By Professor Steven Sherwood

Journal articles

Sherwood SC; Webb MJ; Annan JD; Armour KC; Forster PM; Hargreaves JC; Hegerl G; Klein SA; Marvel KD; Rohling EJ; Watanabe M; Andrews T; Braconnot P; Bretherton CS; Foster GL; Hausfather Z; von der Heydt AS; Knutti R; Mauritsen T; Norris JR; Proistosescu C; Rugenstein M; Schmidt GA; Tokarska KB; Zelinka MD, 2020, 'An Assessment of Earth's Climate Sensitivity Using Multiple Lines of Evidence.', Reviews of Geophysics, 58, pp. e2019RG000678 - e2019RG000678, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2019RG000678

Nishant N; Sherwood SC; Geoffroy O, 2019, 'Aerosol-induced modification of organised convection and top-of-atmosphere radiation', npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41612-019-0089-1

Herger N; Abramowitz G; Sherwood S; Knutti R; Angélil O; Sisson SA; Angelil O, 2019, 'Ensemble optimisation, multiple constraints and overconfidence: a case study with future Australian precipitation change', Climate Dynamics, 53, pp. 1581 - 1596, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00382-019-04690-8

Maher P; Gerber EP; Medeiros B; Merlis TM; Sherwood S; Sheshadri A; Sobel AH; Vallis GK; Voigt A; Zurita-Gotor P, 2019, 'Model Hierarchies for Understanding Atmospheric Circulation', Reviews of Geophysics, 57, pp. 250 - 280, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2018RG000607

Goldie J; Alexander L; Lewis SC; Sherwood SC; Bambrick H, 2019, 'Correction to: Changes in relative fit of human heat stress indices to cardiovascular, respiratory, and renal hospitalizations across five Australian urban populations (International Journal of Biometeorology, (2018), 62, 3, (423-432), 10.1007/s00484-017-1451-9)', International Journal of Biometeorology, 63, pp. 561, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00484-019-01697-y

Colin M; Sherwood S; Geoffroy O; Bony S; Fuchs D, 2019, 'Identifying the sources of convective memory in cloud-resolving simulations', Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 76, pp. 947 - 962, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-18-0036.1

Eyring V; Cox PM; Flato GM; Gleckler PJ; Abramowitz G; Caldwell P; Collins WD; Gier BK; Hall AD; Hoffman FM; Hurtt GC; Jahn A; Jones CD; Klein SA; Krasting JP; Kwiatkowski L; Lorenz R; Maloney E; Meehl GA; Pendergrass AG; Pincus R; Ruane AC; Russell JL; Sanderson BM; Santer BD; Sherwood SC; Simpson IR; Stouffer RJ; Williamson MS, 2019, 'Taking climate model evaluation to the next level', Nature Climate Change, 9, pp. 102 - 110, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0355-y

Bao J; Sherwood SC, 2019, 'The Role of Convective Self-Aggregation in Extreme Instantaneous Versus Daily Precipitation', Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 11, pp. 19 - 33, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2018MS001503

Prasad AA; Sherwood SC; Reeder MJ; Lane TP, 2019, 'Rapidly Evolving Cirrus Clouds Modulated by Convectively Generated Gravity Waves', Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2019JD030538

Sherwood SC, 2018, 'How Important Is Humidity in Heat Stress?', Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 123, pp. 11 - 810, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2018JD028969

Hernandez-Deckers D; Sherwood SC; Hernandez Deckers D, 2018, 'On the role of entrainment in the fate of cumulus thermals', Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 75, pp. 3911 - 3924, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-18-0077.1

Bao J; Sherwood SC; Alexander LV; Evans JP, 2018, 'Comments on “temperature-extreme precipitation scaling: A two-way causality?”', International Journal of Climatology, 38, pp. 4661 - 4663, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.5665

Sherwood SC; Dixit V; Salomez C, 2018, 'The global warming potential of near-surface emitted water vapour', Environmental Research Letters, 13, pp. 104006, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aae018

Dixit V; Geoffroy O; Sherwood SC, 2018, 'Control of ITCZ Width by Low-Level Radiative Heating From Upper-Level Clouds in Aquaplanet Simulations', Geophysical Research Letters, 45, pp. 5788 - 5797, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2018GL078292

