2018

Rodrigo Caballero Professor and Head, Department of Meteorology Stockholm University, Sweden Atmospheric superrotation at Earth's surface Atmospheric superrotation refers to a state with prograde (i.e. westerly) zonal-mean winds at or near the equator. It...

Solomon Dobrowski Department of Forest Management W.A. Franke College of Forestry and Conservationf Univeristy of Montana Spatio-temporal variability in climate drive patterns of vulnerability and resilience in western US forests: a multi-scale...

Sonia I. Seneviratne Professor, Department of Environmental Systems Science ETH Zurich, Land-Climate Dynamics Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science Climate extremes at 1.5°C vs 2°C global warming: The IPCC SR15 report and underlying evidence In...

John M. (Mike) Wallace Professor Emeritus, Department of Atmospheric Sciences University of Washington The Atmospheric signature of ENSO The signature of ENSO provides textbook examples of some of the processes that shape the atmospheric general...

Climate dynamics of lava planets Raymond T. Pierrehumbert Halley Professor of Physics, University of Oxford Lava planets are rocky planets in orbits sufficiently close to their host stars that they are tide locked with a substellar temperature above the...

Sukyoung Lee Professor of Meteorology Penn State University Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science Tropically Excited Arctic warMing (TEAM) mechanism: A Theory based on a General Circulation Perspective Records of past climates show a wide...

Lorenzo Polvani Professor of Applied Mathematics and Earth & Environmental Sciences Columbia University Why has the lower stratosphere stopped cooling for the last 20 years? The cooling of the stratosphere is an important fingerprint of CO2 on the climate...