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An Assessment of Short-term Global and East Asian Local Climate Feedbacks using New Radiative Kernels
This study estimates short-term climate feedbacks by using a new set of radiative kernels applied to observations and the Coupled Model...
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Tropical Deep Convection, Cloud Feedbacks and Climate Sensitivity
This paper is concerned with how the diabatically-forced overturning circulations of the atmosphere, established by the deep convection within the...
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Investigating the impact of cloud-radiative feedbacks on tropical precipitation extremes
Although societally important, extreme precipitation is difficult to represent in climate models. This study shows one robust aspect of extreme...
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Evaluation and attribution of shortwave feedbacks to ENSO in CMIP6 models
The shortwave (SW) feedback to El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is one of the largest biases in climate models, as the feedback includes...
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The Representation of Soil Moisture-Atmosphere Feedbacks across the Tibetan Plateau in CMIP6
Thermal processes on the Tibetan Plateau (TP) influence atmospheric conditions on regional and global scales. Given this, previous work has shown...
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Detailing cloud property feedbacks with a regime-based decomposition
Diagnosing the root causes of cloud feedback in climate models and reasons for inter-model disagreement is a necessary first step in understanding...
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Radiative Forcing and Global Warming
Fundamental to understanding climate change is understanding the energy budget between solar and infrared radiation. Radiative forcing represents the...
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Weak Hadley cell intensity changes due to compensating effects of tropical and extratropical radiative forcing
The Hadley cell response to globally increasing CO 2 concentrations is spatially complex, with an intensified rising branch and weakened descending...
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Aerosols, Clusters, Greenhouse Gases, Trace Gases and Boundary-Layer Dynamics: on Feedbacks and Interactions
Turbulence is the key process transporting material and energy in the atmosphere. Furthermore, turbulence causes concentration fluctuations,...
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Dimensionality reduction of chaos by feedbacks and periodic forcing is a source of natural climate change
The role of chaos in the climate system has been dismissed as high dimensional turbulence and noise, with minimal impact on long-term climate change....
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Advances in Atmospheric Radiation: Theories, Models, and Their Applications. Part II: Radiative Transfer Models and Related Applications
The subject of “atmospheric radiation” includes not only fundamental theories on atmospheric gaseous absorption and the scattering and radiative...
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Radiative forcing from aerosol–cloud interactions enhanced by large-scale circulation adjustments
The impact of anthropogenic aerosols on clouds is a leading source of uncertainty in estimating the effect of human activity on the climate system....
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Surface warming and wetting due to methane’s long-wave radiative effects muted by short-wave absorption
Although greenhouse gases absorb primarily long-wave radiation, they also absorb short-wave radiation. Recent studies have highlighted the importance...
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Quantifying the processes of accelerated wintertime Tibetan Plateau warming: outside forcing versus local feedbacks
The Tibetan Plateau (TP) has experienced an accelerated wintertime warming in recent decades under global warming, but consensus on its causes has...
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Effects of Climate System Feedbacks and Inertia on Surface Temperature Power Spectrum Obtained from CMIP5 and Low-Order Models
AbstractThe current climate change is characterized by both long-term trends caused mainly by human activities and periodic and aperiodic variability...
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Calculating the Climatology and Anomalies of Surface Cloud Radiative Effect Using Cloud Property Histograms and Cloud Radiative Kernels
Cloud radiative kernels (CRK) built with radiative transfer models have been widely used to analyze the cloud radiative effect on top of atmosphere...
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Radiative Forcing and Global Warming
Fundamental to understanding climate change is understanding the energy budget between solar and infrared radiation. Radiative forcing represents the...
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Improving land surface feedbacks to the atmosphere in convection-permitting climate simulations for Europe
We investigated positive temperature (warm) and negative precipitation (dry) biases in convection-permitting model (CPM) simulations for Europe...
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Quantifying the energetic feedbacks in ENSO
Energetic feedbacks play important roles during the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). Here we conduct a thorough analysis of the radiative and...
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Atmospheric Mixing Ratios of Ozone and Radiative Forcing
Ozone (O3) in the atmosphere has considerable impacts on the climate system. Changes in O3 in the stratosphere and troposphere cause significant...