Journal of Climate

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Volume 36 (2023): Issue 20 (Oct 2023)

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

Mingfang Ting, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Darryn Waugh, The Johns Hopkins University

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4.9

2022 Journal Impact Factors in the Meteorology and Atmospheric Science category

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Biomass burning emissions of black carbon over the Maritime Continent and ENSO variability

Biyin Xie
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Yang Yang
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Hailong Wang
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Pinya Wang
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Hong Liao
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Decadal change in cold surges over the South China Sea

Bo Pang
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Riyu Lu
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Adam A. Scaife
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Rongcai Ren
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Opposite skills of ENGPI and DGPI in depicting decadal variability of tropical cyclone genesis over the western North Pacific

Chao Wang
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Yiran Wang
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Bin Wang
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Liguang Wu
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Haikun Zhao
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Jian Cao
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Persistent ocean anomalies as a response to Northern Hemisphere heating induced by biomass burning variability

Ryohei Yamaguchi
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Ji-Eun Kim
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Keith B. Rodgers
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Karl Stein
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Axel Timmermann
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Sun-Seon Lee
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Lei Huang
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Malte F. Stuecker
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John T. Fasullo
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Gokhan Danabasoglu
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Clara Deser
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Jean-Francois Lamarque
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Nan A. Rosenbloom
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Jim Edwards
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Asymmetric Arctic and Antarctic Warming and Its Inter-model Spread in CMIP6

Yihan Zhang
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Yunqi Kong
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Song Yang
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Xiaoming Hu
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Investigating the Relationship Between Sea Surface Temperature and the Mechanical Efficiency of Tropical Cyclones

Laurel Régibeau-Rockett
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Olivier M. Pauluis
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Morgan E O’Neill
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Local and remote causes of the equatorial Pacific cold sea surface temperature bias in the Kiel Climate Model

Yuming Zhang
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Tobias Bayr
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Mojib Latif
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Zhaoyang Song
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Wonsun Park
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Annika Reintges
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Is the Climate of the Congo Basin Becoming Less Able to Support a Tropical Forest Ecosystem?

Edward K. Vizy
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Harisankar Manoj
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Kerry H. Cook
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The Indian Ocean weakens ENSO Spring Predictability Barrier: Role of the Indian Ocean Basin and Dipole modes

Yishuai Jin
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Xing Meng
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Li Zhang
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Yingying Zhao
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Wenju Cai
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Lixin Wu
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Different Propagation Mechanisms of Deep and Shallow Wintertime Extratropical Cyclones over the North Pacific

Yuling Yao
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Yang Zhang
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Kevin I. Hodges
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Talia Tamarin-Brodsky
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Physical links from atmospheric circulation patterns to Barents-Kara sea ice variability from synoptic to seasonal timescales in the cold season

Peter Yu Feng Siew
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Yutian Wu
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Mingfang Ting
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Cheng Zheng
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Robin Clancy
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Nathan T. Kurtz
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Richard Seager
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Diversity of the Austral Summer Quasi-Biweekly Oscillation in the Southwestern Indian Ocean

Yang Yang
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Yanliang Liu
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Kuiping Li
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Lin Liu
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Weidong Yu
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Robust human influence across the troposphere, surface, and ocean: A multivariate analysis

Russell Blackport
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John C. Fyfe
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Benjamin D. Santer
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Plausible Drying and Wetting Scenarios for Summer in Southeastern South America

Julia Mindlin
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Carolina S. Vera
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Theodore G. Shepherd
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Marisol Osman
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MJO influence on subseasonal-to-seasonal prediction in the Northern Hemisphere extratropics

Hera Kim
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Seok-Woo Son
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Hyemi Kim
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Kyong-Hwan Seo
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Min-Jee Kang
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The Atmospheric Boundary Layer and the Initiation of the MJO

Richard H. Johnson
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Simon P. de Szoeke
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Paul E. Ciesielski
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W. Alan Brewer
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Observed precipitation trends inferred from Canada’s homogenized monthly precipitation dataset

Xiaolan L. Wang
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Yang Feng
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Vincent Y. S. Cheng
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Hong Xu
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Responses in the subpolar North Atlantic in two climate model sensitivity experiments with increased stratospheric aerosols

Hui Li
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Jadwiga H. Richter
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Aixue Hu
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Gerald A. Meehl
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Douglas MacMartin
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The role of local and remote processes for wintertime surface energy budget extremes over Arctic sea ice

Lukas Papritz
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Sonja Murto
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Matthias Röthlisberger
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Rodrigo Caballero
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Gabriele Messori
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Gunilla Svensson
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Heini Wernli
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Tropical Pacific Quasi-Decadal Variability Suppressed by Submesoscale Eddies

Yushan Qu
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Shengpeng Wang
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Zhao Jing
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Yu Zhang
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Hong Wang
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Lixin Wu
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Arctic sea ice loss inducing northwest extension of summer precipitation over the Tibetan Plateau

Rui Hu
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Jie Zhang
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Haishan Chen
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Qianrong Ma
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Zhiheng Chen
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Shiying Wu
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Yuxin Kuang
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Junjun Li
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Good Practices and Common Pitfalls in Climate Time Series Changepoint Techniques: A Review

Robert B. Lund
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Claudie Beaulieu
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Rebecca Killick
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QiQi Lu
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Xueheng Shi
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The New Version 3.2 Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) Monthly and Daily Precipitation Products

George J. Huffman
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Robert F. Adler
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Ali Behrangi
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David T. Bolvin
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Eric J. Nelkin
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Guojun Gu
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Mohammad Reza Ehsani
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Features of Local Finite Amplitude Wave Activity during Extreme Cold Waves over Eastern China

Ning Shi
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Samuel Ekwacu
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Shiyi Fu
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Jian Song
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Shaoying Xing
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Groundwater feedbacks on climate change in the CNRM global climate model

Jeanne Colin
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Bertrand Decharme
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Julien Cattiaux
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David Saint-Martina
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The coupled ice sheet-Earth system model Bern3D v3.0

Frerk Pöppelmeier
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Fortunat Joos
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Thomas F. Stocker
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The Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 (MERRA-2)

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The Community Climate System Model Version 4

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The NCEP Climate Forecast System Version 2

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Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature, Version 5 (ERSSTv5): Upgrades, Validations, and Intercomparisons

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GFDL’s ESM2 Global Coupled Climate–Carbon Earth System Models. Part I: Physical Formulation and Baseline Simulation Characteristics

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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

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Global Increasing Trends in Annual Maximum Daily Precipitation

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Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature Version 4 (ERSST.v4). Part I: Upgrades and Intercomparisons

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Uncertainties in CMIP5 Climate Projections due to Carbon Cycle Feedbacks

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