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Environmental Sciences
Canada
2023

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Earth Science

D-Index
52
Citations
13718
World Ranking
2977
National Ranking
144

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Canada Leader Award

Overview

George J. Boer is affiliated with Environment and Climate Change Canada in Canada, contributing to research primarily situated within Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields, notably Global and Planetary Change as well as Atmospheric Science.

Their research has addressed a range of topics including Climate Variability and Models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics. This topical diversity reflects a focus on understanding complex interactions within the Earth system, particularly as related to climate prediction and atmospheric processes.

Boer has published in several scientific journals, with papers appearing in venues such as Geoscientific Model Development, Geophysical Research Letters, and Frontiers in Climate. Recent published works include:

  • Decadal climate predictions with the Canadian Earth System Model version 5 (CanESM5), 2021, Geoscientific Model Development
  • Assessing the Impact of Initialization on Decadal Prediction Skill, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Verification Data and the Skill of Decadal Predictions, 2022, Frontiers in Climate

Collaboration is evident in Boer's coauthor relationships, with frequent partners including Reinel Sospedra-Alfonso, Viatsheslav V. Kharin, William J. Merryfield, Woosung Lee, and Christian Seiler. These collaborations suggest engagement with a network of researchers focused on climate modeling and related fields.

Best Publications

  • Projections of Future Climate Change

    U. Cubasch;G. A. Meehl;G. J. Boer;R. J. Stouffer

  • Near-term climate change: Projections and predictability

    Ben Kirtman;Scott B. Power;Akintayo John Adedoyin;George J. Boer

  • Intercomparison and interpretation of climate feedback processes in 19 atmospheric general circulation models

    R. D. Cess;G. L. Potter;J. P. Blanchet;G. J. Boer

  • Carbon emission limits required to satisfy future representative concentration pathways of greenhouse gases

    V. K. Arora;J. F. Scinocca;G. J. Boer;J. R. Christian;J. R. Christian

  • Decadal Prediction: Can It Be Skillful?

    Gerald A. Meehl;Lisa M. Goddard;James Murphy;Ronald J. Stouffer

  • Regional Climate Information—Evaluation and Projections

    F. Giorgi;J. Christensen;M. Hulme;H. von Storch

  • The Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis global coupled model and its climate

    G. M. Flato;G. J. Boer;W. G. Lee;N. A. McFarlane

  • Interpretation of Cloud-Climate Feedback as Produced by 14 Atmospheric General Circulation Models

    R. D. Cess;G. L. Potter;J. P. Blanchet;G. J. Boer

  • The Canadian Climate Centre Second-Generation General Circulation Model and Its Equilibrium Climate

    N.A. Mcfarlane;G.J. Boer;J.P. Blanchet;M. Lazare

  • Carbon–Concentration and Carbon–Climate Feedbacks in CMIP5 Earth System Models

    Vivek K. Arora;George J. Boer;Pierre Friedlingstein;Michael Eby

  • The Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP)

    Gerald A. Meehl;George J. Boer;Curt Covey;Mojib Latif

  • Warming asymmetry in climate change simulations

    G. M. Flato;G. J. Boer

  • The Arctic and Antarctic oscillations and their projected changes under global warming

    J. C. Fyfe;G. J. Boer;G. M. Flato

  • Decadal Climate Prediction: An Update from the Trenches

    Gerald A. Meehl;Lisa Goddard;George Boer;Robert Burgman

  • A parameterization of leaf phenology for the terrestrial ecosystem component of climate models

    Vivek K. Arora;George J. Boer

  • A transient climate change simulation with greenhouse gas and aerosol forcing: projected climate to the twenty-first century

    G. J. Boer;G. Flato;D. Ramsden

  • CMIP1 evaluation and intercomparison of coupled climate models

    S. J. Lambert;G. J. Boer

  • The Decadal Climate Prediction Project (DCPP) contribution to CMIP6

    George J. Boer;Douglas M. Smith;Christophe Cassou;Francisco Doblas-Reyes

  • A verification framework for interannual-to-decadal predictions experiments

    L. Goddard;A. Kumar;A. Solomon;D. Smith

  • Greenhouse Gas–induced Climate Change Simulated with the CCC Second-Generation General Circulation Model

    G. J. Boer;N. A. McFarlane;M. Lazare

  • Effects of simulated climate change on the hydrology of major river basins

    Vivek K. Arora;George J. Boer

Frequent Co-Authors

William J. Merryfield
William J. Merryfield University of Victoria
Vivek K. Arora
Vivek K. Arora University of Victoria
Gerald A. Meehl
Gerald A. Meehl National Center for Atmospheric Research
Viatcheslav V. Kharin
Viatcheslav V. Kharin Environment and Climate Change Canada
Gregory M. Flato
Gregory M. Flato University of Victoria
James R. Christian
James R. Christian Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Masahide Kimoto
Masahide Kimoto University of Tokyo
Erich Roeckner
Erich Roeckner Max Planck Society
Bin Yu
Bin Yu Southeast University
Francisco J. Doblas-Reyes
Francisco J. Doblas-Reyes Barcelona Supercomputing Center

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