[1] Geostationary satellite observations are used in conjunction with an objective pattern-tracking algorithm to describe the Lagrangian evolution of convection, clouds and water vapor in the...
tropospheric water vapor from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program (2009)
Brian J. Soden, David D. Turner, Barry M. Lesht, Larry M. Miloshevich
[1] To improve our understanding of the distribution and radiative effects of water vapor,
Xianglei Huang, Brian J. Soden, Darren L. Jackson
[1] We use a 20-year record of HIRS radiance measurements to evaluate the fidelity of interannual co-variability of tropical humidity and temperature in the reanalyses and GFDL AM2 simulations. Large...
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Gabriel A. Vecchi, Brian J. Soden
[1] To help understand possible impacts of anthropogenic greenhouse warming on hurricane activity, we assess model-projected changes in large-scale environmental factors tied to variations in...
1DECEMBER 2006 CORRIGENDUM 6263 CORRIGENDUM (2009)
There is an error in Fig. 1 of Soden and Held (2006), which displays the values of climate feedbacks from various models. The column of data labeled All in this figure was intended to contain the sum...
Accepted Journal of Climate (2008)
Brian J. Soden, Isaac M. Held, Robert Colman, Karen M. Shell, Jeffrey T. Kiehl, Christine A. Shields
The extent to which the climate will change due to an external forcing depends largely on radiative feedbacks, which act to amplify or damp the surface temperature response. There are a variety of...
Quantifying Climate Feedbacks Using Radiative Kernels (2008)
Brian J. Soden, Isaac M. Held, Robert Colman, Karen M. Shell, Jeffrey T. Kiehl, Christine A. Shields
2000: Water vapor feedback and global warming (2007)
Water vapor is the dominant greenhouse gas, the most important gaseous source of infrared opacity in the atmosphere. As the concentrations of other greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide,...
Gabriel A. Vecchi, Brian J. Soden
This study examines the response of the tropical atmospheric and oceanic circulation to increasing greenhouse gases using a coordinated set of twenty-first-century climate model experiments performed...
On the Use of Cloud Forcing to Estimate Cloud Feedback (2004)
Brian J. Soden, Anthony J. Broccoli, Richard S. Hemler
Uncertainty in cloud feedback is the leading cause of discrepancy in model predictions of climate change. The use of observed or model-simulated radiative fluxes to diagnose the effect of clouds on...
Bimodality in tropical water vapour (2002)
Chidong Zhang, Brian E. Mapes, Brian J. Soden
Probability distribution functions of tropospheric water vapour in the tropics are shown to be commonly bimodal. This bimodality implies sharp gradients between dry and moist regimes in space and...
The Impact of Satellite Winds on Experimental GFDL Hurricane Model Forecasts (2000)
Brian J. Soden, Christopher S. Velden, Robert E. Tuleya
A series of experimental forecasts are performed to evaluate the impact of enhanced satellite-derived winds on numerical hurricane track predictions. The winds are derived from Geostationary...
Brian J. Soden, Steven R. Schroeder
Multiple satellite records of tropical-mean water vapor are compared with a general circulation model (GCM) simulation to assess the ability to monitor and to predict low-frequency changes in total...
Stephen A. Klein, Brian J. Soden, Ngar-cheung Lau
In an El Niño event, positive SST anomalies usually appear in remote ocean basins such as the South China Sea, the Indian Ocean, and the tropical North Atlantic approximately 3 to 6 months after SST...
538 JOURNAL OF CLIMATE VOLUME 13 The Sensitivity of the Tropical Hydrological Cycle to ENSO (1998)
Satellite observations of temperature, water vapor, precipitation and longwave radiation are used to characterize the variation of the tropical hydrologic and energy budgets associated with the El...
1050 JOURNAL OF CLIMATE VOLUME 10 Variations in the Tropical Greenhouse Effect during El Niño (1996)
Observations of the clear-sky outgoing longwave radiation and sea surface temperature are combined to examine the evolution of the tropical greenhouse effect from colder La Niña conditions in early...
Interpretation of TOVS Water Vapor Radiances Using a Random Strong Line Model (1995)
Soden, Brian J., Bretherton, Francis P.
This study illustrates the application of a random strong line (RSL) model of radiative transfer to the interpretation of satellite observations of the upwelling radiation in the 6.3 micron water...