Recent Publications

Ihara, C., Y. Kushnir, and M. Cane, 2007: Indian summer monsoon rainfall and its link with ENSO and Indian Ocean climate indices. Int. J. Climatol., 27, 179-187.

Kushnir, Y., W. A. Robinson, P. Chang, and A. W. Robertson, 2006: The physical basis for predicting Atlantic Sector seasonal-to-interannual climate variability, J. Climate, 19, 5949-5970.

Hurrell, J. W., and Coauthors, 2006: Atlantic climate variability and predictability: A CLIVAR perspective. J. Climate, 19, 5100-5121.

Mehta V., and Coauthors 2006: The CRCES workshop on decadal climate variability, Bul. Amer. Meteorol. Soc., 87, 1223-1225.

Biasutti, M., A. Sobel and Y. Kushnir, 2006: AGCM precipitation biases in the tropical Atlantic. J. Climate, 19, 935–958.

Ziv, B., U. Dayan, Y. Kushnir, C. Roth, Y. Enzel, 2006: Regional and global atmospheric patterns governing rainfall in the southern Levant. Int. J. Climatology, 26, 55-73.

Seager, R., Y. Kushnir, C. Herweijer, N. Naik and J. Velez, 2005: Modeling of tropical forcing of persistent droughts and pluvials over western North America: 1856-2000, J. Climate, 18, 4065-4088.

Huang, H.P., A. W. Robertson, and Y. Kushnir, 2005: Atlantic SST gradient and the influence of ENSO. Geophys. Res. Let., 32 (20), Art. No. L20706.

Huang, H.-P., R. Seager, and Y. Kushnir, 2005: The 1976/77 transition in precipitation over the Americas and influence of tropical SST. Clim. Dyn., 24, 721-740.

Seager, R. , N. Harnik, W. A. Robinson, Y. Kushnir, M. Ting, H. Huang and J. Velez, 2005: Mechanisms of ENSO-forcing of hemispherically symmetric precipitation variability. Quart. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 131, 1501–1527.

Honda, M., Y. Kushnir, H. Nakamura, S. Yamane, and S. E. Zebiak, 2005: Formation, mechanisms, and predictability of the Aleutian-Icelandic lows seesaw in ensemble AGCM simulations, J. Climate, 18(9), 1423-1434.

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