Fiona Lo

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the short-lived drivers of climate change in current climate models and evaluated the 10 ACCMIP models that included aerosols, 8 of which also participated in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5 (CMIP5).

TL;DR: In this article, the variability of the zonal mean flow in the Southern Hemisphere during the period 1985-94 was studied using European Centre for Medium-Range Forecasts analyses, and the dominant mode of variability has approximately equivalent barotropic variations of opposite signs centered at 40 8 and 608S. The temporal variance of the amplitude of this mode is well modeled as Gaussian red noise with a correlation efolding time of about 10 days.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors characterize the leaf area index (LAI) projections from the latest generation of earth system models (ESMs) for the Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) 8.5 and RCP4.5 scenarios.

TL;DR: In this article, the 40-yr ECMWF Re-Analysis (ERA-40) is evaluated for the north polar region, the terrestrial Arctic drainage, and its four major watersheds: the Ob, Yenisey, Lena, and Mackenzie basins.

TL;DR: In this paper, an empirical model that predicts the evolution of the Madden-Julian oscillation (MJO) in outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) and 200-mb stream function is developed.