By Professor Steven Sherwood

Journal articles

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

Sherwood SC; Meyer CL; Allen RJ; Titchner HA, 2008, 'Robust Tropospheric Warming Revealed by Iteratively Homogenized Radiosonde Data', Journal of Climate, 21, pp. 5336 - 5352, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2008jcli2320.1

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, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2008JCLI1969.1

Sherwood SC, 2008, 'Climate Change: A Titanic Challenge', Science, 319, pp. 900 - 900, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.319.5865.900b

Robinson FJ; Sherwood SC; Li Y, 2008, 'Resonant Response of Deep Convection to Surface Hot Spots', Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 65, pp. 276 - 286, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2007jas2398.1

Allen RJ; Sherwood SC, 2008, 'Warming maximum in the tropical upper troposphere deduced from thermal winds', Nature Geoscience, 1, pp. 399 - 403, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ngeo208

Chae JH; Sherwood SC, 2007, 'Annual temperature cycle of the tropical tropopause: A simple model study', Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 112, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2006jd007956

Sherwood SC, 2007, 'Simultaneous Detection of Climate Change and Observing Biases in a Network with Incomplete Sampling', Journal of Climate, 20, pp. 4047 - 4062, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/jcli4215.1

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

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

Sherwood SC; Meyer CL, 2006, 'The general circulation and robust relative humidity', JOURNAL OF CLIMATE, 19, pp. 6278 - 6290, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI3979.1

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 SC, 2006, 'Modeling the impact of convective entrainment on the tropical tropopause', JOURNAL OF THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES, 63, pp. 1013 - 1027, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JAS3673.1

Sherwood SC; Phillips VTJ; Wettlaufer JS, 2006, 'Small ice crystals and the climatology of lightning', Geophysical Research Letters, 33, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2005gl025242

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

Sherwood SC; Lanzante JR, 2005, 'Correcting temperature data sets - Response', SCIENCE, 310, pp. 972 - 973, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000233343400019&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

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

Sherwood SC, 2005, 'Detection of faceted crystals in deep convective clouds via the antisolar peak', Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 110, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2004jd005549

Phillips VTJ; Andronache C; Sherwood SC; Bansemer A; Conant WC; Demott PJ; Flagan RC; Heymsfield A; Jonsson H; Poellot M; Rissman TA; Seinfeld JH; Vanreken T; Varutbangkul V; Wilson JC, 2005, 'Anvil glaciation in a deep cumulus updraught over Florida simulated with the Explicit Microphysics Model. I: Impact of various nucleation processes', QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY, 131, pp. 2019 - 2046, http://dx.doi.org/10.1256/qj.04.85

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

Dessler AE; Sherwood SC, 2004, 'Effect of convection on the summertime extratropical lower stratosphere', Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 109, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2004jd005209

Sherwood SC; Minnis P; McGill M, 2004, 'Deep convective cloud‐top heights and their thermodynamic control during CRYSTAL‐FACE', Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 109, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2004jd004811

Sherwood SC; Chae J; Minnis P; McGill M, 2004, 'Underestimation of deep convective cloud tops by thermal imagery', Geophysical Research Letters, 31, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2004gl019699

Dessler AE; Sherwood SC, 2003, 'A model of HDO in the tropical tropopause layer', ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS, 3, pp. 2173 - 2181, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/acp-3-2173-2003

Dessler A; Sherwood S, 2003, 'A model of HDO in the tropical tropopause layer', Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, 3, pp. 4489 - 4501

Sherwood SC; Horinouchi T; Zeleznik HA, 2003, 'Convective impact on temperatures observed near the tropical tropopause', JOURNAL OF THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES, 60, pp. 1847 - 1856, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0469(2003)060<1847:CIOTON>2.0.CO;2

Sherwood S; Dessler A, 2003, 'Convective mixing near the tropical tropopause: insights from seasonal variations', Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 60, pp. 2674 - 2685

Sherwood SC, 2002, 'Aerosols and ice particle size in tropical cumulonimbus. (vol 15, pg 1051, 2002)', JOURNAL OF CLIMATE, 15, pp. 3727 - 3727, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0442(2002)015<3727:C>2.0.CO;2

Sherwood S, 2002, 'A microphysical connection among biomass burning, cumulus clouds, and stratospheric moisture', SCIENCE, 295, pp. 1272 - 1275, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1065080

Sherwood SC, 2002, 'Aerosols and ice particle size in tropical cumulonimbus', JOURNAL OF CLIMATE, 15, pp. 1051 - 1063, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0442(2002)015<1051:AAIPSI>2.0.CO;2

Sherwood SC; Dessler AE, 2001, 'A model for transport across the tropical tropopause', JOURNAL OF THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES, 58, pp. 765 - 779, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0469(2001)058<0765:AMFTAT>2.0.CO;2

Sherwood SC, 2000, 'Climate signals from station arrays with missing data, and an application to winds', Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 105, pp. 29489 - 29500, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2000jd900586

Dessler AE; Sherwood SC, 2000, 'Simulations of tropical upper tropospheric humidity', Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 105, pp. 20155 - 20163, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2000jd900231

Sherwood SC; Dessler AE, 2000, 'On the control of stratospheric humidity', Geophysical Research Letters, 27, pp. 2513 - 2516, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2000GL011438

Sherwood SC, 2000, 'A stratospheric "drain" over the maritime continent', GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, 27, pp. 677 - 680, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/1999GL010868

Sherwood SC, 2000, 'Climate signal mapping and an application to atmospheric tides', Geophysical Research Letters, 27, pp. 3525 - 3528, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2000gl011424

Sherwood SC, 2000, 'On moist instability', MONTHLY WEATHER REVIEW, 128, pp. 4139 - 4142, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0493(2000)129<4139:OMI>2.0.CO;2

Sherwood SC, 1999, 'Feedbacks in a simple prognostic tropical climate model', Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 56, pp. 2178 - 2200, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0469(1999)056<2178:FIASPT>2.0.CO;2

Sherwood SC, 1999, 'On moistening of the tropical troposphere by cirrus clouds', Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, 104, pp. 11949 - 11960, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/1999JD900162

Sherwood SC, 1999, 'Convective precursors and predictability in the tropical western Pacific', MONTHLY WEATHER REVIEW, 127, pp. 2977 - 2991, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0493(1999)127<2977:CPAPIT>2.0.CO;2

Sherwood SC; Wahrlich R, 1999, 'Observed evolution of tropical deep convective events and their environment', MONTHLY WEATHER REVIEW, 127, pp. 1777 - 1795, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0493(1999)127<1777:OEOTDC>2.0.CO;2

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