Papers discussed

Winter/Spring 2019

• March 12
  Schneider, Kaul and Pressel (2019), Possible climate transitions from breakup of stratocumulus decks under greenhouse warming Nature Geoscience, 12, 163-167, doi:10.1038/s41561-019-0310-1
• Feb 26
  Coppin, D., & Bony, S. (2018). On the interplay between convective aggregation, surface temperature gradients, and climate sensitivity. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 10. doi:10.1029/2018MS001406

Spring/Summer/Fall 2017 (Southern Ocean Cloud Discussion ahead of SOCRATES, organized by Isabel McCoy and Rachel Atlas)

• Nov 2
  Gettelman et al (2010), Global simulations of ice nucleation and ice supersaturation with an improved cloud scheme in the Community Atmosphere Model, J. Geophys. Res., 115, D18216, doi:10.1029/2009JD013797.
• Oct 19
  T. W. Wilson et al (2015). A marine biogenic source of atmospheric ice-nucleating particles, Nature 525, 234-238 (10 September 2015) doi:10.1038/nature14986
  See also the introduction to: P. J. DeMott et al (2016). Sea spray aerosol as a unique source of ice nucleating particles, PNAS 113 (21) 5797-5803; doi:10.1073/pnas.1514034112
• Oct 12
  Abel et al, 2017: The Role of Precipitation in Controlling the Transition from Stratocumulus to Cumulus Clouds in a Northern Hemisphere Cold-Air Outbreak. J. Atmos. Sci., 74, 2293-2314, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-16-0362.1
• Jun 28
  Furtado and Field, 2017: The Role of Ice Microphysics Parametrizations in Determining the Prevalence of Supercooled Liquid Water in High-Resolution Simulations of a Southern Ocean Midlatitude Cyclone. J. Atmos. Sci., 74, 2001-2021, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-16-0165.1
• Jun 7
  Mason et al, 2014: Characterizing Observed Midtopped Cloud Regimes Associated with Southern Ocean Shortwave Radiation Biases. J. Climate, 27, 6189-6203, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00139.1.
• May 24
  Huang et al (2016). What is the Role of Sea Surface Temperature in Modulating Cloud and Precipitation Properties over the Southern Ocean? Journal of Climate, 29(20), 7453-7476. doi:10.1175/jcli-d-15-0768.1
• May 10
  Terai, Zelinka, and Klein (2016), Constraining the low-cloud optical depth feedback at middle and high latitudes using satellite observations, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 121, 9696-9716, doi:10.1002/2016JD025233
• May 3
  Bodas-Salcedo et al (2016). Cloud liquid water path and radiative feedbacks over the Southern Ocean. Geophysical Research Letters, 43(20), 10938-10946. doi:10.1002/2016gl070770
• Apr 19
  Bodas-Salcedo et al (2016). Large Contribution of Supercooled Liquid Clouds to the Solar Radiation Budget of the Southern Ocean. Journal of Climate, 29(11), 4213-4228. doi:10.1175/jcli-d-15-0564.1
• Apr 12
  Mace & Avey (2017). Seasonal variability of warm boundary layer cloud and precipitation properties in the Southern Ocean as diagnosed from A-Train data. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 122(2), 1015-1032. doi:10.1002/2016jd025348

Fall 2016-Winter 2017 (Presenter name in parenthesis)

• Jan 19 (Michael Diamond)
  Zhou, Zelinka & Klein (2016), Impact of decadal cloud variations on the Earth's energy budget, Nature Geoscience, doi:10.1038/ngeo2828
  See also, Gregory, and Andrews (2016), Variation in climate sensitivity and feedback parameters during the historical period, GRL, doi:10.1002/2016GL068406.

Winter 2015 (Presenter name in parenthesis)

• Jan 19 (Casey Wall)
  Singh M. S. and Z. Kuang, Exploring the role of eddy-momentum fluxes in determining the characteristics of the equinoctial Hadley circulation: fixed-SST simulations. J. Atmos. Sci., In review.

