Journal of Climate

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Volume 35, Issue 2

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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

Editors in Chief

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

Mingfang Ting, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

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Enhanced tropospheric biennial oscillation of the East Asian summer monsoon since the late-1970s

Tiantian Yu, Juan Feng, Wen Chen, Kaiming Hu, and Shangfeng Chen
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An Investigation of Extreme Cold Events at the South Pole

Linda M. Keller, Kathryn J. Maloney, Matthew A. Lazzara, David E. Mikolajczyk, and Stefano Di Battista
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Asymmetric impacts of El Niño and La Niña on the Pacific–South America teleconnection pattern

Ya Wang, Gang Huang, Kaiming Hu, Weichen Tao, Xichen Li, Hainan Gong, Letian Gu, and Wenqi Zhang
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Diurnal differences in tropical maritime anvil cloud evolution

Blaž Gasparini, Adam B. Sokol, Casey J. Wall, Dennis L. Hartmann, and Peter N. Blossey
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Large-scale environments of successive atmospheric river events leading to compound precipitation extremes in California

Meredith A. Fish, James M. Done, Daniel L. Swain, Anna M. Wilson, Allison C. Michaelis, Peter B. Gibson, and F. Martin Ralph
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On the Southern Hemisphere stratospheric response to ENSO and its impacts on tropospheric circulation

Kane A. Stone, Susan Solomon, David W. J. Thompson, Douglas E. Kinnison, and John C. Fyfe
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Understanding future increases in precipitation extremes in global land monsoon regions

Meiyu Chang, Bo Liu, Bin Wang, Cristian Martinez-Villalobos, Guoyu Ren, and Tianjun Zhou
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Influence of Ural High on Air Temperatures over Eastern Europe and Northern China during extended Winter

Cuijuan Sui, Alexey Yu. Karpechko, Timo Vihma, Lejiang Yu, and Licheng Feng
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The leading mode and factors for coherent variations among the sub-systems of tropical Asian summer monsoon onset

Peng Hu, Wen Chen, Shangfeng Chen, Yuyun Liu, Lin Wang, and Ruping Huang
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Global warming pattern formation: the role of ocean heat uptake

Shineng Hu, Shang-Ping Xie, and Sarah M. Kang
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An Intraseasonal Mode Linking Wintertime Surface Air Temperature over Arctic and Eurasian Continent

Junyi Xiu, Xianan Jiang, Renhe Zhang, Weina Guan, and Gang Chen
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The Mesoscale Response to Global Warming over the Pacific Northwest Evaluated Using a Regional Climate Model Ensemble

Clifford F. Mass, Eric P Salathé Jr., Richard Steed, and Jeffrey Baars
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Roles of meridional overturning in subpolar Southern Ocean SST trends: Insights from ensemble simulations

Liping Zhang, Thomas L. Delworth, Sarah Kapnick, Jie He, William Cooke, Andrew T. Wittenberg, Nathaniel C. Johnson, Anthony Rosati, Xiaosong Yang, Feiyu Lu, Mitchell Bushuk, Colleen McHugh, Hiroyuki Murakami, Fanrong Zeng, Liwei Jia, Kai-Chih Tseng, and Yushi Morioka
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Rapid increase of explosive cyclone activity over the midwinter North Pacific in the late 1980s

Akira Kuwano-Yoshida, Satoru Okajima, and Hisashi Nakamura
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Seasonality in Arctic Warming Driven By Sea Ice Effective Heat Capacity

Lily C. Hahn, Kyle C. Armour, David S. Battisti, Ian Eisenman, and Cecilia M. Bitz
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The effect of explicit convection on climate change in the West African monsoon and central West African Sahel rainfall

Lawrence S. Jackson, John H. Marsham, Douglas J. Parker, Declan L. Finney, Rory G. J. Fitzpatrick, David P. Rowell, Rachel A. Stratton, and Simon Tucker
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Multidecadal Sea-level Rise in the Southeast Indian Ocean: The Role of Ocean Salinity Change

Ying Lu, Yuanlong Li, Jing Duan, Pengfei Lin, and Fan Wang
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Adiabatic and diabatic signatures of ocean temperature variability

R. M. Holmes, T. Sohail, and J.D. Zika
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Impact of local atmospheric intraseasonal variability on mean sea ice state in the Arctic Ocean

Xi Liang, Chengyan Liu, Lejiang Yu, Martin Losch, Lujun Zhang, Xichen Li, Fu Zhao, and Zhongxiang Tian
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A comparison of factors that led to the extreme sea ice minima in the 21st century in the Arctic Ocean

Xi Liang, Xichen Li, Haibo Bi, Martin Losch, Yongqi Gao, Fu Zhao, Zhongxiang Tian, and Chengyan Liu
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The Connection between Carnot and CAPE Formulations of TC Potential Intensity

Raphaël Rousseau-Rizzi, Timothy M. Merlis, and Nadir Jeevanjee
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Different responses of Central Asian precipitation to strong and weak El Niño events

Zhang Chen, Renguang Wu, Yong Zhao, and Zhibiao Wang
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Seasonal Prediction of Tropical Cyclones over the North Atlantic and Western North Pacific

Daniel J. Befort, Kevin I. Hodges, and Antje Weisheimer
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Attribution of dry and wet climatic changes over Central Asia

Yu Ren, Haipeng Yu, Chenxi Liu, Yongli He, Jianping Huang, Lixia Zhang, Huancui Hu, Qiang Zhang, Siyu Chen, Xiaoyue Liu, Meng Zhang, Yun Wei, Yaoxian Yan, Weiwei Fan, and Jie Zhou
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MJO propagation over the Indian Ocean and Western Pacific in CMIP5 Models: Roles of Background States

