Boos Research Group

Publications

2026

Impact of continental configuration on the climate response to greenhouse-gas forcing in an idealized GCM

David B. Bonan, Marysa M. Laguë, William R. Boos
Geophysical Research Letters · 2026
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Quasi-periodic behavior of tropical cyclone precursors and its phase matching with the insolation diurnal cycle

Bolei Yang, Ji Nie, Zhe-Min Tan, Juan Fang, William R. Boos
Geophysical Research Letters · 2026
DOI for Quasi-periodic behavior of tropical cyclone precursors and its phase matching with the insolation diurnal cycle

2025

Impacts of the Large Seasonal Cycle of Upwelling Zone Sea Surface Temperatures on the Atmosphere

Nandini Ramesh, William R. Boos
Journal of Climate · 2025
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Upper bounds for 21st-century surface air temperatures in the Western United States

Mark D. Risser, Daniel R. Feldman, William R. Boos, Stefan Rahimi
Environmental Research Letters · 2025
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Co-occurring atmospheric features and their contributions to precipitation extremes

Wei-Ming Tsai, Suqin Duan, Travis A. O’Brien, Jennifer L. Catto, Paul A. Ullrich, Yang Zhou, L. Ruby Leung, Zhe Feng, William R. Boos, D. L. Suhas, Fiaz Ahmed, J. David Neelin
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres · 2025
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Internal oscillations of tropical mesoscale convective disturbances

Bolei Yang, William R. Boos, Zhe-Min Tan, Ji Nie
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences · 2025
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2024

Elevation-dependent warming: observations, models, and energetic mechanisms

Michael P. Byrne, William R. Boos, Shineng Hu
Weather and Climate Dynamics · 2024
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Identifying Atmospheric Rivers and their Poleward Latent Heat Transport with Generalizable Neural Networks: ARCNNv1

Ankur Mahesh, Travis O'Brien, Burlen Loring, Abdelrahman Elbashandy, William R. Boos, William Collins
Geoscientific Model Development · 2024
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Meteorological Drivers of North American Monsoon Extreme Precipitation Events

Shiheng Duan, Paul Ullrich, William R. Boos
Journal of Geophysical Research--Atmospheres · 2024
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Sensitivity of tropical orographic precipitation to wind speed with implications for future projections

Quentin Nicolas, William R. Boos
Weather and Climate Dynamics · 2024
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Understanding the spatio-temporal variability of tropical orographic rainfall using convective plume buoyancy

Quentin Nicolas, William R. Boos
Journal of Climate · 2024
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Automated Operational Forecasting of Monsoon Low Pressure Systems

D.L. Suhas, S. Vishnu, Salil Goyal, Sahadat Sarkar, Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay, Paul A. Ullrich, William R. Boos
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society · 2024
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Evaluating ensemble predictions of South Asian monsoon low pressure system genesis

D.L. Suhas, William R. Boos
Weather and Forecasting · 2024
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Forecasting Tropical Annual Maximum Wet-Bulb Temperatures Months in Advance from the Current State of El Niño

Yi Zhang, William R. Boos, Isaac M. Held, Christopher J. Paciorek, Stephan Fueglistaler
Geophysical Research Letters · 2024
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2023

The Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) Campaign

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
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society · 2023
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Continental drift shifts tropical rainfall by altering radiation and ocean heat transport

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
Science Advances · 2023
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Emergence of the modern global monsoon from the Pangaea megamonsoon set by palaeogeography

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
Nature Geoscience · 2023
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Continental configuration controls the base-state water vapor greenhouse effect: lessons from half-land, half-water planets

Marysa M. Laguë, Gregory R. Quetin, Sarah Ragen, William R. Boos
Climate Dynamics · 2023
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Reduced terrestrial evaporation increases atmospheric water vapor by generating cloud feedbacks

Marysa M. Laguë, Gregory R. Quetin, William R. Boos
Environmental Research Letters · 2023
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Regional tropical rainfall shifts under global warming: an energetic perspective

Paul A. Nicknish, John C. H. Chiang, Aixue Hu, William R. Boos
Environmental Research: Climate · 2023
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Influence of monsoon low pressure systems on South Asian disasters and implications for disaster prediction

