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Smyth Awarded 2019 PEI-STEP Fellowship
May 31, 2019

CIMES Researcher Jane Smyth has been awarded a PEI-STEP Fellowship within the Princeton Environmental Institute.  The fellowship enables Smyth to address the environmental policy implications of her graduate work.

PEI-STEP Topic:  Assessing Vulnerabilities of the…

A Multivariate AMV Index and Associated Discrepancies between Observed and CMIP5 Externally Forced AMV
May 29, 2019

Improvement of our understanding of the Atlantic Multidecadal Variability (AMV) mechanisms is crucial for successful future prediction of AMV and associated climate impacts, with enormous social and economic implications. In a recent study, led by former CIMES Researcher Xiaoqin Yan, the authors…

Dynamical Seasonal Prediction of Tropical Cyclone Activity: Robust Assessment of Prediction Skill and Predictability
May 20, 2019

Dynamical seasonal prediction systems have recently shown great promises in predicting tropical cyclone activity. GFDL’s Forecast–oriented Low Ocean Resolution (FLOR) model (Vecchi et al. 2014) provides experimental predictions to National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) each month as part of the North American Multi-Model Ensemble …

Occurrence of Back-to-Back Heat Waves Likely to Accelerate with Climate Change
May 9, 2019

Princeton researchers, among them former CICS Researcher and lead author Jane Baldwin (PEI), Jay Dessy (GEO), CIMES Deputy Director Gabriel Vecchi, (GEO/PEI), and…

Prominence of the Tropics in the Recent Rise of Global Nitrogen Pollution
April 26, 2019

A recent study, led by CIMES Researcher Minjin Lee, uses GFDL’s Land Model (LM3-TAN) to analyze the past two and half centuries of land nitrogen storage, fluxes, and pollution to the ocean and atmosphere, considering not only the effect of increased…

Toward Convective-Scale Prediction within the Next Generation Global Prediction System
March 29, 2019

Prediction of convective-scale storms, such as severe thunderstorms or tornadoes, has been traditionally performed with limited-area models. Present-day computing resources are insufficient to support real-time global convective-scale weather prediction. Variable-resolution capabilities within the 

An Assessment of the Predictability of Column Minimum Dissolved Oxygen Concentrations in Chesapeake Bay using a Machine Learning Model
March 26, 2019

In parts of many estuaries and other coastal areas, such as the Chesapeake Bay, the concentration of oxygen dissolved in the water regularly drops to a value so low that many species of fish, crabs, and other ecologically and economically important creatures are unable to live. This condition, known as hypoxia, is often driven by warm…

Laure Resplandy Awarded Sloan Research Fellowship
Feb. 20, 2019

CIMES Principal Investigator Laure Resplandy, an assistant professor in Geosciences and the Princeton Environmental Institute, was awarded the prestigious 2019 Sloan Research Fellowship, a highly competitive grant given to outstanding young scholars working at the frontiers of their…

Princeton - GFDL Paper Achieves Benchmark
Feb. 15, 2019

The academic publishing company Springer Nature announced that a paper coauthored by Princeton University and GFDL scientists last year is among the ten most downloaded journal articles about climate published by Springer in 2018. The paper, “Shifting patterns of mild…