Benjamin Paul Kirtman

 

 

Publications:

 

Kirtman, B. P., R. Wu, S. Y. Yeh, 2006: Internal ocean dynamics and climate variability. J. Atmos. Sci., (submitted)

Kirtman, B. P., K. Pegion, and S. Kinter, 2005: Internal atmospheric dynamics and climate variability. J. Atmos. Sci., 62, 2220-2233.

Kirtman, B. P., D. Min, P. S. Schopf and E. K. Schneider, 2005: A new approach for coupled GCM sensitivity studies. Clim. Dyn., (submitted).

Kirtman, B. P., 2003: The COLA anomaly coupled model: Ensemble ENSO prediction. Mon. Wea. Rev., 131, 2324-2341.

Kirtman, B. P., Y. Fan and E. K. Schneider, 2002: The COLA global coupled and anomaly coupled ocean-atmosphere GCM. J. Climate, 15, 2301-2320.

Kirtman, B. P., and J. Shukla, 2002: Interactive coupled ensemble: A new coupling strategy for GCMs. Geophys. Res. Lett., 29, 1029-1032.

Kirtman, B. P., J. Shukla, M. Balmaseda, N. Graham, C. Penland, Y. Xue, S. Zebiak, 2002: Current status of ENSO forecast skill. A report to the Climate Variability and Predictability (CLIVAR) Numerical Experimentation Group (NEG), CLIVAR Working Group on Seasonal to Interannual Prediction. [Available online at http://www.clivar.org/publications/wg_reports/wgsip/nino3/report.htm.]

Kirtman, B. P., D. A. Paolino, J. L. Kinter III and D. M. Straus, 2001: Impact of tropical subseasonal SST variability on seasonal mean climate. Mon. Wea. Rev., 129, 853-868.

Kirtman, B. P., and J. Shukla, 2000: On the influence of the Indian summer Monsoon on ENSO. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor.. Soc., 126, 213-239.

Kirtman, B. P., and E. K. Schneider, 2000: A spontaneously generated atmospheric general circulation. J. Atmos. Sci., 57, 2080-2093.

Kirtman, B. P., and P. S. Schopf, 1998: Decadal variability in ENSO predictability and prediction. J. Climate, 11, 2804-2822.

Kirtman, B. P., 1997: Oceanic Rossby wave dynamics and the ENSO period in a coupled model. J. Climate, 10, 1690-1705.

Kirtman, B. P., and S. E. Zebiak, 1997: ENSO simulation and prediction with a hybrid coupled model. Mon. Wea. Rev., 125, 2620-2641.

Kirtman, B. P., and D. G. DeWitt, 1997: Comparison of atmospheric model wind stress with three different convective parameterizations: Sensitivity of tropical Pacific ocean simulations. Mon. Wea. Rev., 125, 1231-1250.

Kirtman, B. P., J. Shukla, B. Huang, Z. Zhu and E. K. Schneider, 1997: Multiseasonal predictions with a coupled tropical ocean global atmosphere system. Mon. Wea. Rev., 125, 789-808.

Kirtman, B. P., and E. K. Schneider 1996: Model based estimates of equatorial Pacific wind stress. J. Climate, 9, 1077-1091.

Kirtman B. P., and A. D. Vernekar, 1993: A note on wave-CISK and the evaporation-wind feedback for the Madden-Julian oscillation. J. Atmos. Sci., 50, 2812-2814.

Kirtman, B. P., A. D. Vernekar, D. G. DeWitt and J. Zhou, 1993: Impact of orographic gravity wave drag on extended-range forecasts with the COLA-GCM. Atmosfera, 6, 3-24.

Burgman, R. J., P. S. Schopf and B. P. Kirtman, 2007: ENSO decadal variability. J. Climate (submitted).

Fennessy, M. J., J. L. Kinter III, B. P. Kirtman, L. Marx, S. Nigam, E. Schneider, J. Shukla, D. Straus, A. Vernekar, Y. Xue and J. Zhou, 1994: The simulated Indian monsoon: A GCM sensitivity study. J. Climate, 7, 33-43.

Hu, Z.-Z., E. K. Schneider, U. Bhatt and B. P. Kirtman, 2004: Potential for influence of land surface processes on ENSO. J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2004JD004771,2004..

Lindzen, R. S., B. P. Kirtman, Kirk-Davidoff and E. K. Schneider, 1994: Seasonal surrogate for climate. J. Climate, 8, 1677-1680.

Kallummal, R., and B. P. Kirtman, 2006: Validity of the linear stochastic view of ENSO in a CGM. J. Atmos. Sci., (submitted).

Klinger, B. A., B. Huang,  B. P. Kirtman,  P. S. Schopf, and J. Wang, 2006: Monthly Climatologies of Oceanic Friction Velocity Cubed, J. Climate, 19, 5700-5708

Krishnamurthy, V., and B. P. Kirtman, 2003: Variability of the Indian Ocean: Relation to Monsoon and ENSO. Quart. J. Roy. Met. Soc., 129, 1623-1646.

