Professor Steven Sherwood

Professor Steven Sherwood

Professor

Education

1987 B.S. Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
1989 M.S. Eng. Physics/Fluid Mechanics, University of California San Diego, USA
1995 Ph.D. Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA

Employment

2009-present UNSW Sydney
Professor (ARC Laureate Professor 2016-2020)

2001-2008 Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA 
Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics (Asst. /Assoc. Prof. 2001-2006)

1998-2000 Goddard Space Flight Center /USRA /GEST, MD, USA
Research Scientist, Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics branch 
 

Science
Climate Change Research Centre

I study how the various processes in the atmosphere conspire to establish climate, how these processes might be expected to control the way climate changes, and how the atmosphere will ultimately interact with the oceans and other components of Earth.  Clouds and water vapour in particular remain poorly understood in many respects, but are very important not only in bringing rain locally, but also to global climate. Tropospheric convection (disturbed weather) is a key process by which the atmosphere transports water and energy and in the process creates clouds -- but is a turbulent phenomenon for which we have no basic theory and which observations cannot yet fully characterise.

I lead a research group that applies basic physics and mathematics to complex problems by a combination of simple theoretical ideas and hypotheses and directed analyses of observations. Depending on requirements we use simple or advanced statistical techniques, bridging the gaps between these (where needed) by using state-of-the-art climate models as research tools. One practical goal of the work is to figure out how these models might be improved, as they are ultimately necessary for regional predictions of weather and climate. A more academic goal is just to unlock the secrets of our atmosphere.

★ Please contact me if you are interested in pursuing honours, Masters or Ph.D. level research as there are a number of interesting projects to work on. I (and many others at the CCRC) are especially looking for students with backgrounds in quantitative fields such as physics, mathematics or atmospheric science.

For more information on current research, research team, and past research including homogenised radiosonde data and wet-bulb temperature, please see my Research Page.

