By Professor Steven Sherwood

Journal articles

Fuchs D; Sherwood SC; Prasad A; Trapeznikov K; Gimlett J, 2024, 'TorchClim v1.0: a deep-learning plugin for climate model physics', Geoscientific Model Development, 17, pp. 5459 - 5475, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-5459-2024

Ortiz-Guzmán V; Jucker M; Sherwood SC, 2024, 'Zonal Wavenumber 3 Forces Extreme Precipitation in South America', Journal of Climate, 37, pp. 3649 - 3660, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/jcli-d-23-0739.1

Dutta D; Sherwood SC; Meissner KJ; Jucker M, 2024, 'Low latitude mesospheric clouds in a warmer climate', Atmospheric Science Letters, 25, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asl.1209

Sherwood SC; Hegerl G; Braconnot P; Friedlingstein P; Goelzer H; Harris NRP; Holland E; Kim H; Mitchell M; Naish T; Nobre P; Otto-Bliesner BL; Reed KA; Renwick J; van der Wel NPM, 2024, 'Uncertain Pathways to a Future Safe Climate', Earth's Future, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2023EF004297

Sherwood SC; Forest CE, 2024, 'Opinion: Can uncertainty in climate sensitivity be narrowed further?', Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 24, pp. 2679 - 2686, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-2679-2024

Shao Y; Bishop CH; Hobeichi S; Nishant N; Abramowitz G; Sherwood S, 2024, 'Time Variability Correction of CMIP6 Climate Change Projections', Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2023MS003640

Bui HX; Li YX; Sherwood SC; Reid KJ; Dommenget D, 2024, 'Assessing the soil moisture-precipitation feedback in Australia: CYGNSS observations', Environmental Research Letters, 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad15b7

Byrne MP; Hegerl GC; Scheff J; Adam O; Berg A; Biasutti M; Bordoni S; Dai A; Geen R; Henry M; Hill SA; Hohenegger C; Humphrey V; Joshi M; Konings AG; Laguë MM; Lambert FH; Lehner F; Mankin JS; McColl KA; McKinnon KA; Pendergrass AG; Pietschnig M; Schmidt L; Schurer AP; Scott EM; Sexton D; Sherwood SC; Vargas Zeppetello LR; Zhang Y, 2024, 'Theory and the future of land-climate science', Nature Geoscience, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01553-8

Hwong YL; Colin M; Aglas-Leitner P; Muller CJ; Sherwood SC, 2023, 'Assessing Memory in Convection Schemes Using Idealized Tests', Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2023MS003726

Raupach TH; Soderholm JS; Warren RA; Sherwood SC, 2023, 'Changes in hail hazard across Australia: 1979–2021', npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 6, pp. 143, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41612-023-00454-8

Dutta D; Jucker M; Sherwood SC; Meissner KJ; Sen Gupta A; Zhu J, 2023, 'Early Eocene low orography and high methane enhance Arctic warming via polar stratospheric clouds', Nature Geoscience, 16, pp. 1027 - 1032, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01298-w

Nishant N; Hobeichi S; Sherwood S; Abramowitz G; Shao Y; Bishop C; Pitman A, 2023, 'Comparison of a novel machine learning approach with dynamical downscaling for Australian precipitation', Environmental Research Letters, 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ace463

El Rafei M; Sherwood S; Evans J; Dowdy A; Ji F, 2023, 'Biases in Estimating Long-Term Recurrence Intervals of Extreme Events Due To Regionalized Sampling', Geophysical Research Letters, 50, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2023GL105286

El Rafei M; Sherwood S; Evans J; Dowdy A, 2023, 'Analysis and characterisation of extreme wind gust hazards in New South Wales, Australia', Natural Hazards, 117, pp. 875 - 895, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11069-023-05887-1

Dutta D; Sherwood SC; Jucker M; Gupta AS; Meissner KJ, 2023, 'Can Polar Stratospheric Clouds Explain Arctic Amplification?', Journal of Climate, 36, pp. 2313 - 2332, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0497.1

Ayat H; Evans JP; Sherwood SC; Soderholm J, 2023, 'An object-based climatology of precipitation systems in Sydney, Australia', Climate Dynamics, 60, pp. 1669 - 1688, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00382-022-06404-z

