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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

Timothy DelSole, George Mason University and Center for Ocean–Land–Atmosphere Studies

Mingfang Ting, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

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On the Generation of Weddell Sea Polynyas in a High-Resolution Earth System Model

Prajvala Kurtakoti, Milena Veneziani, Achim Stössel, Wilbert Weijer, and Mathew Maltrud

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0229.1

Published Online:: 15 Jan 2021

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Evaluation of the tail of the probability distribution of daily and sub-daily precipitation in CMIP6 models

Jesse Norris, Alex Hall, J. David Neelin, Chad W. Thackeray, and Di Chen

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0182.1

Published Online:: 14 Jan 2021

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The fast response of the atmospheric water cycle to anthropogenic black carbon aerosols during summer in East Asia

Chen Pan, Bin Zhu, Chenwei Fang, Hanqing Kang, Zhiming Kang, Hao Chen, Duanyang Liu, and Xuewei Hou

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0492.1

Published Online:: 14 Jan 2021

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Intercomparison of MJO column moist static energy and water vapor budget among six modern reanalysis products

Pengfei Ren, Daehyun Kim, Min-Seop Ahn, Daehyun Kang, and Hong-Li Ren

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0653.1

Published Online:: 14 Jan 2021

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Observed and Projected Frontal Activities in East Asia

Chia-Chi Wang, Huang-Hsiung Hsu, and Ying-Ting Chen

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0959.1

Published Online:: 14 Jan 2021

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The observed relationship between Pacific SST variability and Hadley cell extent trends in reanalyses

Michael Rollings and Timothy M. Merlis

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0410.1

Published Online:: 14 Jan 2021

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Transient climate response to Arctic sea-ice loss with two ice-constraining methods

Amélie Simon, Guillaume Gastineau, Claude Frankignoul, Clément Rousset, and Francis Codron

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0288.1

Published Online:: 14 Jan 2021

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Efficiency of time series homogenization: method comparison with 12 monthly temperature test datasets

Peter Domonkos, José A. Guijarro, Victor Venema, Manola Brunet, and Javier Sigró

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0611.1

Published Online:: 13 Jan 2021

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Enhanced Tropical Eastern Indian Ocean Rainfall Breaks down the Tropical Easterly Jet-Indian Rainfall Relationship

Sihua Huang, Bin Wang, Zhiping Wen, and Zesheng Chen

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0631.1

Published Online:: 13 Jan 2021

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ENSO Diversity in a Tropical Stochastic Skeleton Model for the MJO, El Niño, and Dynamic Walker Circulation

Qiu Yang, Andrew J. Majda, and Nan Chen

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0447.1

Published Online:: 13 Jan 2021

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Impact of developing ENSO on the Tibetan Plateau summer rainfall

Shuai Hu, Tianjun Zhou, and Bo Wu

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0612.1

Published Online:: 13 Jan 2021

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Origins of the excessive westward extension of ENSO SST simulated in CMIP5/6 models

Wenping Jiang, Ping Huang, Gang Huang, and Jun Ying

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0551.1

Published Online:: 13 Jan 2021

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Regional energy and water budget of a precipitating atmosphere over ocean

Seiji Kato, Norman G. Loeb, John T. Fasullo, Kevin E. Trenberth, Peter H. Lauritzen, Fred G. Rose, David A. Rutan, and Masaki Satoh

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0175.1

Published Online:: 13 Jan 2021

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Seasonal variation of westerly jet over Asia in Last Glacial Maximum: Role of the Tibetan Plateau heating

Jing Lei, Zhengguo Shi, Xiaoning Xie, Yingying Sha, Xinzhou Li, Xiaodong Liu, and Zhisheng An

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0438.1

Published Online:: 13 Jan 2021

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Contrasting Interannual prediction between January and February Temperature in Southern China in the NCEP Climate Forecast System

Shaobo Qiao, Meng Zou, Ho Nam Cheung, Jieyu Liu, Jinqing Zuo, Qingxiang Li, Guolin Feng, and Wenjie Dong

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0568.1

Published Online:: 11 Jan 2021

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Dynamic control of the dominant modes of interannual variability of snowfall frequency in China

