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Bette Otto-Bliesner

Dr. Bette Otto-Bliesner
Climate Change Research Section
Climate and Global Dynamics Division
National Center for Atmospheric Research
1850 Table Mesa Drive
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307-3000
United States of America
Phone: +1 303 497 1723
Fax: +1 303 497 1348
E-mail: ottobli@ucar.edu
URL: www.ncar.ucar.edu/
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Programs in which Bette Otto-Bliesner holds an official function:

PAGES	national contact	2006 -
PAGES	scientific steering committee	2006 -

Additional functions:
Member of Scientific Steering Committee of Paleclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project PMIP2
Lead Author for Chapter 6, Paleoclimate, of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report


Key Publications of Bette Otto-Bliesner (up to five) :
Liu, Z., B.L. Otto-Bliesner, et al., 2009: Transient simulation of last deglaciation with a new mechanism for Bolling-Allerod warming, Science, 325, 310-314.

Otto-Bliesner, B.L., C.D. Hewitt, T.M. Marchitto, E. Brady, A. Abe-Ouchi, M. Crucifix, S. Murakami, and S.L. Weber, 2007: Last Glacial Maximum ocean thermohaline circulation: PMIP2model intercomparisons and data constraints. Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L12706, doi:10.1029/2007GL029475.

Otto-Bliesner, B.L., S. Marshall, J. Overpeck, G. Miller, A. Hu, and CAPE Last Interglacial Project Members, 2006: Simulating Arctic climate warmth and icefield retreat in the last interglaciation. Science, 311, 1751-1753.

Otto-Bliesner, B. L., and G. R. Upchurch, Jr., 1997: Vegetation-induced warming of high latitudes during the latest Cretaceous. Nature, 385, 804-807.

Kutzbach, J. E. and B. L. Otto-Bliesner, 1982: The sensitivity of the African-Asian monsoonal climate to orbital parameter changes for 9000 yr B.P. in a low-resolution general circulation model. J. Atmos. Sci., 39, 1177-1188.


Expertise of Bette Otto-Bliesner:

Expertise Category	Specific Expertise
PAGES Topics	Topics
	Modeling
	Climate Dynamics
PAGES Timescales	Timescales
	Pleistocene (glacial-interglacial cycles)
	Holocene (10,000 years)
	Abrupt Events
PAGES Location	Location
	Global
	Northern Hemisphere
	World Ocean
	Polar Regions
	Americas
	Australasia
	Europe-Africa
PAGES Parameters	Parameters
	Temperature
	Insolation
	Hydrological Balance
	Carbon

Additional Specialties:
Bette Otto-Bliesner's research interests are in using computer-based models of Earth's climate to investigate past climate change and climate variability across a wide range of time scales. She is particularly interested in climate change forced naturally over the glacial-interglacial cycles of the last million years.

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