Chris Bretherton's Publications
- Bretherton, C. S., 1983: Intermittency through modulational
instability. Phys. Lett., 96A, 152-156.
- Bretherton,
C. S., and A. O. Steinhardt, 1983: The noise gain of a
digital Butterworth ladder filter. IEEE Trans. Acoustics, Speech,
Signal Proc., 31, 1576-1577.
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- Bretherton, C. S., 1987: A theory for nonprecipitating moist
convection between two parallel plates. Part I: Thermodynamics
and 'linear' solutions. J. Atmos. Sci., 44, 1809-1827.
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- Bretherton,
C. S., 1987: Linear propagating nonprecipitating convection.
J. Atmos. Sci., 44, 1869-1874.
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- Pfeffer, W. T., and C. S. Bretherton, 1987: The effect of
crevasses on the solar heating of a glacier surface. The Physical
Basis of Icesheet Modelling (Proceedings of the Vancouver
Symposium, August, 1987), IAHS Publication 170, 191-205.
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- Bretherton, C. S., 1987: Analytical solutions to Emanuel's
model of precipitating convection. J. Atmos. Sci.,
44, 3355-3362.
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- Levy, G. , and C. S. Bretherton, 1987: On a theory of
the evolution of surface cold fronts. J. Atmos. Sci.,
44, 3413-3418.
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- Bretherton, C. S., 1988: Group velocity and the linear
response of stratified fluids to internal heat or mass sources.
J. Atmos. Sci., 45, 81-93.
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- Bretherton, C. S., 1988: A mathematical model of
nonprecipitating convection between two parallel plates. Part
II: nonlinear theory and cloud organization. J. Atmos. Sci.,
45, 2391-2415.
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- Bretherton,
C. S., and P. K. Smolarkiewicz, 1989: Gravity waves,
compensating subsidence and detrainment around cumulus clouds.
J. Atmos. Sci., 46, 740-759.
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- Siems, S. T., C. S. Bretherton, M. B. Baker, S. Shy and
R. T. Breidenthal, 1990: Buoyancy reversal and cloudtop
entrainment instability. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 116,
705-739.
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- Bretherton, C. S., 1991: Modelling the Lagrangian evolution of
cloud-topped boundary layers. In Physical Processes in Atmospheric
Models, D. R. Sikka and S. S. Singh, eds., 97-119 (book chapter, not
peer reviewed).
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Bretherton, C. S., C. Smith, and J. M. Wallace, 1992: An
intercomparison of methods for finding coupled patterns in
climate data. J. Climate, 5, 541-560.
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Wallace, J. M., C. Smith and C. S. Bretherton, 1992: Singular value
decomposition of wintertime sea surface temperature and 500 mb height
anomalies. J. Climate, 5, 561-576.
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- Siems, S. T., and C. S. Bretherton, 1992: A numerical investigation
of cloud-top entrainment instability and related experiments.
Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 118, 787-818.
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- Rand,
H. A., and C. S. Bretherton, 1993: Relevance of the mesoscale
entrainment instability to the marine cloud-topped atmospheric
boundary layer. J. Atmos. Sci., 50, 1152-1158.
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- Bretherton,
C. S., and C. Schär, 1993: Flux of potential vorticity substance. A simple
derivation and a uniqueness property.
J. Atmos. Sci., 50, 1834-1836.
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- Bretherton,
C. S., 1993: Understanding Albrecht's model of trade cumulus cloud
fields. J. Atmos. Sci., 50, 2264-2283.
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- Siems,
S. T., D. H. Lenschow, and C. S. Bretherton, 1993: A numerical
study of the interaction between stratocumulus and the air overlying
it. J. Atmos. Sci., 50, 3663-3676.
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- Pandya, R., D. Durran and C. S. Bretherton, 1993: Comments on
'Thermally forced gravity waves in an atmosphere at rest'. J. Atmos. Sci., 50,
4097-4101.
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- Bretherton, C. S. , 1993: The nature of adjustment in cumulus
cloud fields. Meteorological Monographs, 24, 63-74 (monograph
chapter, peer-reviewed).
- Emanuel, K. A., J. D. Neelin and C. S. Bretherton, 1994: On
large-scale circulations in convecting atmospheres.
Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 120, 1111-1143.
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- Brown,
R., and C. S. Bretherton, 1995: Tropical wave instabilities:
Convective interaction with dynamics using the Emanuel cumulus
parameterization. J. Atmos. Sci., 52, 67-82.
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- Albrecht, B. A., C. S. Bretherton, D. Johnson, W. Schubert and
A. S. Frisch, 1995: The Atlantic Stratocumulus Transition
Experiment (ASTEX). Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 76, 889-903.
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- Bretherton,
C. S., and R. Pincus, 1995: Cloudiness and marine boundary layer
dynamics in the ASTEX Lagrangian experiments. Part I: Synoptic
setting and vertical structure.
J. Atmos. Sci., 52, 2707-2723.
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- Bretherton,
C. S., Austin, P., and S. T. Siems, 1995: Cloudiness and marine
boundary layer dynamics in the ASTEX Lagrangian experiments. Part II:
Cloudiness, drizzle, surface fluxes and entrainment.
J. Atmos. Sci., 52, 2724-2735.
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- Bretherton, C. S., E. Klinker, J. Coakley and A. K. Betts,
1995: Comparison of ceilometer, satellite and synoptic
measurements of boundary layer cloudiness and the ECMWF diagnostic
cloud parameterization scheme during ASTEX. J. Atmos. Sci., 52,
2736-2751.
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- Betts, A. K., C. S. Bretherton and E. Klinker, 1995: Relation
between mean boundary layer structure and cloudiness at the R/V
Valdivia during ASTEX. J. Atmos. Sci., 52, 2752-2762.
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- Emanuel, K., and coauthors, 1995: Report of the First
Prospectus Development Team of the U. S. Weather Research Program
to NOAA and the NSF.
Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 76, 1194-1208.
- Noone, K. J., R. D. Schillawski, G. L. Kok, C. S. Bretherton
and B. J. Huebert, 1996: Ozone in the marine atmosphere observed
during the Atlantic Stratocumulus Transition Experiment/ Marine
Aerosol and Gas Exchange. J. Geophys. Res., 101, 4485-4499.
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- Moeng,
C.-H., and coauthors, 1996: Simulation of a stratocumulus-topped PBL:
Intercomparison among different numerical codes.
Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 77, 261-278.
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Grinnell, S. A., C. S. Bretherton, D. E. Stevens and
A. M. Fraser, 1996: Vertical mass flux observations in
Hawaiian trade cumulus clouds by Doppler radar.
J. Atmos. Sci., 53, 1870-1886.
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Stevens, D. E., and C. S. Bretherton, 1996: A new
forward-in-time advection scheme and adaptive multilevel flow solver
for nearly incompressible atmospheric flow. J. Comp. Phys.,
129, 284-295.
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Bretherton, C. S., and M. C. Wyant, 1997: Moisture transport,
lower tropospheric stability and decoupling of cloud-topped boundary
layers. J. Atmos. Sci., 54, 148-167.
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Wyant, M. C., C. S. Bretherton, H. A. Rand, and D. E. Stevens,
1997: Numerical simulations and a conceptual model of the
stratocumulus to trade cumulus transition. J. Atmos. Sci., 54, 168-192.
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Brown, R., and C. S. Bretherton, 1997: A test of the strict
quasi-equilibrium theory on long time and space scales.
J. Atmos. Sci., 54, 624-638.
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Pincus, R., M. B. Baker, and C. S. Bretherton, 1997: What
controls stratocumulus radiative properties? Lagrangian observations of cloud
evolution. J. Atmos. Sci., 54, 2215-2236.
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- Bretherton,
C. S., 1997: Convection in stratocumulus-capped atmospheric
boundary layers. In The Physics and Parameterization of Moist
Atmospheric Convection, R. K. Smith, ed., Kluwer Publishers,
127-142 (peer-reviewed book chapter).
- Bretherton,
C. S., 1997: Entrainment, detrainment, and mixing in atmospheric
convection. In The Physics and Parameterization of Moist
Atmospheric Convection, R. K. Smith, ed., Kluwer Publishers,
211-230 (peer-reviewed book chapter).