Phone
+61 2 9385 8960
Location
Level 4 Mathews Building Rm. 460 Kensington, NSW 2052 Twitter: @StevenSherwood4
  • Books | 2011
    Allison I; Bindoff N; Bindschadler R; Cox P; de Noblet N; England MH; Francis J; Gruber N; Haywood A; Karoly DJ; Kaser G; Le Quere C; Lenton T; Mann M; McNeil BI; Pitman AJ; Rahmstorf S; Rignot E; Schellnhuber HJ; Schneider S; Sherwood S; Somerville R; Steffen K; Steig E; Visbeck M; Weaver A, 2011, The Copenhagen Diagnosis: updating the world on the latest climate science, Original, Elsevier, Burlington MA, http://www.elsevierdirect.com/
  • Book Chapters | 2018
    Santer BD; Thorne PW; Haimberger L; Taylor K; Wigley TML; Lanzante J; Solomon S; Free M; Gleckler P; Jones P; Karl T; Klein S; Mears C; Nychka D; Schmidt GA; Sherwood SC; Wentz FJ, 2018, 'Consistency of modeled and observed temperature trends in the tropical troposphere', in Climate Modelling: Philosophical and Conceptual Issues, pp. 85 - 136, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65058-6_5
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Santer BD; Thorne PW; Haimberger L; Taylor K; Wigley TML; Lanzante J; Solomon S; Free M; Gleckler P; Jones P; Karl T; Klein S; Mears C; Nychka D; Schmidt GA; Sherwood SC; Wentz FJ, 2018, 'Fact sheet for "consistency of modeled and observed temperature trends in the tropical troposphere"', in Climate Modelling: Philosophical and Conceptual Issues, pp. 73 - 84, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65058-6_4
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Boucher O; Randall D; Artaxo P; Bretherton C; Feingold G; Forster P; Kerminen VM; Kondo Y; Liao H; Lohmann U; Rasch P; Satheesh SK; Sherwood S; Stevens B; Zhang XY, 2014, 'Clouds and Aerosols', in Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis Working Group I Contribution to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Cambridge University Press, pp. 571 - 658, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107415324
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Rosenfield D; Wood R; Donner LJ; Sherwood S, 2013, 'Aerosol Cloud-Mediated Radiative Forcing: Highly Uncertain and Opposite Effects from Shallow and Deep Clouds', in Climate Science for Serving Society: Research, Modelling and Prediction Prioritie, edn. Original, Springer, Netherlands, pp. 105 - 149, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6692-1_5
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Sherwood S; Alexander ; Brown AR; Mcfarlane NA; Gerber EP; Feingold G; Scaife A; Grabowski WW, 2013, 'Climate Processes: Clouds, Aerosols and Dynamics', in Climate Science for Serving Society: Research, Modelling and Prediction Prioritie, edn. Original, Springer, Netherlands, pp. 73 - 103, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6692-1_4
  • Journal articles | 2023
    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
    Journal articles | 2023
    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
    Journal articles | 2023
    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
    Journal articles | 2023
    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
    Journal articles | 2023
    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 - 100537, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wace.2022.100537
    Journal articles | 2023
    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
    Journal articles | 2023
    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
    Journal articles | 2023
    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, pp. 094006 - 094006, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ace463
    Journal articles | 2023
    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
    Journal articles | 2023
    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
    Journal articles | 2023
    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
    Journal articles | 2022
    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
    Journal articles | 2022
    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
    Journal articles | 2022
    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
    Journal articles | 2022
    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
    Journal articles | 2022
    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
    Journal articles | 2022
    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
    Journal articles | 2022
    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
    Journal articles | 2021
    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
    Journal articles | 2021
    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
    Journal articles | 2021
    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
    Journal articles | 2021
    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
    Journal articles | 2021
    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
    Journal articles | 2021
    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
    Journal articles | 2021
    Nishant N; Sherwood SC, 2021, 'How Strongly Are Mean and Extreme Precipitation Coupled?', Geophysical Research Letters, 48, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2020GL092075
    Journal articles | 2021
    Sherwood S; Hoskins B, 2021, 'Clarion call from climate panel', Science, 373, pp. 719, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.abl8490
    Journal articles | 2021
    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
    Journal articles | 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
    Journal articles | 2020
    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
    Journal articles | 2020
    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
    Journal articles | 2020
    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, 2020, 'Ten new insights in climate science 2020- A horizon scan', Global Sustainability, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/sus.2021.2
    Journal articles | 2020
    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, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/qj.3816
    Journal articles | 2020
    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
    Journal articles | 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
    Journal articles | 2020
    Sherwood SC, 2020, 'Adapting to the challenges of warming', Science, 370, pp. 782 - 783, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.abe4479
    Journal articles | 2019
    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
    Journal articles | 2019
    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
    Journal articles | 2019
    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
    Journal articles | 2019
    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
    Journal articles | 2019
    Herger N; Abramowitz G; Sherwood S; Knutti R; Angélil O; Sisson SA, 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
    Journal articles | 2019
    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
    Journal articles | 2019
    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
    Journal articles | 2019
    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
    Journal articles | 2018
    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
    Journal articles | 2018
    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
    Journal articles | 2018
    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