Bo Sun, Huijun Wang, Biwen Wu, Min Xu, Botao Zhou, Huixin Li, and Teng Wang

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0705.1

Published Online:: 08 Jan 2021

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Improving Australian Rainfall Prediction Using Sea Surface Salinity

Saurabh Rathore, Nathaniel L. Bindoff, Caroline C. Ummenhofer, Helen E. Phillips, Ming Feng, and Mayank Mishra

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0625.1

Published Online:: 08 Jan 2021

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On the role of the Antarctic Slope Front on the occurrence of the Weddell Sea polynya under climate change

Joseph W. Lockwood, Carolina O. Dufour, Stephen M. Griffies, and Michael Winton

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0069.1

Published Online:: 08 Jan 2021

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Extreme Temperatures in the Antarctic

John Turner, Hua Lu, John King, Gareth J. Marshall, Tony Phillips, Dan Bannister, and Steve Colwell

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0538.1

Published Online:: 07 Jan 2021

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Quantifying the Role of Ocean Dynamics in Ocean Mixed-Layer Temperature Variability

Casey R. Patrizio and David W.J. Thompson

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0476.1

Published Online:: 07 Jan 2021

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Decadal Modulation of the ENSO-Indian Ocean Basin Warming relationship during the decaying summer by the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation

Fangyu Liu, Wenjun Zhang, Fei-Fei Jin, and Suqiong Hu

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0457.1

Published Online:: 05 Jan 2021

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Extreme snow events along the coast of the northeast United States: Potential changes due to global warming

Guoxing Chen, Wei-Chyung Wang, Chao-Tzuen Cheng, and Huang-Hsiung Hsu

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0197.1

Published Online:: 30 Dec 2020

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A multidecadal-scale tropically-driven global teleconnection over the past millennium and its recent strengthening

Xiaofang Feng, Qinghua Ding, Liguang Wu, Charles Jones, Ian Baxter, Robert Tardif, Samantha Stevenson, Julien Emile-Geay, Jonathan Mitchell, Leila M. V. Carvalho, Huijun Wang, and Eric Steig

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0216.1

Published Online:: 30 Dec 2020

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Arctic Amplification Weakens the Variability of Daily Temperatures over Northern Mid-to-High Latitudes

Aiguo Dai and Jiechun Deng

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0514.1

Published Online:: 29 Dec 2020

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Changes in North Atlantic atmospheric circulation in a warmer climate favor winter flooding and summer drought over Europe

E. Rousi, F. Selten, S. Rahmstorf, and D. Coumou

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0311.1

Published Online:: 29 Dec 2020

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Explaining the Spatial Pattern of U.S. Extreme Daily Precipitation Change

Martin Hoerling, Lesley Smith, Xiao-Wei Quan, Jon Eischeid, Joseph Barsugli, and Henry F. Diaz

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0666.1

Published Online:: 29 Dec 2020

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Relative roles of energy and momentum fluxes in the tropical response to extratropical thermal forcing

Yen-Ting Hwang, Hung-Yi Tseng, Kuan-Chen Li, Sarah M. Kang, Yung-Jen Chen, and John C. H. Chiang

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0151.1

Published Online:: 29 Dec 2020

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Comparison of convective parameters derived from ERA5 and MERRA2 with rawinsonde data over Europe and North America

Mateusz Taszarek, Natalia Pilguj, John T. Allen, Victor Gensini, Harold E. Brooks, and Piotr Szuster

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0484.1

Published Online:: 28 Dec 2020

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The Contribution of Internal Variability to Asian Mid-Latitude Warming

Xiaofang Feng and Liguang Wu

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0231.1

Published Online:: 28 Dec 2020

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Cross-basin Interactions between the Tropical Atlantic and Pacific in the ECMWF Hindcasts

Jing Ma, Shang-Ping Xie, Haiming Xu, Jiuwei Zhao, and Leying Zhang

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0140.1

Published Online:: 28 Dec 2020

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Interannual to Decadal Variability of Tropical Indian Ocean Sea Surface Temperature: Pacific Influence versus Local Internal Variability

