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Nathaniel C. Johnson is affiliated with the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in the United States. Their research spans several areas within Earth sciences, focusing primarily on climate variability and modeling, meteorological phenomena, and oceanographic and atmospheric processes.

Their main fields of study include Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with notable contributions in several subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Oceanography. Additionally, work in Sociology and Political Science and Aerospace Engineering complement this spectrum, although to a lesser extent.

The key research topics covered by their work are:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

Nathaniel C. Johnson's recent publications illustrate current areas of focus and collaboration. Notable papers include:

  • "Windows of Opportunity for Skillful Forecasts Subseasonal to Seasonal and Beyond," 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "SPEAR: The Next Generation GFDL Modeling System for Seasonal to Multidecadal Prediction and Projection," 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • "On the future zonal contrasts of equatorial Pacific climate: Perspectives from Observations, Simulations, and Theories," 2022, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
  • "GFDL's SPEAR Seasonal Prediction System: Initialization and Ocean Tendency Adjustment (OTA) for Coupled Model Predictions," 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • "Seasonal Prediction and Predictability of Regional Antarctic Sea Ice," 2021, Journal of Climate

Frequent collaborators in their research include Thomas L. Delworth, Liwei Jia, Feiyu Lu, William Cooke, and Colleen McHugh, reflecting a network of scientists engaged in climate and atmospheric studies.

The scientist's work is regularly published in prominent scientific journals such as npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, Journal of Climate, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Geophysical Research Letters, and Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems.

Best Publications

  • Contribution of changes in atmospheric circulation patterns to extreme temperature trends

    Daniel E. Horton;Nathaniel C. Johnson;Nathaniel C. Johnson;Nathaniel C. Johnson;Deepti Singh;Daniel L. Swain

  • El Niño modulations over the past seven centuries

    Jinbao Li;Jinbao Li;Shang-Ping Xie;Shang-Ping Xie;Shang-Ping Xie;Edward R. Cook;Mariano S. Morales

  • Influence of high-latitude atmospheric circulation changes on summertime Arctic sea ice

    Qinghua Ding;Qinghua Ding;Axel Schweiger;Michelle L’Heureux;David S. Battisti

  • Changes in the sea surface temperature threshold for tropical convection

    Nathaniel C. Johnson;Shang-Ping Xie

  • The Mixed-Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment.

    J. Verlinde;J. Y. Harrington;G. M. McFarquhar;V. T. Yannuzzi

  • Towards predictive understanding of regional climate change

    Shang Ping Xie;Clara Deser;Gabriel Andres Vecchi;Matthew Collins

  • How Many ENSO Flavors Can We Distinguish

    Nathaniel C. Johnson

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

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

  • Increasing occurrence of cold and warm extremes during the recent global warming slowdown

    Nathaniel C. Johnson;Shang-Ping Xie;Yu Kosaka;Yu Kosaka;Xichen Li;Xichen Li

  • Windows of opportunity for skillful forecasts subseasonal to seasonal and beyond

    Annarita Mariotti;Cory Baggett;Elizabeth A. Barnes;Emily Becker

  • SPEAR – the next generation GFDL modeling system for seasonal to multidecadal prediction and projection

    Thomas L. Delworth;William F. Cooke;William F. Cooke;Alistair Adcroft;Alistair Adcroft;Mitchell Bushuk;Mitchell Bushuk

  • The Continuum of Northern Hemisphere Teleconnection Patterns and a Description of the NAO Shift with the Use of Self-Organizing Maps

    Nathaniel C. Johnson;Steven B. Feldstein;Bruno Tremblay

  • On the Possible Link between Tropical Convection and the Northern Hemisphere Arctic Surface Air Temperature Change between 1958 and 2001

    Sukyoung Lee;Tingting Gong;Nathaniel Johnson;Steven B. Feldstein

  • The Continuum of North Pacific Sea Level Pressure Patterns: Intraseasonal, Interannual, and Interdecadal Variability

    Nathaniel C. Johnson;Steven B. Feldstein

  • The impact of the MJO on clusters of wintertime circulation anomalies over the North American region

    Emily E. Riddle;Marshall B. Stoner;Nathaniel C. Johnson;Michelle L. L’Heureux

  • Fingerprints of internal drivers of Arctic sea ice loss in observations and model simulations

    Qinghua Ding;Axel Schweiger;Michelle L’Heureux;Eric J. Steig

  • Tropical cyclone sensitivities to CO2 doubling: roles of atmospheric resolution, synoptic variability and background climate changes

    Gabriel A. Vecchi;Thomas L. Delworth;Thomas L. Delworth;Hiroyuki Murakami;Hiroyuki Murakami;Hiroyuki Murakami;Seth D. Underwood

  • On the future zonal contrasts of equatorial Pacific climate: Perspectives from Observations, Simulations, and Theories

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  • North American Climate in CMIP5 Experiments. Part II: Evaluation of Historical Simulations of Intraseasonal to Decadal Variability

    Justin Sheffield;Suzana J. Camargo;Rong Fu;Qi Hu

  • Skillful Wintertime North American Temperature Forecasts out to 4 Weeks Based on the State of ENSO and the MJO

    Nathaniel C. Johnson;Dan C. Collins;Steven B. Feldstein;Michelle L. L’Heureux

  • The impact of eastern equatorial Pacific convection on the diversity of boreal winter El Niño teleconnection patterns

    Nathaniel C. Johnson;Nathaniel C. Johnson;Nathaniel C. Johnson;Yu Kosaka;Yu Kosaka

Frequent Co-Authors

Hiroyuki Murakami
Hiroyuki Murakami National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Thomas L. Delworth
Thomas L. Delworth Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Andrew T. Wittenberg
Andrew T. Wittenberg Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Baoqiang Xiang
Baoqiang Xiang University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Shang-Ping Xie
Shang-Ping Xie University of California, San Diego
Fanrong Zeng
Fanrong Zeng Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Gabriel A. Vecchi
Gabriel A. Vecchi Princeton University
Steven B. Feldstein
Steven B. Feldstein Pennsylvania State University
Qinghua Ding
Qinghua Ding University of California, Santa Barbara
Anthony Rosati
Anthony Rosati National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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