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Commentary/General Interest

Dessler, A. E. and S. C. Sherwood, A matter of humidity. Science, Vol. 323, 2009, 1020-1021.

Sherwood, S. C. and Water Vapour Doubles Global Warming. Australasian Science, August, 2009, 25-27.

Sherwood, S. C. and 30 other workshop participants, Southeast Australian Rainfall Workshop - Summary. Bulletin of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, 2009, In press.

Peer- reviewed Journal Articles

Sherwood, S. C. and M. Huber, An adaptability limit to global warming due to heat stress, Submitted.

Allen, R. J. and S. C. Sherwood, The aerosol-cloud semi-direct effect and land-sea temperature contrast in a GCM. Geophysical Research Letters, Submitted.

Allen, R. J. and S. C. Sherwood, The impact of natural versus anthropogenic aerosols on atmospheric circulation in the Community Atmosphere Model. Climate Dynamics, Submitted.

Sherwood, S. C., W. Ingram, Y. Tsushima, M. Satoh, M. Roberts, P. L. Vidale and P. A. O'Gorman, Relative humidity changes in a warmer climate. J. Geophysical Research, In final review.
preprint

Chae, J-H. and S. C. Sherwood, Insights into cloud-top height and dynamics from the seasonal cycle of cloud top heights observed by MISR in the West Pacific region, J. Atmos. Sci., In Press.
manuscript

Sherwood, S. C., R. Roca, T. M. Weckwerth and N. G. Andronova, Tropospheric water vapor, convection and climate. Reviews of Geophysics, In Press.
preprint

Sherwood, S. C., H. A Titchner, P. W. Thorne and M. McCarthy, How do we tell which estimates of past climate change are correct? International Journal of Climatology, online, 2009, DOI: 10.1002/joc.1825.
reprint

Liu, C. and E. J. Zipser and D. J. Cecil and S. W. Nesbitt and S. Sherwood, A cloud and precipitation feature database from nine years of TRMM observations. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, Vol. 47, 2008, 2712-2728.

Santer, B. et al., Consistency of modelled and observed temperature trends in the tropical troposphere, Intl. J. Climatol., Vol. 28, 2008, 1703-1722.
print version

Allen, R. J. and S. C. Sherwood, Warming maximum in the tropical upper troposphere deduced from thermal wind observations. Nature Geosci., Vol. 65, 2008, 399-403.
published version

S. C. Sherwood, C. L. Meyer, R. J. Allen, and H. A. Titchner, Robust tropospheric warming revealed by iteratively homogenized radiosonde data. Journal of Climate, Vol. 21, 2008, 5336-5352.
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F. Bennhold and S. C. Sherwood, Erroneous relationships among humidity and cloud forcing variables in three global climate models. Journal of Climate, Vol. 21, 2008, 4190-4206
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Robinson, F. J, S. C. Sherwood and Y. Li, Resonant response of deep convection to surface hot spots. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Vol. 65, 2008, 276-286.
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Chae, J-H. and S. C. Sherwood, The annual temperature cycle of the tropical tropopause: A simple model study, J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 112, 2007, D19111.
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Allen, R. J. and S. C. Sherwood, Utility of radiosonde wind data in representing climatological variations of tropospheric temperature and baroclinicity in the western tropical Pacific, Journal of Climate, Vol. 20, 2007, 5229-5243.
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Sherwood, S. C., Simultaneous detection of climate change and observing biases in a network with incomplete sampling. Journal of Climate, Vol. 20, 2007, 4047-4062.
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Sherwood, S. C., E. R. Kursinski and W. G. Read, A distribution law for free tropospheric relative humidity. Journal of Climate, Vol. 19, 2006, 6267-6277.
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Sherwood, S. C. and C. L. Meyer, The general circulation and robust relative humidity. Journal of Climate, Vol. 19, 2006, 6278-6290.
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Sherwood, S. C., Discounting and uncertainty---A non-economist's view. Climatic Change, Vol. 80, 2007, 205-212; DOI 10.1007/s10584-006-9164-9.
preprint / published version

