Publications by Allegra N. LeGrande

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2008

LeGrande, A.N., and G.A. Schmidt, 2008: Ensemble, water-isotope enabled, coupled general circulation modeling insights into the 8.2-kyr event. Paleoceanography, 23, PA3207, doi:10.1029/2008PA001610.

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Muller, J., M. Kylander, R.A.J. Wüst, D. Weiss, A. Martinez-Cortizas, A.N. LeGrande, T. Jennerjahn, H. Behling, W.T. Anderson, and G. Jacobson, 2008: Possible evidence for wet Heinrich phases in tropical NE Australia: The Lynch's Crater deposit. Quaternary Sci. Rev., 27, 468-475, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.11.006.

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2007

LeGrande, A.N., and J. Lynch-Stieglitz, 2007: Surface currents in the western North Atlantic during the Last Glacial Maximum. Geochem. Geophys. Geosystems, 8, Q01N09, doi:10.1029/2006GC001371.

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Oppo, D.W., G.A. Schmidt, and A.N. LeGrande, 2007: Seawater isotope constraints on tropical hydrology during the Holocene. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L13701, doi:10.1029/2007GL030017.

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Schmidt, G.A., A.N. LeGrande, and G. Hoffmann, 2007: Water isotope expressions of intrinsic and forced variability in a coupled ocean-atmosphere model. J. Geophys. Res., 112, D10103, doi:10.1029/2006JD007781.

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2006

LeGrande, A.N., 2006: The Climate Imprint on the Oxygen Isotopic Composition of Water: Observations, Proxies, and Coupled Isotopic Model Simulations. Ph.D. thesis. Columbia University.

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LeGrande, A.N., and G.A. Schmidt, 2006: Global gridded data set of the oxygen isotopic composition in seawater. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L12604, doi:10.1029/2006GL026011.

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LeGrande, A.N., G.A. Schmidt, D.T. Shindell, C.V. Field, R.L. Miller, D.M. Koch, G. Faluvegi, and G. Hoffmann, 2006: Consistent simulations of multiple proxy responses to an abrupt climate change event. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 103, 837-842, doi:10.1073pnas.0510095103.

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• Note: The scale colorbar in Figure 2A is inverted. Multiply scale tick values by -1 to obtain actual model values.

Masson-Delmotte, V., M. Kageyama, P. Braconnot, S. Charbit, G. Krinner, C. Ritz, E. Guilyardi, J. Jouzel, A. Abe-Ouchi, M. Crucifix, R.M. Gladstone, C.D. Hewitt, A. Kitoh, A.N. LeGrande, O. Marti, U. Merkel, T. Motoi, R. Ohgaito, B. Otto-Bliesner, W.R. Peltier, I. Ross, P.J. Valdes, G. Vettoretti, S.L. Weber, F. Wolk, and Y. Yu, 2006: Past and future polar amplification of climate change: Climate model intercomparisons and ice-core constraints. Clim. Dynam., 26, 513-529, doi:10.1007/s00382-005-0081-9.

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2005

Gladstone, R.M., I. Ross, P.J. Valdes, A. Abe-Ouchi, P. Braconnot, S. Brewer, M. Kageyama, A. Kitoh, A. LeGrande, O. Marti, R. Ohgaito, B. Otto-Bliesner, W.R. Peltier, and G. Vettoretti, 2005: Mid-Holocene NAO: A PMIP2 model intercomparison. Geophys. Res. Lett, 32, L16707, doi:10.1029/2005GL023596.

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Schmidt, G.A., and A.N. LeGrande, 2005: The Goldilocks abrupt climate change event. Quaternary Sci. Rev., 24, 1109-1110, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2005.01.015.

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2004

LeGrande, A.N., J. Lynch-Stieglitz, and E.C. Farmer, 2004: Oxygen isotopic composition of Globorotalia truncatulinoides as a proxy for intermediate depth density. Paleoceanography, 19, PA4025, doi:10.1029/2004PA001045.

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