Dr. Laura M. Ciasto I am currently employed at NOAA NWS Climate Prediction Center and INNOVIM, LLC. For updated copies of my CV or publications, please contact me at laura.ciasto(at)noaa.gov.
Research Interests
North Atlantic Climate Variability
ENSO and Tropical Pacific Teleconnections to the Extratropics
Evaluation of Model Spread in CMIP
Extratropical Air-Sea Interaction
CV(Last Updated: July 2016) Submitted or To Be Submitted Manuscripts
Turney, C., C. Fogwill, J. Palmer, E. van Sebille, Z. Thomas, M. McGlone, S. Richardson, J. Wilmshurst, P. Fenwick, V. Zunz, H. Goose, K. J. Wilson, L. Carter, M. Lipson, R. Jones, M. Harsch, G. Clark, E. Marzinellli, T. Rogers, E. Rainsley, L. M. Ciasto , S. Waterman, and Australasian Antarctic Expedition 2013-2014 Members, 2016: 140-year Tree-Ring Record of Climate Variability across the Subantarctic Pacific Ocean. Submitted to Nature Communications.
Refereed Publications
Ciasto, L. M., C. Li, J. Wettstein, and N. G. Kvamstð, 2016: North Atlantic storm track sensitivity to projected sea surface temperatures: local versus remote influences. Accepted to Journal of Climate. preprint
Schemm, S., L. M. Ciasto , C. Li, and N. G. Kvamstð, 2016: Influence of Tropical Pacific Sea Surface Temperature on the Genesis of Gulf Stream Cyclones. Accepted to Journal of Atmospheric Science. preprint
Wills, Samantha M., David W. J. Thompson and L. M. Ciasto , 2016: On the Observed Relationships between Variability in North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperatures and the Atmospheric Circulation. J. Climate, 29, 3719-3730. reprint
Ciasto, L. M., G. R. Simpkins, and M. H. England, 2015: Teleconnections between Tropical Pacific SST Anomalies and the Extratropical Southern Hemisphere Climate. J. Climate, 28, 56ð65. reprint
Simpkins, G. R., S. MacGregor, S., A. S. Taschetto, L. M. Ciasto, , and M. H. England, 2014: Tropical Connections to Climatic Change in the Extratropical Southern Hemisphere: The Role of Atlantic SST Trends. J. Climate, 27, 4923-4936. reprint
Simpkins, G. R., Ciasto, L. M., and M. H. England, 2013: Observed variations in multi-decadal Antarctic sea ice trends during 1979-2012. Geophys. Res. Lett., 40 , 3643ð3648, doi:10.1002/grl.50715. reprint
Simpkins, G. R., Ciasto, L. M., D. W. J. Thompson and M. H. England, 2012: Observed Relationships between Large-Scale Climate Variability and Antarctic Sea Ice Concentration. J. Climate, 25, 5451ð5469. reprint
Ciasto, L. M., and M. H. England, 2011: Observed ENSO Teleconnections to Southern Ocean SST Anomalies Diagnosed from a Surface Mixed Layer Heat Budget. Geophys. Res. Lett., 38 , L09701 doi:10.1029/2011GL046895. reprint
Ciasto, L. M., M. A. Alexander, C. Deser, and M. H. England, 2011: On the persistence of cold season SST anomalies associated with the Annular Modes. J. Climate, 24 , 2500-2515. reprint
Ciasto, L. M., and D. W. J. Thompson, 2009: Observational evidence of reemergence in the extratropical Southern Hemisphere. J. Climate, 22, 1446-1453. reprint
Ciasto, L. M., and D. W. J. Thompson, 2008: Observations of large-scale ocean-atmosphere interaction in the Southern Hemisphere. J. Climate, 21, 1244-1259. reprint
Ciasto, L. M., and D. W. J. Thompson, 2004: North Atlantic atmosphere-ocean interaction on intraseasonal time scales. J. Climate, 17, 1617-1621. reprint
