Publications in process, not yet submitted:
Submitted, in review:
Addressing gaps in scientific knowledge could improve accuracy of climate intervention assessments, Sebastian D. Eastham1,*, Amy H. Butler2, Sarah J. Doherty3, Blaž Gasparini4, Simone Tilmes5, Ewa Bednarz2,6, Ulrike Burkhardt7, Gabriel Chiodo8,9, Daniel J. Cziczo10, Michael S. Diamond11, David W. Keith12, Thomas Leisner13, Douglas G. MacMartin14, Johannes Quaas15, Philip J. Rasch16, Odran Sourdeval17, Isabelle Steinke18, Chelsea Thompson2, Daniele Visioni19, Robert Wood16, Lili Xia20, Pengfei Yu21, 2024. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (JAMES)
The impact of the interaction of cloud microphysics and macrophysics with large-scale circulation on stratocumulus-to-cumulus transition. Je-Yun Chun, Robert Wood, Peter N. Blossey, and Sarah J. Doherty, 2024, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, preprint: https://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2024/egusphere-2024-2439/
Evaluation of Marine Boundary Layer Clouds over the Northeast Pacific during the CSET Campaign in E3SM version 2. Kyoung Ock Choi, Philip J. Rasch, Robert Wood, Sarah J. Doherty, Hui Wan, Hailong Wang, Shuixuan Zhang, Kai Zhang, Mingxuan Wu, Journal of Geophysical, Research, in review, preprint: https://doi.org/10.22541/essoar.173153022.29309856/v1
Building a comprehensive library of observed Lagrangian trajectories for testing modeled cloud evolution, aerosol-cloud interactions, and marine cloud brightening, Erfani, E., Wood, R., Blossey, P., Doherty, S. J., and Eastman, R., Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, preprint, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-3232, 2024.
Sensitivities of Large Eddy Simulations of Aerosol Plume Transport and Cloud Response. Chandru Dhandapani, Colleen M. Kaul, Kyle G. Pressel, Peter N. Blossey, Robert Wood, Gourihar Kulkarni, Journal of Geophysical Research, Atmospheres, in review, 2024.
Published:
A protocol for model intercomparison of impacts of Marine Cloud Brightening Climate Intervention. Philip J. Rasch, Haruki Hirasawa, Mingxuan Wu, Sarah Doherty, Robert Wood, Hailong Wang, Andy Jones, James Haywood, Hansi Singh, Geoscientific Model Development, 17, 7963–7994, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-7963-2024
Exploring ship track spreading rates with a physics-informed Langevin particle parameterization. Lucas A. McMichael, Michael J. Schmidt, Robert Wood, Peter N. Blossey, and Lekha Patel, Geosci. Model Dev., 17, 7867–7888, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-7867-2024, 2024.
G6-1.5K-SAI: a new Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP) experiment integrating recent advances in solar radiation modification studies. Daniele Visioni, Alan Robock, Jim Haywood, Matthew Henry, Simone Tilmes, Douglas G. MacMartin, Ben Kravitz, Sarah J. Doherty, John Moore, Chris Lennard, Shingo Watanabe, Helene Muri, Ulrike Niemeier, Olivier Boucher, Abu Syed, Temitope S. Egbebiyi, and Ilaria Quaglia, Geoscientific Model Development (GMD), 17, 2583-2596, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-2583-2024, 2024.
Physical science research needed to evaluate the viability and risks of marine cloud brightening. Feingold, G., Ghate, V. P., Russell, L. M., Blossey, P., Cantrell, W., Christensen, M. W., Diamond, M. S., Gettelman, A., Glassmeier, F., Gryspeerdt, E., Haywood, J., Hoffmann, F., Kaul, C. M., Lebsock, M., McComiskey, A. C., McCoy, D. T., Ming, Y., Mülmenstädt, J., Possner, A., … Wood, R., Zheng, X. Science Advances, 10(12), eadi8594. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adi8594, 2024.
Microphysical, macrophysical and radiative responses of subtropical marine clouds to aerosol injections, Chun, J.-Y., Wood, R., Blossey, P., and Doherty, S. J.: Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, 1345–1368, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-1345-2023, 2023.
Simulating aerosol lifecycle impacts on the subtropical stratocumulus-to-cumulus transition using large eddy simulations. Ehsan Erfani, Peter Blossey, Robert Wood, Johannes Mohrmann, Sarah Doherty, Matthew Wyant, Kuan-Ting O. J. Geophys. Res.: Atmospheres, 127, e2022JD037258. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JD037258, 2022.