Maher P; Vallis GK; Sherwood SC; Webb MJ; Sansom PG, 2018, 'The Impact of Parameterized Convection on Climatological Precipitation in Atmospheric Global Climate Models', Geophysical Research Letters, 45, pp. 3728 - 3736, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2017GL076826

Goldie J; Alexander L; Lewis SC; Sherwood SC; Bambrick H, 2018, 'Changes in relative fit of human heat stress indices to cardiovascular, respiratory, and renal hospitalizations across five Australian urban populations', International Journal of Biometeorology, 62, pp. 423 - 432, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00484-017-1451-9

Dixit V; Sherwood S; Geoffroy O; Mantsis D, 2018, 'The role of nonlinear drying above the boundary layer in the Mid-Holocene African Monsoon', Journal of Climate, 31, pp. 233 - 249, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0234.1

Tsushima Y; Brient F; Klein SA; Konsta D; Nam CC; Qu X; Williams KD; Sherwood SC; Suzuki K; Zelinka MD, 2017, 'The Cloud Feedback Model Intercomparison Project (CFMIP) Diagnostic Codes Catalogue - Metrics, diagnostics and methodologies to evaluate, understand and improve the representation of clouds and cloud feedbacks in climate models', Geoscientific Model Development, 10, pp. 4285 - 4305, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-4285-2017

Bao J; Sherwood SC; Colin M; Dixit V, 2017, 'The Robust Relationship Between Extreme Precipitation and Convective Organization in Idealized Numerical Modeling Simulations', Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 9, pp. 2291 - 2303, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2017MS001125

Pepler AS; Alexander LV; Evans JP; Sherwood SC, 2017, 'The influence of topography on midlatitude cyclones on Australia's east coast', Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 122, pp. 9173 - 9184, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2017JD027345

Goldie J; Alexander L; Lewis SC; Sherwood S, 2017, 'Comparative evaluation of human heat stress indices on selected hospital admissions in Sydney, Australia', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 41, pp. 381 - 387, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1753-6405.12692

Nishant N; Sherwood SC; Geoffroy O, 2017, 'A cloud-resolving model study of aerosol-cloud correlation in a pristine maritime environment', Geophysical Research Letters, 44, pp. 5774 - 5781, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2017GL073267

Mantsis DF; Sherwood S; Allen R; Shi L, 2017, 'Natural variations of tropical width and recent trends', Geophysical Research Letters, 44, pp. 3825 - 3832, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2016GL072097

Geoffroy O; Sherwood SC; Fuchs D, 2017, 'On the role of the stratiform cloud scheme in the inter-model spread of cloud feedback', Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 9, pp. 423 - 437, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2016MS000846

Bao J; Sherwood SC; Alexander LV; Evans JP, 2017, 'Future increases in extreme precipitation exceed observed scaling rates', Nature Climate Change, 7, pp. 128 - 132, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3201

Gettelman A; Sherwood SC, 2016, 'Processes Responsible for Cloud Feedback', Current Climate Change Reports, 2, pp. 179 - 189, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40641-016-0052-8

Pepler AS; Alexander LV; Evans JP; Sherwood SC, 2016, 'The influence of local sea surface temperatures on Australian east coast cyclones', Journal of Geophysical Research, 121, pp. 13 - 363, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2016JD025495

Stevens B; Sherwood SC; Bony S; Webb MJ, 2016, 'Prospects for narrowing bounds on Earth's equilibrium climate sensitivity', Earth's Future, 4, pp. 512 - 522, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2016EF000376

Gilmore JB; Evans JP; Sherwood SC; Ekström M; Ji F, 2016, 'Extreme precipitation in WRF during the Newcastle East Coast Low of 2007', Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 125, pp. 809 - 827, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00704-015-1551-6

Fuchs D; Sherwood S, 2016, 'No access practical approximations to seasonal fluctuation-dissipation operators given a limited sample', Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 73, pp. 2529 - 2545, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-15-0279.1

Nishant N; Sherwood SC; Geoffroy O, 2016, 'Radiative driving of shallow return flows from the ITCZ', Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 8, pp. 831 - 842, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2015MS000606

