Publications

Gesangyangji, D. Vimont, T. Holloway, and D. Lorenz, 2022: A methodology for evaluating the effects of climate change on climatic design conditions for buildings and application to a case study in Madison, Wisconsin. Environ. Research: Infrastruct. Sustain. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2634-4505/ac6e01/meta

Susong, K. M., and Coauthors, 2022: Snow-Covered Tires Generate Microhabitats That Enhance Overwintering Survival of Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) in the Midwest, USA. Environ. Entomol., 51, 586–594, https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/nvac023

Vimont, D. J., M. Newman, D. S. Battisti, and S.-I. Shin, 2022: The Role of Seasonality and the ENSO Mode in Central and East Pacific ENSO Growth and Evolution. J. Clim., E.O.R., https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0599.1

Power, S. et al., 2021: Decadal climate variability in the tropical Pacific: Characteristics, causes, predictability, and prospects. Science. 374, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aay9165

Breeden, M. L., B. T. Hoover, M. Newman, and D. J. Vimont, 2020: Optimal North Pacific blocking precursors and their deterministic subseasonal evolution during boreal winter. Mon. Wea. Rev., 148(2), 739-761.

Henderson, S. A., D. J. Vimont, and M. Newman, 2020: The critical role of non-normality in partitioning tropical and extratropical contributions to PNA growth. J. Climate, 33(14), 6273-6295. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0555.1

Martinez-Villalobos C, Newman M, Vimont DJ, Penland C, Neelin JD. Observed El Niño–La Niña Asymmetry in a Linear Model. Geophys. Res. Lett. DOI: 10.1029/2019GL082922.

Weller, R. A., D. J. Baker, M. M. Glackin, S. J. Roberts, R. W. Schmitt, E. S. Twigg, and D. J. Vimont, 2019: The Challenge of Sustaining Ocean Observations. Front. Mar. Sci., 6, 105, doi:10.3389/fmars.2019.00105.

Battisti, D. S., D. J. Vimont, and B. P. Kirtman, 2018: 100 Years of Progress in Understanding the Dynamics of Coupled Atmosphere–Ocean Variability. Meteor. Monogr., 59 8.1–8.57. doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/AMSMONOGRAPHS-D-18-0025.1.

Gonzalez, P., F. Wang, M. Notaro, D. J. Vimont, and J. W. Williams, 2018: Disproportionate magnitude of climate change in United States national parks. Environ. Res. Lett., 13, 104001, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/aade09.

Larson, S., D. J. Vimont, A. C. Clement, and B. P. Kirtman, 2018. How Momentum Coupling Affects SST Variance and Large-Scale Pacific Climate Variability in CESM. J. Climate. Early Online Release. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0645.1

Martinez-Villalobos, C., D. J. Vimont, C. Penland, M. Newman, and J. D. Neelin, 2018. Calculating State-Dependent Noise in a Linear Inverse Model Framework. J. Atmos. Sci. 75, 479–496 (2018).

Thomas, E. E., D.J. Vimont, M. Newman, C. Penland, C. Martínez-Villalobos, 2018: The Role of Stochastic Forcing in Generating ENSO Diversity. J. Clim., 31, 9125–9150, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0582.1.

Atwood, A. R., D. S. Battisti, A. T. Wittenberg, W. H. G. Roberts, and D. J. Vimont, 2017: Characterizing unforced multi-decadal variability of ENSO: a case study with the GFDL CM2.1 coupled GCM. Clim. Dyn., 49, 2845–2862, doi:10.1007/s00382-016-3477-9.

Dixon, R., D. J. Vimont, and M. Biasutti, 2017: Saharan Heat Low Biases in the CMIP5 Dataset. J. Climate, 30(8), 2867–2884. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0134.1

Dixon, R. D., D. J. Vimont, and A. S. Daloz, 2017: The relationship between tropical precipitation biases and the Saharan heat low bias in CMIP5 models. Clim. Dyn., 1–16, doi:10.1007/s00382-017-3838-z.

Larson, S., B. P. Kirtman, and D. J. Vimont, 2017: A Framework to Decompose Wind-driven Biases in Climate Models Applied to CCSM/CESM in the Eastern Pacific. J. Climate, 30, 8763-8782. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0099.1

Martinez-Villalobos, C. and D. J. Vimont, 2017: An analytical framework for understanding tropical Meridional Modes. J. Climate, 30(9), 3303-3323. doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0450.1

Kirchmeier-Young, M. C., D. J. Lorenz and D. J. Vimont, 2015: Extreme Event Verification for Probabilistic Downscaling. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 55(11), 2411–2430

Martinez-Villalobos, C. and D. J. Vimont, 2016: The Role of the Mean State in Meridional Mode Structure and Growth. J. Climate, 29(10), 3907–3921