Lei Zhang, Gang Wang, Matthew Newman, and Weiqing Han

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0807.1

Published Online:: 28 Dec 2020

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North Atlantic winter storm activity in modern reanalyses and pressure-based observations

Frauke Feser, Oliver Krueger, Katja Woth, and Linda van Garderen

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0529.1

Published Online:: 28 Dec 2020

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Regionalization of seasonal precipitation over the Tibetan Plateau and associated large-scale atmospheric systems

Hui-Wen Lai, Hans W. Chen, Julia Kukulies, Tinghai Ou, and Deliang Chen

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0521.1

Published Online:: 28 Dec 2020

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Using Bayesian Networks to investigate the influence of subseasonal Arctic variability on midlatitude North Atlantic circulation

Nathanael Harwood, Richard Hall, Giorgia Di Capua, Andrew Russell, and Allan Tucker

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0369.1

Published Online:: 28 Dec 2020

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Assessing the influence of large-scale environmental conditions on rainfall structure of Atlantic tropical cyclones: An observational study

Kim Dasol, Chang-Hoi Ho, Hiroyuki Murakami, and Doo-Sun R. Park

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0376.1

Published Online:: 23 Dec 2020

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Compatible Fossil Fuel CO₂ emissions in the CMIP6 Earth System Models’ Historical and Shared Socioeconomic Pathway experiments of the 21st Century

Spencer K. Liddicoat, Andy J. Wiltshire, Chris D. Jones, Vivek K. Arora, Victor Brovkin, Patricia Cadule, Tomohiro Hajima, David M. Lawrence, Julia Pongratz, Jörg Schwinger, Roland Séférian, Jerry F. Tjiputra, and Tilo Ziehn

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0991.1

Published Online:: 23 Dec 2020

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The Crucial Role of Synoptic Pattern in Determining the Spatial Distribution and Diurnal Cycle of Heavy Rainfall over the South China Coast

Chenli Wang, Kun Zhao, Anning Huang, Xingchao Chen, and Xiaona Rao

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0274.1

Published Online:: 23 Dec 2020

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Decomposing the Drivers of Polar Amplification with a Single Column Model

Matthew Henry, Timothy M. Merlis, Nicholas J. Lutsko, and Brian E.J. Rose

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0178.1

Published Online:: 23 Dec 2020

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Nonlinear response of atmospheric blocking to early winter Barents-Kara Seas warming: An idealized model study

Xiaodan Chen, Dehai Luo, Yutian Wu, Etienne Dunn-Sigouin, and Jian Lu

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0720.1

Published Online:: 23 Dec 2020

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Seasonal Sensitivity of the Cross-Equatorial Hadley Cell Response to Extratropical Thermal Forcings

Yen-Ting Hwang and Po-Chun Chung

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0938.1

Published Online:: 23 Dec 2020

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Terrestrial evaporation and global climate: lessons from Northland, a planet with a hemispheric continent

Marysa M. Laguë, Marianne Pietschnig, Sarah Ragen, Timothy A. Smith, and David S. Battisti

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0452.1

Published Online:: 23 Dec 2020

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A theory of Spring Persistence Barrier on ENSO. Part I: The role of ENSO period

Yishuai Jin and Zhengyu Liu

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0540.1

Published Online:: 23 Dec 2020

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Climate Extremes across the North American Arctic in Modern Reanalyses

Alvaro Avila-Diaz, David H. Bromwich, Aaron B. Wilson, Flavio Justino, and Sheng-Hung Wang

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0093.1

Published Online:: 21 Dec 2020

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Drivers of Eurasian spring snow cover variability

Taotao Zhang, Tao Wang, Yutong Zhao, Chaoyi Xu, Yingying Feng, and Dan Liu

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0413.1

Published Online:: 21 Dec 2020

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Global Near-Surface Wind Speed Changes over the Last Decades Revealed by Reanalyses and CMIP6 Model Simulations

Kaiqiang Deng, Cesar Azorin-Molina, Lorenzo Minola, Gangfeng Zhang, and Deliang Chen

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0310.1

Published Online:: 21 Dec 2020

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Impacts of low-frequency internal climate variability and greenhouse warming on the El Niño-Southern Oscillation

