Staff information

Biography

Dr. James H. Mather is the Technical Director for the DOE Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility. Dr. Mather has a PhD in meteorology from the Pennsylvania State University (1994) and began his affiliation with the ARM Program in 1994 as a post-doctoral research associate at Penn State where he was responsible for the scientific management of ARM cloud and radiation measurement stations in the tropical Pacific as a member of the tropical western Pacific site science team. Dr. Mather continued in that role at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in 2001 after a two year hiatus teaching physics and meteorology at Northland College in Ashland, Wisconsin. As part of his responsibilities on the Tropical Western Pacific site science team, Dr. Mather conducted research with ARM data with an emphasis on the analysis of cloud remote sensing and atmospheric radiation measurements. He also participated in several field campaigns including CRYSTAL-FACE (2002), M-PACE (2004), and TWP-ICE (2006). Dr. Mather was a co-investigator for TWP-ICE (the Tropical Warm Pool – International Cloud Experiment), a major field campaign including five aircraft, a ship, and multiple ground stations in the vicinity of Darwin, Australia. In 2007, Dr. Mather took on the role of interim director of the newly formed ARM Aerial Vehicles Program, serving in that position for six months before taking on the position of ARM Technical Director. As Technical Director for ARM, Dr. Mather is responsible for the ARM integrated budget, engineering processes and program communications and chairs the Infrastructure Management Board, the primary management structure for the ARM Facility.

PNNL Publications

2020

• Kollias P., N. Bharadwaj, E.E. Clothiaux, K. Lamer, M. Oue, J.C. Hardin, and B.M. Isom, et al. 2020. "The ARM Radar Network: At the Leading-edge of Cloud and Precipitation Observations." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 101, no. 5:E588-E607. PNNL-SA-150306. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-18-0288.1
• Mather J.H., S.M. Burrows, D. Chand, N.J. Hess, A. Laskin, A.C. Mccomiskey, and N. Sharma, et al. 2020. "An Atmospheric Aerosol Short Course for Early Career Scientists." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 101, no. 9:E1562-E1567. PNNL-SA-149235. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0326.1

2018

• de Boer G., M.D. Ivey, B. Schmid, D.A. Lawrence, D. Dexheimer, F. Mei, and J.M. Hubbe, et al. 2018. "A Bird’s Eye View: Development of an Operational ARM Unmanned Aerial Capability for Atmospheric Research in Arctic Alaska." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 99, no. 6:1197-1212. PNNL-SA-131162. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0156.1

2013

• Long C.N., S.A. McFarlane, A.D. Del Genio, P. Minnis, T.P. Ackerman, J.H. Mather, and J.M. Comstock, et al. 2013. "ARM Research in the Equatorial Western Pacific: A Decade and Counting." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 94, no. 5:695-708. PNNL-SA-86010. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00137.1
• Mather J.H., and J.W. Voyles. 2013. "The ARM Climate Research Facility: A Review of Structure and Capabilities." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 94, no. 3:377-392. PNNL-SA-85978. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00218.1

2011

• Wang Y., C.N. Long, J.H. Mather, and X. Liu. 2011. "Convective Signals from Surface Measurements at ARM Tropical Western Pacific Site: Manus." Climate Dynamics 36, no. 3-4:431-449. PNNL-SA-58996. doi:10.1007/s00382-009-0736-z
• Wang Y., C.N. Long, J.H. Mather, and X. Liu. 2011. "Convective signals from surface measurements at ARM Tropical Western Pacific site: Manus." Climate Dynamics 36, no. 3-4:431-449. PNNL-SA-70955. doi:10.1007/s00382-009-0736-z

2010

• Xie S., R. McCoy, S.A. Klein, R.T. Cederwall, W.J. Wiscombe, E.E. Clothiaux, and K.L. Gaustad, et al. 2010. "ARM Climate Modeling Best Estimate Data - A new data product for climate modelers." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 91, no. 1:13-20. PNNL-SA-66188. doi:10.1175/2009BAMS2891.1