Newman, M., M.A. Alexander, T.R. Ault, K.M. Cobb, C. Deser, E. Di Lorenzo, N.J. Mantua, A.J. Miller, S. Minobe, H. Nakamura, N. Schneider, D.J. Vimont, A.S. Phillips, J.D. Scott, and C.A. Smith, 2016: The Pacific Decadal Oscillation, Revisited. J. Climate, 29, 4399–4427, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0508.1

Thomas, E. E. and D. J. Vimont, 2016: Modeling the Mechanisms of linear and nonlinear Meridional Mode and ENSO interactions. J. Climate, 29(24), 8745–8761

Zimmerman, B. G., D. J. Vimont, and P. J. Block (2016). Utilizing the state of ENSO as a means for season-ahead predictor selection, Water Resour. Res., 52, 3761–3774, doi:10.1002/2015WR017644.

Vimont, D., M. A. Alexander, and M. Newman 2014: Optimal growth of Central and East Pacific ENSO events. Geophys. Res. Lett., 41, doi: 10.1002/2014GL059997.

Kirchmeier, M. C., D. J. Lorenz and D. J. Vimont, 2014: Statistical Downscaling of Daily Wind Speed Variations. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 53, 660–675. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-13-0230.1

Patz J. A., H. Frumkin, T. Holloway, D. J. Vimont, A. Haines, 2014: Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities for Global Health. Journal of the American Medical Association. 312 (15), 1565-80. doi: 10.1001/jama.2014.13186

Delcambre, S.C., D.J. Lorenz, D.J. Vimont and J.E. Martin, 2013: Diagnosing northern hemisphere jet portrayal in 17 CMIP3 global climate models: Twentiety-century intermodel variability. J. Climate, 26 (14), 4910-4929. doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00337.1

Delcambre, S.C., D.J. Lorenz, D.J. Vimont and J.E. Martin, 2013: Diagnosing northern hemisphere jet portrayal in 17 CMIP3 global climate models: Twenty-first-century projections. J. Climate, 26 (14), 4930-4946. doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00359.1

Evan, A.T., R. Allen, R. Bennartz, and D.J. Vimont, 2013: The modification of sea surface temperature anomaly linear damping time scales by stratocumulus clouds. J. Climate, 26 (11), 3619-3630. doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00370.1

Smirnov, D. and D. J. Vimont, 2012: Extratropical Forcing of Tropical Atlantic variability during the boreal summer and fall. J. Climate, 25 (6), pp. 2056-2076. doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00104.1

Turner, D.D., A. Merrelli, D. Vimont, and E.J. Mlawer, 2012: Impact of modifying the longwave water vapor continuum absorption model on community Earth system model simulations. J. Geophys. Res., 117, D04106, doi:10.1029/2011JD016440

Veloz, S., J.W. Williams, D.J.Lorenz, M. Notaro, S. Vavrus, and D.J. Vimont, 2012: Identifying climatic analogs for Wisconsin under 21st-century climate change scenarios. Climatic Change, 112, 1037-1058. doi: 10.1007/s10584-011-0261-z

Vimont, D. J. 2011: Analysis of the Atlantic Meridional Mode Using Linear Inverse Modeling: Seasonality and Regional Influences. J. Climate, 25(4), 1194–1212

Evan, A. T., G. R. Foltz, D. Zhang and D. J. Vimont (2011) Influence of African dust on ocean-atmosphere variability in the tropical Atlantic, Nature Geoscience, 4, 762–765 (2011) doi:10.1038/ngeo1276.

Jaffe, S. C., J. E. Martin, D. J. Vimont, and D. J. Lorenz, 2010: A synoptic-climatology of episodic, sub-seasonal retractions of the Pacific Jet. J. Climate, 24(11), 2846-2860. (Link to abstract)

Notaro, M., D. J. Lorenz, D. J. Vimont, S. Vavrus, C. Kucharik, and K. Franz, (2011), 21st century Wisconsin snow projections based on an operational snow model driven by statistically downscaled climate data. Int. J. Climatol., 31: 1615–1633. doi: 10.1002/joc.2179

Smirnov, D. and D.J. Vimont, 2011: Variability of the Atlantic Meridional Mode during the Atlantic hurricane season. J. Climate 24(5), 1409-1424, doi: 10.1175/2010JCLI3549.1. (Link to abstract)

Solomon, A., L. Goddard, A. Kumar, J. Carton, C. Deser, I. Fukumori, A. M. Greene, G. Hegerl, B. Kirtman, Y. Kushnir, M. Newman, D. Smith, D. Vimont, T. Delworth, G. A. Meehl, T. Stockdale, 2011: Distinguishing the Roles of Natural and Anthropogenically Forced Decadal Climate Variability. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 92(2), 141-156. doi: 10.1175/2010BAMS2962.1 (Link to abstract)

Vimont, D.J., 2010: Transient growth of thermodynamically coupled disturbances in the tropics under an equatorially symmetric mean state. J. Climate 23(21), 5771-5789. doi: 10.1175/2010JCLI3532.1. (PDF Version)

