Publications

• 2013 Baker, P.A., S.A. Fritz, C.W. Dick, A.J. Eckert, B.K. Horton, S. Manzoni, C.C. Ribas, C.N. Garzione, D.S. Battisti: The emerging field of geogenomics: constraining geological problems with genetic data. Submitted, Nature Communications, May.

• 2013 Roberts, W.H.G., D.S. Battisti and A.W. Tudhope: ENSO in the mid-Holocene according to CSM and HadCM3. Accepted w/ revisions, J. Climate, July.

• 2013 Donohoe, A., D.M.W. Frierson, and D.S. Battisti: The effect of ocean mixed layer depth on climate in a slab ocean aquaplanet experiments. In press, Climate Dynamics, June.

• 2013 McCusker, K.E., K.C. Armour, C.M. Bitz, and D.S. Battisti: Rapid and extensive warming following cessation of solar management. Accepted and revised, Environmental Science Research Letters, Sept.

• 2013 Dokken, T.M., K.H. Nisangcioglu, C. Li, D.S. Battisti, and C. Kissel. Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles: interactions between ocean and sea ice intrinsic to the Nordic Seas. In Press, Paaleoceanograhy, July.

• 2013 Frierson, D.M.W., Y.-T. Hwang, N.S. Fuckar, R. Seager, S. Kang, A. Donohoe, E.A. Maroon, X. Liu, and D.S. Battisti: Why tropical rain peaks in the Northern Hemisphere: the role of the ocean conveyor belt. In press, Nature, Sept.

• 2013 Singh, H.A., D.S. Battisti, and C.M. Bitz: A Heuristic Model of the Dansgaard-Oeschger Cycles: Description, Results, and Sensitivity Studies: Part I. Accepted and Revised, J. Climate, August.

• 2012 Steiger, N.J., G.J. Hakim, E.J. Steig, D.S. Battisti, and G.H.Roe: Climate Field Reconstruction via Data Assimilation. In press, Journal of Climate, Aug.

• 2012 Donohoe, A. and D.S. Battisti: The seasonal cycle of atmospheric heating and temperature. In press, Journal of Climate, December.

• 2012 Steig, E.J., Q. Ding, D.S. Battisti, and A. Jenkins: Tropical forcing of Circumpolar Deep Water Inflow and outlet glacier thinning in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica. Annals of Glaciology, 53, 19-28. doi: 10.3189/2012AoG60A110

• 2012 Penny, S., D.S. Battisti and G.H. Roe: Examining Mechanism of variability within the Pacific storm track: upstream seeding and jet core strength. In press, J. Climate, November.

• 2012 Kuttel, M., E.J. Steig, Q. Ding, A.J. Monaghan, and D.S. Battisti: Seasonal climate information preserved in West Antarctic ice core water isotopes: relationships to temperature, large-scale circulation, and sea ice. Climate Dynamics, 39, 1841-57.

• 2012 Ding, Q., E.J. Steig, D.S. Battisti and J.M. Wallace: Influence of the tropics on the Southern Annular Mode. J. Climate, 25, 6330-48.

• 2012 Donohoe, A. and D.S. Battisti: What determines meridional heat transport in climate models? Journal of Climate, 25, 3832-50.

• 2012 McCusker, K.E., D.S. Battisti, and C.M. Bitz: The climate response to stratospheric sulfate injections and implications for addressing climate emergencies . Journal of Climate, 25, 3096-3116.

• 2012 Pendergrass, A.G., and G.J. Hakim, D.S. Battisti and G. Roe: Coupled air-mixed layer temperature predictability for climate reconstruction. J. Climate, 25, 459-72.

• 2012 Schoups, G., L. Addams, D.S. Battisti, E. McCullough, and J.L. Minjares., "Water Resources Management in the Yaqui Valley" In ""Seeds of Sustainability: Lessons from the Birthplace of the Green Revolution in Agriculture." Ed. P.A. Matson. Island Press. ISBN: 9781597265256

• 2012 Nicholas, R.E., D.S. Battisti: "Empirical Downscaling of High-Resolution Regional Precipitation From Large-Scale Reanalysis Fields" J. Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 51, 100-114.

