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Robert A. Tomas is affiliated with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant work in associated subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Ecology, and Paleontology.

The scientist's main topics of work include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Climate variability and models
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology

Frequent coauthors of Robert A. Tomas are:

  • Bette L. Otto-Bliesner
  • Esther C. Brady
  • Pascale Braconnot
  • Weipeng Zheng
  • Qiong Zhang

Publications appear regularly in several venues, including:

  • Climate of the Past
  • Science Advances
  • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Nature Communications

Notable recent papers by Robert A. Tomas include:

  • Large-scale features and evaluation of the PMIP4-CMIP6 midHolocene simulations, 2020, Climate of the Past
  • Hydroclimate footprint of pan-Asian monsoon water isotope during the last deglaciation, 2021, Science Advances
  • Large-scale features of Last Interglacial climate: results from evaluating the lig127k simulations for the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6)-Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project (PMIP4), 2021, Climate of the Past
  • A multi-model CMIP6-PMIP4 study of Arctic sea ice at 127 ka: sea ice data compilation and model differences, 2021, Climate of the Past
  • Abrupt Heinrich Stadial 1 cooling missing in Greenland oxygen isotopes, 2021, Science Advances

Best Publications

  • Monsoons: Processes, predictability, and the prospects for prediction

    P. J. Webster;V. O. Magaña;T. N. Palmer;J. Shukla

  • Transient Simulation of Last Deglaciation with a New Mechanism for Bølling-Allerød Warming

    Z. Liu;B. L. Otto-Bliesner;F. He;E. C. Brady

  • Last Glacial Maximum and Holocene Climate in CCSM3

    Bette L. Otto-Bliesner;Esther C. Brady;Gabriel Clauzet;Robert Tomas

  • The Seasonal Atmospheric Response to Projected Arctic Sea Ice Loss in the Late Twenty-First Century

    Clara Deser;Robert Tomas;Michael Alexander;David Lawrence

  • Solar influence on climate during the past millennium: Results from transient simulations with the NCAR Climate System Model

    Caspar M. Ammann;Fortunat Joos;David S. Schimel;Bette L. Otto-Bliesner

  • The Atmospheric Response to Three Decades of Observed Arctic Sea Ice Loss

    James A. Screen;Ian Simmonds;Clara Deser;Robert Tomas

  • ENSO and Pacific Decadal Variability in the Community Climate System Model Version 4

    Clara Deser;Adam S. Phillips;Robert A. Tomas;Yuko M. Okumura

  • The Transient Atmospheric Circulation Response to North Atlantic SST and Sea Ice Anomalies

    Clara Deser;Robert A. Tomas;Shiling Peng

  • A new synoptic scale resolving global climate simulation using the Community Earth System Model

    R. Justin Small;Julio Bacmeister;David Bailey;Allison Baker

  • Accelerated Arctic land warming and permafrost degradation during rapid sea ice loss

    David M. Lawrence;Andrew G. Slater;Robert A. Tomas;Marika M. Holland

  • The Role of Ocean–Atmosphere Coupling in the Zonal-Mean Atmospheric Response to Arctic Sea Ice Loss

    Clara Deser;Robert A. Tomas;Lantao Sun

  • Mechanisms of Stratospheric and Tropospheric Circulation Response to Projected Arctic Sea Ice Loss

    Lantao Sun;Clara Deser;Robert A. Tomas

  • Atmospheric impacts of Arctic sea-ice loss, 1979–2009: separating forced change from atmospheric internal variability

    James A. Screen;James A. Screen;Clara Deser;Ian Simmonds;Robert Tomas

  • The Connected Isotopic Water Cycle in the Community Earth System Model Version 1

    E. Brady;S. Stevenson;D. Bailey;Z. Liu

  • Impact of ocean model resolution on CCSM climate simulations

    Ben P. Kirtman;Cecilia Bitz;Frank Bryan;William Collins

  • The PMIP4 Contribution to CMIP6-Part 4: Scientific Objectives and Experimental Design of the PMIP4-CMIP6 Last Glacial Maximum Experiments and PMIP4 Sensitivity Experiments

    Masa Kageyama;Samuel Albani;Pascale Braconnot;Sandy P Harrison

  • Frontal scale air-sea interaction in high-resolution coupled climate models

    Frank O. Bryan;Robert Tomas;John M. Dennis;Dudley B. Chelton

  • Does ocean coupling matter for the northern extratropical response to projected Arctic sea ice loss

    Clara Deser;Lantao Sun;Robert A. Tomas;James A. Screen

  • Hydroclimate footprint of pan-Asian monsoon water isotope during the last deglaciation

    C. He;C. He;Z. Liu;Z. Liu;B. L. Otto-Bliesner;E.C. Brady

  • The role of inertial instability in determining the location and strength of near‐equatorial convection

    Robert A. Tomas;Peter J. Webster

  • Large-scale features and evaluation of the PMIP4-CMIP6 midHolocene simulations

    Chris M. Brierley;Anni Zhao;Sandy P. Harrison;Pascale Braconnot

  • The PMIP4 contribution to CMIP6 -- Part 4: Scientific objectives and experimental design of the PMIP4-CMIP6 Last Glacial Maximum experiments and PMIP4 sensitivity experiments (in open review for Geoscientific Model Development - doi:10.5194/gmd-2017-18)

    M. Kageyama;S. Albani;P. Braconnot;S. P. Harrison

Frequent Co-Authors

Bette L. Otto-Bliesner
Bette L. Otto-Bliesner National Center for Atmospheric Research
Esther C. Brady
Esther C. Brady National Center for Atmospheric Research
Clara Deser
Clara Deser National Center for Atmospheric Research
Zhengyu Liu
Zhengyu Liu The Ohio State University
Kerim H. Nisancioglu
Kerim H. Nisancioglu University of Bergen
Frank O. Bryan
Frank O. Bryan National Center for Atmospheric Research
Michael A. Alexander
Michael A. Alexander National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
David Noone
David Noone University of Auckland
Ayako Abe-Ouchi
Ayako Abe-Ouchi University of Tokyo
Gerrit Lohmann
Gerrit Lohmann University of Bremen

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