    Journal articles | 2018
    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
    Journal articles | 2018
    Hernandez-Deckers D; Sherwood SC, 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
    Journal articles | 2018
    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
    Journal articles | 2018
    Sherwood SC; Dixit V; Salomez C, 2018, 'The global warming potential of near-surface emitted water vapour', Environmental Research Letters, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aae018
    Journal articles | 2018
    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
    Journal articles | 2017
    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
    Journal articles | 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
    Journal articles | 2017
    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
    Journal articles | 2017
    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
    Journal articles | 2017
    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
    Journal articles | 2017
    Nishant N; Sherwood SC, 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
    Journal articles | 2017
    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
    Journal articles | 2017
    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
    Journal articles | 2016
    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
    Journal articles | 2016
    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
    Journal articles | 2016
    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
    Journal articles | 2016
    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
    Journal articles | 2016
    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
    Journal articles | 2016
    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
    Journal articles | 2016
    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
    Journal articles | 2016
    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
    Journal articles | 2016
    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
    Journal articles | 2016
    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
    Journal articles | 2015
    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
    Journal articles | 2015
    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
    Journal articles | 2015
    Goldie J; Sherwood S; Green D; Alexander L, 2015, 'Temperature and Humidity Effects on Hospital Morbidity in Darwin, Australia', Annals of Global Health, 81, pp. 333 - 341, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aogh.2015.07.003
    Journal articles | 2015
    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
    Journal articles | 2015
    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
    Journal articles | 2015
    Sherwood S, 2015, 'Climate science: The Sun and the rain', Nature, 528, pp. 200 - 201, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/528200a
    Journal articles | 2015
    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
    Journal articles | 2015
    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
    Journal articles | 2015
    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
    Journal articles | 2014
    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
    Journal articles | 2014
    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
    Journal articles | 2014
    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
    Journal articles | 2014
    Sherwood S; Fu Q, 2014, 'A drier future?', Science, 343, pp. 737 - 739, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1247620
    Journal articles | 2014
    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
    Journal articles | 2013
    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
    Journal articles | 2013
    Robinson FJ; Patterson MD; Sherwood S, 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
    Journal articles | 2013
    Sherwood S; Hernandez-Deckers ; 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
    Journal articles | 2013
    Sherwood S; Risi C, 2013, 'The HDO/H2O relationship in tropospheric water vapor in an idealized "last-saturation" model', Journal of Geophysical Research : Atmospheres, 117, pp. n/a - n/a, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2012JD018068
    Journal articles | 2013
    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
    Journal articles | 2012
    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
    Journal articles | 2012
    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
    Journal articles | 2012
    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
    Journal articles | 2012
    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
    Journal articles | 2011
    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
    Journal articles | 2011
    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
    Journal articles | 2011
    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
    Journal articles | 2011
    Sherwood S, 2011, 'Science controversies past and present', Physics Today, 64, pp. 39 - 44, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.1295
    Journal articles | 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
    Journal articles | 2010
    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
    Journal articles | 2010
    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
    Journal articles | 2010
    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
    Journal articles | 2010
    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
    Journal articles | 2010
    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
    Journal articles | 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
    Journal articles | 2010
    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
    Journal articles | 2010
    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
    Journal articles | 2010
    Sherwood SC; Kjellstrom T; Green D, 2010, 'Heat Stress in a Warming World', Australasian Science, 31, pp. 18 - 20
    Journal articles | 2009
    Dessler A; Sherwood S, 2009, 'Atmospheric science: A matter of humidity', Science, 323, pp. 1020 - 1021, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1171264
    Journal articles | 2009
    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
    Journal articles | 2009
    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
    Journal articles | 2009
    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
    Journal articles | 2009
    Sherwood S, 2009, 'Humidity doubles global warming', Australasian Science, 30, pp. 25 - 27
    Journal articles | 2009
    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
    Journal articles | 2008
    Allen RJ; Sherwood S, 2008, 'Warming maximum in the tropical upper troposphere deduced from thermal wind observations', Nature Geoscience, 65, pp. 399 - 403, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ngeo208
    Journal articles | 2008
    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
    Journal articles | 2008
    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
    Journal articles | 2008
    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, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2007JAS2398.1
    Journal articles | 2008
    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
    Journal articles | 2008
