Adam Sobel's Publications
(And manuscripts in review, press, etc., with links
to collaborators)
Peer-reviewed publications
Sobel,
Maloney,
Bellon
and
Frierson, 2008a: The role of surface fluxes in tropical
intraseasonal oscillations. Nature Geoscience, 1,
doi:10.1038/ngeo312.
Sobel,
Maloney,
Bellon
and
Frierson, 2008b:
Surface fluxes and
tropical
intraseasonal variability: a reassessment.
arXiv:0805.1508 (not peer reviewed).
Sobel and Bellon
2008:
The effect of imposed drying on parameterized deep convection,
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, submitted.
PDF file.
Camargo, Sobel,
Barnston, and Klotzbach 2008: The influence of natural climate
variability, and seasonal forecasts of tropical cyclone activity.
Global Perspectives on Tropical Cyclones, 2nd edition, J. Chan, Ed.,
submitted.
PDF file
Bellon,
Sobel, and Vialard 2008: Ocean-atmosphere coupling in the monsoon intraseasonal
oscillation: a simple model study. Journal of Climate,
21, doi:10.1175/2008JCLI2305.1.
PDF file
Holder,
Yuter,
Sobel, and
Aiyyer 2008:
The mesoscale characteristics of tropical oceanic precipitation during
Kelvin and mixed Rossby-gravity wave events.
Monthly Weather Review, 136, 3446-3464.
PDF file
Bellon and
Sobel 2008b:
Instability of the axisymmetric monsoon flow and intraseasonal oscillation.
Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, D07109, doi:10.1029/2007JD008968.
PDF file
Biasutti,
Held, Sobel, and
Giannini 2008:
SST forcings and Sahel rainfall variability in simulations of
the 20th and 21st centuries. Journal of Climate,
21, 3471-3486.
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Krouse, Sobel, and Polvani 2008:
On the wavelength of the Rossby waves
radiated by tropical cyclones. Journal of the Atmospheric
Sciences, 65, 644-654. PDF file.
Bellon and
Sobel 2008a: Poleward-propagating intraseasonal monsoon disturbances in an
intermediate-complexity axisymmetric model. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 65, 470-489.
PDF file
Giannini, Biasutti,
Held, and Sobel
2008: A global perspective on African climate.
Climatic Change, DOI 10.1007/s10584-008-9396-y.
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Sobel, Bellon and Bacmeister
2007: Multiple equilibria in a single-column model of the tropical atmosphere.
Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L22804, doi:10.1029/2007GL031320.
PDF file.
Sobel 2007: Simple models of ensemble-averaged
precipitation and surface wind,
given the SST. The Global Circulation of the Atmosphere, T. Schneider and A. H. Sobel, Eds., Princeton
University Press.
PDF file
Wing, Sobel, and Camargo
2007: The relationship between the potential and actual
intensities of tropical cyclones on interannual time scales.
Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L08810, doi:10.1029/2006GL028581.
PDF file
Camargo,
Sobel,
Barnston,
and Emanuel 2007:
Tropical cyclone genesis potential index in climate models.
Tellus, 59A, 428-443.
PDF file
Camargo,
Emanuel, and Sobel 2007:
Use of a genesis potential index to diagnose ENSO
effects on tropical cyclone genesis.
Journal of Climate, 20, 4819-4834.
PDF file
Herceg, Sobel,
and Sun 2007:
Regional modeling of decadal rainfall variability over the Sahel.
Climate Dynamics, 29, 89-99.
PDF file
Maloney
and Sobel 2007:
Idealized hot spot experiments with a general circulation model.
Journal of Climate, 20, 908-925.
PDF file
Swann, Sobel,
Yuter, and
Kiladis 2006:
Observed radar reflectivity in convectively coupled Kelvin and
mixed Rossby-gravity waves. Geophysical Research Letters,
33, doi:10.1029/2006LG025979.
PDF file
Galewsky,
Stark, Dadson, Wu, Sobel, and Horng 2006:
Tropical cyclone triggering of sediment discharge in Taiwan.
Journal of Geophysical Research (Earth Surface), 111,
F03014, doi:10.1029/2005JF000428.
PDF file
Sobel and Neelin 2006:
The boundary layer contribution to intertropical convergence zones
in the quasi-equilibrium tropical circulation model framework.
Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, 20,
323-350.
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Burns, Sobel, and Polvani 2006:
Asymptotic solutions of the moist axisymmetric Hadley circulation
in a model with two vertical modes.
Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, 20, 443-467.
PDF file
Zhou
and Sobel 2006:
Nonlinear shallow water solutions using the weak temperature
gradient approximation.
Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, 20, 469-484.
PDF file
Biasutti, Sobel, and Kushnir
2006:
GCM precipitation biases in the tropical Atlantic.
Journal of Climate, 19, 935-958.
PDF file
Herceg, Sobel,
Sun,
and Zebiak 2006:
The big brother experiment and seasonal predictability in the NCEP Regional Spectral
Model.
Climate Dynamics, 27, 69-82.
PDF file
Sobel and
Camargo
2005:
Influence
of western north Pacific tropical cyclones on their
large-scale environment.
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 62, 3396-3407.
PDF file
Camargo
and Sobel 2005:
Western north Pacific tropical cyclone intensity and ENSO.
Journal of Climate, 18, 2996-3006.
PDF file
Galewsky and Sobel 2005:
Moist dynamics and orographic precipitation in Northern California
during the New Year's flood of 1997.
