Dr. Lori T. Sentman

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Education

Ph.D., ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE

Rutgers University, 2018

M.S., ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE/ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE

Rutgers University, 2002

B.S., ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE

Rutgers University, 1997

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Research Highlights

CLIMATE SCIENCE 

Sentman, L.T., Dunne, J.P., Horowitz, L.W., Naik, V., Paulot, F., Ginoux, P., & Zadeh, N. (2026). Quantifying equilibrium climate sensitivity to atmospheric chemistry and composition representations in GFDL-CM4.0 and GFDL-ESM4.1. Geophys. Res. Lett., 53, e2025GL116545. DOI:10.1029/2025GL116545 

Jeevanjee, N., Paynter, D., Dunne, J.P., Sentman, L.T., & Krasting, J.P. (2025). On the utility of the transient climate response. Geophys. Res. Lett., 53, e2025GL121354. DOI:10.1029/2025GL121354

Jeevanjee, N., Paynter, D., Dunne, J.P., Krasting, J.P., & Sentman, L.T. (2025). Perspectives on Climate Sensitivity and Ocean Heat Uptake. EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-7361. DOI:10.5194/egusphere-egu25-7361

Jeevanjee, N., Paynter, D., Dunne, J.P., Sentman, L.T., & Krasting, J.P. (2025). A Holistic View of Climate Sensitivity. Annu. Rev., 53. DOI:10.1146/annurev-earth-040523-014302

Chemke, R., Zanna, L., Orbe, C., Sentman, L.T., & Polvani, L.M. (2022). The future intensification of the North Atlantic winter storm track: the key role of dynamic ocean coupling. J. Clim., 35(8). DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0407.1

Dunne, J.P., et al. (2020). Comparison of equilibrium climate sensitivity estimates from slab ocean, 150-year, and longer simulations. Geophys. Res. Lett., 47, e2020GL088852. DOI:10.1029/2020GL088852

Krasting, J.P., Stouffer, R.J., Griffies, S.M., Hallberg, R.W., Malyshev, S.L., Samuels, B.L., & Sentman, L.T. (2018). Role of Ocean Model Formulation in Climate Response Uncertainty. J. Clim., 31, 9313–9333. DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0035.1

Ding, Y., Chepurin, G., Stenchikov, G., Robock, A., Sentman, L.T., & Krasting, J.P. (2014). Ocean Response to Volcanic Eruptions in Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 5 (CMIP5) Simulations. J. Geophys. Res. – Oceans, 119(9). DOI:10.1002/2013JC009780

Anderson, J.L., et al. (2004). The new GFDL global atmosphere and land model AM2/LM2: Evaluation with prescribed SST simulations. J. Clim., 17(24), 46414673.

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Swann, A.L.S., Koven, C.D., Proistosecu, C., Fisher, R.A, Sanderson, B.M., Brovkin, V., et al. (2026). Land carbon response to positive, zero, and negative CO2 emissions across Earth system models [Preprint]. EGUsphere. DOI:10.5194/egusphere-2026-1673

Sanderson, B.M., Sandstad, M., Romero-Prieto, A., Koven, C.D., Séférian, R., MacDougal, A.H., et al. (2026). Decomposition of the Zero Emissions Commitment into thermal warming pipeline and carbon buffering components [Preprint]. EGUsphere. DOI:egusphere-2026-1875

Brovkin, V., Sanderson, B.M., Brizuela, N.G., Hajima, T., Ilyina, T., Jones, C.D., et al. (2025). On a simplified solution of climate-carbon dynamics in idealized flat10MIP simulations [Preprint]. EGUsphere. DOI:10.5194/egusphere-2025-3270

Farmer, J.R., Martínez-García, A., Sentman, L.T., Schiebel, R., Arns, A., Yehudai, M., et al. (2025). Early Pliocene shoaling of the Central American Seaway reconstructed from foraminifera-bound nitrogen and oxygen isotopes. Paleoceanogr. Paleoclimatology, 40, e2024PA005043. DOI:10.1029/2024PA005043

Sanderson, B.M., Brovkin, V., Fisher, R.A., Hohn, D., Ilyina, T., Jones, C.D., et al. (2025). flat10MIP: An emissions-driven experiment to diagnose the climate response to positive, zero, and negative CO₂ emissions, Geosci. Model Dev., 18, 5699-5724. DOI:10.5194/gmd-18-5699-2025

Dunne, J.P., et al. (2020). The GFDL Earth System Model version 4.1 (GFDL ESM4.1): Overall coupled model description and simulation characteristics. J. Adv. Model., 12. DOI:10.1029/2019MS002015

Sentman, L.T., Dunne, J.P., Stouffer, R.J., Krasting, J.P., Toggweiler, J.R., & Broccoli, A.J. (2018). The Mechanistic Role of the Central American Seaway in a GFDL Earth System Model. Part 1: Impacts on Global Ocean Mean State and Circulation. Paleoceanogr. Paleoclimatology, 33(7). DOI:10.1029/2018PA003364

Sentman, L.T. (2018). How the Central American Seaway alters large-scale ocean circulation, climate and marine biogeochemistry, (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved from Rutgers University Community Repository (DOI:10.7282/T3JW8J31). New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University.

