By Professor Steven Sherwood

Journal articles

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

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

Bony S; Bellon G; Klocke D; Sherwood S; Fermepin S; Denvil S, 2014, 'Robust direct effect of carbon dioxide on tropical circulation and regional precipitation (vol 4, pg 447, 2013)', NATURE GEOSCIENCE, 7, pp. 547 - 547, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/NGEO2192

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

Sherwood SC; Hernández-Deckers D; Colin M; Robinson F, 2013, 'Slippery Thermals and the Cumulus Entrainment Paradox*', Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 70, pp. 2426 - 2442, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/jas-d-12-0220.1

Robinson FJ; Patterson MD; Sherwood SC, 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

Bony S; Bellon G; Klocke D; Sherwood S; Fermepin S; Denvil S, 2013, 'Robust direct effect of carbon dioxide on tropical circulation and regional precipitation', Nature Geoscience, 6, pp. 447 - 451, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1799

Sherwood S, 2013, 'Where do winds come from?', Nature Education Knowledge, 4, pp. 5 - 5, http://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/where-do-winds-come-from-100578316

Sherwood SC; Risi C, 2012, 'The HDO/H₂O relationship in tropospheric water vapor in an idealized “last‐saturation” model', Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 117, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2012jd018068

Allen RJ; Sherwood SC; 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

Young PJ; Rosenlof KH; Solomon S; Sherwood SC; Fu Q; Lamarque J-F, 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 SC; 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

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

Robinson FJ; Sherwood SC; Gerstle D; Liu C; Kirshbaum DJ, 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

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

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

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

Sherwood SC; Roca R; Weckwerth TM; Andronova NG, 2010, 'Tropospheric water vapor, convection, and climate', Reviews of Geophysics, 48, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2009rg000301

Chae JH; Sherwood SC, 2010, 'Insights into Cloud-Top Height and Dynamics from the 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 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 SC, 2010, 'Aerosol‐cloud semi‐direct effect and land‐sea temperature contrast in a GCM', Geophysical Research Letters, 37, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2010gl042759

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

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

Dessler AE; Sherwood SC, 2009, 'A Matter of Humidity', Science, 323, pp. 1020 - 1021, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1171264

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

Sherwood SC; 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.1825

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

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, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2008JAMC1890.1

Santer BD; Thorne PW; Haimberger L; Taylor KE; Wigley TML; Lanzante JR; Solomon S; Free M; Gleckler PJ; Jones PD; Karl TR; Klein SA; Mears C; Nychka D; Schmidt GA; Sherwood SC; 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

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