Quantifying climate feedbacks in polar regions

H Goosse, JE Kay, KC Armour… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The concept of feedback is key in assessing whether a perturbation to a system is amplified
or damped by mechanisms internal to the system. In polar regions, climate dynamics are …

Observations of clouds, aerosols, precipitation, and surface radiation over the Southern Ocean: An overview of CAPRICORN, MARCUS, MICRE, and SOCRATES

GM McFarquhar, CS Bretherton… - Bulletin of the …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
Weather and climate models are challenged by uncertainties and biases in simulating
Southern Ocean (SO) radiative fluxes that trace to a poor understanding of cloud, aerosol …

Earth system modeling 2.0: A blueprint for models that learn from observations and targeted high‐resolution simulations

T Schneider, S Lan, A Stuart… - Geophysical Research …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Climate projections continue to be marred by large uncertainties, which originate in
processes that need to be parameterized, such as clouds, convection, and ecosystems. But …

The Met Office Unified Model global atmosphere 7.0/7.1 and JULES global land 7.0 configurations

D Walters, AJ Baran, I Boutle, M Brooks… - Geoscientific Model …, 2019 - gmd.copernicus.org
We describe Global Atmosphere 7.0 and Global Land 7.0 (GA7. 0/GL7. 0), the latest science
configurations of the Met Office Unified Model (UM) and the Joint UK Land Environment …

Stable isotopes in atmospheric water vapor and applications to the hydrologic cycle

J Galewsky, HC Steen‐Larsen, RD Field… - Reviews of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The measurement and simulation of water vapor isotopic composition has matured rapidly
over the last decade, with long‐term data sets and comprehensive modeling capabilities …

Opinion: Cloud-phase climate feedback and the importance of ice-nucleating particles

BJ Murray, KS Carslaw, PR Field - Atmospheric Chemistry and …, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
Shallow clouds covering vast areas of the world's middle-and high-latitude oceans play a
key role in dampening the global temperature rise associated with CO 2. These clouds …

An underestimated negative cloud feedback from cloud lifetime changes

J Mülmenstädt, M Salzmann, JE Kay… - Nature Climate …, 2021 - nature.com
As the atmosphere warms, part of the cloud population shifts from ice and mixed-phase
('cold') to liquid ('warm') clouds. Because warm clouds are more reflective and longer-lived …

Global climate impacts of fixing the Southern Ocean shortwave radiation bias in the Community Earth System Model (CESM)

JE Kay, C Wall, V Yettella, B Medeiros… - Journal of …, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
A large, long-standing, and pervasive climate model bias is excessive absorbed shortwave
radiation (ASR) over the midlatitude oceans, especially the Southern Ocean. This study …

[HTML][HTML] CloudSat and CALIPSO within the A-Train: Ten years of actively observing the Earth system

G Stephens, D Winker, J Pelon… - Bulletin of the …, 2018 - journals.ametsoc.org
CloudSat and CALIPSO within the A-Train: Ten Years of Actively Observing the Earth System
in: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Volume 99 Issue 3 (2018) Jump to Content …

Strong control of Southern Ocean cloud reflectivity by ice-nucleating particles

J Vergara-Temprado, AK Miltenberger… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Large biases in climate model simulations of cloud radiative properties over the Southern
Ocean cause large errors in modeled sea surface temperatures, atmospheric circulation …