Pepler AS; Di Luca A; Ji F; Alexander LV; Evans JP; Sherwood SC, 2016, 'Projected changes in east Australian midlatitude cyclones during the 21st century', Geophysical Research Letters, 43, pp. 334 - 340, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2015GL067267

Hernandez-Deckers D; Sherwood SC, 2016, 'A numerical investigation of cumulus thermals', Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 73, pp. 4117 - 4136, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-15-0385.1

Maher P; Sherwood SC, 2016, 'Skill in simulating australian precipitation at the tropical edge', Journal of Climate, 29, pp. 1477 - 1496, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0548.1

Pepler AS; Alexander LV; Evans JP; Sherwood SC, 2016, 'Zonal winds and southeast Australian rainfall in global and regional climate models', Climate Dynamics, 46, pp. 123 - 133, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00382-015-2573-6

Sherwood S, 2015, 'Climate science: The Sun and the rain', Nature, 528, pp. 200 - 201, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/528200a

Goldie J; Sherwood S; Green D; Alexander L, 2015, 'Temperature and Humidity Effects on Hospital Morbidity in Darwin, Australia', Annals of Global Health, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aogh.2015.07.003

Webb MJ; Lock AP; Bretherton CS; Bony S; Cole JNS; Idelkadi A; Kang SM; Koshiro T; Kawai H; Ogura T; Roehrig R; Shin Y; Mauritsen T; Sherwood SC; Vial J; Watanabe M; Woelfle MD; Zhao M, 2015, 'The impact of parametrized convection on cloud feedback', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 373, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2014.0414

Schmidt GA; Sherwood S, 2015, 'A practical philosophy of complex climate modelling', European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 5, pp. 149 - 169, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13194-014-0102-9

Sherwood SC; Nishant N, 2015, 'Atmospheric changes through 2012 as shown by iteratively homogenized radiosonde temperature and wind data (IUKv2)', Environmental Research Letters, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/10/5/054007

Bony S; Stevens B; Frierson DMW; Jakob C; Kageyama M; Pincus R; Shepherd TG; Sherwood SC; Siebesma AP; Sobel AH; Watanabe M; Webb MJ, 2015, 'Clouds, circulation and climate sensitivity', Nature Geoscience, 8, pp. 261 - 268, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2398

Sherwood SC; Bony S; Boucher O; Bretherton C; Forster PM; Gregory JM; Stevens B, 2015, 'Adjustments in the forcing-feedback framework for understanding climate change', Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 96, pp. 217 - 228, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00167.1

Fuchs D; Sherwood S; Hernandez D, 2015, 'An exploration of multivariate fluctuation dissipation operators and their response to sea surface temperature perturbations', Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 72, pp. 472 - 486, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-14-0077.1

Pepler AS; Di Luca A; Ji F; Alexander LV; Evans JP; Sherwood SC, 2015, 'Impact of identification method on the inferred characteristics and variability of Australian east coast lows', Monthly Weather Review, 143, pp. 864 - 877, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-14-00188.1

Sherwood SC; Bony S; Dufresne JL, 2014, 'Spread in model climate sensitivity traced to atmospheric convective mixing', Nature, 505, pp. 37 - 42, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature12829

Sherwood S; Fu Q, 2014, 'A drier future?', Science, 343, pp. 737 - 739, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1247620

Rosenfeld D; Sherwood S; Wood R; Donner L, 2014, 'Climate effects of aerosol-cloud interactions', Science, 343, pp. 379 - 380, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1247490

Maher P; Sherwood SC, 2014, 'Disentangling the multiple sources of large-scale variability in Australian wintertime precipitation', Journal of Climate, 27, pp. 6377 - 6392, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00659.1

Dehghan A; Prasad AA; Sherwood SC; Kay M, 2014, 'Evaluation and improvement of TAPM in estimating solar irradiance in Eastern Australia', Solar Energy, 107, pp. 668 - 680, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2014.06.018

Robinson FJ; Patterson MD; Sherwood S, 2013, 'A numerical modeling study of the propagation of idealized sea-breeze density currents', Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 70, pp. 653 - 668, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/jas-d-12-0113.1

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