Duran, B. M., Wall, C. J., Lutsko, N. J., Michibata, T., Ma, P.-L., Qin, Y., Duffy, M. L., Medeiros, B., & Debolskiy, M. (2025). A new method for diagnosing effective radiative forcing from aerosol–cloud interactions in climate models. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 25(4), 2123–2146. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-2123-2025

Zhang, P., Xie, S.-P., Kosaka, Y., Lutsko, N. J., Okumura, Y. M., & Miyamoto, A. (2024). Why East Asian monsoon anomalies are more robust in post El Niño than in post La Niña summers. Nature Communications, 15(1), 7401. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-51885-7

Vishny, D. N., Wall, C. J., & Lutsko, N. J. (2024). Impact of Atmospheric Cloud Radiative Effects on Annular Mode Persistence in Idealized Simulations. Geophysical Research Letters, 51(15), e2024GL109420. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL109420

Lutsko, N. J., & Cronin, T. W. (2024). The Transition to Double‐Celled Circulations in Mock‐Walker Simulations. Geophysical Research Letters, 51(14), e2024GL108945. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL108945

Tuckman, P. J., Smyth, J., Lutsko, N. J., & Marshall, J. (2024). The Zonal Seasonal Cycle of Tropical Precipitation: Introducing the Indo-Pacific Monsoonal Mode. Journal of Climate, 37(14), 3807–3824. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0125.1

Nazarian, R. H., Brizuela, N. G., Matijevic, B. J., Vizzard, J. V., Agostino, C. P., & Lutsko, N. J. (2024). Projected Changes in Mean and Extreme Precipitation over Northern Mexico. Journal of Climate, 37(8), 2405–2422. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0390.1

Beucler, T., Gentine, P., Yuval, J., Gupta, A., Peng, L., Lin, J., Yu, S., Rasp, S., Ahmed, F., O’Gorman, P. A., Neelin, J. D., Lutsko, N. J., & Pritchard, M. (2024). Climate-invariant machine learning. Science Advances, 10(6), eadj7250. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adj7250

Zhang, P., Xie, S.-P., Kosaka, Y., & Lutsko, N. J. (2024). Non-ENSO Precursors for Northwestern Pacific Summer Monsoon Variability with Implications for Predictability. Journal of Climate, 37(1), 199–212. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0169.1

Lutsko, N. J., Martinez-Claros, J., & Koll, D. D. B. (2024). Atmospheric Moisture Decreases Midlatitude Eddy Kinetic Energy. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 81(11), 1817–1832. https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-23-0226.1

Henry, M., Vallis, G. K., Lutsko, N. J., Seeley, J. T., & McKim, B. A. (2023). State‐Dependence of the Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity in a Clear‐Sky GCM. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(23), e2023GL104413. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL104413

Beck, H. E., McVicar, T. R., Vergopolan, N., Berg, A., Lutsko, N. J., Dufour, A., Zeng, Z., Jiang, X., Van Dijk, A. I. J. M., & Miralles, D. G. (2023). High-resolution (1 km) Köppen-Geiger maps for 1901–2099 based on constrained CMIP6 projections. Scientific Data, 10(1), 724. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02549-6

Ricke, K., Wan, J. S., Saenger, M., & Lutsko, N. J. (2023). Hydrological Consequences of Solar Geoengineering. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 51(1), annurev-earth-031920-083456. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-earth-031920-083456

Koll, D. D. B., Jeevanjee, N., & Lutsko, N. J. (2023). An Analytic Model for the Clear-Sky Longwave Feedback. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 80(8), 1923–1951. https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-22-0178.1

Lutsko, N. J., Luongo, M. T., Wall, C. J., & Myers, T. A. (2022). Correlation Between Cloud Adjustments and Cloud Feedbacks Responsible for Larger Range of Climate Sensitivities in CMIP6. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 127(23). https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JD037486

Neumann, N. K., & Lutsko, N. J. (2022). Continental Geometry’s Role in Shaping Wintertime Temperature Variance. Journal of Climate, 35(24), 4449–4464. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0925.1

Wall, C. J., Norris, J. R., Possner, A., McCoy, D. T., McCoy, I. L., & Lutsko, N. J. (2022). Assessing effective radiative forcing from aerosol–cloud interactions over the global ocean. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(46), e2210481119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2210481119

Wall, C. J., Lutsko, N. J., & Vishny, D. N. (2022). Revisiting Cloud Radiative Heating and the Southern Annular Mode. Geophysical Research Letters, 49(19), 9. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022gl100463

Nazarian, R. H., Vizzard, J. V., Agostino, C. P., & Lutsko, N. J. (2022). Projected Changes in Future Extreme Precipitation over the Northeast US in the NA-CORDEX Ensemble. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-22-0008.1

Zhang, P., & Lutsko, N. J. (2022). Seasonal Superrotation in Earth’s Troposphere. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 79(12), 3297–3314. https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-22-0066.1

Lutsko, N. J., & Hell, M. C. (2021). Moisture and the persistence of annular modes. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 78(12), 3951–3964. https://doi.org/10.1175/jas-d-21-0055.1

