Suggested Discussion Papers

RSS Feed with potential papers for discussion from ~2011 through June 2013. Gathered using google reader. You need some kind of RSS reader to use this. For example, feedly.

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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Papers discussed

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 2012. Preprint.
• 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, 2011. Cloud feedbacks in a constant relative humidity atmosphere, Submitted to JAS.
• 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.