Publications

Publication profile

(Collaborators who were under my supervision or co-supervision when the research was being done are listed in bold.)

Peer Reviewed Articles

Submitted/archive

  1. Chou, C-C, Kushner, P.J., Mariani, Z. Aeolus winds improve Arctic weather prediction. J. Geophys. Res. - Atmos, submitted.

  2. Mudryk, L., Mortimer, C., Derksen, C., Elias Chereque, A., & Kushner, P. (2024). Benchmarking of SWE products based on outcomes of the SnowPEx+ Intercomparison Project. EGUsphere, 1–28. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-3014

  3. Elias Chereque, A., Kushner, P. J., Mudryk, L., Derksen, C., & Mortimer, C. (2024). A simple snow temperature index model exposes discrepancies between reanalysis snow water equivalent products. EGUsphere, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-201

  4. Henrique, D.B., Zhang X., Wang A., Lagacé, E., Wang, A., Lee, K., Kushner, P.J., Posen, I.D. The effects of climate and climate change on electric vehicle charging demand. Environmental Research: Climate, submitted.

  5. Wong, J. K., Mercan, O., & Kushner, P. J. (2024). Effects of LES Inflow Turbulence Assumptions on Wind Response of a Tall Building. Journal of Wind and Structures, submitted.

Published/in press

  1. Morris, M., Kushner, P.J., Moore, G.W.K., Mercan, O (2024): Resolution-Dependence of Extreme Wind Speed Projections in the Great Lakes Region. (Also see SI.) J. Climate, in press.

  2. Hay, S., and Kushner, P.J. (2024): The relative importance of Antarctic sea-ice loss within the response to greenhouse warming. J. Climate, in press.

  3. Fraser-Leach, L., Kushner, P., & Audette, A. (2023). Correcting for artificial heat in coupled sea ice perturbation experiments. Environmental Research: Climate, 3(1), 015003. https://doi.org/10.1088/2752-5295/ad1334

  4. Chou, C.-C., & Kushner, P. J. (2024). Scale-dependent impact of Aeolus winds on a global forecast system. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 150(758), 373–387. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4601

  5. Morris, M., Kushner, P. J., Moore, G. W. K., & Mercan, O. (2023). Atmospheric Circulation Patterns Associated with Extreme Wind Events in Canadian Cities. Journal of Climate, 36(13), 4443–4460. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0719.1

  6. Fajber, R., Donohoe, A., Ragen, S., Armour, K. C., & Kushner, P. J. (2023). Atmospheric heat transport is governed by meridional gradients in surface evaporation in modern-day earth-like climates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(25), e2217202120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2217202120

  7. Cabaj, A., Kushner, P. J., & Petty, A. A. (2023). Automated Calibration of a Snow-On-Sea-Ice Model. Earth and Space Science, 10(3), e2022EA002655. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EA002655

  8. Petty, A. A., Keeney, N., Cabaj, A., Kushner, P., & Bagnardi, M. (2023). Winter Arctic sea ice thickness from ICESat-2: Upgrades to freeboard and snow loading estimates and an assessment of the first three winters of data collection. The Cryosphere, 17(1), 127–156.

  9. Audette, A., & Kushner, P. J. (2022). Simple Hybrid Sea Ice Nudging Method for Improving Control Over Partitioning of Sea Ice Concentration and Thickness. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 14(12), e2022MS003180. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022MS003180

  10. Zhang, X., Kushner, P. J., Saville, B., & Posen, I. D. (2022). Cold temperature limits to biodiesel use under present and future climates in North America. Environmental Science & Technology, in press.

  11. Chou, C.-C., P. J. Kushner, S. Laroche, Z. Mariani, P. Rodriguez, S. Melo, and C. G. Fletcher, 2021: Validation of the Aeolus Level-2B wind product over Northern Canada and the Arctic. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques Discussions, 1–26, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2021-247. This publication is now in press in AMT.

  12. Agrawal, S., J. Wong, J. Song, O. Mercan, and P. J. Kushner, 2022: On RANS turbulence model for assessing aerodynamic performance of unconventional building shapes. Journal of Wind Engineering & Industrial Aerodynamics, in press.

