UCAR Trustee Candidate Kenneth Bowman The Member's Nominating Committee is pleased to present Dr. Kenneth Bowman from Texas A&M University as a candidate for the UCAR Board of Trustees. Dr. Bowman is currently a Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences. He was appointed Department Head in 2007. He has been at Texas A&M since 1992, following a postdoctoral fellowship at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and a term as assistant professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He earned his Ph.D. in 1984 from the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Program at Princeton University. As an undergraduate he was a research assistant at the Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado. He has served as the chair of the American Meteorological Society Committee on the Middle Atmosphere, and was secretary of the Atmospheric Science Section of the American Geophysical Union from 1998-2000. He was a member of the Publications Committee of the AGU from 2000-2002. He currently serves on the UCAR Membership Committee, has a Long-Term Visitor appointment at NCAR, and has been active in HIAPER missions. His research interests are in large-scale dynamics and transport, atmospheric chemistry, climate dynamics, satellite applications, and statistical climatology. Dr. Bowman will bring valuable perspective to the Board in the areas of climate dynamics, satellite observations and upper-atmospheric field missions. Personal Statement It is a privilege to be asked to stand for election to the UCAR Board of Trustees. In recent years I have had substantial involvement with UCAR and NCAR, starting with an eight-month sabbatical in the Atmospheric Chemistry Division during 2004. That visit led to fruitful and ongoing scientific collaborations with NCAR scientists, first in the analysis of data from the Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere instrument on the NASA Terra spacecraft, then as a participant in the initial deployment of the new Gulfstream V research aircraft (HIAPER Progressive Science), and most recently as Co-PI for the Stratosphere-Troposphere Analyses of Regional Transport 2008 (START08) field campaign. These projects are examples of the central role that UCAR and NCAR play in the atmospheric sciences. I believe it is essential that NCAR continue to provide critical large-scale facilities for atmospheric observations, computation, and modeling, as well as leadership in many areas of atmospheric research. NCAR has been and should continue to be a scientific crossroads for ideas, data, and people. I have served as a UCAR member representative for Texas A&M and recently started a term on the UCAR Membership Committee. My scientific collaborations and service activities with UCAR and NCAR have taught me that NCAR and UCAR should continue to promote two-way interactions between the member universities and NCAR scientists. For example, a number of my students have visited NCAR for the summer to work with NCAR scientists and visitors.
These were excellent opportunities for their academic and professional development. Such exchanges can also lead to closer collaboration among faculty members and NCAR scientists. As a member of the Board of Trustees I would encourage student and young scientist exchanges, as well as sabbatical exchanges for more experienced scientists. As a member of the Board, I would also strive for enhanced collaboration among NCAR and university scientists on regional and national levels, particularly in large research efforts that call for expertise from many of the sub-disciplines within atmospheric sciences. NCAR should make it as easy as possible for NCAR scientists to make extended stays at the member universities. Two-way interactions will advance the entire atmospheric sciences community and complement the mission of NCAR. The combination of vigorous research and education programs in the academic departments of UCAR member universities and the powerful research capabilities of NCAR have served the atmospheric sciences very well for the last fifty years. It is important to move this collaboration forward in a balanced and focused way to address the serious scientific challenges that face us. Biographical Information Department of Atmospheric Sciences Texas A&M University 3150 TAMU College Station, TX 77843-3150 k-bowman@tamu.edu, http://atmo.tamu.edu/profile/kbowman Education Princeton University Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Ph.D. 1984 Princeton University Geophysical Fluid Dynamics M.S. 1981 University of Colorado Environmental Design B.S. 1979 Professional experience Texas A&M University Department Head 2007 Texas A&M University Professor 1998 National Center for Atmospheric Research Long-Term Visitor 2004 Texas A&M University Associate Professor 1994 1998 Texas A&M University Associate Research Scientist 1992 1994 University of Illinois Assistant Professor 1985 1992 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center NRC Postdoc 1983 1985 Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Research Assistant 1979 1983 Princeton University Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research, Research Assistant 1976 1979 University of Colorado