• 2011 Eisenman, I. T. Schneider, D.S. Battisti and C.M. Bitz: Consistent changes in the sea ice seasonal cycle in response to global warming. J. Climate, 24, 5325-35.

• 2011 Pausata, F., D.S. Battisti, K.H. Nisancioglu and C.M. Bitz: Chinese stalagmites: proxies for the Indian monsoon response to an archetypal Heinrich event. Nature Geosciences, 19 June, doi:10.1038/ngeo1169. See also, News and Views by Kathleen Johnson, Nature Geosciences, 19 June, doi:10.1038/ngeo1190.

• 2011 Donohoe, A. and D.S. Battisti: Atmospheric and suface contributions to planetary albedo and their relationship to the total meridional energy transport. J. Climate, 24, 4401-17.

• 2011 Penny, S. , G.H. Roe, and D.S. Battisti, Reply to Comments on "The Source of the Midwinter Suppression in Storminess over the North Pacific" J. Climate, 24, 5192-4.

• 2011 Ding, Q., E.J. Steig, D.S. Battisti and M Kuettel: Winter Warming in West Antarctica caused by central tropical Pacific warming. Nature Geosciences, 4, DOI 10.1038/NGEO1129.

• 2011 Roberts, W.G.H. and D.S. Battisti: A new tool for evaluating the physics of coupled atmosphere-ocean variability in nature and in General Circulation Models. Climate Dynamics, 36, 907-923, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0762-x .

• 2011 Solomon, S. and fourteen others: Climate Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations and Impacts over Decades to Millennia National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, pp 298.

• 2010 Fedoroff, N.V., D.S. Battisti, R.N. Beachy, P. Cooper, D.A. Fischhoff, C.N. Hodges, V. Knauf, D. Lobell, B.J. Mazur, D. Molden, M.P. Reynolds, P.C. Ronald, M.W. Rosegrant, P.A. Sanchez, A. Vonshak, and J.-K Zhu. Radically Rethinking Agriculture for the 21st Century. Science, 327, 833-4.

• 2010 Li, C., D.S. Battisti and C.M. Bitz: Can North Atlantic sea ice anomalies acccount for Dansgaard-Oeschger climate signals? J. Climate, 23, 5457-75.

• 2010 Molnar, P, W.R. Boos, and D.S. Battisti: Orographic Controls on Climate and Paleoclimate of Asia: Thermal and Mechanical Roles for the Tibetan Plateau. Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Vol 38, 77-102.

• 2010 Deng, X., J. Huang, F. Qiao, R.L. Naylor, W.P. Falcon, M. Burke, S.Rozelle, and D.S. Battisti: Impacts of El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Events on China's Rice Production. Journal of Geographical Sciences, 20, 3-16.

• 2010 Dayem, K.E., D.S. Battisti, G.H. Roe, and P. Molnar, Lessons learned from the modern monsoon applied to interpretations of paleoclimate records. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 295, 219-230.

• 2010 Penny, S. , G.H. Roe, and D.S. Battisti, The source of the mid-winter suppression of the Pacific storm track. J. Climate, 23, 634-48.

• 2009 Battisti, D.S. and R.L. Naylor Historical Warnings of Future Food Insecurity with Unprecedented Seasonal Heat. Science, 323, no 5911, 240-4. Abstract or Full Text

• 2009 Pausata, F.S.R., C. Li, J.J. Wettstein, K.H. Nisancioglu, and D.S. Battisti: Changes in atmospheric varaibility in a glacial climate and the impacts on proxy data: a model intercomparison. Climate of the Past, 5, 489-502.

• 2009 Blackstock, J.J, D.S. Battisti, K. Caleira, D.M. Eardley, J.I.Katz, D.W. Keith, A.A.N. Patrinos, D.P. Schrag, R.H.Socolow, and S.E. Koonin: Climate engineering response to climate emergencies. (Novim 2009)

• 2009 Sachs, J.P., D. Sachse, Z. Zhang, R.H. Smittenberg, D.S. Battisti, and S. Golubic: Near-equator position of the Intertropical Convergence Zone during the Little Ice Age. Nature Geosciences, 28 June.