  13. Hay, S., P.J. Kushner and Coauthors, 2022: Separating the influences of low-latitude warming and sea-ice loss on Northern Hemisphere climate change. Journal of Climate, 1, 1–59, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0180.1.

  14. Hirasawa, H., P. J. Kushner, M. Sigmond, J. Fyfe, and C. Deser, 2022: Evolving Sahel Rainfall Response to Anthropogenic Aerosols Driven by Shifting Regional Oceanic and Emission Influences. Journal of Climate, 1, 1–27, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0795.1.

  15. Teran, A. S., and Coauthors, 2022: Towards a computational workflow for studying the effects of climate change on wind loads on high-rise buildings in urban areas. Atmosphere-Ocean, In press.

  16. Audette, A., P.J. Kushner, and Coauthors, 2021: Opposite Responses of the Dry and Moist Eddy Heat Transport Into the Arctic in the PAMIP Experiments. Geophys. Res. Lett., 48, e2020GL089990, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL089990.

  17. Dunn-Sigouin, E., C. Li, and P. J. Kushner, 2021: Limited Influence of Localized Tropical Sea-Surface Temperatures on Moisture Transport into the Arctic. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2020GL091540, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL091540.

  18. Fajber, R., and P. J. Kushner, 2021: Using “Heat Tagging” to Understand the Remote Influence of Atmospheric Diabatic Heating through Long-Range Transport. J. Atmos. Sci., 78, 2161–2176, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-20-0290.1.

  19. Hirasawa, H, Kushner, P.J., Sigmond, S., Fyfe, J, Deser, C. (2020): Anthropogenic aerosols dominate forced multidecadal Sahel precipitation change through distinct atmospheric and oceanic drivers. J. Climate, 33: 10187-10204. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0829.1

  20. Feldl, N., Po-Chedley, S., Singh, H. K. A., Hay, S., Kushner, P.J. (2020): Sea ice and atmospheric circulation shape the high-latitude lapse rate feedback. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 3, article number 41. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-020-00146-7

  21. Tandon, N.F., Saenko, O.A, Cane, M.A., Kushner, P.J. (2020): Interannual variability of the global meridional overturning circulation dominated by Pacific variability. J. Physical Oceanography. 50, 559-574. https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-19-0129.1

  22. Cabaj, A., Kushner, P.J., Fletcher, C.G., Howell, S., Petty, S.A. (2020): Constraining reanalysis snowfall over the Arctic Ocean using Cloudsat observations. Geophys. Res. Lett., 47, e2019GL08426. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL086426.

  23. Danabasoglu, G., and Coauthors, 2020: The Community Earth System Model Version 2 (CESM2). J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 12, e2019MS001916, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019MS001916.

  24. Henderson, G. R., Peings, Y., Furtado, J. C. & Kushner, P. J. Snow–atmosphere coupling in the Northern Hemisphere. Nature Climate Change 8, 954–963 (2018).

  25. Naderian, H. et al. Stability of stiffened cruciform steel columns under shear and compression by the complex finite strip method. (2018). doi:10.1016/j.tws.2018.12.023

  26. Oudar, T., Kushner, P. J., Fyfe, J. C., & Sigmond, M. (2018). No Impact of Anthropogenic Aerosols on Early 21st Century Global Temperature Trends in a Large Initial-Condition Ensemble. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(17), 9245–9252. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL07884

  27. Blackport, R., & Kushner, P. J. (2018). The Role of Extratropical Ocean Warming in the Coupled Climate Response to Arctic Sea Ice Loss. Journal of Climate, 31(22), 9193–9206. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0192.1

  28. Hay, S., Kushner, P. J., Blackport, R., & McCusker, K. E. (2018). On the Relative Robustness of the Climate Response to High-Latitude and Low-Latitude Warming. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(12), 6232–6241. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL077294

  29. Tandon N. F., Kushner P.J., Docquier D, Wettstein J., and Li C, (2018). Reassessing Sea Ice Drift and Its Relationship to Long-Term Arctic Sea Ice Loss in Coupled Climate Models. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 0, https://doi.org/10.1029/2017JC013697 .

