| Year |
Citation |
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| 2022 |
Zhang X, Kushner PJ, Saville BA, Posen ID. Cold Temperature Limits to Biodiesel Use under Present and Future Climates in North America. Environmental Science & Technology. PMID 35678615 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.2c01699 |
0.336 |
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| 2020 |
Tandon NF, Saenko OA, Cane MA, Kushner PJ. Interannual Variability of the Global Meridional Overturning Circulation Dominated by Pacific Variability Journal of Physical Oceanography. 50: 559-574. DOI: 10.1175/Jpo-D-19-0129.1 |
0.456 |
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| 2020 |
Danabasoglu G, Lamarque J, Bacmeister J, Bailey DA, DuVivier AK, Edwards J, Emmons LK, Fasullo J, Garcia R, Gettelman A, Hannay C, Holland MM, Large WG, Lauritzen PH, Lawrence DM, ... ... Kushner PJ, et al. The Community Earth System Model Version 2 (CESM2) Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 12. DOI: 10.1029/2019Ms001916 |
0.457 |
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| 2020 |
Cabaj A, Kushner PJ, Fletcher CG, Howell S, Petty AA. Constraining Reanalysis Snowfall Over the Arctic Ocean Using CloudSat Observations Geophysical Research Letters. 47. DOI: 10.1029/2019Gl086426 |
0.459 |
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| 2018 |
Goosse H, Kay JE, Armour KC, Bodas-Salcedo A, Chepfer H, Docquier D, Jonko A, Kushner PJ, Lecomte O, Massonnet F, Park HS, Pithan F, Svensson G, Vancoppenolle M. Quantifying climate feedbacks in polar regions. Nature Communications. 9: 1919. PMID 29765038 DOI: 10.1038/S41467-018-04173-0 |
0.472 |
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| 2018 |
Mudryk LR, Derksen C, Howell S, Laliberté F, Thackeray C, Sospedra-Alfonso R, Vionnet V, Kushner PJ, Brown R. Canadian snow and sea ice: historical trends and projections The Cryosphere. 12: 1157-1176. DOI: 10.5194/Tc-12-1157-2018 |
0.446 |
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| 2018 |
Kushner PJ, Mudryk LR, Merryfield W, Ambadan JT, Berg A, Bichet A, Brown R, Derksen C, Déry SJ, Dirkson A, Flato G, Fletcher CG, Fyfe JC, Gillett N, Haas C, et al. Canadian snow and sea ice: assessment of snow, sea ice, and related climate processes in Canada's Earth system model and climate-prediction system The Cryosphere. 12: 1137-1156. DOI: 10.5194/Tc-12-1137-2018 |
0.504 |
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| 2018 |
Blackport R, Kushner PJ. The Role of Extratropical Ocean Warming in the Coupled Climate Response to Arctic Sea Ice Loss Journal of Climate. 31: 9193-9206. DOI: 10.1175/Jcli-D-18-0192.1 |
0.475 |
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| 2018 |
Watt-Meyer O, Kushner PJ. Why are Temperature and Upward Wave Activity Flux Positively Skewed in the Polar Stratosphere Journal of Climate. 31: 115-130. DOI: 10.1175/Jcli-D-17-0155.1 |
0.39 |
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| 2018 |
Fajber R, Kushner PJ, Laliberté F. Influence of Midlatitude Surface Thermal Anomalies on the Polar Midtroposphere in an Idealized Moist Model Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 75: 1089-1104. DOI: 10.1175/Jas-D-17-0283.1 |
0.423 |
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| 2018 |
Screen JA, Deser C, Smith DM, Zhang X, Blackport R, Kushner PJ, Oudar T, McCusker KE, Sun L. Consistency and discrepancy in the atmospheric response to Arctic sea-ice loss across climate models Nature Geoscience. 11: 155-163. DOI: 10.1038/S41561-018-0059-Y |
0.492 |
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| 2018 |
Henderson GR, Peings Y, Furtado JC, Kushner PJ. Snow–atmosphere coupling in the Northern Hemisphere Nature Climate Change. 8: 954-963. DOI: 10.1038/S41558-018-0295-6 |
0.532 |
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| 2018 |
Oudar T, Kushner PJ, Fyfe JC, Sigmond M. No Impact of Anthropogenic Aerosols on Early 21st Century Global Temperature Trends in a Large Initial-Condition Ensemble Geophysical Research Letters. 45: 9245-9252. DOI: 10.1029/2018Gl078841 |