Guiwan Chen, Jian Ling, Yuanwen Zhang, Xin Wang, and Chongyin Li
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Genesis of Upper-Tropospheric Anticyclones over the Asian−Western Pacific Sector from Tropical-extratropical Interaction Perspective

Hiroaki Ueda, Masaya Kuramochi, Koutarou Takaya, Yuhei Takaya, Saki Asano, and Shuhei Maeda
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Network-based Approach and Climate Change Benefits for Forecasting the Amount of Indian Monsoon Rainfall

Jingfang Fan, Jun Meng, Josef Ludescher, Zhaoyuan Li, Elena Surovyatkina, Xiaosong Chen, Jürgen Kurths, and Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
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The Role of Continental Topography in the Present-Day Ocean’s Mean Climate

R. J. Stouffer, J. R. Russell, R. L. Beadling, A. J. Broccoli, J. P. Krasting, S. Malyshev, and Z. Naiman
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Snow depth trends from CMIP6 models conflict with observational evidence

Xinyue Zhong, Tingjun Zhang, Shichang Kang, and Jian Wang
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Rapid dynamical evolution of ITCZ events over the east Pacific

Alex O. Gonzalez, Indrani Ganguly, Marie C. McGraw, and James G. Larson
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Understanding the Forecast Skill of Rapid Arctic Sea Ice Loss on Subseasonal Timescales

Marie C. McGraw, Eduardo Blanchard-Wrigglesworth, Robin P. Clancy, and Cecilia M. Bitz
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Volume 35 (2022): Issue 2 (Jan 2022)

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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
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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
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The Community Climate System Model Version 4

Peter R. Gent, Gokhan Danabasoglu, Leo J. Donner, Marika M. Holland, Elizabeth C. Hunke, Steve R. Jayne, David M. Lawrence, Richard B. Neale, Philip J. Rasch, Mariana Vertenstein, Patrick H. Worley, Zong-Liang Yang, and Minghua Zhang
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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
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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
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GFDL’s ESM2 Global Coupled Climate–Carbon Earth System Models. Part I: Physical Formulation and Baseline Simulation Characteristics

John P. Dunne, Jasmin G. John, Alistair J. Adcroft, Stephen M. Griffies, Robert W. Hallberg, Elena Shevliakova, Ronald J. Stouffer, William Cooke, Krista A. Dunne, Matthew J. Harrison, John P. Krasting, Sergey L. Malyshev, P. C. D. Milly, Peter J. Phillipps, Lori T. Sentman, Bonita L. Samuels, Michael J. Spelman, Michael Winton, Andrew T. Wittenberg, and Niki Zadeh
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Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature Version 4 (ERSST.v4). Part I: Upgrades and Intercomparisons

Boyin Huang, Viva F. Banzon, Eric Freeman, Jay Lawrimore, Wei Liu, Thomas C. Peterson, Thomas M. Smith, Peter W. Thorne, Scott D. Woodruff, and Huai-Min Zhang
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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

Leo J. Donner, Bruce L. Wyman, Richard S. Hemler, Larry W. Horowitz, Yi Ming, Ming Zhao, Jean-Christophe Golaz, Paul Ginoux, S.-J. Lin, M. Daniel Schwarzkopf, John Austin, Ghassan Alaka, William F. Cooke, Thomas L. Delworth, Stuart M. Freidenreich, C. T. Gordon, Stephen M. Griffies, Isaac M. Held, William J. Hurlin, Stephen A. Klein, Thomas R. Knutson, Amy R. Langenhorst, Hyun-Chul Lee, Yanluan Lin, Brian I. Magi, Sergey L. Malyshev, P. C. D. Milly, Vaishali Naik, Mary J. Nath, Robert Pincus, Jeffrey J. Ploshay, V. Ramaswamy, Charles J. Seman, Elena Shevliakova, Joseph J. Sirutis, William F. Stern, Ronald J. Stouffer, R. John Wilson, Michael Winton, Andrew T. Wittenberg, and Fanrong Zeng
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Global Increasing Trends in Annual Maximum Daily Precipitation

Seth Westra, Lisa V. Alexander, and Francis W. Zwiers
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Uncertainties in CMIP5 Climate Projections due to Carbon Cycle Feedbacks

Pierre Friedlingstein, Malte Meinshausen, Vivek K. Arora, Chris D. Jones, Alessandro Anav, Spencer K. Liddicoat, and Reto Knutti

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A Multiscalar Drought Index Sensitive to Global Warming: The Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index

Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano, Santiago Beguería, and Juan I. López-Moreno
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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
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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
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Robust Responses of the Hydrological Cycle to Global Warming

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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

Leo J. Donner, Bruce L. Wyman, Richard S. Hemler, Larry W. Horowitz, Yi Ming, Ming Zhao, Jean-Christophe Golaz, Paul Ginoux, S.-J. Lin, M. Daniel Schwarzkopf, John Austin, Ghassan Alaka, William F. Cooke, Thomas L. Delworth, Stuart M. Freidenreich, C. T. Gordon, Stephen M. Griffies, Isaac M. Held, William J. Hurlin, Stephen A. Klein, Thomas R. Knutson, Amy R. Langenhorst, Hyun-Chul Lee, Yanluan Lin, Brian I. Magi, Sergey L. Malyshev, P. C. D. Milly, Vaishali Naik, Mary J. Nath, Robert Pincus, Jeffrey J. Ploshay, V. Ramaswamy, Charles J. Seman, Elena Shevliakova, Joseph J. Sirutis, William F. Stern, Ronald J. Stouffer, R. John Wilson, Michael Winton, Andrew T. Wittenberg, and Fanrong Zeng
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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
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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

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