• 2009 Donohoe, A. and D.S. Battisti Causes of Reduced North Atlantic Storm Activity in a CCSM3 Simulation of the Last Glacial Maximum J. Climate, 22, 4793-4808.

• 2009 Donohoe, A. and D.S. Battisti The asymmetry between synoptic cyclone and anticyclone amplitudes: implications for filtering methods in feature tracking. Mon. Wea. Rev., 137, 3874-87.

• 2008 Vimont, D.J., D.S. Battisti and R.L. Naylor: Downscaling Indonesian precipitation using large-scale meteorological fields. International Journal of Climatology, DOI 10.1002/joc.2010

• 2008 Li, C., and D.S. Battisti: Reduced Atlantic stormines during the Last Glacial Maximum: Evidence from a coupled climate model. J. Climate, 21, 3561-79.

• 2008 Nicholas, R.E. and D.S. Battisti: Drought Recurrence and Seasonal Rainfall Prediction in the Rio Yaqui Basin, Mexico. J. Applied Meteor., 47, 991-1005.

• 2007 Naylor, R.N. D.S. Battisti, D.J. Vimont, W.P. Falcon and M.B. Burke: Assessing risks of climate variability and climate change for Indonesia rice and agriculture Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., May 8.

• 2007 Takahashi, K. and D.S. Battisti: Processes controlling the mean tropical Pacific Precipitation Pattern: I. The Andes and the Eastern Pacific ITCZ. J. Climate, 20, 3434-51.

• 2007 Takahashi, K. and D.S. Battisti: Processes controlling the mean tropical Pacific Precipitation Pattern: II. The SPCZ and the Southeast Pacific Dry Zone. J. Climate, 20, 5696-5706.

• 2007 Seager, R. and D.S. Battisti: Challenges to our understanding of the general circulation: abrupt climate change. In "Global Circulation of the Atmosphere" (eds. Schneider and Sobel). Pg, 331-71, Princeton University Press.

• 2005 Li, C., D.S. Battisti, D.P. Schrag and E. Tziperman: Abrupt climate shifts in Greenland due to displacements of the sea ice edge. Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L19702, doi:10. 1029/2005GL023492.

• 2005 Biasutti, M., D. S. Battisti and E.S. Sarachik: Terrestrial influence on the annual cycle of the Atlantic ITCZ in an AGCM coupled to a slab ocean. J. Climate, 18, 211-18.

• 2004 Biasutti, M., D. S. Battisti and E.S. Sarachik: Mechanisms controlling the annual cycle of precipitation in the tropical Atlantic Sector in an Atmospheric GCM. J. Climate, 17, 4708-23.

• 2004 Morss, R.E. and D.S. Battisti: Designing efficient obeserving networks for ENSO prediction. J. Climate, 17, 3074-89.

• 2004 Morss, R.E. and D.S. Battisti: Evaluating obeserving system requirements for ENSO prediction: Experiments with an intermediate coupled model. J. Climate, 17, 3057-73.

• 2003 Chiang, J. C. H., M. Biasutti, and D. S. Battisti: Sensitivity of the Atlantic ITCZ to Last Glacial Maximum boundary conditions. Paleoceanography, 18, 10, 11 Dec 2003.

• 2003 Yin, J.H. and D.S. Battisti: Why do baroclinic waves tilt poleward with height? Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 61, 1454-60.

• 2003 Biasutti, M., D.S. Battisti, and E.S. Sarachick 2002: The Annual Cycle over the Tropical Atlantic, South America, and Africa. J. Climate, 16, 2491-2508.

• 2003 Vimont, D. J., D. S. Battisti and A.C. Hirst: Seasonal footprinting mechanism in the CSIRO general circulation model. J. Climate, 16, 2653-67. [Postscript Version of preprint]

• 2003 Vimont, D. J., J.M. Wallace and D. S. Battisti: Seasonal footprinting in the Pacific: Implications for ENSO. J. Climate, 16, 2668-75.

