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Remote Influences of Land Surface Temperature and their Implications for Sea Surface Temperature Patterns
Bosong Zhang, Timothy M. Merlis
The spatial pattern of sea surface temperature (SST) plays a central role in shaping the climate system, yet the influence of land surface temperature (LST) on large-scale SST patt…
The Equilibrium Response of Atmospheric Machine-Learning Models to Uniform Sea Surface Temperature Warming
Bosong Zhang, Timothy M. Merlis
Machine learning models for the global atmosphere that are capable of producing stable, multi-year simulations of Earth's climate have recently been developed. However, the ability…
Perturbing the surface energy balance to emulate the historical pattern of tropical Pacific sea surface temperature trends
Timothy M. Merlis
The strengthening of the zonal sea surface temperature (SST) gradient observed in the tropical Pacific in recent decades is a regional climate change signal that may be outside the…
Atmospheric gravitational tides of Earth-like planets orbiting low-mass stars
Thomas Navarro, Timothy M. Merlis, Nicolas B. Cowan +1
Temperate terrestrial planets orbiting low-mass stars are subject to strong tidal forces. The effects of gravitational tides on the solid planet and that of atmospheric thermal tid…
Symmetric and antisymmetric components of polar-amplified warming
Spencer A. Hill, Natalie J. Burls, Alexey Fedorov +1
CO-forced surface warming in general circulation models (GCMs) is initially polar-amplified in the Arctic but not Antarctic -- a largely hemispherically antisymmetric signal. N…
Sensitivity of the Atmospheric Water Cycle within the Habitable Zone of a Tidally-Locked, Earth-like Exoplanet
Marie-Pier Labonté, Timothy M. Merlis
Synchronously orbiting, tidally-locked exoplanets with a dayside facing their star and a permanently dark nightside orbiting dim stars are prime candidates for habitability. Simula…
Simulations of Water Vapor and Clouds on Rapidly Rotating and Tidally Locked Planets: a 3D Model Intercomparison
Jun Yang, Jeremy Leconte, Eric T. Wolf +4
Robustly modeling the inner edge of the habitable zone is essential for determining the most promising potentially habitable exoplanets for atmospheric characterization. Global cli…
Differences in water vapor radiative transfer among 1D models can significantly affect the inner edge of the habitable zone
Jun Yang, Jeremy Leconte, Eric T. Wolf +8
An accurate estimate of the inner edge of the habitable zone is critical for determining which exoplanets are potentially habitable and for designing future telescopes to observe t…
Atmospheric Circulation of Terrestrial Exoplanets
Adam P. Showman, Robin D. Wordsworth, Timothy M. Merlis +1
The investigation of planets around other stars began with the study of gas giants, but is now extending to the discovery and characterization of super-Earths and terrestrial plane…
Changes in zonal surface temperature gradients and Walker circulations in a wide range of climates
Timothy M. Merlis, Tapio Schneider
Variations in zonal surface temperature gradients and zonally asymmetric tropical overturning circulations (Walker circulations) are examined over a wide range of climates simulate…
Atmospheric dynamics of Earth-like tidally locked aquaplanets
Timothy M. Merlis, Tapio Schneider
We present simulations of atmospheres of Earth-like aquaplanets that are tidally locked to their star, that is, planets whose orbital period is equal to the rotation period about t…