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Dietmar Dommenget

Dietmar Dommenget

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
42
Citations
9260
World Ranking
7298
National Ranking
267

Overview

Dietmar Dommenget is affiliated with Monash University in Australia and has a substantial research output focused on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work primarily explores climate variability and models, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, and meteorological phenomena and simulations.

The scientist's publication record includes numerous papers published in prominent venues, with a particular emphasis on Climate Dynamics, where they have contributed 11 publications. Other frequent publication venues include Geoscientific Model Development and Environmental Research Letters, each featuring three of their works, along with Research Square and Communications Earth & Environment.

Some representative recent papers by Dietmar Dommenget include:

  • Reduced Complexity Model Intercomparison Project Phase 1: introduction and evaluation of global-mean temperature response, 2020, Geoscientific Model Development
  • Simulated Tropical Precipitation Assessed across Three Major Phases of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP), 2020, Monthly Weather Review
  • ENSO Atmospheric Teleconnections, 2020, Geophysical Monograph
  • Walker circulation controls ENSO atmospheric feedbacks in uncoupled and coupled climate model simulations, 2020, Climate Dynamics
  • Trans-basin Atlantic-Pacific connections further weakened by common model Pacific mean SST biases, 2020, Nature Communications

Dommenget's research spans multiple subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Oceanography. Other subfields of study are Environmental Chemistry and Economics and Econometrics, reflecting a diverse range of scientific interests.

Their main research topics can be detailed as follows:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena

Throughout their career, Dommenget has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Shayne McGregor, Priyamvada Priya, Chen-Shuo Fan, David K. Hutchinson, and Malte F. Stuecker. These collaborations encompass various projects and contributions across their fields of study.

Best Publications

  • El Niño–Southern Oscillation complexity

    Axel Timmermann;Axel Timmermann;Soon Il An;Jong Seong Kug;Fei Fei Jin

  • Pantropical Climate Interactions

    Wenju Cai;Wenju Cai;Lixin Wu;Matthieu Lengaigne;Matthieu Lengaigne;Tim Li

  • Increased frequency of extreme La Niña events under greenhouse warming

    Wenju Cai;Wenju Cai;Guojian Wang;Guojian Wang;Agus Santoso;Michael J. Mcphaden

  • ENSO Atmospheric Teleconnections and Their Response to Greenhouse Gas Forcing

    Sang Wook Yeh;Wenju Cai;Wenju Cai;Seung Ki Min;Michael J. McPhaden

  • A Cautionary Note on the Interpretation of EOFs

    Dietmar Dommenget;Mojib Latif

  • Interdecadal interactions between the tropics and midlatitudes in the Pacific basin

    Tim P. Barnett;David W. Pierce;Mojib Latif;Dietmar Dommenget

  • Higher frequency of Central Pacific El Niño events in recent decades relative to past centuries

    Mandy B. Freund;Benjamin J. Henley;David J. Karoly;David J. Karoly;Helen V. McGregor

  • Analysis of the non-linearity in the pattern and time evolution of El Niño southern oscillation

    Dietmar Dommenget;Tobias Bayr;Claudia Frauen

  • Ocean mixed layer depth: A subsurface proxy of ocean‐atmosphere variability

    K Lorbacher;K Lorbacher;Dietmar Dommenget;Dietmar Dommenget;P P Niiler;A Kohl

  • The Impact of North Atlantic–Arctic Multidecadal Variability on Northern Hemisphere Surface Air Temperature

    Vladimir A. Semenov;Mojib Latif;Dietmar Dommenget;Noel S. Keenlyside

  • The role of Indian Ocean sea surface temperature in forcing east African rainfall anomalies during December-January 1997/98

    Mojib Latif;Dietmar Dommenget;M. Dima;A. Grötzner

  • The eastward shift of the Walker Circulation in response to global warming and its relationship to ENSO variability

    Tobias Bayr;Dietmar Dommenget;Thomas Martin;Scott Brendan Power

  • Reduced Complexity Model Intercomparison Project Phase 1: introduction and evaluation of global-mean temperature response

    Zebedee R. J. Nicholls;Malte Meinshausen;Malte Meinshausen;Jared Lewis;Robert Gieseke

  • ENSO Atmospheric Teleconnections

    Andréa S. Taschetto;Caroline C. Ummenhofer;Caroline C. Ummenhofer;Malte F. Stuecker;Malte F. Stuecker;Dietmar Dommenget;Dietmar Dommenget

  • Tropical Atmosphere-Ocean Interactions in a Conceptual Framework

    Malte Friedrich Jansen;Dietmar Dommenget;Noel Keenlyside

  • Interannual to Decadal Variability in the Tropical Atlantic

    Dietmar Dommenget;Mojib Latif

  • Simulated Tropical Precipitation Assessed across Three Major Phases of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP)

    Stephanie Fiedler;Traute Crueger;Roberta D’Agostino;Karsten Peters

  • Analysis of the Nonlinearity of El Niño–Southern Oscillation Teleconnections*

    Claudia Frauen;Dietmar Dommenget;Nicholas Tyrrell;Michael Rezny

  • El Niño and La Niña amplitude asymmetry caused by atmospheric feedbacks.

    Claudia Frauen;Dietmar Dommenget

  • The role of ocean dynamics in producing decadal climate variability in the North Pacific

    D. W. Pierce;T. P. Barnett;N. Schneider;R. Saravanan

  • Origins of the midlatitude Pacific decadal variability

    Tim P. Barnett;David W. Pierce;R. Saravanan;Niklas Schneider

Frequent Co-Authors

Mojib Latif
Mojib Latif GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Noel Keenlyside
Noel Keenlyside University of Bergen
Wenju Cai
Wenju Cai Ocean University of China
Shayne McGregor
Shayne McGregor Monash University
Wonsun Park
Wonsun Park GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Malte F. Stuecker
Malte F. Stuecker University of Hawaii at Manoa
Michael J. McPhaden
Michael J. McPhaden Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
Jing-Jia Luo
Jing-Jia Luo Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology
Eric Guilyardi
Eric Guilyardi Université Paris Cité
Sang-Wook Yeh
Sang-Wook Yeh Hanyang University

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