  30. Goosse, H. et al. Quantifying climate feedbacks in polar regions. Nature Communications 9, (2018).

  31. Kushner, P. J., Mudryk, L. R., Merryfield, W., Ambadan, J. T., Berg, A., Bichet, A., et al. (2018). Canadian snow and sea ice: assessment of snow, sea ice, and related climate processes in Canada’s Earth system model and climate-prediction system. The Cryosphere, 12(4), 1137–1156. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-1137-2018

  32. Mudryk, L. R., Derksen, C., Howell, S., Laliberté, F., Thackeray, C., Sospedra-Alfonso, R., et al. (2018). Canadian snow and sea ice: historical trends and projections. The Cryosphere, 12(4), 1157–1176. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-1157-2018

  33. Fajber, R., Kushner, P. J., & Laliberté, F. (2018). Influence of Midlatitude Surface Thermal Anomalies on the Polar Midtroposphere in an Idealized Moist Model. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 75(4), 1089–1104. https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-17-0283.1

  34. Screen, J. A., Deser, C., Smith, D. M., Zhang, X., Blackport, R., Kushner, P. J., et al. (2018). Consistency and discrepancy in the atmospheric response to Arctic sea-ice loss across climate models. Nature Geoscience, 11(3), 155–163. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-018-0059-y

  35. McCusker, K. E., Kushner, P. J., Fyfe, J. C., Sigmond, M., Kharin, V. V., & Bitz, C. M. (2017). Remarkable separability of circulation response to Arctic sea ice loss and greenhouse gas forcing. Geophysical Research Letters, 44(15), 7955–7964. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL074327

  36. Watt-Meyer, O., & Kushner, P. J. (2017). Why are Temperature and Upward Wave Activity Flux Positively Skewed in the Polar Stratosphere? Journal of Climate, 31(1), 115–130. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0155.1

  37. Blackport, R., and P. J. Kushner, 2017: Isolating the Atmospheric Circulation Response to Arctic Sea Ice Loss in the Coupled Climate System. J. Climate, 30, 2163–2185, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0257.1.

  38. Mudryk, L. R., P. J. Kushner, C. Derksen, and C. Thackeray, 2017: Snow cover response to temperature in observational and climate model ensembles. Geophys. Res. Lett., 44, 919–926, doi:10.1002/2016GL071789.

  39. Wang, L., M. Ting, and P. J. Kushner, 2017: A robust empirical seasonal prediction of winter NAO and surface climate. Scientific Reports, 7, 279, doi:10.1038/s41598-017-00353-y.

  40. Bichet, A., P. J. Kushner, L. Mudryk, 2016: Estimating the Continental Response to Global Warming Using Pattern-Scaled Sea Surface Temperatures and Sea Ice. J. Climate, in press.

  41. Blackport, R. and P. J. Kushner, 2016: The Transient and Equilibrium Climate Response to Rapid Summertime Sea Ice Loss in CCSM4. J. Climate, 29, 401–417. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0284.1.

  42. Bichet, A., P. J. Kushner, L. Mudryk, L. Terray, and J.C. Fyfe 2015: Estimating the anthropogenic sea surface temperature response using pattern scaling. J. Climate, 28, 3751-3763. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00604.1.

  43. Laliberté, F., S. E. L. Howell, and P. J. Kushner, 2016: Regional variability of a projected sea ice-free Arctic during the summer months. Geophysical Research Letters, 43, 256-263. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2015GL066855.

  44. Laliberté, F., J. Zika, L. Mudryk, P.J. Kushner, J. Kjellsson, and K. Döös, 2015: Constrained work output of the moist atmospheric heat engine in a changing climate. Science, 347, 540-543. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1257103

  45. Mudryk, L. R., C. Derksen, P. J. Kushner, and R. Brown, 2015: Characterization of Northern Hemisphere snow water equivalent datasets, 1981–2010. Journal of Climate, 28, 8037–8051. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0229.1

  46. JE Kay, C Deser, A Phillips, A Mai, C Hannay, G Strand, JM Arblaster, SC Bates, G Danabasoglu, J Edwards, M Holland, P. J. Kushner, J-F Lamarque, D Lawrence, K Lindsay, A Middleton, E Munoz, R Neale, K Oleson, L Polvani, M Vertenstein, 2015: The Community Earth System Model (CESM) Large Ensemble Project: A community resource for studying climate change in the presence of internal climate variability. Bull. Amer. Met. Soc., doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00255.1.

