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Dr Julie L. McClean

Associate Research Oceanographer

Oceans and Atmosphere Section
Climate, Atmospheric Sciences, and Physical Oceanography Division
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
University of California, San Diego
Telephone: (858) 534-3030
Fax: (858) 534-9820
jmcclean@ucsd.edu



Curriculum Vitae

Peer Reviewed Publications and Book Chapters

Griesel, A., S. T. Gille, J. Sprintall, J.L. McClean, J.H. LaCase, and M.E. Maltrud: Isopycnal diffusivities
in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current inferred from Lagrangian Floats in an eddying ocean model,
Journal of Geophysical Research, accepted with revision.

Jayne, S. R., N. G. Hogg, S. N. Waterman, L. Rainville, K. A. Donohue, D. R. Watts, K. L. Tracey, J. L. McClean,
M. E. Maltrud, B. Qui, S. Chen, and P. Hacker, The Kuroshio Extension and its recirculation gyres,
Deep-Sea Research I, in press, 2009.


Griesel, A., S. T. Gille, J. Sprintall, J. L. McClean, and M. E. Maltrud: Parameterizing eddy heat flux in a 1/10°
Ocean Simulation: A Wavenumber Perspective, Ocean Modelling, 29, 248-260, doi:10.1016/j.ocemod.2009.05.004, 2009.


Arbic, B. K., J. F. Shriver, R., P. J. Hogan, H. E. Hurlburt, J. L. McClean, E. J. Metzger, R. B. Scott, A.Sen,
O. M. Smedstad and A. J. Wallcraft, Estimates of bottom flows and bottom boundary layer dissipation of the
oceanic general circulation from global high resolution models. Journal of Geophysical Research, 114, C02024,
doi:10.1029/2008JC005072, 2009 .


Wolfe, C. L. P. Cessi, J. L. McClean, and M.E. Maltrud, Vertical heat transport and vertical turbulent diffusivity
in eddying ocean models. Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L23605,doi:10.1029/2008GL036138, 2008.


Piacsek, S., R. Allard, and J. McClean: Watermass census in the Nordic and Arctic Seas using climatological and
observational data sets, Il Nuovo Cimento C, 31, 2, 215-240, doi:10.1393/ncc/2008-10290-8, 2008.


Byrne, D. A., and J. McClean: Sea level anomaly signals in the Agulhas Current region, Geophysical Research Letters,
35, L13701, doi:10.1029/2008GL034584, 2008.


McClean, J.L., S. Jayne, M.E. Maltrud, D.P. Ivanova: The Fidelity of Ocean Models with Explicit Eddies.
“In Eddy-Resolving Ocean Modelling”, M. Hecht and H. Hasumi, Eds., AGU Geophysical Monograph Series,
Volume 170, pp.149-163, 2008.


Bala G., R. B. Rood, A. Mirin, J. McClean, K. Achuta Rao, D. Bader, P. Gleckler, R. Neale, and P. Rasch:
Evaluation of a CCSM3 Simulation with a Finite Volume Dynamical Core for the Atmosphere at 1° x 1.25°
Longitude Resolution. Journal of Climate, 21(7), 1467-1486, 2008.


Rainville, L., S. R. Jayne, J. L. McClean, and M. E. Maltrud: Formation of Subtropical Mode Water in a
High-Resolution POP Simulation of the Kuroshio Extension Region, Ocean Modelling, 17, 338-356, 2007.


Batteen, M. L., A.S. Martinho, H. A. Miller, and J.L. McClean: A process-oriented modelling study of the
Coastal Canary and Iberian Current. Ocean Modelling, 18, 1-36, 2007.


Middleton, J. F., C. Arthur, P. Van Ruth, T. M. Ward, J. McClean, M. Maltrud, P. Gill, and S. Middleton,
2007: El Niño effects and upwelling off Australia .Journal of Physical Oceanography, 37, No. 10, 2458-2477, 2007,


Barnier, B., G. Madec, T. Penduff, J.-M. Molines, A.-M. Treguier, A. Beckmann, A. Biastoch, C. Böning, J. Dengg
S. Gulev, J. Le Sommer, E. Remy, C. Talandier, S. Theetten. M. Maltrud, J. McClean, and B. De Cuevas, Recent
progress in modelling the global ocean circulation at eddy permitting resolution. Ocean Dynamics,
DOI 10.1007/s10236-006-0082-1, 2006.


McClean, J. L., M. E. Maltrud, and F. O. Bryan, Measures of the fidelity of eddying ocean models. Oceanography,
19, No. 1, 104-117, March 2006.


