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List of works by Thomas Birner

A Global Survey of Static Stability in the Stratosphere and Upper Troposphere

Critical behavior of nonequilibrium phase transitions to magnetically ordered states

Fine-scale structure of the extratropical tropopause region

scientific article published in 2006

Fluctuation of Mass Flux in a Cloud-Resolving Simulation with Interactive Radiation

article published in 2010

Hemispheric asymmetries and seasonality of mean age of air in the lower stratosphere: Deep versus shallow branch of the Brewer-Dobson circulation

scientific article

How sharp is the tropopause at midlatitudes?

scholarly article

Insights into Tropical Tropopause Layer processes using global models

article published in 2007

Isentropic Slopes, Downgradient Eddy Fluxes, and the Extratropical Atmospheric Circulation Response to Tropical Tropospheric Heating

article

Multimodel assessment of the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere: Tropics and global trends

scholarly article

On the Linkages between the Tropospheric Isentropic Slope and Eddy Fluxes of Heat during Northern Hemisphere Winter

article

On the lack of stratospheric dynamical variability in low-top versions of the CMIP5 models

article

Planetary–Geometric Constraints on Isopycnal Slope in the Southern Ocean

scientific article published in 2015

Quantifying the deep convective temperature signal within the tropical tropopause layer (TTL)

scholarly article

Quantifying the effects of mixing and residual circulation on trends of stratospheric mean age of air

scholarly article

Recent widening of the tropical belt from global tropopause statistics: Sensitivities

scientific article

Residual Circulation and Tropopause Structure

Residual circulation trajectories and transit times into the extratropical lowermost stratosphere

scholarly article

Seasonal to multidecadal variability of the width of the tropical belt

article published in 2013

Stratospheric Wave–Mean Flow Feedbacks and Sudden Stratospheric Warmings in a Simple Model Forced by Upward Wave Activity Flux

article

Stratospheric cooling and the tropical belt

Stratospheric modulation of Arctic Oscillation extremes as represented by extended-range ensemble forecasts

scientific article published in 2022

Sudden Stratospheric Warmings as Noise-Induced Transitions

article

THE EXTRATROPICAL UPPER TROPOSPHERE AND LOWER STRATOSPHERE

The Impact of Stratospheric Ozone Recovery on Tropopause Height Trends

article

The Tropical Tropopause Layer 1960–2100

scholarly article

The changing width of Earth’s tropical belt

The effects of mixing on age of air

The tropopause inversion layer in models and analyses

scholarly article

Transient Tropospheric Forcing of Sudden Stratospheric Warmings

article

Tropopause-level planetary wave source and its role in two-way troposphere–stratosphere coupling

scientific article published in 2020

Up-gradient eddy fluxes of potential vorticity near the subtropical jet

scholarly article

Vortex Preconditioning due to Planetary and Gravity Waves prior to Sudden Stratospheric Warmings

article