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47
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2094

Overview

Joel R. Norris is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with particular attention to subfields such as Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science.

Their research interests encompass several key topics including climate variability and models, atmospheric aerosols and clouds, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, meteorological phenomena and simulations, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, precipitation measurement and analysis, and cryospheric studies and observations.

Joel R. Norris has published extensively in well-known scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Climate
  • Monthly Weather Review
  • Journal of Hydrometeorology
  • Reviews of Geophysics
  • Nature Climate Change

Their recent papers highlight contributions to understanding climate feedbacks, radiative forcing, and cloud interactions. Some notable papers are:

  • "An Assessment of Earth's Climate Sensitivity Using Multiple Lines of Evidence" (2020, Reviews of Geophysics)
  • "Observational constraints on low cloud feedback reduce uncertainty of climate sensitivity" (2021, Nature Climate Change)
  • "Observed Sensitivity of Low-Cloud Radiative Effects to Meteorological Perturbations over the Global Oceans" (2020, Journal of Climate)
  • "Assessing effective radiative forcing from aerosol-cloud interactions over the global ocean" (2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "Observational Evidence that Radiative Heating Modifies the Life Cycle of Tropical Anvil Clouds" (2020, Journal of Climate)

Frequent co-authors associated with Joel R. Norris include:

  • F. Martin Ralph
  • Stephen A. Klein
  • Mark D. Zelinka
  • Casey J. Wall
  • Timothy A. Myers

Best Publications

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

    S C Sherwood;M J Webb;J D Annan;K C Armour

  • Observational and model evidence for positive low-level cloud feedback

    Amy C. Clement;Robert Burgman;Joel R. Norris

  • Evidence for climate change in the satellite cloud record

    Joel R. Norris;Robert J. Allen;Amato T. Evan;Mark D. Zelinka

  • Trends in aerosol radiative effects over Europe inferred from observed cloud cover, solar “dimming,” and solar “brightening”

    Joel R. Norris;Martin Wild

  • Recent Northern Hemisphere tropical expansion primarily driven by black carbon and tropospheric ozone

    Robert J. Allen;Steven C. Sherwood;Joel R. Norris;Charles S. Zender

  • Low-Cloud Feedbacks from Cloud-Controlling Factors: A Review

    Stephen A. Klein;Alex Hall;Joel R. Norris;Robert Pincus;Robert Pincus

  • On the Relationships among Low-Cloud Structure, Sea Surface Temperature, and Atmospheric Circulation in the Summertime Northeast Pacific

    Stephen A. Klein;Dennis L. Hartmann;Joel R. Norris

  • Low Cloud Type over the Ocean from Surface Observations. Part II: Geographical and Seasonal Variations

    Joel R. Norris

  • interannual Variability in Stratiform Cloudiness and Sea Surface Temperature

    Joel R. Norris;Conway B. Leovy

  • Observational constraints on low cloud feedback reduce uncertainty of climate sensitivity

    Timothy A. Myers;Ryan C. Scott;Mark D. Zelinka;Stephen A. Klein

  • Observational Evidence That Enhanced Subsidence Reduces Subtropical Marine Boundary Layer Cloudiness

    Timothy A. Myers;Joel R. Norris

  • Influence of anthropogenic aerosols and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation on tropical belt width

    Robert J. Allen;Joel R. Norris;Mahesh Kovilakam

  • Low Cloud Type over the Ocean from Surface Observations. Part I: Relationship to Surface Meteorology and the Vertical Distribution of Temperature and Moisture

    Joel R. Norris

  • Advances in Understanding Top-of-Atmosphere Radiation Variability from Satellite Observations

    Norman G. Loeb;Seiji Kato;Wenying Su;Takmeng Wong

  • Trends in aerosol radiative effects over China and Japan inferred from observed cloud cover, solar “dimming,” and solar “brightening”

    Joel R. Norris;Martin Wild

  • Eddy–Wind Interaction in the California Current System: Dynamics and Impacts

    Hyodae Seo;Arthur J. Miller;Joel R. Norris

  • Reducing the uncertainty in subtropical cloud feedback

    Timothy A. Myers;Timothy A. Myers;Joel R. Norris

  • Erosional control on the structural evolution of a transpressional thrust complex on the Alpine fault, New Zealand

    Richard J. Norris;Alan F. Cooper

  • Observed Sensitivity of Low-Cloud Radiative Effects to Meteorological Perturbations over the Global Oceans

    Ryan C. Scott;Timothy A. Myers;Joel R. Norris;Mark D. Zelinka

  • Changes in Earth’s Energy Budget during and after the “Pause” in Global Warming: An Observational Perspective

    Norman G. Loeb;Tyler J. Thorsen;Joel R. Norris;Hailan Wang

  • Role of Low Clouds in Summertime Atmosphere–Ocean Interactions over the North Pacific

    Joel R. Norris;Yuan Zhang;John M. Wallace

  • North Pacific Cloud Feedbacks Inferred from Synoptic-Scale Dynamic and Thermodynamic Relationships

    Joel R. Norris;Sam F. Iacobellis

  • Meteorological bias in satellite estimates of aerosol-cloud relationships

    Guillaume S. Mauger;Joel R. Norris

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen A. Klein
Stephen A. Klein Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Mark D. Zelinka
Mark D. Zelinka Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Martin Wild
Martin Wild ETH Zurich
Amato T. Evan
Amato T. Evan University of California, San Diego
Jan Kleissl
Jan Kleissl University of California, San Diego
Steven C. Sherwood
Steven C. Sherwood University of New South Wales
Arthur J. Miller
Arthur J. Miller University of California, San Diego
Amy C. Clement
Amy C. Clement University of Miami
Robert Pincus
Robert Pincus University of Colorado Boulder
Charles S. Zender
Charles S. Zender University of California, Irvine

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