0.369 |
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| 2018 |
Hay S, Kushner PJ, Blackport R, McCusker KE. On the Relative Robustness of the Climate Response to High‐Latitude and Low‐Latitude Warming Geophysical Research Letters. 45: 6232-6241. DOI: 10.1029/2018Gl077294 |
0.434 |
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| 2018 |
Tandon NF, Kushner PJ, Docquier D, Wettstein JJ, Li C. Reassessing Sea Ice Drift and Its Relationship to Long‐Term Arctic Sea Ice Loss in Coupled Climate Models Journal of Geophysical Research. 123: 4338-4359. DOI: 10.1029/2017Jc013697 |
0.437 |
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| 2017 |
Wang L, Ting M, Kushner PJ. A robust empirical seasonal prediction of winter NAO and surface climate. Scientific Reports. 7: 279. PMID 28325893 DOI: 10.1038/S41598-017-00353-Y |
0.519 |
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| 2017 |
Mudryk L, Derksen C, Howell S, Laliberté F, Thackeray C, Sospedra-Alfonso R, Vionnet V, Kushner P, Brown R. Canadian Snow and Sea Ice: Trends (1981–2015) and Projections(2020–2050) The Cryosphere Discussions. 1-32. DOI: 10.5194/Tc-2017-198 |
0.443 |
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| 2017 |
Kushner PJ, Mudryk LR, Merryfield W, Ambadan JT, Berg A, Bichet A, Brown R, Derksen CP, Déry SJ, Dirkson A, Flato G, Fletcher CG, Fyfe JC, Gillett N, Haas C, et al. Assessment of Snow, Sea Ice, and Related Climate Processes in Canada's Earth-System Model and Climate Prediction System The Cryosphere Discussions. 1-34. DOI: 10.5194/Tc-2017-157 |
0.507 |
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| 2017 |
Blackport R, Kushner PJ. Isolating the Atmospheric Circulation Response to Arctic Sea Ice Loss in the Coupled Climate System Journal of Climate. 30: 2163-2185. DOI: 10.1175/Jcli-D-16-0257.1 |
0.484 |
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| 2017 |
McCusker KE, Kushner PJ, Fyfe JC, Sigmond M, Kharin VV, Bitz CM. Remarkable separability of circulation response to Arctic sea ice loss and greenhouse gas forcing Geophysical Research Letters. 44: 7955-7964. DOI: 10.1002/2017Gl074327 |
0.482 |
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| 2017 |
Mudryk LR, Kushner PJ, Derksen C, Thackeray C. Snow cover response to temperature in observational and climate model ensembles Geophysical Research Letters. 44: 919-926. DOI: 10.1002/2016Gl071789 |
0.515 |
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| 2016 |
Bichet A, Kushner PJ, Mudryk L. Estimating the Continental Response to Global Warming Using Pattern-Scaled Sea Surface Temperatures and Sea Ice Journal of Climate. 29: 9125-9139. DOI: 10.1175/Jcli-D-16-0032.1 |
0.529 |
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| 2016 |
Blackport R, Kushner PJ. The transient and equilibrium climate response to rapid summertime sea ice loss in CCSM4 Journal of Climate. 29: 401-417. DOI: 10.1175/Jcli-D-15-0284.1 |
0.506 |
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| 2016 |
Laliberté F, Howell SEL, Kushner PJ. Regional variability of a projected sea ice-free Arctic during the summer months Geophysical Research Letters. DOI: 10.1002/2015Gl066855 |
0.439 |
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| 2015 |
Laliberté F, Zika J, Mudryk L, Kushner PJ, Kjellsson J, Döös K. Atmospheric dynamics. Constrained work output of the moist atmospheric heat engine in a warming climate. Science (New York, N.Y.). 347: 540-3. PMID 25635098 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1257103 |
0.387 |
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| 2015 |
Watt-Meyer O, Kushner PJ. The role of standing waves in driving persistent anomalies of upward wave activity flux Journal of Climate. 28: 9941-9954. DOI: 10.1175/Jcli-D-15-0317.1 |
0.403 |
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| 2015 |
Mudryk LR, Derksen C, Kushner PJ, Brown R. Characterization of Northern Hemisphere snow water equivalent datasets, 1981-2010 Journal of Climate. 28: 8037-8051. DOI: 10.1175/Jcli-D-15-0229.1 |