Monthly Weather Review, 133, 1594-1612.
PDF file
Galewsky, Sobel, and Held
2005:
Diagnosis of subtropical humidity dynamics using tracers of
last saturation.
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 62, 3353-3367.
PDF file
Gu, Adler,
and Sobel 2005:
The eastern Pacific ITCZ during the boreal spring.
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 62, 1157-1174.
PDF file
Maloney
and Sobel 2004:
Surface fluxes and ocean coupling in the tropical intraseasonal
oscillation.
Journal of Climate, 17, 4368-4386.
PDF file
Sobel,
Bretherton,
Gildor, and Peters 2004:
Convection, cloud-radiative feedbacks and thermodynamic ocean
coupling in simple models of the Walker circulation.
Earth's Climate: The Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction,
C. Wang S.-P. Xie, and J. A. Carton, Eds., American
Geophysical Union Geophysical Monograph 147, 393-405.
PDF file
(Book available from AGU)
Shaevitz
and Sobel 2004:
Implementing the weak temperature gradient approximation with full
vertical structure.
Monthly Weather Review, 132, 662-669.
PDF file
Camargo
and Sobel 2004:
Formation of tropical storms in an atmospheric general circulation
model.
Tellus, 56A, 56-67.
PDF file
Sobel, Yuter,
Bretherton, and Kiladis 2004:
Large-scale meteorology and deep convection during TRMM KWAJEX.
Monthly Weather Review, 132, 422-444.
PDF file
(about 2.1MB, lots of color figures.)
Sobel and
Gildor
2003:
A simple time-dependent model of SST hot spots.
Journal of Climate, 16, 3978-3992.
PDF file
Gildor, Sobel,
Cane
, and Sambrotto 2003:
A role for ocean biota in tropical intraseasonal atmospheric
variability. Geophysical Research Letters,
30(9), 1460, doi:10.1029/2002GL016759.
Sobel 2003:
On the coexistence of an evaporation minimum and precipitation
maximum in the warm pool.
Journal of Climate, 16, 1003-1009.
PDF file
Bretherton and Sobel 2003:
The Gill model and the weak temperature gradient
approximation .
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 60, 451-460.
PDF file
Sobel and
Bretherton 2003:
Large-scale waves interacting with deep convection in idealized
mesoscale model simulations.
Tellus, 55A, 45-60.
PDF file
Sobel 2002:
Water vapor as an active scalar in tropical atmospheric
dynamics
Chaos, 12, 451-459.
PDF file
Bretherton and Sobel 2002:
A simple model of a
convectively-coupled Walker circulation using the weak temperature
gradient approximation.
Journal of Climate, 15, 2907-2920.
PDF file
Chiang and Sobel 2002:
Tropical tropospheric temperature variations caused by ENSO and their influence on the remote tropical climate.
Journal of Climate, 15, 2616-2631.
PDF file
Sobel, Held, and
Bretherton 2002:
The ENSO signal in tropical tropospheric temperature
Journal of Climate, 15, 2702-2706.
PDF file
Polvani and Sobel 2002:
The Hadley circulation and the weak temperature gradient approximation.
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 59, 1744-1752.
PDF file
Sobel, Nilsson and
Polvani 2001:
The weak temperature gradient approximation and balanced
tropical moisture waves.
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 58, 3650-3665.
PDF file
Sobel and
Bretherton 2000:
Modeling tropical precipitation in a single column.
Journal of Climate, 13,
4378-4392.
PDF file
Correction to Sobel and Bretherton 2000 (there's a wrong
equation, doesn't affect the results but makes it confusing to
read one section).
Sobel and
Maloney 2000:
Effect of ENSO and the MJO on western north Pacific tropical
cyclones.
Geophysical Research Letters, 27, 1739-1742.
Sobel and
Flierl 2000:
Cross-channel advective-diffusive transport by a monochromatic
traveling wave.
Physics of Fluids, 12, 1377-1381.
PDF or gzipped PS available from Phys. Fluids' web page.
Sobel and Horinouchi 2000:
On the dynamics of easterly waves, monsoon depressions, and
tropical depression type disturbances.
Journal of the Meteorological Society
of Japan, 78, 167-173.
Gettelman
and Sobel 2000:
Direct diagnoses of stratosphere-troposphere exchange.
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 57,
3-16.
Sobel and
Bretherton 1999:
Development of synoptic-scale disturbances over the
summertime tropical northwest Pacific.
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 56,
3106-3127.
Sobel 1999:
Diffusion vs. nonlocal models of stratospheric mixing, in theory
and practice.
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 56,
2571-2584.
Sobel and Plumb 1999:
Quantitative diagnostics of mixing in a shallow-water model of the
stratosphere.
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 56, 2811-2829.
Sobel, Plumb and
Waugh 1997:
Methods of computing transport across the polar vortex edge.
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 54, 2241-2260.
Goody and Sobel 1996:
A graduate radiation course based upon numerical methods.
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 77, 2919-2924.
Book
Schneider, T., and
A. H. Sobel, eds., 2007:
The Global Circulation of the Atmosphere, Princeton University Press, 400pp.
Meeting summaries
Biasutti, Giannini, Sobel, Held, and Chiang 2007:
Sahel climate change.
EOS, 88, (29), 295.
PDF file
Camargo
and Sobel 2007: Workshop on tropical cyclones and climate.
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 88, 389-391.
PDF file
Schneider and
Sobel 2006: Global circulation of the atmosphere (2004).
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 87, 807-809.
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