Publications

Quentin Nicolas, William R. Boos (2024). Sensitivity of tropical orographic precipitation to wind speed with implications for future projections. submitted to Weather and Climate Dynamics, doi: 10.5194/egusphere-2024-2180.

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D.L. Suhas, William R. Boos (2024). Evaluating ensemble predictions of South Asian monsoon low pressure system genesis. Wea. Forecasting, doi:10.1175/WAF-D-24-0044.1.

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Shiheng Duan, Paul Ullrich, William R. Boos (2024). Meteorological Drivers of North American Monsoon Extreme Precipitation Events. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 129, e2023JD040535, doi:10.1029/2023JD040535.

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Michael P. Byrne, William R. Boos, Shineng Hu (2024). Elevation-dependent warming: observations, models, and energetic mechanisms. Weather Clim. Dynam., 5, 763–777, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-763-2024.

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Ankur Mahesh, Travis O'Brien, Burlen Loring, Abdelrahman Elbashandy, William R. Boos, William Collins (2024). Identifying Atmospheric Rivers and their Poleward Latent Heat Transport with Generalizable Neural Networks: ARCNNv1. Geosci. Model Dev., 17, 3533–3557, doi:10.5194/egusphere-2023-763.

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Yi Zhang, William R. Boos, Isaac M. Held, Christopher J. Paciorek, Stephan Fueglistaler (2024). Forecasting Tropical Annual Maximum Wet-Bulb Temperatures Months in Advance from the Current State of El Niño. Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2023GL106990. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL106990.

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Quentin Nicolas, William R. Boos (2024). Understanding the spatio-temporal variability of tropical orographic rainfall using convective plume buoyancy. J. Climate, 37, 1737-1757, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0340.1.

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S. Vishnu, William R. Boos, William D. Collins (2023). Historical and future trends in South Asian monsoon low pressure systems in a high-resolution model ensemble. npj Clim. Atmos. Sci., 6, 182, doi: 10.1038/s41612-023-00502-3.

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Yongyun Hu, Xiang Li, William R. Boos, Jiaqi Guo, Jiawenjing Lan, Qifan Lin, Jing Han, Jian Zhang, Xiujuan Bao, Shuai Yuan, Qiang Wei, Yonggang Liu, Jun Yang, Ji Nie, Zhengtang Guo (2023). Emergence of the modern global monsoon from the Pangaea megamonsoon set by palaeogeography. Nature Geoscience, 2023, 16, 1041–1046, doi:10.1038/s41561-023-01288-y.

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S. Vishnu, Mark D. Risser, Travis A. O’Brien, Paul A. Ullrich, William R. Boos (2023). Observed increase in the peak rain rates of monsoon depressions. npj Clim. Atmos. Sci., 6, 111, doi: 10.1038/s41612-023-00436-w.

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D.R. Feldman, A.C. Aiken, W. R. Boos, R.W.H. Carroll, V. Chandrasekar, S. Collis, J. M. Creamean, G. de Boer, J. Deems, P. J. DeMott, J. Fan, A. N. Flores, D. Gochis, M. Grover, T. C. J. Hill, A. Hodshire, E. Hulm, C. C. Hume, R. Jackson, F. Junyent, A. Kennedy, M. Kumjian, E. J. T. Levin, J. D. Lundquist, J. O’Brien, M. S. Raleigh, J. Reithel, A. Rhoades, K. Rittger, W. Rudisill, Z. Sherman, E. Siirila-Woodburn, S. M. Skiles, J. N. Smith, R. C. Sullivan, A. Theisen, M. Tuftedal, A. C. Varble, A. Wiedlea, S. Wielandt, K. Williams, Z. Xu (2023). The Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) Campaign. Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., in press, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0049.1.

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Marysa M. Laguë, Gregory R. Quetin, William R. Boos (2023). Reduced terrestrial evaporation increases atmospheric water vapor by generating cloud feedbacks. Environ. Res. Lett., accepted.

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Marysa M. Laguë, Gregory R. Quetin, Sarah Ragen, William R. Boos (2023). Continental configuration controls the base-state water vapor greenhouse effect: lessons from half-land, half-water planets. Clim. Dyn., doi: 10.1007/s00382-023-06857-w.

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Tresa Mary Thomas, Govindasamy Bala, Srinivas Venkata Vemavarapu, William R. Boos (2023). Opposite Changes in Monsoon Precipitation and Low Pressure System Frequency in Response to Orographic Forcing. J. Climate, 36, 6309-6329, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0476.1.

