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On-going Research Projects

  • A mechanistic study of interannual to centennial-scale subsurface oxygen dynamics in the Pacific Ocean
  • Analyzing changes and extremes in spring onset in comparison to the record breaking warmth of March 2012
  • Arctic Air Masses in a Warming World
  • Arctic Amplification and Possible Influence on Mid-latitude Climate and Weather
  • Attribution of extreme events in India
  • Blind Evaluation of Lossy Data-Compression in LENS
  • Blocking statistics and variability
  • CESM+DART
  • Changes in tropical cyclone activity
  • Changing Polar Bear Sea Ice Habitats
  • Circumglobal waveguide patterns and extremes
  • Clustering of Sea Surface Temperature Variability Across the Large Ensemble
  • Contrasting urban and rural heatwaves over the U.S.
  • Driving mechanisms for oceanic heat content change in the longterm mean and during hiatus decades and the connection between ocean basins
  • Drought/soil-carbon characteristics and evolution
  • Dynamic downscaling experiments using RASM
  • Estimating the uncertainty of large-scale atmospheric dynamics
  • Evolution of aridity in the 21st Century
  • Examining changes in the frequency of landfalling atmospheric rivers and extreme precipitation over western North America
  • Examining forced historical changes in East Asian monsoon rainfall
  • Exploring Climate Change and Variability in the Water and Energy Cycles using the CESM Large Ensemble
  • Exploring the availability of Arctic shipping routes
  • Forced and Unforced Variability of droughts in monsoon regions
  • Greenland Ice Sheet surface mass balance
  • Impacts of Climate Changes on the Future Groundwater Storage in the High Plains Aquifer
  • Interactions of Colossal Volcanic Eruptions and ENSO
  • Internal variability and forced trends in multiple ecosystem stressors
  • Investigating fluctuations of the tropical intraseasonal oscillation
  • Investigating MJO variability in the LENS by running the Clivar-MJO diagnostic package
  • Investigating the atmospheric response to AMOC variability
  • Investigating the internal variability and potential climate change related to atmospheric flow regimes in Northern Europe
  • Investigating the role of internal variability on Pacific Walker Circulation trends
  • Investigating what governs AMOC trends
  • Land-atmosphere coupling metrics
  • Long-term internal variability of the Asian monsoon
  • Long-term link between African and South Asian monsoons
  • Magnitude, robustness and spatio-temporal structure of changes in temperature and precipitation extremes
  • Narrowing uncertainties in precipitation and the hydrological cycle in climate models
  • North Pacific Gyre Oscillation (NPGO) Index in the CESM Large Ensemble
  • Poleward energy transport and leading modes of climate variability
  • Quantifying Predictability Limits, Uncertainties, Mechanisms, and Regional Impacts of Pacific Decadal Climate Variability
  • Quantifying regional projection uncertainty of impact-relevant climate change
  • Robustness of the SAM response to GHG and ozone forcing
  • Role of internal variability in Pacific sea-level trends
  • Snow water availability in the 21st Century
  • Southern Ocean Sea Ice and Climate
  • Surface ocean pCO2 and air-sea CO2 flux variability
  • The influence of dynamics and emissions changes on China’s wintertime haze
  • The role of forcing in driving the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation
  • Tropical teleconnections to the Arctic
  • Understanding the mechanisms responsible for the SAM response to ozone depletion
  • Using first year ice tracer in CICE to analyze Arctic sea ice decline

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