0.431 |
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| 2015 |
Tandon NF, Kushner PJ. Does external forcing interfere with the AMOC's influence on North Atlantic sea surface temperature? Journal of Climate. 28: 6309-6323. DOI: 10.1175/Jcli-D-14-00664.1 |
0.472 |
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| 2015 |
Bichet A, Kushner PJ, Mudryk L, Terray L, Fyfe JC. Estimating the anthropogenic sea surface temperature response using pattern scaling Journal of Climate. 28: 3751-3763. DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00604.1 |
0.418 |
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| 2015 |
Watt-Meyer O, Kushner PJ. Decomposition of atmospheric disturbances into standing and traveling components, with application to Northern Hemisphere planetary waves and stratosphere-troposphere coupling Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 72: 787-802. DOI: 10.1175/Jas-D-14-0214.1 |
0.389 |
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| 2015 |
Kay JE, Deser C, Phillips A, Mai A, Hannay C, Strand G, Arblaster JM, Bates SC, Danabasoglu G, Edwards J, Holland M, Kushner P, Lamarque JF, Lawrence D, Lindsay K, et al. The community earth system model (CESM) large ensemble project : A community resource for studying climate change in the presence of internal climate variability Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 96: 1333-1349. DOI: 10.1175/Bams-D-13-00255.1 |
0.458 |
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| 2014 |
Laliberté F, Kushner PJ. Midlatitude moisture contribution to recent Arctic tropospheric summertime variability Journal of Climate. 27: 5693-5707. DOI: 10.1175/Jcli-D-13-00721.1 |
0.403 |
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| 2014 |
Mudryk LR, Kushner PJ, Derksen C. Interpreting observed northern hemisphere snow trends with large ensembles of climate simulations Climate Dynamics. 43: 345-359. DOI: 10.1007/S00382-013-1954-Y |
0.541 |
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| 2013 |
Wang L, Kushner PJ, Waugh DW. Southern hemisphere stationary wave response to changes of ozone and greenhouse gases Journal of Climate. 26: 10205-10217. DOI: 10.1175/Jcli-D-13-00160.1 |
0.476 |
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| 2013 |
Hurrell JW, Holland MM, Gent PR, Ghan S, Kay JE, Kushner PJ, Lamarque JF, Large WG, Lawrence D, Lindsay K, Lipscomb WH, Long MC, Mahowald N, Marsh DR, Neale RB, et al. The community earth system model: A framework for collaborative research Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 94: 1339-1360. DOI: 10.1175/Bams-D-12-00121.1 |
0.417 |
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| 2013 |
Maness H, Kushner PJ, Fung I. Summertime climate response to mountain pine beetle disturbance in British Columbia Nature Geoscience. 6: 65-70. DOI: 10.1038/Ngeo1642 |
0.444 |
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| 2013 |
Laliberté F, Kushner PJ. Isentropic constraints by midlatitude surface warming on the Arctic midtroposphere Geophysical Research Letters. 40: 606-611. DOI: 10.1029/2012Gl054306 |
0.452 |
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| 2013 |
Fletcher CG, Kushner PJ. Linear interference and the Northern Annular Mode response to tropical SST forcing: Sensitivity to model configuration Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 118: 4267-4279. DOI: 10.1002/Jgrd.50385 |
0.453 |
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| 2013 |
Young PJ, Butler AH, Calvo N, Haimberger L, Kushner PJ, Marsh DR, Randel WJ, Rosenlof KH. Agreement in late twentieth century southern hemisphere stratospheric temperature trends in observations and ccmval-2, CMIP3, and CMIP5 models Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 118: 605-613. DOI: 10.1002/Jgrd.50126 |
0.422 |
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| 2012 |
Vyushin DI, Kushner PJ, Zwiers F. Modeling and understanding persistence of climate variability Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 117. DOI: 10.1029/2012Jd018240 |
