Andrew Carleton 
EESI Associate
Andrew Carleton
Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder, 1982
Contact Information:
Department of Geography
The Pennsylvania State University
307 Walker Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: (814)
865-6522
email:carleton@essc.psu.edu
Depart. website: http://www.geog.psu.edu/people/carleton/
Current Research Interests:
My expertise is in climatology and satellite remote sensing. These are
parts of physical geography, which is the study of the Earth's physical
environment and the processes responsible for its variations over
space. Within the field of climatology, there are also many sub-fields,
differentiated by topic and also scale. My particular areas of
climatology research are synoptic and dynamic climatology
(macro-scale), climate variations (climate dynamics), and the impacts
of human activities on climate (climate impacts).
Recent Publications:
Claud, C., Carleton, A.M., Duchiron, B., and P. Terray, 2009,Southern Hemisphere winter cold-air mesocyclones: Climatic environments and associations with teleconnections. Climate Dynamics, 33: 383-408. DOE: 10.1007/s00382-008-0468-5.
Carleton, A.M., D.J. Travis, K. Master, and S. Vezhapparambu, 2008, Composite atmospheric environments of jet contrail outbreaks for the United States. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 47: 641-667.
Carleton, A.M., D.L. Arnold, D.J. Travis, S. Curran, and J.O. Adegoke, 2008, Synoptic circulation and land surface influences on convection in the Midwest U.S. “Corn Belt” during the summers of 1999 and 2000. Part I: Composite synoptic environments. Journal of Climate, 21: 3389-3415.
Carleton, A.M., D.J. Travis, J.O. Adegoke, D.L. Arnold, and S. Curran, 2008, Synoptic circulation and land surface influences on convection in the Midwest U.S. “Corn Belt” during the summers of 1999 and 2000. Part II: Role of vegetation boundaries. Journal of Climate, 21: 3617-3641.
Trouet, V., Taylor, A.H., Carleton, A.M., and C.N. Skinner, 2008, Interannual variations in fire weather, fire extent, and synoptic-scale circulation patterns in northern California and Oregon. Theoretical and Applied Climatology: in press.
Carleton, A.M., 2008, Antarctic Teleconnections, In section “The Climate System: The Sub-Antarctic and the Antarctic”, of The International Antarctic Weather Forecasting Handbook, in press.
Carleton, A.M. Atmospheric moisture, 2008, Chapter in: The Encyclopedia of Geography (Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, Calif.)
Adegoke, J.O., Vezhapparambu, S., Castro, C., Pielke Sr., R., Carleton, A.M., and K. Gallo. Influence of surface vegetation and soil moisture heterogeneity on the organization of summer convective systems in the U.S. Midwest. Boundary-Layer Meteorology (October 2008; under review).
Mahmood, R., et al. (39). Impacts of land use land cover change on climate, and future research priorities. Bulletin, American Meteorological Society (September 2008; under review).