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AMMA-CATCH studies in the Sahelian region of West-Africa: an overview. Lebel, T., B. Cappelaere, S. Galle, N. Hanan, L. Kergoat, S. Levis, B. Vieux, L. Descroix, M. Gosset, E. Mougin, C. Peugeot, L. Seguis. 2009: J. Hydrol., 375, 3-13, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.03.020. [S. Levis profile]

Amplifying the Pacific Climate System Response to a Small 11-Year Solar Cycle Forcing. Meehl, G.A., J.M. Arblaster, K. Matthes, F. Sassi and H. Van Loon. 2009: Science, 325, 1114-1118, doi:10.1126/science.1172872. [J. Arblaster profile] [G. Meehl profile]

Analysis of Convective Transport and Parameter Sensitivity in a Single Column Version of the Goddard Earth Observation System, Version 5, General Circulation Model. Ott, L.E. S. Pawson, M. Suarez, J.T. Bacmeister, K. Pickering, G. Stenchikov, H. Huntrieser, M. Loewenstein, J. Lopez and I. Xueref-Remy. 2009: Journal of Atmospheric Research, 66, p. 627-646, doi:10.1175/2008JAS2694.1. [J. Bacmeister profile]

Assessing trends in observed and modelled climate extremes over Australia in relation to future projections. Alexander, L.V. and J.M. Arblaster. 2009: International Journal of Climatology, 29, 417-435, doi:10.1002/joc.1730. [J. Arblaster profile]

Atmospheric Circulation Trends, 1950-2000: The Relative Roles of Sea Surface Temperature Forcing and Direct Atmospheric Radiative Forcing. Deser, C. and A.S. Phillips. 2009: Journal of Climate, 22, 396-413, doi:10.1175/2008JCLI2453.1. [C. Deser profile] [A. Phillips profile]

Atmospheric energy budgets in the Japanese Reanalysis: Evaluation and variability. Trenberth, K. E., L. Smith, 2008: J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, Meteorological Society of Japan, 86, 579-592, doi:10.2151/jmsj.86.579. [K. Trenberth profile]

Atmospheric forcing of Fram Strait sea ice export: a closer look. Tsukernik, M. C. Deser, M. Alexander and R. Tomas. 2009: Climate Dynamics, doi:10.1007/s00382-009-0647-z. [C. Deser profile] [R. Tomas profile] [M. Tsukernik profile]

The Atmospheric Response to Realistic Reduced Summer Arctic Sea Ice Anomalies. Bhatt, U.S., M.A. Alexander, C. Deser, J.E. Walsh, J.s. Miller, M.S. Timlin, J. Scott and R. Tomas. 2008: Arctic sea ice decline: Observations, projections, mechanisms and implications, 180, 92-110. [article] [C. Deser profile] [R. Tomas profile]

CARBON CYCLE Fertilizing change. Bonan, G. 2008: Nature Geoscience, 1, 645-646, doi:10.1038/ngeo328. [G. Bonan profile]

Cause of the widening of the tropical belt since 1958. Lu, J., C. Deser and T. Reichler. 2009: Geophysical Research Letters, 36, L03803, doi:10.1029/2008GL036076. [C. Deser profile]

Changes in Continental Freshwater Discharge from 1948-2004. Dai, A., T. Qian, K.E. Trenberth and J.D. Milliman. 2009: Journal of Climate, 22, doi:10.1175/2008JCLI2592.1. [A. Dai profile] [K. Trenberth profile]

Changes in the Flow of Energy through the Earth's Climate System. K.E. Trenberth. 2009: APS Physics. article. [K. Trenberth profile]

A changing context for life on earth. Hurrell, J.W, 2008: Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 122, 473-474. [article] [J. Hurrell profile]

Climate Impacts of Making Evapotranspiration in the Community Land Model (CLM3) Consistent with the Simple Biosphere Model (SiB). Lawrence, P.J. and T.N. Chase. 2009: International Journal of Climatology, 29(4): 573–581, doi:10.1175/2008JHM987.1. [P. Lawrence profile]

Climate impacts of recent multidecadal changes in Atlantic Ocean sea surface temperature: A multimodel comparison. Hodson, D.L.R., R.T. Sutton, C. Cassou, N. Keenlyside, Y. Okumura and T. Zhou. 2009: Climate Dynamics, doi:10.1007/s00382-009-0571-2. [Y. Okumura profile]

Climate Modeling. Donner, L.J. and W.G. Large. 2008: Annual Rev. of Env. And Resources, 33, 1-17, doi:10.1146/annurev.eg.33.101308.100001. [W. Large profile]

Climate response to large, high-latitude and low-latitude volcanic eruptions in the Community Climate System Model. Schneider, D.P., C.M. Ammann, B.L. Otto-Bliesner, and D.S. Kaufman. 2009: Journal of Geophysical Research, doi:10.1029/2008JD011222, in press. [C. Ammann profile] [B. Otto-Bliesner profile] [D. Schneider profile]

Climate response of linear and quadratic functionals using the fluctuation dissipation theorem. Gritsun A., G. Branstator, and A. Majda, 2008: J. Atmos. Sci., 65, 2824-2841, doi:10.1175/2007JAS2496.1. [G. Branstator profile]

Cloud ice: A climate model challenge with signs and expectations of progress. Waliser, D.E., J-L.F. Li, C.P. Woods, R.T. Austin, J. Bacmeister, J. Chern, A. Del Genio, J.H. Jiang, Z. Kuang, H. Meng, P. Minnis, S. Platnick, W.B. Rossow, G.L. Stephens, S. Sun-Mack, W-K. Tao, A.M. Tompins, D.G. Vane, C. Walker and D. Wu. 2009: J. Geophys. Res., 114, D00A21, doi:10.1029/2008JD010015. [J. Bacmeister profile]