0.439 |
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| 2012 |
Fletcher CG, Zhao H, Kushner PJ, Fernandes R. Using models and satellite observations to evaluate the strength of snow albedo feedback Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 117. DOI: 10.1029/2012Jd017724 |
0.506 |
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| 2012 |
Smith KL, Kushner PJ. Linear interference and the initiation of extratropical stratosphere-troposphere interactions Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 117. DOI: 10.1029/2012Jd017587 |
0.411 |
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| 2012 |
Derksen C, Smith SL, Sharp M, Brown L, Howell S, Copland L, Mueller DR, Gauthier Y, Fletcher CG, Tivy A, Bernier M, Bourgeois J, Brown R, Burn CR, Duguay C, ... Kushner P, et al. Variability and change in the Canadian cryosphere Climatic Change. 115: 59-88. DOI: 10.1007/S10584-012-0470-0 |
0.471 |
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| 2011 |
Smith KL, Kushner PJ, Cohen J. The role of linear interference in northern annular mode variability associated with Eurasian snow cover extent Journal of Climate. 24: 6185-6202. DOI: 10.1175/Jcli-D-11-00055.1 |
0.43 |
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| 2011 |
Fletcher CG, Kushner PJ. The role of linear interference in the annular mode response to tropical SST forcing Journal of Climate. 24: 778-794. DOI: 10.1175/2010Jcli3735.1 |
0.463 |
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| 2011 |
Thompson DWJ, Solomon S, Kushner PJ, England MH, Grise KM, Karoly DJ. Signatures of the Antarctic ozone hole in Southern Hemisphere surface climate change Nature Geoscience. 4: 741-749. DOI: 10.1038/Ngeo1296 |
0.454 |
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| 2011 |
Wang L, Kushner PJ. Diagnosing the stratosphere-troposphere stationary wave response to climate change in a general circulation model Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 116. DOI: 10.1029/2010Jd015473 |
0.472 |
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| 2011 |
Mudryk LR, Kushner PJ. A method to diagnose sources of annular mode time scales Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 116. DOI: 10.1029/2010Jd015291 |
0.415 |
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| 2011 |
Butchart N, Charlton-Perez AJ, Cionni I, Hardiman SC, Haynes PH, Krüger K, Kushner PJ, Newman PA, Osprey SM, Perlwitz J, Sigmond M, Wang L, Akiyoshi H, Austin J, Bekki S, et al. Multimodel climate and variability of the stratosphere Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 116. DOI: 10.1029/2010Jd014995 |
0.464 |
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| 2010 |
Smith KL, Fletcher CG, Kushner PJ. The role of linear interference in the Annular Mode response to extratropical surface forcing Journal of Climate. 23: 6036-6050. DOI: 10.1175/2010Jcli3606.1 |
0.468 |
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| 2010 |
Wang L, Kushner PJ. Interpreting stationary wave nonlinearity in barotropic dynamics Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 67: 2240-2250. DOI: 10.1175/2010Jas3332.1 |
0.369 |
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| 2009 |
MacIntyre S, Fram JP, Kushner PJ, Bettez ND, O'Brien WJ, Hobbi JE, Kling GW. Climate-related variations in mixing dynamics in an Alaskan arctic lake Limnology and Oceanography. 54: 2401-2417. DOI: 10.4319/Lo.2009.54.6_Part_2.2401 |
0.392 |
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| 2009 |
Vyushin DI, Kushner PJ. Power-law and long-memory characteristics of the atmospheric general circulation Journal of Climate. 22: 2890-2904. DOI: 10.1175/2008Jcli2528.1 |
0.381 |
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| 2009 |
Fletcher CG, Hardiman SC, Kushner PJ, Cohen J. The dynamical response to snow cover perturbations in a large ensemble of atmospheric GCM integrations Journal of Climate. 22: 1208-1222. DOI: 10.1175/2008Jcli2505.1 |
0.532 |
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| 2009 |
