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John F. Scinocca

John F. Scinocca

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
64
Citations
15366
World Ranking
2313
National Ranking
91

Overview

John F. Scinocca is affiliated with the University of Victoria in Canada and has contributed to research primarily in Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work focuses on subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, as well as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Astronomy and Astrophysics.

Scinocca's research addresses key topics such as Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Scinocca include:

  • James Anstey
  • Andrew C. Bushell
  • Neal Butchart
  • Yoshio Kawatani
  • Scott Osprey

The majority of Scinocca's publications appear in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, with additional works published in Geoscientific Model Development, Climate Dynamics, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, and Communications Earth & Environment.

Recent papers by Scinocca include:

  • Evaluation of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation in global climate models for the SPARC QBO-initiative, 2020, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • Response of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation to a warming climate in global climate models, 2020, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • Long-range prediction and the stratosphere, 2022, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Teleconnections of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation in a multi-model ensemble of QBO-resolving models, 2021, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • An evaluation of tropical waves and wave forcing of the QBO in the QBOi models, 2020, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Best Publications

  • The Canadian Earth System Model version 5 (CanESM5.0.3)

    Neil C. Swart;Jason N. S. Cole;Viatcheslav V. Kharin;Mike Lazare

  • 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

  • Tropical Intraseasonal Variability in 14 IPCC AR4 Climate Models. Part I: Convective Signals

    Jia Lin Lin;George N. Kiladis;Brian E. Mapes;Klaus M. Weickmann

  • Technical Note: The CCCma third generation AGCM and its extension into the middle atmosphere

    J. F. Scinocca;N. A. McFarlane;M. Lazare;J. Li

  • The simulation of European heat waves from an ensemble of regional climate models within the EURO-CORDEX project

    Robert Vautard;Andreas Gobiet;Daniela Jacob;Michal Belda

  • The Canadian Fourth Generation Atmospheric Global Climate Model (CanAM4). Part I: Representation of Physical Processes

    Knut von Salzen;John F. Scinocca;Norman A. McFarlane;Jiangnan Li

  • Enhanced seasonal forecast skill following stratospheric sudden warmings

    M. Sigmond;J. F. Scinocca;V. V. Kharin;T. G. Shepherd;T. G. Shepherd

  • Multimodel projections of stratospheric ozone in the 21st century

    V. Eyring;D. W. Waugh;G. E. Bodeker;Eugene C. Cordero

  • Impact of stratospheric ozone on Southern Hemisphere circulation change: A multimodel assessment

    S.-W. Son.;E. P. Gerber;J. Perlwitz;J. Perlwitz;L. M. Polvani

  • Vertical structure and physical processes of the Madden-Julian oscillation: exploring key model physics in climate simulations

    Xianan Jiang;Xianan Jiang;Duane E. Waliser;Duane E. Waliser;Prince K. Xavier;Jon Petch

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

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

  • Chemistry-Climate Model Simulations of Twenty- First Century Stratospheric Climate and Circulation Changes

    Neal Butchart;I. Cionni;V. Eyring;T. G. Shepherd

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

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

  • Coordinated Global and Regional Climate Modeling

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

  • Separating the Dynamical Effects of Climate Change and Ozone Depletion. Part II: Southern Hemisphere Troposphere

    Charles McLandress;Theodore G. Shepherd;John F. Scinocca;David A. Plummer

  • Multi-model assessment of stratospheric ozone return dates and ozone recovery in CCMVal-2 models

    V. Eyring;I. Cionni;G. E. Bodeker;Andrew J. Charlton-Perez

  • Multimodel assessment of the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere: Tropics and global trends

    A. Gettelman;M. I. Hegglin;S.-W. Son;Jung-Hyun Kim

  • Half a degree additional warming, prognosis and projected impacts (HAPPI): background and experimental design

    Daniel Mitchell;Daniel Mitchell;Krishna AchutaRao;Myles Allen;Myles Allen;Ingo Bethke

  • Separating the dynamical effects of climate change and ozone depletion. Part I: Southern Hemisphere stratosphere

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  • Multimodel climate and variability of the stratosphere

    N. Butchart;Andrew J. Charlton-Perez;I. Cionni;S. C. Hardiman

  • The effects of 1.5 and 2 degrees of global warming on Africa in the CORDEX ensemble

    Grigory Nikulin;Christopher Lennard;Alessandro Dosio;Erik Kjellström

Frequent Co-Authors

Theodore G. Shepherd
Theodore G. Shepherd University of Reading
David A. Plummer
David A. Plummer Environment and Climate Change Canada
Olaf Morgenstern
Olaf Morgenstern National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Eugene Rozanov
Eugene Rozanov Saint Petersburg State University
Slimane Bekki
Slimane Bekki Sorbonne University
Rolando R. Garcia
Rolando R. Garcia National Center for Atmospheric Research
Douglas E. Kinnison
Douglas E. Kinnison National Center for Atmospheric Research
Sandip Dhomse
Sandip Dhomse University of Leeds
Martyn P. Chipperfield
Martyn P. Chipperfield University of Leeds
Michael Sigmond
Michael Sigmond Environment and Climate Change Canada

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