McClean, J. L., D. P. Ivanova, and J. Sprintall, Remote origins of interannual variability in the Indonesian
Throughflow region from data and a global POP simulation. Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, C10013,
doi:10.1029/2004JC002477, 2005.


Prasad, T. G., J. L. McClean, E. C. Hunke, A. J. Semtner, and D. P. Ivanova, A Numerical Study of the Western
Cosmonaut Polynya in a Coupled Ocean-Sea Ice Model. Journal of Geophysical Research, 110,C10008,
doi:10.1029/2004JC002858, 2005.


Prasad, T. G. M. Ikeda, and J. L. McClean, Response of the Northern Indian Ocean to the winter monsoon:
the generation of the Arabian Sea Dome. Deep Sea Research, I, 52, 1155-1177, 2005.


Maltrud, M. E., and J. L. McClean, An eddy resolving global 1/10° ocean simulation. Ocean Modelling,
8, 1-2, 31-54, 2005.


Prasad, T. G., and J. L. McClean, Mechanisms for anomalous warming in the western Indian Ocean during
Dipole Mode events. Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, C02019, doi:10.1029/2003JC001872, 2004.


Tokmakian, R., and J. L. McClean, How realistic is the high frequency signal of a 0.1° resolution ocean
model? Journal of Geophysical Research, 108(C4), 3115, doi:10.1029/2002JC001446, 2003.


McClean, J. L., P-M. Poulain, J.W. Pelton, and M. E. Maltrud. Eulerian and Lagrangian statistics from surface
drifters and a high-resolution POP simulation in the North Atlantic. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 32, 2472-2491,
2002.


McClean, J. L., W. Maslowski, and M. Maltrud, Towards a coupled environmental prediction system,
Computational Science - ICCS 2001 (Eds: Alexandrov, Dongorra, Juliano, Renner, and Tan), Lecture Notes
in Computer Science 2073, Springer-Verlag, pp. 1098-1107, 2001.


Gordon, A. L., and J. L. McClean, Thermohaline stratification of the Indonesian Seas-model and observations.
Journal of Physical Oceanography, 29, 198-216, 1999.


McClean, J. L., A. J. Semtner, and V. Zlotnicki, Comparisons of mesoscale variability in the Semtner-Chervin
quarter-degree model, the Los Alamos sixth-degree model, and TOPEX/POSEIDON Data. Journal of Geophysical
Research
, 102(C11), 25203-25226, 1997.


Ramp, S. R., J. L. McClean, C. A. Collins, A. J. Semtner, and K. A. S. Hays, Observations and modeling of
the 1991-1992 El Niño signal off Central California. Journal of Geophysical Research, 102(C3), 5553-5582, 1997.


McClean, J. L., and J. M. Klinck, Description and vorticity analysis of 50-day oscillations in the western
tropical region of the CME model. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 25, No. 11(Part 1), 2498-2517, 1995.


McClean-Padman, J., and L. P. Atkinson, Observations of a cyclonic-Gulf Stream coalescence event over
the Blake Plateau. Journal of Geophysical Research, 96(C11), 20,421-20,432, 1991.


McClean-Padman, J., and L. Padman, Summer upwelling on the Sydney inner continental shelf: the relative
roles of local wind forcing and mesoscale eddy encroachment. Continental Shelf Research, 11(4), 321-345, 1991.


Tokmakian, R., P. T. Strub, and J. McClean-Padman, Evaluation of the maximum cross-correlation method of
estimating sea surface velocities from sequential satellite images. Journal of Atmospheric and Ocean
Technology
, 7(6), 852-865, 1990.

Other Selected Publications

Donohue, K., D. R. Watts, K. Tracey, M. Wimbush, J.-H. Park, N. Bond, M. Cronin, S. Chen, B. Qiu, P. Hacker,
N. Hogg, S. Jayne, J. McClean, L. Rainville, H. Mitsudera, Y. Tanimoto, S.-P. Xie, Program Studies in the Kuroshio
Extension, EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 89 (17), pp 161-162, 22 April 2008.


Maltrud, M., F. Bryan, M. Hecht, E. Hunke, D. Ivanova, J. McClean, S. Peacock, Global Ocean Modeling in the
Eddying Regime using POP, CLIVAR Exchanges, 44(13), no. 1, pp. 5-8, 2008.


Ocean Model Metrics Report: IPRC, Honolulu, Hawaii, February 2006.

Last Modified: 25 August 2009
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