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Benjamin R. Lintner is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on global and planetary change and atmospheric science. The scientist has also contributed work in water science and technology, environmental engineering, and ecological modeling.

Their research covers several key topics, including:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Tropical and extratropical cyclones research
  • Meteorological phenomena and simulations
  • Plant water relations and carbon dynamics
  • Hydrology and watershed management studies
  • Soil moisture and remote sensing
  • Cryospheric studies and observations

Frequently, Benjamin R. Lintner collaborates with other researchers such as Sha Zhou, Yao Zhang, Park Williams, Trevor F. Keenan, and Pierre Gentine. Their work has been published extensively in notable scientific journals.

They have a prominent record of publications in the following venues:

  • Nature Climate Change
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Climate
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Significant recent papers authored by Benjamin R. Lintner include:

  • Soil moisture-atmosphere feedbacks mitigate declining water availability in drylands, 2021, Nature Climate Change
  • Record warming at the South Pole during the past three decades, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • South Pacific Convergence Zone dynamics, variability and impacts in a changing climate, 2020, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Projected increase in global runoff dominated by land surface changes, 2023, Nature Climate Change
  • Diminishing seasonality of subtropical water availability in a warmer world dominated by soil moisture-atmosphere feedbacks, 2022, Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Land–atmosphere feedbacks amplify aridity increase over land under global warming

    Alexis Berg;Kirsten Findell;Benjamin Lintner;Alessandra Giannini

  • The Impact of Anthropogenic Land Use and Land Cover Change on Regional Climate Extremes

    Kirsten L. Findell;Alexis Berg;Pierre Gentine;John P. Krasting

  • Soil moisture–atmosphere feedbacks mitigate declining water availability in drylands

    Sha Zhou;A. Park Williams;Benjamin R. Lintner;Alexis M. Berg

  • Interdependence of climate, soil, and vegetation as constrained by the Budyko curve

    Pierre Gentine;Paolo D'Odorico;Benjamin R. Lintner;Gajan Sivandran

  • Probability of afternoon precipitation in eastern United States and Mexico enhanced by high evaporation

    Kirsten L. Findell;Pierre Gentine;Benjamin R. Lintner;Christopher Kerr

  • Impact of Soil Moisture–Atmosphere Interactions on Surface Temperature Distribution

    Alexis M. Berg;Benjamin R. Lintner;Kirsten L. Findell;Sergey Malyshev

  • Interannual Coupling between Summertime Surface Temperature and Precipitation over Land: Processes and Implications for Climate Change*

    Alexis M. Berg;Benjamin R. Lintner;Kristen Findell;Sonia I. Seneviratne

  • Observational evidence for interhemispheric hydroxyl-radical parity

    P. K. Patra;P. K. Patra;M. C. Krol;S. A. Montzka;T. Arnold

  • Record warming at the South Pole during the past three decades

    Kyle R. Clem;Ryan L. Fogt;John Turner;Benjamin R. Lintner

  • The changing carbon cycle at Mauna Loa Observatory.

    Wolfgang Buermann;Benjamin R. Lintner;Charles D. Koven;Alon Angert;Alon Angert

  • Deep Convection and Column Water Vapor over Tropical Land versus Tropical Ocean: A Comparison between the Amazon and the Tropical Western Pacific

    Kathleen A. Schiro;J. David Neelin;David K. Adams;Benjamin R. Lintner

  • Projected increase in global runoff dominated by land surface changes

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  • Mechanisms of Remote Tropical Surface Warming during El Niño

    John C. H. Chiang;Benjamin R. Lintner

  • South Pacific Convergence Zone dynamics, variability and impacts in a changing climate

    Josephine R. Brown;Matthieu Lengaigne;Benjamin R. Lintner;Matthew J. Widlansky

  • Asian monsoon hydrometeorology from TES and SCIAMACHY water vapor isotope measurements and LMDZ simulations: Implications for speleothem climate record interpretation

    Jung-Eun Lee;Camille Risi;Inez Fung;John Worden

  • The poleward shift of South Atlantic Convergence Zone in recent decades

    Marcia T. Zilli;Leila M. V. Carvalho;Benjamin R. Lintner

  • Rising Temperatures Increase Importance of Oceanic Evaporation as a Source for Continental Precipitation

    Kirsten L. Findell;Patrick W. Keys;Ruud J. van der Ent;Ruud J. van der Ent;Benjamin R. Lintner

  • Transport mechanisms for synoptic, seasonal and interannual SF6 variations and "age" of air in troposphere

    P. K. Patra;M. Takigawa;G. S. Dutton;K. Uhse

  • Diminishing seasonality of subtropical water availability in a warmer world dominated by soil moisture–atmosphere feedbacks

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  • Characterizing Large-Scale Meteorological Patterns and Associated Temperature and Precipitation Extremes over the Northwestern United States Using Self-Organizing Maps

    Paul C. Loikith;Benjamin R. Lintner;Alex Sweeney

  • Land-surface controls on afternoon precipitation diagnosed from observational data : uncertainties and confounding factors

    B. P. Guillod;B. Orlowsky;D. Miralles;D. Miralles;A. J. Teuling

  • Land use change exacerbates tropical South American drought by sea surface temperature variability

    Jung Eun Lee;Benjamin R. Lintner;C. Kevin Boyce;Peter J. Lawrence

  • Transport mechanisms for synoptic, seasonal and interannual SF 6 variations and "age" of air in troposphere

    P. K. Patra;M. Takigawa;G. S. Dutton;K. Uhse

Frequent Co-Authors

Pierre Gentine
Pierre Gentine Columbia University
Kirsten L. Findell
Kirsten L. Findell Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
J. David Neelin
J. David Neelin University of California, Los Angeles
Sergey Malyshev
Sergey Malyshev Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Duane E. Waliser
Duane E. Waliser Jet Propulsion Lab
Adam H. Sobel
Adam H. Sobel Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Alan K. Betts
Alan K. Betts Colorado State University
Prabir K. Patra
Prabir K. Patra Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Benjamin I. Cook
Benjamin I. Cook Goddard Institute for Space Studies

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