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Bette L. Otto-Bliesner
Senior Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Professional Experience
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Senior Scientist
1995 - Present
Education
University of Wisconsin Madison
Doctorate
1980
Honors & Awards
Cesare Emiliani Lecture
Received December 2016
Union Fellow
Received December 2015
Citation
For fundamental contributions and expertise in using computer-based models of Earth’s climate system to investigate past climate change and climate variability across a wide range of time scales.
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Publications
Uncertain Pathways to a Future Safe Climate

Global climate change is often thought of as a steady and approximately predictable physical response to increasing forcings, which then requires c...

June 06, 2024
AGU Abstracts
Underestimated impact of North Pacific meltwater events on last deglacial climate
RECONSTRUCTING REGIONAL HYDROLOGIC CHANGES ACROSS CLIMATIC BOUNDARIES IN THE RECENT PAST POSTER
paleoceanography and paleoclimatology | 14 december 2023
Chijun Sun, Bette L. Otto-Bliesner, Jiang Zhu, Est...
Episodic ice sheet meltwater events caused abrupt climate shifts during the late Quaternary. The North Atlantic meltwater events (i.e., Heinrich event...
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The evolution of Greenland atmospheric river climatology during the Last Interglacial
AMPLIFICATION OF CLIMATE WARMING IN THE POLAR REGIONS: OBSERVATIONS AND MODELING FROM PROCESS-LEVEL TO MULTICOMPONENT INTERACTIONS/FEEDBACKS, INCLUDING HEAT AND MOISTURE TRANSPORT II POSTER
global environmental change | 14 december 2023
Joseph Schnaubelt, Clay R. Tabor, Bette L. Otto-Bl...
Records of past Quaternary climate suggest that the Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) is vulnerable to significant retreat with the potential to contribute u...
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The Unified Temporal-Spatial Slope Equation: An Application to Reconstruct Past Antarctic Temperature using Present Seasonal d18O-Inversion Layer Temperature
WATER ISOTOPE SYSTEMATICS: IMPROVING MODERN AND PALEOCLIMATE INTERPRETATIONS II ORAL
paleoceanography and paleoclimatology | 14 december 2023
Zhengyu Liu, Chengfei He, Mi Yan, Christo Buizert,...
The Unified Temporal-Spatial Slope Equation: An Application to Reconstruct Past Antarctic Temperature using Present Seasonal d18O-Inversion Layer Temp...
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Volunteer Experience
2019 - 2019
Chair
Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Fellows Committee
2017 - 2018
Member
Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Fellows Committee
2017 - 2018
Member
Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Emiliani Lecture Committee
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