Robinson, F. J. and S. C. Sherwood, Modeling the Impact of Convective Entrainment on the Tropical Tropopause. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Vol. 63, 2006, 1013-1027.
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Sherwood, S. C., V. T. J. Phillips and J. S. Wettlaufer, Small ice crystals and the climatology of lightning, Geophysical Research Letters 33, 2006, L05804, doi:10.1029/2005GL025242
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Sherwood, S. C., J. R. Lanzante and C. L. Meyer, Radiosonde daytime biases and late 20th century warming, Science, Vol. 309, 2005, pp. 1556-1559.
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Sherwood, S. C., Detection of faceted crystals in deep convective clouds via the antisolar peak. J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 110, 2005, Art. No. D14205.
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Phillips, V. T. J., S. C. Sherwood, C. Andronache, A. Bansemer, W. C. Conant, P. J. Demott, R. C. Flagan, A. Heysmfield, H. Jonsson, M. Poellot, T. A. Rissman, J. H. Seinfeld, T. Vanreken, V. Varutbangkul and J. C. Wilson, 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, Vol. 131, 2005, pp. 2019-2046.
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Wu, D. L., W. G. Read, A. E. Dessler, S. C. Sherwood, and J. H. Jiang, UARS MLS cloud ice measurements and implications for H2O transport near the tropopause. J. Atmos. Sci., Vol. 62, 2005, pp. 518-530.
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Dessler, A. E. and S. C. Sherwood, Effect of convection on the summertime extratropical lower stratosphere. Journal of Geophysical Research,Vol. 109, D23301, 2004, doi:10.1029/2004JD005209.
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Sherwood, S. C., P. Minnis, and M. McGill, Deep convective cloud top heights and their thermodynamic control during CRYSTAL-FACE. Journal of Geophysical Research,Vol. 109, No. D20, 2004, D20119.
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Sherwood, S. C., P. Minnis, M. McGill, and J. C. Chae, Underestimation of deep convective cloud tops by thermal imagery. Geophysical Research Letters, 2004, doi:10.1029/2004GL019699.
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Dessler, A.E. and S.C. Sherwood, A model of HDO in the tropical tropopause layer. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Vol. 3, 2003, pp. 4489-4501.
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Sherwood, S.C. and A. E. Dessler, Convective mixing near the tropical tropopause: insights from seasonal variations. J. Atmos. Sci., Vol. 60, No. 21, 2003, pp. 2674-2685.
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Sherwood, S.C., T. Horinouchi and H.A. Zeleznik, Convective impact on temperatures observed near the tropical tropopause. J. Atmos. Sci., Vol. 60, No. 15, 2003, pp. 1847-1856.
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Sherwood, S.C. A microphysical connection among biomass burning, cumulus clouds, and stratospheric moisture. Science, Vol. 295, No. 5558, 2002, pp. 1272-1275. Important corrigenda
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Sherwood, S.C. Aerosols and ice particle size in tropical cumulonimbus. Journal of Climate, Vol. 15, No. 9, 2002, pp 1051-1063. Important corrigenda
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--- . Climate signal mapping and an application to atmospheric tides. Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 27, No. 21, 2000, pp. 3525-3528.
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--- . Climate signals from station arrays with missing data, and an application to winds. Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 105, No. D24, 2001, pp. 29,489-29,500.
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Sherwood, S.C. and Dessler, A.E. A model for transport across the tropical tropopause. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Vol. 58, No. 4, 2001, pp. 765-779.
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Sherwood, S.C. On moist stability. Monthly Weather Review, Vol. 128, No. 12, 2000, pp. 4139--4142.
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Sherwood, S.C. and Dessler, A.E. On the control of stratospheric humidity. Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 27, No. 16, 2000, pp. 2513-2516.
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Dessler, A.E. and Sherwood, S.C. Simulations of tropical upper tropospheric humidity. Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 105, No. D15, 2000, pp. 20,155-20,164.
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Sherwood, S.C. A "stratospheric drain" over the maritime continent. Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 27, No. 5, 2000, pp. 677-680.
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--- . Convective precursors and predictability in the tropical Western Pacific. Monthly Weather Review, Vol. 127, No. 12, 1999, pp 2977-2991.
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--- and Wahrlich, R. Observed evolution of tropical deep convective events and their environment. Monthly Weather Review, Vol. 127, No. 8, 1999, pp 1777-1795.
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--- . Feedbacks in a simple prognostic tropical climate model. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Vol. 56, No. 7, 1999, pp 2178-2200*.
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--- . On moistening of the tropical troposphere by cirrus clouds. Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 104, No. D10, 1999, pp 11949-11960.
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--- . Maintenance of the free-tropospheric tropical water vapor distribution, Part I: Clear regime budget. Journal of Climate, Vol. 9, No. 11, 1996, pp 2903-2918.*
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--- . Maintenance of the free-tropospheric tropical water vapor distribution, Part II: Simulation by large-scale advection. Journal of Climate, Vol. 9, No. 11, 1996, pp 2919-2934.*
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--- . The maintenance of the tropical water vapor distribution, PhD Dissertation, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 1995.

--- , Ramanathan, V., Barnett, T.P., Tyree, M.K. and Roeckner, E. Response of an atmospheric general circulation model to radiative forcing of tropical clouds. Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 99, 1993, pp 20,829-20,845.

* These contain material from Sherwood, 1995 (hopefully improved.)

Selected conference abstracts

Sherwood, S.C., A method for climate-signal estimation from incomplete data. AMS 15th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, May 2000, Asheville, NC.
Long abstract (pdf)

Sherwood, Steven and Jones, Eric. Learning relationships among noisy variables using a Bayesian network. Joint session of 14th Conference on Probability and Statistics and 1st Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 78th AMS annual meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, January 1998.
Long abstract (postscript)