben Kirtman. 2007. "Finding Multiple Basin Modes in a Linear Ocean Model." Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 24 (6) (June): 1033-1049. doi:10.1175/JTECH2020.1.pdf
  • Vikhliaev, Y., B. Kirtman, and P. Schopf, 2007: Decadal North Pacific Bred Vectors in a Coupled GCM. J. Climate, 20, 5744-5764.pdf
  • Schopf, Paul S, and Robert J Burgman. 2006. "A Simple Mechanism for ENSO Residuals and Asymmetry." Journal of Climate 19: 3167-3179.pdf
  • Klinger, Barry A, Bohua Huang, Ben Kirtman, and Paul S Schopf. 2006. "Monthly Climatologies of Oceanic Friction Velocity Cubed." Journal of Climate 19: 5700-5708. pdf
  • Mehta, V., Y. Kushnir, J. Lean, D. Legler, R. Lukas, A. Proshutinsky, N. Rosenberg, H. v. Storch, P. Schopf, and W. White, 2006. "The CRCES Workshop on Decadal Climate Variability". Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 87, 1223-1225. pdf
  • Yuan, Dongliang, Michele M Rienecker, and Paul S Schopf. 2004. "Long Wave Dynamics of the Interannual Variability in a Numerical Hindcast of the Equatorial Pacific Ocean Circulation During the 1990s." Journal of Geophysical Research 109 (C5): C05019-. doi:doi:10.1029/2003JC001936.pdf
  • Huang, Bohua, Paul Schopf, and J Shukla. 2004. "Intrinsic Ocean-Atmosphere Variability of the Tropical Atlantic Ocean." Journal of Climate 17: 2058-2077.pdf
  • Gregg, Watson W., Paul Ginoux, Paul S Schopf, and Nancy W. Casey. 2003. "Phytoplankton and Iron: Validation of a Global Three-Dimensional Ocean Biogeochemical Model." Deep Sea Research Part II: ... 50: 3143-3169.pdf
  • Huang, Bohua, James Kinter, and Paul S Schopf. 2002. "Ocean Data Assimilation Using Intermittent Analyses and Continuous Model Error Correction." Advances in Atmospheric Sciences 19 (6) (November): 965-992. doi:10.1007/s00376-002-0059-z. pdf
  • Huang, Bohua, Paul S Schopf, and Ziqin Pan. 2002. "The ENSO Effect on the Tropical Atlantic Variability- a Regionally Coupled Model Study." Geophysical Research Letters 29 (21): 2039. doi:10.1029/2002GL014872.pdf
  • Borovikov, Anna, Michele M Rienecker, and Paul S Schopf. 2001. "Surface Heat Balance in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean: Climatology and the Warming Event of 1994-95." Journal of Climate 14.pdf
  • Chelton, Dudley, Steven Esbensen, Michael Schlax, Nicholai Thum, Michael Freilich, Frank Wentz, Chelle Gentlemann, Michael McPhaden, and Paul Schopf. 2001. "Observations of Coupling Between Surface Wind Stress and Sea Surface Temperature in the Eastern Tropical Pacific." Journal of Climate 14: 1479-1498.pdf
  • Yang, Song, K-M Lau, and Paul Schopf. 1999. "Sensitivity of the Tropical Pacific Ocean to Precipitation-Induced Freshwater Flux." Climate Dynamics 15: 737-750.pdf
  • Ben P Kirtman, and Paul S Schopf. 1998. "Decadal Variability in ENSO Predictability and Prediction." Journal of Climate 11: 2804-2822.pdf
  • Konchady, Manu, A Sood, and PS Schopf. 1998. "Implementation and Performance Evaluation of a Parallel Ocean Model." Parallel Computing 24: 181-203.pdf
  • Yu, Zuojun, and Paul Schopf. 1997. "Vertical Eddy Mixing in the Tropical Upper Ocean: Its Influence on Zonal Currents." Journal of Physical Oceanography 27: 1447-1458.pdf
  • Yu, Zuojun, Paul S Schopf, and Julian P McCreary Jr. 1997. "On the Annual Cycle of Upper-Ocean Circulation in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific." Journal of Physical Oceanography 27: 309-324.pdf
  • Schopf, Paul S, and Andrew Loughe. 1995. "A Reduced-Gravity Isopycnal Ocean Model: Hindcasts of El Nino." Monthly Weather Review 123: 2839-2863. pdf
  • Mechoso, CR, AW Robertson, N Barth, MK Davey, P Delecluse, PR Gent, S Ineson, et al. 1995. "The Seasonal Cycle Over the Tropical Pacific in Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere General Circulation Models." Monthly Weather Review.pdf
  • Schopf, Paul S, and Max J. Suarez. 1988. "Vacillations in a Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Model.." Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 45 (February 1): 549-568. pdf
  • Suarez, Max J., and Paul S Schopf. 1988. "A Delayed Action Oscillator for ENSO.." Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 45 (November 1): 3283-3287. pdf
  • Schopf, PS. 1987. Coupled Dynamics of the Tropical Ocean-Atmosphere System. Further Progress in Equatorial Oceanography.
  • Schopf, P. 1985. "Modeling Tropical Sea-Surface Temperature: Implications of Various Atmospheric Responses." In Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Models, 40:727-734.
  • Harrison, D, and Paul Schopf. 1984. "Kelvin-Wave Induced Anomalous Advection and the Onset of Surface Warming in El Nino Events." Monthly Weather Review 112: 923-933
  • Schopf, Paul S, and Mark A. Cane. 1983. "On Equatorial Dynamics, Mixed Layer Physice and Sea Surface Temperature." Journal of Physical Oceanography. doi:10.1175/1520-0485(1983)013.pdf
  • Schopf, Paul, and D Harrison. 1983. "On Equatorial Waves and El Nino. I: Influence of Initial States on Wave-Induced Currents and Warming." Journal of Physical Oceanography 13: 936-948.
  • Schopf, Paul. 1983. "On Equatorial Waves and El Nino. II: Effects of Air-Sea Thermal Coupling." Journal of Physical Oceanography 13: 1878-1893.
  • Schopf, Paul S, David L T Anderson, and Ronald Smith. 1981. "Beta-Dispersion of Low-Frequency Rossby Waves." Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans 5 (3): 187-214. doi:10.1016/0377-0265(81)90011-7.pdf
  • Schopf, PS. 1981. "Shallow Baroclinic Instability in the Tropical Oceans." Nova Univ Recent Progr in Equatorial Oceanog P 189 ....
  • Schopf, Paul S. 1980. "The Role of Ekman Flow and Planetary Waves in the Oceanic Cross-Equatorial Heat Transport." Journal of Physical Oceanography 10: 330-341.pdf