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DrPauloCeppi

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics

Senior Lecturer in Climate Science
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 1710p.ceppi Website

 
 
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725Huxley BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Ceppi:2015:10.1007/s40641-015-0010-x,
author = {Ceppi, P and Hartmann, DL},
doi = {10.1007/s40641-015-0010-x},
journal = {Current Climate Change Reports},
pages = {94--102},
title = {Connections between clouds, radiation, and midlatitude dynamics: a review},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40641-015-0010-x},
volume = {1},
year = {2015}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - We review the effects of dynamical variability on clouds and radiation in observations and models and discuss their implications for cloud feedbacks. Jet shifts produce robust meridional dipoles in upper-level clouds and longwave cloud-radiative effect (CRE), but low-level clouds, which do not simply shift with the jet, dominate the shortwave CRE. Because the effect of jet variability on CRE is relatively small, future poleward jet shifts with global warming are only a second-order contribution to the total CRE changes around the midlatitudes, suggesting a dominant role for thermodynamic effects. This implies that constraining the dynamical response is unlikely to reduce the uncertainty in extratropical cloud feedback. However, we argue that uncertainty in the cloud-radiative response does affect the atmospheric circulation response to global warming, by modulating patterns of diabatic forcing. How cloud feedbacks can affect the dynamical response to global warming is an important topic of future research.
AU  - Ceppi,P
AU  - Hartmann,DL
DO  - 10.1007/s40641-015-0010-x
EP  - 102
PY  - 2015///
SN  - 2198-6061
SP  - 94
TI  - Connections between clouds, radiation, and midlatitude dynamics: a review
T2  - Current Climate Change Reports
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40641-015-0010-x
UR  - http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000463895800005&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=1ba7043ffcc86c417c072aa74d649202
UR  - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs40641-015-0010-x
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/76098
VL  - 1
ER  -
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