England, M. R., Eisenman, I., Lutsko, N. J., & Wagner, T. J. W. (2021). The recent emergence of Arctic Amplification. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(15), 10. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021gl094086

Jeevanjee, N., Koll, D. D. B., & Lutsko, N. (2021). “Simpson’s Law” and the Spectral Cancellation of Climate Feedbacks. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(14). https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL093699

Lutsko, N. J., Popp, M., Nazarian, R. H., & Albright, A. L. (2021). Emergent constraints on regional cloud feedbacks. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(10), 11. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021gl092934

Hell, M. C., Cornuelle, B. D., Gille, S. T., & Lutsko, N. J. (2021). Time-Varying Empirical Probability Densities of Southern Ocean Surface Winds: Linking the Leading Mode to SAM and QuantifyingWind Product Differences. Journal of Climate, 1–80. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0629.1

Henry, M., Merlis, T. M., Lutsko, N. J., & Rose, B. E. J. (2021). Decomposing the drivers of polar amplification with a single-column model. Journal of Climate, 34(6), 2355–2365. https://doi.org/10.1175/jcli-d-20-0178.1

Lutsko, N. J. (2021). The relative contributions of temperature and moisture to heat stress changes under warming. Journal of Climate, 34(3), 901–917. https://doi.org/10.1175/jcli-d-20-0262.1

Seeley, J. T., Lutsko, N. J., & Keith, D. W. (2021). Designing a radiative antidote to CO2. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(1). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020gl090876

Popp, M., Lutsko, N. J., & Bony, S. (2020). Weaker links between zonal convective clustering and ITCZ width in climate models than in observations. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(22). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020gl090479

Popp, M., Lutsko, N. J., & Bony, S. (2020). The relationship between convective clustering and mean tropical climate in aquaplanet simulations. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 12(8). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020ms002070

Lutsko, N. J. (2020). Testing the Limits and Breakdown of the Nonacceleration Theorem for Orographic Stationary Waves. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 77(5), 1513–1529. https://doi.org/10.1175/jas-d-19-0310.1

Lutsko, N. J., Seeley, J. T., & Keith, D. W. (2020). Estimating impacts and trade-offs in solar geoengineering scenarios with a moist energy balance model. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(9). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020gl087290

Lutsko, N. J., Baldwin, J. W., & Cronin, T. W. (2019). The Impact of Large-Scale Orography on Northern Hemisphere Winter Synoptic Temperature Variability. Journal of Climate, 32(18), 5799–5814. https://doi.org/10.1175/jcli-d-19-0129.1

Lutsko, N. J., & Popp, M. (2019). Probing the sources of uncertainty in transient warming on different timescales. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(20), 11367–11377. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019gl084018

Lutsko, N. J., Marshall, J., & Green, B. (2019). Modulation of Monsoon Circulations by Cross-Equatorial Ocean Heat Transport. Journal of Climate, 32(12), 3471–3485. https://doi.org/10.1175/jcli-d-18-0623.1

Lutsko, N. J., & Cronin, T. W. (2018). Increase in Precipitation Efficiency With Surface Warming in Radiative-Convective Equilibrium. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 10(11), 2992–3010. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018ms001482

Lutsko, N. J. (2018). The Relationship Between Cloud Radiative Effect and Surface Temperature Variability at El Nino-Southern Oscillation Frequencies in CMIP5 Models. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(19), 10599–10608. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018gl079236

Lutsko, N. J., & Popp, M. (2018). The Influence of Meridional Gradients in Insolation and Longwave Optical Depth on the Climate of a Gray Radiation GCM. Journal of Climate, 31(19), 7803–7822. https://doi.org/10.1175/jcli-d-18-0103.1

Lutsko, N. J., & Takahashi, K. (2018). What Can the Internal Variability of CMIP5 Models Tell Us about Their Climate Sensitivity? Journal of Climate, 31(13), 5051–5069. https://doi.org/10.1175/jcli-d-17-0736.1

Lutsko, N. J. (2018). The Response of an Idealized Atmosphere to Localized Tropical Heating: Superrotation and the Breakdown of Linear Theory. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 75(1), 3–20. https://doi.org/10.1175/jas-d-17-0192.1

Lutsko, N. J., Held, I. M., Zurita-Gotor, P., & O’Rourke, A. K. (2017). Lower-Tropospheric Eddy Momentum Fluxes in Idealized Models and Reanalysis Data. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 74(11), 3787–3797. https://doi.org/10.1175/jas-d-17-0099.1

Popp, M., & Lutsko, N. J. (2017). Quantifying the Zonal-Mean Structure of Tropical Precipitation. Geophysical Research Letters, 44(18), 9470–9478. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017gl075235

Lutsko, N. J., & Held, I. M. (2016). The Response of an Idealized Atmosphere to Orographic Forcing: Zonal versus Meridional Propagation. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 73(9), 3701–3718. https://doi.org/10.1175/jas-d-16-0021.1

Lutsko, N. J., Held, I. M., & Zurita-Gotor, P. (2015). Applying the Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem to a Two-Layer Model of Quasigeostrophic Turbulence. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 72(8), 3161–3177. https://doi.org/10.1175/jas-d-14-0356.1