• 2002 Seager, R., D.S. Battisti, J. Yin, N. Naik, N. Gordon, A.C. Clement and M. Cane: Is the Gulf Stream responsible for Europe's mild winters? Q. J. R. Meteo. Soc., 128, 2563-86. PDF here. Compressed postscript of preprint here.
  

• 2002 Vimont, D. , D.S. Battisti, and A.C. Hirst: Pacific Interannual and Interdecadal Equatorial Variability in a 1000 year simulation of the CSIRO coupled General Circulation Model. J. Climate, 15, 160-78.

• 2001 Vimont, D. J., D. S. Battisti, and A. C. Hirst, 2001: Footprinting: a seasonal link between the tropics and mid-latitudes. Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 3923-3926.

• 2001 Marshall, J., Y. Kushnir, D.S. Battisti, P. Chang, J. Hurrell, M. McCartney and M. Visbeck: Atantic Climate Variability. Int. J. Climatology, 21, 1863-98.

• 2001 Wu, Zhaohua, E.S. Sarachik, and D. S. Battisti: Thermally driven tropical circulations under Rayleigh friction and Newtonian cooling: Analytic Solutions. J. Atmos. Sci., 58, 724-741.

• 2001 Thompson, C. J. and D.S. Battisti: A Linear Sochastic Dynamical Model of ENSO. Part II: Analysis. J. Climate, 14, 445-66.

• 2001 Yin, J. H. and D.S. Battisti: The importance of tropical sea surface temperature patterns in simulations of Last Glacial Maximum climate. J. Climate, 14, 565-581

• 2000 Bretherton, C. S. and D. S. Battisti: An interpretation of the results from atmospheric general circulation models forced by the time history of the observed sea surface temperature distribution. Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, p. 767-70.
• 2000 Thompson, C.J., and D.S. Battisti: A Linear Stochastic Dynamical Model of ENSO. Part I: Development . J. Climate, 13, 2818-83.

• 2000 Wu, Zhaohua, E. S. Sarachik, and D.S. Battisti: " Vertical structure of convective heating and the 3D structure of the forced circulation in the troposphere" . J. Atmos. Sci., 57, 2169-2187

• 2000 Wu, Zhaohua, D.S. Battisti, and E. S. Sarachik: " Rayleigh Friction, Newtonian Cooling, and the Linear Response to Steady Tropical Heating." J. Atmos. Sci., 57, 1937-1957.

• 2000 Johnson, S.D., D.S. Battisti, and E.S. Sarachik: Seasonality in an empirically derived Markov model of tropical Pacific sea surface temperature anomalies. J. Climate, 13, 3327-3335.

• 2000 Johnson, S.D., D.S. Battisti, and E.S. Sarachik: Empirically Derived Markov models and prediction of tropical Pacific sea surface temperature anomalies. J. Climate, 13, 3-17.

• 2001 Dettinger, M.D., D.S. Battisti, G.J. McCabe Jr., C.M. Bitz, and R.D. Garreaud: Interhemispheric effects of interannual and decadal ENSO-like climate variations on the Americas. "Interhemispheric climate linkages in the Americas and their Societal Effects." Ed., V. Markgraf, Cambridge University Press, 1-16.

• 1999 Battisti, D. S., E. S. Sarachik and A. C. Hirst: A Consistent Model for Large the Steady Atmospheric Surface Circulation in the Tropics. J. Climate, 12, 2956-64.

• 1999 Wu, Zhaohua, E. S. Sarachik, and D.S. Battisti: Thermally forced surface winds on an equatorial beta-plane. J. Atmos. Sci., 56, 2029-37.

• 1999 Garreaud, R.D. and D.S. Battisti: Interannual ENSO and Interdecadal ENSO-like Variability in the Southern Hemisphere Tropospheric Circulation. J. Climate, 12, 2113-2123.

• 1999 Bitz, C.C., and D.S. Battisti: Interannual to decadal variability in climate and the glacier mass balance in Washington, Western Canada and Alaska. J. Climate, 12, 3181-3196.