El Rafei M; Sherwood S; Evans JP; Ji F, 2023, 'Analysis of extreme wind gusts using a high-resolution Australian Regional Reanalysis', Weather and Climate Extremes, 39, pp. 100537, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wace.2022.100537

Windmiller JM; Bao J; Sherwood SC; Schanzer TD; Fuchs D, 2023, 'Predicting Convective Downdrafts From Updrafts and Environmental Conditions in a Global Storm Resolving Simulation', Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2022MS003048

Hobeichi S; Nishant N; Shao Y; Abramowitz G; Pitman A; Sherwood S; Bishop C; Green S, 2023, 'Using Machine Learning to Cut the Cost of Dynamical Downscaling', Earth's Future, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2022EF003291

Fuchs D; Sherwood SC; Waugh D; Dixit V; England MH; Hwong YL; Geoffroy O, 2023, 'Midlatitude Jet Position Spread Linked to Atmospheric Convective Types', Journal of Climate, 36, pp. 1247 - 1265, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0992.1

Seltzer AM; Blard PH; Sherwood SC; Kageyama M, 2023, 'Terrestrial amplification of past, present, and future climate change', Science Advances, 9, pp. eadf8119, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adf8119

Raupach TH; Soderholm J; Protat A; Sherwood SC, 2023, 'An Improved Instability–Shear Hail Proxy for Australia', Monthly Weather Review, 151, pp. 545 - 567, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-22-0127.1

Sherwood SC; Ramsay EE, 2023, 'Closer limits to human tolerance of global heat', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120, pp. e2316003120, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2316003120

Nishant N; Sherwood S; Prasad A; Ji F; Singh A, 2022, 'Impact of Higher Spatial Resolution on Precipitation Properties Over Australia', Geophysical Research Letters, 49, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2022GL100717

Bao J; Dixit V; Sherwood SC, 2022, 'Zonal Temperature Gradients in the Tropical Free Troposphere', Journal of Climate, 35, pp. 4337 - 4348, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0145.1

Waudby CM; Sherwood SC; Osborne NJ; Beggs PJ; Al-Kouba J; Ebert EE; Muscatello DJ, 2022, 'Combined synoptic and regional weather patterns affecting atmospheric Poaceae pollen concentrations in Sydney, Australia', Aerobiologia, 38, pp. 533 - 555, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10453-022-09764-5

Ayat H; Evans JP; Sherwood SC; Soderholm J, 2022, 'Intensification of subhourly heavy rainfall', Science, 378, pp. 655 - 659, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.abn8657

Hwong YL; Sherwood SC; Fuchs D, 2022, 'Can We Use 1D Models to Predict 3D Model Response to Forcing in an Idealized Framework?', Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2021MS002785

MORRISON H; PETERS JM; CHANDRAKAR KK; SHERWOOD SC, 2022, 'Influences of Environmental Relative Humidity and Horizontal Scale of Subcloud Ascent on Deep Convective Initiation', Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 79, pp. 337 - 359, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/jas-d-21-0056.1

Sherwood SC; Sen Gupta A; Schwartz SE, 2022, 'Probability of committed warming exceeding 1.5 ^°c and 2.0 ^°c Paris targets', Environmental Research Letters, 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac6ff6

Colin M; Sherwood SC, 2021, 'Atmospheric convection as an unstable predator-prey process with memory', Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 78, pp. 3781 - 3797, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-20-0337.1

YEUNG NKH; SHERWOOD SC; PROTAT A; LANE TP; WILLIAMS C, 2021, 'A doppler radar study of convective draft lengths over darwin, australia', Monthly Weather Review, 149, pp. 2965 - 2974, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-20-0390.1

Sherwood S; Hoskins B, 2021, 'Clarion call from climate panel', Science, 373, pp. 719, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.abl8490

Di Luca A; Argüeso D; Sherwood S; Evans JP, 2021, 'Evaluating Precipitation Errors Using the Environmentally Conditioned Intensity-Frequency Decomposition Method', Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2020MS002447

Dutta D; Sherwood SC; Meissner KJ; Gupta ASEN; Lunt DJ; Tourte GJL; Colman R; Narsey S; Fuchs D; Brown JR, 2021, 'A multimodel investigation of atmospheric mechanisms for driving arctic amplification in warmer climates', Journal of Climate, 34, pp. 5723 - 5740, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0354.1

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

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

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