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Overview

Ben P. Kirtman is affiliated with the University of Miami in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a significant focus on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Geology, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The main topics addressed in their work include Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Marine and coastal ecosystems, and Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing.

Among the recent papers associated with their field of study are:

  • Windows of Opportunity for Skillful Forecasts Subseasonal to Seasonal and Beyond (2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society)
  • Current and Emerging Developments in Subseasonal to Decadal Prediction (2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society)
  • Initialized Earth System prediction from subseasonal to decadal timescales (2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment)
  • Ocean warming alters the distributional range, migratory timing, and spatial protections of an apex predator, the tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) (2022, Global Change Biology)
  • Evolution of the North American Multi-Model Ensemble (2020, Geophysical Research Letters)

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Emily Becker
  • Léo Siqueira
  • Houraa Daher
  • Kathy Pegion
  • Sang-Wook Yeh

Their work is often published in the following venues:

  • Climate Dynamics
  • Journal of Climate
  • Weather and Forecasting
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Best Publications

  • El Niño in a changing climate

    Sang Wook Yeh;Jong Seong Kug;Boris Dewitte;Min Ho Kwon

  • Near-term climate change: Projections and predictability

    Ben Kirtman;Scott B. Power;Akintayo John Adedoyin;George J. Boer

  • Understanding ENSO Diversity

    Antonietta Capotondi;Andrew T. Wittenberg;Matthew Newman;Emanuele Di Lorenzo

  • The North American multimodel ensemble: Phase-1 seasonal-to-interannual prediction; phase-2 toward developing intraseasonal prediction

    Ben P. Kirtman;Dughong Min;Johnna M. Infanti;James L. Kinter

  • Decadal Prediction: Can It Be Skillful?

    Gerald A. Meehl;Lisa M. Goddard;James Murphy;Ronald J. Stouffer

  • Evolution of ENSO-Related Rainfall Anomalies in East Asia

    Renguang Wu;Zeng Zhen Hu;Ben P. Kirtman

  • The Seasonal Cycle over the Tropical Pacific in Coupled Ocean Atmosphere General Circulation Models

    C.R. Mechoso;A.W. Robertson;N. Barth;M.K. Davey

  • Current status of ENSO prediction skill in coupled ocean-atmosphere models

    Emilia K. Jin;James L. Kinter;B. Wang;C.-K. Park

  • A Summary of the CMIP5 Experiment Design

    Karl E. Taylor;Ronald J. Stouffer;Gerald A. Meehl;Peter Cox

  • Advance and prospectus of seasonal prediction: assessment of the APCC/CliPAS 14-model ensemble retrospective seasonal prediction (1980–2004)

    Bin Wang;June Yi Lee;In Sik Kang;J. Shukla

  • The Decadal Climate Prediction Project (DCPP) contribution to CMIP6

    George J. Boer;Douglas M. Smith;Christophe Cassou;Francisco Doblas-Reyes

  • A verification framework for interannual-to-decadal predictions experiments

    L. Goddard;A. Kumar;A. Solomon;D. Smith

  • A U.S. CLIVAR Project to Assess and Compare the Responses of Global Climate Models to Drought-Related SST Forcing Patterns: Overview and Results

    Siegfried Schubert;David Gutzler;Hailan Wang;Hailan Wang;Aiguo Dai

  • Climate Response of the Equatorial Pacific to Global Warming

    Pedro N. DiNezio;Amy C. Clement;Gabriel Andres Vecchi;Brian J. Soden

  • North American Climate in CMIP5 Experiments: Part III: Assessment of Twenty-First-Century Projections*

    Eric D. Maloney;Suzana J. Camargo;Edmund Chang;Brian Colle

  • Decadal Variability in ENSO Predictability and Prediction

    Ben P. Kirtman;Paul S. Schopf

  • Windows of opportunity for skillful forecasts subseasonal to seasonal and beyond

    Annarita Mariotti;Cory Baggett;Elizabeth A. Barnes;Emily Becker

  • The Subseasonal Experiment (SubX): A Multimodel Subseasonal Prediction Experiment

    Kathy Pegion;Ben P. Kirtman;Emily Becker;Dan C. Collins

  • Local Air–Sea Relationship in Observations and Model Simulations

    Renguang Wu;Ben P. Kirtman;Kathy Pegion

  • Impact of ocean model resolution on CCSM climate simulations

    Ben P. Kirtman;Cecilia Bitz;Frank Bryan;William Collins

  • Current and emerging developments in subseasonal to decadal prediction

    William J. Merryfield;Johanna Baehr;Lauriane Batté;Emily J. Becker

  • Roles of Indian and Pacific Ocean air–sea coupling in tropical atmospheric variability

    Renguang Wu;Ben P. Kirtman

  • Erratum: El Niño in a changing climate

    Sang Wook Yeh;Jong Seong Kug;Boris Dewitte;Min Ho Kwon

Frequent Co-Authors

Sang-Wook Yeh
Sang-Wook Yeh Hanyang University
Renguang Wu
Renguang Wu Zhejiang University
Edwin K. Schneider
Edwin K. Schneider George Mason University
Gerald A. Meehl
Gerald A. Meehl National Center for Atmospheric Research
James L. Kinter
James L. Kinter George Mason University
Paul A. Dirmeyer
Paul A. Dirmeyer George Mason University
Jagadish Shukla
Jagadish Shukla George Mason University
In-Sik Kang
In-Sik Kang Second Institute of Oceanography
Francisco J. Doblas-Reyes
Francisco J. Doblas-Reyes Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Doug Smith
Doug Smith Met Office

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