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  • 2014 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

David S. Battisti is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences with a substantial focus on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Oceanography as key subfields.

The scientist's work addresses topics such as Climate variability and models, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Climate Change and Health Impacts, and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate.

Frequent publication venues for their research include the Journal of Climate, Geophysical Research Letters, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Communications Earth & Environment, and Environmental Research Letters.

Frequent coauthors in their publications are Kyle C. Armour, Lucas R. Vargas Zeppetello, Luke Parsons, June T. Spector, and Yuta J. Masuda.

Recent papers from David S. Battisti cover various aspects of climate science and include:

  • Projected increases in western US forest fire despite growing fuel constraints (2021, Communications Earth & Environment)
  • Systematic Climate Model Biases in the Large-Scale Patterns of Recent Sea-Surface Temperature and Sea-Level Pressure Change (2022, Geophysical Research Letters)
  • Intermodel Spread in the Pattern Effect and Its Contribution to Climate Sensitivity in CMIP5 and CMIP6 Models (2020, Journal of Climate)
  • Monsoons, ITCZs, and the Concept of the Global Monsoon (2020, Reviews of Geophysics)
  • Pattern Recognition Methods to Separate Forced Responses from Internal Variability in Climate Model Ensembles and Observations (2020, Journal of Climate)

David S. Battisti has contributed to book publications as well, including a title published by Cambridge University Press: The Atmospheric General Circulation (2023).

Recognition for their work includes being named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2014.

Best Publications

  • ENSO-like Interdecadal Variability: 1900–93

    Yuan Zhang;John M. Wallace;David S. Battisti

  • Historical Warnings of Future Food Insecurity with Unprecedented Seasonal Heat

    David. S. Battisti;David. S. Battisti;Rosamond L. Naylor;Rosamond L. Naylor

  • Increase in crop losses to insect pests in a warming climate

    Curtis A. Deutsch;Joshua J. Tewksbury;Joshua J. Tewksbury;Michelle Tigchelaar;David S. Battisti

  • North atlantic climate variability: Phenomena, impacts and mechanisms

    John Marshall;Yochanan Kushnir;David Battisti;Ping Chang

  • Interannual variability in a tropical atmosphere−ocean model: influence of the basic state, ocean geometry and nonlinearity

    David S. Battisti;Anthony C. Hirst

  • Radically rethinking agriculture for the 21st century.

    N. V. Fedoroff;D. S. Battisti;R. N. Beachy;P. J. M. Cooper

  • Orographic controls on climate and paleoclimate of Asia: thermal and mechanical roles for the Tibetan Plateau.

    Peter Molnar;William R. Boos;David S. Battisti

  • ENSO theory

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  • Dynamics and Thermodynamics of a Warming Event in a Coupled Tropical Atmosphere–Ocean Model

    David S. Battisti

  • Chinese stalagmite δ 18 O controlled by changes in the Indian monsoon during a simulated Heinrich event

    Francesco S. R. Pausata;Francesco S. R. Pausata;David S. Battisti;David S. Battisti;Kerim H. Nisancioglu;Cecilia M. Bitz

  • The Basic Effects of Atmosphere–Ocean Thermal Coupling on Midlatitude Variability*

    Joseph J. Barsugli;David S. Battisti

  • The Seasonal Footprinting Mechanism in the Pacific: Implications for ENSO(.

    Daniel J. Vimont;John M. Wallace;David S. Battisti

  • Assessing risks of climate variability and climate change for Indonesian rice agriculture.

    Rosamond L. Naylor;David S. Battisti;Daniel J. Vimont;Walter P. Falcon

  • Footprinting: A seasonal connection between the tropics and mid-latitudes

    Daniel J. Vimont;David S. Battisti;Anthony C. Hirst

  • Future warming increases probability of globally synchronized maize production shocks.

    Michelle Tigchelaar;David S. Battisti;Rosamond L. Naylor;Deepak K. Ray

  • Winter warming in West Antarctica caused by central tropical Pacific warming

    Qinghua Ding;Eric J. Steig;David S. Battisti;Marcel Küttel

  • Southward movement of the Pacific intertropical convergence zone AD 1400-1850

    Julian P. Sachs;Dirk Sachse;Dirk Sachse;Rienk H. Smittenberg;Rienk H. Smittenberg;Zhaohui Zhang;Zhaohui Zhang

  • Interannual (ENSO) and Interdecadal (ENSO-like) Variability in the Southern Hemisphere Tropospheric Circulation*

    René D. Garreaud;David S. Battisti

  • Influence of high-latitude atmospheric circulation changes on summertime Arctic sea ice

    Qinghua Ding;Qinghua Ding;Axel Schweiger;Michelle L’Heureux;David S. Battisti

  • Tropical forcing of the recent rapid Arctic warming in northeastern Canada and Greenland

    Qinghua Ding;John Michael Wallace;David S Battisti;Eric J Steig

  • Is the Gulf Stream responsible for Europe's mild winters?

    Richard Seager;David S. Battisti;J. Yin;N. Gordon

Frequent Co-Authors

Kyle C. Armour
Kyle C. Armour University of Washington
Eric J. Steig
Eric J. Steig University of Washington
Cecilia M. Bitz
Cecilia M. Bitz University of Washington
Camille Li
Camille Li University of Bergen
Gerard H. Roe
Gerard H. Roe University of Washington
Qinghua Ding
Qinghua Ding University of California, Santa Barbara
Francesco S. R. Pausata
Francesco S. R. Pausata University of Quebec
Rosamond L. Naylor
Rosamond L. Naylor Stanford University
Kerim H. Nisancioglu
Kerim H. Nisancioglu University of Bergen
Dennis L. Hartmann
Dennis L. Hartmann University of Washington

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