Publications

1. Paiewonsky, Pablo, and Oliver Elison Timm. “Description and Validation of the Simple, Efficient, Dynamic, Global, Ecological Simulator (SEDGES v.1.0).” Geoscientific Model Development 11, no. 3 (2018): 861–901. doi:10.5194/gmd-11-861-2018.
2. Frazier, Abby G., Oliver Elison Timm, Thomas W. Giambelluca, and Henry F. Diaz. “The Influence of ENSO, PDO and PNA on Secular Rainfall Variations in Hawai‘i.” Climate Dynamics (2017): (first online publication). doi:10.1007/s00382-017-4003-4.
3. Vuille, Mathias, Mark Carey, Christian Huggel, Wouter Buytaert, Antoine Rabatel, Dean Jacobsen, Alvaro Soruco, et al. “Rapid Decline of Snow and Ice in the Tropical Andes – Impacts, Uncertainties and Challenges Ahead.” Earth-Science Reviews 176, (2017): 195–213. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.09.019.
4. Elison Timm, Oliver. “Future Warming Rates over the Hawaiian Islands Based on Elevation-Dependent Scaling Factors.” International Journal of Climatology 37 (2017): 1093–1104. doi:10.1002/joc.5065.
5. Timm, and A. Ganopolski (2016). “Nonlinear Climate Sensitivity and Its Implications for Future Greenhouse Warming.” Science Advances 2 (11): e1501923–e1501923. doi:10.1126/sciadv.1501923.
6. W. Liao, O. Elison Timm, C. Zhang, C. T. Atkinson, D. A. LaPointe, and M. D. Samuel (2015), Will A Warmer and Wetter Future Cause Extinction of Native Hawaiian Forest Birds?, Glob. Chang. Biol., n/a–n/a, doi:10.1111/gcb.13005.
7. O. Elison Timm, T. W. Giambelluca, and H. F. Diaz (2015), Statistical Downscaling of Rainfall Changes in Hawai‘i based on the CMIP5 Global Model Projections, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos, 120(1), 92–112, doi:10.1002/2014JD022059.
8. Z.,Liu, Z., J. Zhu, Y. Rosenthal, X. Zhang, B. L. Otto-Bliesner, A. Timmermann, R. S. Smith, G. Lohmann, W. Zheng, and O. Elison Timm (2014), The Holocene temperature conundrum, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 1–5, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1407229111.
9. A. Timmermann, J. Sachs, and O. Elison Timm. Assessing divergent SST behavior during the last 21 ka derived from alkenones and G. ruber -Mg/Ca in the Equatorial Pacific. Paleoceanography, pages n/a–n/a, 2014. doi: 10.1002/2013PA002598
10. A. Timmermann, T. Friedrich, O. Elison Timm, M. O. Chikamoto, A. Abe-Ouchi, and A. Ganopolski. Modeling Obliquity and CO2 Effects on Southern Hemisphere Climate during the Past 408 ka. Journal of Climate, 27(5):1863–1875, 2014. doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00311.1
11. K.Tachikawa, A. Timmermann, L. Vidal, C. Sonzogni, and O. Elison Timm. CO2 radiative forcing and Intertropical Convergence Zone influences on western Pacific warm pool climate over the past 400ka. Quaternary Science Reviews, 86:24–34, 2014. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.12.018
12. M. Heinemann, A. Timmermann, O. Elison Timm, F. Saito, and A. Abe-Ouchi. Deglacial ice-sheet meltdown: orbital pacemaking and CO2 effects. Clim. Past, 10, 1567-1579,  2014. doi: 10.5194/cp-10-1567-2014
13. A. Lauer, C. Zhang, O. Elison Timm, Y. Wang, and K. Hamilton. Downscaling of Climate Change in the Hawaii Region Using CMIP5 Results: On the Choice of the Forcing Fields. Journal of Climate>, 26(24):10006–10030, 2013.
    doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00126.1
14. O. Elison Timm, M. Takahashi, T. W. Giambelluca, and H. F. Diaz. On the relation between large-scale circulation pattern and heavy rain events over the Hawaiian Islands: Recent trends and future changes. J. Geophys. Res., 118(10):4 129– 4 141, 2013. doi: 10.1002/jgrd.50314