    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, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2008JCLI2320.1
    Journal articles | 2008
    Sherwood SC, 2008, 'Climate change: A titanic challenge', Science, 319, pp. 900, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.319.5865.900b
    Journal articles | 2007
    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, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2007JCLI1526.1
    Journal articles | 2007
    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, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2006JD007956
    Journal articles | 2007
    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
    Journal articles | 2007
    Sherwood S, 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
    Journal articles | 2006
    Allen RJ; Sherwood SC, 2006, 'Analysis of tropospheric temperature data via radiosonde wind data in the western tropical Pacific', 86th AMS Annual Meeting
    Journal articles | 2006
    Robinson FJ; Sherwood S, 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
    Journal articles | 2006
    Sherwood S; Kursinski E; Read WG, 2006, 'A distribution law for free tropospheric relative humidity', Journal of Climate, 20, pp. 4047 - 4062
    Journal articles | 2006
    Sherwood S; 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
    Journal articles | 2006
    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
    Journal articles | 2006
    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
    Journal articles | 2005
    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
    Journal articles | 2005
    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
    Journal articles | 2005
    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, http://dx.doi.org/10.1256/qj.04.85
    Journal articles | 2005
    Sherwood S, 2005, 'Detection of faceted crystals in deep convective clouds via the antisolar peak', Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, pp. D14205, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2004JD005549
    Journal articles | 2005
    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
    Journal articles | 2005
    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, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JAS-3382.1
    Journal articles | 2004
    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
    Journal articles | 2004
    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
    Journal articles | 2004
    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, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2004JD004811
    Journal articles | 2003
    Dessler A; Sherwood S, 2003, 'A model of HDO in the tropical tropopause layer', Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, 3, pp. 4489 - 4501
    Journal articles | 2003
    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
    Journal articles | 2003
    Sherwood S; Dessler A, 2003, 'Convective mixing near the tropical tropopause: insights from seasonal variations', Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 60, pp. 2674 - 2685, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0469(2003)060<2674:CMNTTT>2.0.CO;2
    Journal articles | 2003
    Sherwood S; 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
    Journal articles | 2002
    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
    Journal articles | 2002
    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
    Journal articles | 2002
    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
    Journal articles | 2001
    Sherwood SC; Dessler AE, 2001, 'A model of 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
    Journal articles | 2000
    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
    Journal articles | 2000
    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
    Journal articles | 2000
    Sherwood SC, 2000, 'A stratospheric 'drain' over the maritime continent', Geophysical Research Letters, 27, pp. 677 - 680, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/1999GL010868
    Journal articles | 2000
    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
    Journal articles | 2000
    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
    Journal articles | 2000
    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
    Journal articles | 1999
    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
    Journal articles | 1999
    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
    Journal articles | 1999
    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
    Journal articles | 1999
    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
    Journal articles | 1996
    Sherwood SC, 1996, 'Maintenance of the free-tropospheric tropical water vapor distribution. Part I: Clear regime budget', Journal of Climate, 9, pp. 2903 - 2918, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0442(1996)009<2903:MOTFTT>2.0.CO;2
    Journal articles | 1996
    Sherwood SC, 1996, 'Maintenance of the free-tropospheric tropical water vapor distribution. Part II: Simulation by large-scale advection', Journal of Climate, 9, pp. 2919 - 2934, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0442(1996)009<2919:MOTFTT>2.0.CO;2
    Journal articles | 1994
    Sherwood SC; Ramanathan V; Barnett TP; Tyree MK; Roeckner E, 1994, 'Response of an atmospheric general circulation model to radiative forcing of tropical clouds', Journal of Geophysical Research, 99, pp. 20829 - 20829, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/94jd01632
  • Preprints | 2023
    Hwong Y-L; Colin M; Aglas-Leitner P; Muller C; Sherwood S, 2023, Assessing Memory in Convection Schemes Using Idealized Tests, , http://dx.doi.org/10.22541/essoar.168056812.21996560/v1
    Preprints | 2023
    Rafei ME; Sherwood S; Evans JP; Dowdy AJ; Ji F, 2023, Biases in estimating long-term recurrence intervals of extreme events due to regionalised sampling, , http://dx.doi.org/10.22541/essoar.167839988.80634934/v1
    Preprints | 2023
    Sherwood S; Forest C, 2023, Opinion: Can uncertainty in climate sensitivity be narrowed further?, , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-1647
    Conference Presentations | 2022
    Prasad A; Fuchs D; Trapeznikov K; Sherwood S; Gimlett J, 2022, 'The development and performance of the Global AI Accelerator (GAIA) in simulating MJO', presented at 29th AMOS Annual Conference, Adelaide, Australia, 28 November 2022 - 01 December 2022
    Preprints | 2022
    Rafei ME; Sherwood S; Evans J; Dowdy A, 2022, Analysis and characterisation of extreme wind gust hazards in New South Wales, Australia, , http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1563734/v1
    Preprints | 2021
    Ayat H; Evans JP; Sherwood SC; Soderholm J, 2021, A Radar Object-Based Examination of Rain System Climatology and Including Climate Variability, , http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-783979/v1
    Preprints | 2021
    Lutsko N; Sherwood SC; Zhao M, 2021, Precipitation Efficiency and Climate Sensitivity (Invited Chapter for the AGU Geophysical Monograph Series "Clouds and Climate"), , http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10507822.1
    Conference Presentations | 2021
    Prasad A; Sherwood S, 2021, 'Sensitivity of Convective Trigger Functions', presented at 28th AMOS Annual Conference, Remote, 08 February 2021 - 12 March 2021
    Conference Presentations | 2020
