Cristian Proistosescu

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• 2022

  Estimating the timing of geophysical commitment to 1.5 and 2.0 °C of global warming

  Dvorak, M. T., Armour, K. C., Frierson, D. M. W., Proistosescu, C., Baker, M. B. & Smith, C. J., Jun 2022, In: Nature Climate Change. 12, 6, p. 547-552 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • global warming 100%
  • warming 92%
  • commitment 78%
  • temperature change 19%
  • climate modeling 16%
• 2021

  Biased Estimates of Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity and Transient Climate Response Derived From Historical CMIP6 Simulations

  Dong, Y., Armour, K. C., Proistosescu, C., Andrews, T., Battisti, D. S., Forster, P. M., Paynter, D., Smith, C. J. & Shiogama, H., Dec 28 2021, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 48, 24, e2021GL095778.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  • climate 100%
  • energy budgets 72%
  • energy budget 58%
  • radiative forcing 48%
  • sensitivity 46%

• Slow modes of global temperature variability and their impact on climate sensitivity estimates

  Jnglin Wills, R. C., Armour, K. C., Battisti, D. S., Proistosescu, C. & Parsons, L. A., Nov 1 2021, In: Journal of Climate. 34, 21, p. 8717-8738 22 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • top of atmosphere 100%
  • surface temperature 51%
  • radiation 44%
  • climate 42%
  • energy budget 34%
• 2020

  An Assessment of Earth's Climate Sensitivity Using Multiple Lines of Evidence

  Sherwood, S. C., Webb, M. J., Annan, J. D., Armour, K. C., Forster, P. M., Hargreaves, J. C., Hegerl, G., Klein, S. A., Marvel, K. D., Rohling, E. J., Watanabe, M., Andrews, T., Braconnot, P., Bretherton, C. S., Foster, G. L., Hausfather, Z., von der Heydt, A. S., Knutti, R., Mauritsen, T., Norris, J. R. & 5 others, Proistosescu, C., Rugenstein, M., Schmidt, G. A., Tokarska, K. B. & Zelinka, M. D., Dec 2020, In: Reviews of Geophysics. 58, 4, p. e2019RG000678 e2019RG000678.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

  • climate 100%
  • confidence 50%
  • sensitivity 46%
  • Last Glacial Maximum 41%
  • K lines 35%

• Intermodel spread in the pattern effect and its contribution to climate sensitivity in CMIP5 and CMIP6 models

  Dong, Y., Armour, K. C., Zelinka, M. D., Proistosescu, C., Battisti, D. S., Zhou, C. & Andrews, T., Sep 15 2020, In: Journal of Climate. 33, 18, p. 7755-7775 21 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • CMIP 100%
  • sea surface temperature 54%
  • warming 51%
  • climate 47%
  • simulation 28%

• Magnitudes and Spatial Patterns of Interdecadal Temperature Variability in CMIP6

  Parsons, L. A., Brennan, M. K., Wills, R. C. J. & Proistosescu, C., Apr 16 2020, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 47, 7, e2019GL086588.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • surface temperature 100%
  • air temperature 97%
  • control simulation 68%
  • simulation 63%
  • air 62%

• New Generation of Climate Models Track Recent Unprecedented Changes in Earth's Radiation Budget Observed by CERES

  Loeb, N. G., Wang, H., Allan, R. P., Andrews, T., Armour, K., Cole, J. N. S., Dufresne, J. L., Forster, P., Gettelman, A., Guo, H., Mauritsen, T., Ming, Y., Paynter, D., Proistosescu, C., Stuecker, M. F., Willén, U. & Wyser, K., Mar 16 2020, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 47, 5, e2019GL086705.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Earth radiation budget 100%
  • CERES (experiment) 91%
  • climate models 90%
  • top of atmosphere 68%
  • climate modeling 45%

• Strong remote control of future equatorial warming by off-equatorial forcing

  Stuecker, M. F., Timmermann, A., Jin, F., Proistosescu, C., Kang, S. M., Kim, D., Yun, K., Chung, E., Chu, J., Bitz, C. M., Armour, K. C. & Hayashi, M., Feb 1 2020, In: Nature Climate Change. 10, 2, p. 124-129 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • warming 99%
  • heat 71%
  • tropics 59%
  • climate modeling 54%
  • tropical climate 38%

