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Dargan M. W. Frierson

Dargan M. W. Frierson

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
54
Citations
12930
World Ranking
3991
National Ranking
1523

Overview

Dargan M. W. Frierson is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States and conducts research primarily in Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans several specialized subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Economics and Econometrics, Geography, Planning and Development, and Oceanography.

Their research focuses on topics such as Climate Variability and Models, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, and Climate Change Policy and Economics.

Frequent publication venues for Frierson include:

  • Journal of Climate
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Nature Climate Change
  • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

Some of the more recent papers authored or coauthored by Frierson are:

  • "Estimating the timing of geophysical commitment to 1.5 and 2.0 °C of global warming" (2022, Nature Climate Change)
  • "Large-Scale Extreme Rainfall-Producing Synoptic Systems of the Indian Summer Monsoon" (2020, Geophysical Research Letters)
  • "Data-Model Comparisons of Tropical Hydroclimate Changes Over the Common Era" (2021, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology)
  • "What controls the interannual variation of Hadley cell extent in the Northern Hemisphere: physical mechanism and empirical model for edge variation" (2023, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science)
  • "Trends in Atmospheric Heat Transport Since 1980" (2023, Journal of Climate)

Among frequent collaborators are:

  • Kyle C. Armour
  • Tyler Cox
  • Aaron Donohoe
  • Gerard H. Roe
  • Akshaya Nikumbh

Best Publications

  • Clouds, circulation and climate sensitivity

    Sandrine Bony;Bjorn Stevens;Dargan M W Frierson;Christian Jakob

  • Less than 2 °C warming by 2100 unlikely

    Adrian E. Raftery;Alec Zimmer;Dargan M. W. Frierson;Richard Startz

  • The Response of the ITCZ to Extratropical Thermal Forcing: Idealized Slab-Ocean Experiments with a GCM

    Sarah M. Kang;Isaac M. Held;Dargan M. W. Frierson;Ming Zhao

  • Response of the Zonal Mean Atmospheric Circulation to El Niño versus Global Warming

    Jian Lu;Gang Chen;Dargan M. W. Frierson

  • A Gray-Radiation Aquaplanet Moist GCM. Part I: Static Stability and Eddy Scale

    Dargan M. W. Frierson;Isaac M. Held;Pablo Zurita-Gotor

  • Link between the double-Intertropical Convergence Zone problem and cloud biases over the Southern Ocean

    Yen-Ting Hwang;Dargan M. W. Frierson

  • The Tropical Response to Extratropical Thermal Forcing in an Idealized GCM: The Importance of Radiative Feedbacks and Convective Parameterization

    Sarah M. Kang;Dargan M. W. Frierson;Isaac M. Held

  • PULSAR WIND NEBULAE IN EVOLVED SUPERNOVA REMNANTS

    John M. Blondin;Roger A. Chevalier;Dargan M. Frierson

  • Extratropical Influence on ITCZ Shifts in Slab Ocean Simulations of Global Warming

    Dargan M. W. Frierson;Yen-Ting Hwang

  • Width of the Hadley cell in simple and comprehensive general circulation models

    Dargan M. W. Frierson;Jian Lu;Gang Chen

  • Contribution of ocean overturning circulation to tropical rainfall peak in the Northern Hemisphere

    Dargan M. W. Frierson;Yen-Ting Hwang;Neven S. Fučkar;Richard Seager

  • Anthropogenic sulfate aerosol and the southward shift of tropical precipitation in the late 20th century

    Yen-Ting Hwang;Dargan M. W. Frierson;Sarah M. Kang

  • Scaling Potential Evapotranspiration with Greenhouse Warming

    Jacob Scheff;Dargan M. W. Frierson

  • The Dynamics of Idealized Convection Schemes and Their Effect on the Zonally Averaged Tropical Circulation

    Dargan M. W. Frierson

  • Coupling between Arctic feedbacks and changes in poleward energy transport

    Yen-Ting Hwang;Dargan M. W. Frierson;Jennifer E. Kay

  • Robust future precipitation declines in CMIP5 largely reflect the poleward expansion of model subtropical dry zones

    Jack Scheff;Dargan M. W. Frierson

  • Terrestrial Aridity and Its Response to Greenhouse Warming across CMIP5 Climate Models

    Jacob Scheff;Dargan M. W. Frierson

  • A Gray-Radiation Aquaplanet Moist GCM. Part II: Energy Transports in Altered Climates

    Dargan M. W. Frierson;Isaac M. Held;Pablo Zurita-Gotor

  • Increasing atmospheric poleward energy transport with global warming

    Yen-Ting Hwang;Dargan M. W. Frierson

  • Large Scale Dynamics of Precipitation Fronts in the Tropical Atmosphere: A Novel Relaxation Limit

    Dargan M.W. Frierson;Dargan M.W. Frierson;Andrew J. Majda;Olivier M. Pauluis

  • Atmospheric circulation of tidally locked exoplanets: II. Dual‐band radiative transfer and convective adjustment

    Kevin Heng;Dargan M. W. Frierson;Peter J. Phillipps

  • Twenty-First-Century Multimodel Subtropical Precipitation Declines Are Mostly Midlatitude Shifts

    Jack Scheff;Dargan Frierson

  • Surface Fluxes and Tropical Intraseasonal Variability: a Reassessment

    Adam H. Sobel;Eric D. Maloney;Gilles Bellon;Dargan M. W. Frierson

Frequent Co-Authors

Adam H. Sobel
Adam H. Sobel Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Eric D. Maloney
Eric D. Maloney Colorado State University
Isaac M. Held
Isaac M. Held Princeton University
Dennis L. Hartmann
Dennis L. Hartmann University of Washington
David S. Battisti
David S. Battisti University of Washington
Gerard H. Roe
Gerard H. Roe University of Washington
In-Sik Kang
In-Sik Kang Second Institute of Oceanography
Daehyun Kim
Daehyun Kim University of Washington
Raymond T. Pierrehumbert
Raymond T. Pierrehumbert University of Oxford
Geoffrey K. Vallis
Geoffrey K. Vallis University of Exeter

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