Fall 2015 (Presenter name in parenthesis)

• Dec 3 (Peter Blossey)
  Seifert, A., Heus, T., Pincus, R. and Stevens, B. (2015), Large-eddy simulation of the transient and near-equilibrium behavior of precipitating shallow convection. J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst.. doi:10.1002/2015MS000489
• Nov 5 (Dan McCoy)
  Qu, X., A. Hall, S. A. Klein, and A. M. DeAngelis (2015), Positive tropical marine low-cloud cover feedback inferred from cloud-controlling factors, Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, doi:10.1002/2015GL065627.
• Oct 22 (Jeremy McGibbon)
  Bjorn Stevens, 2015: Rethinking the Lower Bound on Aerosol Radiative Forcing. J. Climate, 28. doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00656.1

Winter/Spring 2015 (Presenter name in parenthesis)

• Feb 24 (Rob Wood)
  Hamilton et al (2014), Occurrence of pristine aerosol environments on a polluted planet. PNAS
• Feb 3 (Peter Blossey)
  Qu, Hall, Klein & Caldwell (2014), The strength of the tropical inversion and its response to climate change in 18 CMIP5 models. Climate Dynamics

Summer/Fall 2014 (Presenter name in parenthesis)

• Nov 12 (Elizabeth Maroon)
  Meehl, Teng & Arblaster, 2014: Climate model simulations of the observed early-2000s hiatus of global warming. Nature Climate Change 4, 898-902. doi:10.1038/nclimate2357
• Oct 30 (Peter Blossey)
  Romps (2014), An Analytical Model for Tropical Relative Humidity. J. Climate, 27, 7432-7449. doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00255.1
• Oct 14 (Matt Wyant)
  Brueck, Nuijens & Stevens (2014), Mechanisms controlling seasonal and synoptic time scale variability in low-level cloudiness in the North Atlantic trades. JAS, doi: 10.1175/JAS-D-14-0054.1
• Oct 2 (Dan McCoy)
  Ghan et al (2014), A simple model of global aerosol indirect effects. JGR
• Sept 11 (Matt Woelfle)
  Su et al (2014), Weakening and Strengthening Structures in the Hadley Circulation Change under Global Warming and Implications for Cloud Response and Climate Sensitivity. JGR
• Aug 22nd (Peter Blossey)
  Voigt and Shaw (2015), Circulation response to warming shaped by radiative changes of clouds and water vapour. Nature Geoscience, doi: 10.1038/ngeo2345
• July 30 (Bryce Harrop)
  Zhao, M. (2014), An Investigation of the Connections among Convection, Clouds, and Climate Sensitivity in a Global Climate Model. J. Climate, vol. 27, pp. 1845-1862.
• June 12 (Peter Blossey)
  Chen and Tung (2014), Varying planetary heat sink led to global-warming slowdown and acceleration. Science, Vol. 345 no. 6199 pp. 897-903.

Winter/Spring 2014 (Presenter name in parenthesis)

• May 29 (Paulo Ceppi)
  Ceppi, P., M. D. Zelinka, and D. L. Hartmann (2014), The response of the Southern Hemispheric eddy-driven jet to future changes in shortwave radiation in CMIP5, Geophys. Res. Lett., 41, doi:10.1002/2014GL060043.
  Grise, K. M., and L. M. Polvani (2014), Southern Hemisphere cloud-dynamics biases in CMIP5 models and their implications for climate projections. J. Climate.
• May 8 (Chris Jones)
  Qu, Hall, Klein, and Caldwell (2014), On the spread of changes in marine low cloud cover in climate model simulations of the 21st century, Climate Dynamics, doi: 10.1007/s00382-013-1945-z
• April 22 (Peter Blossey)
  Emanuel, K., A. A. Wing, and E. M. Vincent (2014), Radiative-convective instability, J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 6, 75-90, doi: 10.1002/2013MS000270
• April 3 (Chris Terai)
  Korhonen, H., K. S. Carslaw, D. V. Spracklen, G. W. Mann, and M. T. Woodhouse (2008), Influence of oceanic dimethyl sulfide emissions on cloud condensation nuclei concentrations and seasonality over the remote Southern Hemisphere oceans: A global model study, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D15204, doi:10.1029/2007JD009718.
• Feb 18 (Daehyun Kim)
  Sherwood, Bony & Dufresne, 2014. Spread in climate model sensitivity traced to atmospheric convective mixing. Nature.
• Feb 6 (Rob Wood)
  Carslaw et al, 2013. Large contribution of natural aerosols to undertainty in indirect forcing. Nature 503:67-71. Also see the commentary by Bjorn Stevens.

