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Journal of Climate

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Volume 36 (2023): Issue 17 (Sep 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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The Response of Extratropical Cyclone Propagation in the Northern Hemisphere to Global Warming

Alex D. Crawford
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Michelle R. McCrystall
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Jennifer V. Lukovich
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Julienne C. Stroeve
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Seasonal dependence of Pacific-North American teleconnection associated with ENSO and its interaction with the annual cycle

Suqiong Hu
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Wenjun Zhang
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Fei-Fei Jin
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Li-Ciao Hong
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Feng Jiang
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Malte F. Stuecker
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The coupled ice sheet-Earth system model Bern3D v3.0

Frerk Pöppelmeier
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Fortunat Joos
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Thomas F. Stocker
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Multi-scale influences on rainfall in Northeast Australia

Thi Lan Dao
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Claire L. Vincent
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Todd. P. Lane
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Why has the Summertime Central U.S. Warming Hole Not Disappeared?

J. K. Eischeid
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M. P. Hoerling
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X.-W. Quan
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A. Kumar
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J. Barsugli
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Z.M. Labe
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K.E. Kunkel
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C. J. Schreck III
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D.R. Easterling
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T. Zhang
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J. Uehling
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X. Zhang
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Growing Pacific Linkage with Western North Atlantic Explosive Cyclogenesis

Jacob Stuivenvolt-Allen
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Simon S.-Y. Wang
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Yoshimitsu Chikamoto
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Jonathan D.D. Meyer
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Zachary F. Johnson
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Liping Deng
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A New Year-Round Weather Regime Classification for North America

Simon H. Lee
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Michael K. Tippett
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Lorenzo M. Polvani
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New insights into multi-year La Niña dynamics from the perspective of a near-annual ocean process

Fangyu Liu
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Wenjun Zhang
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Fei-Fei Jin
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Feng Jiang
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Julien Boucharel
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Suqiong Hu
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Projections of Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulation Patterns and Associated Temperature and Precipitation Over the Pacific Northwest Using CMIP6 Models

Graham P. Taylor
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Paul C. Loikith
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Hugo Kyo Lee
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Benjamin Lintner
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Christina M. Aragon
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Impacts of April Stratosphere-Troposphere Coupling on South Asian Pre-Monsoon Circulation

Chengyang Zhang
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Wenshou Tian
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Jiankai Zhang
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Tuantuan Zhang
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Wei Yu
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Song Yang
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Tao Wang
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Optimal Fingerprinting with Estimating Equations

Sai Ma
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Tianying Wang
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Jun Yan
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Xuebin Zhang
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Seasonal modulation of the Madden–Julian Oscillation’s impact on rainfall in Sri Lanka

Chanud N. Yasanayake
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Benjamin F. Zaitchik
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Anand Gnanadesikan
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Understanding the driving forces of the North Pacific Victoria Mode

Zongrong Li
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Ruiqiang Ding
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Jiangyu Mao
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Zhengyi Ren
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Comprehensive representation of tropical-extratropical teleconnections obstructed by tropical Pacific convection biases in CMIP6

Xiaofang Feng
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Qinghua Ding
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Liguang Wu
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Charles Jones
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Huijun Wang
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Mitchell Bushuk
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Dániel Topál
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The Poleward Migration of Tropical Cyclolysis in the Western North Pacific

Wenjian Meng
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Kewei Zhang
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Haijiang Liu
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Large-scale stability and the Greater Horn of Africa long and short rains

Kevin Schwarzwald
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Richard Seager
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Mingfang Ting
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Alessandra Giannini
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Simulation of United States Mesoscale Convective Systems Using GFDL’s New High-Resolution General Circulation Model

Wenhao Dong
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Ming Zhao
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Yi Ming
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John P. Krasting
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V. Ramaswamy
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Fingerprinting low-frequency Last Millennium temperature variability in forced and unforced climate models

Rebecca Cleveland Stout
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Cristian Proistosescu
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Gerard Roe
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Atmospheric Response to a Collapse of the North Atlantic Circulation Under A Mid-Range Future Climate Scenario: A Regime Shift in Northern Hemisphere Dynamics

Clara Orbe
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David Rind
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Ron L. Miller
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Larissa S. Nazarenko
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Anastasia Romanou
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Jeffrey Jonas
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Gary L. Russell
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Maxwell Kelley
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Gavin A. Schmidt
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Dependence of fast changes in global and local precipitation on the geographical location of absorbing aerosol

Andrew I.L. Williams
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Duncan Watson-Parris
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Guy Dagan
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Philip Stier
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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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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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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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Global Increasing Trends in Annual Maximum Daily Precipitation

Seth Westra
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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

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

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The Pacific Decadal Oscillation, Revisited

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