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Bretherton, C. S., 1998: Comment on `Wave-CISK of
equatorial waves and the vertical distribution of cumulus heating.
J. Atmos. Sci., 55, 1904-1905.
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Bretherton, C. S. and H. Grenier, 1998: A new look at an old
approach for parameterization of shallow moist
convection. Proceedings of the GCSS-WGNE Workshop on Cloud
Processes and Cloud Feedbacks in Large Scale Models, 11/98
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Bretherton, C. S., and coauthors,
1999: An intercomparison of radiatively- driven entrainment and
turbulence in a smoke cloud, as simulated by different numerical
models. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 125, 391-423.
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Stevens, D. E., and C. S. Bretherton, 1999: Effects of grid
resolution on large-eddy simulation of radiatively-driven entrainment through
a strong inversion. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 125, 425-439.
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Bretherton,
C. S., M. Widmann, V. P. Dymnikov, J. M. Wallace, and I. Blade,
1999: Effective number of degrees of freedom of a spatial field.
J. Climate, 12, 1990-2009.
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Su, H., S. S. Chen, and C. S. Bretherton, 1999:
Three-dimensional week-long simulations of TOGA-COARE convective
systems using the MM5 mesoscale model. J. Atmos. Sci., 56, 2326-2344.
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- Sobel,
A. H., and C. S. Bretherton, 1999: Development of synoptic-scale
disturbances over the summertime tropical northwest Pacific.
J. Atmos. Sci., 56, 3106-3217.
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- Bretherton, C. S., S. K. Krueger, M. C. Wyant, P. Bechtold, E. van
Meijgaard, B. Stevens, and J. Teixeira, 1999: A GCSS boundary layer model
intercomparison study of the first ASTEX Lagrangian experiment.
Bound.-Layer Meteor., 93, 341-380.
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Bretherton, C. S. and D. S. Battisti, 2000:. An interpretation of
the results from atmospheric general circulation models forced by the
time history of the observed sea surface temperature distribution.
Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 767-770.
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Su, H., C. S. Bretherton, and S. S. Chen, 2000: Self-aggregation
and large-scale control of tropical deep convection: A modeling study.
J. Atmos. Sci., 57, 1797-1816.
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Moskowitz, B. M., and C. S. Bretherton, 2000: An analysis of
frictional feedback on a moist equatorial Kelvin mode.
J. Atmos. Sci., 57, 2188-2206.
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Widmann, M., and C. S. Bretherton, 2000: Validation of mesoscale
precipitation in the NCEP reanalysis using a new gridcell dataset
for the northwestern United States.
J. Climate, 13, 1936-1950.
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Beesley, T. A., C. S. Bretherton, C. Jakob, E. L Andreas,
J. M. Intrieri, and T. A. Uttal, 2000: A comparison of the ECMWF
forecast model with observations at SHEBA, J. Geophys. Res.,
105, 12337-12349.
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- Durkee, P. A. and coauthors, 2000: The impact of ship-produced
aerosols on the microstructure and albedo of warm marine stratocumulus
clouds: A test of MAST hypotheses 1i and 1ii.
J. Atmos. Sci., 57, 2554-2569.
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Coakley, J.A., and coauthors, 2000: The appearance and
disappearance of ship tracks on large spatial scales.
J. Atmos. Sci., 57, 2765-2778.
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Sobel, A. H., and C. S. Bretherton, 2000:. Modeling tropical
precipitation in a single column. J. Climate, 13, 4378-4392.
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- Grenier,
H. and C. S. Bretherton, 2001: A moist PBL parameterization for
large-scale models and its application to subtropical cloud-topped
marine boundary layers. Mon. Wea. Rev., 129, 357-377.
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Carr, Matthew T., and C. S. Bretherton, 2001: Convective momentum
transport over the tropical Pacific: Budget estimates.
J. Atmos. Sci., 58, 1673-1693.
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- Sobel,
A. H., I. M. Held, and C. S. Bretherton, 2002: The ENSO signal in
tropical tropospheric temperature. J. Climate, 15,
2702-2706.
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- Bretherton,
C. S., and A. H. Sobel, 2002: A simple model of a
convectively-coupled Walker circulation using the weak temperature
gradient approximation. J. Climate, 15, 2907-2920.
