DRICOMP Publications
Publications resulting from the DRICOMP
program
• Biasutti, M, A.H. Sobel,
and Suzana Camargo, August 2009: The role of the Sahara Low in
summertime Sahel rainfall variability and change in the CMIP3 models.
Journal of Climate.
• Burgman,R.J., A. C. Clement, C. M. Mitas, J. Chen, and
K. Esslinger: Evidence for atmospheric variability over the Pacific
on decadal timescales, GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 35,
L01704, doi:10.1029/2007GL031830, 2008
Burgman , R., R. Seager,
A. Clement, and C. Herweijer (2010), Role of tropical Pacific SSTs
in global medieval hydroclimate: A modeling study, Geophys. Res.
Lett., 37, L06705, doi:10.1029/2009GL042239.
• Capotondi, Antoinetta and Michael Alexander, June 2010:
Relationship between decade-long droughts in the western U. S.
and global SST anomalies: Insights from the IPCC-AR4 multi-model
ensemble, Journal of Climate, Vol 23, Issue 11, pp. 2941-2958
• Caio, A.S. and Lisa Goddard, December 2009: El Niño–Induced
Tropical Droughts in Climate Change Projections, Journal of Climate,
Volume 22, Issue 23 pp. 6456-6476
• Kerry H. Cook, Edward K. Vizy, Hydrodynamics of the Caribbean
Low-level Jet and its Relationship to Precipitation. Journal
of Climate, early online release, August 2009
• Renu Joseph, Ning Zeng, Seasonally Modulated Tropical
Drought Induced by Volcanic Aerosol. Journal of Climate, early
online release, August 2009
• Ferguson, Ian, Phil Duffy and John Dracup: Evaluating
Drought- Related Characteristics of Coupled Climate Simulations.
• Hoerling, Martin, Xiao-Wei Quan, and Jon Eischeid, 2009:
Distinct Causes for the Two Principal U.S. Droughts of the 20th
Century, Geophysical Research Letters
• Kucharski, F., A. Bracco, J. H. Yoo,1 and F. Molteni,
Atlantic forced component of the Indian monsoon interannual Variability,
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 35, L04706, doi:10.1029/2007GL033037,
2008
• F. Kucharski, F., A. Bracco, J. H. Yoo, A. M. Tompkins,
L. Feudale, P. Rutic and A. Dell’Aquilac, 2009: A Gill–Matsuno-type
mechanism explains the tropical Atlantic influence on African
and Indian monsoon rainfall, Quarterly Journal of Meteorology,
DOI: 10.1002/qj.406
• Karnauskas, Kristopher B., and Antonio J. Busalacchi:
The association between low-frequency tropical Pacific SST variability
and multiyear North American drought in 22 coupled climate models.
• Li, H., A. Dai, T. Zhou, and J. Lu, 2008: Response of
East Asian summer monsoon to historical SST and atmospheric forcing
during 1950-2000. Climate Dynamics, 10.1007/s00382-008-0482-7.
• Lorenz, David J., Eric T. DeWeaver and Daniel J. Vimont, "Evaporation
Change and Global Warming - the Role of Net Radiation and Relative
Humidity", Journal of Climate, (2008). Submitted.
• Lorenz, David J. and Eric T. DeWeaver, "The role
of the land surface and SSTs in preciptation variability and
drought", Journal of Climate, (2008). In preparation.
• Lyon, B. 2009: Southern Africa Summer Drought and Heat
Waves: Observations and Coupled Model Behavior. Journal of Climate,
Volume 22, Issue 22 (November 2009) pp. 6033-6046.
• Mariotti A, Zeng N, Yoon JH, Artale V, Navarra A, Alpert
P, Li LZX, 2008: Mediterranean water cycle changes: transition
to drier 21st century conditions in observations and CMIP3 simulations,
Environ. Res. Lett. 3 044001 (8pp) doi:10.1088/1748-9326/3/4/044001.
• Quan, Xiao-Wei, Marting Hoerling, and Jon Eisched: Early
warning indicators for U.S. Drought.
• Ruiz-Barradas, Alfredo and Sumant Nigam, May 2010: SST–North
American Hydroclimate Links in AMIP Simulations of the Drought
Working Group Models: A Proxy for the Idealized Drought Modeling
Experiments, Journal of Climate, Vol. 23, Issue 10, p. 2585-2598
• Ruiz-Barradas, Alfredo and Sumant Nigam, June 2010: Great
Plains Precipitation and its SST Links in 20th Century Climate
Simulations, and 21st and 22nd Century Climate Projections, Journal
of Climate, in press.
• Seager, Richard, Robert Burgman, Yochanan Kushnir, Amy
Clement, Ed Cook, Naomi Naik and Jennifer Miller: Tropical Pacific
forcing of North American Medieval megadroughts: Testing the
concept with an atmosphere model forced by coral-reconstructed
SSTs, Journal of Climate, doi: 10.1175/2008JCLI2170.1
• Shin, Sang-Ik, R.D. Sardeshmukh, and R.S. Webb, 2010:
Optimal tropical sea surface temperature forcing of North American
drought. Journal of Climate, in press.
• Wang, S.-Y., and T.C. Chen, 2009: The late Spring maximum
of rainfall over the United States Central Plains and the role
of low-level jet. J. Climate, Vol. 22, Iss.17, pp. 4696–4709.
• Zeng, N., and J.Yoon, 2009: Expansion of the world's
deserts due to vegetation-albedo feedback under global warming,
Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L17401, doi:10.1029/2009GL039699.
Zhang,
Dongxiao and Michael J. McPhaden: The ocean's role in an intensified
hydrological cycle under global warming: A case study for the Pacific. |