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Overview

Kirsten L. Findell is affiliated with the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with significant contributions to the study of global and planetary change, atmospheric science, water science and technology, oceanography, and environmental engineering.

Their work encompasses a range of topics including climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, hydrology and watershed management studies, tropical and extratropical cyclones research, and oceanographic and atmospheric processes.

Findell has co-authored publications with a number of frequent collaborators, including Rowan Sutton, Sha Zhou, Benjamin R. Lintner, Doug Smith, and Scott Osprey.

Their recent publications include the following:

  • Projected increase in global runoff dominated by land surface changes, 2023, Nature Climate Change
  • Diminishing seasonality of subtropical water availability in a warmer world dominated by soil moisture-atmosphere feedbacks, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Attribution of multi-annual to decadal changes in the climate system: The Large Ensemble Single Forcing Model Intercomparison Project (LESFMIP), 2022, Frontiers in Climate
  • The First 30 Years of GEWEX, 2022, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • The Land Component LM4.1 of the GFDL Earth System Model ESM4.1: Model Description and Characteristics of Land Surface Climate and Carbon Cycling in the Historical Simulation, 2024, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Findell has published frequently in several scientific venues including the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Nature Communications, Frontiers in Climate, Geophysical Research Letters, and npj Climate and Atmospheric Science.

Best Publications

  • GFDL's CM2 global coupled climate models. Part I: Formulation and simulation characteristics

    Thomas L. Delworth;Anthony J. Broccoli;Anthony Rosati;Ronald J. Stouffer

  • Large influence of soil moisture on long-term terrestrial carbon uptake

    Julia K. Green;Sonia I. Seneviratne;Alexis M. Berg;Kirsten L. Findell

  • Simulation of Sahel drought in the 20th and 21st centuries.

    I. M. Held;T. L. Delworth;J. Lu;K. L. Findell

  • Atmospheric Controls on Soil Moisture–Boundary Layer Interactions. Part I: Framework Development

    Kirsten L. Findell;Elfatih A. B. Eltahir

  • Land–Atmosphere Interactions: The LoCo Perspective

    Joseph A. Santanello;Paul A. Dirmeyer;Craig R. Ferguson;Kirsten L. Findell

  • Land–atmosphere feedbacks amplify aridity increase over land under global warming

    Alexis Berg;Kirsten Findell;Benjamin Lintner;Alessandra Giannini

  • Impact of soil moisture-climate feedbacks on CMIP5 projections: First results from the GLACE-CMIP5 experiment

    Sonia I. Seneviratne;Micah Wilhelm;Tanja Stanelle;Bart van den Hurk

  • A U.S. CLIVAR Project to Assess and Compare the Responses of Global Climate Models to Drought-Related SST Forcing Patterns: Overview and Results

    Siegfried Schubert;David Gutzler;Hailan Wang;Hailan Wang;Aiguo Dai

  • Atmospheric Controls on Soil Moisture-Boundary Layer Interactions. Part II: Feedbacks within the Continental United States

    Kirsten L. Findell;Elfatih A. B. Eltahir

  • The Impact of Anthropogenic Land Use and Land Cover Change on Regional Climate Extremes

    Kirsten L. Findell;Alexis Berg;Pierre Gentine;John P. Krasting

  • An analysis of the soil moisture-rainfall feedback, based on direct observations from Illinois

    Kirsten L. Findell;Elfatih A. B. Eltahir

  • Probability of afternoon precipitation in eastern United States and Mexico enhanced by high evaporation

    Kirsten L. Findell;Pierre Gentine;Benjamin R. Lintner;Christopher Kerr

  • Modeled Impact of Anthropogenic Land Cover Change on Climate

    Kirsten L. Findell;Elena Shevliakova;P. C. D. Milly;Ronald J. Stouffer

  • Impact of Soil Moisture–Atmosphere Interactions on Surface Temperature Distribution

    Alexis M. Berg;Benjamin R. Lintner;Kirsten L. Findell;Sergey Malyshev

  • An Enhanced Model of Land Water and Energy for Global Hydrologic and Earth-System Studies

    P. C. D. Milly;Sergey L. Malyshev;Elena Shevliakova;Krista A. Dunne

  • Projected increase in global runoff dominated by land surface changes

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  • Strong sensitivity of late 21st century climate to projected changes in short-lived air pollutants

    Hiram Levy;M. Daniel Schwarzkopf;Larry Horowitz;Venkatachalam Ramaswamy

  • Weak Simulated Extratropical Responses to Complete Tropical Deforestation

    Kirsten L. Findell;Thomas R. Knutson;P. C. D. Milly

  • Reduced Moisture Transport Linked to Drought Propagation Across North America

    Julio E. Herrera-Estrada;Julio E. Herrera-Estrada;J. Alejandro Martinez;Francina Dominguez;Kirsten L. Findell

  • Atmospheric Controls on Soil Moisture-Boundary Layer Interactions

    Kirsten Lynn Findell

  • Regional and Global Impacts of Land Cover Change and Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies

    Kirsten L. Findell;Andrew J. Pitman;Matthew H. England;Philip J. Pegion

  • Atmospheric controls on soil moisture-boundary layer interactions: Three-dimensional wind effects

    Kirsten L. Findell;Elfatih A. B. Eltahir

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin R. Lintner
Benjamin R. Lintner Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Pierre Gentine
Pierre Gentine Columbia University
Sergey Malyshev
Sergey Malyshev Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Paul C.D. Milly
Paul C.D. Milly United States Geological Survey
Stefan Hagemann
Stefan Hagemann Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research
Thomas L. Delworth
Thomas L. Delworth Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Elena Shevliakova
Elena Shevliakova Princeton University
Adam H. Sobel
Adam H. Sobel Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

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