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Overview

Elizabeth A. Barnes is affiliated with Colorado State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant contributions to subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Artificial Intelligence, Oceanography, and Environmental Engineering.

The main topics of their work include Climate Variability and Models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Hydrological Forecasting Using AI, Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI), and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Barnes include James W. Hurrell, Eric D. Maloney, Imme Ebert-Uphoff, Noah S. Diffenbaugh, and Antonios Mamalakis. These partnerships reflect extensive cooperation in research related to atmospheric and environmental sciences.

Key publication venues where Barnes has contributed significantly are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Artificial Intelligence for the Earth Systems
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Earth s Future

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Barnes include:

  • Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Windows of Opportunity for Skillful Forecasts Subseasonal to Seasonal and Beyond, 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Physically Interpretable Neural Networks for the Geosciences: Applications to Earth System Variability, 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Towards neural Earth system modelling by integrating artificial intelligence in Earth system science, 2021, Nature Machine Intelligence
  • Toward Trustworthy AI Development: Mechanisms for Supporting Verifiable Claims, 2020, Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)

The publications indicate a focus on integrating artificial intelligence methodologies with Earth system science and environmental forecasting, exploring neural networks and machine learning models in geoscientific contexts.

Best Publications

  • Storm track processes and the opposing influences of climate change

    T. A. Shaw;M. Baldwin;E. A. Barnes;Rodrigo Caballero

  • The impact of Arctic warming on the midlatitude jet‐stream: Can it? Has it? Will it?

    Elizabeth A Barnes;James A Screen

  • Response of the Midlatitude Jets, and of Their Variability, to Increased Greenhouse Gases in the CMIP5 Models

    Elizabeth A. Barnes;Lorenzo M. Polvani

  • Revisiting the evidence linking Arctic amplification to extreme weather in midlatitudes

    Elizabeth A. Barnes

  • Physically Interpretable Neural Networks for the Geosciences: Applications to Earth System Variability

    Benjamin A. Toms;Elizabeth A. Barnes;Imme Ebert-Uphoff;Imme Ebert-Uphoff

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

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

  • All-Season Climatology and Variability of Atmospheric River Frequencies over the North Pacific

    Bryan D. Mundhenk;Elizabeth A. Barnes;Eric D. Maloney

  • Exploring recent trends in Northern Hemisphere blocking

    Elizabeth A. Barnes;Etienne Dunn-Sigouin;Giacomo Masato;Tim Woollings

  • Towards neural Earth system modelling by integrating artificial intelligence in Earth system science

    Christopher Irrgang;Niklas Boers;Niklas Boers;Niklas Boers;Maike Sonnewald;Maike Sonnewald;Maike Sonnewald;Elizabeth A. Barnes

  • CMIP5 Projections of Arctic Amplification, of the North American/North Atlantic Circulation, and of Their Relationship

    Elizabeth A. Barnes;Lorenzo M. Polvani

  • Quantifying the Role of Internal Climate Variability in Future Climate Trends

    David W. J. Thompson;Elizabeth A. Barnes;Clara Deser;William E. Foust

  • The Influence of the Madden–Julian Oscillation on Northern Hemisphere Winter Blocking

    Stephanie A. Henderson;Eric D. Maloney;Elizabeth A. Barnes

  • A methodology for the comparison of blocking climatologies across indices, models and climate scenarios

    Elizabeth A. Barnes;Julia Slingo;Tim Woollings

  • Primary Modes of Global Drop Size Distributions

    B. Dolan;B. Fuchs;S. A. Rutledge;E. A. Barnes

  • Contrasting interannual and multidecadal NAO variability

    T. Woollings;C. Franzke;D. L. R. Hodson;B. Dong

  • Viewing Forced Climate Patterns Through an AI Lens

    Elizabeth A. Barnes;James W. Hurrell;Imme Ebert-Uphoff;Imme Ebert-Uphoff;Chuck Anderson

  • Skillful empirical subseasonal prediction of landfalling atmospheric river activity using the Madden–Julian oscillation and quasi-biennial oscillation

    Bryan D. Mundhenk;Elizabeth A. Barnes;Eric D. Maloney;Cory F. Baggett

  • Extreme moisture transport into the Arctic linked to Rossby wave breaking

    Chengji Liu;Elizabeth A. Barnes

  • Indicator patterns of forced change learned by an artificial neural network

    Elizabeth A. Barnes;Benjamin Toms;James W. Hurrell;Imme Ebert-Uphoff;Imme Ebert-Uphoff

  • Advancing atmospheric river forecasts into subseasonal‐to‐seasonal time scales

    Cory F. Baggett;Elizabeth A. Barnes;Eric D. Maloney;Bryan D. Mundhenk

  • Dynamical feedbacks and the persistence of the NAO

    Elizabeth A. Barnes;Dennis L. Hartmann

  • Response of the midlatitude jets and of their variability to increased greenhouse gases in the CMIP5 models

    Elizabeth A. Barnes

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric D. Maloney
Eric D. Maloney Colorado State University
Dennis L. Hartmann
Dennis L. Hartmann University of Washington
Lorenzo M. Polvani
Lorenzo M. Polvani Columbia University
Tim Woollings
Tim Woollings University of Oxford
David A. Randall
David A. Randall Colorado State University
Noah S. Diffenbaugh
Noah S. Diffenbaugh Stanford University
Chaim I. Garfinkel
Chaim I. Garfinkel Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Clara Deser
Clara Deser National Center for Atmospheric Research
Camille Li
Camille Li University of Bergen

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