Cloud influence on and response to seasonal Arctic sea ice loss. Kay, J. E., and A. Gettelman: 2009: Journal of Geophysical Research, Atmospheres, doi:10.1029/2009JD011773. [A. Gettelman profile] [J. Kay profile]

CloudSat mission: Performance and early science after the first year of operation. G.L. Stephens, D.G. Vane, S. Tanelli, E. Im, S. Durden, M. Rokey, D. Reinki, P. Partain. G.G. Mace, R. Austin. T. L-Ecuyer, J. Haynes, M. Lebsock, K. Suzuki, D. Waliser, D. Wu, J. Kay, A. Gettelman, Z. Wang and R. Marchand: 2008: Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 113, D00A18, doi:10.1029/2008JD009982. [A. Gettelman profile] [J. Kay profile]

Cloudy and clear sky relative humidity in the upper troposphere observed by the A-train. Kahn, B.H., A. Gettelman, E.J. Fetzer, A. Eldering and C.K. Liang. 2009: Journal of Geophysical Research, doi:10.1029/2009JD011738. [A. Gettelman profile]

A comparison of PMIP2 model simulations and the MARGO proxy reconstruction for tropical sea surface temperatures at last glacial maximum. Otto-Bliesner, B.L., R. Schneider, E.C. Brady, M. Kucera, A. Abe-Ouchi, E. Bard, P. Braconnot. M. Crucifix, C.D. Hewitt, M. Kageyama, O. Marti, A. Paul, A. Rosell-Mele, C. Wailbroeck, S.L. Weber, M. Weinelt and Y.Yu. 2009: Climate Dynamics, 32, 799-815, doi:10.1007/s00382-008-0509-0. [B. Otto-Bliesner profile] [E. Brady profile]

Comparisons of satellites liquid water estimates to ECMWF and GMAO analyses, 20th century IPCC AR4 climate simulations, and GCM simulations. Li, J.-L. F., D. Waliser, C. Woods, J. Teixeira, J. Bacmeister, J. Chern, B.-W. Shen, A. Tompkins, W.-K. Tao, and M. Köhler. 2008: Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L19710, doi:10.1029/2008GL035427. [J. Bacmeister profile]

The computational future for climate and Earth system models: on the path to petaflop and beyond. Washington, W.M., L. Buja and A. Craig. 2009: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A-Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, 367, 833-846, doi:10.1098/rsta.2008.0219. [W. Washington profile]

The connection between Labrador Sea buoyancy loss, deep western boundary current strength, and Gulf Stream path in an ocean circulation model. Jochum, M. and S. Yeager. 2009: Ocean Modelling, 30, 207-224. [article] [M. Jochum profile] [S. Yeager profile]

Consistency of modelled and observed temperature trends in the tropical troposphere. Santer, B.D., P.W. Thorne, L. Haimbergr, K.E. Taylor, T.M.L. Wigley, J.R. Lanzante, S. Solomon, M. Free, P.J. Gleckler, P.D. Jones, T.R. Karl, S.A. Klein, C. Mears, D. Nychka, G.A. Schmidt, S.C. Sherwood and F.J. Wentz. 2008: International Journal of Climate, 28, 1703-1722, doi:10.1002/joc.1756. [T. Wigley profile]

Constraining cloud droplet number concentration in GCMs suppresses the aerosol indirect effect. Hoose, C., J.E. Kristjansson, T. Iversen, A. Kirkevag, O. Seland and A. Gettelman. 2009: Geophysical Research Letters, 36, L12807 doi:10.1029/2009GL038568. [A. Gettelman profile]

The contribution of snow condition trends to future ground climate. Lawrence, D.M., and A.G. Slater, 2009: Clim. Dyn., doi:10.1007/s00382-009-0537-4. [D. Lawrence profile]

Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments (COREs). Griffies, S. M., A. Biastoch, C. Böning, F. Bryan, G. Danabasoglu, E. Chassignet, M. England, R. Gerdes, H. Haak, R. Hallberg, W. Hazeleger, J. Jungclaus, W. Large, G. Madec, A. Pirani, B. Samuels, M. Scheinert, A. Gupta, C. Severijns, H. Simmons, A. Treguier, M. Winton, S. Yeager, and J. Yin. 2009: Ocean. Modell., 26, 1-46, doi:10.1016/j.ocemod.2008.08.007. [F. Bryan profile] [G. Danabasoglu profile] [W. Large profile] [S. Yeager profile]

Coupling Terrestrial and Atmospheric Water Dynamics to Improve Prediction in a Changing Environment. Wong, S., F. Dominguez, D. Gochis, N. Brunsell, C. Castro, F. Chow, Y. Fan, D. Fuka, Y. Hong, P. Kucera, S. Nesbitt, N. Salzmann, J. Schmidli, P. Snyder, A. Teuling, T. Twine, S. Levis, J. Lundquist, G. Salvucci, A. Sealy and M. Walter. 2008. Bull. of the Amer. Meteo. Soc., 89, 1275-1279, doi:10.1175/2008BAMS2547.1. [S. Levis profile]

Decadel climate prediction: challenges and opportunities. Hurrell, J.W., 2008: Journal of Physics, Conference Series, 125, doi:10.1088/1742-6596/125/1/012018. [J. Hurrell profile]

Decadal Climate Prediction: Opportunities and Challenges. Hurrell, J.W., T. Delworth, G. Danabasoglu, H. Drange, S. Griffies, N. Holbrook, B. Kirtman, N. Keenlyside, M. Latif, J. Marotzke, G.A. Meehl, T. Palmer, H. Pohlmann, T. Rosati, R. Seager, D. Smith, R. Sutton, A. Timmermann, K.E. Trenberth, and J. Tribbia, 2009: Community White Paper, OceanObs '09. [article] [J. Hurrell profile] [G. Danabasoglu profile] [G. Danabasoglu profile] [G. Meehl profile] [K. Trenberth profile] [J. Tribbia profile]