Fall 2013 Discussed Chapter 7 of the Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Individual chapters are available here.

Winter/Spring 2013 (Presenter name in parenthesis)

• May 7 (Jack Scheff)
  Durack, Wijffels and Matear, 2012. Ocean Salinities Reveal Strong Global Water Cycle Intensification During 1950 to 2000. Science. See also this news and analysis piece.
• Apr 16 (Peter Blossey)
  Bony et al, 2013. Robust direct effect of carbon dioxide on tropical circulation and regional precipitation, Nature Geoscience.
• Mar. 26 (Angie Pendergrass)
  O'Gorman and Singh, 2013. Vertical structure of warming consistent with an upward shift in the middle and upper troposphere, GRL
• Mar. 12 (Matt Wyant)
  Golaz et al, 2013. Cloud tuning in a coupled climate model: Impact on 20th century warming, GRL
• Feb. 19 (Rob Wood)
  Fasullo and Trenberth, 2012. A Less Cloudy Future: The Role of Subtropical Subsidence in Climate Sensitivity, Science
• Feb. 12 (Peter Blossey)
  Klein et al, 2012. Are climate model simulations of clouds improving? An evaluation using the ISCCP simulator, JGR

Winter/Spring 2012 (Presenter name in parenthesis)

• May 18 (Mike Pritchard)
  Muller & Held, 2012. Detailed investigation of the self-aggregation of convection in cloud-resolving simulations. Journal of the Atmopsheric Sciences
• May 3 (Peter Blossey)
  Caldwell et al 2013. CMIP3 Subtropical Stratocumulus Cloud Feedback Interpreted through a Mixed-Layer Model. J. Climate, 26, 1607
• Apr. 12 (Andy Berner)
  Yamaguchi & Randall, 2012. Cooling of Entrained Parcels in a Large-Eddy Simulation, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.
• Apr. 3 (Bryce Harrop)
  Li, Yang, North & Dessler, 2012. Test of the fixed anvil temperature hypothesis, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.
• Feb. 28 (Chris Jones)
  Brient and Bony, 2012. Interpretation of the positive low-cloud feedback predicted by a climate model under global warming, Climate Dynamics.
• Jan. 31 (Angie Pendergrass)
  Loeb et al, 2012. Observed changes in top-of-the-atmosphere radiation and upper-ocean heating consistent within uncertainty, Nature Geoscience.

Summer/Fall 2011 (Presenter name in parenthesis)