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D.L. Suhas, Nandini Ramesh, Ram M. Kripa, William R. Boos (2023). Influence of monsoon low pressure systems on South Asian disasters and implications for disaster prediction. npj Clim. Atmos. Sci., 6, 48, doi:10.1038/s41612-023-00376-5.

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Yi Zhang, William R. Boos (2023). An upper bound for extreme temperatures over midlatitude land. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 120, e2215278120, doi:10.1073/pnas.2215278120.

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Paul A. Nicknish, John C. H. Chiang, Aixue Hu, William R. Boos (2023). Regional tropical rainfall shifts under global warming: an energetic perspective. Environ. Res.: Climate, 2, 015007, doi:10.1088/2752-5295/acb9b0.

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Jing Han, Ji Nie, Yongyun Hu, William R. Boos, Yonggang Liu, Jun Yang, Shuai Yuan, Xiang Li, Jiaqi Guo, Jiawenjing Lan, Qifan Lin, Xiujuan Bao, Mengyu Wei, Zhibo Li, Kai Man, Zihan Yin (2023). Continental drift shifts tropical rainfall by altering radiation and ocean heat transport. Sci. Adv., 9, eadf7209, doi:10.1126/sciadv.adf7209.

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Seaver Wang, Adrianna Foster, Elizabeth A. Lenz, John D. Kessler, Julienne C. Stroeve, Wei Liu, Liana O. Anderson, Merritt Turetsky, Richard Betts, Sijia Zou, William R. Boos, Zeke Hausfather (2023). Mechanisms and impacts of Earth system tipping elements. Rev. Geophys., 61, e2021RG000757, doi:10.1029/2021RG000757.

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D.L. Suhas, William R. Boos (2023). Monsoon depression amplification by horizontal shear and humidity gradients: a shallow water perspective. J. Atmos. Sci., 80, 633-647, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-22-0146.1.

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Marysa M. Laguë, Gregory R. Quetin, William R. Boos (2022). Downwind control of oceanic air by land: the land wake and its sensitivity to CO2. Environ. Res. Lett., 17, 104045, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ac9702.

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Quentin Nicolas, William R. Boos (2022). A theory for the response of tropical moist convection to mechanical orographic forcing. J. Atmos. Sci., 79, 1759-1777, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-21-0218.1.

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Nandini Ramesh, William R. Boos (2022). The unexpected oceanic peak in energy input to the atmosphere and its consequences for monsoon rainfall. Geophys. Res. Lett., 49, e2022GL099283, doi:10.1029/2022GL099283.

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L. Ruby Leung, William R. Boos, Jennifer L Catto, Charlotte DeMott, Gill M Martin, J. David Neelin, Travis A. O’Brien, Shaocheng Xie, Zhe Feng, Nicholas P. Klingaman, Yi-Hung Kuo, Robert W. Lee, Cristian Martinez-Villalobos, S. Vishnu, Matthew Priestley, Cheng Tao, Yang Zhou (2022). Exploratory precipitation metrics: spatiotemporal characteristics, process-oriented, and phenomena-based. J. Climate., 35, 3659-3686, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0590.1.

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William R. Boos, Salvatore Pascale (2021). Mechanical forcing of the North American monsoon by orography. Nature, 599, 611-615, doi:10.1038/s41586-021-03978-2.

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Matthew R. Igel, Paul A. Ullrich, William R. Boos (2021). Upper-tropospheric troughs and North American monsoon rainfall in a long-term track dataset. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 126, e2021JD034541, doi:10.1029/2021JD034541.

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Marysa M. Laguë, Abigail L. S. Swann, William R. Boos (2021). Radiative feedbacks on land surface change and associated tropical precipitation shifts. J. Climate, 34, 6651-6672, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0883.1.

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Rodrigo J. Bombardi, William R. Boos (2021). Explaining globally inhomogeneous future changes in monsoons using simple moist energy diagnostics. J. Climate, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-20-1012.1.

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Michael Diaz, William R. Boos (2021). The influence of surface heat fluxes on the growth of idealized monsoon depressions. J. Atmos. Sci., 78, 2013-2027, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-20-0359.1.

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Nandini Ramesh, Quentin Nicolas, William R. Boos (2021). The globally coherent pattern of autumn monsoon precipitation. J. Climate, 34, 5687-5705, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0740.1.

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Michael Diaz, William R. Boos (2021). Evolution of idealized vortices in monsoon-like shears: application to monsoon depressions. J. Atmos. Sci., 78, 1207-1225, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-20-0286.1.