Decadal Prediction: Can it be skillful? Meehl, G.A., L. Goddard, J. Murphy, R.J. Stouffer, G. Boer, G. Danabasoglu, K. Dixon, M.A. Giorgetta, A.M. Greene, E. Hawkins, g. Hegerl, D. Karoly, N. Keenlyside, M. Kimoto, B. Kirtman, A. Navarra, R. Pulwarty, D. Smith and T. Stockdale. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 36, L08703, doi:10.1175/2009BAMS2778.1, (early online release). [G. Danabasoglu profile] [G. Meehl profile]

Demographic models and IPCC climate projections predict the decline of an emperor penguin population. Jenouvrier, S., H. Caswell, C. Barbraud, M.M. Holland, J. Stroeve and H. Weimerskirch. 2009: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106, 1844-1847, doi: 10.1073/pnas.0806638106. [M. Holland profile]

Detecting vegetation-precipitation feedbacks in mid-Holocene North Africa from two climate models Wang, Y., M. Notaro, Z. Liu, R. Gallimore, S. Levis and J.E. Kutzbach. 2008: Climate of the Past, 89, 59-67, doi:10.1029/2008JD011652. [S. Levis]

Did the Toba volcanic eruption of ~74 kBP produce widespread glaciation? Robock, A., C.M. Ammann, L. Oman, D. Shindell, S. Levis and G. Stenchikov. 2009: J. Geophys. Res., 114, D10107, doi:10.1029/2008JD011652. [C. Ammann] [S. Levis]

Differences in the Indonesian Seaway in a coupled climate model and their relevance for Pliocene climate and El Niño. Jochum, M., B. Fox-Kemper, P. Molnar and C. Shields. 2009: Paleoceanography, 24, PA1212, doi:10.1029/2008PA001678. [M. Jochum profile] [C. Shields profile]

Dimming/brightening over the Iberian Peninsula: Trends in sunshine duration and cloud cover and their relations with atmospheric circulation. Sanchez-Lorenzo, A., J. Calbó, M. Brunetti and C. Deser 2009: Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, 114, PA1212, doi:10.1029/2008JD011394. [C. Deser profile]

A dual-pass variational data assimilation framework for estimating soil moisture profiles from AMSR-E microwave brightness temperature. Tian, X., Z. Xie, A. Dai, C. Shi, B. Jia, F. Chen and K. Yang. 2009: Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, 114, D16102, doi:10.1029/2008JD011600. [A. Dai profile]

The Earth System Grid: Enabling Access to Multimodel Climate Simulation Data Williams, D.N., R. Ananthakrishnan, D.E. Bernholdt, S. Bharathi, D. Brown, M. Chen, A.L. chervenak, L. Cinquini, R. Drach, I.T. Foster, P. Fox, D. Fraser, J. Garcia, S. Hankin, P. Jones, D.E. Middleton, J. Schwidder, R. Schweitzer, R. Shuler, A. Shoshani, F. Siebenlist, A. Sim, W.G. Strand, M. Su and N. Wilhelmi. 2009: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 90, 195-205, doi:10.1175/2008BAMS2459.1.

Earth's Global Energy Budget. Trenberth, K., J.T. Fasullo and J. Kiehl. 2009: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 90, 311-324, doi:10.1175/2008BAMS2634.1. [K. Trenberth profile] [J. Fasullo profile] [J. Kiehl profile]

Effect of the Atlantic hurricanes on the oceanic meridional overturning circulation and heat transport. Hu, A., G. A. Meehl, 2009: Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L03702, doi:10.1029/2008GL036680. [A. Hu profile] [G. Meehl profile]

Effect of different closures for thickness diffusivity. Eden, C., M. Jochum and G. Danabasoglu. 2009: Ocean Modell., 26, 47-59, doi: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2008.08.004. [M. Jochum profile] [G. Danabasoglu profile]

An ensemble-based explicit four-dimensional variational assimilation method. Tian, X., Z. Xie and A. Dai. 2008: Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 113, D21124, doi:10.1029/2008JD010358. [A. Dai profile]

Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity: Is It Accurate to Use a Slab Ocean Model? Danabasoglu, G. and P. Gent. 2009: Journal of Climate, 22, 2494-2499, doi:10.1175/2008JCLI2596.1. [G. Danabasoglu profile] [P. Gent profile]

Evaluating Global Warming Potentials with historical temperature. Tanaka, K., O'Neill, B.C., Rokityanskiy, D., Obersteiner, M., and R. S. J. Tol. 2009: Climatic Change, doi:10.1007/s10584-009-9566-6. [B. O'Neill profile]

Evaluation of coupled ocean-atmosphere simulations of the mid-Holocene using paleovegetation data from the northern hemisphere extratropics. Wohlfahrt, J., S.P. Harrison, P. Braconnot, C.D. Hewitt, A. Kitoh, U. Mikolajewicz, B.L. Otto-Bliesner and S.L. Weber. 2008: Climate Dynamics, 31, 871-890, doi:10.1007/s00382-008-0415-5. [B. Otto-Bliesner profile]

Evaluation of Forecasted Southeast Pacific Stratocumulus in the NCAR, GFDL and ECMWF Models. Hannay, C., D.L. Williamson, J.J. Hack, J.T. Kiehl, J.G. Olson, S.A. Klein, C.S. Bretherson and M. Köhler. 2009: Journal of Climate, doi:10.1175/2008JCLI2479.1, (early online release). [C. Hannay profile] [J. Kiehl profile] [D. Williamson profile]

