Marilyn Raphael

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Marilyn Raphael

Professor
Ladder Faculty

Office: 1255 BUNCHE

Email: RAPHAEL@GEOG.UCLA.EDU

Phone: 3102064590

Biography

Marilyn N. Raphael is a Professor of Geography at UCLA.  She holds an BA (Hons) in Geography from MacMaster University and both a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Geography from the Ohio State University.  Dr Raphael is a Physical Geographer with research interests in Southern Hemisphere large scale atmospheric circulation dynamics and their influence on Antarctic sea ice variability, global climate change and the Santa Ana winds. Dr. Raphael teaches classes in Tropical climatology and Boundary Layer Climates.

 

Dr Raphael is an Affiliate Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and an Affiliate Faculty member of the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. She is a former president of the American Association of Geographers, a former Chair of the UCLA Department of Geography, and a former director of the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the American Philosophical Society.

 

Personal Website:      https://mnraphael.github.io/

Research

The Santa Ana Winds of California, Global Climate Change and Variability, Climate Modelling, Atmospheric Circulation Dynamics, Southern Hemisphere Atmospheric Circulation and Climate, Antarctic Sea Ice Variability.

Selected Publications

  • M. N. Raphael, Maierhofer, T.J., Fogt, R.L., Hobbs, W. R., Handcock M.S. A twenty-first century structural change in Antarctica’s sea ice system. Commun Earth Environ 6, 131 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02107-5
  • Clem, K. R. and M. N. Raphael, Eds., 2024: Antarctica and the Southern Ocean [in “State of the Climate in 2023“]. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 105 (8), S331–S370, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-24-0099.1.
  • M. N. Raphael and Handcock, M.S, A new record sea ice minimum.  Comment, Nature Reviews Earth and Environment, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-022-00281-0
  • Clare Eayrs, Xichen Li, Marilyn N. Raphael, and David M. Holland (2021). Recent, rapid Antarctic sea-ice decline points to further change. Nature-Geoscience. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-021-00768-3
  • Schlosser, E., Haumann, F. A., and Raphael, M. N.: Atmospheric influences on the anomalous 2016 Antarctic sea ice decay, The Cryosphere, 12, 1103-1119, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-1103-2018, 2018.
  • Raphael, M.N., Holland, M.M., Landrum, L., Hobbs, W.H. (2018) Links Between the Amundsen Sea Low and sea ice in the Ross Sea: seasonal and interannual relationships. Clim Dyn (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-018-4258-4
  • Raphael, M.N., Marshall, G.J., Turner, J., Fogt, R.L., Schneider, D., Dixon, D.A., Hosking, J.S., Jones, J.M. and Hobbs, W.R. (2016). The Amundsen Sea Low: Variability, Change and Impact on Antarctic Climate. B.A.M.S, 97 (1). pp. 111-121. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-14-00018.1
  • Raphael, M.N. and W. Hobbs (2014) The influence of the large-scale atmospheric circulation on Antarctic sea ice during ice advance and retreat seasons, Geophysical Research Letters, 41, https://doi.org/10.1002/2014GL060365
  • Raphael, M.N. 2003: The Santa Ana Winds of California. Earth Interactions. 7, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014GL060365