Dunne, J.P., John, J., Shevliakova, E., Stouffer, R.J., Krasting, J.P., Malyshev, S.L., et al. (2013). GFDL’s ESM2 global coupled climate-carbon Earth System Models Part II: Carbon system formulation and baseline simulation characteristics. J. Clim., 26(7). DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00150.1

Dunne, J.P., John, J., Adcroft, A., Griffies, S.M., Hallberg, R.W., Shevliakova, E., et al. (2012). GFDL’s ESM2 global coupled climate-carbon Earth System Models Part I: Physical formulation and baseline simulation characteristics. J. Clim., 25(19). DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00560.1

Sentman, L.T., Shevliakova, E., Stouffer, R.J., & Malyshev, S.L. (2011). Time scales of terrestrial carbon response related to land-use application: Implications for initializing an earth system model. Earth Interact., 15(30). DOI:10.1175/2011EI401.1

Shevliakova, E., Pacala, S.W., Malyshev, S.L., Milly, P.C.D., & Sentman, L.T. (2009). Carbon cycling under 300 years of land use change: Importance of the secondary vegetation s415b7cink. Glob. Biogeochem. Cycles, 23, GB2022. DOI:10.1029/2007GB003176  [Also a Research highlight in Nature Reports Climate Change | Vol 5 | April 2009]

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY

Zeng, G., Abraham, N.L., Archibald, A.T., Bauer, S.E., Deushi, M., Emmons, L.K., et al. (2022). Attribution of stratospheric and tropospheric ozone changes between 1850 and 2014 in CMIP6 models. DOI:10.1002/essoar.10510050.1

Allen, R.J., Horowitz, L.W., Naik, V., Oshima, N., O’Connor, F.M., Turnock, S., et al. (2021). Significant climate benefits from near-term climate forcer mitigation in spite of aerosol reductions. Env. Res. Lett., 16(3). DOI:10.1088/1748-9326/abe06b

Allen, R.J., Turnock, S., Nabat, P., Neubauer, D., Lohmann, Ü., Olivie, D., et al. (2020). Climate and air quality impacts due to mitigation of non-methane near-term climate forcers. Atmospheric Chem. Phys., 20(16). DOI:10.5194/acp-20-9641-2020

Morgenstern, O., O’Connor, F.M.,  Johnson, B., Zeng, G., Mulcahy, J.P., Williams, J., et al. (2020). Reappraisal of the Climate Impacts of Ozone-Depleting Substances. Geophys. Res. Lett., 47(20). DOI:10.1029/2020GL088295

Stevenson, D.S., Zhao, A., Naik, V., O’Connor, F.M., Tilmes, S., Zeng, G., et al. (2020). Trends in global tropospheric hydroxyl radical and methane lifetime since 1850 from AerChemMIP. Atmospheric Chem. Phys., 20(21). DOI:10.5194/acp-20-12905-2020

NUMERICAL MODELS & DATASETS

Sentman, L.T., Dunne, J.P., Horowitz, L.W., Naik, V., Paulot, F., Ginoux, P., & Zadeh, N. (2025). Supporting data for quantifying equilibrium climate sensitivity to atmosphere chemistry and composition representations in GFDL-CM4.0 and GFDL-ESM4.1. Version 1.0.0 [Dataset]. Zenodo. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.15221510

Sentman, L.T. & Dunne, J.P. (2025). NOAA-GFDL GFDL-ESM4 TIPMIP-ESM model output. Version v05082025 [Dataset]. Zenodo. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.15361890

Sentman, L.T. & Dunne, J.P. (2024). NOAA-GFDL GFDL-ESM4 Flat10 model output. Version v03202024 [Dataset]. Zenodo. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10846146

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Awards & Honors

NOAA ADMINISTRATOR’S AWARD

Advancing understanding of the Earth system developing & applying NOAA’s state-of-the-art coupled carbon-chemistry-climate model (2022)

US DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, OFFICE OF ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH AWARD

Exemplary Service, Individual award recipient (2020)

NOAA OFFICE OF ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH, GRADUATE STUDIES PROGRAM SCHOLARSHIP

(2012-2014)

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE SILVER MEDAL, SCIENTIFIC/ENGINEERING ACHIEVEMENT

For development & application of NOAA’s first comprehensive Earth System Models that couple the carbon cycle and climate to project changes (2013)

RS INFORMATION SYSTEMS INC., EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH, SCIENCE/ENGINEERING DIVISION

(2002)

RS INFORMATION SYSTEMS INC., DELIGHTINGhttps://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/bibliography/results.php?author=1088 THE CUSTOMER AWARD

(January 2002, June 2002)

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Professional Services

EXPERT REVIEWER

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, National Climate Assessment, NOAA Hollings Scholarship, & numerous scientific journalsQuantifying equilibrium climate sensitivity to atmospheric chemistry and composition representations in GFDL-CM4.0 and GFDL-ESM4.1.

SCIENTIFIC MENTOR & ADVISOR

Rebecca Monge, Mt. Carmel High School (2019-2021), 2021 Regeneron Science Talent Search top 40 finalist

INVITED PANELIST, STUDENT REVIEWER

Rider University Independent Scholarship & Creative Activities Presentations Day

INVITED SPEAKER

Young Women’s Conference, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Plainsboro Library, Princeton University Science & Engineering Expo, Girl Scouts of America, SandHills Preschool, Monmouth Junction Elementary School, Deans Crossing Elementary School, Crossroads North Middle School, Greenbrook Elementary School Math, Science, & Tech Night, NOAA Bring Your Child to Work Day

INVITED RAPPORTEUR

Climate Working Group (CWG), NOAA Climate Research & Modeling (CRM) Program Review, Princeton, NJ

COORDINATOR, VISITING SCIENTIST

MJ Elementary School Science Fair (2014-Present)