Background

Arthur M. Greene received his Ph.D. from Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, where he studied the response of mountain glaciers to changes in climate under the supervision of advisor Wallace S. Broecker. He then spent a year as a visiting researcher at the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de L'Environnement in Gif-sur-Yvette, France, where he worked with Nathalie de Noblet on the land-surface model ORCHIDEE. Subsequent to this, and before arriving at the IRI, Greene served as science consultant in the development of a web site for the Comer Science and Education Foundation.

Before beginning his graduate studies at Lamont, Greene had been working as a professional musician, principally in the domain of Broadway musicals, where he served as both conductor and pianist. He spent three years touring the United States as music director of the show "Annie." He holds a Master of Arts in piano performance from Stanford University, and studied piano with Mieczyslaw Munz at the Juilliard School of Music. Greene also holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Research Interests

Probabilistic climate change, climate statistics, stochastic simulation, hidden Markov models

Lamont Open House 2010 presentation

The near term: Further than it sounds

Selected publications

Greene, A.M., M. Hellmuth and T. Lumsden, Stochastic decadal climate simulations for the Berg and Breede Water Management Areas, Western Cape Province, South Africa,, Water Resourc. Res. (48) W06504, doi:10.1029/2011WR011152, 2012.

Greene, A.M., L. Goddard and R. Cousin, Web Tool Deconstructs Variability in Twentieth-Century Climate, Eos Trans. AGU (92)45, 397-398, Nov 2011.

Greene, A.M., A.W. Robertson, P. Smyth and S. Triglia, Downscaling projections of Indian monsoon rainfall using a nonhomegneous hidden Markov model, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society (137), 347-359. doi: 10.1002/qj.788m 2011.

U.S. CLIVAR Decadal Predictability Working Group: A. Solomon, L. Goddard, A. Kumar, J. Carton, C. Deser, I. Fukumori, A.M. Greene, G. Hegerl, B. Kirtman, Y. Kushnir, M. Newman, D. Smith, D. Vimont, T. Delworth, G. Meehl and T. Stockdale, Distinguishing the roles of natural and anthropogenically forced decadal climate variability: Implications for prediction, Bull. Am. Met. Soc. (92), 141-156, doi: 10.1175/2010BAMS2962.1, 2011.

G.A. Meehl, L. Goddard, J. Murphy, R.J. Stouffer, G. Boer, G. Danabasoglu, K. Dixon, M.A. Giorgetta, A.M. Greene, E. Hawkins, G. Hegerl, D. Karoly, N. Keenlyside, M. Kimoto, B. Kirtman, A. Navarra, R. Pulwarty, D. Smith, D. Stammer, T. Stockdale, Decadal prediction: Can it be skillful?, Bull. Am. Met. Soc., (90) 10, 1467-1485, 2009.

Greene, A.M., A. Giannini and S.E Zebiak, Drought return times in the Sahel: A question of attribution, Geophys. Res. Lett. (36), L12701, doi:10.1029/2009GL038868, 2009.

Greene, A.M., A. W. Robertson and S. Kirshner, Analysis of Indian monsoon daily rainfall on subseasonal to multidecadal time scales using a hidden Markov model, Q. J. Royal Met. Soc., (134) 633, 875-887, 2008.

Greene, A.M., L. Goddard and U. Lall, Probabilistic multimodel regional temperature change projections,
J. Climate (19)17, 4326-4343, 1 September, 2006. © AMS

Greene, A.M., A time constant for hemispheric mass balance, J. Glaciol. (51)174, 353-362, 2005.

Greene, A.M. and N. Noblet-Ducoudré, Compensating effect of transpiration in wetland regions in the land-surface model ORCHIDEE, unpublished work.

Greene, A.M., R. Seager and W.S. Broecker, Tropical snowline depression at the Last Glacial Maximum: Comparison with proxy records using a single-cell tropical climate model, J. Geophys. Res. (107)D8, doi:10.1029/2001JD000670, 2002.

Greene, A.M., W.S. Broecker and D. Rind, Swiss glacier recession since the Little Ice Age: Reconciliation with climate records, Geophys. Res. Lett., (26)13, 1909-1912, 1999.