Senior Research Scientist
Associate Research Professor
CIRES Fellow
PhD, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1989
Specialties [top]
Arctic climate; global implications; and climate warming in the Arctic
Recent Highlights and Upcoming Expeditions [top]
- December 2007: Serreze presented the Nye Lecture at the Fall American Geophysical Union (AGU) Meeting to discuss the status of climate change in the Arctic. The lecture was a special lecture requested on behalf of the AGU Cryospheric Focus Group.
- September 2007: Reported on 2007 record Arctic sea ice loss and its global significance: collaborated on an analysis of the factors contributing to the extreme ice losses in 2007 with J. Stroeve, J. Maslanik, M. Holland, W. Meier, and T. Scambos
- October 2006: Reported on 2006 Arctic sea ice minimum and its global warming significance; collaborated on an analysis of the predicted and observed sea ice decline rates with J. Stroeve, W. Meier, M. Holland, and T. Scambos.
- June 2006: Published "The Arctic Amplification Debate," in the journal Climatic Change
- May 2006: Participated in a Congressional Briefing, "Recent Scientific Findings of Arctic Environmental Change"
- February 2006: received the award for Best Book of 2005 from the Atmospheric Science Librarians International (ASLI) for the book The Arctic Climate System.
- Fall 2005 : Published textbook, The Arctic Climate System, with Roger Barry
- September 2005: Reported on the 2005 Arctic sea ice minimum and its larger relation to Arctic and global climate
Current Research [top]
- Evaluating causes for the declining sea ice cover
- Studying aspects of the Arctic's large-scale heat and freshwater budgets
- Examining the role of Greenland and the surrounding area on cyclone development and poleward heat and moisture transports
Current Projects [top]
Assessment of Recent Hydrologic Change over the Arctic Terrestrial Drainage System
Characteristics of Cyclone Development in the Arctic and their Hydrologic Impacts
Characterization of Atmospheric Moisture Transport and the Freshwater Budget of the Arctic with an Improved Regional Model
Collaborative Research: A Heat Budget Analysis of the Arctic Climate System
Collaborative Research: Integrated Analyses of the Arctic Freshwater Cycle and its Influence on Global Climate
Collaborative Research: A Land Surface Model Hind-cast of the Terrestrial Arctic Drainage System
Integrated Analysis of the Freshwater Cycle in the Arctic Terrestrial, Cryospheric, Atmospheric, and Oceanic Systems
An Integrated Assessment of the Arctic Freshwater System: Analysis of Retrospective and Contemporary Conditions
Interactions Between Frozen Ground in the Russian Arctic and Atmospheric Circulation
Synthesis of Modes of Ocean-Ice-Atmosphere Covariability in the Arctic System from Multivariate Century-Scale Observations
Activities [top]
Member, American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Member, American Meteorological Society (AMS)
Member, NSF Arctic Climate System Study (ARCSS) Science Steering Committee
Member, Arctic and sub-Arctic Ocean Fluxes (ASOF) Science Steering Committee
Fellow, Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (PAOS) at the University of Colorado at Boulder
Media contact on issues relating to arctic and global climate change
Scientific manuscript reviewer for the Journal of Climate, Journal of Geophysical Research, Geophysical Research Letters, Tellus, Journal of Applied Meteorology, Reviews of Geophysics, and Arctic and Alpine Research
Featured scientist on "Discovery Channel" documentary "Global Warming: What you need to know," July 2006
Serreze has also provided testimony to the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation regarding changes in arctic sea ice cover (2004) and to a 2006 Congressional Briefing, "Recent Scientific Findings of Arctic Environmental Change."
Publications [top]
2008
Serreze, M. C., and A. P. Barrett. 2008. The summer cyclone maximum over the central Arctic Ocean. Journal of Climate 21(5): 1048-1065, doi:10.1175/2007JCLI1810.1.