Evolution of the 2007-2008 Arctic sea ice cover and prospects for a new record in 2008. Drobot, S., J. Stroeve, J. Maslanik, W. Emery, C. Fowler and J. Kay. 2008: Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L19501, doi:10.1029/2008GL035316. [J. Kay profile]

Examining the Interaction of Growing Crops with Local Climate Using a Coupled Crop-Climate Model. Osborne, T., J. Slingo, D. Lawrence and T. Wheeler. 2009: Journal of Climate, 22, 1393-1411, doi:10.1175/2008JCLI2494.1. [D. Lawrence profile]

Finite-Volume Methods in Meteorology. Bennert Machenhauer, Eigil Kaas and Peter H. Lauritzen, 2009: Computational Methods for the Atmosphere and the Oceans: Special Vol. 14, doi:10.1016/S1570-8659(08)00201-9. [P. Lauritzen profile]

Future changes in daily summer temperature variability: driving processes and role for temperature extremes. Fischer, E.M., C. Schär, 2008: Clim. Dynam., doi:10.1007/s00382-008-0473-8. [E. Fischer profile]

Geoengineering: What, how, and for whom? Trenberth, K. E., 2009: Physics Today, 62, No. 2 (Letters), 10-12. [article] [K. Trenberth profile]

Geometrically Exact Conservative Remapping (GECoRe): Regular latitude-longitude and cubed-sphere grids. Paul A. Ullrich, Peter H. Lauritzen and Christiane Jablonowski, 2009: Mon. Wea. Rev., doi:10.1175/2008MWR2817.1 [P. Lauritzen profile]

Global distribution of atmospheric phosphorus sources, concentrations and deposition rates, and anthropogenic impacts. Mahowald, N., T.D. Jickells, A.R. Baker, P. Artaxo, C.R. Benitez-Nelson, G. Bergametti, T.C. Bond, Y. Chen, D.D. Cohen, B. Herut, N. Kubilay, R. Losno, C. Luo, W. Maenhaut, K.A. McGee, G.S. Okin, R.L. Siefert and S. Tsukuda. 2008: Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 22, GB4026, doi:10.1029/2008GB003240. [N. Mahowald profile]

Global-scale energy and freshwater balance in glacial climate: A comparison of three PMIP2 LGM simulations. Murakami, S., R. Ohgaito, A. Abe-Ouchi, M. Crucifix and B.L. Otto-Bliesner. 2008: Journal of Climate, 19, 5008-5033, doi:10.1175/2008JCLI2104.1. [B. Otto-Bliesner profile]

Global temperature stabilization via controlled albedo enhancement of low-level maritime clouds. Latham, J., P. Rasch, C.C. Chen, L. Kettles, A. Gadian, A. Gettelman, H. Morrison, K. Bower and T. Choularton. 2008: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A-Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, 366, 3969-3987, doi:10.1098/rsta.2008.0137. [P. Rasch profile] [A. Gettelman profile]

Global warming due to increasing absorbed solar radiation. Trenberth, K. E., and J. T. Fasullo, 2009: Geophys. Res. Lttrs., 36, L07706, doi:10.1029/2009GL037527. [K. Trenberth profile] [J. Fasullo profile]

High-resolution paleoclimatology of the last millennium: a review of current status and future prospects. Jones, P.D., K.R. Briffa, T.J. Osborn, J.M. Lough, T.D. van Ommen, B.M. Vinther, J. Luterbacher, E.R. Wahl, F.W. Zwiers, M.E. Mann, G.A. Schmidt, C.M. Ammann, B.M. Buckley, K.M. Cobb, J. Esper, H. Goosse, N. Graham, E. Jansen, T. Kiefer, C. Kull, M. Küttel, E. Mosley-Thompson, J.T. Overpeck, N. Riedwyl, M. Schulz, A.W. Tudhope, R. Villalba, H. Wanner, E. Wolff, and E. Xoplaki, 2009: Holocene, 19, 3-49, doi:10.1177/0959683608098952. [C. Ammann profile]

Household projections for rural and urban areas of major regions of the world. Jiang, L. and B.C. O'Neill. 2009: IIASA Interim Report IR-09-026. [article] [B. O'Neill profile]

How much climate change can be avoided by mitigation? Washington, W.M., R. Knutti, G.A. Meehl, H. Teng, C. Tebaldi, D. Lawrence, L. Buja, and W.G. Strand, 2009: Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L08703, doi:10.1029/2008GL037074. [W. Washington profile] [H. Teng profile] [D. Lawrence profile]

The Impact of Convection on ENSO: From a Delayed Oscillator to a Series of Events. Neale, R.B., J.H. Richter and M. Jochum. 2008: Journal of Climate, 21, 5904-5924, doi:10.1175/2008JCLI2244.1. [R. Neale profile] [J. Richter profile] [M. Jochum profile]

Impact of historical land cover change on daily indices of climate extremes including droughts in eastern Australia. Deo, R.C., J.I. Syktus, C.A. McAlpine, P.J. Lawrence, H.A. McGowan, and S.R. Phinn. 2009: Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L08705, doi:10.1029/2009GL037666. [P. Lawrence profile]

Impact of latitudinal variations in vertical diffusivity on climate simulators. M. Jochum. 2009: Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, 114, C01010, doi:10.1029/2008JC005030. [M. Jochum profile]

Impacts of increasing anthropogenic soluble iron and nitrogen deposition on ocean biogeochemistry. Krishnamurthy, A., J.K. Moore, N. Mahowald, C. Luo, S.C. Doney, K. Lindsay and C.S. Zender. 2009: Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 23, GB3016, doi:10.1029/2008GB003440. [K. Lindsay profile]