  47. Tandon, N. F., and P. J. Kushner, 2015: Does external forcing interfere with the AMOC’s influence on North Atlantic sea surface temperature? Journal of Climate, 28, 6309–6323. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00664.1

  48. Watt-Meyer, O. and P.J. Kushner, 2015: Decomposition of Atmospheric Disturbances into Standing and Traveling Components, with Application to Northern Hemisphere Planetary Waves and Stratosphere–Troposphere Coupling. J. Atmos. Sci., 72, 787–802. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-14-0214.1

  49. Watt-Meyer, O., and P. J. Kushner, 2015: The Role of Standing Waves in Driving Persistent Anomalies of Upward Wave Activity Flux. Journal of Climate, 28, 9941–9954. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0317.1

  50. Laliberté, F. and P.J. Kushner, 2014: Midlatitude moisture contribution to recent Arctic tropospheric summertime variability. J. Climate, 27, 5693–5707. http://dx.doi.org/doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00721.1

  51. Wang, L., P.J. Kushner, and D. Waugh, 2013: Southern Hemisphere stationary wave response to changes of ozone and greenhouse gases. J. Climate, 26, 10205-10217. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00160.1

  52. Mudryk, L.R., P.J. Kushner, and C. Derksen, 2013: Interpreting observed Northern Hemisphere snow trends with large ensembles of climate simulations. Climate Dynamics, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00382-013-1954-y.

  53. Hurrell, J.W. and coauthors including P.J. Kushner, 2013: The Community Earth System Model: A framework for collaborative research. Bull. Am. Met. Soc., 94, 1339-1360. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00121.1

  54. Maness, H., P.J. Kushner, and I. Fung, 2013: Summertime climate response to mountain pine beetle disturbance in British Columbia. Nature Geoscience, 6, 65-70, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1038/ngeo1642.

  55. Laliberté, F. and P.J. Kushner, 2013: Isentropic constraints by midlatitude surface warming on the Arctic midtroposphere. Geophys. Res. Lett., 40, 606-611, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2012GL054306.

  56. Fletcher, C.G. and P.J. Kushner, 2013: Sensitivities in the role of linear interference in a multi-model study of the Northern Annular Mode response to tropical SST. J. Geophys. Res. Atm., 118, 4267-4279, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jgrd.50385.

  57. Fletcher, C. G., and P. J. Kushner, 2013: Linear interference and the Northern Annular Mode response to tropical SST forcing: Sensitivity to model configuration. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 118, 4267–4279.

  58. Young, P. J., A. H. Butler, N. Calvo, L. Haimberger, P. J. Kushner, D. R. Marsh, W. J. Randel and K. H. Rosenlof, 2013: Agreement in late twentieth century Southern Hemisphere stratospheric temperature trends in observations and CCMVal-2, CMIP3 and CMIP5 models. J. Geophys. Res., 118, 605-613, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jgrd.50126.

  59. Vyushin, D. I., P. J. Kushner, and F. W. Zwiers, 2012: Modelling and understanding persistence of climate variability. J Geophys. Res. - Atm., 117, D21106, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2012JD018240.

  60. Smith, K. L. and P. J. Kushner, 2012: Linear interference and the initiation of extratropical stratosphere-troposphere interactions. J. Geophys. Res. - Atm., 117, D13107, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2012JD017587.

  61. Fletcher, C. G., H. Zhao, P. J. Kushner, and R. Fernandes, 2012: Using models and satellite observations to evaluate the strength of snow albedo feedback. J Geophys. Res. -Atm, 117, D11117, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2012JD017724.

  62. Derksen, C. et al. including P. J. Kushner, 2012: Variability and change in the Canadian cryosphere. Clim. Change. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10584-012-0470-0.

