Roland Madden

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Roland A. Madden
Born
Roland Aloysius Madden

(1938-05-08) May 8, 1938 (age 86)
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Alma mater
Awards1983 American Meteorological Society Editor's Award [2]

2001 International Meetings in Statistical Climatology Achievement Award [3]

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2002 Jule G. Charney AwardJule G. Charney Award

2010 Colorado State University Outstanding Alumni Award [4]
Scientific career
Fields Meteorology
Institutions National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), 1967–2002
Thesis  (1978 [1] )
Doctoral advisor Bernhard Haurwitz [1]

Roland Aloysius Madden, an American meteorologist, was a staff scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) from 1967 to 2002. [5] [6] His research centers on diagnostic studies of the atmosphere. Madden is a fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) [7] and a recipient of the 2002 Jule G. Charney Award of the AMS.

Biography

Madden was born on May 8, 1938, in Chicago, Illinois. [8] [9] He grew up in Edison Park in northwest Chicago and attended St. Juliana’s Grammar School and Fenwick High School [10] He received his Bachelor of Science degree in physics from Loyola University Chicago in 1961. [8] [2] That same year, he joined the United States Air Force where he served for four years as Duty Forecaster at Patrick Air Force Base and Assistant Staff Meteorologist at Cape Canaveral. [8] [5] [2] He received his master’s and doctoral degrees in meteorology from the University of Chicago in 1967 [2] and Colorado State University in 1978 respectively. [4] In 1967, he was appointed staff scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder Colorado where he worked for 35 years, [5] most recently as a member of the Climate Analysis Section in the Climate and Global Dynamics Division. Madden spent periods of time as an invited scientist at a variety of institutions, including the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, Free University of Berlin, Naval Postgraduate School, University of Stockholm, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, the New Zealand National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, and Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Madden retired from NCAR in 2002. [5] He was married to Mary Agnes (née Ruh) Madden (1939–2019) for fifty-seven years, and the couple has four children. [11]

Career highlights

Over the course of his career, Madden authored over 100 research publications, technical reports, and proceedings. [3] He is perhaps best known for his discovery in 1971 with Paul Julian [pub 1] of the Madden–Julian oscillation (MJO) and the comprehensive description of the phenomenon in 1972. [8] [pub 2] The MJO is an eastward moving atmospheric disturbance that traverses the planet in the tropics with a period of 30–60 days, on average. The MJO is the main intra-seasonal fluctuation explaining weather in the tropics, and it continues to be studied broadly. [12] [13]

Selected areas of important contributions (and related publications) in addition to the MJO [3] include:

Madden continues to work and publish as an NCAR Senior Scientist Emeritus. [14] His most recent publication [pub 12] presents new evidence of the Rossby-Haurwitz waves and appeared in 2019.

Selected publications

  1. ↑ Madden, R. A., and P. R. Julian, 1971: Detection of a 40–50 day oscillation in the zonal wind in the tropical Pacific. J. Atmos. Sci., 28, 702–708.
  2. ↑ Madden, R. A., and P. R. Julian, 1972: Description of global-scale circulation cells in the tropics with a 40–50 day period. J. Atmos. Sci., 29, 1109–1123.
  3. ↑ Madden, R. A., L. Sapp, and E. Zipser, 1974: Clouds over the tropical Atlantic during July and August 1970. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 55, 587–595.
  4. ↑ Madden, R. A., 1976: Estimates of the natural variability of time-averaged sea-level pressure. Mon. Wea. Rev., 104, 942–952.
  5. ↑ Madden, R. A., and D. J. Shea, 1978: Estimates of the natural variability of time-averaged temperatures over the United States. Mon. Wea. Rev., 106, 1695–1703.
  6. ↑ Madden, R. A., D. J. Shea, R. W. Katz, and J. W. Kidson, 1999: The potential for long-range predictability of precipitation over New Zealand, Int. J. Climate, 19, 405–421.
  7. ↑ Madden, R. A., and V. Ramanathan, 1980: Detecting climate change due to increasing carbon dioxide. Science, 109, 763–768.
  8. ↑ Madden, R. A., 1987: Relationships between changes in the length-of-day and the 40–50 day oscillation in the tropics. J. Geophys. Res., 92, 8391–8399.
  9. ↑ Madden, R. A., 1988: Large intraseasonal variations in wind stress in the tropics. J. Geophys. Res., 93, 5330–5340.
  10. ↑ Madden, R. A., D. J. Shea, G. W. Branstator, J. J. Tribbia, and R. Weber, 1993: The effects of imperfect spatial and temporal sampling on estimates of the global mean temperature: experiments with model and satellite data. J. Climate, 6, 1057–1066.
  11. ↑ Madden, R. A., and R. H. Jones, 2001: A quantitative estimate of the effect of aliasing in climatological time series. J. Climate, 14, 3987–3993.
  12. ↑ Madden, R. A., 2019: How I learned to love normal-mode Rossby-Haurwitz waves. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 100, 503-511.

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