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Journal of Climate

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Volume 37 (2024): Issue 15 (Aug 2024)

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

Isla Simpson, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Darryn Waugh, The Johns Hopkins University

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Skillful long-lead seasonal predictions in the summertime Northern Hemisphere middle latitudes

Hai Lin
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Ryan Muncaster
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Jacques Derome
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William J. Merryfield
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Gulilat Diro
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Advanced Peak Phase of ENSO under Global Warming

Xiao-Tong Zheng
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Chang Hui
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Zi-Wen Han
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Yue Wu
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Impacts of Local and Remote SST Warming on Summer Circulation Changes in the Western North Pacific

Chao-An Chen
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Huang-Hsiung Hsu
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Hsin-Chien Liang
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Yu-Luen Chen
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Ping-Gin Chiu
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Chia-Ying Tu
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PNA nonlinearity and ENSO transition asymmetry weaken PMM before La Niña onset

Xiang Han
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Tao Lian
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Dake Chen
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Ruikun Hu
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Ting Liu
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Qucheng Chu
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Baosheng Li
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Deciphering the variations and mechanisms of global land monsoons during Marine Isotope Stage 3

Jinzhe Zhang
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Qing Yan
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Nanxuan Jiang
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Chuncheng Guo
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Impact of Summer North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature Tripole on Precipitation over Mid–high-latitude Eurasia

Shanling Cheng
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Haipeng Yu
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Jie Zhou
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Bofei Zhang
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Yu Ren
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Hongyu Luo
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Siyu Chen
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Yongqi Gong
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Ming Peng
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Yunsai Zhu
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No evidence of winter warming in Eurasia following large, low-latitude volcanic eruptions during the Last Millennium

Ernesto Tejedor
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Lorenzo M. Polvani
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Nathan J. Steiger
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Mathias Vuille
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Jason E. Smerdon
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Ocean Complexity Shapes Sea Surface Temperature Variability in a CESM2 Coupled Model Hierarchy

Sarah M. Larson
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Kay McMonigal
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Yuko Okumura
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Dillon Amaya
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Antonietta Capotondi
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Katinka Bellomo
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Isla R. Simpson
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Amy C. Clement
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Changes of intense extratropical cyclone deepening mechanisms in a warmer climate in idealized simulations

Ting-Chen Chen
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Christoph Braun
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Aiko Voigt
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Joaquim G. Pinto
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Northern hemisphere land-atmosphere feedback from prescribed plant phenology in CESM

Xiaolu Li
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Toby Ault
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Andrew D. Richardson
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Steve Frolking
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Dimitris A. Herrera
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Mark A. Friedl
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Carlos M. Carrillo
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Colin P. Evans
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Remote Forcing for Circulation Pattern Favorable to Surface Melt over the Ross Ice Shelf

Yingfei Fang
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Song Yang
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Xiaoming Hu
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Shuheng Lin
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James A. Screen
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Shangfeng Chen
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The attribution of February extremes over North America: A forecast-based storyline study

Donghyun Lee
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Sarah Sparrow
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Nicholas Leach
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Scott Osprey
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Jinah Lee
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Myles Allen
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Interannual variability of the East African Coastal Current associated with the El Niño-Southern Oscillation

Chenyu Zheng
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Shaojun Zheng
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Ming Feng
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Lingling Xie
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Lei Wang
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Tianyu Zhang
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Li Yan
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Near-term Mediterranean summer temperature climate projections: a comparison of constraining methods

Pep Cos
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Raül Marcos-Matamoros
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Markus Donat
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Rashed Mahmood
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Francisco J. Doblas-Reyes
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The Role of Cloud-Radiative Interaction in Tropical Circulation and the Madden-Julian Oscillation

Yuanyuan Huang
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Daehyun Kim
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Tian Zhou
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Xiaoming Shi
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On the relation between thermohaline anomalies and water mass transformation in the Eastern Subpolar North Atlantic

Leilane Passos
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Helene R. Langehaug
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Marius Årthun
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Fiammetta Straneo
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Understanding the biases in global monsoon simulations from the perspective of atmospheric energy transport

Ziming Chen
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Tianjun Zhou
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Xiaolong Chen
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Lixia Zhang
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Yun Qian
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Zeyi Wang
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Linqiang He
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L. Ruby Leung
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Understanding Observed Precipitation Change and the New Climate Normal from the Perspective of Daily Weather Types in the Southeast U.S.