  63. Smith, K. L, P. J. Kushner, and J. Cohen, 2011: The role of linear interference in Northern Annular Mode variability associated with Eurasian snow cover extent. J. Climate, 24, 6185–6202. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00055.1

  64. Thompson, D. W. J., S. Solomon, P. J. Kushner, M. H. England, K. M. Grise, D. J. Karoly, 2011: Signatures of the Antarctic ozone hole in Southern Hemisphere climate change. Nature Geosci., 4, 741-749. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/NGEO1296.

  65. Serbanescu, R. M., P. J. Kushner, and S. Stanley, 2011: Putting computation on a par with experiments and theory in the undergraduate physics curriculum. Am. J. Physics, 79, 919-924. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.3593296.

  66. Wang, L. and P. J. Kushner, 2011: Diagnosing the stratosphere-troposphere stationary wave response to climate change in a general circulation model. J. Geophys. Res. -Atmos., 116, D16113. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2010JD015473.

  67. Mudryk, L. R. and P. J. Kushner, 2011: A method to diagnose sources of annular mode time scales. J. Geophys. Res. - Atmos., 116, D14114. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2010JD015291

  68. Butchart, N., A. J. Charlton-Perez, I. Cionni, S. C. Hardiman, P. H. Haynes, K. Kruger, P. J. Kushner, P. A. Newman, S. M. Osprey, J. Perlwitz, M. Sigmond, L. Wang, and CCMVal coauthors, 2011: Multimodel climate and variability of the stratosphere. J. Geophys. Res. - Atmos., 116, D05102. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2010JD014995.

  69. Fletcher, C. G. and P. J. Kushner, 2011: The role of linear interference in the annular mode response to tropical SST forcing. J. Climate, 24, 778-794. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2010JCLI3735.1

  70. Baldwin, M.P. N. P. Gillett, P. M. Forster, E. P. Gerber, M. I. Hegglin, A. Y. Karpechko, J. Kim, P. J. Kushner, O.H. Morgenstern, T, Reichler, S.-W. Son, K. Tourpali, 2010: Effects of the stratosphere on the troposphere. In SPARC CCMVal (2010), SPARC Report on the Evaluation of Chemistry-Climate Models, V. Eyring, T. G. Shepherd, D. W. Waugh (Eds.), SPARC Report No. 5, WCRP-132, WMO/TD-No. 1526

  71. Butchart, N., A. J. Charlton-Perez, I. Cionni, S. C. Hardiman, K. Kruger, P. J. Kushner, P. A. Newman, S. M. Osprey, J. Perlwitz, M. Sigmond, L. Wang, 2010: Stratospheric dynamics. In SPARC CCMVal (2010), SPARC Report on the Evaluation of Chemistry-Climate Models, V. Eyring, T. G. Shepherd, D. W. Waugh (Eds.), SPARC Report No. 5, WCRP-132, WMO/TD-No. 1526

  72. Forster, P.M., D.W.J. Thompson, M.P. Baldwin, M.P. Chipperfield, M. Dameris, J.D. Haigh, D.J. Karoly, P.J. Kushner, W.J. Randel, K.H. Rosenlof, D.J. Seidel, S. Solomon, 2010: Stratospheric changes and climate, in Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2010, WMO Global Ozone Research and Monitoring Project—Report No. 52

  73. Smith, K.L., C.G. Fletcher and P. J. Kushner, 2010: The role of linear interference in the Annular Mode response to extratropical surface forcing. J. Climate, 23, 6036-6050, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2010JCLI3606.1.

  74. Wang, L. and P. J. Kushner, 2010: Interpreting stationary wave nonlinearity in barotropic dynamics. J. Atmos. Sci., 6, 2240-2250. doi: 10.1175/2010JAS3332.1

  75. Scinocca, J. F., M. C. Reader, D. A. Plummer, M. Sigmond, P. J. Kushner, T. G. Shepherd, A.R. Ravishankara., 2009: Impact of sudden Arctic sea-ice loss on stratospheric polar ozone recovery, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L24701. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2009GL041239

  76. MacIntyre, S., J. P. Fram, P. J. Kushner, N. D. Bettez, W. J. O'Brien, J. E. Hobbie, and G. W. Kling, 2009:Climate-related variations in mixing dynamics in an Alaskan arctic lake, Limnol. Oceanogr., 54, 2401-4217. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4319/lo.2009.54.6_part_2.2401.

