Publications by members of this group are organized by category and may be downloaded in pdf format. You can also obtain a paper copy by e-mailing Alex Hall , or sending your request to: Prof. Alex Hall, UCLA Dep't of Atmospheric Sciences, Box 95156, Los Angeles, CA 90095

conference proceedings and seminars

Global Climate

Hall A., X. Qu, and J. D. Neelin (2008), Improving predictions of summer climate change in the United States, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L01702, doi:10.1029/2007GL032012. download

Qu X, Hall A (2007) What controls the strength of snow albedo feedback? J. Clim. 20: 3971-3981, DOI:10.1175/JCLI4186.1 download

Bony et al. (2006) How well do we understand climate change feedback processes? J. Clim. 19:3445–3482, DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3819.1 download

Qu X, Hall A (2006) Assessing snow albedo feedback in simulated climate change. J. Clim. 19: 2617-2630 download

Hall A and Qu X (2006) Using the current seasonal cycle to constrain snow albedo feedback in future climate change. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L03502, DOI: 10.1029/2005GL025127. download

Qu X, Hall A (2005) Surface contribution to planetary albedo variability in cryosphere regions. J. Clim. 18: 5239-5252. download

Medeiros B, Hall A, Stevens B (2005) What controls the mean depth of the PBL? J. Clim. 18: 3157-3172. download

Hall A, Clement A, Thompson DWJ, Broccoli AJB, Jackson C (2005) The importance of atmospheric dynamics in the northern hemisphere wintertime climate response to changes in earth's orbit. J. Clim. 18: 1315–1325. download

Clement A, Hall A, Broccoli A (2004) The importance of precessional signals in the tropical climate. Clim. Dyn. 22: 327-341. download

Hall A (2004) Role of surface albedo feedback in climate. J. Clim. 17: 1550-1568. download

Hall A, Stouffer RJ, Wetherald RW, Liou KN, Shih C (2004) What controls the amplitude and phase of the extratropical seasonal cycle? submitted to J. Clim. download

Visbeck M, Hall A (2004) Interannual Southern Hemisphere Atmospheric Variability in the NCEP reanalysis between 1980 and 2002. J Clim, 17: 2255-2258. download

Hall A. (2003) Mathematical Models of Human-Induced Climate Change, in Mathematical Models , edited by Jerzy Filar, in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), Developed under the auspices of the UNESCO, EOLSS Publishers, Oxford, UK.   download

Hall A, Visbeck M (2002) Synchronous Variability in the Southern Hemisphere Atmosphere, Sea Ice, and Ocean Resulting from the Annular Mode. J Clim. 15: 3043-3057. download

Hall A, Stouffer RJ (2001) An Extreme Climate Event in a Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Simulation without External Forcing. Nature. 409:171-174. download

Hall A, Manabe S (2000) ENSO Suppression in a Coupled Model Without Water Vapor Feedback. Clim. Dyn. 16: 393-403. download

Hall A, Manabe S (2000) The Effect of Water Vapor Feedback on Internal and Anthropogenic Variations of the Global Hydrologic Cycle. J. Geophys. Res. 105(D5): 6935-6944. download

Hall A, Manabe S (1999) The Role of Water Vapor Feedback in Unperturbed Climate Variability and Global Warming. J. Clim. 12: 2327-2346 download

Hall A, Manabe S (1997) Can Local, Linear Stochastic Theory Explain Sea Surface Temperature and Salinity Variability? Clim. Dyn. 13: 167-180. download

Regional Climate

Hughes M, Hall A, Fovell RG (2007) Blocking in areas of complex topography, and its influence on rainfall distribution. submitted to J. Atmos. Sci.  download

Liou KN, Lee WL, Hall A, and (2007), Radiative Transfer in Mountains: Application to the Tibetan Plateau, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34: L23809, DOI:10.1029/2007GL031762 download

Dong C, Hall A, Hughes M, and McWilliams J (2007) The importance of near-shore topography for coastal upwelling processes. submitted to JGR--Oceans. download

Hughes M, Hall A, Fovell RG (2007) Dynamical controls on the diurnal cycle of temperature in complex topography. Clim. Dyn. 29:277–292, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-007-0239-8 download The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com.

Chen Y., Hall A, and Liou KN (2006), Application of three-dimensional solar radiative transfer to mountains, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D21111, DOI:10.1029/2006JD007163. download

Conil S, Hall A (2006) Local Regimes of Atmospheric Variability: A case study of Southern California. J. Clim. 19: 4308–4325. download