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List of works by Christopher S. Bretherton

A Simple Model of a Convectively Coupled Walker Circulation Using the Weak Temperature Gradient Approximation

article by Christopher S. Bretherton & Adam H. Sobel published October 2002 in Journal of Climate

A comparison of low-latitude cloud properties and their response to climate change in three AGCMs sorted into regimes using mid-tropospheric vertical velocity

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A single-column model intercomparison of a heavily drizzling stratocumulus-topped boundary layer

scientific article published in 2007

An aircraft case study of the spatial transition from closed to open mesoscale cellular convection over the Southeast Pacific

scholarly article

An assessment of Earth's climate sensitivity using multiple lines of evidence

scientific article published on 22 July 2020

An interpretation of the results from atmospheric general circulation models forced by the time history of the observed sea surface temperature distribution

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Aquaplanets, Climate Sensitivity, and Low Clouds

CGILS: Results from the first phase of an international project to understand the physical mechanisms of low cloud feedbacks in single column models

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Cloud System Evolution in the Trades-CSET: Following the Evolution of Boundary Layer Cloud Systems with the NSF/NCAR GV

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Cloudiness and Marine Boundary Layer Dynamics in the ASTEX Lagrangian Experiments. Part I: Synoptic Setting and Vertical Structure

Clouds, Aerosols, and Precipitation in the Marine Boundary Layer: An Arm Mobile Facility Deployment

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Confronting Models with Data: The GEWEX Cloud Systems Study

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Correcting Coarse‐Grid Weather and Climate Models by Machine Learning From Global Storm‐Resolving Simulations

scientific article published in 2022

Correcting Weather and Climate Models by Machine Learning Nudged Historical Simulations

scientific article published in 2021

Correcting a 200‐km resolution climate model in multiple climates by machine learning from 25‐km resolution simulations

scientific article published in 2022

DYAMOND: the DYnamics of the Atmospheric general circulation Modeled On Non-hydrostatic Domains

scientific article published on 30 September 2019

Development of Synoptic-Scale Disturbances over the Summertime Tropical Northwest Pacific

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Dynamics and Chemistry of Marine Stratocumulus—DYCOMS-II

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Effects of Domain Size and Numerical Resolution on the Simulation of Shallow Cumulus Convection

article by David E. Stevens et al published December 2002 in Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Evaluating Boundary Layer–Based Mass Flux Closures Using Cloud-Resolving Model Simulations of Deep Convection

Evaluation of Forecasted Southeast Pacific Stratocumulus in the NCAR, GFDL, and ECMWF Models

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Evaluation of Large-Eddy Simulations via Observations of Nocturnal Marine Stratocumulus

article by Bjorn Stevens et al published June 2005 in Monthly Weather Review

Global and regional modeling of clouds and aerosols in the marine boundary layer during VOCALS: the VOCA intercomparison

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Hallett‐Mossop Rime Splintering Dims Cumulus Clouds Over the Southern Ocean: New Insight From Nudged Global Storm‐Resolving Simulations

scientific article published on 04 March 2022

How Well Do Large‐Eddy Simulations and Global Climate Models Represent Observed Boundary Layer Structures and Low Clouds Over the Summertime Southern Ocean?

scientific article published in 2020

How Well Do We Understand and Evaluate Climate Change Feedback Processes?

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Impact of Warmer Sea Surface Temperature on the Global Pattern of Intense Convection: Insights From a Global Storm Resolving Model

scientific article published in 2022

Implementation in the NCEP GFS of a Hybrid Eddy-Diffusivity Mass-Flux (EDMF) Boundary Layer Parameterization with Dissipative Heating and Modified Stable Boundary Layer Mixing

Improving our fundamental understanding of the role of aerosol-cloud interactions in the climate system.

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Improving subtropical boundary layer cloudiness in the 2011 NCEP GFS

article published in 2014

Insights into low-latitude cloud feedbacks from high-resolution models

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Large eddy simulation of ship tracks in the collapsed marine boundary layer: a case study from the Monterey area ship track experiment

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Large-Eddy Simulations of a Drizzling, Stratocumulus-Topped Marine Boundary Layer

article published in 2009

Large-Scale Meteorology and Deep Convection during TRMM KWAJEX

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Marine low cloud sensitivity to an idealized climate change: The CGILS LES intercomparison

scholarly article by Peter N. Blossey et al published 14 May 2013 in Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Mesoscale Variability and Drizzle in Southeast Pacific Stratocumulus

Modeling Tropical Precipitation in a Single Column

article by Adam H. Sobel & Christopher S. Bretherton published December 2000 in Journal of Climate

Ocean–Cloud–Atmosphere–Land Interactions in the Southeastern Pacific: The VOCALS Program

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Parameterization of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer: A View from Just Above the Inversion

Planning the Next Decade of Coordinated Research to Better Understand and Simulate Marine Low Clouds

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Re-examining the Non-Linear Moisture-Precipitation Relationship over the Tropical Oceans.

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Reflectivity and rain rate in and below drizzling stratocumulus

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Simulating Observations of Southern Ocean Clouds and Implications for Climate

scientific article published in 2020

South East Pacific atmospheric composition and variability sampled along 20° S during VOCALS-REx

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Statistical significance of climate sensitivity predictors obtained by data mining

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The CGILS experimental design to investigate low cloud feedbacks in general circulation models by using single-column and large-eddy simulation models

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The Cloud Feedback Model Intercomparison Project (CFMIP) contribution to CMIP6

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The Cloud Feedback Model Intercomparison Project (CFMIP) contribution to CMIP6

The Community Climate System Model Version 3 (CCSM3)

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The ENSO Signal in Tropical Tropospheric Temperature

The Epic 2001 Stratocumulus Study

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The GASS/EUCLIPSE model intercomparison of the stratocumulus transition as observed during ASTEX: LES results

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The Gill Model and the Weak Temperature Gradient Approximation

The PreVOCA experiment: modeling the lower troposphere in the Southeast Pacific

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The Three-Dimensional Structure and Kinematics of Drizzling Stratocumulus

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The VAMOS Ocean-Cloud-Atmosphere-Land Study Regional Experiment (VOCALS-REx): goals, platforms, and field operations

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The impact of parametrized convection on cloud feedback

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Time scales of response to antisymmetric surface fluxes in an aquaplanet GCM

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Toward a minimal representation of aerosols in climate models: description and evaluation in the Community Atmosphere Model CAM5

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Ultraclean Layers and Optically Thin Clouds in the Stratocumulus-to-Cumulus Transition. Part I: Observations

What Controls Stratocumulus Radiative Properties? Lagrangian Observations of Cloud Evolution