• The contrasting response of outlet glaciers to interior and ocean forcing

  Christian, J. E., Robel, A. A., Proistosescu, C., Roe, G., Koutnik, M. & Christianson, K., Jul 31 2020, In: Cryosphere. 14, 7, p. 2515-2535 21 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • ocean 66%
  • mass balance 29%
  • glaciology 23%
  • grounding line 22%
  • ice 22%

• Uncertainties in Climate and Weather Extremes Increase the Cost of Carbon

  Proistosescu, C. & Wagner, G., Jun 19 2020, In: One Earth. 2, 6, p. 515-517 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • social cost 94%
  • climate effect 79%
  • climate 78%
  • economic impact 76%
  • cost 75%
• 2019

  Attributing Historical and Future Evolution of Radiative Feedbacks to Regional Warming Patterns using a Green’s Function Approach: The preeminence of the Western Pacific

  Dong, Y., Proistosescu, C., Armour, K. C. & Battisti, D. S., Sep 1 2019, In: Journal of Climate. 32, 17, p. 5471-5491 21 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Green function 82%
  • warming 55%
  • atmospheric general circulation model 28%
  • general circulation model 22%
  • sea surface temperature 19%

• Natural Variability Has Slowed the Decline in Western U.S. Snowpack Since the 1980s

  Siler, N., Proistosescu, C. & Po-Chedley, S., Jan 16 2019, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 46, 1, p. 346-355 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • heating 55%
  • sea surface temperature 54%
  • atmospheric circulation 51%
  • climate models 50%
  • global warming 44%

• Ocean Circulation Signatures of North Pacific Decadal Variability

  Wills, R. C. J., Battisti, D. S., Proistosescu, C., Thompson, L. A., Hartmann, D. L. & Armour, K. C., Feb 16 2019, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 46, 3, p. 1690-1701 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • oceans 100%
  • signatures 74%
  • Pacific Decadal Oscillation 57%
  • sea surface temperature 56%
  • climate models 52%
• 2018

  Climate constraint reflects forced signal

  Po-Chedley, S., Proistosescu, C., Armour, K. C. & Santer, B. D., Nov 1 2018, In: Nature. 563, 7729, p. E6-E9

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Polar amplification dominated by local forcing and feedbacks

  Stuecker, M. F., Bitz, C. M., Armour, K. C., Proistosescu, C., Kang, S. M., Xie, S. P., Kim, D., McGregor, S., Zhang, W., Zhao, S., Cai, W., Dong, Y. & Jin, F. F., Dec 1 2018, In: Nature Climate Change. 8, 12, p. 1076-1081 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  • amplification 100%
  • heat 76%
  • simulation model 42%
  • albedo 32%
  • warming 26%

• Radiative Feedbacks From Stochastic Variability in Surface Temperature and Radiative Imbalance

  Proistosescu, C., Donohoe, A., Armour, K. C., Roe, G. H., Stuecker, M. F. & Bitz, C. M., May 28 2018, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 45, 10, p. 5082-5094 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • top of atmosphere 100%
  • surface temperature 77%
  • atmospheric forcing 47%
  • energy flux 43%
  • regression analysis 29%
• 2017

  Slow climate mode reconciles historical and model-based estimates of climate sensitivity

  Proistosescu, C. & Huybers, P. J., Jul 5 2017, In: Science Advances. 3, 7, e1602821.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Climate 100%
  • Climate Change 40%
• 2016

  Comment on "sensitivity of seafloor bathymetry to climate-driven fluctuations in mid-ocean ridge magma supply"

  Huybers, P., Langmuir, C., Katz, R. F., Ferguson, D., Proistosescu, C. & Carbotte, S., Jun 17 2016, In: Science. 352, 6292, p. 1405 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review

  Open Access

• Identification and interpretation of nonnormality in atmospheric time series

  Proistosescu, C., Rhines, A. & Huybers, P., Jan 1 2016, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 43, 10, p. 5425-5434 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • radiosondes 58%
  • temperature 54%
  • kurtosis 47%
  • winter 46%
  • skewness 44%
• 2012

  To tune or not to tune: Detecting orbital variability in Oligo-Miocene climate records

  Proistosescu, C., Huybers, P. & Maloof, A. C., Apr 1 2012, In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 325-326, p. 100-107 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • climate 100%
  • Orbital 65%
  • Miocene 63%
  • chronology 57%
  • orbitals 55%