Biography of
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The following is a list of my past and present academic and research positions, education, affiliations, and papers.

PRESENT POSITION:

Chair, Atmospheric Sciences
Graduate Program Director, Atmospheric Sciences
Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska

EDUCATION:

1971     B.S. University of California at Riverside.
             Graduation with honors in Biology and Geology (Paleobiology).
1973     M.S. University of Arizona, Geosciences with field in climatic change.
1976     Ph.D. University of Arizona, Geosciences with field in climatic change.

ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH POSITIONS:

1976-1980 Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Nebraska at Lincoln.

1978 Visiting Research Scientist (National Science Foundation sponsored), Climate Research Group, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego.

1980-1981 Research Associate, Climate Research Group, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego.

1988 Visiting Research Scientist, Universidad Nacional Autonomia de Mexico, Mexico DF, Mexico.

1994 Academic Advisor, Creighton Semester Abroad Program, Santiago, Dominican Republic.

1996 Visiting Professor, Diplomado Program, Universidad Nacional Autonomia de Mexico, Mexico DF, Mexico.

1982-1997 Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska.

1999-2004 Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Environmental and Atmospheric Sciences, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska

2004-Present Professor and Chair, Department of Atmospheric Sciences

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

American Meteorology Society

American Meteorological Society, Omaha-Offutt Chapter

Sigma Xi

Nebraska Ornithological Society

RECENT TECHNICAL REPORTS AND PUBLICATIONS:

Douglas, A.V., and P.J. Englehart, 1995: Diagnostic Studies of the Mexican Monsoon. Proc. Nineteenth Ann. Climate Diagnostics Workshop, U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA, 202-206.

Douglas, A.V., and P.J. Englehart, 1996: An analysis of the starting date for the summer monsoon in Western Mexico and Southeast Arizona. Proc. Twentieth Ann. Climate Diagnostics Workshop, U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA 207-211.

Douglas, A.V. and P.J. Englehart, 1997: Diagnostic Studies of Factors Influencing Variablity in the Mexican Monsoon. Proc. Twenty-first Ann. Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop, U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA, 296-299.

Douglas, A.V. and P.J. Englehart, 1998: Inter-Monthly Variability of the Mexican Summer Monsoon. Proc. Twenty-second Ann. Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop, U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA, 246-249.

Douglas, A..V. and P.J. Englehart, 1998: Diagnostic Study of the Mexican Drought of 1997-98. Proc. Twenty-third Ann. Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop, U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA, 26-29.

Higgins, R.W., Y. Chen and A.V. Douglas, 1999: Interannual Variability of the North American Warm Season Precipitation Regime. J. Climate, Vol 12, 653-680.

Groisman, P.Y., T.R. Karl, D.R. Easterling, R.W. Knight, P.F. Jamason, K.J. Hennessy, R. Suppiah, C.M. Page, J. Wibig, K. Fortuniak, V.N. Razuvaev, A.V. Douglas, E. Forland and P. Zhai, 1999: Changes in the Probability of Extreme Precipitation: Important Indicators of Climate Change. Climatic Change 42(1): 285-308.

Douglas, A. V. and P.J. Englehart, 1999: Modulation of Summer Precipitation by Eastern North Pacific Tropical Storms. Proc. Twenty-fourth Ann. Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop, U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA, 45-48.

Easterling, D. R., H. F. Diaz, A. V. Douglas, W.D. Hogg, K. E. Kunkel, J. C. Rogers, and J. F. Wilkinson, 1999: Long-Term Observations for Monitoring Extremes in the Americas. Climatic Change 42(1): 285-308.

Englehart, P.J. and A..V. Douglas, 2000: Dissecting the Macro-scale Variations in Mexican Maize Yields (1961-97). Geographical and Environmental Modeling, Vol 4, No. 1, 65-81.

Englehart, P.J. and A.V. Douglas, 2001a: The Role of Eastern North Pacific Tropical Storms in the Rainfall Climatology of Western Mexico. International Journal of Climatology, Vol. 21: 1357-1370.

Englehart PJ, Douglas AV. 2001b. Mexico’s summer rainfall patterns: an analysis of regional modes and changes in their teleconnectivity. Manuscript accepted for publication in Atmósfera 20 pp., 12 figures.

Douglas, A.V. and P.J. Englehart, 2001c: Teleconnectivity of Monsoon Rainfall in Mexico: Variabilitly during Positive and Negative Phases of the PDO. Proc. Twenty-fifth Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop, U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA: 343-346.

Douglas, A. V. and P. J. Englehart, 2002a: Warm season rainfall in eastern Mexico: Interannual variability of tropical cyclone and non-tropical cyclone rainfall as modulated by ENSO and the AMO. Proc.of 26th Ann.  Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop,  La Jolla, CA .  U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA: Washington, DC.

 

Brito-Castillo, L., A Leyva-Contreras, A.V. Douglas, and D. Lluch-Belda, 2002b:  Pacific Decadal Oscillation and the filled capacity of dams on the rivers of the Gulf of California continental watershed.  Atmosfera Vol. 15, No. 2: 121-137.

 

Salinas-Zavala, C. A., A. V. Douglas, and H. F. Diaz, 2002c:  Interannual variability of NDVI in northwest Mexcio: Associated climatic mechanisms and ecological implications. Remote Sensing Environment, Vol. 82: 417-430.

 

Englehart, P.J. and A.V. Douglas, 2002d: On some characteristic variations in warm season precipitation over the central United States. Journal of Geophysical Research Vol.  107, No. 16: 11-21.   

 

Englehart, P.J. and A.V. Douglas, 2002e: Mexico’s summer rainfall patterns: an analysis of regional modes and changes in their teleconnectivity.  Atmósfera  Vol. 15, No.2: 147-164.

 

Englehart, P.J. and A.V. Douglas, 2003a: Assessing warm season drought episodes in the central United States. Journal of Climate Vol. 16, No. 11: 1831-1842.

 

Englehart, P.J. and A.V. Douglas, 2003b: Urbanization and seasonal temperature trends:    observational evidence from a data sparse part of North America.   International Journal of Climatology. Vol. 23:  1253-1263.

 

Englehart P.J. and A.V. Douglas, 2004: Characterizing regional-scale variations in monthly and seasonal surface air temperature over Mexico.  International Journal of  Climatology.  Vol 24: 1897-1909. 

 

Douglas, A.V., et al. 2004,  State of the Climate in 2003: iii) Mexico.  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Vol. 85 No. 6:  541-542.

 

Englehart P.J. and A.V. Douglas, 2005: Changing behavior in the diurnal range of surface air temperatures over Mexico. Geophysical Research Letters., Vol. 32 No. 1:  L01701 10.1029/2004GL021139.

 

Englehart,  P.J.  and A.V. Douglas, 2005: Defining intraseasonal variability within the North American monsoon. Paper accepted for publication Journal of Climate (November 2005), 17 pp, 6 figures.

Douglas, A.V. and P. J. Englehart, 2006:  A climatological perspective of transient synoptic features in the NAME domain.  Paper submitted to the Journal of Climate, 15pp, 12 figures, 1 table.

 

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