Submitted
Refereed Publications
Refereed Publications
- Nnamchi, H.C., M. Latif, N. S. Keenlyside, J. Kjellsson, and I. Richter, 2021: Diabatic heating governs the seasonality of the Atlantic Niño. Nat Commun 12, 376. [abstract]
- Richter, I., and H. Tokinaga, 2021: The Atlantic zonal mode: Dynamics, thermodynamics, and teleconnections. In: Behera SK (eds) Tropical and extra-tropical air-sea interactions. Elsevier. ISBN: 9780128181560 [abstract] [final manuscript]
- Oettli P., C. Yuan, I. Richter, 2020: The Other Coastal Niño/Niña—the Benguela, California and Dakar Niños/Niñas. In: Behera SK (eds) Tropical and extra-tropical air-sea interactions. Elsevier. ISBN: 9780128181560 [abstract]
- Richter, I., P. Chang, and X. Liu, 2020: Impact of Systematic GCM Errors on Prediction Skill as Estimated by Linear Inverse Modeling, Journal of Climate, 33, 10073-10095. [abstract]
- Richter, I., H. Tokinaga, 2020: An overview of the performance of CMIP6 models in the tropical Atlantic: mean state, variability, and remote impacts. Clim. Dyn. 55, 2579–2601. [abstract]
- Tokinaga, H., I. Richter, and Y. Kosaka, 2019: ENSO Influence on the Atlantic Niño, Revisited: Multi-Year versus Single-Year ENSO Events. Journal of Climate 32, 14, 4585-4600, doi:https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0683.1
- Richter, I., and T. Doi, 2019: Estimating the Role of SST in Atmospheric Surface Wind Variability over the Tropical Atlantic and Pacific. Journal of Climate 32, 13, 3899-3915. doi:https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0468.1
- Lübbecke, J.F., P. Brandt, M. Dengler, R. Kopte, J. Lüdke, I. Richter, M. S. Martins, P. C. M. Tchipalanga, 2019: Causes and evolution of the southeastern tropical Atlantic warm event in early 2016. Clim Dyn 53, 261–274 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-018-4582-8
- Foltz, G. R., P. Brandt, I. Richter, et al., 2019: The tropical Atlantic observing system. Front Mar Sci 6:206. doi:https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00206
- Lübbecke, J. F., B. Rodríguez‐Fonseca, I. Richter, M. Martín‐Rey, T. Losada, I. Polo, and N. S. Keenlyside, 2018: Equatorial Atlantic variability—Modes, mechanisms, and global teleconnections. WIREs Clim Change. 9:e527. doi:10.1002/wcc.527 [abstract]
- Maraun, D., T. Shepherd, M. Widmann, G. Zappa, D. Walton, J. M. Gutiérrez, S. Hagemann, I. Richter, P. M. M. Soares, A. Hall, and L. O. Mearns, 2017: Towards process-informed bias correction of climate change simulations. Nature Clim Change 7, 764–773. doi:10.1038/nclimate3418 [abstract]
- Richter, I., T. Doi, S. Behera, and N. Keenlyside, 2018: On the link between mean state biases and prediction skill in the tropics: an atmospheric perspective. Clim. Dyn., 50, 3355-3374.[abstract] [final manuscript]
- Richter, I., S.-P. Xie, Y. Morioka, T. Doi, B. Taguchi, and S. Behera, 2016: Phase locking of equatorial Atlantic variability through the seasonal migration of the ITCZ. Clim. Dyn., doi:10.1007/s00382-016-3289-y [abstract] [final manuscript]
- Zuidema, P., P. Chang, B. Medeiros, B. Kirtman, R. Mechoso, E. Schneider, T. Toniazzo, I. Richter, J. Small, K. Bellomo, P. Brandt, S. de Szoeke, T. Farrar, E. Jung, S. Kato, M. Li, C. Patricola, Z. Wang, R. Wood, and Z. Xu, 2016: Challenges and prospects for reducing coupled climate model SST biases in the eastern tropical Atlantic and Pacific oceans: The US CLIVAR Eastern Tropical Oceans Synthesis Working Group. Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00274.1
