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J. Ray Bates
B.Sc. (Physics), 1962, University College Dublin
Ph.D. (Meteorology), 1969, Massachusetts Institute of Technology


Recent Positions

1987-91: Head, Global Modeling and Simulation Branch, Laboratory for Atmospheres, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
1991-95: Senior Research Meteorologist, Laboratory for Atmospheres, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
1995 to present: Professor of Meteorology, Department of Geophysics, Niels Bohr Institute for Astronomy, Physics and Geophysics, University of Copenhagen, and
1997 to present: Associate Director, Danish Center for Earth System Science (DCESS), Niels Bohr Institute for Astronomy, Physics and Geophysics, University of Copenhagen.

Research Interests

Theory of Climate , Climate Modelling, Dynamic Meteorology, Numerical Weather Prediction.

Honours and Awards

Napier Shaw Memorial Prize, Royal Meteorological Society, 1971.
Elected to membership of Royal Irish Academy, 1986.
NASA/GSFC , Laboratory for Atmospheres, Scientific Achievement Award, 1994.
Elected to membership of Academia Europaea, 1998.
Elected Fellow of American Meteorological Society, 2000.

Professional Affiliations

American Meteorological Society
Royal Meteorological Society
Irish Meteorological Society
European Geophysical Society
Danish Meteorological Society
Editorships and Professional Society Activities

Associate Editor, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society , 1997-2000.
Member of the Advisory Board, Tellus, 1997-.
Secretary for Meteorology, European Geophysical Society, 1998-2000.
Vice-President for Atmospheric Sciences, European Geophysical Society, 2000-.
Selected Publications

  • Dynamics of disturbances on the Intertropical Convergence Zone. J.R.Bates, Quart.J.Roy.Met.Soc., 96, 677-701,1970.
  • Tropical disturbances and the general circulation. J.R.Bates, Quart.J.Roy.Met.Soc, 98, 1-16, 1972.
  • Dynamics of stationary ultra-long waves in middle latitudes. J.R.Bates, Quart.J.Roy.Met.Soc.,103, 397-430, 1977.
  • A dynamical mechanism through which variations in solar ultraviolet radiation can influence tropospheric climate. J.R.Bates, Solar Physics, 74, 399-415, 1981.
  • Multiply-upstream semi-Lagrangian advective schemes: Analysis and application to a multilevel primitive equation model. J.R.Bates and A. McDonald, Mon.Wea.Rev., 110, 1831-1842, 1982.
  • An efficient semi-Lagrangian and alternating direction implicit method for integrating the shallow water equations. J.R.Bates, Mon.Wea.Rev., 112, 2033-2047, 1984.
  • A semi-Lagrangian and alternating direction implicit method for integrating a multilevel primitive equation model. J.R.Bates and A. McDonald, Short and Medium- Range Numerical Weather Prediction (Special issue of J.Met.Soc.Japan, Ed. T. Matsuno), 223- 231, 1987.
  • Semi-Lagrangian integration of a gridpoint shallow water model on the sphere. A.McDonald and J.R.Bates, Mon.Wea.Rev.,117, 130-137, 1989.
  • Integration of the shallow water equations on the sphere using a vector semi-Lagrangian scheme with a multigrid solver. J.R.Bates, F.H.M. Semazzi, R.W.Higgins and S.R.M. Barros, Mon.Wea.Rev., 118, 1615-1627, 1990.
  • Understanding Climate: Selected Works of Yale Mintz. Edited by J.R.Bates, M. Fox-Rabinovitz, J. Otterman and Y.C.Sud. A. Deepak Publishing Company, 315pp., 1993.
  • A global multilevel atmospheric model using a vector semi- Lagrangian finite difference scheme. Part 1: Adiabatic formulation. J.R.Bates, S.Moorthi and R.W.Higgins, Mon.Wea.Rev.,121, 244-263, 1993.
  • A global atmospheric model using a vector semi-Lagrangian finite difference scheme. Part 2: Version with physics. S. Moorthi, R.W.Higgins and J.R.Bates, Mon.Wea.Rev.,123, 1523-1541, 1995.
  • A global shallow water numerical model based on the semi-Lagrangian advection of potential vorticity. J.R.Bates, Y.Li, A.Brandt, S. McCormick and J.Ruge, Quart.J.Roy.Met.Soc.,121, 1981-2005, 1995.
  • A comparison of climate simulations from a semi-Lagrangian and an Eulerian GCM. M.Chen and J.R.Bates, J.Climate, 9, 1126-1149, 1996.
  • Forecast experiments with a global finite difference semi-Lagrangian model. M.Chen and J.R.Bates, Mon.Wea.Rev, 124, 1992-2007, 1996.
  • A study of the behavior of semi-Lagrangian models in the presence of orography. Y. Li and J.R.Bates, Quart.J.Roy.Met.Soc., 122, 1675-1700, 1996.
  • Simulation of stratospheric vortex erosion using three different global shallow water numerical models. J.R.Bates and Y.Li. In Numerical Methods in Atmospheric and Oceanic Modelling (The Andre Robert Memorial Volume). Ed. C.A. Lin , R. Laprise and H. Ritchie, 55-74. Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, 1997.
  • A Dynamical Stabilizer in the climate system: A mechanism suggested by a simple model. J.R.Bates, Tellus, 51A, 349-372, 1999.
  • GCM experiments to test a proposed dynamical stabilizing mechanism in the climate system. V.A.Alexeev and J.R.Bates, Tellus, 51A, 630-651, 1999.
  • A proposed adiabatic formulation of 3-dimensional global atmospheric models based on potential vorticity. Y.Li, J.Runge, J.R.Bates and A.Brandt, Tellus, 52A, 129-139, 2000.
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    J. Ray Bates
    Department of Geophysics and DCESS
    Niels Bohr Institute for Astronomy, Physics and Geophysics, (NBIfAFG)
    University of Copenhagen
    Juliane Maries Vej 30
    DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø
    Denmark
    Phone: (45) 3532 0569
    Fax: (45) 3532 0576
    E-mail: jrb@gfy.ku.dk