Publications
Devkota, L., 1992: An isentropic investigation of the monsoon through displacement and corresponding rainfall distribution in Nepal. Master's thesis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 57 pp.
Hoerling, M.P. and D.R. Johnson, 1991: An isentropic analysis of the wintertime vorticity exchange in relation to extratropical heat sources and sinks. Tellus, 43A, 106-127.

Hoerling, M.P., T.K. Schaack and D.R. Johnson, 1990: Heating distributions from January and July simulations of NCAR community climate models. J. Climate, 3, 417-434. 

Johnson, D. R., A. J. Lenzen, T. H. Zapotocny, and T. K. Schaack, 2000:  Numerical uncertainties in the simulation of reversible isentropic processes and entropy conservation.  J. Climate, 13, 3860-3884.

Johnson, D. R., 1999:  Entropy, the Lorenz Energy Cycle and Climate.  In “General Circulation Model Development: Past, Present and Future” (D. A. Randall, ed.),  Academic Press, pp. 659-720.

Johnson, D. R., 1997:  On the "General Coldness of Climate Models" and the Second Law: Implications for Modeling the Earth System.  J. Climate, 10, 2826-2846.

Johnson, D. R., 1989: The forcing and maintenance of global monsoonal circulations: An isentropic analysis. Advances in Geophysics, Vol. 31, Academic Press, 43-316.

Johnson, D. R. and T. K. Schaack, 1987: On the hydrological cycle and the distribution of atmospheric heating within global monsoonal circulations. National Research Council, FGGE Workshop, Airlie House, Virginia, 27-30 April 1987.

Johnson, D. R., R. D. Townsend and M.-Y. Wei, 1985: The thermally coupled response of the planetary scale circulation to the global distribution of heat sources and sinks. Tellus, 37A, 106-125.

Lenzen, A.J., D.R. Johnson and R. Atlas, 1993: Analysis of the impact of Seasat scatterometer data and horizontal resolution on GLA model simulations of the QE II storm. Mon. Wea. Rev., 121, 499-521.

Schaack, T. K., D. R. Johnson and A. J. Lenzen, 1995: Seasonal and interannual variability of the atmospheric hydrologic cycle. NASA Technical Memorandum 104606, Vol. 7, Proceedings of the Workshop on the GEOS-1 Five-Year Assimilation, 111-112. 

Schaack, T. K. and D. R. Johnson, 1994: January/July global distributions of atmospheric heating for 1986, 1987 and 1988.  J. Climate, 7, 1270-1285.

Schaack, T. K., D.R. Johnson and R. S. Schneider, 1993: Regional characteristics of the atmospheric hydrologic cycle. Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium on Global Change Studies, 17-22 January 1993, Anaheim, California.

Schaack, T. K. and D. R. Johnson, 1991a: Differential heating and water vapor exchange during the 1986-87 El Nino. AMS Preprint Volume of the Fifth Conference on Climate Variations, 14-18 October 1991, Denver, Colorado.

Schaack, T. K. and D.R. Johnson, 1991b: Atlas of the global distributions of atmospheric heating during the Global Weather Experiment (December 1978 - November 1979). NASA Contractor Report 4370 148 pp.

Schaack, T. K., D. R. Johnson and A. J. Lenzen, 1991: Global heating distributions for January 1979 calculated from GLA assimilated and simulated model-based datasets. J. Climate, 4, 395-406. 

Schaack, T. K., D. R. Johnson and M.-Y. Wei, 1990: The three-dimensional distributions of atmospheric heating during the GWE. Tellus, 42A, 305-327.

Silberberg, S. R., 1991: The irrotational and rotational kinetic energy balance in isentropic coordinates during the Global Weather Experiment boreal winter. Ph. D. Dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 211 pp.

Townsend, R.D., and D.R. Johnson, 1985: A diagnostic study of the isentropic zonally averaged mass circulation during the first GARP Global experiment. J. Atmos. Sci., 42, 1565-1579.

Wei, M.-Y., D. R. Johnson and R. D. Townsend, 1983: Seasonal distributions of diabatic heating during the First GARP Global Experiment. Tellus, 35A, 241-255.
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