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Stevens, D. E., A. S. Ackerman, and C. S. Bretherton, 2002:
Effects of domain size and numerical resolution on the simulation of
shallow cumulus convection. J. Atmos. Sci., 59, 3285-3301.
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- Wood,
R., C. S. Bretherton, and D. L. Hartmann, 2002: Diurnal cycle of
liquid water path over the subtropical and tropical oceans.
Geophys. Res. Lett., 29(23),2092, doi:10.1029/2002GL015371.
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- Raymond, D., G. Raga, and C. Bretherton, 2002: Deep
convection over the tropical east Pacific. CLIVAR
Exchanges, No. 24 (June)
- Cullen, A. C., and C. S. Bretherton, 2002: Progressing toward
environmental sustainability. In Making Progress: Essays in
Progress and Public Policy, J. Looney and C. L. Anderson,
Eds., Lexington Books, pp. 379-407.
- Bretherton,
C. S., 2002: The EPIC 2001 stratocumulus study: Is drizzle a
swizzle? U. S. CLIVAR Variations, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 4-6.
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Bretherton, C. S., and A. H. Sobel, 2003: The Gill model and the
weak temperature gradient approximation. J. Atmos. Sci., 60, 451-460.
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- Sobel,
A. H., and C. S. Bretherton, 2003: Large-scale waves interacting
with deep convection in idealized mesoscale model
simulations. Tellus, 55A, 45-60.
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Roode, S. R., and C. S. Bretherton, 2003: Massflux budgets of
shallow cumulus clouds. J. Atmos. Sci., 60, 137-151.
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Widmann, M., C. S. Bretherton, and E. P. Salathé Jr, 2003: Statistical
precipitation downscaling over the Northwestern United States using
numerically simulated precipitation as a predictor. J. Climate,
16, 799-816.
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Zhang, M., W. Lin, C. S. Bretherton, J. J. Hack, and P. J. Rasch,
2003: A modified formulation of fractional stratiform condensation
rate in the NCAR Community Atmosphere Model CAM2.
J. Geophys. Res., 108(D1), 4035, doi:10.1029/2002JD002523.
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C. S. Bretherton, 2003: Empirical Orthogonal Functions and Singular
Vectors. Encyclopedia of
Atmospheric Sciences, J. R. Holton, J. A. Pyle, and J. Curry,
eds., 617-620.
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C. S. Bretherton, 2003: Wave-CISK. Encyclopedia of Atmospheric
Sciences, J. R. Holton, J. A. Pyle, and J. Curry, eds.,
1019-1021.
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Randall, D. A., et al., 2003: Confronting models with data. The
GEWEX Cloud Systems Study. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. , 84,455-469.
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- Stevens,
B., et al., 2003: Dynamics and Chemistry of Marine
Stratocumulus -- DYCOMS-II. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 84, 579-593.
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Siebesma, A. P., C. S. Bretherton, and 11 coauthors, 2003: A
large-eddy simulation intercomparison study of shallow cumulus
convection. J. Atmos. Sci., 60, 1201-1219.
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Boville, B. O., and C. S. Bretherton, 2003: Heating and
dissipation in the NCAR Community Atmosphere Model. J. Climate
, 16, 3877-3887.
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- Raymond,
D. J., G. Raga, C. S. Bretherton, J. Molinari,
C. Lopez-Carillo, and Z. Fuchs, 2003: Convective Forcing in the
Intertropical Convergence Zone of the East
Pacific. J. Atmos. Sci., 60, 2064-2082.
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Sobel, A. H., S. E. Yuter, C. S. Bretherton, and G.N. Kiladis, 2004:
Large-scale meteorology and deep convection during TRMM
KWAJEX. Mon. Wea. Rev., 132, 422-444.
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Bretherton, C. S., J. R. McCaa, and H. Grenier, 2004: A new
parameterization for shallow cumulus convection and its application to
marine subtropical cloud-topped boundary layers. Part I: Description
and 1-D results. Mon. Wea. Rev., 132, 864-882.