2009

• Mather J.H., and S.A. McFarlane. 2009. "Cloud Classes and Radiative Heating profiles at the Manus and Nauru Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Sites." Journal of Geophysical Research. D. (Atmospheres) 114. PNNL-SA-63440. doi:10.1029/2009JD011703

2008

• May P.T., J.H. Mather, G. Vaughan, C. Jakob, G. McFarquhar, K. Bower, and G.G. Mace. 2008. "The Tropical Warm Pool International Cloud Experiment (TWPICE)." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 89, no. 5:629-645. PNNL-SA-53205.
• May P.T., J.H. Mather, G. Vaughan, C. Jakob, G. McFarquhar, K. Bower, and G.G. Mace. 2008. "The Tropical Warm Pool International Cloud Experiment." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 89, no. 5:629-645. PNNL-SA-46188.
• McFarlane S.A., J.H. Mather, T.P. Ackerman, and Z. Liu. 2008. "Effect of Clouds on the Calculated Vertical Distribution of Shortwave Absorption in the Tropics." Journal of Geophysical Research. D. (Atmospheres) 113. PNNL-SA-58628. doi:10.1029/2008JD009791

2007

• Mather J.H., S.A. McFarlane, M.A. Miller, and K.L. Johnson. 2007. "Cloud properties and associated radiative heating rates in the tropical western Pacific." Journal of Geophysical Research. D. (Atmospheres) 112, no. Article number: D05201. PNNL-SA-43260.
• McFarlane S.A., J.H. Mather, and T.P. Ackerman. 2007. "Analysis of tropical radiative heating profiles: A comparison of models and observations." Journal of Geophysical Research. D. (Atmospheres) 112. PNNL-SA-52946.
• Verlinde J., J.Y. Harrington, G. McFarquhar, V.T. Yannuzzi, A. Avramov, S. Greenburg, and N. Johnson, et al. 2007. "The Mixed-Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 88, no. 2:205-221. PNNL-SA-48176.

2006

• McFarlane S.A., J.H. Mather, and T.P. Ackerman. 2006. "Analysis of Tropical Radiative Heating Profiles in the Multi-Scale Modeling Framework: A Comparison to Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program Observations." In Sixteenth ARM Science Team Meeting Proceedings, March 27-31, 2006 Albuquerque, New Mexico.. Washington, District Of Columbia:US Department of Energy. PNNL-SA-50520.

2005

• Halthore R.N., D. Crisp, S.E. Schwartz, G. Anderson, A. Berk, B. Bonnel, and O. Boucher, et al. 2005. "Intercomparison of Shortwave Radiative Transfer Codes and Measurements." Journal of Geophysical Research. D. (Atmospheres) 110, no. D11:D11206, doi: 10.1029/2004JD00593. PNNL-SA-45927.
• Mather J.H. 2005. "Seasonal Variability in Clouds and Radiation at the Manus ARM Site." Journal of Climate 18, no. 13:2417-2428. PNNL-SA-40456.
• May P.T., J.H. Mather, and C. Jakob. 2005. "Experiment to Characterize Tropical Cloud Systems." Eos 86, no. 31:285. PNNL-SA-46045. doi:10.1029/2005EO310002
• McFarlane S.A., J.H. Mather, and T.P. Ackerman. 2005. "Radiative Heating Profiles in the Convective Tropics: A Comparison of Observations and Models." In 85th AMS Annual Meeting, January 9-13, 2005, San Diego, California. Boston, Massachusetts:American Meteorological Society. PNNL-SA-43335.

2004

• Mather J.H. 2004. "Influences of Dynamics on Convection at the Tropical Pacific ARM Sites." In Proceedings of the 26th American Meteorological Society Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Paper No. 5B.5. Boston, Massachusetts:American Meteorological Society. PNNL-SA-40648.