    Prasad A; Sherwood S, 2020, 'Improved Convective Trigger using Roll Circulations', presented at 27th AMOS Annual Meeting and International Conference on Indian Ocean Meteorology and Oceanography (AMOS 2020), Fremantle, Western Australia, 10 February 2020 - 14 February 2020
    Preprints | 2020
    Schlund M; Lauer A; Gentine P; Sherwood SC; Eyring V, 2020, Emergent constraints on Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity in CMIP5: do they hold for CMIP6?, , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/esd-2020-49
    Preprints | 2019
    Gross MH; Donat MG; Alexander LV; Sherwood SC, 2019, Enhanced warming of seasonal cold extremes relative to the mean in the Northern Hemisphere extratropics, , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/esd-2019-36
    Conference Presentations | 2019
    N O; C W; S S; D M, 2019, 'Pollen Flowing over the Great Dividing Range, Australia', Vol. 3, pp. 429 - 429, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/01.ee9.0000610820.53949.3a
    Conference Presentations | 2019
    Prasad A; Sherwood S; Reeder M; Lane T, 2019, 'Fluctuations in Cirrus Clouds from Convectively-Generated Gravity Waves', presented at 27th IUGG General Assembly, Montreal, Canada, 08 July 2019 - 18 July 2019
    Conference Presentations | 2019
    Prasad A; Sherwood S, 2019, 'Convective Triggering in Cloud Lines', presented at AMOS Annual Meeting and International Conference on Tropical Meteorology and Oceanography, Darwin, Australia, 10 June 2019 - 14 June 2019
    Conference Presentations | 2019
    Prasad A; Sherwood S, 2019, 'Triggering in Convective Cloud Lines', presented at 27th IUGG General Assembly, Montreal, Canada, 08 July 2019 - 18 July 2019
    Other | 2019
    Prasad AA; Sherwood S, 2019, North Australian Cloud Lines, Clean Air Society of Australia and New Zealand, Sydney, Australia,
    Conference Presentations | 2018
    Prasad AA; Sherwood S; Reeder M; Lane T, 2018, 'Analysis of convectively-generated gravity waves over Northern Australia in satellite observations and mesoscale model simulations', presented at AMOS-ICSHMO Conference 2018, Sydney, Australia, 05 February 2018 - 09 February 2018
    Conference Presentations | 2018
    Prasad AA; Sherwood S; Reeder M; Lane T, 2018, 'Assessment of convectively-generated gravity waves over Northern Australia in satellite observations and mesoscale model simulations', presented at Understanding and Modelling Atmospheric Processes, Lorne, Melbourne, Australia, 26 February 2018 - 02 March 2018
    Conference Posters | 2017
    Prasad AA; Sherwood S; Brogniez H, 2017, 'Constraining WRF Simulations of Convective Environments using Observations', Crowne Plaza, San Diego, CA, USA, presented at 17th Conference on Mesoscale Processes, Crowne Plaza, San Diego, CA, USA, 24 July 2017 - 27 July 2017, https://ams.confex.com/ams/17MESO/webprogram/Paper320134.html
    Conference Presentations | 2017
    Prasad AA; Sherwood S; Brogniez H, 2017, 'Constraining simulations of convective cloud lines using Megha-Tropiques and radiosonde data in Northern Australia', presented at AMOS/MSNZ Annual Conference 2017, Canberra, Australia, 07 February 2017 - 10 February 2017
    Conference Posters | 2017
    Prasad AA; Sherwood S; Brogniez H, 2017, 'Constraining simulations of convective environments using humidity observations in Northern Australia', Bates College, Lewiston, ME, USA, presented at Gordon Research Conference, Bates College, Lewiston, ME, USA, 16 July 2017 - 21 July 2017
    Conference Posters | 2017
    Prasad AA; Sherwood S; Brogniez H, 2017, 'Constraining simulations of convective environments using humidity observations in Northern Australia', Bates College, Lewiston, ME, presented at Gordon Research Seminar, Bates College, Lewiston, ME, 15 July 2017 - 16 July 2017
    Other | 2017
    Prasad AA; Sherwood S, 2017, Simulating roll clouds associated with low-level convergence in WRF, Climate Change Research Centre, Sydney, , https://www.climatescience.org.au/sites/default/files/WRF_Workshop_Prasad.pdf#overlay-context=wrf2017
    Preprints | 2017
    Tsushima Y; Brient F; Klein SA; Konsta D; Nam C; 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, , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2017-69
    Conference Presentations | 2016
    Prasad AA; Sherwood SC, 2016, 'Assessment of simulated roll clouds associated with low-level convergence', presented at AMOS/ARCCSS National Conference 2016, Melbourne, Australia, 08 February 2016 - 11 February 2016
    Conference Papers | 2016
    Wu DL; Baum BA; Choi YS; Foster MJ; Karlsson KG; Heidinger A; Poulsen C; Pavolonis M; Riedi J; Roebeling R; Sherwood S; Thoss A; Watts P, 2016, 'Toward global harmonization of derived cloud products', in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, University of Lille, Villeneuve-d’Ascq, Lille, France, pp. ES49 - ES52, presented at FIRST WORKSHOP OF THE INTERNATIONAL CLOUD WORKING GROUP (ICWG), University of Lille, Villeneuve-d’Ascq, Lille, France, 17 May 2016 - 20 May 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0234.1
    Conference Posters | 2015
    Prasad AA; Sherwood SC; Reeder MJ, 2015, 'Simulating Roll Clouds associated with Low-Level Convergence', San Francisco, presented at AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 14 December 2015 - 18 December 2015
    Preprints | 2011
    Allen RJ; Sherwood SC; Norris JR; Zender CS, 2011, The equilibrium response to idealized thermal forcings in a comprehensive GCM: implications for recent tropical expansion, , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/acpd-11-31643-2011
    Reports | 2010
    England M; Allison I; Bird M; Church J; Enting I; Karoly D; Raupach M; Palutikof J; Sherwood S, 2010, The Science of Climate Change: Questions and Answers, Australian Academy of Science, Canberra, https://www.climatechangeauthority.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-06/submissions/2015/Australian%20Academy%20of%20Science%20-%20attachment.pdf
    Preprints | 2005
    Costa AA; Sherwood S, 2005, Parcel model simulations of aerosol – warm phase cloud microphysics interactions over the Amazon, , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/acpd-5-481-2005
    Preprints | 2003
    Dessler AE; Sherwood SC, 2003, A model of HDO in the tropical tropopause layer, , http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/acpd-3-4489-2003
    Conference Papers | 1998
    Sherwood S; Jones E, 1998, 'Learning relationships among noisy variables using a Bayesian network', in 14TH CONFERENCE ON PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS IN THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES, AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY, AZ, PHOENIX, pp. J73 - J76, presented at 14th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, AZ, PHOENIX, 11 January 1998 - 16 January 1998, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000077436200054&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Conference Papers | 1998
    Sherwood S; Jones E, 1998, 'Learning relationships among noisy variables using a Bayesian network', in FIRST CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY, AZ, PHOENIX, pp. J1 - J4, presented at 1st Conference on Artificial Intelligence at the 78th American-Meteorological-Society Annual Meeting, AZ, PHOENIX, 11 January 1998 - 16 January 1998, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000076779400038&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