Scinocca JF, Reader MC, Plummer DA, Sigmond M, Kushner PJ, Shepherd TG, Ravishankara AR. Impact of sudden arctic sea-ice loss on stratospheric polar ozone recovery Geophysical Research Letters. 36. DOI: 10.1029/2009Gl041239 |
0.491 |
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| 2009 |
Vyushin DI, Kushner PJ, Mayer J. On the origins of temporal power-law behavior in the global atmospheric circulation Geophysical Research Letters. 36. DOI: 10.1029/2009Gl038771 |
0.386 |
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| 2009 |
Fletcher CG, Kushner PJ, Hall A, Qu X. Circulation responses to snow albedo feedback in climate change Geophysical Research Letters. 36. DOI: 10.1029/2009Gl038011 |
0.511 |
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| 2008 |
Hardiman SC, Kushner PJ, Cohen J. Investigating the ability of general circulation models to capture the effects of Eurasian snow cover on winter climate Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 113. DOI: 10.1029/2008Jd010623 |
0.527 |
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| 2008 |
Sigmond M, Scinocca JF, Kushner PJ. Impact of the stratosphere on tropospheric climate change Geophysical Research Letters. 35. DOI: 10.1029/2008Gl033573 |
0.477 |
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| 2007 |
Kushner PJ, Lee G. Resolving the regional signature of the annular modes Journal of Climate. 20: 2840-2852. DOI: 10.1175/Jcli4106.1 |
0.324 |
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| 2007 |
Cohen J, Barlow M, Kushner PJ, Saito K. Stratosphere-troposphere coupling and links with Eurasian land surface variability Journal of Climate. 20: 5335-5343. DOI: 10.1175/2007Jcli1725.1 |
0.517 |
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| 2007 |
Fletcher CG, Kushner PJ, Cohen J. Stratospheric control of the extratropical circulation response to surface forcing Geophysical Research Letters. 34. DOI: 10.1029/2007Gl031626 |
0.43 |
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| 2007 |
Sigmond M, Kushner PJ, Scinocca JF. Discriminating robust and non-robust atmospheric circulation responses to global warming Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 112. DOI: 10.1029/2006Jd008270 |
0.52 |
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| 2007 |
Cash BA, Kushner P, Vallis G. Comment on "On the presence of annular variability in an aquaplanet model" by Masahiro Watanabe Geophysical Research Letters. 34. DOI: 10.1029/2006Gl027274 |
0.341 |
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| 2006 |
Kushner PJ, Polvani LM. Stratosphere-troposphere coupling in a relatively simple AGCM: Impact of the seasonal cycle Journal of Climate. 19: 5721-5727. DOI: 10.1175/Jcli4007.1 |
0.443 |
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| 2006 |
Delworth TL, Broccoli AJ, Rosati A, Stouffer RJ, Balaji V, Beesley JA, Cooke WF, Dixon KW, Dunne J, Dunne KA, Durachta JW, Findell KL, Ginoux P, Gnanadesikan A, Gordon CT, ... ... Kushner PJ, et al. GFDL's CM2 global coupled climate models. Part I: Formulation and simulation characteristics Journal of Climate. 19: 643-674. DOI: 10.1175/Jcli3629.1 |
0.495 |
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| 2005 |
Reichler T, Kushner PJ, Polvani LM. The coupled stratosphere-troposphere response to impulsive forcing from the troposphere Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 62: 3337-3352. DOI: 10.1175/Jas3527.1 |
0.418 |
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| 2005 |
Cash BA, Kushner PJ, Vallis GK. Zonal asymmetries, teleconnections, and annular patterns in a GCM Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 62: 207-219. DOI: 10.1175/Jas-3361.1 |
0.404 |
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| 2005 |
Kushner PJ, Polvani LM. A very large, spontaneous stratospheric sudden warming in a simple AGCM: A prototype for the Southern Hemisphere warming of 2002? Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 62: 890-897. DOI: 10.1175/Jas-3314.1 |
0.459 |
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| 2004 |