• Nov. 30 (Mike Pritchard)
  Kuang, 2011. The Wavelength Dependence of the Gross Moist Stability and the Scale Selection in the Instability of Column-Integrated Moist Static Energy, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.
• Nov. 16 (Andy Berner)
  Chen et al., 2011. A comprehensive numerical study of aerosol-cloud-precipitation interactions in marine stratocumulus, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 9749-9769.
• Nov. 9 (Peter Blossey)
  Vecchi, Gabriel A., Brian J. Soden, 2007. Global Warming and the Weakening of the Tropical Circulation. J. Climate, 20, 4316.
• Oct. 19 (Chris Terai)
  Huybers, 2010. Compensation between Model Feedbacks and Curtailment of Climate Sensitivity, Journal of Climate.
• Oct. 5 (Chris Jones)
  Koren and Feigold, 2011. Aerosol-cloud-precipitation system as a predator-prey problem, PNAS.
• Sept 22 (Bryce Harrop)
  Parodi and Emanuel 2009. A Theory for Buoyancy and Velocity Scales in Deep Moist Convection, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.
• Sept. 9 (Peter Blossey)
  Rieck, Nuijens and Stevens, 2012. Marine Boundary Layer Cloud Feedbacks in a Constant Relative Humidity Atmosphere. J. Atmos. Sci., 69, 2538
• Aug. 22 (Chris Terai)
  Stevens and Feingold, 2009. Untangling aerosol effects on clouds and precipitation in a buffered system, Nature.
• Aug. 5 (Dan Grosvenor)
  Ackerman et al, 2004. The impact of humidity above stratiform clouds on indirect aerosol climate forcing. Nature 432, 1014-1017.
  Bretherton et al, 2007. Cloud droplet sedimentation, entrainment efficiency, and subtropical stratocumulus albedo. Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L03813.
• July 22 (Gallia Painter)
  Albrecht, 1989. Aerosols, Cloud Microphysics, and Fractional Cloudiness, Science 15 September 1989: Vol. 245 no. 4923 pp. 1227-1230.
• July 1 (Peter Blossey)
  Stevens and Seifert, 2008. Understanding macrophysical outcomes of microphysical choices in simulations of shallow cumulus convection, JMSJ.

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Suggested Discussion Papers

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Other Papers of Interest

Cloud Feedbacks

• Zelinka, Klein & Hartmann, 2012. Computing and Partitioning Cloud Feedbacks Using Cloud Property Histograms. Part I: Cloud Radiative Kernels, Journal of Climate.
• Zelinka, Klein & Hartmann, 2012. Computing and Partitioning Cloud Feedbacks Using Cloud Property Histograms. Part II: Attribution to Changes in Cloud Amount, Altitude, and Optical Depth., Journal of Climate.
• Morrison et al, 2012. Resilience of persistent Arctic mixed-phase clouds, Nature Geoscience.
• Lauer et al, 2012. Modeling the response of marine boundary layer clouds to global warming: The impact of subgrid scale precipitation formation, Journal of Climate.
• Soden and Vecchi, 2011. The vertical distribution of cloud feedback in coupled ocean-atmosphere models, Geophysical Research Letters.
• Dessler, 2010. A Determination of the Cloud Feedback from Climate Variations over the Past Decade, Science.
• Gettelman, Kay and Shell, 2011. The Evolution of Climate Sensitivity and Climate Feedbacks in the Community Atmosphere Model, Journal of Climate.
• Dessler, 2011. Cloud variations and the Earth's energy budget, GRL, VOL. 38, L19701, 3 PP.

General Feedbacks

• Colman and Hanson, 2012. On atmospheric radiative feedbacks associated with climate variability and change, Climate Dynamics
• Andrews et al, 2012. Forcing, feedbacks and climate sensitivity in CMIP5 coupled atmosphere-ocean climate models, Geophys. Res. Lett.
• Sokolov & Monier, 2012. Changing the Climate Sensitivity of an Atmospheric General Circulation Model through Cloud Radiative Adjustment, Journal of Climate.
• Ingram, 2012. A new way of quantifying GCM water vapour feedback, Climate Dynamics.
• Held & Shell, 2012. Using Relative Humidity as a State Variable in Climate Feedback Analysis, Journal of Climate.
• Webb, Lambert & Gregory, 2012. Origins of dierences in climate sensitivity, forcing and feedback in climate models. Climate Dynamics
• Schmidt et al, 2012. Can a reduction of solar irradiance counteract CO2-induced climate change? Earth System Dynamics Discussion.
• Previdi & Liepert, 2011. The vertical distribution of climate forcings and feedbacks from the surface to top of atmosphere, Climate Dyn., DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1233-8.
• Hansen, Sato, Kharecha and von Schuckmann, 2011. Earth's energy imbalance and implications, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 11, 27031-27105.
• Crook and Forster, 2011. A balance between radiative forcing and climate feedback in the modeled 20th century temperature response, JGR, doi:10.1029/2011JD015924
• Padilla, Lauren E., Geoffrey K. Vallis, Clarence W. Rowley, 2011. Probabilistic Estimates of Transient Climate Sensitivity Subject to Uncertainty in Forcing and Natural Variability. J. Climate, 24, 5521