Wyser, K., C. G. Jones, P. Du, E. Girard, U. Willén, J. Cassano, J. H. Christensen, J. A. Curry, K. Dethloff, J. E. Haugen, D. Jacob, M. Køltzow, R. Laprise, A. Lynch, S. Pfeifer, A. Rinke, M. Serreze, M. J. Shaw, M. Tjernström, and M. Zagar. 2008. An evaluation of Arctic cloud and radiation processes during the SHEBA year: simulation results from eight Arctic regional climate models. Climate Dynamics 30(2-3): 203-223, doi:10.1007/s00382-007-0286-1.
2007
Finnis, J., M. M. Holland, M. C. Serreze, and J. J. Cassano. 2007. Response of Northern Hemisphere extratropical cyclone activity and associated precipitation to climate change, as represented by the Community Climate System Model. Journal of Geophysical Research 112, G04S42, doi:10.1029/2006JG000286.
Holland, M. M., J. Finnis, A. P. Barrett, and M. C. Serreze. 2007. Projected changes in Arctic Ocean freshwater budgets. Journal of Geophysical Research 112, G04S55, doi:10.1029/2006JG000354.
Serreze, M. C., A. P. Barrett, A. G. Slater, M. Steele, J. Zhang, and K. E. Trenberth. 2007. The large-scale energy budget of the Arctic. Journal of Geophysical Research 112, D11122, doi: 10.1029/2006JD008230.
Serreze, M. C., M. M. Holland, and J. Stroeve. 2007. Perspectives on the Arctic's shrinking sea-ice cover. Science 315(5818): 1533-1536, doi:10.1126/science.1139426.
Slater, A. G., T. J. Bohn, J. L. McCreight, M. C. Serreze, and D. P. Lettenmeier. 2007. A multimodel simulation of pan-Arctic hydrology. Journal of Geophysical Research 112, G04S45, doi:10.1029/2006JG000303.
Stroeve, J., M. M. Holland, W. Meier, T. Scambos, and M. Serreze. 2007. Arctic sea ice decline: Faster than forecast. Geophysical Research Letters 34, L09501, doi:10.1029/2007GL029703.
Tsukernik, M., D. N. Kindig, and M. C. Serreze. 2007. Characteristics of winter cyclone activity in the northern North Atlantic: Insights from observations and regional modeling. Journal of Geophysical Research 112(D3), doi:10.1029/2006JD007184.
2006
Rinke, A., K. Dethloff, J. J. Cassano, J. H. Christensen, J. A. Curry, P. Du, E. Girard, J.-E. Haugen, D. Jacob, C. G. Jones, M. Kolzow, R. Laprise, A. H. Lynch, S. Pfeifer, M. C. Serreze, M. J. Shaw, M. Tjernstrom, K. Wyser, and M. Zagar. 2006. Evaluation of an ensemble of Arctic regional climate models: spatiotemporal fields during the SHEBA year. Climate Dynamics, doi:10.1007/s00382-005-0095-3.
Serreze, M. C., A. P. Barrett, A. G. Slater, R. A. Woodgate, K. Aagaard, R. B. Lammers, M. Steele, R. Moritz, M. Meredith, and Craig M. Lee. 2006. The large-scale freshwater cycle of the Arctic. Journal of Geophysical Research 111(C11), doi:10.1029/2005JC003424.
Serreze, M. C., and J. A. Francis. 2006. The arctic amplification debate. Climatic Change 76(3-4): 241-264, doi:1007/s10584-005-9017-y.
Serreze, M. C. and J. A. Francis. 2006. The Arctic on the fast track of change. Weather 61: 65-69.
2005
Chapin, F. S. III, M. Sturm, M. C. Serreze, J. P. McFadden, J. R. Key, A. H. Lloyd, A. D. McGuire, T. S. Rupp, A. H. Lynch, J. P. Schimel, J. Beringer, W. L. Chapman, H. E. Epstein, E. S. Euskirchen, L. D. Hinzman, G. Jia, C.-L. Ping, K. D. Tape, C. D. C. Thompson, D. A. Walker, and J. M. Welker. 2005. Role of land-surface changes in Arctic summer warming. Science 310: 657-660.