Anderson JL, Balaji V, Broccoli AJ, Cooke WF, Delworth TL, Dixon KW, Donner LJ, Dunne KA, Freidenreich SM, Garner ST, Gudgel RG, Gordon CT, Held IM, Hemler RS, Horowitz LW, ... ... Kushner PJ, et al. The new GFDL global atmosphere and land model AM2-LM2: Evaluation with prescribed SST simulations Journal of Climate. 17: 4641-4673. DOI: 10.1175/Jcli-3223.1 |
0.508 |
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| 2004 |
Vallis GK, Gerber EP, Kushner PJ, Cash BA. A mechanism and simple dynamical model of the North Atlantic Oscillation and annular modes Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 61: 269-280. DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2004)061<0264:Amasdm>2.0.Co;2 |
0.418 |
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| 2004 |
Kushner PJ, Polvani LM. Stratosphere-trotosphere coupling in a relatively simple AGCM: The role of eddies Journal of Climate. 17: 629-639. DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<0629:Sciars>2.0.Co;2 |
0.471 |
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| 2004 |
Joseph R, Ting M, Kushner PJ. The global stationary wave response to climate change in a coupled GCM Journal of Climate. 17: 540-556. DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<0540:Tgswrt>2.0.Co;2 |
0.482 |
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| 2002 |
Cash BA, Kushner PJ, Vallis GK. The structure and composition of the annular modes in an aquaplanet general circulation model Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 59: 3399-3414. DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2002)059<3399:Tsacot>2.0.Co;2 |
0.347 |
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| 2002 |
Polvani LM, Kushner PJ. Tropospheric response to stratospheric perturbations in a relatively simple general circulation model Geophysical Research Letters. 29: 18-1 - 18-4. DOI: 10.1029/2001Gl014284 |
0.474 |
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| 2002 |
Delworth TL, Stouffer RJ, Dixon KW, Spelman MJ, Knutson TR, Broccoli AJ, Kushner PJ, Wetherald RT. Review of simulations of climate variability and change with the GFDL R30 coupled climate model Climate Dynamics. 19: 555-574. DOI: 10.1007/S00382-002-0249-5 |
0.499 |
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| 2001 |
Kushner PJ, Held IM, Delworth TL. Southern Hemisphere atmospheric circulation response to global warming Journal of Climate. 14: 2238-2249. DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2001)014<0001:Shacrt>2.0.Co;2 |
0.463 |
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| 1999 |
Kushner PJ, Held IM. Potential vorticity thickness fluxes and wave-mean flow interaction Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 56: 948-958. DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1999)056<0948:Pvtfaw>2.0.Co;2 |
0.358 |
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| 1998 |
Kushner PJ, Mcintyre ME, Shepherd TG. Coupled Kelvin-wave and mirage-wave instabilities in semigeostrophic dynamics Journal of Physical Oceanography. 28: 513-518. DOI: 10.1175/1520-0485(1998)028<0513:Ckwamw>2.0.Co;2 |
0.317 |
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| 1998 |
Kushner PJ, Held IM. A test, using atmospheric data, of a method for estimating oceanic eddy diffusivity Geophysical Research Letters. 25: 4213-4216. DOI: 10.1029/1998Gl900142 |
0.346 |
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| 1997 |
Swanson KL, Kushner PJ, Held IM. Dynamics of barotropic storm tracks Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 54: 791-810. DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1997)054<0791:Dobst>2.0.Co;2 |
0.385 |
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| 1995 |
Kushner PJ, Shepherd TG. Wave-activity conservation laws and stability theorems for semi-geostrophic dynamics. Part 1. Pseudomomentum-based theory Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 290: 67-104. DOI: 10.1017/S0022112095002424 |
0.364 |
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