Cloud-Aerosol Interactions (Small/Cloud Scale)

• Christensen and Stephens, 2012. Microphysical and macrophysical responses of marine stratocumulus polluted by underlying ships: 2. Impacts of haze on precipitating clouds, JGR
• Chen, Christensen, Xue, Sorooshian, Stephens, Rasmussen, and Seinfeld, 2012. Occurrence of lower cloud albedo in ship tracks, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions.
• Wang, Rasch and Feingold, 2011. Manipulating marine stratocumulus cloud amount and albedo: a process-modelling study of aerosol-cloud-precipitation interactions in response to injection of cloud condensation nuclei, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.
• Lebo and Seinfeld, 2011. Theoretical basis for convective invigoration due to increased aerosol concentration, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.
• McComiskey and Feingold, 2011. The scale problem in quantifying aerosol indirect effects, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 11, 26741-26789.
• May, Bringi and Thurai, 2011. Do We Observe Aerosol Impacts on DSDs in Strongly Forced Tropical Thunderstorms?, J. Atmos. Sci., 68, 1902.

Cloud-Aerosol Interactions (Regional/Global Scale)

• Booth et al 2012. Aerosols implicated as a prime driver of twentieth-century North Atlantic climate variability. Nature
• Partanen et al, 2012. Direct and indirect effects of sea spray geoengineering and the role of injected particle size, J. Geophys. Res., 117, D02203, doi:10.1029/2011JD016428
• Haywood, Bellouin, Jones, Boucher, Wild & Shine, 2011. The roles of aerosol, water vapor and cloud in future global dimming/brightening, J. Geophys. Res., 116, D20203, doi:10.1029/2011JD016000.
• Bollasina, Ming & Ramaswamy, 2011. Anthropogenic Aerosols and the Weakening of the South Asian Summer Monsoon, Science, Vol. 334 no. 6055 pp. 502-505, DOI: 10.1126/science.1204994
• Wang et al., 2011. Aerosol indirect effects in a multi-scale aerosol-climate model PNNL-MMF, ACP, 11, 5431-5455.

Remote Sensing

• Jones, Di Girolamo & Zhao, 2012. Reducing the resolution bias in cloud fraction from satellite derived clear-conservative cloud masks. Geophys. Res. Lett.

Tropical Meteorology

• Li and Carbone, 2012. Excitation of Rainfall over the Tropical Western Pacific, Journal of the Atmospheric Science.
• Hasegawa et al, 2012. Drastic shrinking of the Hadley circulation during the mid-Cretaceous Supergreenhouse, Climate of the Past.
• Kuang, 2012. Weakly forced mock-Walker cells. J. Atmos. Sci.
• Kirshbaum & Smith, 2009. Orographic Precipitation in the Tropics: Large-Eddy Simulations and Theory J. Atmos. Sci.
• Muller & Held, 2012. Detailed investigation of the self-aggregation of convection in cloud-resolving simulations. Journal of the Atmopsheric Sciences
• Ingram, 2010. A very simple model for the water vapour feedback on climate change, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.
• Romps and Kuang, 2011. A Transilient Matrix for Moist Convection, J. Atmos. Sci., 68, 2009.

Hydrological Cycle

• O'Gorman, 2012. Sensitivity of tropical precipitation extremes to climate change. Nature Geoscience.
• Wentz et al, 2007. How Much More Rain Will Global Warming Bring?. Science.
• Muller, Back, O'Gorman and Emanuel, 2009. A model for the relationship between tropical precipitation and column water vapor, Geophysical Research Letters.
• Boos, 2011. Thermodynamic scaling of the hydrological cycle of the last glacial maximum, Journal of Climate, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00010.1
• Bichet, Wild, Folini and Schaer, 2011. Global precipitation response to changing forcings since 1870, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 9961-9970.

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