Atmospheric circulation as a source of uncertainty in climate change projections

TG Shepherd - Nature Geoscience, 2014 - nature.com
The evidence for anthropogenic climate change continues to strengthen, and concerns
about severe weather events are increasing. As a result, scientific interest is rapidly shifting …

Response of the zonal mean atmospheric circulation to El Niño versus global warming

J Lu, G Chen, DMW Frierson - Journal of Climate, 2008 - journals.ametsoc.org
The change in the zonal mean atmospheric circulation under global warming is studied in
comparison with the response to El Niño forcing, by examining the model simulations …

Geophysical limits to global wind power

K Marvel, B Kravitz, K Caldeira - Nature Climate Change, 2013 - nature.com
There is enough power in Earth's winds to be a primary source of near-zero-emission
electric power as the global economy continues to grow through the twenty-first century …

Phase speed spectra and the recent poleward shift of Southern Hemisphere surface westerlies

G Chen, IM Held - Geophysical Research Letters, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The poleward shift of the Southern Hemisphere surface westerlies in recent decades is
examined in reanalysis data and in the output of coupled atmosphere‐ocean and uncoupled …

The role of eddies in driving the tropospheric response to stratospheric heating perturbations

IR Simpson, M Blackburn… - Journal of the Atmospheric …, 2009 - journals.ametsoc.org
A simplified general circulation model has been used to investigate the chain of causality
whereby changes in tropospheric circulation and temperature are produced in response to …

A dynamical interpretation of the poleward shift of the jet streams in global warming scenarios

G Rivière - Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 2011 - journals.ametsoc.org
The role played by enhanced upper-tropospheric baroclinicity in the poleward shift of the jet
streams in global warming scenarios is investigated. Major differences between the …

Climate model biases in jet streams, blocking and storm tracks resulting from missing orographic drag

F Pithan, TG Shepherd, G Zappa… - Geophysical Research …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
State‐of‐the art climate models generally struggle to represent important features of the
large‐scale circulation. Common model deficiencies include an equatorward bias in the …

The effect of tropospheric jet latitude on coupling between the stratospheric polar vortex and the troposphere

CI Garfinkel, DW Waugh, EP Gerber - Journal of Climate, 2013 - journals.ametsoc.org
A dry general circulation model is used to investigate how coupling between the
stratospheric polar vortex and the extratropical tropospheric circulation depends on the …

Neural network parameterization of subgrid‐scale physics from a realistic geography global storm‐resolving simulation

O Watt‐Meyer, ND Brenowitz, SK Clark… - Journal of Advances …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Parameterization of subgrid‐scale processes is a major source of uncertainty in global
atmospheric model simulations. Global storm‐resolving simulations use a finer grid (less …

The position of the midlatitude storm track and eddy-driven westerlies in aquaplanet AGCMs

J Lu, G Chen, DMW Frierson - Journal of the Atmospheric …, 2010 - journals.ametsoc.org
The sensitivity of the midlatitude storm track and eddy-driven wind to the sea surface
temperature (SST) boundary forcing is studied over a wide range of perturbations using both …