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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
  • 2012 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2007 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

J. David Neelin is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a strong focus on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. The body of work involves detailed investigations into climate variability, meteorological phenomena, and tropical and extratropical cyclones.

The scientist has contributed extensively to the academic literature, with key papers including:

  • Precipitation Extremes and Water Vapor, 2022, Current Climate Change Reports
  • Climate-invariant machine learning, 2024, Science Advances
  • Impact of Initialized Land Surface Temperature and Snowpack on Subseasonal to Seasonal Prediction Project, Phase I (LS4P-I): organization and experimental design, 2021, Geoscientific Model Development
  • Spring Land Temperature in Tibetan Plateau and Global-Scale Summer Precipitation: Initialization and Improved Prediction, 2022, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Tropical Precipitation Evolution in a Buoyancy-Budget Framework, 2020, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Frequent co-authors include Fiaz Ahmed, Yi-Hung Kuo, Shaocheng Xie, Cristian Martinez-Villalobos, and Xubin Zeng.

Publication venues with multiple contributions are:

  • Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
  • Journal of Climate
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Nature Communications
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

The main fields of study for this researcher are:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science

The subfields include:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Oceanography
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Environmental Engineering

The primary topics covered in their work are:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Precipitation Measurement and Analysis
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics

Awards received by J. David Neelin include:

  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, 2015 (Academy of Science)
  • Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2012
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2011
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2007

Best Publications

  • On large-scale circulations in convecting atmospheres

    Kerry A. Emanuel;J. David Neelin;Christopher S. Bretherton

  • Increasing precipitation volatility in twenty-first-century California

    Daniel L. Swain;Daniel L. Swain;Baird Langenbrunner;Baird Langenbrunner;J. David Neelin;Alex Hall

  • Modeling Tropical Convergence Based on the Moist Static Energy Budget

    J. David Neelin;Isaac M. Held

  • Evaluating the “Rich-Get-Richer” Mechanism in Tropical Precipitation Change under Global Warming

    Chia Chou;J. David Neelin;Chao An Chen;Jien Yi Tu

  • ENSO theory

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  • The Seasonal Cycle over the Tropical Pacific in Coupled Ocean Atmosphere General Circulation Models

    C.R. Mechoso;A.W. Robertson;N. Barth;M.K. Davey

  • Enhancement of Interdecadal Climate Variability in the Sahel by Vegetation Interaction.

    Ning Zeng;J. David Neelin;K.-M. Lau;Compton J. Tucker

  • Tropical drying trends in global warming models and observations

    J. D. Neelin;M. Münnich;H. Su;J. E. Meyerson

  • El Niño on the Devil's Staircase: Annual Subharmonic Steps to Chaos

    Fei-Fei Jin;J. David Neelin;Michael Ghil

  • Evaporation-Wind Feedback and Low-Frequency Variability in the Tropical Atmosphere

    J. David Neelin;Isaac M. Held;Kerry H. Cook

  • Moisture Vertical Structure, Column Water Vapor, and Tropical Deep Convection

    Christopher E. Holloway;J. David Neelin

  • Mechanisms of Global Warming Impacts on Regional Tropical Precipitation

    Chia Chou;J. David Neelin

  • Causes and impacts of the 2005 Amazon drought

    Ning Zeng;Jin-Ho Yoon;Jose A Marengo;Ajit Subramaniam

  • Critical phenomena in atmospheric precipitation

    Ole Peters;Ole Peters;Ole Peters;J. David Neelin

  • A Quasi-Equilibrium Tropical Circulation Model—Formulation *

    J. David Neelin;Ning Zeng

  • The Slow Sea Surface Temperature Mode and the Fast-Wave Limit: Analytic Theory for Tropical Interannual Oscillations and Experiments in a Hybrid Coupled Model

    J. David Neelin

  • North American Climate in CMIP5 Experiments: Part III: Assessment of Twenty-First-Century Projections*

    Eric D. Maloney;Suzana J. Camargo;Edmund Chang;Brian Colle

  • Modes of Interannual Tropical Ocean–Atmosphere Interaction—a Unified View. Part I: Numerical Results

    Fei-Fei Jin;J. David Neelin

  • North American Climate in CMIP5 experiments. Part I: Evaluation of historical simulations of continental and regional climatology

    Justin Sheffield;Andrew P. Barrett;Brian Colle;D. Nelun Fernando;D. Nelun Fernando

  • Tropical drought regions in global warming and El Nino teleconnections

    J. D. Neelin;Chia Chou;H. Su

  • Modes of Tropical Variability under Convective Adjustment and the Madden–Julian Oscillation. Part I: Analytical Theory

    J. David Neelin;Jia-Yuh Yu

Frequent Co-Authors

Hui Su
Hui Su Jet Propulsion Lab
Benjamin R. Lintner
Benjamin R. Lintner Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Jonathan H. Jiang
Jonathan H. Jiang California Institute of Technology
Henk A. Dijkstra
Henk A. Dijkstra Utrecht University
Chia Chou
Chia Chou Academia Sinica
Ning Zeng
Ning Zeng University of Maryland, College Park
Eric D. Maloney
Eric D. Maloney Colorado State University
Annarita Mariotti
Annarita Mariotti National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Michael Ghil
Michael Ghil École Normale Supérieure
Fei-Fei Jin
Fei-Fei Jin University of Hawaii at Manoa

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