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Journal of Climate

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Volume 36 (2023): Issue 12 (Jun 2023)

About the Journal

The Journal of Climate (JCLI) publishes research that advances basic understanding of the dynamics and physics of the climate system on large spatial scales, including variability of the atmosphere, oceans, land surface, and cryosphere; past, present, and projected future changes in the climate system; and climate simulation and prediction.

ISSN: 0894-8755; eISSN: 1520-0442

Editors in Chief

Mingfang Ting, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Darryn Waugh, The Johns Hopkins University

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An Improved Coupled Data Assimilation System with a CGCM Using Multi-Timescale High-Efficiency EnOI-Like Filtering

Lv Lu
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Shaoqing Zhang
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Yingjing Jiang
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Xiaolin Yu
,
Mingkui Li
,
Yuhu Chen
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Ping Chang
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Gokhan Danabasoglu
,
Zhengyu Liu
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Chenyu Zhu
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Xiaopei Lin
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Lixin Wu
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Constraining the 19th century temperature baseline for global warming

L. Schneider
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O. Konter
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J. Esper
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K.J. Anchukaitis
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The Role of Tropical Easterly Jet on the Bay of Bengal’s Tropical Cyclones: Observed Climatology and Future Projection

Abdullah A. Fahad
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Oreste Reale
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Andrea Molod
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Tahmidul Azom Sany
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Md Tashin Ahammad
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Dimitris Menemenlis
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Constraint of air-sea interaction significant to skillful predictions of North Pacific climate variations

Yujun He
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Bin Wang
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Jiabei Fang
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Yongqiang Yu
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Lijuan Li
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Juanjuan Liu
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Li Dong
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Ye Pu
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Yiyuan Li
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Shiming Xu
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Li Liu
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Yanluan Lin
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Wenyu Huang
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Xiaomeng Huang
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Yong Wang
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Hongbo Liu
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Kun Xia
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Assessment of the pan-Arctic accelerated rate of sea ice decline in CMIP6 historical simulations

Younjoo J. Lee
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Matthew Watts
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Wieslaw Maslowski
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Jaclyn Clement Kinney
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Robert Osinski
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Atmospheric-oceanic processes over the Pacific involved in the effect of Indian summer monsoon on ENSO

Shuheng Lin
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Song Yang
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Shan He
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Hanjie Fan
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Jiaxin Chen
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Wenjie Dong
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Jiaxue Wu
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Yuping Guan
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Mechanisms of Tibetan Plateau warming amplification in recent decades and future projections

Shuzhen Hu
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Pang-Chi Hsu
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Wenkai Li
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Lu Wang
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Haishan Chen
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Botao Zhou
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Spatio-temporal variation of temperature extremes over the Arctic lands based on in situ and reanalysis data

Shoudong Zhao
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Minghu Ding
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Wenqian Zhang
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Ting Wei
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Wei Cheng
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Junming Chen
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Cunde Xiao
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Atmospheric water vapor transport between ocean and land under climate warming

Jialin Wang
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Feifei Pan
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Pingli An
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Guolin Han
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Kang Jiang
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Yu Song
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Na Huang
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Ziyuan Zhang
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Shangqian Ma
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Xiao Chen
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Zhihua Pan
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Impact of north Indian atmospheric diabatic heating on summer precipitation in Central Asia

Yun Wei
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Haipeng Yu
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Shuanglin Li
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Zhiwei Zhu
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Yaoxian Yang
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Yu Ren
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Chenxi Liu
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Jie Zhou
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Predictability of Marine Heatwaves off Western Australia using a Linear Inverse Model

Yuxin Wang
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Neil J. Holbrook
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Jules B. Kajtar
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Improving Atmospheric Models by Accounting for Chaotic Physics

Prashant D. Sardeshmukh
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Jih-Wang Aaron Wang
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Gilbert P. Compo
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Cécile Penland
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The Influence of Large-Scale Radiation Anomalies on Tropical Cyclone Frequency

Tsung-Lin Hsieh
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Bosong Zhang
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Wenchang Yang
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Gabriel A. Vecchi
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Ming Zhao
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Brian J. Soden
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Chenggong Wang
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Stratosphere-troposphere coupling during sudden stratospheric warmings with different North Atlantic jet response

Verónica Martínez-Andradas
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Alvaro de la Cámara
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Pablo Zurita-Gotor
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Wind-turning in the planetary boundary layer in CMIP6 models

Joakim Pyykkö
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Gunilla Svensson
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Stochastic Bifurcation of the North Atlantic Circulation Under A Mid-Range Future Climate Scenario With The NASA-GISS ModelE

Anastasia Romanou
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David Rind
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Jeff Jonas
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Ron Miller
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Maxwell Kelley
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Gary Russell
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Clara Orbe
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Larissa Nazarenko
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Rebecca Latto
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Gavin A. Schmidt
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Interannual Variability in the Boreal Summer intra-seasonal Oscillation Modulates the Meridional Migration of Western North Pacific Tropical Cyclone Genesis

Shufen Zhang
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Haikun Zhao
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Philip J. Klotzbach
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Xianan Jiang
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Guosen Chen
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Shaohua Chen
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Observed interannual relationship between ITCZ position and tropical cyclone frequency

Xiaoqing Liao
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Christopher E. Holloway
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Xiangbo Feng
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Chunlei Liu
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Xinyu Lyu
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Yufeng Xue
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Ruijuan Bao
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Jiandong Li
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Fangli Qiao
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Fast and Slow Responses of the Tropical Pacific to Radiative Forcing in Northern High Latitudes

Hung-Yi Tseng
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Yen-Ting Hwang
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Shang-Ping Xie
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Yu-Heng Tseng
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Sarah M. Kang
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Matthew T. Luongo
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Ian Eisenman
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Projected Strengthening Impact of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation on the Southern Hemisphere by CMIP5/6 Models

Jian Rao
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Chaim I. Garfinkel
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Rongcai Ren
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Tongwen Wu
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Yixiong Lu
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Min Chu
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Effects of ITCZ poleward location bias on ENSO seasonal phase-locking simulation in climate models

Huaxia Liao
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Zhichao Cai
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Jingsong Guo
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Zhenya Song
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Climate response to Atlantic meridional energy transport variations

Weimin Jiang
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Guillaume Gastineau
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Francis Codron
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Volume 36 (2023): Issue 12 (Jun 2023)

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MERRA: NASA’s Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications

Michele M. Rienecker
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The Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 (MERRA-2)

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The Community Climate System Model Version 4

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The NCEP Climate Forecast System Version 2

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Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature, Version 5 (ERSSTv5): Upgrades, Validations, and Intercomparisons

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GFDL’s ESM2 Global Coupled Climate–Carbon Earth System Models. Part I: Physical Formulation and Baseline Simulation Characteristics

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Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature Version 4 (ERSST.v4). Part I: Upgrades and Intercomparisons

Boyin Huang
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Global Increasing Trends in Annual Maximum Daily Precipitation

Seth Westra
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Lisa V. Alexander
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Francis W. Zwiers
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The Dynamical Core, Physical Parameterizations, and Basic Simulation Characteristics of the Atmospheric Component AM3 of the GFDL Global Coupled Model CM3

Leo J. Donner
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The Pacific Decadal Oscillation, Revisited

Matthew Newman
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A Multiscalar Drought Index Sensitive to Global Warming: The Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index

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The Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 (MERRA-2)

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MERRA: NASA’s Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications

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