Kug, J.-S., B. P. Kirtman, I.-S. Kang, 2006: Interactive feedback between ENSO and the Indian Ocean in an interactive coupled model. J. Climate, 19, 6371-6381.

Mechoso, C. R., A. W. Robertson, N. Barth, M. K. Davey, P. Delecluses, B. Kirtman, M. Latif, T. Nagai, S. Philander, P. Schopf, T. Stockdale, M. Suarez, O. Thual, J. Tribbia, 1995: The seasonal cycle over the tropical Pacific in general circulation models. Mon. Wea. Rev., 123, 2825-2838.

Meehl, G. A., J. M. Arblaster,  D. M. Lawrence,  A. Seth,  E. K. Schneider,  B. P. Kirtman, and D. Min, 2006: Monsoon regimes in CCSM3. J. Climate, 19, 2482-2495.

Misra, V., P. A. Dirmeyer, B. P. Kirtman, H.-M. H. Juang and M. Kanamitsu, 2002: Regional simulation of interannual variability over South America. J. Geophys. Res., 107(D20) doi:10.1029/2001JD900216, 2002.

Misra, V., P. Dirmeyer, and B. Kirtman, 2002: A comparative study of two land surface schemes in regional climate integrations over South America. J. Geophys. Res., 107(D20), 8080, doi:10.1029/2001JD001284, 2002.

Misra, V., P. Dirmeyer, and B. Kirtman, 2003: Dynamic downscaling of seasonal simulation over South America. J. Climate., 16,103-117.

Moon, B.-K., S.-W. Yeh, B. Dewitte, J.-G. Jhun, I.-S. Kang and B. P. Kirtman, 2004: Vertical structure and variability in the equatotial Pacific before and after the Pacific climate shift of the 1970s. Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, doi:10.1029/2003GRL018829, 2004.

Nobre, P., S. E. Zebiak and B. P. Kirtman, 2003: Local and remote sources of tropical Atlantic variability as inferred from results of a hybrid ocean-atmosphere coupled model. Geophys. Res. Let., 30(5), 8008, doi:10.1029/2002GL015785, 2003.

Schlosser, C. A., and B. P. Kirtman, 2005: Predictable skill and its association to sea surface temperatures in an ensemble climate simulation. J. Geophys. Res. 110, D19107, doi:101029/2005JD005835.

Schneider, E. K., D. G. DeWitt, A. Rosati, B. P. Kirtman, L. Ji, J. J. Tribbia, 2003: Retrospective ENSO forecasts: Sensitivity to Atmospheric model and ocean resolution. Mon. Wea. Rev., 131, 3038-3060.

Schneider, E. K., B. P. Kirtman, and R. S. Lindzen, 1999: Upper tropopsheric water vapor and climate sensitivity. J. Atmos. Sci., 56, 1649-1658.

Schneider, E. K., B. Huang, Z. Zhu, D. G. DeWitt, J. L. Kinter, B. P. Kirtman, J. Shukla, 1999: Ocean data assimilation, initialization and prediction with a coupled GCM. Mon. Wea. Rev., 127, 1187-1207.

Schneider, E. K., R. S. Lindzen, B. P. Kirtman, 1997: Tropical influence on global climate. J. Atmos. Sci., 54, 1349-1358.

Schneider, E. K., Z. Zhu, B. Huang, B. Giese, B. P. Kirtman, J. Shukla, and J. Carton, 1997: ENSO variability in a coupled general circulation model. Mon. Wea. Rev., 125, 680-702.

Stan, C., and B. P. Kirtman, 2007: Internal atmospheric dynamics and tropical Pacific predictability in a coupled GCM. J. Climate (submitted).

Vernekar, A. D., B. P. Kirtman, and M. J. Fennessy, 2003: A simulation of tropical South American summer climate variability with the NCEP Eta model. J. Climate, 16, 297-311.

Vernekar, A. D., V. Thapliyal, R. H. Kripalani, S. V. Singh and B. P. Kirtman, 1993: Global structure of the Madden-Julian oscillation during two recent contrasting summer monsoon seasons over India. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 52, 37-47.

Vernekar, A. D., J. Zhou, and B. P. Kirtman, 1992: Comparison of systematic errors in two forecasts models with simular dynamical frameworks. Atmosfera, 5, 207-231.

Vikhliaev, Y., and B. P. Kirtman, 2007: Understanding the role of instability and stochastic forcing of ENSO dynamics using the breeding method. J. Climate (submitted).

Vikhliaev, Y., P. Schopf, T. DelSole, and B. Kirtman, 2006: Finding multiple basin modes in a linear ocean model. J. Ocean Atmos. Tech. (in press).

Vikhliaev, Y., B. P. Kirtman, P. Schopf, 2006: North Pacific bred vectors in a coupled GCM. J. Climate (submitted).

