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Noel Keenlyside

Noel Keenlyside

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
72
Citations
18846
World Ranking
1492
National Ranking
18

Overview

Noel Keenlyside is affiliated with the University of Bergen in Norway and has contributed extensively to Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their research primarily focuses on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Oceanography, with additional work in Ecology and Sociology and Political Science.

Their research covers a range of topics including Climate variability and models, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Climate change and permafrost, and Marine and coastal ecosystems.

Notable recent publications include:

  • North Atlantic climate far more predictable than models imply, 2020, Nature
  • WMO Global Annual to Decadal Climate Update: A Prediction for 2021-25, 2022, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • NorCPM1 and its contribution to CMIP6 DCPP, 2021, Geoscientific model development
  • Mitigating Climate Biases in the Midlatitude North Atlantic by Increasing Model Resolution: SST Gradients and Their Relation to Blocking and the Jet, 2022, Journal of Climate
  • Amplification of synoptic to annual variability of West African summer monsoon rainfall under global warming, 2020, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

Frequent co-authors of Keenlyside include François Counillon, Shunya Koseki, Shuting Yang, Filippa Fransner, and Nour-Eddine Omrani.

The scientist publishes frequently in venues such as Climate Dynamics, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, Nature Communications, and Journal of Climate.

Best Publications

  • DEVELOPMENT OF A EUROPEAN MULTIMODEL ENSEMBLE SYSTEM FOR SEASONAL-TO-INTERANNUAL PREDICTION (DEMETER)

    T. N. Palmer;A. Alessandri;U. Andersen;P. Cantelaube

  • Ocean Circulation and Tropical Variability in the Coupled Model ECHAM5/MPI-OM

    J. H. Jungclaus;Noel Keenlyside;M. Botzet;H. Haak

  • Decadal Prediction: Can It Be Skillful?

    Gerald A. Meehl;Lisa M. Goddard;James Murphy;Ronald J. Stouffer

  • Advancing decadal-scale climate prediction in the North Atlantic sector

    Noel Keenlyside;Mojib Latif;J. Jungclaus;L. Kornblueh

  • Pantropical Climate Interactions

    Wenju Cai;Wenju Cai;Lixin Wu;Matthieu Lengaigne;Matthieu Lengaigne;Tim Li

  • Why the Western Pacific Subtropical High Has Extended Westward since the Late 1970s

    Tianjun Zhou;Rucong Yu;Jie Zhang;Helge Drange

  • How may tropical cyclones change in a warmer climate

    Lennart Bengtsson;Lennart Bengtsson;Kevin I. Hodges;Monika Esch;Noel Keenlyside

  • Will Extratropical Storms Intensify in a Warmer Climate

    Lennart Bengtsson;Kevin Ivan Hodges;Noel Keenlyside

  • Understanding, modeling and predicting weather and climate extremes: Challenges and opportunities

    Jana Sillmann;Thordis Thorarinsdottir;Noel Keenlyside;Nathalie Schaller

  • North Atlantic Ocean control on surface heat flux on multidecadal timescales

    Sergey K. Gulev;Sergey K. Gulev;Sergey K. Gulev;Mojib Latif;Mojib Latif;Noel Keenlyside;Wonsun Park

  • ENSEMBLES: a new multi-model ensemble for seasonal-to-annual predictions: Skill and progress beyond DEMETER in forecasting tropical Pacific SSTs

    A. Weisheimer;F.J. Doblas-Reyes;T.N. Palmer;Andrea Alessandri

  • Understanding Equatorial Atlantic Interannual Variability

    Noel S. Keenlyside;Mojib Latif

  • Is the thermohaline circulation changing

    Mojib Latif;Claus W. Böning;Jürgen Willebrand;Arne Biastoch

  • El Niño/Southern Oscillation response to global warming

    Mojib Latif;Noel Keenlyside

  • North Atlantic climate far more predictable than models imply

    Doug M. Smith;A. Scaife;A. Scaife;Rosie Eade;P. Athanasiadis

  • A review on Northern Hemisphere sea-ice, storminess and the North Atlantic Oscillation: Observations and projected changes

    Jürgen Bader;Michel D. S. Mesquita;Kevin I. Hodges;Noel S. Keenlyside

  • Impact of the Equatorial Atlantic on the El Niño Southern Oscillation

    Hui Ding;Noel S. Keenlyside;Mojib Latif

  • Arctic Sea Ice and Eurasian Climate: A Review

    Yongqi Gao;Yongqi Gao;Jianqi Sun;Fei Li;Shengping He

  • Evaluating Impacts of Recent Arctic Sea Ice Loss on the Northern Hemisphere Winter Climate Change

    Fumiaki Ogawa;Fumiaki Ogawa;Noel Keenlyside;Noel Keenlyside;Noel Keenlyside;Yongqi Gao;Yongqi Gao;Torben Koenigk

  • Tropical Pacific climate and its response to global warming in the Kiel climate model.

    Wonsun Park;Noel Keenlyside;Mojib Latif;A. Ströh

  • The Impact of North Atlantic–Arctic Multidecadal Variability on Northern Hemisphere Surface Air Temperature

    Vladimir A. Semenov;Mojib Latif;Dietmar Dommenget;Noel S. Keenlyside

Frequent Co-Authors

Mojib Latif
Mojib Latif GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Wonsun Park
Wonsun Park GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Yongqi Gao
Yongqi Gao Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research
Holger Pohlmann
Holger Pohlmann Max Planck Society
Dietmar Dommenget
Dietmar Dommenget Monash University
Johann H. Jungclaus
Johann H. Jungclaus Max Planck Society
Hisashi Nakamura
Hisashi Nakamura University of Tokyo
Ping Chang
Ping Chang Texas A&M University
Rowan Sutton
Rowan Sutton University of Reading
Katja Matthes
Katja Matthes GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel

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