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McCaa, J. R., and C. S. Bretherton, 2004: A new parameterization
for shallow cumulus convection and its application to marine
subtropical cloud-topped boundary layers. Part II: Regional
simulations of marine boundary layer clouds. Mon. Wea. Rev.,
132, 883-896.
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- Bretherton, C. S., M. E. Peters, and L. E. Back, 2004: Relationships
between water vapor path and precipitation over the tropical oceans.
J. Climate, 17, 1517-1528.
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- Bretherton,
C. S., R. Ferrari, and S. Legg, 2004: Climate Process Teams: A new
approach to improving climate models. U.S. CLIVAR Variations,
Vol. 2, No. 1, 1-6.
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S. P. DeSzoeke and C. S. Bretherton, 2004: Quasi-Lagrangian large
eddy simulations of cross-equatorial flow in the east Pacific
atmospheric boundary layer. J. Atmos. Sci., 61, 1837-1858.
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Bretherton, C. S., T. Uttal, C. W. Fairall, S. Yuter, R. Weller,
D. Baumgardner, K. Comstock, R. Wood, and G. Raga, 2004: The EPIC
2001 stratocumulus study. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 85,
967-977.
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Wood,
R., and C. S. Bretherton, 2004: Boundary layer depth, entrainment
and decoupling in the cloud-capped subtropical and tropical marine
boundary layer. J. Climate, 17, 3575-3587.
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Raymond, D. J., and coauthors,
2004: EPIC2001 and the coupled ocean-atmosphere system of the
tropical East Pacific. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 85, 1341-1354.
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Zhu, P., and C. S. Bretherton, 2004: A simulation study of shallow
moist convection and its impact on the atmospheric boundary
layer. Mon. Wea. Rev., 132, 2391-2409.
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- Durran, D. R.,
and C. S. Bretherton, 2004: Comments on "The Roles of the Horizontal Component of the
Earth's Angular Velocity in Nonhydrostatic Linear
Models". J. Atmos. Sci., 61, 1982-1986.
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Kuang, Z., and C. S. Bretherton, 2004: Convective influence of the heat
balance of the tropical tropopause layer: A cloud-resolving model
study. J. Atmos. Sci., 61, 2919-2927. Full text copy.
- Sobel, A. H., C. S. Bretherton, H. Gildor and M. Peters,
2004: Convection, cloud-radiative feedbacks and thermodynamic ocean
coupling in simple models of the Walker
circulation. Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction and Climate
Variability, Chunzai Wang, Shang-Ping Xie, and Jim Carton, Eds.,
Amer. Geophys. Union Geophysical Monograph 147, 393-405.
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Comstock,
K. K., R. Wood, S. E. Yuter, and C. S. Bretherton,
2004: Reflectivity and rain rate in and below drizzling stratocumulus
Quart. J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc., 130, 2891-2918.
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- Kuang,
Z., P. N. Blossey, and C. S. Bretherton, 2005: A new approach for 3D cloud
resolving simulations of large scale atmospheric circulation, Geophys.
Res. Lett., 32, L02809, doi: 10.1029/2004GL021024. Full text copy. Movie
(requires Flash) of precipitable water and OLR from the first 100 days
of a DARE simulation of a 20000 km (E-W) by 11000 km (N-S)
equatorially centered beta channel on an aquaplanet forced by
climatological zonally averaged SSTs, using a DARE factor of 10 and
the Khairoutdinov-Randall SAM6.1 cloud-resolving model with a 4 km
horizontal grid and 64 vertical levels. Domain is E-W periodic with
rigid N-S boundaries. Note interaction of midlatitude cyclones with
ITCZ moisture in the subtropics, as well as Kelvin waves in the ITCZ.
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Stevens, B., G. Vali, K. Comstock, R. Wood, M. C. van Zanten,
P. H. Austin, C. S. Bretherton, and D. H. Lenschow, 2005: Pockets of open cells (POCs) and drizzle in marine stratocumulus.
Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 86, 51–57.
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DeSzoeke,
S. P., C. S. Bretherton, N. A. Bond, M. F. Cronin, and B. M. Morley,
2005: EPIC 95W observations of the eastern Pacific atmospheric
boundary layer from the cold tongue to the ITCZ.