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Paul A. O'Gorman, Ziwei Li, William R. Boos, Janni Yuval (2021). Response of extreme precipitation to uniform surface warming in quasi-global aquaplanet simulations at high resolution. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A, 379, 20190543. doi:10.1098/rsta.2019.0543.

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Nirupam Karmakar, William R. Boos, Vasubandhu Misra (2021). Influence of intraseasonal variability on the development of monsoon depressions. Geophys. Res. Lett., 48, e2020GL090425. doi:10.1029/2020GL090425.

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S. Vishnu, William R. Boos, Paul A. Ullrich, Travis A. O’Brien (2020). Assessing historical variability of South Asian monsoon lows and depressions with an optimized tracking algorithm. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 125, e2020JD032977. doi:10.1029/2020JD032977.

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Varun S. Murthy, William R. Boos (2020). Quasigeostrophic controls on precipitating ascent in monsoon depressions. J. Atmos. Sci., 77, 1213–1232, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-19-0202.1.

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Henry G. Peterson, William R. Boos (2020). Feedbacks and Eddy Diffusivity in an Energy Balance Model of Tropical Rainfall Shifts. npj Clim. Atmos. Sci., 3, doi:10.1038/s41612-020-0114-4.

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Michael Diaz, William R. Boos (2019). Monsoon depression amplification by moist barotropic instability in a vertically sheared environment. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 2019, 145, 2666-2684, doi:10.1002/qj.3585.

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Arthur D. Adams, William R. Boos, Eric T. Wolf (2019). Aquaplanet models on eccentric orbits: effects of the rotation rate on observables. Astronomical Journal, 2019, 157, 189(19pp), doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ab107f.

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Varun S. Murthy, William R. Boos (2019). Understanding the vertical structure of potential vorticity in tropical depressions. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 145, 1968-1991, doi:10.1002/qj.3539.

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Benjamin R. Lintner, William R. Boos (2019). Using atmospheric energy transport to quantitatively constrain South Pacific Convergence Zone shifts during ENSO. J. Climate, 2019, 32, 1839-1855, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0151.1.

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Michael Diaz, William R. Boos (2019). Barotropic growth of monsoon depressions. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 2019, 145, 824-844, doi:10.1002/qj.3467.

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Xavier J. Levine, William R. Boos (2018). Sensitivity of subtropical stationary circulations to global warming in climate models: a baroclinic Rossby gyre theory. Clim. Dyn., 2018, doi:10.1007/s00382-018-4419-5.

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Michela Biasutti, Aiko Voigt, William R. Boos, Pascale Braconnot, Julia C. Hargreaves, Sandy P. Harrison, Sarah M. Kang, Brian E. Mapes, Jacob S. Scheff, Courtney Schumacher, Adam H. Sobel, Shang-Ping Xie (2018). Global energetics and local physics as drivers of past, present and future monsoons. Nat. Geosci., 11, 392-400, doi:10.1038/s41561-018-0137-1.

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Varun S. Murthy, William R. Boos (2018). Role of surface enthalpy fluxes in idealized simulations of tropical depression spinup. J. Atmos. Sci., 75, 1811-1831, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-17-0119.1.

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Alexey V. Fedorov, Les Muir, William R. Boos, Joshua Studholme (2018). Tropical cyclogenesis in warm climates simulated by a cloud-system resolving model. Clim. Dyn., 2018, 52, 107-127, doi:10.1007/s00382-018-4134-2.

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S. Sandeep, R. S. Ajayamohan, William R. Boos, T. P. Sabin, V. Praveen (2018). Decline and poleward shift in Indian summer monsoon synoptic activity in a warming climate. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 115, 2681-2686, doi:10.1073/pnas.1709031115.

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Joseph G. Manning, Francis Ludlow, Alexander R. Stine, William R. Boos, Michael Sigl, Jennifer R. Marlon (2017). Volcanic suppression of Nile summer flooding triggers revolt and constrains interstate conflict in ancient Egypt. Nat. Commun., 8, doi:10.1038/s41467-017-00957-y.

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Shineng Hu, William R. Boos (2017). The physics of orographic elevated heating in radiative-convective equilibrium. J. Atmos. Sci., 2017, 74, 2949-2965, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-16-0312.1.

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Salvatore Pascale, William R. Boos, Simona Bordoni, Thomas L. Delworth, Sarah B. Kapnick, Hiroyuki Murakami, Gabriel A. Vecchi, Wei Zhang (2017). Weakening of the North American monsoon with global warming. Nat. Clim. Change, 7, 806-812, doi:10.1038/nclimate3412.

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Ravi Shekhar, William R. Boos (2017). Weakening and shifting of the Saharan shallow meridional circulation during wet years of the West African monsoon. J. Climate, 30, 7399-7422, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0696.1.