• 1998 National Research Council: " Decade-to-Century-Scale Climate Variability and Climate Change: A science strategy." D.G. Martinson, D.S. Battisti, R. Bradley, J. Cole, R. Fine, M. Ghil, Y. Kushnir, S. Manabe, M. McCartney, P. McCormick, M. Prather, E. Sarachik, P. Tans, L. Thompson, and M. Winton. National Research Council, Washington, D.C., pp. 142.

• 1998 Chang, P. and D.S. Battisti, 1998: "The Physics of El Nino". Physics World , Vol. 8, 41-47. Also here.

• 1998 Climate Research Committee of the NRC, "Climate and Climate Change Research Entering the Twenty-First Century." Chapter five of "The Atmospheric Sciences: Entering the Twenty-First Century", National Academy Press, Washington DC, pp. 364.

• 1998 Barsugli, J.J. and D.S. Battisti: The Basic Effects of Atmosphere-Ocean Thermal Coupling on Midlatitude Variability. J. Atmos. Sci., 55, 477-93.

• 1998 Bhatt, U.S., M.A. Alexander, D.S. Battisti, D.D. Houghton and L.M. Keller: Atmosphere-Ocean Interaction in the North Atlantic Ocean: near-surface Climate Variability. J. Climate, 11, 1615-32.

• 1998 Randall, D., J. Curry, D. S. Battisti, G. Flato, R. Grumbine, S. Hakkinen, D. Martinson, M. Miller, R. Preller, J. Walsh and J. Weatherly: Status of and outlook for large-scale modeling of atmosphere-ice-ocean interactions in the Arctic. Bulletin of Amer. Met. Soc., 79, 197-219.

• 1998 Neelin, J. D., D. S. Battisti, A. C. Hirst, F. F. Jin, Y. Wakata, T. Yamagata and S. Zebiak: ENSO Theory. J. Geophys. Res., 103, 14,261-290.

• 1997 Battisti, D.S., C.M. Bitz and R.E. Moritz: Do General Circulation Models Underestimate the Natural Variability in the Arctic Climate?J. Climate, 10, 1909-1920.

• 1997 Zhang, Y., J.M. Wallace and D.S. Battisti: "ENSO-like Interdecadal Variability: 1900-93." J. Climate, 10, 1004-20.

• 1997 Chen, Y.-Q., D.S. Battisti, T.N. Palmer, J.J. Barsugli and E.S. Sarachik: "A study of the predictability of Tropical Pacific SST in a coupled atmosphere/ocean model using singular vector analysis: The role of the Annual Cycle and the ENSO cycle" Mon. Wea. Rev., 125, 831-845.

• 1997 Ronca, R. E. and D.S. Battisti: "Anomalous Sea Surface Temperatures and Local Air-Sea Energy Exchange on Intra-Annual Timescales in the Northeastern Subtropical Pacific" J. Climate, 10, 102-117.

• 1996 Bitz, C.M., D.S. Battisti, R.E. Moritz and J.A. Beesley: "Low-frequency variability in the arctic atmosphere, sea ice and upper-ocean climate system. J. Climate,  9, 394-408.

• 1995 Battisti, D.S. and D. D. Ovens: "The Dependence of the Low-Level Equatorial Easterly Jet on Hadley and Walker Circulations." J. Atmos. Sci., 52, 3911-31.

• 1995 Chen, Y.-Q., D.S. Battisti and E. Sarachik: "A New Ocean Model for  Studying  the Tropical Ocean Aspects of ENSO." J. Phys. Oceanogr., 25, 2065-89.

• 1995 Mantua, N.J. and D.S. Battisti: "Aperiodic variability in the Zebiak-Cane coupled ocean-atmosphere model: ocean-atmosphere interactions in the western equatorial Pacific." J. Climate, 8, 2897-2927.

• 1995 Battisti, D.S. and E. Sarachik: Understanding and Predicting ENSO. Reviews of Geophysics, 33, 1367-76 Try also: here

• 1995 Battisti, D.S., U. Bhatt and M.A. Alexander: "A Modeling Study of the Interannual Variability in the Wintertime North Atlantic Ocean." J. Climate, 8, 3067-83.

• 1995 Levy, G. and D.S. Battisti: "On the symmetric stability of low-level equatorial flow." The Global Ocean and Atmosphere System, 3, pp. 341-354.

