By Professor Steven Sherwood

Journal articles

Nishant N; Sherwood SC, 2021, 'How Strongly Are Mean and Extreme Precipitation Coupled?', Geophysical Research Letters, 48, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2020GL092075

Hwong YL; Song S; Sherwood SC; Stirling AJ; Rio C; Roehrig R; Daleu CL; Plant RS; Fuchs D; Maher P; Touzé-Peiffer L, 2021, 'Characterizing Convection Schemes Using Their Responses to Imposed Tendency Perturbations', Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2021MS002461

Morrison H; Peters JM; Sherwood SC, 2021, 'Comparing growth rates of simulated moist and dry convective thermals', Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 78, pp. 797 - 816, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-20-0166.1

Pihl E; Alfredsson E; Bengtsson M; Bowen KJ; Cástan Broto V; Chou KT; Cleugh H; Ebi K; Edwards CM; Fisher E; Friedlingstein P; Godoy-Faúndez A; Gupta M; Harrington AR; Hayes K; Hayward BM; Hebden SR; Hickmann T; Hugelius G; Ilyina T; Jackson RB; Keenan TF; Lambino RA; Leuzinger S; Malmaeus M; McDonald RI; McMichael C; Miller CA; Muratori M; Nagabhatla N; Nagendra H; Passarello C; Penuelas J; Pongratz J; Rockström J; Romero-Lankao P; Roy J; Scaife AA; Schlosser P; Schuur E; Scobie M; Sherwood SC; Sioen GB; Skovgaard J; Sobenes Obregon EA; Sonntag S; Spangenberg JH; Spijkers O; Srivastava L; Stammer DB; Torres PHC; Turetsky MR; Ukkola AM; Van Vuuren DP; Voigt C; Wannous C; Zelinka MD, 2021, 'Ten new insights in climate science 2020-a horizon scan', Global Sustainability, 4, pp. e5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/sus.2021.2

Hwong Y-L; Song S; Sherwood S; Stirling A; Rio C; Roehrig R; Daleu CL; Plant RS; Fuchs D; Maher P; Touzé-Peiffer L, 2021, 'Characterizing Convection Schemes Using Their Responses to Imposed Tendency Perturbations', , http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10505890.1

Muller C; Yang D; Craig G; Cronin T; Fildier B; Haerter JO; Hohenegger C; Mapes B; Randall D; Shamekh S; Sherwood SC, 2021, 'Spontaneous Aggregation of Convective Storms', Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 54, pp. 133 - 157, http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-fluid-022421-011319

Schlund M; Lauer A; Gentine P; Sherwood SC; Eyring V, 2020, 'Emergent constraints on equilibrium climate sensitivity in CMIP5: Do they hold for CMIP6?', Earth System Dynamics, 11, pp. 1233 - 1258, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/esd-11-1233-2020

Ayat H; Evans JP; Sherwood S; Behrangi A, 2020, 'Are storm characteristics the same when viewed using merged surface radars or a merged satellite product?', Journal of Hydrometeorology, 22, pp. 43 - 62, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-20-0187.1

Sherwood SC, 2020, 'Adapting to the challenges of warming', Science, 370, pp. 782 - 783, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.abe4479

Prasad AA; Sherwood SC; Brogniez H, 2020, 'Using Megha-Tropiques satellite data to constrain humidity in regional convective simulations: A northern Australian test case', Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 146, pp. 2768 - 2788, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/qj.3816

Mantsis DF; Sherwood S; Dixit V; Morrison H; Thompson G, 2020, 'Mid-level clouds over the Sahara in a convection-permitting regional model', Climate Dynamics, 54, pp. 3425 - 3439, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00382-020-05188-4

Gross MH; Donat MG; Alexander LV; Sherwood SC, 2020, 'Amplified warming of seasonal cold extremes relative to the mean in the Northern Hemisphere extratropics', Earth System Dynamics, 11, pp. 97 - 111, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/esd-11-97-2020

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

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