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Thomas L. Mote is affiliated with the University of Georgia in the United States. Their research spans several key areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant emphasis on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. Their contributions also extend into Environmental Science, focusing on subfields such as Environmental Chemistry, Ecology, and Geology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics including:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Greenland surface air temperature changes from 1981 to 2019 and implications for ice-sheet melt and mass-balance change," 2020, International Journal of Climatology
  • "Strong Summer Atmospheric Rivers Trigger Greenland Ice Sheet Melt through Spatially Varying Surface Energy Balance and Cloud Regimes," 2020, Journal of Climate
  • "Local and Remote Atmospheric Circulation Drivers of Arctic Change: A Review," 2021, Frontiers in Earth Science
  • "The Arctic," 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "Increasing extreme melt in northeast Greenland linked to foehn winds and atmospheric rivers," 2023, Nature Communications

Their work is frequently published in several scientific venues, including:

  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • International Journal of Climatology
  • Nature Communications
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Collaboration plays a significant role in their research, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Xavier Fettweis
  • Thomas J. Ballinger
  • Kyle S. Mattingly
  • Robert S. Fausto
  • Twila Moon

The body of work by Thomas L. Mote reflects a focus on the dynamics and interactions of atmospheric and cryospheric processes, particularly in polar regions, with emphasis on climate variability, ice sheet behavior, and atmospheric phenomena influencing these systems.

Best Publications

  • The extreme melt across the Greenland ice sheet in 2012

    S. V. Nghiem;D. K. Hall;T. L. Mote;M. Tedesco

  • Patterns and Causes of Atlanta's Urban Heat Island–Initiated Precipitation

    P. Grady Dixon;Thomas L. Mote

  • Evidence and analysis of 2012 Greenland records from spaceborne observations, a regional climate model and reanalysis data

    Marco Tedesco;X. Fettweis;T. Mote;J. Wahr

  • STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2017

    R. Abernethy;Steven A. Ackerman;R. Adler;Adelina Albanil Encarnación

  • State of the Climate in 2014

    Arlene P. Aaron-Morrison;Steven A. Ackerman;Nicolaus G. Adams;Robert F. Adler

  • Greenland surface melt trends 1973–2007: Evidence of a large increase in 2007

    Thomas L. Mote

  • Atmospheric and oceanic climate forcing of the exceptional Greenland ice sheet surface melt in summer 2012

    Edward Hanna;Xavier Fettweis;Sebastian H. Mernild;John Cappelen

  • State of the Climate in 2018

    M. Ades;R. Adler;Laura S. Aldeco;G. Alejandra

  • Spatial variability and trends in observed snow depth over North America

    Jamie L. Dyer;Thomas L. Mote

  • Atmospheric river impacts on Greenland Ice Sheet surface mass balance

    K.S. Mattingly;T. Mote;Xavier Fettweis

  • Radar signatures of the urban effect on precipitation distribution : A case study for Atlanta, Georgia

    Thomas L. Mote;Matthew C. Lacke;J. Marshall Shepherd

  • Greenland surface air temperature changes from 1981 to 2019 and implications for ice-sheet melt and mass-balance change

    Edward Hanna;John Cappelen;Xavier Fettweis;Sebastian H. Mernild

  • DERECHO HAZARDS IN THE UNITED STATES

    Walker S. Ashley;Thomas L. Mote

  • State of the Climate in 2016

    Arlene P. Aaron-Morrison;Steven A. Ackerman;Nicolaus G. Adams;Robert F. Adler

  • Quantifying the contribution of tropical cyclones to extreme rainfall along the coastal southeastern United States

    J. Marshall Shepherd;Andrew Grundstein;Thomas L. Mote

  • Variations in snowpack melt on the Greenland ice sheet based on passive-microwave measurements

    Thomas L. Mote;Mark R. Anderson

  • Distribution of Mesoscale Convective Complex Rainfall in the United States

    Walker S. Ashley;Thomas L. Mote;P. Grady Dixon;Sharon L. Trotter

  • A Climatology of Derecho-Producing Mesoscale Convective Systems in the Central and Eastern United States, 1986–95. Part I: Temporal and Spatial Distribution

    Mace L. Bentley;Thomas L. Mote

  • Oceanic transport of surface meltwater from the southern Greenland ice sheet

    Hao Luo;Renato M. Castelao;Asa K. Rennermalm;Marco Tedesco;Marco Tedesco

  • Melting glaciers stimulate large summer phytoplankton blooms in southwest Greenland waters

    Kevin R. Arrigo;Gert L. van Dijken;Renato M. Castelao;Hao Luo

  • State of the Climate in 2008

    T. C. Peterson;M. O. Baringer

  • [Regional Climates] Central South America 2016

    J. A. Marengo;Jhan Carlo Espinoza;L. M. Alves;J. Ronchail

Frequent Co-Authors

Marco Tedesco
Marco Tedesco Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Xavier Fettweis
Xavier Fettweis University of Liège
David A. Robinson
David A. Robinson Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Edward Hanna
Edward Hanna University of Lincoln
R. S. W. van de Wal
R. S. W. van de Wal Utrecht University
John Wahr
John Wahr University of Colorado Boulder
Johannes W. Kaiser
Johannes W. Kaiser German Meteorological Service
Bert Wouters
Bert Wouters Utrecht University
Konrad Steffen
Konrad Steffen Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Jason E. Box
Jason E. Box Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland

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