J. Atmos. Sci., 62, 426-442.
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Quadrelli,
R., C. S. Bretherton, and J. M. Wallace, 2005: On sampling errors
in empirical orthogonal functions. J. Climate, 18, 3704-3710.
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Stevens,
B., and coauthors, 2005: Observations of nocturnal marine
stratocumulus as represented by large eddy simulation.
Mon. Wea. Rev., 133, 1443-1462.
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Zhu,
P., and coauthors, 2005: Intercomparison and interpretation of
single column model simulations of a nocturnal stratocumulus topped
marine boundary layer. Mon. Wea. Rev., 133, 2741-2758.
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Caldwell,
P., C. S. Bretherton, and R. Wood, 2005: Mixed-layer budget
analysis of the diurnal cycle of entrainment in SE Pacific
stratocumulus. J. Atmos. Sci., 62, 3775-3791.
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Comstock,
K. K., C. S. Bretherton, and S. E. Yuter, 2005: Mesoscale
variability and drizzle in southeast Pacific
stratocumulus. J. Atmos. Sci., 62, 3792-3807.
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Back,
L. E., and C. S. Bretherton, 2005: The relationship between wind
speed and precipitation in the Pacific ITCZ. J. Climate,
18, 4317-4328.
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Peters,
M. E., and C. S. Bretherton, 2005:
A simplified model of the Walker circulation with an interactive ocean
mixed layer and cloud-radiative feedbacks. J. Climate,
18, 4216-4234.
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Bretherton, C. S., P. N. Blossey, and
M. Khairoutdinov, 2005: An energy-balance analysis of deep convective self-aggregation above
uniform SST. J. Atmos. Sci., 62, 4273-4292.
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de Szoeke, S. P., and C. S. Bretherton, 2005: Variability in the
southerly flow into the eastern Pacific ITCZ. J. Atmos. Sci.,
62, 4400-4411.
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Cornish,
C. R., C. S. Bretherton, and D. B. Percival, 2006: Wavelet
analysis of marine boundary layer turbulence during
EPIC. Bound.-Layer Meteor., doi:10.1007/s10546-005-9011-y.
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Raymond, D. J., C. S. Bretherton, and J. Molinari, 2006: Dynamics of the intertropical convergence zone of the
east Pacific.
J. Atmos. Sci., 63, 582–597.
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Wyant, M.
C., M. Khairoutdinov, and C. S. Bretherton, 2006: Climate sensitivity and cloud response of
a GCM with a superparameterization. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33,
L06714, doi:10.1029/2005GL025464.
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Wyant, M. C., C. S. Bretherton, J. T. Bacmeister, J. T. Kiehl, I. M. Held, M.
Zhao, S. A. Klein, and B. A. Soden, 2006: A comparison of low-latitude cloud properties and their response to climate change in three AGCMs sorted into regimes using mid-tropospheric vertical velocity. Climate Dyn., 27, 261-279.
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Collins, W. D., and coauthors, 2006: The
Community Climate System Model: CCSM3.
J. Climate, 19, 2122-2143.
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Kuang, Z.,
and C. S. Bretherton, 2006: A mass flux scheme view of a
high-resolution simulation of transition from shallow to deep cumulus
convection. J. Atmos. Sci., 63, 1895-1909.
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Bony, S., and coauthors, 2006: How well do we understand climate change
feedback processes? J. Climate, 19, 3445-3482.
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Bretherton, C. S., P. N. Blossey,
and M. E. Peters, 2006:
Comparison of simple and cloud-resolving models of moist
convection-radiation interaction with a mock-Walker
circulation. Theor. Comp. Fluid. Dyn.,
doi:10.1007/s00162-006-0029-7.
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Peters, M. E., and C. S. Bretherton, 2006: Structure of tropical
variability from a vertical mode
perspective. Theor. Comp. Fluid. Dyn.,
doi:10.1007/s00162-006-0034-x.
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Back, L. E, and C. S. Bretherton, 2006: Geographic variability in the
export of moist static energy and vertical motion profiles in the Tropical
Pacific.
Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L17810, doi:10.1029/2006GL026672.
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Wood, R., and C. S. Bretherton, 2006: On the relationship between
stratiform low cloud cover and lower tropospheric stability. J.