Honors, prizes and awards Texas A&M University Association of Former Students, College of Geosciences Distinguished Teaching Award, 1998 National Research Council Resident Research Associateship, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 1983 85 Professional memberships and activities Member, UCAR Membership Committee, 2009-2012. Principal investigator, Stratosphere-Troposphere Analyses of Regional Transport 2008 (START08) Mission. Member, HIAPER Progressive Science mission team. (NCAR Gulfstream V research aircraft inaugural mission.) Member, NASA Precipitation Measurement Mission Science Team. Member, Program Committee, Joint European Geophysical Society/American Geophysical Union Spring Meeting, 2003 Member, Publications Committee, American Geophysical Union, 2000 2002 Secretary, Atmospheric Sciences Section, American Geophysical Union, 1998 2000 Chair, American Meteorological Society Committee on the Middle Atmosphere, 1998 2001 Meeting Chair, American Meteorological Society Eleventh Middle Atmosphere Meeting, January 2000, Long Beach, CA Member, American Meteorological Society Committee on the Middle Atmosphere, 1995-1998 Editor with Dr. S. El-Sayed of special issue of the International Journal of Environmental Studies on Global Impacts of Stratospheric Ozone Depletion, 1997 Member, American Geophysical Union Member, American Meteorological Society Meetings, workshops, and invited talks (past 5 years) Texas A&M representative, UCAR Members Meeting, Boulder, CO, 2008 AMS/UCAR Atmospheric Science Department Heads and Chairs Meeting, Boulder, CO, 2008 Stratospheric Processes and their Role in Climate International Science Meeting, Bologna, Italy, 2008 Invited lectures at Pusan National University, Pusan, Korea; Yonsei University and Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, June 2008 Texas A&M representative, UCAR Members Meeting, 2007 NASA Precipitation Measuring Mission, Atlanta, GA, 2007 AMS Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Monterey, CA, 2006 Progressive Science/START05 workshop, Boulder, CO, 2006 NASA Global Precipitation Mission Science Team Meeting, Monterey, CA, 2005 Workshop on Processes Affecting the Chemical Composition of the Extratropical Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere, Mainz, Germany, 2005 International Association for Meteorology and Atmospheric Science (IAMAS) meeting, Beijing, China, 2005
Books Bowman, Kenneth P., 2006. An Introduction to Programming with IDL Interactive Data Selected publications Murthi, A.*, K. P. Bowman, and L. R. Leung, 2010. Simulations of precipitation using WRF and comparisons with satellite observations and CAM: Annual cycle, Climate Dynamics, accepted. Homeyer, C. R.*, K. P. Bowman, and L. L. Pan, 2010. Extratropical tropopause transition layer characteristics from high-resolution sounding data, J. Geophys. Res., 115, D13108, doi: 10.1029/2009JD013664. Pan, L. L., K. P. Bowman, E. L. Atlas, S. C. Wofsy, F. Zhang, J. F. Bresch, B. A. Ridley, J. V. Pittman, C. R. Homeyer*, P. Romashkin, W. A. Cooper, 2010. The Stratosphere- Troposphere Analyses of Regional Transport 2008 (START08) Experiment, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 91, 327-342, doi: 10.1175/2009BAMS2865.1. Bowman, K. P., C. Homeyer*, and D. Stone*, 2009. A comparison of oceanic precipitation estimates in the tropics and subtropics, J. Appl. Meteorol. and Climatology, 48, 1335-1344, 10.1175/2009JAMC2149.1. Li, B., A. Murthi*, K. P. Bowman, G. R. North, Marc G. Genton, and M. Sherman, 2009. Statistical tests of Taylor s hypothesis: An application to precipitation fields, J. Hydrometeorology, 10, 254 265, doi: 10.1175/2008JHM1009.1. Wu*, Q., S. Mahajan*, K. P. Bowman, and P. Chang, 2008. Atmospheric response to Atlantic Tropical Instability Waves in Community Atmosphere Model version 3, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D15125, doi: 10.1029/2007JD009474. Bowman, K. P., L. L. Pan, T. Campos, and R. Gao, 2007. Observations of fine-scale transport structure in the upper troposphere from HIAPER, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D18111, doi: 10.1029/2007JD008685. Pan, L. L., K. P. Bowman, M. Shapiro, W. J. Randel, R. Gao, T. Campos, C. Davis, S. Schauffler, B. A. Ridley, J. C. Wei, and C. Barnet, 2007. Chemical behavior of the tropopause region observed during the Stratosphere-Troposphere Analyses of Regional Transport (START) experiment, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D18110, doi: 10.1029/2007JD008645. Deng, Y., K. P. Bowman, and C. Jackson, 2006. Differences in rain rate intensities between TRMM observations and Community Atmosphere Model simulations, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L01808, doi: 10.1029/2006GL027246. Bowman, K. P., 2006. Transport of carbon monoxide from the tropics to the extratropics, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D02107, doi: 10.1029/2005JD006137. Collier, J. C.*, K. P. Bowman, and G. R. North, 2004. A comparison of tropical precipitation simulated by the Community Climate Model (CCM3) with that measured by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite, J. Climate, 17, 3319 3333, doi: 10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<3319:ACOTPS>2.0.CO;2. Bowman, K. P., and T. Erukhimova, 2004. Comparison of global-scale Lagrangian transport
properties of the NCEP Reanalysis and CCM3, J. Climate, 17, 1135 1146, doi: 10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<1135:COGLTP>2.0.CO;2. Bowman, K. P., 1996. Rossby wave phase speeds and mixing barriers in the stratosphere, Part I: Observations, J. Atmos. Sci., 53, 905 916, doi: 10.1175/1520-0469(1996)053<0905:RWPSAM>2.0.CO;2. Bowman, K. P., 1993. Large-scale isentropic mixing properties of the Antarctic polar vortex from analyzed winds. J. Geophys. Res., 98, 23,013 23,027, doi: 10.1029/93JD02599. Bowman, K. P., and A. J. Krueger, 1985. A global climatology of total ozone from the Nimbus-7 Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer. J. Geophys. Res., 90, 7967 7976, doi: 10.1029/JD090iD05p07967. Bowman, K. P., 1982. Sensitivity of an annual mean diffusive energy balance model with an ice sheet. J. Geophys. Res., 87, 9667 9674, doi: 10.1029/JC087iC12p09667. *indicates student author