15. S. McGregor, A. Timmermann, M. H. England, O. Elison Timm, and A. T. Wittenberg. Inferred changes in El Nino-Southern Oscillation variance over the past six centuries. Climate of the Past, 9(5):2269–2284, 2013. doi:  10.5194/cp-9-2269-2013

16. L. Menviel, A. Timmermann, O. Elison Timm, A. Mouchet, A. Abe-Ouchi, M.O. Chikamoto, N. Harada, R. Ohgaito, and Y. Okazaki. Removing the North Pacific halocline: Effects on global climate, ocean circulation and the carbon cycle. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 61–64(0):106 – 113, 2012. doi: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2011.03.005
17. L. Menviel, A. Timmermann, O. Elison Timm, and A. Mouchet. Deconstructing the last glacial termination: the role of millennial and orbital-scale forcings. Quat. Sci. Rev., 30(9–10):1155–1172, 2011. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.02.005
18. O. Elison Timm, H. F. Diaz, T. W. Giambelluca, and M. Takahashi. Projection of changes in the frequency of heavy rain events over Hawai‘i based on leading Pacific climate modes. J. Geophys. Res., 116, 2011. doi: 10.1029/2010JD014923  
19. L. Menviel, A. Timmermann, O. Elison Timm, and A. Mouchet. Climate and biogeochemical response to a rapid melting of the West Antarctic ice sheet during interglacials and implications for future climate. Paleoceanography, 25, 2010. doi: 10.1029/2009PA001892

20. A. Timmermann, J. Knies, O. Elison Timm, A. Abe-Ouchi, and T. Friedrich. Promotion of glacial ice sheet buildup 60-115 kyr B.P. by precessionally paced Northern Hemispheric meltwater pulses, Paleoceanography, 25, 2010. doi:10.1029/2010PA001933.

21. O. Timm, P. Köhler, A. Timmermann, and L. Menviel. Mechanisms for the onset of the African Humid Period and Sahara greening 14.5–11 ka B.P. J. Climate, 23(10):2612–2633, 2010.
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22. S. McGregor, A. Timmermann, and O. Timm. A unified proxy for ENSO and PDO variability since 1650. Climate of the Past, 6(1):1–17, 2010. doi:

23. T. Friedrich, A. Timmermann, L. Menviel, O. Elison Timm, A. Mouchet, and D. M. Roche. The mechanism behind internally generated centennial-to-millennial scale climate variability in an earth system model of intermediate complexity. Geoscientific Model Development, 3(2):377–389, 2010. doi:

24. A. Timmermann, L. Menviel, Y. Okumura, A. Schilla, U. Merkel, O. Timm, A. Hu, B. Otto-Bliesner, and M. Schulz. Towards a quantitative understanding of millennial-scale Antarctic warming events. Quat. Sci. Rev., 29(1–2):74–85, 2010. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.06.021
25. O. Timm and H. F. Diaz. Synoptic-statistical approach to regional downscaling of IPCC 21st century climate projections: Seasonal rainfall over the Hawaiian Islands. J. Climate, 22(16):4 261–4 280, 2009. doi:
26. A. Timmermann, O. Timm, L. Stott, and L. Menviel. The roles of CO2 and orbital forcing in driving southern hemispheric temperature variations during the last 21,000 years. J. Climate, 22(7):1 626–1 640, 2009. doi:
27. J. Zinke, M. Pfeiffer, O. Timm, W.-Ch. Dullo, and G.J.A. Brummer. Western Indian ocean marine and terrestrial records of climate variability: A review and new concepts on land-ocean interactions since AD 1660. Int. J. Earth Sci, 98:115– 133, 2008. doi:

