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Journal of Climate

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Volume 36 (2023): Issue 15 (Aug 2023)

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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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Mechanisms for abrupt summertime circumpolar surface warming in the Southern Ocean

Earle A. Wilson
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David B. Bonan
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Andrew F. Thompson
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Natalie Armstrong
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Stephen C. Riser
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Atmospheric response to Antarctic sea-ice reductions drives ice sheet surface mass balance increases

Luke D. Trusel
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Jessica D. Kromer
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Rajashree Tri Datta
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Multiweek prediction and attribution of the Black Saturday heatwave event over southeast Australia

S. Abhik
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Eun-Pa Lim
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Pandora Hope
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David A. Jones
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Rainy Days in the Arctic

Linette N. Boisvert
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Melinda A. Webster
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Chelsea L. Parker
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Richard M. Forbes
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A Surface Radiation Balance Data Set from Siple Dome in West Antarctica for Atmospheric and Climate Model Evaluation

Dan Lubin
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Madison L. Ghiz
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Sergio Castillo
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Ryan C. Scott
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Samuel E. LeBlanc
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Israel Silber
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Distinct orographic controls on the asymmetrical onset of the South Asian summer monsoon: Hindu Kush versus Himalaya–Tibet

Yingying Sha
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Zhengguo Shi
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Xinzhou Li
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Hai Cheng
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Xiaodong Liu
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Zhisheng An
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Understanding the forcing mechanisms of the 1931 summer flood along the Yangtze River, the world’s deadliest flood on record

Yueqi Zhou
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Tianjun Zhou
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Jie Jiang
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Xiaolong Chen
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Bo Wu
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Shuai Hu
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Mingna Wu
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The CESM2 Single Forcing Large Ensemble and Comparison to CESM1: Implications for Experimental Design

Isla R. Simpson
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Nan Rosenbloom
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Gokhan Danabasoglu
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Clara Deser
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Stephen G. Yeager
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Christina S. McCluskey
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Ryohei Yamaguchi
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Jean-Francois Lamarque
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Simone Tilmes
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Michael J. Mills
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Keith B. Rodgers
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On the influence of the Bay of Bengal’s sea surface temperature gradients on rainfall of the South Asian monsoon

Peter MF Sheehan
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Adrian J Matthews
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Benjamin GM Webber
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Alejandra Sanchez-Franks
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Nicholas P Klingaman
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PN Vinayachandran
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Seasonal Effects of the Tibetan Plateau on Cyclonic Transient Eddies: A System- centered View

Qiaoling Ren
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Kevin I. Hodges
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Reinhard Schiemann
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Yongjiu Dai
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Xingwen Jiang
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Song Yang
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ENSO modulation of global MJO and its impacts on South America

Laís G. Fernandes
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Alice M. Grimm
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The QBO-MJO connection: A possible role for the SST and ENSO

David A. Randall
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Eli Tziperman
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Mark D. Branson
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Jadwiga H. Richter
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Wanying Kang
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Changing storm temporal patterns with increasing temperatures across Australia

Johan B. Visser
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Conrad Wasko
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Ashish Sharma
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Rory Nathan
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Sensitivity of Antarctic shelf waters and abyssal overturning to local winds

Adele K. Morrison
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Wilma G. C. Huneke
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Julia Neme
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Paul Spence
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Andrew McC. Hogg
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Matthew H. England
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Stephen M. Griffies
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Volcanic imprints in last-millennium land summer temperatures in the circum-North Atlantic area

Feng Wang
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Dominique Arseneault
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Étienne Boucher
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Fabio Gennaretti
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Francois Lapointe
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Shulong Yu
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Pierre Francus
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Outer size distribution of landfalling tropical cyclones over China changes in the recent decades

Zheng-Qin Shen
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Gao-Zhen Nie
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Xin Qiu
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Jian-Feng Gu
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Yi Zhang
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The global patterns of instantaneous CO2 forcing at the top-of-atmosphere and surface

Yan-Ting Chen
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Yi Huang
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Timothy M. Merlis
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The long-term trends of global land precipitation in GFDL's CM4 and ESM4 climate models

Yanda Zhang
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Thomas R. Knutson
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Elena Shevliakova
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David Paynter
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Observational Constraints on the Cloud Feedback Pattern Effect

