Cloud feedback mechanisms and their representation in global climate models

P Ceppi, F Brient, MD Zelinka… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Cloud feedback—the change in top‐of‐atmosphere radiative flux resulting from the cloud
response to warming—constitutes by far the largest source of uncertainty in the climate …

Model hierarchies for understanding atmospheric circulation

P Maher, EP Gerber, B Medeiros… - Reviews of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In this review, we highlight the complementary relationship between simple and
comprehensive models in addressing key scientific questions to describe Earth's …

Could machine learning break the convection parameterization deadlock?

P Gentine, M Pritchard, S Rasp… - Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Representing unresolved moist convection in coarse‐scale climate models remains one of
the main bottlenecks of current climate simulations. Many of the biases present with …

EUREC4A: A Field Campaign to Elucidate the Couplings Between Clouds, Convection and Circulation

S Bony, B Stevens, F Ament, S Bigorre, P Chazette… - Surveys in …, 2017 - Springer
Trade-wind cumuli constitute the cloud type with the highest frequency of occurrence on
Earth, and it has been shown that their sensitivity to changing environmental conditions will …

The cloud feedback model intercomparison project (CFMIP) contribution to CMIP6

MJ Webb, T Andrews, A Bodas-Salcedo… - Geoscientific Model …, 2017 - gmd.copernicus.org
The primary objective of CFMIP is to inform future assessments of cloud feedbacks through
improved understanding of cloud–climate feedback mechanisms and better evaluation of …

[HTML][HTML] Rethinking the lower bound on aerosol radiative forcing

B Stevens - Journal of Climate, 2015 - journals.ametsoc.org
Rethinking the Lower Bound on Aerosol Radiative Forcing in: Journal of Climate Volume 28
Issue 12 (2015) Jump to Content Jump to Main Navigation Logo Logo Logo Logo Logo Logo …

Sugar, gravel, fish, and flowers: Dependence of mesoscale patterns of trade‐wind clouds on environmental conditions

S Bony, H Schulz, J Vial… - Geophysical research …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Trade‐wind clouds exhibit a large diversity of spatial organizations at the mesoscale. Over
the tropical western Atlantic, a recent study has visually identified four prominent mesoscale …

Circulation response to warming shaped by radiative changes of clouds and water vapour

A Voigt, TA Shaw - Nature Geoscience, 2015 - nature.com
The atmospheric circulation controls how global climate change will be expressed
regionally. Substantial circulation changes are expected under global warming, including a …

A perspective on climate model hierarchies

N Jeevanjee, P Hassanzadeh, S Hill… - Journal of Advances …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
To understand Earth's climate, climate modelers employ a hierarchy of climate models
spanning a wide spectrum of complexity and comprehensiveness. This essay, inspired by …

Tropical expansion driven by poleward advancing midlatitude meridional temperature gradients

H Yang, G Lohmann, J Lu, EJ Gowan… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
An abundance of evidence indicates that the tropics are expanding. Despite many attempts
to decipher the cause, the underlying dynamical mechanism driving tropical expansion is …