About Dick Moritz Dr. Moritz is currently serving as the department chair of the Polar Science Center. His primary areas of expertise are the physics of climate, and the interactions among ocean, sea-ice and atmosphere. As director of the SHEBA Project Office at PSC, he continues to lead the planning, development and implementation of the Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean project. SHEBA is a coordinated, multi-institutional investigation of climate feedback processes in the Arctic. Dr. Moritz is actively engaged in climate modeling research, including the development and application of the Community Climate System Model at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. He also oversees the Upward-Looking Sonar (ULS) projects for measuring time series of sea ice (and lake ice) thickness from bottom-anchored moorings. Dr. Moritz' research projects have been sponsored by NSF, ONR, NASA, NOAA and the Alfred Wegener Institute for Oceanography. His articles have appeared in books and journals, including the Journal of Climate, Journal of Geophysical Research, Monthly Weather Review, Advances in Geophysics, and Annals of Glaciology. His background includes teaching and research in climatology, meteorology, physical oceanography, geophysical fluid dynamics, and mathematics. Dr. Moritz joined the Polar Science Center in 1980.

Publications

Serreze, M. C., A. P. Barrett, A. J. Slater, R. A. Woodgate, K. Aagaard, R. Lammers, M. Steele, R. Moritz, M. Meredith, C. Lee, "The large-scale freshwater cycle of the arctic", J. Geophys. Res., in press, 2006.

Bitz, C.M., M.M. Holland, E. Hunke, and R.E. Moritz, “Maintenance of the sea-ice edge,” J. Climate, 18, p 2903-21, 2005.

2003: Ice Thickness and Frazil Ice Behavior in the St. Lawrence Island Polynya as Observed from Satellite Upward Looking Sonar and Salinity/ Temperature Moorings (Drucker, R. S., S. Martin, and R. E. Moritz) J. Geophys. Res., 108(C5), 3149 doi:10.1029/ 2001JC001213

2002: Dynamics of Recent Climate Change in the Arctic (with Cecilia M. Bitz and Eric J. Steig), Science, Vol. 297, No. 5586, 1497.

2002: (in press) Annual Cycle of Arctic Cloud Forcing at SHEBA, J. Geophys. Res. (Oceans), (J.M. Intrieri, et al.).

2002: (in press) Near-Surface Water Vapor over Polar Sea is Always Near Ice-Saturation, J. Geophys. Res. (Oceans), (E. Andreas, el al.)

2002: Sea Ice Kinematics and Surface Properties from RADARSAT Synthetic Aperture Radar During the SHEBA Drift (2nd author with H. Stern), J. Geophys. Res., 107(C10), 8028, doi:10.1029/2000JC000472.

2002: Relationships Between Geostrophic Winds, Ice Strain Rates and the Piecewise Rigid Motions of Pack Ice (with H. Stern), in Proc. IUTAM Symposium on Scaling Laws in Ice Mechanics and Ice Dynamics, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 335-348.

2001: The Community Climate System Model (M. Blackmon, et al.), Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 82 (11), 2357-2376.

2000: Geometry and the Deformation of Pack Ice, Part I: A Simple Kinematic Model (with J. Ukita), Annals of Glaciology, (31), 313-322.

2000: Geometry and the Deformation of Pack Ice, Part II: Simulation with a Random Isotropic Model and Implication in Sea Ice Rheology (2nd author with J. Ukita), Annals of Glaciology, (31), 323-326.

1999: A Comparison of the ECMWF Forecast Model with Observations Over the Annual Cycle at SHEBA (Bretherton, C. S., S. R. de Roode, C. Jakob, E. L. Andreas, J. Intrieri, R. E. Moritz, P. O. G. Persson) J. Geophys. Res, submitted

1999: Toward an explanation of the annual cycle of cloudiness over the Arctic Ocean (2nd author with J. A. Beesley), J. Climate, (12), 395-415.

1997: Do General Circulation Models Underestimate the Natural Variability of Arctic Climate? (third author with D.S. Battisti and C.M. Bitz), J. Climate 10, (8), 1909-1920.1999: Year on Ice Gives Climate Insights, (with the SHEBA Science Team), EOS, Transactions, AGU 80 (41), 481-486.