On-going Research Projects

• Indo-Pacific Warm Pool variability over the last millennium
• A factorial design approach to climate model forcing interactions
• A statistical framework for comparing paleoclimate data and climate model simulations
• Anthropogenic Controls on ENSO Diversity
• Causes of the Little Ice Age
• Change of terrestrial aridity and drylands during 850-2100AD
• Changes in regime behavior of ENSO oscillations
• Disentangling Volcanic and ENSO-Related Hydroclimate Impacts
• Drivers of Southern Hemisphere mid-latitude climate variability over the past millennium
• Exploration of the Global Monsoon Across the Last Millennium
• Historical climatic impacts of land-use and land-cover changes
• Hydroclimate changes in East Africa over the last millennium
• Indo-Pacific water isotope variability during the last millennium
• Investigate deep ocean ventilation changes
• Investigating the ENSO response of the tropical Pacific ocean to large Volcanic eruptions
• Investigating the Tropical and South Atlantic Variability during the Last Millenium
• Multi-temporal scales on climate teleconnections in South Atlantic and Antarctica
• Near-term (sub-decadal) variability in storm activity in the North-Atlantic-European region
• New metrics to quantify the impacts of land cover change on climate
• Pacific Meridional Mode Variability
• Sea ice
• Seasonally specific precipitation variability in southwestern North America over the past millennium
• The influence of solar variability on climate over the last millennium
• The role of forcing in driving the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation
• Variability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)
• Variations of Arctic Oscillation and Antarctic Oscillation during the past millennium
• Volcanic forcing during the last millennium
• Wings of Change: Mega-Droughts, Ming Gap and Maritime Trade