My research group is using a variety of tools to address outstanding questions related to climate change and the behavior of the various forms of water in the climate system. These tools include the analysis of global satellite datasets capable of characterizing cloud properties, including their heights attained, water content, solar reflectance and particle sizes and shapes; the simulations of individual clouds and statistical properties of cloud populations using numerical, cloud-resolving models; careful analysis of large datasets, including temperature and moisture variations in radiosondes as well as satellite radiances, using better statistical techniques (possibly including "machine learning"); simulations of global climate using numerical general circulation models; and the development of more idealized or simple models/theories of climate and climate-relevant processes. Some of the questions we are now studying using the above tools are: 

Each of these general questions has many aspects, the investigation of any one of which could consitute a substantial research project. The broad scope of our investigations is aided by collaboration with others in the CCRC and with colleagues at overseas institutions in the United States and Europe.

  • What fundamentally limits the amount of precipitation that can fall in a given period of time? 
  • Why are there such large regional variations in the severity of storms, especially in the tropics? 
  • How will rainfall and storm properties change as climate warms, particularly in mid- and high-latitudes? What changes are needed in climate models so they can predict this more reliably? 
  • Can we improve on our basic understanding and parameterization of how small-scale (e.g. convective) processes feed back on larger scales?
  • Are there ways of observing natural variability in the climate that will reveal its sensitivity to external forcings such as increases in greenhouse gases? 
  • Are prehistoric climate changes suggested by geologic evidence consistent with our current understanding of how the atmosphere and oceans work? Going the other way, can past continental and orographic reconstructions be constrained meteorologically? 

My Research Supervision

Charlotte Waudby

Isabelle Greco

Neelesh Rampal

Valentina Ortiz

Greeshma Surendran

Supriya Segal

Thomas Schanzer