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Radically Rethinking Agriculture for the 21st Century by Fedoroff, N. V., Battisti, D. S., Beachy, R. N., Cooper, P. J. M., Fischhoff, D. A., Hodges, C. N., Knauf, V. C., Lobell, D., Mazur, B. J., Molden, D., Reynolds, M. P., Ronald, P. C., Rosegrant, M. W., Sanchez, P. A., Vonshak, A., Zhu, J.-K.

“…Population growth, arable land and fresh water limits, and climate change have profound implications for the ability of agriculture to meet this century's…”
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Origins of East Asian Summer Monsoon Seasonality by Chiang, J. C. H., Kong, W., Wu, C. H., Battisti, D. S.

“…The East Asian summer monsoon is unique among summer monsoon systems in its complex seasonality, exhibiting distinct intraseasonal stages. Previous studies…”
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Coherent pan-Asian climatic and isotopic response to orbital forcing of tropical insolation by Battisti, D. S., Ding, Qinghua, Roe, G. H.

“…The oxygen‐18 isotope composition of calcite in stalagmites across southern and eastern Asia are highly correlated to one another on orbital time scales: large…”
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Does Surface Temperature Respond to or Determine Downwelling Longwave Radiation? by Vargas Zeppetello, L. R., Donohoe, A., Battisti, D. S.

“…Downward longwave radiation (DLR) is often assumed to be an independent forcing on the surface energy budget in analyses of Arctic warming and land‐atmosphere…”
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Optimal geometric characterization of forced zonal mean tropical precipitation changes by Donohoe, A., Atwood, A. R., Battisti, D. S.

“…The zonal and annual mean tropical precipitation response to paleoclimate and anthropogenic forcing scenarios ranging from the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), CO 2…”
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Mongolian Mountains Matter Most: Impacts of the Latitude and Height of Asian Orography on Pacific Wintertime Atmospheric Circulation by White, R. H., Battisti, D. S., Roe, G. H.

“…The impacts of Asian orography on the wintertime atmospheric circulation over the Pacific are explored using altered-orography, semi-idealized, general…”
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Seasonal Changes in Atmospheric Heat Transport to the Arctic Under Increased CO2 by Hahn, L. C., Armour, K. C., Battisti, D. S., Donohoe, A., Fajber, R.

“…Arctic warming under increased CO2 peaks in winter, but is influenced by summer forcing via seasonal ocean heat storage. Yet changes in atmospheric heat…”
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Projected Increases in Monthly Midlatitude Summertime Temperature Variance Over Land Are Driven by Local Thermodynamics by Vargas Zeppetello, L. R., Battisti, D. S.

“…The increasing frequency of very high temperatures driven by global warming has motivated growing interest in how the probability distribution of summertime…”
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Orography and the Boreal Winter Stratosphere: The Importance of the Mongolian Mountains by White, R. H., Battisti, D. S., Sheshadri, A.

“…The impact of mountains on stratospheric circulation is explored using the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model. The “Mongolian mountains” decrease the…”
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Model Biases in the Atmosphere‐Ocean Partitioning of Poleward Heat Transport Are Persistent Across Three CMIP Generations by Donohoe, A., Fajber, R., Cox, T., Armour, K. C., Battisti, D. S., Roe, G. H.

“…The observed partitioning of poleward heat transport between atmospheric and oceanic heat transports (AHT and OHT) is compared to that in coupled climate…”
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Tracking precipitation events in time and space in gridded observational data by White, R. H., Battisti, D. S., Skok, G.

“…Novel precipitation event data sets are created by tracking 3‐hourly observed rainfall in both time and space in the TRMM 3B42 and ERA‐Interim data sets…”
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Quantifying Climate Forcings and Feedbacks over the Last Millennium in the CMIP5–PMIP3 Models by Atwood, A. R., Wu, E., Frierson, D. M. W., Battisti, D. S., Sachs, J. P.

“…The role of radiative forcings and climate feedbacks on global cooling over the last millennium is quantified in the CMIP5–PMIP3 transient climate model…”
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Antarctic Elevation Drives Hemispheric Asymmetry in Polar Lapse Rate Climatology and Feedback by Hahn, L. C., Armour, K. C., Battisti, D. S., Donohoe, A., Pauling, A. G., Bitz, C. M.

“…The lapse rate feedback is the dominant driver of stronger warming in the Arctic than the Antarctic in simulations with increased CO2. While Antarctic surface…”
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Relative roles of surface temperature and climate forcing patterns in the inconstancy of radiative feedbacks by Haugstad, A. D., Armour, K. C., Battisti, D. S., Rose, B. E. J.

“…Radiative feedbacks robustly vary over time in transient warming simulations. Published studies offer two explanations: (i) evolving patterns of ocean heat…”
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Inability of stratospheric sulfate aerosol injections to preserve the West Antarctic Ice Sheet by McCusker, K. E., Battisti, D. S., Bitz, C. M.

“…Injection of sulfate aerosols into the stratosphere has the potential to reduce the climate impacts of global warming, including sea level rise (SLR). However,…”
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Identifying the Sources of Continental Summertime Temperature Variance Using a Diagnostic Model of Land–Atmosphere Interactions by Zeppetello, L. R. Vargas, Tétreault-Pinard, Étienne, Battisti, D. S., Baker, M. B.

“…Climate models show that soil moisture and its subseasonal fluctuations have important impacts on the surface latent heat flux, thus regulating surface…”
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Characterizing unforced multi-decadal variability of ENSO: a case study with the GFDL CM2.1 coupled GCM by Atwood, A. R., Battisti, D. S., Wittenberg, A. T., Roberts, W. H. G., Vimont, D. J.

“…Large multi-decadal fluctuations of El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) variability simulated in a 4000-year pre-industrial control run of GFDL CM2.1 have…”
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ENSO-like Interdecadal Variability: 1900–93 by Zhang, Yuan, Wallace, John M., Battisti, David S.

“…A number of recent studies have reported an ENSO-like EOF mode in the global sea surface temperature (SST) field, whose time variability is marked by an abrupt…”
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Is the Gulf Stream responsible for Europe's mild winters? by Seager, R., Battisti, D. S., Yin, J., Gordon, N., Naik, N., Clement, A. C., Cane, M. A.

“…Is the transport of heat northward by the Gulf Stream and North Atlantic Drift, and its subsequent release into the midlatitude westerlies, the reason why…”
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An interpretation of the results from atmospheric general circulation models forced by the time history of the observed sea surface temperature distribution by Bretherton, C. S., Battisti, D. S.

“…Recent studies using atmospheric general circulation models forced by the observed time history of global sea surface temperature anomalies have been used to…”
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