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Esther C. Brady is affiliated with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within Earth and environmental sciences, focusing primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science.

The scientist's subfields of study include Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Ecology, and Paleontology. Their main research topics cover areas such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Climate variability and models, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Cryospheric studies and observations, Marine and coastal ecosystems, and Climate change and permafrost.

Esther C. Brady has contributed to numerous scientific publications, including papers addressing climate modeling, paleoclimate simulations, and hydroclimate studies. Selected recent publications include:

  • The Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project Phase 2: large-scale climate features and climate sensitivity (2020, Climate of the past)
  • Large-scale features and evaluation of the PMIP4-CMIP6 midHolocene simulations (2020, Climate of the past)
  • Hydroclimate footprint of pan-Asian monsoon water isotope during the last deglaciation (2021, Science Advances)
  • Large-scale features of Last Interglacial climate: results from evaluating the lig127k simulations for the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6)-Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project (PMIP4) (2021, Climate of the past)
  • Lessons from a high-CO 2 world: an ocean view from ∼ 3 million years ago (2020, Climate of the past)

Their frequent co-authors include colleagues with extensive collaborations such as Bette L. Otto-Bliesner, Gerrit Lohmann, Zhongshi Zhang, Qiong Zhang, and Deepak Chandan.

Esther C. Brady's works are published predominantly in the following venues:

  • Climate of the past
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Science Advances
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Best Publications

  • Transient Simulation of Last Deglaciation with a New Mechanism for Bølling-Allerød Warming

    Z. Liu;B. L. Otto-Bliesner;F. He;E. C. Brady

  • Last Glacial Maximum and Holocene Climate in CCSM3

    Bette L. Otto-Bliesner;Esther C. Brady;Gabriel Clauzet;Robert Tomas

  • Chinese cave records and the East Asia Summer Monsoon

    Zhengyu Liu;Zhengyu Liu;Xinyu Wen;E.C. Brady;B. Otto-Bliesner

  • Climate Variability and Change since 850 CE: An Ensemble Approach with the Community Earth System Model

    Bette L. Otto-Bliesner;Esther C. Brady;John Fasullo;Alexandra Jahn

  • A simulation of the Last Glacial Maximum climate using the NCAR-CCSM

    S.-I. Shin;Z. Liu;B. Otto-Bliesner;E. C. Brady

  • The Connected Isotopic Water Cycle in the Community Earth System Model Version 1

    E. Brady;S. Stevenson;D. Bailey;Z. Liu

  • Diagnostic Model of the Three-Dimensional Circulation in the Upper Equatorial Pacific Ocean

    Harry L. Bryden;Esther C. Brady

  • Factors that affect the amplitude of El Nino in global coupled climate models

    G. A. Meehl;P. R. Gent;J. M. Arblaster;B. L. Otto-Bliesner

  • Last Glacial Maximum ocean thermohaline circulation: PMIP2 model intercomparisons and data constraints

    B.L. Otto-Bliesner;C.D. Hewitt;T.M. Marchitto;E. Brady

  • Sensitivity to glacial forcing in the CCSM4

    Esther C. Brady;Bette L. Otto-Bliesner;Jennifer E. Kay;Nan Rosenbloom

  • The PMIP4 Contribution to CMIP6-Part 4: Scientific Objectives and Experimental Design of the PMIP4-CMIP6 Last Glacial Maximum Experiments and PMIP4 Sensitivity Experiments

    Masa Kageyama;Samuel Albani;Pascale Braconnot;Sandy P Harrison

  • How warm was the last interglacial? New model-data comparisons

    Bette L. Otto-Bliesner;Nan Rosenbloom;Emma J. Stone;Nicholas P. McKay

  • The Southern Westerlies during the last glacial maximum in PMIP2 simulations

    Maisa Rojas;Patricio I. Moreno;Masa Kageyama;Michel Crucifix

  • The Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project Phase 2: large-scale climate features and climate sensitivity

    Alan M. Haywood;Julia C. Tindall;Harry J. Dowsett;Aisling M. Dolan

  • Hydroclimate footprint of pan-Asian monsoon water isotope during the last deglaciation

    C. He;C. He;Z. Liu;Z. Liu;B. L. Otto-Bliesner;E.C. Brady

  • Large-scale features and evaluation of the PMIP4-CMIP6 midHolocene simulations

    Chris M. Brierley;Anni Zhao;Sandy P. Harrison;Pascale Braconnot

  • “El Niño Like” Hydroclimate Responses to Last Millennium Volcanic Eruptions

    Samantha Stevenson;Bette Otto-Bliesner;John Fasullo;Esther Brady

  • The sensitivity of the climate response to the magnitude and location of freshwater forcing: last glacial maximum experiments

    Bette L. Otto-Bliesner;Esther C. Brady

  • Late Cretaceous ocean: Coupled simulations with the National Center for Atmospheric Research Climate System Model

    Bette L. Otto-Bliesner;Esther C. Brady;Christine Shields

  • Large-scale features of Last Interglacial climate : Results from evaluating the lig127k simulations for the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6)-Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project (PMIP4)

    Bette L. Otto-Bliesner;Esther C. Brady;Anni Zhao;Chris M. Brierley

  • The PMIP4 contribution to CMIP6 -- Part 4: Scientific objectives and experimental design of the PMIP4-CMIP6 Last Glacial Maximum experiments and PMIP4 sensitivity experiments (in open review for Geoscientific Model Development - doi:10.5194/gmd-2017-18)

    M. Kageyama;S. Albani;P. Braconnot;S. P. Harrison

Frequent Co-Authors

Bette L. Otto-Bliesner
Bette L. Otto-Bliesner National Center for Atmospheric Research
Zhengyu Liu
Zhengyu Liu The Ohio State University
Robert A. Tomas
Robert A. Tomas National Center for Atmospheric Research
Zhongshi Zhang
Zhongshi Zhang NORCE Research
Kerim H. Nisancioglu
Kerim H. Nisancioglu University of Bergen
Ayako Abe-Ouchi
Ayako Abe-Ouchi University of Tokyo
Gerrit Lohmann
Gerrit Lohmann University of Bremen
Nan Rosenbloom
Nan Rosenbloom National Center for Atmospheric Research
Jiang Zhu
Jiang Zhu National Center for Atmospheric Research
Qiong Zhang
Qiong Zhang Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

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