28. Y. Tshushima, E. Raschke, S. Kinne, A. Abe-Ouchi, S. Bakan, S. Emori, M. Giorgetta, G. Kopp, F. Saito, O. Timm, and M. Wild. Key parameters for the inconsistencies of the incoming solar radiation boundary condition in global modeling. API conf. Proc., 1100(1):585–588, 2009. doi:

    J. Zinke, M. Pfeiffer, O. Timm, W.-C. Dullo, D. Kroon, and B.A. Thomassin. Mayotte coral reveals hydrological changes in the western Indian Ocean between 1881 and 1994. Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, 2008. doi:

29. O. Timm. Palaeoclimate: North Atlantic climate swings. Nature Geosci., 1(12):811–812, 2008.
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30. L. Menviel, A. Timmermann, A. Mouchet, and O. Timm. Climate and marine carbon cycle response to changes in the strength of the southern hemispheric west- erlies. Paleoceanography, 23, 2008. doi:

31. O. Timm, A. Timmermann, A. Abe-Ouchi, F. Saito, and T. Sewaga. On the definition of seasons in paleoclimate simulations with orbital forcing. Paleoceanography, 23, 2008.
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32. S. Y. Cahyarini, M. Pfeiffer, O. Timm, W.-C. Dullo, and D. G. Schoenberg. Reconstructing seawater δ18O from paired coral δ18O and Sr/Ca ratios: Methods, error analysis and problems, with examples from Tahiti (French Polynesia) and Timor (Indonesia). Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 72(12):2 841–2 853, 2008. doi:
33. L. Menviel, A. Timmermann, A. Mouchet, and O. Timm. Meridional reorganizations of marine and terrestrial productivity during Heinrich events. Paleoceanography, 23, 2008. doi:
34. T. Stocker, A. Timmerman, M. Renold, and O. Timm. Effects of salt compensation on the climate model response in simulations of large changes of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation. J. Climate, 20(24):5 912–5 928, 2007. doi:
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35. O. Timm and A. Timmermann. Simulation of the last 21,000 years using accelerated transient boundary conditions. J. Climate, 20(17):4377–4401, 2007.
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36. 30.F. Lamy, J. Kaiser, H. W. Arz, D. Hebbeln, U. Ninnemann, O. Timm, A. Timmermann, and J. R. Togggweiler. Modulation of the bipolar seesaw in the southwest Pacific during Termination I. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 259(3–4):400–413, 2007. doi:

37. S.-I An, J.-S. Kug, A. Timmermann, I.-S. Kang, and O. Timm. The influence of ENSO on the generation of decadal variability in the North Pacific. J. Climate, 20(4):667–680, 2007.
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38. M. Pfeiffer, O. Timm, W.-C. Dullo, and D. Garbe-Schoenberg. A paired Sr/Ca and δ18O record from the Chagos Archipelago: Late twentieth century warming affects rainfall variability in the tropical Indian Ocean. Geology, 34(12):1 069–1 072, 2006.
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39. O. Timm, M. Pfeiffer, and W.-C. Dullo. Nonstationary ENSO-precipitation teleconnection over the equatorial Indian Ocean documented in a coral from the Chagos Archipelago. Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, 2005. doi: 10.1029/2004GL021738
40. J. Zinke, M. Pfeiffer, O. Timm, W.-C. Dullo, and G. R. Davies. Atmosphere- ocean dynamics in the western Indian Ocean recorded in corals. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond., 363(1826):121–142, 2005.
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41. M. Pfeiffer, O. Timm, W. Dullo, and S. Podlech. Oceanic forcing of interannual and multidecadal climate variability in the southwestern Indian Ocean: Evidence from a 160 year coral isotopic record (La Reunion, 55E, 21S). Paleoceanography, 19, 2004.
    doi: 10.1029/2003PA000964

42. O. Timm, E. Ruprecht, and S. Kleppek. Scale-dependent reconstruction of the NAO index. J. Climate, 17(11):2 157–2 169, 2004.
    doi: 10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<2157:SROTNI>2.0.CO;2