  77. Vyushin, D. I., P. J. Kushner, and J. Mayer, 2009: On the origins of temporal power-law behavior in the global atmospheric circulation. Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L14706, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2009GL038771.

  78. Vyushin, D.I. and P. J. Kushner, 2009: Power-law and long-memory characteristics of the atmospheric general circulation. J. Climate, 22, 2890-2904. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2008JCLI2528.1.

  79. Fletcher, C. G., P. J. Kushner, A. Hall, X. Qu, 2009: Circulation responses to snow albedo feedback in climate change. Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L09702. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2009GL038011.

  80. Fletcher, C. G., S. C. Hardiman, P. J. Kushner, and J. Cohen, 2009: The dynamical response to snow cover perturbations in a large ensemble of atmospheric GCM integrations, J. Climate, 22, 1208-1222. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2008JCLI2505.1.

  81. Hardiman, S. C., P. J. Kushner, and J. Cohen, 2008: Investigating the ability of general circulation models to capture the effects of Eurasian snow cover on winter climate, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 113, D21123. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2008JD010623.

  82. Sigmond, M., J. F. Scinocca, and P. J. Kushner, 2008: Impact of the stratosphere on tropospheric climate change, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L12706, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2008GL033573. [AGU Journal highlight]

  83. Fletcher, C. G., P. J. Kushner, and J. Cohen, 2007: Stratospheric control of the extratropical circulation response to surface forcing. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L21802, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2007GL031626.

  84. Cohen, J., M. Barlow, P. Kushner, and K. Saito, 2007: Stratosphere-Troposphere coupling and links with Eurasian Land-Surface Variability, J. Climate, 21, 5335–5343. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2007JCLI1725.1

  85. Sigmond, M., P. J. Kushner, and J. F. Scinocca, 2007: Discriminating robust and non-robust atmospheric circulation responses to global warming. J. Geophys. Res. - Atmos., 112, D20121. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2006JD008270.

  86. Kushner, P. J., and G. Lee, 2007: Resolving the regional signature of the annular modes. J. Climate, 20, 2840–2852. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI4106.1.

  87. Kushner, P. J. and L.M. Polvani, 2006: Stratosphere-troposphere coupling in a relatively simple AGCM: impact of the seasonal cycle. J. Climate, 19, 5721–5727. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI4007.1.

  88. Cash, B. A., P. Kushner, and G. K. Vallis, 2007: Comment on ‘‘On the presence of annular variability in an aquaplanet model’’ by Masahiro Watanabe. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L03707, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2006GL027274.

  89. [Contributing author on Southern Annular Mode to:] Randall, D.A., R.A. Wood, S. Bony, R. Colman, T. Fichefet, J. Fyfe, V. Kattsov, A. Pitman, J. Shukla, J. Srinivasan, R.J. Stouffer, A. Sumi and K.E. Taylor, 2007:Climate Models and Their Evaluation. In: Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Solomon, S., D. Qin, M. Manning, Z. Chen, M. Marquis, K.B. Averyt, M.Tignor and H.L. Miller (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA.

  90. Kushner, P.J. and L.M. Polvani, 2006: Stratosphere-troposphere coupling in a relatively simple AGCM: impact of the seasonal cycle. J. Climate, 19, 5721–5727. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI4007.1.

