Cloud feedbacks reading list

(This currently includes primarily papers selected by the U Washington cloud feedbacks reading group, started in Jan. 2004, but anyone should nominate papers they consider to be important.)

Summary articles

• M. Zhang, 2004: Cloud-climate feedback: How much do we know? Zhu et al., eds., World Scientific Series on Meteorology of East Asia, Vol. 3, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 632 pp.

• Cess, R. D., and coauthors, 1989: Interpretation of cloud-climate feedback as produced by 14 atmospheric general circulation models. Science, 245, 513-516.
• Senior and Mitchell, 1993: Carbon dioxide and climate. The impact of cloud parameterization. J. Climate, 6, 393-418. (The same GCM exhibits a broad range of climate sensitivities and cloud feedbacks when run with different cloud and microphysical schemes.)
• Cess, R. D., and coauthors, 1996: cloud-climate feedback in atmospheric general circulation models: An update. J. Geophys. Res., 101D, 12791-12794.
• Bony, S., J.-L. Dufresne, H. Le Treut, J.-J. Morcrette, C. Senior, 2004: On dynamic and thermodynamic components of cloud changes. J. Climate, submitted. (Tropical clouds, CRF, and Cess+2 CRF change sorted by 'dynamical regime' as diagnosed by monthly-mean 500 mb omega)
• Norris, J., 2004: Changes in near-global cloud cover and reconstructed radiation flux since 1952. J. Climate, submitted. (Use of EECRA surface cloud reports to assess trends in clouds and (with caveats) TOA radiation over the last 50 years.)
• Lin, W. Y., and M. Zhang, 2004: Evaluation of clouds and their radiative effects simulated by the NCAR Community Atmosphere Model CAM2 against satellite observations. J. Climate, accepted. (CAM2 cloud biases revealed by ISCCP simulator methodology)
• Soden, B. J., A. J. Broccoli, and R. S. Hemler, 2004: On the use of cloud forcing to estimate cloud feedback. J. Climate, 17, 3661-3665. (d(Cloud Feedback) larger than d(Cloud forcing) in a climate perturbation, since even the exact same clouds at the same pressure (d(Cloud Feedback)=0) produce less cloud forcing when the climate is warmer and moister, because the the clear-sky water vapor emission that high cloud is blocking will tend to be from higher altitudes closer to that of the cloud, making d(LWCRF) negative. )
• Zhang, M., and coauthors, 2005: Comparing clouds and their seasonal variations in 10 atmospheric general circulation models with satellite measurements. J. Geophys. Res,, accepted.

• Kiehl, J. T. 1994: On the observed near cancellation between longwave and shortwave cloud forcing in tropical regions. J. Climate, 7, 559-565.
• Tompkins, A. M., and G. C. Craig, 1999: Sensitivity of tropical convection to sea surface temperature in the absence of large-scale flow. J. Climate, 12, 462-476.
• Hartmann, D. L., L. Moy, and Fu, 2001: Tropical convection and the energy balance at the top of the atmosphere. J. Climate, 14, 4495-4511.
• Del Genio and Kovari, 2002: Climatic properties of tropical precipitating convection under varying environmental conditions. J. Climate, 15, 2597-2615.
• Knutson, T. R., and S. Manabe, 1995: Time-mean response over the tropical Pacific to increased CO2 in a coupled ocean-atmosphere model. J. Climate, 8, 2181-2199.
• Cess, R. D., M. Zhang, P.-H. Wang, and B. A. Wielicki, 2001: Cloud structure anomalies over the tropical Pacific during the 1997/98 El Nino. Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 4547-4550.

• Miller, R. L., 1997: Tropical thermostats and low cloud cover. J. Climate, 10, 409-440.

• GAMDT, 2004: The new GFDL global atmosphere and land model AM2/LM2: Evaluation with prescribed SST simulations. J. Climate, submitted and revised (85 manuscript pp.!).