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C. Jessica E. Metcalf, Katharine S. Walter, Amy Wesolowski, Caroline O. Buckee, Elena Shevliakova, Andrew J. Tatem, William R. Boos, Daniel M. Weinberger, Virginia E. Pitzer (2017). Identifying climate drivers of infectious disease dynamics: recent advances and challenges ahead. Proc. R. Soc. B, 2017, 284, 20170901, doi:10.1098/rspb.2017.0901.

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Patrick Haertel, William R. Boos, Katherine Straub (2017). Origins of moist air in global Lagrangian simulations of the Madden–Julian Oscillation. Atmosphere, 2017, 8, 158.

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Patrick Haertel, William R. Boos (2017). Global association of the Madden-Julian Oscillation with monsoon lows and depressions. Geophys. Res. Lett., 2017, 44, 8065-8074.

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Jun Zhai, William R. Boos (2017). The drying tendency of shallow meridional circulations in monsoons. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 143, 2655-2664, doi:10.1002/qj.3091.

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Shineng Hu, William R. Boos (2017). Competing effects of surface albedo and orographic elevated heating on regional climate. Geophys. Res. Lett., 2017, 44, doi:10.1002/2016GL072441.

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Xavier J. Levine, William R. Boos (2017). Land surface albedo bias in climate models and its association with tropical rainfall. Geophys. Res. Lett., 2017, 44, doi:10.1002/2017GL072510.

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Naftali Y. Cohen, William R. Boos (2017). The influence of orographic Rossby and gravity waves on rainfall. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 2017, 143, 845-851.

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William R. Boos, Brian E. Mapes, Varun S. Murthy (2017). Potential vorticity structure and propagation mechanism of Indian monsoon depressions. The Global Monsoon System: Research and Forecast, 2017, 187-199.

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Xavier J. Levine, William R. Boos (2016). A mechanism for the response of the zonally asymmetric subtropical hydrologic cycle to global warming. J. Clim., 29, 7851-7867, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0826.1.

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Ravi Shekhar, William R. Boos (2016). Improving energy-based estimates of monsoon location in the presence of proximal deserts. J. Clim., 29, 4741-4761, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0747.1.

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William R. Boos, Trude Storelvmo (2016). Reply to Levermann et al.: Linear scaling for monsoons based on well-verified balance between adiabatic cooling and latent heat release. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 2016, 113, E2350-E2351, doi:10.1073/pnas.1603626113.

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William R. Boos, Trude Storelvmo (2016). Near-linear response of mean monsoon strength to a broad range of radiative forcings. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 2016, 113, 1510-1515, doi:10.1073/pnas.1517143113.

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William R. Boos, Robert L. Korty (2016). Regional energy budget control of the intertropical convergence zone and application to mid-Holocene rainfall. Nat. Geosci., 2016, 9, 892-897, doi:10.1038/ngeo2833.

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Naftali Y. Cohen, William R. Boos (2016). Perspectives on moist baroclinic instability: implications for the growth of monsoon depressions. J. Atmos. Sci., 2016, 73, 1767-1788, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-15-0254.1.

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Naftali Y. Cohen, William R. Boos (2016). Modulation of subtropical stratospheric gravity waves by equatorial rainfall. Geophys. Res. Lett., 2016, 43, 466-471, doi:10.1002/2015GL067028.

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William R. Boos, Alexey Fedorov, Les Muir (2016). Convective self-aggregation and tropical cyclogenesis under the hypohydrostatic rescaling. J. Atmos. Sci., 2016, 73, 525-544, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-15-0049.1.

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Sarah D. Ditchek, William R. Boos, Suzana J. Camargo, Michael K. Tippett (2016). A genesis index for monsoon disturbances. J. Clim., 2016, 29, 5189-5208, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0704.1.

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Hyo-Seok Park, Benjamin R. Lintner, William R. Boos, Kyong-Hwan Seo (2015). The effect of midlatitude transient eddies on monsoonal southerlies over eastern China. J. Clim., 28, 8450-8465, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0133.1.

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Jun Zhai, William R. Boos (2015). Regime transitions of cross-equatorial Hadley circulations with zonally asymmetric thermal forcings. J. Atmos. Sci., 72, 3800-3818, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-15-0025.1.

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William R. Boos (2015). A review of recent progress on Tibet’s role in the South Asian monsoon. CLIVAR Exchanges, 2015, 19, 23-27.