Climate.,
19, 6425-6432.
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Bretherton, C. S., P. N. Blossey,
and J. Uchida, 2007: Cloud droplet
sedimentation, entrainment efficiency, and subtropical stratocumulus albedo.
Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L03813, doi:10.1029/2006GL027648.
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Blossey, P. N., C. S. Bretherton, J. Cetrone, and M. Khairoutdinov, 2007:
Cloud-resolving model simulations of KWAJEX: Model sensitivities and
comparisons with satellite and radar observations. J. Atmos. Sci.,
64, 1488-1508.
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Bretherton, C. S., 2007:
Challenges in Numerical Modeling of Tropical Circulations. In The Global Circulation of the Atmosphere,
T. Schneider and A. H. Sobel, Eds., Princeton University Press, pp. 302-330.
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Zhu, P., J. T. Kiehl, J. J. Hack, and C. S. Bretherton, 2007:
Climate sensitivity of tropical and subtropical marine low cloud amount to
ENSO and global warming due to doubled CO2.
J. Geophys. Res., 112, D17108, doi:10.1029/2006JD008174. Full
text copy.
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Comstock, K. K., S. E. Yuter, R. Wood, and C. S. Bretherton, 2007:
The three-dimensional structure and kinematics of drizzling stratocumulus.
Mon. Wea. Rev., 135, 3767-3784.
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Wyant, M., and coauthors, 2007: A single-column model
intercomparison of a heavily drizzling stratocumulus-topped boundary layer.
J. Geophys. Res., 112, D24204, doi:10.1029/2007JD008536.
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Teixeira, J., and coauthors, 2008:
Parameterization of the atmospheric boundary layer:
A view from just above the inversion. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc.,
89, 453-458.
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Bretherton, C. S., and S. Park, 2008: A new bulk shallow
cumulus model and implications for penetrative entrainment feedback
on updraft buoyancy. J. Atmos. Sci., 65, 2174-2193.
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- Wood, R., K. K. Comstock, C. S. Bretherton, C. Cornish,
J. Tomlinson, D. R. Collins, and C. Fairall, 2008: Open cellular
structure in marine stratocumulus cloud sheets.
J. Geophys. Res., 113, D12207, doi:10.1029/2007JD009371.
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Zhang, M., and C. S. Bretherton, 2008: Mechanisms of low cloud
climate feedback in idealized single-column simulations with the
Community Atmospheric Model (CAM3). J. Climate, 21, 4859-4878. Full text copy.
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Meideiros, B. P., B. Stevens, Held, I. M., M. Zhao, D. L. Williamson, J. G.
Olson, and C. S. Bretherton, 2008: Aquaplanets,
climate sensitivity and low clouds. J. Climate, 21, 4974-4991.
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- Petch,
J. C., P. N. Blossey, and C. S. Bretherton, 2008: Differences in
the lower troposphere in two- and three-dimensional cloud-resolving
model simulations of deep convection.
Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., ,134, 1941-1946. Full text copy.
- Caldwell, P., and C. S. Bretherton, 2009:
Response of a subtropical stratocumulus-capped mixed layer to climate and
aerosol changes. J. Climate, 22, 20-38.
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Bretherton, C. S., and D. L. Hartmann, 2009: Large-scale
controls on cloudiness. Peer-reviewed book chapter for
Perturbed Clouds in the Climate System: Their Relationship to
Energy Balance, Atmospheric Dynamics and Precipitation,
eds. J. Heintzenberg and R. J. Charlson. Strungmann Forum Reports,
vol. 2, MIT Press. 217-234.
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Siebesma, A. P., J.-L. Brenguier, C. S. Bretherton,
W. W. Grabowski, J. Heintzenberg, B. Kaercher, K. Lehmann, J. C>
Petch, P. Spichtinger, B. Stevens and F. Stratmann, 2009:
Cloud-controlling factors. Peer-reviewed book chapter for
Perturbed Clouds in the Climate System: Their Relationship to
Energy Balance, Atmospheric Dynamics and Precipitation,
eds. J. Heintzenberg and R. J. Charlson. Strungmann Forum Reports,
Vol. 2, MIT Press. 269-290.