Timothy A. Myers
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Mark D. Zelinka
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Stephen A. Klein
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Opposite changes in monsoon precipitation and low pressure system frequency in response to orographic forcing

Tresa Mary Thomas
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Govindasamy Bala
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Srinivas Venkata Vemavarapu
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William R Boos
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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
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Mingkui Li
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Yuhu Chen
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Ping Chang
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Gokhan Danabasoglu
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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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Volume 36 (2023): Issue 15 (Aug 2023)

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

Michele M. Rienecker
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Julio Bacmeister
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Emily Liu
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Siegfried D. Schubert
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Lawrence Takacs
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Gi-Kong Kim
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Stephen Bloom
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Junye Chen
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Douglas Collins
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Austin Conaty
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Arlindo da Silva
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Wei Gu
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Joanna Joiner
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Randal D. Koster
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Robert Lucchesi
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Tommy Owens
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Steven Pawson
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Philip Pegion
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Christopher R. Redder
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Rolf Reichle
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Meta Sienkiewicz
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The Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 (MERRA-2)

Ronald Gelaro
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The NCEP Climate Forecast System Version 2

Suranjana Saha
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The Community Climate System Model Version 4

Peter R. Gent
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Gokhan Danabasoglu
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Leo J. Donner
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Marika M. Holland
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Elizabeth C. Hunke
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Steve R. Jayne
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David M. Lawrence
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Richard B. Neale
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Mariana Vertenstein
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Patrick H. Worley
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Zong-Liang Yang
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Minghua Zhang
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Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature, Version 5 (ERSSTv5): Upgrades, Validations, and Intercomparisons

Boyin Huang
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Peter W. Thorne
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Viva F. Banzon
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Tim Boyer
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Gennady Chepurin
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Jay H. Lawrimore
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Matthew J. Menne
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Thomas M. Smith
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Russell S. Vose
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Huai-Min Zhang
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GFDL’s ESM2 Global Coupled Climate–Carbon Earth System Models. Part I: Physical Formulation and Baseline Simulation Characteristics

John P. Dunne
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Jasmin G. John
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Alistair J. Adcroft
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Stephen M. Griffies
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Robert W. Hallberg
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Elena Shevliakova
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Ronald J. Stouffer
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William Cooke
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Krista A. Dunne
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Matthew J. Harrison
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John P. Krasting
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Sergey L. Malyshev
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P. C. D. Milly
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Peter J. Phillipps
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Lori T. Sentman
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Bonita L. Samuels
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Michael J. Spelman
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Michael Winton
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Andrew T. Wittenberg
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Niki Zadeh
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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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Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature Version 4 (ERSST.v4). Part I: Upgrades and Intercomparisons

Boyin Huang
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Viva F. Banzon
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Eric Freeman
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Jay Lawrimore
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Wei Liu
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Thomas C. Peterson
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Thomas M. Smith
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Peter W. Thorne
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Scott D. Woodruff
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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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Bruce L. Wyman
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Richard S. Hemler
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Larry W. Horowitz
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Yi Ming
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Ming Zhao
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Jean-Christophe Golaz
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Paul Ginoux
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S.-J. Lin
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M. Daniel Schwarzkopf
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John Austin
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Ghassan Alaka
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William F. Cooke
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Thomas L. Delworth
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Stuart M. Freidenreich
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C. T. Gordon
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Stephen M. Griffies
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Isaac M. Held
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William J. Hurlin
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Stephen A. Klein
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Thomas R. Knutson
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Amy R. Langenhorst
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Hyun-Chul Lee
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Brian I. Magi
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Sergey L. Malyshev
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Vaishali Naik
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Charles J. Seman
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Elena Shevliakova
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Joseph J. Sirutis
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William F. Stern
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R. John Wilson
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Michael Winton
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Andrew T. Wittenberg
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The Pacific Decadal Oscillation, Revisited

Matthew Newman
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Michael A. Alexander
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Toby R. Ault
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Kim M. Cobb
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Arthur J. Miller
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Shoshiro Minobe
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Hisashi Nakamura
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Niklas Schneider
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Daniel J. Vimont
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Adam S. Phillips
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James D. Scott
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A Multiscalar Drought Index Sensitive to Global Warming: The Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index

Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano
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The Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 (MERRA-2)

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The NCEP Climate Forecast System Version 2

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

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Max J. Suarez
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