D.L. Suhas, Nandini Ramesh, Ram M. Kripa, William R. Boos
npj Climate and Atmospheric Science · 2023
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Monsoon depression amplification by horizontal shear and humidity gradients: a shallow water perspective

D.L. Suhas, William R. Boos
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences · 2023
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Opposite changes in monsoon precipitation and low pressure system frequency in response to orographic forcing

Tresa M. Thomas, Govindasamy Bala, Srinivas V. Vemavarapu, William R. Boos
Journal of Climate · 2023
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Historical and future trends in South Asian monsoon low pressure systems in a high-resolution model ensemble

S. Vishnu, William R. Boos, William D. Collins
npj Climate and Atmospheric Science · 2023
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Observed increase in the peak rain rates of monsoon depressions

S. Vishnu, Mark D. Risser, Travis A. O’Brien, Paul A. Ullrich, William R. Boos
npj Climate and Atmospheric Science · 2023
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Mechanisms and impacts of Earth system tipping elements

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
Reviews of Geophysics · 2023
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An upper bound for extreme temperatures over midlatitude land

Yi Zhang, William R. Boos
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A. · 2023
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2022

Downwind control of oceanic air by land: the land wake and its sensitivity to CO2

Marysa M. Laguë, Gregory R. Quetin, William R. Boos
Environmental Research Letters · 2022
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Exploratory precipitation metrics: spatiotemporal characteristics, process-oriented, and phenomena-based

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
Journal of Climate · 2022
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A theory for the response of tropical moist convection to mechanical orographic forcing

Quentin Nicolas, William R. Boos
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences · 2022
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The unexpected oceanic peak in energy input to the atmosphere and its consequences for monsoon rainfall

Nandini Ramesh, William R. Boos
Geophysical Research Letters · 2022
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2021

Explaining globally inhomogeneous future changes in monsoons using simple moist energy diagnostics

Rodrigo J. Bombardi, William R. Boos
Journal of Climate · 2021
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Mechanical forcing of the North American monsoon by orography

William R. Boos, Salvatore Pascale
Nature · 2021
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Evolution of idealized vortices in monsoon-like shears: application to monsoon depressions

Michael Diaz, William R. Boos
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences · 2021
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The influence of surface heat fluxes on the growth of idealized monsoon depressions

Michael Diaz, William R. Boos
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences · 2021
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Upper-tropospheric troughs and North American monsoon rainfall in a long-term track dataset

Matthew R. Igel, Paul A. Ullrich, William R. Boos
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres · 2021
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Influence of intraseasonal variability on the development of monsoon depressions

Nirupam Karmakar, William R. Boos, Vasubandhu Misra
Geophysical Research Letters · 2021
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Radiative feedbacks on land surface change and associated tropical precipitation shifts

Marysa M. Laguë, Abigail L. S. Swann, William R. Boos
Journal of Climate · 2021
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Response of extreme precipitation to uniform surface warming in quasi-global aquaplanet simulations at high resolution

Paul A. O'Gorman, Ziwei Li, William R. Boos, Janni Yuval
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A · 2021
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The globally coherent pattern of autumn monsoon precipitation

Nandini Ramesh, Quentin Nicolas, William R. Boos
Journal of Climate · 2021
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2020

Quasigeostrophic controls on precipitating ascent in monsoon depressions

V. S. Murthy, W. R. Boos
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences · 2020
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Feedbacks and eddy diffusivity in an energy balance model of tropical rainfall shifts

H. G. Peterson, W. R. Boos
npj Climate and Atmospheric Science · 2020
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Assessing historical variability of South Asian monsoon lows and depressions with an optimized tracking algorithm

S. Vishnu, W. R. Boos, P. A. Ullrich, T. A. O'Brien
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres · 2020
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2019

Aquaplanet models on eccentric orbits --- effects of rotation rate on observables

A. D. Adams, W. R. Boos, E. T. Wolf
Astronomical Journal · 2019
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Barotropic growth of monsoon depressions

M. Diaz, W. R. Boos
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society · 2019
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Using atmospheric energy transport to quantitatively constrain South Pacific Convergence Zone shifts during ENSO

B. R. Lintner, W. R. Boos
Journal of Climate · 2019
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Monsoon depression amplification by moist barotropic instability in a vertically sheared environment

M. Diaz, W. R. Boos
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society · 2019
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Understanding the vertical structure of potential vorticity in tropical depressions