Benjamin Ng, Wenju Cai, Tim Cowan, and Daohua Bi

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0232.1

Published Online:: 21 Dec 2020

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Comparison of Regional Climate Model Performances for Different Types of Heat Waves over South Korea

Donghyuck Yoon, Dong-Hyun Cha, Myong-In Lee, Ki-Hong Min, Sang-Yoon Jun, and Yonghan Choi

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0422.1

Published Online:: 18 Dec 2020

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Drought and flood characterization and connection to climate variability in Pearl River Basin, Southern China using long-term GRACE and reanalysis data

Zhiyong Huang, Jiu Jimmy Jiao, Xin Luo, Yun Pan, and Taoyong Jin

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0332.1

Published Online:: 18 Dec 2020

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Assimilation of Satellite-retrieved Sea Ice Concentration and Prospects for September Predictions of Arctic Sea Ice

Yong-Fei Zhang, Mitchell Bushuk, Michael Winton, Bill Hurlin, Xiaosong Yang, Tom Delworth, and Liwei Jia

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0469.1

Published Online:: 17 Dec 2020

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Characterizing the relationship between temperature and soil moisture extremes and their role in the exacerbation of heatwaves over the contiguous United States

David O. Benson and Paul A. Dirmeyer

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0440.1

Published Online:: 17 Dec 2020

Volume 34 (2020): Issue 3 (Dec 2020)

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

Ronald Gelaro, Will McCarty, Max J. Suárez, Ricardo Todling, Andrea Molod, Lawrence Takacs, Cynthia A. Randles, Anton Darmenov, Michael G. Bosilovich, Rolf Reichle, Krzysztof Wargan, Lawrence Coy, Richard Cullather, Clara Draper, Santha Akella, Virginie Buchard, Austin Conaty, Arlindo M. da Silva, Wei Gu, Gi-Kong Kim, Randal Koster, Robert Lucchesi, Dagmar Merkova, Jon Eric Nielsen, Gary Partyka, Steven Pawson, William Putman, Michele Rienecker, Siegfried D. Schubert, Meta Sienkiewicz, and Bin Zhao

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0758.1

Published Online:: 15 Jul 2017

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

Boyin Huang, Peter W. Thorne, Viva F. Banzon, Tim Boyer, Gennady Chepurin, Jay H. Lawrimore, Matthew J. Menne, Thomas M. Smith, Russell S. Vose, and Huai-Min Zhang

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0836.1

Published Online:: 15 Oct 2017

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The NCEP Climate Forecast System Version 2

Suranjana Saha, Shrinivas Moorthi, Xingren Wu, Jiande Wang, Sudhir Nadiga, Patrick Tripp, David Behringer, Yu-Tai Hou, Hui-ya Chuang, Mark Iredell, Michael Ek, Jesse Meng, Rongqian Yang, Malaquías Peña Mendez, Huug van den Dool, Qin Zhang, Wanqiu Wang, Mingyue Chen, and Emily Becker

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00823.1

Published Online:: 15 Mar 2014

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

Michele M. Rienecker, Max J. Suarez, Ronald Gelaro, Ricardo Todling, Julio Bacmeister, Emily Liu, Michael G. Bosilovich, Siegfried D. Schubert, Lawrence Takacs, Gi-Kong Kim, Stephen Bloom, Junye Chen, Douglas Collins, Austin Conaty, Arlindo da Silva, Wei Gu, Joanna Joiner, Randal D. Koster, Robert Lucchesi, Andrea Molod, Tommy Owens, Steven Pawson, Philip Pegion, Christopher R. Redder, Rolf Reichle, Franklin R. Robertson, Albert G. Ruddick, Meta Sienkiewicz, and Jack Woollen

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00015.1

Published Online:: 15 Jul 2011

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The Pacific Decadal Oscillation, Revisited

Matthew Newman, Michael A. Alexander, Toby R. Ault, Kim M. Cobb, Clara Deser, Emanuele Di Lorenzo, Nathan J. Mantua, Arthur J. Miller, Shoshiro Minobe, Hisashi Nakamura, Niklas Schneider, Daniel J. Vimont, Adam S. Phillips, James D. Scott, and Catherine A. Smith

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0508.1

Published Online:: 15 Jun 2016

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