Alexander, M.A., D.J. Vimont, P. Chang and J.D. Scott 2010: The impact of extratropical atmospheric variability on ENSO: testing the Seasonal Footprinting Mechanism using coupled model experiments. J. Climate, 23(11), 2885-2901. (Link to abstract)

Di Lorenzo, K. M. Cobb, J. Furtado, N. Schneider, B. Anderson, A. Bracco, M. A. Alexander, and D. Vimont , 2010: Central Pacific El Niño and decadal climate change in the North Pacific. Nature Geosciences, 3 (11), 762-765, doi: 10.1038/NGEO984 (link to PDF)

Lorenz, D. J., E. T. DeWeaver and D. J. Vimont, 2010: Evaporation change and global warming – the role of net radiation and relative humidity. J. Geophys. Res., 115 (D20118), doi:10.1029/2010JD013949. (Link to abstract)

Penland, C., D.-Z. Sun, A. Capotondi and D.J. Vimont, 2010: Chapter 3: A brief introduction to El Niño and La Niña. Climate Dynamics: Why does Climate Vary?, Geophysical Monograph 189, The American Geophysical Union.

Vimont, D.J., M. Alexander, and A. Fontaine, 2009: Midlatitude Excitation of Tropical Variability in the Pacific: The Role of Thermodynamic Coupling and Seasonality. J. Climate, 22, 518–534. (PDF version)

Vimont, D.J., D.S. Battisti, and R.L. Naylor, 2009: Downscaling Indonesian precipitation using large-scale meteorological fields. Int. J. Climatology, Published online 24 Aug, 2009. (PDF Version)

Evan, A. T., D. J. Vimont, R. Bennartz, J. P. Kossin & A. K. Heidinger (2008) The dominant role of aerosols in the evolution of tropical Atlantic Ocean temperature, Science, DOI: 10.1126/science.1167404.

Vimont, D. J., and J. P. Kossin, 2007: The Atlantic meridional mode and hurricane activity. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L07709, doi:10.1029/2007GL029683. (PDF version)

Chang, P., L. Zhang, R. Saravanan, D.J. Vimont, J.C.H. Chiang, L. Ji, H. Seidel, and M.K. Tippet, 2007: Pacific Meridional Mode and El Niño – Southern Oscillation. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L16608, doi:10.1029/2007GL030302. (PDF version)

Evan , A. T., A. K. Heidinger, and D. J. Vimont, 2007: Arguments against a physical long-term trend in global ISCCP cloud amounts”, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L04701, doi:10.1029/2006GL028083. (PDF version)

Kossin, J. P., K. R. Knapp, D. J. Vimont, R. J. Murnane, and B. A. Harper, 2007: A globally consistent reanalysis of hurricane variability and trends. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L04815, doi:10.1029/2006GL028836. (Link to Kossin’s publications page)

Kossin, J. P., and D. J. Vimont, 2007: A more general framework for understanding Atlantic hurricane variability and trends. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 88, 1767-1781. (PDF version)

Naylor, R. L., D. S. Battisti, D. J. Vimont, W. P. Falcon, and M. B. Burke, 2007: Assessing risks of climate variability and climate change for Indonesian rice agriculture. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 104 (19), 7752-7757. (PDF version)

Vimont, D. J., 2005: The contribution of the interannual ENSO cycle to the spatial pattern of ENSO-like decadal variability. J. Climate, 18(2), 2080-2092. (PDF version)

Chiang, J. C. H., and D. J. Vimont, 2004: Analagous meridional modes of atmosphere-ocean variability in the tropical Pacific and tropical Atlantic. J. Climate,17(21), 4143–4158. (PDF version)

Vimont, D.J., J.M. Wallace, and D.S. Battisti, 2003: The Seasonal Footprinting Mechanism in the Pacific: Implications for ENSO. J. Climate, 16, 2668–2675. (PDF version)

Vimont, D.J., D.S. Battisti, and A.C. Hirst, 2003: The Seasonal Footprinting Mechanism in the CSIRO General Circulation Models. J. Climate, 16, 2653–2667. (PDF version)

Vimont, D.J., D.S. Battisti, and A.C. Hirst, 2002: Pacific Interannual and Interdecadal Equatorial Variability in a 1000-Yr Simulation of the CSIRO Coupled General Circulation Model. J. Climate, 15, 160–178. (PDF version)

Vimont, D. J., D. S. Battisti, and A. C. Hirst, 2001: Footprinting: a seasonal link between the mid-latitudes and tropics. Geophys. Res. Lett., 28(20), 3923–3926. (PDF version)

Ulrickson, B.L., J.S. Hoffmaster, J. Robinson, and D. Vimont, 1995: A numerical modeling study of the Catalina Eddy. Mon. Wea. Rev., 123, 1364-1373. (J. Climate Abstract)