Wu, R., and B. P. Kirtman, 2003: On the impacts of the Indian summer monsoon on ENSO in a coupled GCM. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 129B, 3439-3468.

Wu, R., Z.-Z. Hu and B. P. Kirtman, 2003: Evolution of ENSO-related rainfall anomalies in east asia. J. Climate. 16, 3741-3757.

Wu, R,, and B. P. Kirtman, 2004a: The tropospheric biennial oscillation of the monsoon-ENSO system in an interactive ensemble coupled GCM. J. Climate, 17, 1623-1640.

Wu, R., and B. P. Kirtman, 2004b: Understanding the impacts of the Indian Ocean on ENSO variability in a coupled GCM. J. Climate, 17, 4019-4031.

Wu, R., and B. P. Kirtman, 2004c: Impacts of the Indian Ocean on the Indian summer monsoon-ENSO relationship. J. Climate, 17, 3037-3054.

Wu, R., and B. P. Kirtman, 2005: Near-annual SST variability in the equatorial Pacific in a coupled general circulation model. J. Climate, 18, 4454-4473.

Wu, R., and B. P. Kirtman, 2006: Changes in spread and predictability associated with ENSO in an ensemble coupled GCM. J. Climate, 19, 4378-4396.

Wu, R., and B. P. Kirtman, 2005: Role of Indian and Pacific Ocean air-sea coupling in tropical atmospheric variability. Climate Dynamics, 25, 155-179.

Wu, R., J. L. Kinter III and B. P. Kirtman, 2005: Discrepancy of Interdecadal Changes in the Asian Region between the NCEP-NCAR Reanalysis and Observations. J. Climate, 18, 3048-3067.

Wu, R., B. P. Kirtman, K. Pegion, 2006: Local air-sea relationship in observations and model simulations. J. Climate, 19, 4914-4932.

Wu, R., and B. P. Kirtman, 2006: Observed relationship of spring and summer East Asian rainfall with winter and spring Eurasian snow. J. Climate (in press).

Wu, R., and B. P. Kirtman, 2006: Role of Indian Ocean in the biennial transition of the Indian summer monsoon. J. Climate (in press).

Wu, R., and B. P. Kirtman, 2006: Regimes of local air-sea interactions and implications for performance of forced simulations. Climate Dynamics (in press).

Wu, R., and B. P. Kirtman 2006: Roles of the Indian Ocean in the Australian summer monsoon-ENSO relationship. J Climate (in press).

Wu, Z., E. K. Schneider and B. P. Kirtman, 2004: Causes of low frequency North Atlantic SST variability in a coupled GCM. Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L09210, doi:10.1029/2004GL019548.

Yeh, S.-W., and B. P. Kirtman, 2007: ENSO amplitude changes in climate change projection. J. Climate, 20, 203-217.

Yeh, S-.W., R. Wu, and B. P. Kirtman, 2006: Impact of the Indian Ocean on ENSO variability in a hybrid coupled model. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., in press.

Yeh S.-W., Y.-G. Park, B. P. Kirtman, 2006: ENSO amplitude changes in climate change commitment to atmospheric CO 2 doubling, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L13711, doi:10.1029/2005GL025653.

Yeh S.-W., B. P. Kirtman , 2006: Origin of decadal El Niño–Southern Oscillation–like variability in a coupled general circulation model, J. Geophys. Res., 111, C01009, doi:10.1029/2005JC002985.

Yeh, S.-W., and B. P. Kirtman, 2004a: The impact of internal atmospheric dynamics for the North Pacific SST variability, Climate. Dyn. doi:10.1007/s00382-004-0399-8.

Yeh, S.-W., and B. P. Kirtman, 2004b: The North Pacific oscillation-ENSO and internal atmospheric variability. Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, doi:10.1029/2004GL019983, 2004.

Yeh, S.- W., and B. P. Kirtman, 2004c: Tropical Pacific decadal variability and ENSO amplitude modulation in a CGCM. J. Geophys. Res. – Oceans, 109, C11009, doi:10.1029/2004JC002442.

Yeh, S.-W., and B. P. Kirtman, 2005: Pacific decadal variability and ENSO amplitude modulation. Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, doi:10.1029/2004GL02173, 2005.

Yeh, S.-W., and B. P. Kirtman, 2004e: Decadal North Pacific SST variability and the associated global climate anomalies in a coupled GCM. J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2004JD004785.

Yeh., S.-W., J.-G. Jhun, I.-S. Kang and B. P. Kirtman, 2004: The ENSO decadal variability in a hybrid coupled model. J. Climate, 17, 1225-1238.

Yeh, S.-W., and B. P. Kirtman, 2003: On the relationship between the interannual and decadal SST variability in the North Pacific and the tropical Pacific Ocean. J. Geophys. Res., 108 (D11), 4344, doi:10.1029/2002JD002817.