The Pacific decadal oscillation, revisited

M Newman, MA Alexander, TR Ault… - Journal of …, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
The Pacific decadal oscillation (PDO), the dominant year-round pattern of monthly North
Pacific sea surface temperature (SST) variability, is an important target of ongoing research …

[PDF][PDF] Climate models and their evaluation

DA Randall, RA Wood, S Bony, R Colman… - Climate change 2007 …, 2007 - pure.mpg.de
This chapter assesses the capacity of the global climate models used elsewhere in this
report for projecting future climate change. Confidence in model estimates of future climate …

Marine boundary layer clouds at the heart of tropical cloud feedback uncertainties in climate models

S Bony, JL Dufresne - Geophysical Research Letters, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
The radiative response of tropical clouds to global warming exhibits a large spread among
climate models, and this constitutes a major source of uncertainty for climate sensitivity …

[HTML][HTML] How well do we understand and evaluate climate change feedback processes?

S Bony, R Colman, VM Kattsov, RP Allan… - Journal of …, 2006 - journals.ametsoc.org
How Well Do We Understand and Evaluate Climate Change Feedback Processes? in:
Journal of Climate Volume 19 Issue 15 (2006) Jump to Content Jump to Main Navigation …

On dynamic and thermodynamic components of cloud changes

S Bony, JL Dufresne, H Le Treut, JJ Morcrette… - Climate dynamics, 2004 - Springer
Clouds are sensitive to changes in both the large-scale circulation and the thermodynamic
structure of the atmosphere. In the tropics, temperature changes that occur on seasonal to …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] GFDL's CM2 global coupled climate models. Part III: Tropical Pacific climate and ENSO

AT Wittenberg, A Rosati, NC Lau… - Journal of …, 2006 - journals.ametsoc.org
GFDL's CM2 Global Coupled Climate Models. Part III: Tropical Pacific Climate and ENSO in:
Journal of Climate Volume 19 Issue 5 (2006) Jump to Content Jump to Main Navigation …

A survey of changes in cloud cover and cloud types over land from surface observations, 1971–96

SG Warren, RM Eastman, CJ Hahn - Journal of climate, 2007 - journals.ametsoc.org
From a dataset of weather observations from land stations worldwide, about 5400 stations
were selected as having long periods of record with cloud-type information; they cover all …

Can aerosol decrease cloud lifetime?

JD Small, PY Chuang, G Feingold… - Geophysical Research …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Cloud responses to changes in aerosol remain a dominant uncertainty in the radiative
forcing of climate. Two main constructs related to aerosol effects on clouds have been …

[HTML][HTML] Observational evidence that enhanced subsidence reduces subtropical marine boundary layer cloudiness

TA Myers, JR Norris - Journal of climate, 2013 - journals.ametsoc.org
Observational Evidence That Enhanced Subsidence Reduces Subtropical Marine
Boundary Layer Cloudiness in: Journal of Climate Volume 26 Issue 19 (2013) Jump to …