V. S. Murthy, W. R. Boos
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society · 2019
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2018

Global energetics and local physics as drivers of past, present and future monsoons

M. Biasutti, A. Voigt, W. R. Boos, P. Braconnot, J. C. Hargreaves, S. P. Harrison, S. M. Kang, B. E. Mapes, J. Scheff, C. Schumacher, A. H. Sobel, S.-P. Xie
Nature Geoscience · 2018
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Tropical cyclogenesis in warm climates simulated by a cloud-system resolving model

A. V. Fedorov, L. Muir, W. R. Boos, J. Studholme
Climate Dynamics · 2018
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Sensitivity of subtropical stationary circulations to global warming in climate models: a baroclinic Rossby gyre theory

X. J. Levine, W. R. Boos
Climate Dynamics · 2018
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Role of surface enthalpy fluxes in idealized simulations of tropical depression spinup

V. S. Murthy, W. R. Boos
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences · 2018
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Decline and poleward shift in Indian summer monsoon synoptic activity in a warming climate

S. Sandeep, R. S. Ajayamohan, W. R. Boos, T. P. Sabin, V. Praveen
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A. · 2018
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2017

Potential vorticity structure and propagation mechanism of Indian monsoon depressions

William R. Boos, Brian E. Mapes, Varun S. Murthy
The Global Monsoon System · 2017
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The influence of orographic Rossby and gravity waves on rainfall

N. Y. Cohen, W. R. Boos
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society · 2017
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Global association of the Madden-Julian Oscillation with monsoon lows and depressions

P. T. Haertel, W. R. Boos
Geophysical Research Letters · 2017
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Origins of moist air in global Lagrangian simulations of the Madden-Julian Oscillation

P. T. Haertel, W. R. Boos, K. Straub
Atmosphere · 2017
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Competing effects of surface albedo and orographic elevated heating on regional climate

S. Hu, W. R. Boos
Geophysical Research Letters · 2017
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The physics of orographic elevated heating in radiative-convective equilibrium

S. Hu, W. R. Boos
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences · 2017
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Land surface albedo bias in climate models and its association with tropical rainfall

X. J. Levine, W. R. Boos
Geophysical Research Letters · 2017
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Volcanic suppression of Nile summer flooding triggers revolt and constrains interstate conflict in ancient Egypt

J. G. Manning, F. Ludlow, A. R. Stine, W. R. Boos, M. Sigl, J. Marlon
Nature Communications · 2017
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Identifying climate drivers of infectious disease dynamics: recent advances and challenges ahead

C. J. E. Metcalf, K. S. Walter, A. Wesolowski, C. O. Buckee, E. Shevliakova, A. J. Tatem, W. R. Boos, D. M. Weinberger, V. E. Pitzer
Proceedings of the Royal Society B · 2017
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Weakening of the North American monsoon with global warming

S. Pascale, W. R. Boos, S. Bordoni, T. L. Delworth, S. B. Kapnick, H. Murakami, G. A. Vecchi, W. Zhang
Nature Climate Change · 2017
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Weakening and shifting of the Saharan shallow meridional circulation during wet years of the West African monsoon

R. Shekhar, W. R. Boos
Journal of Climate · 2017
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The drying tendency of shallow meridional circulations in monsoons

J. Zhai, W. R. Boos
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society · 2017
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2016

Near-linear response of mean monsoon strength to a broad range of radiative forcings

W. R. Boos, T. Storelvmo
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A. · 2016
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Convective self-aggregation and tropical cyclogenesis under the hypohydrostatic rescaling

W. R. Boos, A. V. Fedorov, L. Muir
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences · 2016
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Regional energy budget control of the intertropical convergence zone and application to mid-Holocene rainfall

W. R. Boos, R. L. Korty
Nature Geoscience · 2016
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Reply to Levermann et al.: Linear scaling for monsoons based on well-verified balance between adiabatic cooling and latent heat release

W. R. Boos, T. Storelvmo
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2016
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Modulation of subtropical stratospheric gravity waves by equatorial rainfall

N. Y. Cohen, W. R. Boos
Geophysical Research Letters · 2016
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Perspectives on moist baroclinic instability: implications for the growth of monsoon depressions

