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Gregory M. Flato

Gregory M. Flato

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
54
Citations
18952
World Ranking
3947
National Ranking
165

Overview

Gregory M. Flato is affiliated with the University of Victoria in Canada. Their research primarily falls within environmental science, with a focus on global and planetary change, atmospheric science, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, as well as sociology and political science.

The scientist's work covers several major topics including climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, climate change and health impacts, climate change adaptation and migration, and the impact of COVID-19 on air quality.

Gregory M. Flato has contributed to several publications, notably:

  • Context for interpreting equilibrium climate sensitivity and transient climate response from the CMIP6 Earth system models, 2020, Science Advances
  • Quantifying the influence of short-term emission reductions on climate, 2021, Science Advances
  • CanESM5 data for CCCma COVID-19 climate scenarios, 2020, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • CanESM5 data for CCCma COVID-19 climate scenarios, 2020, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

The frequent coauthors the scientist has worked with include John C. Fyfe, Neil C. Swart, Michael Sigmond, Nathan P. Gillett, and Viatcheslav Kharin.

Many of Gregory M. Flato's publications appear in venues such as Science Advances and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Best Publications

  • Evaluation of climate models

    G. M. Flato;J. Marotzke;B. Abiodun;Pascale Braconnot

  • Observations: Changes in Snow, Ice and Frozen Ground

    Peter Lemke;Jian Ren;R. B. Alley;I. Allison

  • Investigating the Causes of the Response of the Thermohaline Circulation to Past and Future Climate Changes

    Ronald J. Stouffer;J. Yin;J. M. Gregory;J. M. Gregory;K. W. Dixon

  • 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

  • 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

  • Context for interpreting equilibrium climate sensitivity and transient climate response from the CMIP6 Earth system models.

    Gerald A. Meehl;Catherine A. Senior;Veronika Eyring;Veronika Eyring;Gregory Flato

  • Taking climate model evaluation to the next level

    Veronika Eyring;Veronika Eyring;Peter M. Cox;Gregory M. Flato;Peter J. Gleckler

  • 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

  • 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

  • STOIC: a study of coupled model climatology and variability in tropical ocean regions

    M. K. Davey;M. Huddleston;K. R. Sperber;P. Braconnot

  • Modeling Pack Ice as a Cavitating Fluid

    Gregory M. Flato;William D. Hibler

  • Making sense of the early-2000s warming slowdown

    John C. Fyfe;Gerald A. Meehl;Matthew H. England;Michael E. Mann

  • ENSIP: The El Niño simulation intercomparison project

    Mojib Latif;K. Sperber;J. Arblaster;P. Braconnot

  • The Canadian Seasonal to Interannual Prediction System. Part I: Models and Initialization

    William J. Merryfield;Woo Sung Lee;George J. Boer;Viatcheslav V. Kharin

  • Earth system models: an overview

    Gregory M. Flato

  • Large near-term projected snowpack loss over the western United States

    John C. Fyfe;Chris Derksen;Lawrence Mudryk;Gregory M. Flato

  • Ice-cover variability on shallow lakes at high latitudes: model simulations and observations

    Claude R. Duguay;Greg M. Flato;Martin O. Jeffries;Patrick Ménard

  • A transient climate change simulation with greenhouse gas and aerosol forcing: experimental design and comparison with the instrumental record for the twentieth century

    G. J. Boer;G. Flato;M. C. Reader;D. Ramsden

  • Coordinated Global and Regional Climate Modeling

    J. F. Scinocca;V. V. Kharin;Y. Jiao;M. W. Qian

Frequent Co-Authors

George J. Boer
George J. Boer Environment and Climate Change Canada
John C. Fyfe
John C. Fyfe University of Victoria
Gerald A. Meehl
Gerald A. Meehl National Center for Atmospheric Research
John F. Scinocca
John F. Scinocca University of Victoria
William J. Merryfield
William J. Merryfield University of Victoria
Nathan P. Gillett
Nathan P. Gillett University of Victoria
Ronald J. Stouffer
Ronald J. Stouffer University of Arizona
Vivek K. Arora
Vivek K. Arora University of Victoria
Veronika Eyring
Veronika Eyring University of Bremen
Viatcheslav V. Kharin
Viatcheslav V. Kharin Environment and Climate Change Canada

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