The Impact of Stratospheric Ozone Recovery on Tropopause Height Trends. Son, S-W, L.M. Polvani, D.W. Waugh, T. Birner, H. Akiyoshi, R.R. Garcia, A. Gettelman, D.A. Plummer and E. Rozanov. 2009: Journal of Climate, 22, 429-445, doi:10.1175/2008JCLI2215.1. [A. Gettelman profile]

An imperative for climate change planning: tracking Earth's global energy. K.E. Trenberth. 2009: Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 1, 19-27, doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2009.06.001. [K. Trenberth profile]

Improving Oceanic Overflow Representation in Climate Models: The Gravity Current Entrainment Climate Process Team. Legg, S., B. Briegleb, Y. Chang, E.P. Chassignet, G. Danabasoglu, T. Ezer, A.L. Gordon, S. Griffies, R. Hallberg, L. Jackson, W. Large, T.M. Özgökmen, H. Peters, J. Price, U. Riemenschneider, W. Wu, X. Xu and J. Yang. 2009: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 90, 657-670, doi:doi:10.1175/2008BAMS2667.1. [B. Briegleb profile] [G. Danabasoglu profile] [W. Large profile]

Improvements in a half degree atmosphere/land version of the CCSM. Gent, P.R., S.G. Yeager, R.B. Neale, S. Levis and D.A. Bailey. 2009: Climate Dynamics, 79, 25-58, doi:10.1007/s00382-009-0614-8. [P. Gent profile] [S. Yeager profile] [R. Neale profile] [S. Levis profile] [D. Bailey profile]

Lagged effects of experimental warming and doubled precipitation on annual and seasonal aboveground biomass production in a tallgrass prairie. Sherry, R.A., E.S. Wang, J.A. Arnone, D.W. Johnson, D.S. Schimel, P.S. Verburg, L.L. Wallace and Y.Q. Luo. 2008: Glob. Change Bio, 14, 2923-2936, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01703.x. [D. Schimel profile]

A lagged warm event-like response to peaks in solar forcing in the Pacific region. Meehl G.A. and J.M. Arblaster, 2009: J. Climate, doi:10.1175/2009JCLI2619.1. [G. Meehl profile] [J. Arblaster profile]

Learning from global emissions scenarios. O'Neill, B. and N. Nakicenovic. 2008: Environmental Research Letters, 3, 045014, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/3/4/045014. [B. O'Neill profile]

Lessons learned from IPCC AR4: Scientific developments needed to understand, predict and respond to climate change. Doherty, S.J., S. Bojinski, A. Henderson-Sellers, K. Noone, D. Goodrich, N.L. Bindoff, J.A. Church, K.A. Hibbard, T.R. Karl, L. Kajfez-Bogataj, A.H. Lynch, D.E. Parker, I.C. Prentice, V. Ramaswamy, R.W. Saunders, M. Stafford Smith, K. Steffen, T.F. Stocker, P.W. Thorne, K.E. Trenberth, M.M. Verstraete and F.W. Zwiers. 2009: J. Climate, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 90, 497-513, doi:10.1175/2008BAMS2643.1. [K. Hibbard profile] [K. Trenberth profile]

Linking Extreme Weather to Climate Variability and Change. Stott, P., and K. Trenberth, 2009: EOS Trans. AGU, 90(21), doi:10.1029/2009EO210004. [K. Trenberth profile]

Mechanisms governing interannual variability in upper-ocean inorganic carbon systema nd air-sea CO2 fluxes: Physical climate and atmospheric dust. Doney, S.C., I. Lima, R.A. Feely, M. Glover, K. Lindsy, N. Mahowald, J.K. Moore and R. Wanninkhof. 2009: Deep-Sea Research Part II: Tropical Studies in Oceanography, 56, 640-655, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2008.12.006. [K. Lindsay profile]

The mid-1970s climate shift in the Pacific and the relative roles of forced versus inherent decadal variability. Meehl, G.A., A. Hu, and B.D. Santer, 2009: J. Climate, 22, 780-792, doi:10.1175/2008JCLI2552.1. [G. Meehl profile] [A. Hu profile]

Midlatitude Cyclone Compositing to Constrain Climate Model Behavior Using Satellite Observations. Field, P.R., A. Gettelman, R.B. Neale, R. Wood, P.J. Rasch and H. Morrison. 2008: Journal of Climate, 21, 5887-5903, doi:10.1175/2008JCLI2235.1. [A. Gettelman profile] [R. Neale profile] [P. Rasch profile]

Model assessment of the observed relationship between El Nino and the northern East Asian summer monsoon using the Community Atmosphere Model – Community Land Model version 3 (CAM-CLM3). Lee, E., T.N. Chase, P.J. Lawrence, and B. Rajagopalan. 2008: Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, D20118, doi:10.1029/2008JD009926. [P. Lawrence profile]

Modeling of mesoscale coupled ocean-atmosphere interaction and its feedback to ocean in the western Arabian Sea. Seo, H., R. Murtugudde, M. Jochum and A.J. Miller. 2008: Ocean Modelling, 25, 120-131, doi:doi:10.1016/j.ocemod.2008.07.003. [M. Jochum profile]

"Modes of Variability" and Climate Change. Branstator, G. and F. Selten. 2009: 22, 2639-2658, doi:10.1175/2008JCLI2517.1. [G. Branstator profile]

On Multidecadal Variability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in the Community Climate System Model Version 3. Danabasoglu, G. 2008: Journal of Climate, 21, 5524-5544, doi:10.1175/2008JCLI2019.1. [G. Danabasoglu profile]

A new sea surface temperature and sea ice boundary dataset for the Community Atmosphere Model. Hurrell, J.W., J.J. Hack, D. Shea, J.M. Caron and J. Rosinski. 2008: Journal of Climate, 21, 5145-5153, doi:10.1175/2008JCLI2292.1. [J. Hurrell profile] [D. Shea profile] [J. Caron profile]

