Tropical cyclone frequency

AH Sobel, AA Wing, SJ Camargo, CM Patricola… - Earth's …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The frequency with which tropical cyclones (TCs) occur controls all other aspects of tropical
cyclone risk since a storm that does not occur can do no harm. Yet this frequency is poorly …

[HTML][HTML] Global cloud-resolving models

M Satoh, B Stevens, F Judt, M Khairoutdinov… - Current Climate Change …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Global cloud-resolving models (GCRMs) are a new type of
atmospheric model which resolve nonhydrostatic accelerations globally with kilometer-scale …

Clouds and convective self‐aggregation in a multimodel ensemble of radiative‐convective equilibrium simulations

AA Wing, CL Stauffer, T Becker… - Journal of Advances …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Radiative‐Convective Equilibrium Model Intercomparison Project (RCEMIP) is
an intercomparison of multiple types of numerical models configured in radiative‐convective …

[HTML][HTML] Radiative forcing from aerosol–cloud interactions enhanced by large-scale circulation adjustments

G Dagan, N Yeheskel, AIL Williams - Nature Geoscience, 2023 - nature.com
The impact of anthropogenic aerosols on clouds is a leading source of uncertainty in
estimating the effect of human activity on the climate system. The challenge lies in the scale …

[HTML][HTML] Spontaneous aggregation of convective storms

C Muller, D Yang, G Craig, T Cronin… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Idealized simulations of the tropical atmosphere have predicted that clouds can
spontaneously clump together in space, despite perfectly homogeneous settings. This …

Water vapor and lapse rate feedbacks in the climate system

R Colman, BJ Soden - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2021 - APS
Water vapor is a greenhouse gas that dominates Earth's terrestrial radiation absorption. As
the planetary temperature warms, forced by increasing CO 2 and other greenhouse gases …

[HTML][HTML] The Zero Emissions Commitment and climate stabilization

S Palazzo Corner, M Siegert, P Ceppi… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
How do we halt global warming? Reaching net zero carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions is
understood to be a key milestone on the path to a safer planet. But how confident are we that …

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 …

The influence of the stratosphere on the tropical troposphere

P Haynes, P Hitchcock, M Hitchman… - Journal of the …, 2021 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Observational and model studies suggest that the stratosphere exerts a significant influence
on the tropical troposphere. The corresponding influence, through dynamical coupling, of …

Atmospheric convection plays a key role in the climate of tidally locked terrestrial exoplanets: Insights from high-resolution simulations

DE Sergeev, FH Lambert, NJ Mayne… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Using a 3D general circulation model (GCM), we investigate the sensitivity of the climate of
tidally locked Earthlike exoplanets, Trappist-1e and Proxima Centauri b, to the choice of a …