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William R. Boos, John V. Hurley, Varun S. Murthy (2015). Adiabatic westward drift of Indian monsoon depressions. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 2015, 141, 1035–1048, doi:10.1002/qj.2454.

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John V. Hurley, William R. Boos (2015). A global climatology of monsoon low-pressure systems. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 2015, 141, 1049-1064, doi:10.1002/qj.2447.

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Trude Storelvmo, William R. Boos, Nadja Herger (2014). Cirrus cloud seeding: A climate engineering mechanism with reduced side effects?. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. A, 372, 20140116, doi:10.1098/rsta.2014.0116.

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Ding Ma, William R. Boos, Zhiming Kuang (2014). Effects of orography and surface heat fluxes on the South Asian summer monsoon. J. Clim., 2014, 27, 6647-6659, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00138.1.

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Naftali Y. Cohen, William R. Boos (2014). Has the number of Indian summer monsoon depressions decreased over the last 30 years?. Geophys. Res. Lett, 2014, 41, 7846-7853, doi:10.1002/2014GL061895.

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William R. Boos, John V. Hurley (2013). Thermodynamic bias in the multimodel mean boreal summer monsoon. J. Clim., 2013, 26, 2279-2287, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00493.1.

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William R. Boos, Tiffany A. Shaw (2013). The effect of moist convection on the tropospheric response to tropical and subtropical zonally asymmetric torques. J. Atmos. Sci., 2013, 70, 4089-4111, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-13-041.1.

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William R. Boos, Zhiming Kuang (2013). Sensitivity of the South Asian monsoon to elevated and non-elevated heating.. Sci. Rep., 2013, 3, 1192, doi:10.1038/srep01192.

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John V. Hurley, William R. Boos (2013). Interannual variability of monsoon precipitation and local subcloud equivalent potential temperature. J. Clim., 2013, 26, 9507-9527, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00229.1.

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William R. Boos (2012). Thermodynamic scaling of the hydrological cycle of the last glacial maximum. J. Clim., 2012, 25, 992-1006, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00010.1.

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Tiffany A. Shaw, William R. Boos (2012). The Tropospheric Response to Tropical and Subtropical Zonally Asymmetric Torques: Analytical and Idealized Numerical Model Results. J. Atmos. Sci., 69, 214-235, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-11-0139.1.

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Aviv Solodoch, William R. Boos, Zhiming Kuang, Eli Tziperman (2011). Excitation of Intraseasonal Variability in the Equatorial Atmosphere by Yanai Wave Groups via WISHE-Induced Convection. J. Atmos. Sci., 68, 210-225, doi:10.1175/2010JAS3564.1.

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William R. Boos (2011). Cold winters from warm oceans. Nature, 2011, 471, 584-586.

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Ji Nie, William R. Boos, Zhiming Kuang (2010). Observational evaluation of a convective quasi-equilibrium view of monsoons. J. Clim., 23, 4416-4428, doi:10.1175/2010JCLI3505.1.

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Peter Molnar, William R. Boos, David S. Battisti (2010). Orographic Controls on Climate and Paleoclimate of Asia: Thermal and Mechanical Roles for the Tibetan Plateau. Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., 38, 77-102, doi:10.1146/annurev-earth-040809-152456.

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William R. Boos, Zhiming Kuang (2010). Mechanisms of Poleward Propagating, Intraseasonal Convective Anomalies in Cloud System–Resolving Models. J. Atmos. Sci., 67, 3673-3691, doi:10.1175/2010JAS3515.1.

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William R. Boos, Zhiming Kuang (2010). Dominant control of the South Asian monsoon by orographic insulation versus plateau heating.. Nature, 463, 218-222, doi:10.1038/nature08707.

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William R. Boos, Kerry A. Emanuel (2009). Annual intensification of the Somali jet in a quasi-equilibrium framework: Observational composites. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 135, 319-335, doi:10.1002/qj.388.

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William R. Boos, Kerry A. Emanuel (2008). Wind-evaporation feedback and the axisymmetric transition to angular momentum-conserving Hadley flow. J. Atmos. Sci., 65, 3758-3778, doi:10.1175/2008JAS2791.1.

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William R. Boos, Kerry A. Emanuel (2008). Wind-evaporation feedback and abrupt seasonal transitions of weak, axisymmetric Hadley circulations. J. Atmos. Sci., 2008, 65, 2194-2214.

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William R. Boos, Jeffery R. Scott, Kerry A. Emanuel (2004). Transient Diapycnal Mixing and the Meridional Overturning Circulation. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 34, 334-341, doi:10.1175/1520-0485(2004)034<0334:TDMATM>2.0.CO;2.

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