North Atlantic climate variability: The role of the North Atlantic Oscillation. Hurrell, J. and C. Deser. 2009: Journal of Marine Sciences, 22, 2199-2215, doi:10.1016/j.jmarsys.2008.11.026. [C. Deser profile] [J. Hurrell profile]

North Pacific Climate Response to Freshwater Forcing in the Subarctic North Atlantic: Oceanic and Atmospheric Pathways. Okumura, Y. M., C. Deser, A. Hu, A. Timmermann and S-P. Xie, 2009: J. Clim., 22, 1424-1445, doi:10.1175/2008JCLI2511.1. [C. Deser profile] [A. Hu profile]

A numerical study of the climate response to lowered Mediterranean Sea level during the Messinian Salinity Crisis. Murphy, L.N., D.B. Kirk-Davidoff, N. Mahowald, and B.L. Otto-Bliesner. 2009: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 279, 41-59. [article] [B. Otto-Bliesner profile]

Observationally derived and general circulation model simulated tropical stratospheric upward mass fluxes. Yang, Q., Q. Fu, J. Austin, A. Gettelman, F. Li and H. Vomel. 2008: Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, 113, doi:10.1029/2008JD009945. [A. Gettelman profile]

Oceanic sources, sinks, and transport of atmospheric CO₂. Gruber, N., M. Gloor, S.E. Mikaloff Fletcher, S.C. Doney, S. Dutkiewicz, M.J. Follows, M. Gerber, A.R. Jacobson, F. Joos, K. Lindsay, D. Menemenlis, A. Mouchet, S.A. Müller, J.L. Sarmiento and T. Takahashi. 2009: Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 23, GB1005, doi:doi:10.1029/2008GB003349. [K. Lindsay profile]

An overview of geoengineering of climate using stratospheric sulphate aerosols. Rasch, P.J., S. Tilmes, R.P. Turco, A. Robock, L. Oman, C.C. Chen, G.L. Stenchikov and R.R. Garcia. 2008: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A-Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, 366, 4007-4037, doi:10.1098/rsta.2008.0131. [P. Rasch profile]

Potential for abrupt changes in atmospheric methane. Brook, E.D. Archer, E. Dlugokencky, S. Frolking and D. Lawrence. 2008: In: Abrupt Climate change. A report by the AU.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research. U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA pp. 360-452. [D. Lawrence profile]

Precipitation in a changing climate - More floods and droughts in the future. Trenberth, K.E. 2009: GEWEX News, 19, 8-10. [article] [K. Trenberth profile]

Predicting 21st-century polar bear habitat distribution from global climate models. G.M. Durner, D.C. Douglas, R.M. Nielson, S.C. Amstrup, T.L. McDonald, I. Stirling, M. Mauritzen, E.W. Born, ø. Wiig, E. DeWeaver, M.C. Serreze, S.E. Belikov, M.M. Holland, J. Maslanik, J. Aars, D.A. Bailey and A.E. Derocher. 2009: Ecological Monographs, 79, 25-58, doi:10.1890/07-2089.1. [M. Holland profile] [D. Bailey profile]

Preface. Matson, P.A., W.C. Clark, A. Gadgil, D.M. Liverman, R.L. Naylor, I. Ray, D.S. Schimel and T.P. Tomich. 2008: Annual Rev. of Env. And Resources, 33, 1-17, doi:10.1146/annurev.eg.33.101308.100001. [D. Schimel profile]

Processes Regulating Short Lived Species in the Tropical Tropopause Layer. Gettelman, A., P.H. Lauritzen, M. Park and J.E. Kay. 2009: Journal of Geophysical Research, doi:10.1029/2009JD011785. [A. Gettelman profile] [P. Lauritzen profile] [J. Kay profile]

Production data for the Population-Environment-Technology (PET) Model. Fuchs, R., Pachauri, S., and B.C. O'Neill. 2009: IIASA Interim Report IR-09-025. [article] [B. O'Neill profile]

Recent warming reverses long-term Arctic cooling. Kaufman, D.S., D.P. Schneider, N.P. McKay, C.M. Ammann, R.S. Bradley, K.R. Briffa, G.H. Miller, B.L. Otto-Bliesner, J.T. Overpeck, B.M. Vinther, and Arctic Lakes 2k Project Members. 2009: Science, 325, 1236-1239, doi:10.1126/science.1173983 [C. Ammann profile] [B. Otto-Bliesner profile] [D. Schneider profile]

Resolving model parameter values from carbon and nitrogen stock measurements in a wide range of tropical mature forests using nonlinear inversion and regression trees. Liu, S.G., P. Anderson, G.Y. Zhou, B. Kauffman, F. Hughes, D.S. Schimel, V. Watson and J. Tosi. 2008: Ecological Modelling, 219, 327-341, doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2008.07.025. [D. Schimel profile]

Response of East Asian summer monsoon to historical SST and atmospheric forcing during 1950-2000. Li, H., A. Dai, T. Zhou, and J. Lu, 2009: Climate Dynamics, doi:10.1007/s00382-008-0482-7. [A. Dai profile]

SciDac 2008, the use of the Climate-science Computational end Station (CCES) development and grand challenge team for the next IPCC assessment: an operational plan. Washington, W.M., J. Drake, L. Buja, D. Anderson, D. Bader, R. Dickinson, D. Erickson, P. Gent, S. Ghan, P. Jones and R. Jacob. 2008: Journal of Physics Conference Series 125 012023, doi:10.1088/1742-6596/125/1/012024 [P. Gent profile] [W. Washington profile]