• 1995 Battisti, D.S.: "Decadal to Century Time-Scale Variability in the Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean System: Modeling Issues." In "Natural Climate Variability on Decade-to-Century Time Scales". National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council. pp. 419-429.

• 1994 Mantua, N.J. and D.S. Battisti: "Evidence for the Delayed-Oscillator Mechanism for ENSO: the "Observed" Oceanic Kelvin mode in the Far Western Pacific." J. Phys. Oceanogr., 24, 691-699.

• 1994 Molinari, R., D.S. Battisti, K. Bryan and J. Walsh: The Atlantic Climate Change Program. Bull. Amer. Met. Soc., 75, 1191-1199.

• 1993 Hess, P.G., D.S. Battisti and P. Rasch: Maintenance of the Intertropical Convergence Zones and the Large-Scale Tropical Circulation on a Water Covered Earth. J. Atmos. Sci., 50, 691-713.

• 1993 Hess, P.G., H.H. Hendon and D.S. Battisti: "The Relationship between Mixed Rossby Gravity Waves and Convection in a General Circulation Model." J. Met. Soc. Japan, 71, 321-338.

• 1991 Battisti, D.S.: Reply to comments to "On the Role of Subtropical Oceanic Rossby Waves during ENSO." J. Phys. Oceanogr., 21, 461-465.

• 1991 Battisti, D.S. and P.G. Hess: "The Effect of Parameterizing Convection on the Steady Tropical Large-Scale Circulation of an Aqua-Planet." Modelus Numericos de la Atmosfera y el Oceano. Fisica de la Tierra, 3, pp 11-42. Ed. M. Castro, Universidad Complutence de Madrid.

• 1990 Battisti, D.S.: Interannual Variability in Coupled Tropical Atmosphere-Ocean Models. In Climate-Ocean Dynamics, M.E. Schlesinger, Ed. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 127-160.

• 1989 Battisti, D.S. and A.C. Hirst: Interannual Variability in the Tropical Atmosphere-Ocean System: Influences of the Basic State, Ocean Geometry and Nonlinearity. J. Atmos. Sci., 46, 1687-1712.

• 1989 Battisti, D.S.: On the Role of Subtropical Oceanic Rossby Waves during ENSO. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 19, 551-559.

• 1989 Battisti, D.S., A.C. Hirst and E.S. Sarachik: "Instability and Predictability in Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean Models." Phil. Trans. R. Soc. London, A, 329, 237-247.

• 1988 Battisti, D.S.: "The Dynamics of Tropical Interannual Variability in the Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere System." Ph.D. Thesis, University of Washington, 153 pp.

• 1988 Battisti, D.S.: The Dynamics and Thermodynamics of a Warming Event in a Coupled Tropical Atmosphere/Ocean Model." J. Atmos. Sci., 45, 2889-2919.

• 1988 Battisti, D.S.: "The Dynamics of a Warming Event in a Coupled Tropical Ocean-Atmosphere Model. In "Dynamics of Low Frequency Phenomenon in the Atmosphere", Eds. Tribia and Ghil, 950 pp. (not refereed)

• 1984 Battisti, D.S. and B. Hickey: Application of Remote Wind-Forced Coastal Trapped Wave Theory to the Oregon and Washington Coasts., J. Phys. Oceanogr., 14, 887-903.

• 1983 Clarke, A.J. and D.S. Battisti: Identification of the Fortnightly Signal in the Gulf of Guinea. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 13, 2192-2200.

• 1982 Battisti, D.S. and A.J. Clarke: A Simple Method for Estimating Barotropic Tidal Currents on Continental Margins with Specific Application to the M2 Tide off the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts of the United States." J. Phys. Oceanogr., 12, 8-16.

• 1982 Battisti, D.S. and A.J. Clarke: "Estimation of Near Shore Tidal Currents on Non-Smooth Shelves." J. Geophys. Res., 87, 7873-7878.

• 1981 Clarke, A.J. and D.S. Battisti: "The Effect of the Continental Shelves on Tides". Deep-Sea Research, 28, 665-682.