Jian-Hua Qian
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Brian Viner
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Stephen Noble
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David Werth
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Joseph Wermter
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Steven Chiswell
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Cuihua Li
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Uniform SST Warming Explains Most of the NH Winter Circulation and Blocking Response in a Warmer Climate

Veeshan Narinesingh
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Huan Guo
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Stephen T. Garner
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Yi Ming
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Disagreement on the North Atlantic Cold Blob Formation Mechanisms among Climate Models

Yifei Fan
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Duo Chan
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Pengfei Zhang
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Laifang Li
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An increase in autumn marine heatwaves caused by the Indian Ocean Dipole in the Bay of Bengal

Kunming Liang
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Yun Qiu
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Xinyu Lin
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Wenshu Lin
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Xutao Ni
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Yijun He
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Variability of SST through Koopman modes

Antonio Navarra
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Joe Tribbia
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Stefan Klus
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Paula Lorenzo-Sánchez
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CWRF downscaling with improved land surface initialization enhances spring-summer seasonal climate prediction skill in China

Han Zhang
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Xin-Zhong Liang
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Yongjiu Dai
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Lianchun Song
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Qingquan Li
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Fang Wang
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Shulei Zhang
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Two perspectives on amplified warming over tropical land examined in CMIP6 models

Suqin Q. Duan
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Karen A. McKinnon
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Isla R. Simpson
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Long-term climate impacts of large stratospheric water vapor perturbations

Martin Jucker
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Chris Lucas
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Deepashree Dutta
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West African Monsoon System’s Responses to Global Ocean-Regional Atmosphere Coupling

Alain T. Tamoffo
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Torsten Weber
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William Cabos
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Paul-Arthur Monerie
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Kerry H. Cook
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Dmitry V. Sein
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Alessandro Dosio
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Nana A. B. Klutse
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Akintomide A. Akinsanola
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Daniela Jacob
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Impact of the Tibetan Plateau on Global High-frequency Temperature Variability

Zifan Su
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Yongkun Xie
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Jianping Huang
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Guoxiong Wu
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Yuzhi Liu
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Xiaodan Guan
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Impacts of Greenland Ice Sheet on Blocking in Idealized Simulations

Hairu Ding
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Li Dong
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Kaijun Liu
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Ting Lin
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Zhiang Xie
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Bo Zhang
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Xiaoxue Wang
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A new method for calculating instantaneous atmospheric heat transport

Tyler Cox
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Aaron Donohoe
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Kyle C. Armour
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Gerard H. Roe
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Dargan M.W. Frierson
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Ocean Heat Convergence and North Atlantic multidecadal heat content variability

B. I. Moat
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B. Sinha
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D. I. Berry
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S. S. Drijfhout
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N. Fraser
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L. Hermanson
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D. C. Jones
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S. A. Josey
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B. King
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C. Macintosh
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A. Megann
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M. Oltmanns
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R. Sanders
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S. Williams
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Sensitivity of Arctic clouds to ice microphysical processes in the NorESM2 climate model

Georgia Sotiropoulou
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Anna Lewinschal
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Paraskevi Georgakaki
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Vaughan Phillips
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Sachin Patade
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Annica M. L. Ekman
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Athanasios Nenes

Volume 37 (2024): Issue 15 (Aug 2024)

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

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

Michele M. Rienecker
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The NCEP Climate Forecast System Version 2

Suranjana Saha
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Jesse Meng
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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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David M. Lawrence
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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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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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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 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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Clara Deser
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Emanuele Di Lorenzo
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Nathan J. Mantua
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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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Catherine A. Smith
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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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Krista A. Dunne
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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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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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Huai-Min Zhang
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Uncertainties in CMIP5 Climate Projections due to Carbon Cycle Feedbacks

Pierre Friedlingstein
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Malte Meinshausen
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Vivek K. Arora
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Chris D. Jones
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Alessandro Anav
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Spencer K. Liddicoat
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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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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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