The sea ice mass budget of the Arctic and its future change as simulated by coupled climate models. Holland, M.M., M.C. Serreze, and J. Stroeve, 2008: Climate Dynamics, doi:10.1007/s00382-008-0493-4 [M. Holland profile]

Sensitivity of Arctic sea ice thickness to inter-model variations in surface energy budget simulation. DeWeaver, E., E. Hunke, and M.M. Holland, 2008: In Arctic Sea Ice Decline: Observations, Projections, Mechanisms, and Implications. Geophys. Monogr. Ser., 180, edited by E. T. DeWeaver, C. M. Bitz, and L.-B. Tremblay, pp. 77-90, AGU, Washington, D. C. [M. Holland profile]

Sensitivity of CFC-11 uptake to physical initial conditions and interannually varying surface forcing in a global ocean model. Jochum, M. and J. Potermra. 2008: Journal of Climate, 21, 6445-6454, doi:doi:10.1175/2008JCLI2230.1. [M. Jochum profile]

Sensitivity of Tropical Rainfall to Banda Sea Diffusivity in the Community Climate System Model. Danabasoglu, G., S. Peacock, K. Lindsay and D. Tsumune. 2009: Ocean Modelling, 29, 58-65, doi:doi:10.1016/j.ocemod.2009.02.011. [G. Danabasoglu profile] [K. Lindsay profile] [S. Peacock profile]

Simulated climate impacts of latitudinal variations in diapycnal diffusivity. Jochum, M. 2009: J. Geophys. Res., 114, C01010, doi:10.1016/j.jcp.2008.08.005. [M. Jochum profile]

Simulations of the 2.5D inviscid primitive equations in a limited domain. Chen, Q., R. Tenmam and J.J. Tribbia. 2009: Journal of Compuational Physics, 227, 9865-9884, doi:10.1029/2008JC005030. [J. Tribbia profile]

Skill metrics for confronting global upper ocean ecosystem-biogeochemistry models against field and remote sensing data. Doney, S.C., I. Lima, J.K. Moore, K. Lindsay, M.J. Behrenfeld, T.K. Westbery, N. Mahowald, D.M. Glover and T. Takahashi. 2009: Journal of Marine Systems, 76, 95-112, doi:10.1016/j.jmarsys.2008.05.015. [K. Lindsay profile] [N. Mahowald profile]

The Southern Westerlies during the last glacial maximum in PMIP2 simulations. Rojas, M., P.I. Moreno, M. Kageyama, M. Crucifix, C. Hewitt, A. Abe-Ouchi, R. Ohgaito, E.C. Brady and P. Hope. 2009: Climate Dynamics, 32, 525-548, doi:10.1007/s00382-008-0421-7. [E. Brady profile]

Spatial dependence of diurnal temperature range trends on precipitation from 1950 to 2004. Zhou, L., A. Dai, Y. Dai, R.S. Vose, C-Z. Zou, Y. Tian and H. Chen. 2009: Climate Dynamics, 32, 429-440, doi:10.1007/s00382-008-0387-5. [A. Dai profile]

Spatiotemporal patterns of changes in maximum and minimum temperatures in multi-model simulations. Zhou, L.M., R.E. Dickinson, P. Dirmeyer, A. Dai and S-K. Min. 2009: Geophysical Research Letters, 36, L02702, doi:10.1029/2008GL036141. [A. Dai profile]

Springtime warming and reduced snow cover from carbonaceous particles.Flanner, M.G., C.S. Zender, P.G. Hess, N.M. Mahowald, T.H. Painter, V. Ramanathan and P.J. Rasch. 2009: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 9, 2481-2497. [article] [P. Rasch profile]

The Summer North Atlantic Oscillation: Past, Present, and Future. Folland, C.K., J. Knight, H.W. Linderholm, D. Fereday, S. Ineson and J.W. Hurrell. 2009: American Meteorological Society, 22, 1082-1103, doi:10.1175/2008JCLI2459.1. [J. Hurrell profile]

Synoptically forced hydroclimatology of major Arctic watersheds in general circulation models, Part 1: the Mackenzie River Basin. Finnis, J, J. Cassano, M.M. Holland, M.C. Serreze, and P Uotila, 2009: Intl J. of Clim., 29 (9), 1226-1243, doi:10.1002/joc.1753. [M. Holland profile]

Synoptically forced hydroclimatology of major Arctic watersheds in general circulation models, Part 2: Eurasian watersheds. Finnis, J., J. Cassano, M.M. Holland, and M.C. Serreze, 2009: Intl J. of Clim., 29 (9), 1244-1261, doi:10.1002/joc.1769. [M. Holland profile]

Systematic assessment of terrestrial biogeochemistry in coupled climate–carbon models. Randerson, J.T., F.M. Hoffman, P.E. Thornton, N.M. Mahowald, K. Lindsay, Y-H. Lee, C.D. Nevison, S.C. Doney, G.B. Bonan, R. Stöckli, C. Covey, S.W. Running and I.Y. Fung. 2009: Global Change Biology, 044006, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.01912.x. [G. Bonan profile] [K. Lindsay profile]

The three dimensional structure of the atmospheric energy budget: methodology and evaluation. Trenberth, K.E. and L. Smith, 2009: Clim. Dyn., 32, 1065-1079, doi:10.1007/s00382-008-0389-3. [K. Trenberth profile]

Toxicity of atmospheric aerosols on marine phytoplankton. Paytan, A., K.R.M. Mackey, Y. Chen, I.D. Lima, S.C. Doney, N. Mahowald, R. Labiosa and A.F. Postf. 2009: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106, 4601-4605, doi:10.1073/pnas.0811486106. [N. Mahowald profile]

Transient response of the MOC and climate to potential melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet in the 21st century. Hu, A., G.A. Meehl, W. Han and J. Yin. 2009: Geophysical Research Letters, 36, doi:10.1029/2009GL037998. [A. Hu profile] [G. Meehl profile]

