Abstract: Stably stratified shear-driven turbulence is analyzed using the gradient Richardson number, Ri, as the stability parameter. The method overcomes the statistical problems associated with the widely used Monin?Obukhov stability ...

Abstract: n contrast to prior studies showing a positive lapse-rate feedback associated with the Arctic inversion, Boé et al. reported that strong present-day Arctic temperature inversions are associated with stronger negative ...

Abstract: Recently it has been suggested that natural variability in sea surface temperature (SST) patterns over the historical period causes a low bias in estimates of climate sensitivity based on instrumental records, in addition ...

Abstract: Comparisons between single-column (SCM) simulations with the total energy?mass flux boundary layer scheme (TEMF) and large-eddy simulations (LES) are shown for four cases from the Gulf of Mexico Atmospheric Composition and ...

Abstract: his paper assesses intermodel spread in the slope of global-mean precipitation change ?P with respect to surface temperature change. The ambiguous estimates in the literature for this slope are reconciled by analyzing four ...

Abstract: hen climate is forced by a doubling of CO2, a number of feedback processes are induced, such as changes of water vapor, clouds, and surface albedo. Here the CO2 forcing and concomitant feedbacks are studied individually ...

Abstract: espite a substantial hemispheric asymmetry in clear-sky albedo, observations of Earth?s radiation budget reveal that the two hemispheres have the same all-sky albedo. Here, aquaplanet simulations with the atmosphere general ...

Abstract: his study examines the influence of the northeast and southeast Pacific subtropical stratocumulus cloud regions on the modes of Pacific climate variability simulated by an atmospheric general circulation model (ECHAM6) ...