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34573
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1045
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460

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Yochanan Kushnir is affiliated with the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with extensive work in atmospheric and climate-related disciplines.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Within these, their subfields of study are:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Oceanography
  • Archeology
  • Earth-Surface Processes

Kushnir's research topics cover a range of climate and atmospheric phenomena, such as:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "Initialized Earth System prediction from subseasonal to decadal timescales" (2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment)
  • "Mechanisms of Winter Precipitation Variability in the European-Mediterranean Region Associated with the North Atlantic Oscillation" (2020, Journal of Climate)
  • "Impact of the North Atlantic Warming Hole on Sensible Weather" (2020, Journal of Climate)
  • "The effects of anthropogenic and volcanic aerosols and greenhouse gases on twentieth century Sahel precipitation" (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • "Recent applications and potential of near-term (interannual to decadal) climate predictions" (2023, Frontiers in Climate)

The most frequent publication venues for Kushnir's work include:

  • Climate Dynamics
  • Journal of Climate
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Frequent collaborators working with Kushnir are:

  • Mingfang Ting
  • Richard Seager
  • Michela Biasutti
  • Jennifer Nakamura
  • Lisa Goddard

In recognition of contributions to the field, Kushnir was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2020.

Best Publications

  • An overview of the North Atlantic Oscillation

    James W. Hurrell;Yochanan Kushnir;Geir Ottersen;Martin Visbeck

  • Model Projections of an Imminent Transition to a More Arid Climate in Southwestern North America

    Richard Seager;Mingfang Ting;Isaac Held;Isaac Held;Yochanan Kushnir

  • Analyses of global sea surface temperature 1856–1991

    Alexey Kaplan;Mark A. Cane;Yochanan Kushnir;Amy C. Clement

  • Climate change in the Fertile Crescent and implications of the recent Syrian drought.

    Colin P. Kelley;Shahrzad Mohtadi;Mark A. Cane;Richard Seager

  • The North Atlantic Oscillation: climatic significance and environmantal impact

    James W Hurrell;Yochanan Kushnir;Geir Ottersen;Martin Visbeck

  • Interdecadal Variations in North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature and Associated Atmospheric Conditions

    Yochanan Kushnir

  • North atlantic climate variability: Phenomena, impacts and mechanisms

    John Marshall;Yochanan Kushnir;David Battisti;Ping Chang

  • The North Atlantic Oscillation

    James W. Hurrell;Yochanan Kushnir;Martin Visbeck

  • Atmospheric GCM Response to Extratropical SST Anomalies: Synthesis and Evaluation*

    Y. Kushnir;W. A. Robinson;I. Bladé;N. M. J. Hall

  • The North Atlantic Oscillation: Climate Significance and Environmental Impact

    James W. Hurrell;Yochanan Kushnir;Geir Ottersen;Martin Visbeck

  • Twentieth-century sea surface temperature trends

    Mark A. Cane;Amy C. Clement;Alexey Kaplan;Yochanan Kushnir

  • Old World megadroughts and pluvials during the Common Era

    Edward R. Cook;Richard Seager;Yochanan Kushnir;Keith R. Briffa

  • Interannual Variability of Caribbean Rainfall, ENSO, and the Atlantic Ocean

    Alessandra Giannini;Yochanan Kushnir;Mark A. Cane

  • Forced and Internal Twentieth-Century SST Trends in the North Atlantic*

    Mingfang Ting;Yochanan Kushnir;Richard Seager;Cuihua Li

  • The relationships between tropical Pacific and Atlantic SST and northeast Brazil monthly precipitation

    Cintia Bertacchi Uvo;Carlos A. Repelli;Stephen E. Zebiak;Yochanan Kushnir

  • Mechanisms of Hemispherically Symmetric Climate Variability

    Richard Seager;Nili Harnik;Yochanan Kushnir;Walter A. Robinson

  • Modeling of Tropical Forcing of Persistent Droughts and Pluvials over Western North America: 1856–2000*

    Richard Seager;Yochanan Kushnir;Celine Herweijer;Naomi H. Naik

  • The Decadal Climate Prediction Project (DCPP) contribution to CMIP6

    George J. Boer;Douglas M. Smith;Christophe Cassou;Francisco Doblas-Reyes

  • Have Aerosols Caused the Observed Atlantic Multidecadal Variability

    Rong Zhang;Thomas L. Delworth;Rowan Sutton;Daniel L. R. Hodson

  • A verification framework for interannual-to-decadal predictions experiments

    L. Goddard;A. Kumar;A. Solomon;D. Smith

  • Model Projections of an Imminent Transition to a More Arid Climate in

    Richard Seager;Mingfang Ting;Isaac Held;Yochanan Kushnir

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Seager
Richard Seager Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Mingfang Ting
Mingfang Ting Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Mark A. Cane
Mark A. Cane Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Naomi Naik
Naomi Naik Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Alessandra Giannini
Alessandra Giannini Columbia University
Martin Visbeck
Martin Visbeck GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Steven L. Goldstein
Steven L. Goldstein Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Alexey Kaplan
Alexey Kaplan Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Andrew W. Robertson
Andrew W. Robertson Columbia University
James W. Hurrell
James W. Hurrell Colorado State University

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