Transient Simulation of Last Deglaciation with a New Mechanism for Bølling-Allerød Warming. Liu, Z., B.L. Otto-Bliesner, F. He, E.C. Brady, R. Tomas, P.U. Clark, A.E. Carlson, J. Lynch-Stieglitz, W. Curry, E. Brook, d. Erickson, R. Jacob, J. Kutzbach and J. Cheng. 2009: Science, 325, pp. 310-314, doi:10.1126/science.1171041. [E. Brady profile] [B. Otto-Bliesner profile]

The Tropical Tropopause Layer 1960-2100. Gettelman, A., T. Birner, V. Eyring, H. Akiyoshi, S. Bekki, C. Bruhl, M. Dameris, D.E. Kinnison, F. Lefevre, F. Lott, E. Mancini, G. Pitari, D.A. Plummer, E. Rozanov, K. Shibata, A. Stenke, H. Struthers and W. Tian. 2009: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 9, 1621-1637.[article] [A. Gettelman profile]

Two Dynamical Core Formulation Flaws Exposed by a Baroclinic Instability Test Case. Williamson, D.L., J.G. Olson and C. Jablonowski. 2009: Monthly Weather Review, 137, 790-796, doi:10.1175/2008MWR2587.1. [D. Williamson profile]

Uncertainties in climate responses to past land cover change: First results from the LUCID intercomparison study. Pitman, A. J., N. de Noblet-Ducoudre, F. T. Cruz, E. L. Davin, G. B. Bonan, V. Brovkin, M. Claussen, C. Delire, L. Ganzeveld, V. Gayler, B. J. J. M. van den Hurk, P. J. Lawrence, M. K. van der Molen, C. Mueller, C. H. Reick, S. I. Seneviratne, B. Strengers, and A. Voldoire. 2009: Geophys. Res. Lett., doi:10.1029/2009GL039076, in press. [G. Bonan profile]

Understanding Changes in the Asian Summer Monsoon over the Past Millennium: Insights from a Long-Term Coupled Model Simulation. Fan, F., M.E. Mann and C. Ammann. 2009: Journal of Climate, 22, 1736-1748, doi:10.1175/2008JCLI2336.1.[article] [C. Ammann profile]

Untitled. Schimel, D.S. and J.D. Baldwin. 2009: Ecological Applications, 19, 1-2, doi:10.1890/1051-0761-19.1.1. [D. Schimel profile]

A US CLIVAR Project to Assess and Compare the Responses of Global Climate Models to Drought-Related SST Forcing Patterns: Overview and Results. Schubert, S., d. Gutzler, H. Wang, A. Dai, T. Delworth, C. Deser, K. Findell, R. Fu, W. Higgins, M. Hoerling, B. Kirtman, R. Koster, A. Kumar, D. Legler, D. Lettenmaier, B. Lyon, v. Magana, K. Mo, S. Nigam, P. Pegion, A. Phillips, R. Pulwarty, D. Rind, A. Ruiz-Barradas, J. Schemm, R. Seager, R. Stewart, M. Suarez, J. Syktus, M. Ting, C. Wang, S. Weaver and N. Zeng. 2009: Journal of Climate, doi:10.1175/2009JCLI3060.1 [A. Dai profile] [C. Deser profile] [A. Phillips profile]

Variations in the three dimensional structure of the atmospheric circulation with different flavors of El Niño. Trenberth, K.E. and L. Smith. 2009: Journal of Climate, 22, 2978-2991, doi:10.1175/2008JCLI2691.1 [K. Trenberth profile]

Virtual Field Campaigns on Deep Tropical Convection in Climate Models. Mapes, B., J. Bacmeister, M. Khairoutdinov, C. Hannay and M. Zhao. 2009: Journal of Climate, 22, 244-257, doi:10.1175/2008JCLI2203.1. [J. Bacmeister profile] [C. Hannay profile]

Volcanic forcing of climate over the past 1500 years: An improved ice core-based index for climate models. Gao, C., A. Robock and C. Ammann. 2008: Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 113, D23111, doi:10.1029/2008JD010239. [C. Ammann profile]

Warming of the Antarctic ice sheet surface since the 1957 International Geophysical Year. Steig, E.J., D.P. Schneider, S.D. Rutherford, M.E. Mann, J.C. Comiso and D.T. Shindell. 2009: Nature, 457, 459-463, doi:10.1038/nature07669. [D. Scheider profile]

Water isotopes during the Last Glacial Maximum: New general circulation model calculations. Lee, J.E., I. Fung, D.J. DePaolo and B.L. Otto-Bliesner. 2008: Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 113, D19109, doi:10.1029/2008JD009859. [B. Otto-Bliesner profile]

Where next with global environmental scenarios? O'Neill, B., S. Pulver, S. VanDeveer and Y. Garb. 2009: Environmental Research Letters, 3, 045012, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/3/4/045012. [B. O'Neill profile]

Who Should Read This Series? Matson, P.A., W.C. Clark, A. Gadgil, D.M. Liverman, R.L. Naylor, I. Ray, D.S. Schimel and T.P. Tomich. 2008: Annual Rev. of Env. And Resources, 33, 1-17, doi:10.1146/annurev.eg.33.101308.100001. [D. Schimel profile]

Why the Western Pacific Subtropical High Has Extended Westward since the Late 1970s. Zhou, T., R. Yu, J. Zhang, J. Li, X. Xin, H. Drange, C. Cassou, E. Sanchez-Gomez, C. Deser, Y. Okumura, D.L.R. Hodson and N. Keenlyside. 2009: J. Climate, 22, 2199-2215 doi:10.1175/2008JCLI2527.1. [C. Deser profile]