- Caldwell, P., and C. S. Bretherton, 2009: Large eddy simulation of the diurnal cycle in Southeast Pacific stratocumulus. J. Atmos. Sci., 66, 432-449. Full text copy.
- Ackerman, A. S., and coauthors, 2009: Large-eddy simulations of a drizzling, stratocumulus-topped marine boundary layer. Mon. Wea. Rev., 137, 1083-1110. Full text copy.
- Lopez, M. A., D. L. Hartmann, P. N. Blossey, R. Wood,
C. S. Bretherton, and T. L. Kubar, 2009: A test of the simulation
of tropical convective cloudiness by a cloud-resolving model.
J. Climate, 22, 2834-2849. Full text copy.
- Hannay,
C., D. L Williamson, J. J Hack, J. T. Kiehl, J. G. Olson, S. A. Klein,
C. S. Bretherton, and M. Koehler, 2009: Evaluation of forecasted
Southeast Pacific stratocumulus in the NCAR, GFDL and ECMWF
models. J. Climate, 22, 2871-2889. Full text copy.
- Bretherton, C. S., and S. Park, 2009: A new moist turbulence parameterization in the Community Atmosphere Model. J. Climate, 22, 3422-3448. Full text copy.
- Park, S. and C. S. Bretherton, 2009: The University of Washington shallow convection and moist turbulence schemes and their impact on climate simulations with the Community Atmosphere Model. J. Climate, 22, 3449-3469. Full text copy.
- Back, L. E, and C. S. Bretherton, 2009: On the relationship
between SST gradients, boundary layer winds and convergence over
the tropical oceans. J. Climate, 22, 4182-4196.
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- Wyant, M. C., C. S. Bretherton, and P. N. Blossey, 2009: Understanding subtropical low cloud response to a warmer climate in a superparameterized climate model. Part I: Regime sorting and physical mechanisms. Journal of Advancing Modeling Earth Systems, 1, Art. #7, 11 pp., doi:10.3894/JAMES.2009.1.7.
- Blossey,
P. N., C. S. Bretherton, and M. C. Wyant, 2009: Understanding
subtropical low cloud response to a warmer climate in a
superparameterized climate model. Part II: Column modeling with a
cloud-resolving model. Journal of Advancing Modeling Earth
Systems, 1, Art. #8, 14 pp., doi:10.3894/JAMES.2009.1.8 .
- Hohenegger, C., P. Brockhaus, C. S. Bretherton and C. Schar, 2009: The soil moisture-precipitation feedback in simulations with explicit and parameterized convection. J. Climate, 22, 5003-5020. Full text copy.
- Back, L. E, and C. S. Bretherton, 2009: A simple model of
climatological precipitation and vertical motion patterns over the
tropical oceans. J. Climate, 22, 6477-6497. Full text copy.
- Fletcher, J. K., and C. S. Bretherton, 2010: Evaluating boundary-layer based mass flux closures using cloud-resolving model simulations of deep convection. J. Atmos. Sci., 67, 2212-2225. Full text copy.
- Zhang, M., C. S. Bretherton, M. Webb, and P. Siebesma, 2010: CFMIP-GCSS Intercomparison of Large Eddy Models and Single Column Models (CGILS). GEWEX News, 20, #2 (May).
- Uchida, J., C. S, Bretherton, and P. N. Blossey, 2010: The sensitivity of stratocumulus-capped mixed layers to cloud droplet concentration: Do LES and mixed-layer models agree? Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 4097-4109.
- Wyant, M. C., and coauthors, 2010: The PreVOCA Experiment: Modeling the lower troposphere in the Southeast Pacific. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 4757-4774.
- Bretherton, C. S., R. Wood, R. C. George., D. Leon, G. Allen, and X. Zheng, 2010: Southeast Pacific stratocumulus clouds, precipitation and boundary layer structure sampled along 20 S during VOCALS-REx. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 10639-10654.
- Bretherton, C. S, J. Uchida, and P. N. Blossey, 2010: Slow manifolds and multiple equilibria in stratocumulus-capped boundary layers. Journal of Advancing Modeling Earth Systems, 2, Art.#14, 20 pp.
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