Matthew Wyant

Research Scientist
Department of Atmospheric Sciences
University of Washington

Interests:

Recent Publications:

Wyant, M. C., C. S. Bretherton, P. N. Blossey, and M. Khairoutdinov:
Fast Cloud Adjustment to Increasing CO2 in a Superparameterized Climate Model. Revised for J. Adv. Model Earth Syst. Jan, 2012.

Wyant, M. C., R. Wood, C.S. Bretherton, C. R. Mechoso, J. Bacmeister, M. A. Balmaseda, B. Barrett, F. Codron, P. Earnshaw, J. Fast, C. Hannay, J. W. Kaiser, H. Kitagawa, S. A. Klein, M. Köhler, J. Manganello, H.-L. Pan, F. Sun, S. Wang, and Y. Wang, 2010:
The PreVOCA Experiment: Modeling the lower troposphere in the Southeast Pacific. Atmos Chem. Phys., 10, 4757-4774, doi:10.5194/acp-10-4757-2010

Wyant, M. C., C. S. Bretherton, and P. N. Blossey, 2009:
Subtropical Low Cloud Response to a Warmer Climate in a Superparameterized Climate Model: Part I. Regime Sorting and Physical Mechanisms, J. Adv. Model Earth Syst., Volume 1, Article #7, 11pp., doi:10.3894/JAMES.2009.1.7

Blossey, P. N., C. S. Bretherton, and M. C. Wyant, 2009:
Subtropical Low Cloud Response to a Warmer Climate in a Superparameterized Climate Model: Part II. Column Modeling with a Cloud Resolving Model, J. Adv. Model Earth Syst., Volume 1, Article #8, 14pp., doi:10.3894/JAMES.2009.1.8

Wyant, M. C., C. S. Bretherton, A. Chlond, B. M. Griffin, H. Kitagawa, C.-L. Lappen, V. E. Larson, A. Lock, S. Park, S. R. de Roode, J. Uchida, M. Zhao, and A. S. Ackerman, 2007:
A single-column model intercomparison of a heavily drizzling stratocumulus-topped boundary layer, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, D24204, doi:10.1029/2007JD008536

Wyant, M. C., C. S. Bretherton, J. T. Bacmeister, J. T. Kiehl, I. M. Held, M. Zhao, S. A. Klein, B. J. Soden, 2006:
A Comparison of Low-Latitude Cloud Properties and Responses in AGCMs Sorted into Regimes using Mid-Tropospheric Vertical Velocity,
Climate Dynamics, Volume 27, Issue 2 - 3, Aug 2006, Pages 261 - 279, DOI 10.1007/s00382-006-0138-4 (Pre-publication Version)

Wyant, M. C., M. Khairoutdinov, and C. S. Bretherton, 2006:
Climate sensitivity and cloud response of a GCM with a superparameterization,
Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L06714, doi:10.1029/2005GL025464

Research Links:

  • VOCA Experiment Specification
  • Low Latitude Climate Feedbacks CPT Home page
  • UW CPT Research
  • GCSS Working Group 1 Home page
  • GCSS DYCOMS RF02 SCM Intercomparison Results
    • Email: mwyant at atmos.washington.edu
    Phone: 206-685-9526