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Stephen G. Yeager is a researcher affiliated with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in the United States. Their work spans multiple areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a particular focus on climate-related phenomena and modeling.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Within these fields, their subfields of specialization encompass:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Oceanography
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Geology

Stephen G. Yeager's research interests are concentrated on several key topics relevant to climate science:

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

They have contributed to numerous scientific publications, frequently publishing in the following venues:

  • Journal of Climate
  • npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Geoscientific model development
  • Science Advances

Recent papers include:

  • "Ubiquity of human-induced changes in climate variability" (2021, Earth System Dynamics)
  • "An Unprecedented Set of High-Resolution Earth System Simulations for Understanding Multiscale Interactions in Climate Variability and Change" (2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems)
  • "Current and Emerging Developments in Subseasonal to Decadal Prediction" (2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society)
  • "North Atlantic climate far more predictable than models imply" (2020, Nature)
  • "Evaluation of global ocean-sea-ice model simulations based on the experimental protocols of the Ocean Model Intercomparison Project phase 2 (OMIP-2)" (2020, Geoscientific model development)

Stephen G. Yeager collaborates frequently with other researchers, including:

  • Gökhan Danabasoglu
  • Ping Chang
  • Nan Rosenbloom
  • Who M. Kim
  • Qiuying Zhang

Best Publications

  • The global climatology of an interannually varying air–sea flux data set

    W. G. Large;S. G. Yeager

  • Diurnal to decadal global forcing for ocean and sea-ice models: The data sets and flux climatologies

    G. Large;Stephen Yeager

  • Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments (COREs)

    Stephen M. Griffies;Arne Biastoch;Claus W. Böning;Frank Bryan

  • JRA-55 based surface dataset for driving ocean–sea-ice models (JRA55-do)

    Hiroyuki Tsujino;Shogo Urakawa;Hideyuki Nakano;R. Justin Small

  • The CCSM4 Ocean Component

    Gokhan Danabasoglu;Susan C. Bates;Bruce P. Briegleb;Steven R. Jayne

  • Decadal Climate Prediction: An Update from the Trenches

    Gerald A. Meehl;Lisa Goddard;George Boer;Robert Burgman

  • A Review of the Role of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in Atlantic Multidecadal Variability and Associated Climate Impacts

    Rong Zhang;Rowan Sutton;Gokhan Danabasoglu;Young Oh Kwon

  • North Atlantic simulations in Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments phase II (CORE-II). Part I: Mean states

    Gokhan Danabasoglu;Steve G. Yeager;David Bailey;Erik Behrens

  • OMIP contribution to CMIP6: experimental and diagnostic protocol for the physical component of the Ocean Model Intercomparison Project

    Stephen M. Griffies;Gokhan Danabasoglu;Paul J. Durack;Alistair J. Adcroft

  • The Low-Resolution CCSM3

    Stephen G. Yeager;Christine A. Shields;William G. Large;James J. Hack

  • An Unprecedented Set of High-Resolution Earth System Simulations for Understanding Multiscale Interactions in Climate Variability and Change

    Ping Chang;Shaoqing Zhang;Shaoqing Zhang;Gokhan Danabasoglu;Gokhan Danabasoglu;Stephen G. Yeager;Stephen G. Yeager

  • Challenges and Prospects in Ocean Circulation Models

    Baylor Fox-Kemper;Alistair Adcroft;Alistair Adcroft;Claus W. Böning;Eric P. Chassignet

  • Patterns of Indian Ocean sea-level change in a warming climate

    Weiqing Han;Gerald A. Meehl;Balaji Rajagopalan;John T. Fasullo

  • Improvements in a half degree atmosphere/land version of the CCSM

    Peter R. Gent;Stephen G. Yeager;Richard B. Neale;Samuel Levis

  • Robust skill of decadal climate predictions

    D. M. Smith;R. Eade;A. A. Scaife;A. A. Scaife;L.-P. Caron

  • North Atlantic climate far more predictable than models imply

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

  • Current and emerging developments in subseasonal to decadal prediction

    William J. Merryfield;Johanna Baehr;Lauriane Batté;Emily J. Becker

  • A decadal prediction case study: Late twentieth-century North Atlantic Ocean heat content

    Stephen Yeager;Alicia Karspeck;Gokhan Danabasoglu;Joseph Tribbia

  • Predicting near-term changes in the Earth System: A large ensemble of initialized decadal prediction simulations using the Community Earth System Model

    S. G. Yeager;G. Danabasoglu;N. A. Rosenbloom;W. Strand

  • Assessing the Climate Impacts of the Observed Atlantic Multidecadal Variability Using the GFDL CM2.1 and NCAR CESM1 Global Coupled Models

    Yohan Ruprich-Robert;Rym Msadek;Frederic Castruccio;Stephen Yeager

  • Evaluation of global ocean–sea-ice model simulations based on the experimental protocols of the Ocean Model Intercomparison Project phase 2 (OMIP-2)

    Hiroyuki Tsujino;L. Shogo Urakawa;Stephen M. Griffies;Stephen M. Griffies;Gokhan Danabasoglu

  • The Parallel Ocean Program (POP) reference manual: Ocean component of the Community Climate System Model (CCSM)

    R. Smith;P. Jones;P. Briegleb;O. Bryan

Frequent Co-Authors

Gokhan Danabasoglu
Gokhan Danabasoglu National Center for Atmospheric Research
William G. Large
William G. Large National Center for Atmospheric Research
Stephen M. Griffies
Stephen M. Griffies National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Simon J. Marsland
Simon J. Marsland Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Hiroyuki Tsujino
Hiroyuki Tsujino Japan Meteorological Agency
Eric P. Chassignet
Eric P. Chassignet Florida State University
Nan Rosenbloom
Nan Rosenbloom National Center for Atmospheric Research
Keith Lindsay
Keith Lindsay National Center for Atmospheric Research
Simona Masina
Simona Masina Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici
Thomas L. Delworth
Thomas L. Delworth Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

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