  91. Delworth, T.L., A.J. Broccoli, A. Rosati, R.J. Stouffer, V. Balaji, J.A. Beesley, W.F. Cooke, K.W. Dixon, J. Dunne, K.A. Dunne, J.W. Durachta, K.L. Findell, P. Ginoux, A. Gnanadesikan, C.T. Gordon, S.M. Griffies, R. Gudgel, M.J. Harrison, I.M. Held, R.S. Hemler, L.W. Horowitz, S.A. Klein, T.R. Knutson, P.J. Kushner, A.R. Langenhorst, H.C. Lee, S.J. Lin, J. Lu, S.L. Malyshev, P.C.D. Milly, V. Ramaswamy, J. Russell, M.D. Schwarzkopf, E. Shevliakova, J.J. Sirutis, M.J. Spelman, W.F. Stern, M. Winton, A.T. Wittenberg, B. Wyman, F. Zeng, and R. Zhang, 2006: GFDL's CM2 global coupled climate models. Part I: Formulation and simulation characteristics. J. Climate, 19, 643–674. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI3629.1.

  92. Reichler, T.J., P. J. Kushner, and L.M. Polvani, 2005: The coupled stratosphere-troposphere response to impulsive forcing from the troposphere. J. Atmos. Sci., 62, 3337–3352. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JAS3527.1.

  93. Kushner, P.J. and L.M. Polvani, 2005: A very large, spontaneous stratospheric sudden warming in a simple AGCM: A prototype for the Southern-Hemisphere warming of 2002? J. Atmos. Sci., 62, 890–897. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JAS-3314.1.

  94. Cash, B.A., P.J. Kushner, and G.K. Vallis, 2005: Zonal asymmetries, teleconnnections, and annular modes in a GCM. J. Atmos. Sci., 62, 207–219. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JAS-3361.1.

  95. The GFDL Global Atmospheric Model Development Team:, 2004: The New GFDL Global Atmosphere and Land Model AM2–LM2: Evaluation with Prescribed SST Simulations. J. Climate, 17, 4641–4673.

  96. Cash, B.A., P.J. Kushner, and G.K. Vallis, 2004: Comments on "The structure and composition of the annular modes in an aquaplanet general circulation model'' - Reply. J. Atmos. Sci., 61, 954–956.

  97. Joseph, R., M. Ting, P.J. Kushner, 2004: The global stationary wave response to climate change in a coupled GCM. J. Climate, 17, 540–556.

  98. Kushner, P.J. and L.M. Polvani, 2004: Stratosphere–troposphere coupling in a relatively simple AGCM: the role of eddies. J. Climate, 17, 629–639.

  99. Vallis, G.K., E.P. Gerber, P.J. Kushner, B.A. Cash, 2004: A mechanism and simple dynamical model of the North Atlantic Oscillation and Annular Modes. J. Atmos. Sci., 61, 264–280.

  100. Cash, B.A., P.J. Kushner, and G.K. Vallis, 2002: The structure and composition of the annular modes in an aquaplanet general circulation model. J. Atmos. Sci., 59, 3399–3414.

  101. Delworth, T. L., R. J. Stouffer, K. W. Dixon, M. J. Spelman, T. R. Knutson, A. J. Broccoli, P. J. Kushner, andR. T. Wetherald, 2002: Review of simulations of climate variability andchange with the GFDL R30 coupled climate model. Climate Dynamics, 19, 555-574. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00382-002-0249-5.

  102. Polvani, L. M., and P. J. Kushner, 2002: Tropospheric response to stratospheric perturbations in a relatively simple general circulation model. Geophys. Res. Lett., 29, 1114, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2001GL014284.

  103. Kushner, P.J., Held, I.M., and Delworth, T.L., 2001: Southern-hemisphere atmospheric circulation response to global warming. J. Climate, 14, 2238-2249. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0442(2001)014<0001:SHACRT>2.0.CO;2

  104. Kushner, P.J., and Held, I.M., 1999: Potential-vorticity thickness fluxes and wave mean-flow interaction. J. Atmos. Sci., 56, 948-958. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0469(1999)056<0948:PVTFAW>2.0.CO;2

  105. Kushner, P.J. and Held, I.M., 1998: A test, using atmospheric data, of a method for estimating oceanic eddy diffusivity. Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, 4213-4216. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/1998GL900142.

  106. Kushner, P.J., McIntyre, M.E., and Shepherd, T.G. 1998: Coupled Kelvin-wave and mirage- wave instabilities in semi-geostrophic dynamics. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 28, 513-518. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0485(1998)028<0513:CKWAMW>2.0.CO;2.

