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Refereed publications: Chen, G., Lu, J. and D. M. W. Frierson. Phase Speed Spectra and the Latitude of Surface Westerlies: Interannual Variability and Global Warming Trend. In press, J. Climate. Lu, J., Chen, G., and D. M. W. Frierson. Response of the Zonal Mean Atmospheric Circulation to El Nino versus Global Warming. In press, J. Climate. Pauluis, O. M., Frierson, D. M. W. and A. J. Majda. Precipitation Fronts and the Reflection and Transmission of Tropical Disturbances. In press, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.  Kang, S. M., Held, I. M., Frierson, D. M. W. and M. Zhao. The Response of the ITCZ to Extratropical Forcing: Idealized Slab-Ocean Experiments with a GCM. In press, Journal of Climate. Frierson, D. M. W. Midlatitude Static Stability in Simple and Comprehensive General Circulation Models*. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 65, 1049-1062, 2008. official link Lin, J.-L., Lee, M.-I., Kim, D., Kang, I.-S., and D. M. W. Frierson. The Impacts of Convective Parameterization and Moisture Triggering on AGCM-Simulated Convectively Coupled Equatorial Waves*. Journal of Climate, 21, 883-909, 2008. official link Frierson, D. M. W., Lu, J. and G. Chen. The Width of the Hadley Circulation in Simple and Comprehensive General Circulation Models**. Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L18804, doi:10.1029/2007GL031115, 2007. official link summary Frierson, D. M. W. Convectively Coupled Kelvin Waves in an Idealized Moist General Circulation Model*. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 64, 2076-2090, 2007. official link summary Frierson, D. M. W. The Dynamics of Idealized Convection Schemes and Their Effect on the Zonally Averaged Tropical Circulation*. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 64, 1959-1976, 2007. official link summary Garner, S. T., Frierson, D. M. W., Held, I. M., Pauluis, O. M. and G. K. Vallis. Resolving Convection in a Global Hypohydrostatic Model*. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 64, 2061-2075, 2007. official link summary Frierson, D. M. W., Held, I. M. and P. Zurita-Gotor. A Gray-Radiation Aquaplanet Moist GCM. Part II: Energy Transports in Altered Climates*. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 64, 1680-1693, 2007. official link summary Frierson, D. M. W. Robust Increases in Midlatitude Static Stability in Global Warming Simulations**. Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L24816, doi:10.1029/2006GL027504, 2006. print version pdf official link summary Mitchell, J. L., Pierrehumbert, R. T., Frierson, D. M. W., and R. Caballero. The Dynamics Behind Titan's Methane Clouds***. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103, 18421-18426, doi:10.1073/pnas.0605074103, 2006. print version pdf (large) official link summary Pauluis, O. M., Frierson, D. M. W., Garner, S. T., Held, I. M. and G. K. Vallis. The Hypo-hydrostatic Rescaling and Its Impacts on Modeling of Atmospheric Convection****. Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, 20, 485-499, 2006. official link summary Frierson, D. M. W., Held, I. M. and P. Zurita-Gotor. A Gray-Radiation Aquaplanet Moist GCM. Part I: Static Stability and Eddy Scales*. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 63, 2548-2566, 2006. official link summary Frierson, D. M. W., Majda, A. J. and O. M. Pauluis. Large Scale Dynamics of Precipitation Fronts in the Tropical Atmosphere: A Novel Relaxation Limit*****. Communications in Mathematical Sciences, 2, 605-640, 2004. official link summary Submitted: Mitchell, J. L., Pierrehumbert, R. T., Frierson, D. M. W., and R. Caballero. The impact of methane thermodynamics on seasonal cloud distributions and circulation in a model Titan atmosphere. Submitted to Icarus. In preparation (check back soon!): Frierson, D. M. W., Lee, M. I., Lin, J.-L., Kim, D., and I.-S. Kang. Structure of AGCM-Simulated Convectively Coupled Equatorial Waves and Sensitivity to Convective Parameterization. In preparation for J. Atmos. Sci. Sobel, A. H., Maloney, E. D., Bellon, G., and D. M. W. Frierson. Surface fluxes and tropical intraseasonal variability: A reassessment. To be submitted to JAMES. From the old astrophysics days: Blondin, J. M., Chevalier, R. A. and D. M. Frierson. Pulsar Wind Nebulae in Evolved Supernova Remnants. Astrophysical Journal, 563, 806-815, 2001. official link summary My PhD thesis: Frierson, D. M. W.  Studies of the General Circulation of the Atmosphere with a Simplified Moist General Circulation Model.  Ph.D. thesis, Princeton University, 218 pp, 2005. summary Disclaimers: * These downloads are courtesy of the American Meterological Society, who owns sole rights to them. The downloads are subject to AMS copyright laws and statutes. For more information, please visit the Allen Press/AMS Journals Online website. ** These downloads are courtesy of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), who owns sole rights to them. 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