N. Y. Cohen, W. R. Boos
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences · 2016
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A genesis index for monsoon disturbances

S. D. Ditchek, W. R. Boos, S. J. Camargo, M. K. Tippett
Journal of Climate · 2016
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Improving energy-based estimates of monsoon location in the presence of proximal deserts

R. Shekhar, W. R. Boos
Journal of Climate · 2016
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A mechanism for the response of the zonally asymmetric subtropical hydrologic cycle to global warming

X. J. Levine, W. R. Boos
Journal of Climate · 2016
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2015

A review of recent progress on Tibet's role in the South Asian monsoon

William R. Boos
CLIVAR Exchanges Special Issue on Monsoons · 2015
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Adiabatic westward drift of Indian monsoon depressions

W. R. Boos, J. V. Hurley, V. S. Murthy
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society · 2015
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A global climatology of monsoon low pressure systems

J. V. Hurley, W. R. Boos
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society · 2015
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The effect of mid-latitude transient eddies on monsoonal southerlies over East China

H.-S. Park, B. R. Lintner, W. R. Boos, K.-H. Seo
Journal of Climate · 2015
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Regime transitions of cross-equatorial Hadley circulations with zonally asymmetric thermal forcings

J. Zhai, W. R. Boos
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences · 2015
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2014

Has the number of Indian summer monsoon depressions decreased over the last thirty years?

N. Y. Cohen, W. R. Boos
Geophysical Research Letters · 2014
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Effects of orography and surface heat fluxes on the South Asian Summer Monsoon

D. Ma, W. R. Boos, Z. Kuang
Journal of Climate · 2014
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Cirrus cloud seeding: a climate engineering mechanism with reduced side effects?

T. Storelvmo, W. R. Boos, N. Herger
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A · 2014
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2013

Sensitivity of the South Asian monsoon to elevated and non-elevated heating

W. R. Boos, Z. Kuang
Scientific Reports · 2013
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The effect of moist convection on the tropospheric response to tropical and subtropical zonally asymmetric torques

W. R. Boos, T. A. Shaw
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences · 2013
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Thermodynamic bias in the multi-model mean boreal summer monsoon

W. R. Boos, J. V. Hurley
Journal of Climate · 2013
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Interannual variability of monsoon precipitation and local subcloud equivalent potential temperature

J. V. Hurley, W. R. Boos
Journal of Climate · 2013
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2012

The tropospheric response to tropical and subtropical zonally-asymmetric torques: Analytical and idealized numerical model results

T. A. Shaw, W. R. Boos
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences · 2012
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Thermodynamic scaling of the hydrological cycle of the last glacial maximum

W. R. Boos
Journal of Climate · 2012
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2011

Cold winters from warm oceans

W. R. Boos
Nature News & Views · 2011
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Excitation of intraseasonal variability in the equatorial atmosphere by Yanai Wave Groups via WISHE-Induced convection

A. Solodoch, W. R. Boos, Z. Kuang, E. Tziperman
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences · 2011
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2010

Dominant control of the South Asian monsoon by orographic insulation versus plateau heating

W. R. Boos, Z. Kuang
Nature · 2010
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Mechanisms of poleward-propagating, intraseasonal convective anomalies in cloud-system resolving models

W. R. Boos, Z. Kuang
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences · 2010
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Orographic controls on climate and paleoclimate of Asia: thermal and mechanical roles for the Tibetan Plateau

P. Molnar, W. R. Boos, D. S. Battisti
Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences · 2010
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Observational evaluation of a convective quasi-equilibrium view of monsoons

J. Nie, W. R. Boos, Z. Kuang
Journal of Climate · 2010
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2009

Annual intensification of the Somali jet in a quasi-equilibrium framework: observational composites

W. R. Boos, K. A. Emanuel
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society · 2009
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2008

Wind-evaporation feedback and the axisymmetric transition to angular momentum conserving flow

W. R. Boos, K. A. Emanuel
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences · 2008
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Wind-evaporation feedback and abrupt seasonal transitions of weak, axisymmetric Hadley circulations

W. R. Boos, K. A. Emanuel
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences · 2008
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2004

Transient diapycnal mixing and the meridional overturning circulation

W. R. Boos, J. R. Scott, K. A. Emanuel
Journal of Physical Oceanography · 2004
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