- Richter, I., P. Chang, Z. Xu, T. Doi, T. Kataoka, M. Nagura, Pascal Oettli, S. de Szoeke, and T. Tozuka, 2016: An overview of coupled GCM performance in the tropics. in Indo-Pacific Climate Variability and Predictability (Vol. 8), T. Yamagata and S. K. Behera, eds., [abstract] [final manuscript]
- Richter, I., 2015: Climate model biases in the eastern tropical oceans: causes, impacts and ways forward. WIREs Climate Change, doi: 10.1002/wcc.338 [abstract] [final manuscript]
- Xu, Z., P. Chang, I. Richter, and W. Kim, 2014: Diagnosing southeast tropical Atlantic SST and ocean circulation biases in the CMIP5 ensemble. Clim. Dyn., 43, 3123-3145. doi: 10.1007/s00382-014-2247-9 [abstract] [final manuscript]
- Richter, I., S. K. Behera, T. Doi, B. Taguchi, Y. Masumoto, and S.-P. Xie, 2014: What controls equatorial Atlantic winds in boreal spring? Clim. Dyn., 43, 3091-3104. doi: 10.1007/s00382-014-2170-0 [abstract] [final manuscript]
- Richter, I., S.-P. Xie, S. K. Behera, T. Doi, and Y. Masumoto, 2012: Equatorial Atlantic variability and its relation to mean state biases in CMIP5. Clim. Dyn., doi: 10.1007/s00382-012-1624-5 [abstract] [final manuscript]
- Richter, I., S. K. Behera, Y. Masumoto, B. Taguchi, H. Sasaki, and T. Yamagata, 2012: Multiple causes of interannual sea surface temperature variability in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean. Nature Geosci., doi: 10.1038/NGEO1660 [abstract]
- Richter, I., S.-P. Xie, A. T. Wittenberg, and Y. Masumoto, 2012: Tropical Atlantic biases and their relation to surface wind stress and terrestrial precipitation. Clim. Dyn., 38, 985-1001. doi: 10.1007/s00382-011-1038-9. [abstract] [final manuscript]
- Richter, I., S. K. Behera, Y. Masumoto, B. Taguchi, N. Komori, and T. Yamagata, 2010: On the triggering of Benguela Niños: Remote equatorial versus local influences. Geophys. Res. Lett., 37(L20604). doi:10.1029/2010GL044461 [abstract] [pdf]
- Richter, I., and S.-P. Xie, 2010: Moisture transport from the Atlantic to the Pacific basin and its response to North Atlantic cooling and global warming. Clim. Dyn., 35, 551-566, doi:10.1007/s00382-009-0708-3. [abstract] [final manuscript]
- Richter, I., and S.-P. Xie, 2008: Muted precipitation increase in global warming simulations: A surface evaporation perspective. J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos., 113, D24118, doi:10.1029/2008JD010561. [abstract] [pdf]
- Richter, I., and S.-P. Xie, 2008: On the origin of equatorial Atlantic biases in coupled general circulation models. Clim. Dyn., 31, 587-598. doi:10.1007/s00382-008-0364-z [abstract] [final manuscript]
- Richter, I., C. R. Mechoso, and A. W. Robertson, 2008: What Determines the Position and Intensity of the South Atlantic Anticyclone in Austral Winter?—An AGCM Study. J. Climate, 21, 214–229. [abstract] [pdf]
- Richter, I., and C. R. Mechoso, 2006: Orographic influences on subtropical stratocumulus, J. Atmos. Sci., 63, 2585–2601. [abstract] [pdf]
- Richter, I., and C. R. Mechoso, 2004: Orographic influences on the annual cycle of Namibian stratocumulus clouds, Geophysical Research Letters, 31, L24108, doi:10.1029/2004GL020814 [abstract] [pdf]
- Oltchev, A., A. Ibrom, J. Constantin, M. Falk, I. Richter, K. Morgenstern, Y. Joo, H. Kreilein, and G. Gravenhorst, 1998: Stomatal and surface conductance of a spruce forest: model simulation and field measurements. J. Phys. Chem. Earth, 23, 453-458 [abstract]