Global Reduction in Ship-tracks from Sulfur Regulations for Shipping Fuel. Tianle Yuan, Hua Song, Robert Wood, Chenxi Wang, Lazaros Oreopoulos, Steven E. Platnick, Sophia von Hippel, Kerry Meyer, Siobhan Light, Eric Wilcox. Science Advances, 8(29), eabn7988. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abn7988, 2022.
Opinion: To assess marine cloud brightening’s technical feasibility, we need to know what to study—and when to stop. Michael S. Diamond, Andrew Gettelman, Matthew D. Lebsock, Allison McComiskey, Lynn M. Russell, Robert Wood, and Graham Feingold. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. January 25, 2022 119, e2118379119; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2118379119
Opportunistic Experiments to Constrain Aerosol Effective Radiative Forcing. Christensen, M., Gettelman, A., Cermak, J., Dagan, G., Diamond, M., Douglas, A., Feingold, G., Glassmeier, F., Goren, T., Grosvenor, D., Gryspeerdt, E., Kahn, R., Li, Z., Ma, P.-L., Malavelle, F., McCoy, I., McCoy, D., McFarquhar, G., Mülmenstädt, J., Pal, S., Possner, A., Povey, A., Quaas, J., Rosenfeld, D., Schmidt, A., Schrödner, R., Sorooshian, A., Stier, P., Toll, V., Watson-Parris, D., Wood, R., Yang, M., and Yuan, T. Atmos. Chem. Phys. 22, 641–674, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-641-2022, 2022.
Assessing the potential efficacy of marine cloud brightening for cooling Earth using a simple heuristic model. Robert Wood. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 21, 14507–14533, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-14507-2021, 2021.
Substantial Cloud Brightening from Shipping in Subtropical Low Clouds. Diamond, M. S., H. M. Director, R. Eastman, A. Possner and R. Wood, 2020: AGU Advances, 1, e2019AV000111. https://doi-org.offcampus.lib.washington.edu/10.1029/2019AV000111
[AGU Advances Editor Highlight].
The efficacy of aerosol–cloud radiative perturbations from near-surface emissions in deep open-cell stratocumuli. Possner, A., Wang, H., Wood, R., Caldeira, K., and Ackerman, T. P.: Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 17475-17488, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-17475-2018, 2018.
The Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project –introduction to the second special issue. Ben Kravitz, Alan Robock , Olivier Boucher, Mark Lawrence , John C. Moore , Ulrike Niemeier, Trude Storelvmo, Simone Tilmes, and Robert Wood. Atmos. Chem. Phys., doi:10.5194/acp-special_issue376-preface, 2018.
Could geoengineering research help answer one of the biggest questions in climate science? Robert Wood, Thomas Ackerman, Philip Rasch and Kelly Wanser. Earth’s Future. 5, 659–663,doi:10.1002/2017EF000601, 2017.
Large-Eddy Simulation of Ship Tracks in the Collapsed Marine Boundary Layer: A Case Study from the Monterey Area Ship Track Experiment. A. H. Berner, C. S. Bretherton, and R. Wood. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 5851-5871, doi:10.5194/acp-15-5851-2015.
Climatic change special issue: Geoengineering research and its limitations. Robert Wood, Stephen Gardiner and Lauren Hartzell-Nichols. Climatic Change, 121, 427-430, DOI 10.1007/s10584-013-1000-4, 2013.
Defining success and limits of field experiments to test geoengineering by marine cloud brightening. R. Wood and T. P. Ackerman. Climatic Change, 121, DOI 10.1007/s10584-013-0932-z, 2013.
Factors determining the most efficient spray distribution for marine cloud brightening, P. J. Connolly, G. B. McFiggans, and R. Wood. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A372: 20140056. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2014.0056, 2014.
Marine Cloud Brightening. J. Latham, K. Bower, T. Choularton, H. Coe, P. Connolly , G. Cooper ,T. Craft, J. Foster, A. Gadian, L. Galbraith, H. Iacovides, D. Johnston, B. Launder, B. Leslie, J. Meyer, A. Neukermans, B. Ormond, B. Parkes, P. J. Rasch, J. Rush, S. Salter, T. Stevenson, H. Wang, Q. Wang, and R. Wood. Phil Trans Roy. Soc. A, 2012, 370, 4217-4262, doi: 10.1098/rsta.2012.0086, 2012.
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