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Environmental Sciences
Australia
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
60
Citations
21552
World Ranking
2856
National Ranking
106

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Australia Leader Award

Overview

Steven C. Sherwood is affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia and has contributed extensively to the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research predominantly focuses on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change, with additional work in Environmental Engineering, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Sociology and Political Science.

Their main topics of research include:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols

Sherwood has published papers in several prominent venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Journal of Climate
  • Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Recent publications of note are:

  • "An Assessment of Earth's Climate Sensitivity Using Multiple Lines of Evidence," 2020, Reviews of Geophysics
  • "Emergent constraints on equilibrium climate sensitivity in CMIP5: do they hold for CMIP6?," 2020, Earth System Dynamics
  • "Spontaneous Aggregation of Convective Storms," 2021, Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics
  • "Intensification of subhourly heavy rainfall," 2022, Science
  • "Adapting to the challenges of warming," 2020, Science

Steven C. Sherwood has also collaborated frequently with several scholars, including:

  • Yi-Ling Hwong
  • David Fuchs
  • Jason P. Evans
  • Gab Abramowitz
  • Caroline Müller

The scope of Sherwood's work covers complex atmospheric processes and climate sensitivity, focusing notably on climate variability and simulation of meteorological phenomena. Their research touches on various critical aspects of atmospheric sciences, such as gas dynamics, aerosol interactions, and the behavior of cyclones both tropical and extratropical, along with studies related to cryospheric observation.

Best Publications

  • Clouds and Aerosols

    Olivier Boucher;David Randall;Paulo Artaxo;Christopher Bretherton

  • An adaptability limit to climate change due to heat stress

    Steven C. Sherwood;Matthew Huber

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

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

  • Clouds, circulation and climate sensitivity

    Sandrine Bony;Bjorn Stevens;Dargan M W Frierson;Christian Jakob

  • Clouds and Aerosols

    O. Boucher;D. Randall;P. Artaxo;C. Bretherton

  • Spread in model climate sensitivity traced to atmospheric convective mixing

    Steven C. Sherwood;Sandrine Bony;Jean-Louis Dufresne

  • A Drier Future

    Steven Sherwood;Qiang Fu;Qiang Fu

  • Taking climate model evaluation to the next level

    Veronika Eyring;Veronika Eyring;Peter M. Cox;Gregory M. Flato;Peter J. Gleckler

  • Tropospheric water vapor, convection, and climate

    S. C. Sherwood;R. Roca;T. M. Weckwerth;N. G. Andronova

  • The Copenhagen Diagnosis: Updating the World on the Latest Climate Science

    I. Allison;N. L. Bindoff;R. A. Bindschadler;P. M. Cox

  • Climate Effects of Aerosol-Cloud Interactions

    Daniel Rosenfeld;Steven Sherwood;Robert Wood;Leo Donner

  • A Cloud and Precipitation Feature Database from Nine Years of TRMM Observations

    Chuntao Liu;Edward J. Zipser;Daniel J. Cecil;Stephen W. Nesbitt

  • Robust direct effect of carbon dioxide on tropical circulation and regional precipitation

    Sandrine Bony;Gilles Bellon;Daniel Klocke;Steven Sherwood

  • Consistency of modelled and observed temperature trends in the tropical troposphere

    B. D. Santer;P. W. Thorne;L. Haimberger;K. E. Taylor

  • Future increases in extreme precipitation exceed observed scaling rates

    Jiawei Bao;Steven C. Sherwood;Lisa V. Alexander;Jason P. Evans

  • Exceedance of heat index thresholds for 15 regions under a warming climate using the wet-bulb globe temperature

    Katharine M. Willett;Katharine M. Willett;Steven Sherwood;Steven Sherwood

  • 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

  • On the control of stratospheric humidity

    Steven C. Sherwood;Andrew E. Dessler

  • Relative humidity changes in a warmer climate

    Steven C. Sherwood;Steven C. Sherwood;William Ingram;William Ingram;Yoko Tsushima;Masaki Satoh;Masaki Satoh

  • A Model for Transport across the Tropical Tropopause.

    Steven C. Sherwood;Andrew E. Dessler

Frequent Co-Authors

Lisa V. Alexander
Lisa V. Alexander University of New South Wales
Jason P. Evans
Jason P. Evans University of New South Wales
Sandrine Bony
Sandrine Bony Université Paris Cité
Mark J. Webb
Mark J. Webb Met Office
Andrew E. Dessler
Andrew E. Dessler Texas A&M University
Bjorn Stevens
Bjorn Stevens Max Planck Society
Gavin A. Schmidt
Gavin A. Schmidt Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Joel R. Norris
Joel R. Norris University of California, San Diego
Peter M. Cox
Peter M. Cox University of Exeter
Matthew H. England
Matthew H. England University of New South Wales

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