Frauenfeld, O. W., T. Zhang, and M. C. Serreze. 2005. Climate change and variability using ERA-40 temperatures on the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Geophysical Research 110, D02101, doi:10.1029/2004JD005230.
Overpeck, J. T., M. Sturm, J. A. Francis, D. K. Perovich, M. C. Serreze, et al. 2005. Arctic system on trajectory to new, seasonally ice-free state. Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 86: 309, 312-313.
Serreze, M. C., A. Barrett, and F. Lo. 2005. Northern high latitude precipitation as depicted by atmospheric reanalyses and satellite retrievals. Monthly Weather Review 113: 3407-3430.
Serreze, M. C., and R. G. Barry. 2005. The Arctic Climate System. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
Zhang, T., O. Frauenfeld, M. C. Serreze, A. Etringer, C. Oelke, J. McCreight, R. G. Barry, D. Gilichinsky, D. Yang, H. Ye, F. Ling, and S. Chudinova. 2005. Spatial and temporal variability in active layer
thickness over the Russian Arctic drainage basin. Journal of Geophysical Research 110, D16101, doi:10.1029/2004JD005642.
2004
Frauenfeld, O. W., T. Zhang, and M. C. Serreze. 2004. Climate change and variability using European
Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts reanalysis (ERA-40) temperatures on the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Geophysical Research 110, doi:10.1029/2004JD005230.
Oelke, C., T. Zhang, and M. C. Serreze. 2004. Modeling evidence for recent warming of the Arctic soil thermal regime. Geophysical Research Letters 31, L07208, doi:10.1029/2003GL019300.
Overland, J. E., and M. C Serreze. 2004. Advances in Arctic atmospheric research. In The ACSYS Decade and Beyond, Proceedings of the ACSYS Final Science Conference. WMO/TD No. 1232. Geneva, Switzerland: World Climate Research Program. Digital Media.
Tsukernik, M., T. N. Chase, M. C. Serreze, R. G. Barry, R. Pielke Sr., B. Herman, and X. Zeng. 2004. On the regulation of minimum mid-tropospheric temperatures in the Arctic. Geophysical Research Letters 31, L06112, doi:10.1029/2003GL018831.
2003
Oelke, C., T. Zhang, M. C. Serreze, and R. L. Armstrong. 2003. Regional-scale modeling of soil freeze/thaw over the Arctic drainage basin. Journal of Geophysical Research 108(D10), doi:10.1029/2002JD002722.
Serreze, M. C. 2003. Arctic Climate. In Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences, ed. J. R. Holton, J. A. Curry and J. A. Pyle. Academic Press.
Serreze, M. C., D. H. Bromwich, M. P. Clark, A. J. Etringer, T. Zhang, and R. Lammers. 2003. The large-scale hydro-climatology of the terrestrial Arctic drainage system. Journal of Geophysical Research 108(D2): 8160, doi:10.1029/2001JD000919.
Serreze, M. C., M. P. Clark, and D. H. Bromwich. 2003. Monitoring precipitation over the terrestrial Arctic drainage: data requirements, shortcomings and applications of atmospheric reanalysis. Journal of Hydrometeorology 4: 387-407.
Serreze, M. C., and A. J. Etringer. 2003. Precipitation characteristics of the Eurasian Arctic drainage system. International Journal of Climatology 23: 1267-1291.
Serreze, M. C., J. A. Maslanik, T. A. Scambos, F. Fetterer, J. Stroeve, K. Knowles, C. Fowler, S. Drobot, R. G. Barry, and T. M. Haran. 2003. A new record minimum Arctic sea ice and extent in 2002. Geophysical Research Letters 30: 1110, doi:10.1029/2002GL016406.
Sturm, M., D. K. Perovich, and M. C. Serreze. 2003. Meltdown in the north. Scientific American 289: 42-49.
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