David Atkinson Assistant Professor phone: 907-474-1126 email: datkinsoniarc.uaf.edu office: Akasofu 313 International Arctic Research Center 930 Koyukuk Drive P.O. Box 757340 Fairbanks, Alaska 99775-7340

Projects

Social Vulnerability to Climate Change in Alaskan Coastal Communities

Pan-Arctic Studies of the Coupled Tropospheric, Stratospheric and Mesospheric Circulation

Topo Climate Modeling of Surface Air Temperature

Education

Ph.D., Physical Geography, University of Ottawa
M.A., Physical Geography, Carleton University
B.Sc(H), Physical Geography, Carleton University

Research Interests

• Circum-Arctic storminess, historical and projected
• Impacts of weather on coasts in Arctic regions
• Model down-scaling issues / reanalysis verification
• Derivation of high-resolution climate data grids for data-sparse regions

Links

Climate Modeling & Native Knowledge Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX1BOLGgUwA

IARC Publications

published or accepted, refereed publications and books

• Mesquita, M.d.S., D.E. Atkinson, I. Simmonds, K. Keay, J. Gottschalk (2009), New perspectives on the synoptic development of the severe October 1992 Nome storm, Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1029/2009GL038824, accepted.
• Atkinson, D.E., L. Hinzman (2008), Impact of the August 2000 sttorm on the soil thermal regime, Alaska North Slope, Conference Proceedings, Published Collection: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Permafrost, Fairbanks, Alaska, 29 June -3 July 2008, 65-70.
• Mesquita, M., N. Kvamsto, A. Sorteberg, D.E. Atkinson (2008), Climatological Properties of Summertime Extra-Tropical Tracks in the Northern Hemisphere, Tellus A.
• Makshtas, A.P., D.E. Atkinson, I.Y. Kulakov, S.V. Shoutilin, R. Krishfield, A.Y. Proshutinsky (2007), Atmospheric forcing validation for modeling the central Arctic, Geophysical Research Letters, 34, doi:10.1029/2007G1031378.
• Mesquita, M., N. Kvamsto, A. Sorteberg, D.E. Atkinson (2007), Climatological Properties of Summertime extra-tropical storm tracks in the northern hemisphere, Tellus A.
• Webley, P. W. , D.E. Atkinson, R. Collins, K. Dean, J. Fochesatto, K. Sassen, C. Cahill, A. Prata, C. J. Flynn, K. Mizutani (2007), Predicting and validating the tracking of a Volcanic Ash Cloud during the 2006 Eruptioin of Mount Augustine Volcanoc, Alaska, USA, Bulletin of the American Meteorlological Society.
• Atkinson, D.E., R. Brown, B. Alt, T. Agnew, M. Burgess, C. Duguay, G. Henry, S. Jeffers, R. Koerner, A.G. Lewkowicz, S. McCourt, H. Melling, M. Sharp, S. Smith, M-k Woo, O. Young (2006), Canadian cryospheric response to an anomalous warm summer: A synthesis of the Climate Change Action Fund project The State of the Arctic Cryosphere During the Extreme Warm Summer of 1998, Atmosphere-Ocean, 44(4), 347-375, doi:10.3137/ao.440403.
• Atkinson, D.E. (2005), Environmental forcing of the circum-polar coastal regime, GeoMarine Letters, 25, 98-109.
• Manson, G.K., S.M. Solomon, D.L. Forbes, D.E. Atkinson, M. Craymer (2005), Spatial variability of factors influencing coastal change in the western Canadian Arctic, GeoMarine Letters, 25, 138-145.
• Gajewski, K., D.E. Atkinson (2003), Climatic change in northern Canada, Environmental Reviews, 11(2), 69-102.
• Atkinson, D.E., K. Gajewski (2002), High-resolution estimation of surface air temperature in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Journal of Climate, 15(24), 3601-3614.
• Atkinson, D.E. (2002), Note: High spatial resolution July mean air temperature estimates for the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, 1957-2001, Polar Geography, 26(4), 321-324.
• Viau, A., K. Gajewski, P. Fines, D.E. Atkinson, M. Sawada (2002), Widespread evidence of 1500-yr climate variability in North America during the past 14 000 yr, Geology, 30, 455-458.
• Gajewski, K., A. Viau, M. Sawada, D.E. Atkinson, S. Wilson (2001), Sphagnum distribution in North America and Eurasia during the past 21,000 years, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 15(2), 297-310.
• Hamilton, P., K. Gajewski, D.E. Atkinson (2001), Physical and chemical limnology of lakes from mid- to high Arctic regions of the Archipelago, Nunavut, Canada, Hydrobiologia(457), 133-148.
• Atkinson, D.E., B. Alt, K. Gajewski (2000), A new database of high arctic climate data from the Polar Continental Shelf Project archives, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 81, 2621-2629.
• Atkinson, D.E. (2000), Modeling July Mean Temperatures on the Fosheim Peninsula, Ellesmere Island, Chapter I.1.3 of Environmental Response to Climate Change in the Canadian High Arctic, Michelle Garneau (ed), Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin, 529.
• Atkinson, D.E. (2000), Modeling July Mean Temperatures on the Fosheim Peninsula, Ellesmere Island, Environmental Response to Climate Change in the Canadian High Arctic, Michelle Garneau (ed), Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin, 529.