  107. Swanson, K.L., Kushner, P.J., and Held, I.M., 1997: Dynamics of barotropic storm tracks. J. Atmos. Sci., 54, 791-810. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0469(1997)054<0791:DOBST>2.0.CO;2.

  108. Kushner, P.J. 1995: A generalized Charney-Stern theorem for semi-geostrophic dynamics. Tellus, 47A, 541-547. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1034/j.1600-0870.1995.00103.x

  109. Kushner, P.J. and Shepherd, T.G., 1995a: Wave-activity conservation laws and stability theorems for semi-geostrophic dynamics. Part 1. Pseudomomentum-based theory. J. Fluid Mech., 290, 67 - 104. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022112095002424

  110. Kushner, P.J. and Shepherd, T.G., 1995b: Wave-activity conservation laws and stability theorems for semi-geostrophic dynamics. Part 2. Pseudoenergy-based theory. J. Fluid Mech., 290, 105 - 129.
    doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022112095002436.

 

Monograph Contributions

  1. Kushner, P. J., 2011: Annular modes of the troposphere and stratosphere (preprint).The Stratosphere: Dynamics, Transport, and Chemistry, L.M. Polvani, A.H. Sobel, and D.W. Waugh eds. AGU Geophysical Monograph Series Vol. 190.

  2. Kushner, P.J., 2003: Circulation, Vorticity, and Potential Vorticity. In Handbook of Weather, Climate, and Water, eds. T.D. Potter and B.R. Colman, 2003, pp.21–38, Wiley.

  3. Kushner, P.J., 1995: Wave-activity conservation laws and stability theorems for semi-geostrophic dynamics. Doctoral thesis. University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.

 

Non-refereed Contributions

  1. Kushner, P.J., P. Gauthier, J. Gyakum, K. Strong, R. Stull, P. Taylor, 2015. Report on a Workshop of the Working Group on Atmosphere-Related Research in Canadian Universities. CMOS Bulletin.

  2. Kushner, P.J., 2015. Emerging from the dark ages. Compute Canada Blog.

  3. Kushner, P. J., K. L. Smith, R. D. Brown, C. Dersken, C. R. Duguay, R. Fernandes, and W.R. Peltier, 2010. Workshop report: Simulation of the Canadian cryosphere. CMOS Bulletin.

  4. Kushner, P. J. et al, 2009: SPARC Dynamics and Variability Project (DynVar) Plans and Status. SPARC Newsletter, 32, 13-15.

  5. M.P. Baldwin et al.Report on the Chapman Conference, 2008: “The Role of the Stratosphere in Climate and Climate Change”, SPARC Newsletter, 31, 9–13.

  6. Kushner, P.J., J. Austin, M. P. Baldwin, N. Butchart, M.A. Giorgetta, P. H. Haynes, E. Manzini, N. A. McFarlane, A. O'Neill, J. Perlwitz, L. M. Polvani, W. A. Robinson, F. Sassi, J. F. Scinocca, T. G. Shepherd, 2007: The SPARC DynVar Project: A SPARC project on the dynamics and variability of the coupled stratosphere-troposphere system. SPARC Newsletter, 29, 9-14.

  7. Sigmond, M. P., P. J. Kushner, W. A. Robinson and T. G. Shepherd, 2006: Dynamics of the stratospheric circulation response to climate change. SPARC Newsletter, 27, 10-12

  8. Kushner, P.J., 2003: How does the atmospheric circulation respond to global warming? Proceedings of the 2003 Standstead Seminars, winter 2003, pp.66-68, McGill.

Student theses and reports

  1. Fajber, RA (2020): Understanding the Role of Latent Heating in the Heat and Mass Transport of the Global Atmospheric Circulation. Ph.D. thesis, University of Toronto.

  2. Blackport, R (2017): The Atmospheric Response to Arctic Sea Ice Loss in the Coupled Climate System . Ph.D. thesis, University of Toronto.

  3. Watt-Meyer, O. (2016): The role of standing and travelling waves in stratosphere-troposphere coupling. Ph.D. thesis, University of Toronto.