By Professor Steven Sherwood

Journal articles

Young P; Rosenlof ; Solomon S; Sherwood S; Fu Q; Lamarque J, 2012, 'Changes in stratospheric temperatures and their implications for changes in the Brewer-Dobson circulation, 1979-2005', Journal of Climate, 25, pp. 1759 - 1772, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2011JCLI4048.1

Willett KM; Sherwood S, 2012, 'Exceedance of heat index thresholds for 15 regions under a warming climate using the wet-bulb globe temperature', International Journal of Climatology, 32, pp. 161 - 177, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.2257

Allen RJ; Sherwood S; Norris JR; Zender CS, 2012, 'Recent Northern Hemisphere tropical expansion primarily driven by black carbon and tropospheric ozone', Nature, 485, pp. 350 - 354, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature11097

Allen RJ; Sherwood S; Norris JR; Zender CS, 2012, 'The equilibrium response to idealized thermal forcings in a comprehensive GCM: implications for recent tropical expansion', Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 12, pp. 4795 - 4816, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/acp-12-4795-2012

Sherwood S, 2011, 'Science controversies past and present', Physics Today, 64, pp. 39 - 44, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.1295

Chae JH; Wu DL; Read WG; Sherwood SC, 2011, 'The role of tropical deep convective clouds on temperature, water vapor, and dehydration in the tropical tropopause layer (TTL)', Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 11, pp. 3811 - 3821, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/acp-11-3811-2011

Thorne PW; Browan P; Titchner HA; Mccarthy MP; Sherwood S; Peterson ; Haimberger L; Parker DE; Tett SFB; Santer BD; Fereday DR; Kennedy JJ, 2011, 'A quantification of uncertainties in historical tropical tropospheric temperature trends from radiosondes', Journal of Geophysical Research, 116, pp. D12116, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2010JD015487

Robinson FJ; Sherwood S; Gerstle D; Liu C; Kirshbaum D, 2011, 'Exploring the land-ocean contrast in convective vigor using Islands', Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 68, pp. 602 - 618, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2010JAS3558.1

Allen RJ; Sherwood S, 2011, 'The impact of natural versus anthropogenic aerosols on atmospheric circulation in the Community Atmosphere Model', Climate Dynamics, 36, pp. 1959 - 1978, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00382-010-0898-8

Sherwood SC; Kjellstrom T; Green D, 2010, 'Heat Stress in a Warming World', Australasian Science, 31, pp. 18 - 20

Sherwood SC; Ingram W; Tsushima Y; Satoh M; Roberts M; Vidale PL; O'Gorman PA, 2010, 'Relative humidity changes in a warmer climate', Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, 115, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2009JD012585

Allen RJ; Sherwood S, 2010, 'Aerosol-cloud semi-direct effect and land-sea temperature contrast in a GCM', Geophysical Research Letters, 37, pp. L07702 - L07706, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2010GL042759

Sherwood S; Huber M, 2010, 'An adaptability limit to climate change due to heat stress', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107, pp. 9552 - 9555, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0913352107

Sherwood S, 2010, 'Direct versus indirect effects of tropospheric humidity changes on the hydrologic cycle', Environmental Research Letters, 5, pp. 025206, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/5/2/025206

Chae JH; Sherwood S, 2010, 'Insights into cloud-top height and dynamics from seasonal cycle of cloud-top heights observed by MISR in the west Pacific region', Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 67, pp. 248 - 261, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2009JAS3099.1

Sherwood S; Ingram W; Yoko T; Satoh M; Roberts M; Vidale P; O'Gorman P, 2010, 'Relative humidity changes in a warmer climate', Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, pp. D09104, http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/2009JD012585

Chae JH; Wu DL; Read WG; Sherwood S, 2010, 'The role of tropical deep convective clouds on temperature, water vapor, and dehydration in the tropical tropopause layer (TTL)', Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, 10, pp. 8963 - 8994, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/acpd-10-8963-2010

Sherwood S; Roca R; Weckwerth T; Andronova N, 2010, 'Tropospheric water vapor, convection, and climate', Reviews of Geophysics, 48, pp. RG2001, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2009RG000301

Sherwood S, 2009, 'Humidity doubles global warming', Australasian Science, 30, pp. 25 - 27

Sherwood S; Huber M, 2009, 'An adaptability limit for large warmings–are we accounting for it?', IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 6, pp. 522006 - 522006, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1307/6/52/522006

Willett K; Sherwood S, 2009, 'Quantifying regional heat stress increases in warmer and more humid climates', IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 6, pp. 142007 - 142007, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1307/6/14/142007

Dessler A; Sherwood S, 2009, 'Atmospheric science: A matter of humidity', Science, 323, pp. 1020 - 1021

Sherwood S; Titchner HA; Thorne PW; Mccarthy MP, 2009, 'How do we tell which estimates of past climate change are correct?', International Journal of Climatology, 29, pp. 1520 - 1523, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.182

Sherwood S; Andronova N; Fetzer E; Kursinski E, 2009, 'What can water vapor reveal about past and future climate change?', Earth Observing System, 90, pp. 122, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2009EO140011

Sherwood SC, 2008, 'Climate change: A titanic challenge', Science, 319, pp. 900, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.319.5865.900b

Liu C; Zipser EJ; Cecil DJ; Nesbitt SW; Sherwood S, 2008, 'A cloud and precipitation feature database from nine years of TRMM observations', Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 47, pp. 2712 - 2728

Santer BD; Thorne PW; Haimberger L; Taylor KE; Wigley TML; Lanzante JR; Solomon S; Free M; Gleckler PJ; Jones PD; Karl T; Klein SA; Mears C; Nychka D; Schmidt GA; Sherwood S; Wentz FJ, 2008, 'Consistency of modelled and observed temperature trends in the tropical troposphere', International Journal of Climatology, 28, pp. 1703 - 1722, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.1756

Bennhold F; Sherwood S, 2008, 'Erroneous relationships among humidity and cloud forcing variables in three global climate models', Journal of Climate, 21, pp. 4190 - 4206

Robinson FJ; Sherwood S; Li Y, 2008, 'Resonant response of deep convection to surface hot spots', Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 65, pp. 276 - 286

Sherwood S; Meyer CL; Allen RJ; Titchner HA, 2008, 'Robust tropospheric warming revealed by iteratively homogenized radiosonde data', Journal of Climate, 21, pp. 5336 - 5352

Allen RJ; Sherwood S, 2008, 'Warming maximum in the tropical upper troposphere deduced from thermal wind observations', Nature Geoscience, 65, pp. 399 - 403

Sherwood S, 2007, 'Discounting and uncertainty---A non-economist's view', Climatic Change, 80, pp. 205 - 212, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10584-006-9164-9

Sherwood S, 2007, 'Simultaneous detection of climate change and observing biases in a network with incomplete sampling', Journal of Climate, 20, pp. 4047 - 4062

Chae J-H; Sherwood S, 2007, 'The annual temperature cycle of the tropical tropopause: A simple model study', Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, pp. D19111

Allen RJ; Sherwood S, 2007, 'Utility of radiosonde wind data in representing climatological variations of tropospheric temperature and baroclinicity in the western tropical Pacific', Journal of Climate, 20, pp. 5229 - 5243

Sherwood SC; Kursinski ER; Read WG, 2006, 'A distribution law for free-tropospheric relative humidity', Journal of Climate, 19, pp. 6267 - 6277, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI3978.1

Allen RJ; Sherwood SC, 2006, 'Analysis of tropospheric temperature data via radiosonde wind data in the western tropical Pacific', 86th AMS Annual Meeting

Sherwood S; Kursinski E; Read WG, 2006, 'A distribution law for free tropospheric relative humidity', Journal of Climate, 20, pp. 4047 - 4062

Robinson FJ; Sherwood S, 2006, 'Modeling the Impact of Convective Entrainment on the Tropical Tropopause', Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 63, pp. 1013 - 1027

Sherwood S; Phillips VTJ; Wettlaufer JS, 2006, 'Small ice crystals and the climatology of lightning', Geophysical Research Letters, 33, pp. L05804, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2005GL025242

Sherwood S; Meyer CL, 2006, 'The general circulation and robust relative humidity', Journal of Climate, 19, pp. 6278 - 6290

Gochis D; Anderson B; Barros A; Gettelman A; Wang J; Braun J; Cantrell W; Chen YQ; Fox N; Geerts B; Han W; Herzog M; Kucera P; Kursinski R; Laing A; Liu C; Maloney ED; Margulis S; Schultz D; Sherwood S; Sobel A; Vömel H; Wang Z, 2005, 'The water cycle across scales', Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 86, pp. 1743 - 1746, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-86-12-1743

Christy JR; Spencer RW; Mears CA; Wentz FJ; Sherwood SC; Lanzante JR, 2005, 'Correcting temperature data sets [3] (multiple letters)', Science, 310, pp. 972 - 973, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.310.5750.972

Sherwood SC; Meyer CL; Lanzante JR, 2005, 'Radiosonde daytime biases and late-20th century warming', Science, 309, pp. 1556 - 1559, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1115640

Phillips VTJ; Sherwood S; Andronache C; Bansemer A; Conant WC; Demott PJ; Flagan RC; Heysmfield A; Jonsson H; Poellot M; Rissman TA; Seinfeld JH; Vanreken T; Varutbangkul V; Wilson JC, 2005, 'Anvil glaciation in a deep cumulus updraft over florida simulated with an explicit microphysics model. Part I: The impact of various nucleation processes', Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 131, pp. 2019 - 2046

Sherwood S, 2005, 'Detection of faceted crystals in deep convective clouds via the antisolar peak', Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, pp. D14205

Wu DL; Read WG; Dessler A; Sherwood S; Jiang JH, 2005, 'UARS MLS cloud ice measurements and implications for H2O transport near the tropopause', Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 62, pp. 518 - 530

Sherwood S; Minnis P; McGill M, 2004, 'Deep convective cloud top heights and their thermodynamic control during CRYSTAL-FACE', Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, pp. D20119

Dessler A; Sherwood S, 2004, 'Effect of convection on the summertime extratropical lower stratosphere', Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, pp. D23301, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2004JD005209

Sherwood S; Minnis P; McGill M; Chae J-H, 2004, 'Underestimation of deep convective cloud tops by thermal imagery', Geophysical Research Letters, 31, pp. L11102, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2004GL019699

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