Andrew Dessler

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Andrew Dessler is affiliated with the following schools: Texas A&M University, Harvard University, University of Maryland, College Park, Rice University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, University of Arizona

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#317

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#144

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#148

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Andrew Dessler's Degrees

Masters Atmospheric Sciences University of Arizona
Bachelors Physics Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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According to Wikipedia, Andrew Emory Dessler is a climate scientist. He is Professor of Atmospheric Sciences and holder of the Reta A. Haynes Chair in Geoscience at Texas A&M University. He is also the Director of the Texas Center for Climate Studies. His research subject areas include climate impacts, global climate physics, atmospheric chemistry, climate change and climate change policy.

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Andrew Dessler's Published Works

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Tropical tropopause layer (2009) (821)
Stratospheric water vapor feedback (2013) (229)
Water‐vapor climate feedback inferred from climate fluctuations, 2003–2008 (2008) (225)
On the control of stratospheric humidity (2000) (222)
A Model for Transport across the Tropical Tropopause. (2001) (200)
A Determination of the Cloud Feedback from Climate Variations over the Past Decade (2010) (194)
The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change : A Guide to the Debate (2006) (186)
A Matter of Humidity (2009) (139)
Observations of deep convection in the tropics using the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) precipitation radar (2002) (135)
The Distribution of Tropical Thin Cirrus Clouds Inferred from Terra MODIS Data (2003) (130)
Mechanisms controlling water vapor in the lower stratosphere: “A tale of two stratospheres” (1995) (129)
Effect of convection on the summertime extratropical lower stratosphere (2004) (123)
The effect of deep, tropical convection on the tropical tropopause layer (2002) (121)
Observations of deep convective influence on stratospheric water vapor and its isotopic composition (2007) (121)
New fast response photofragment fluorescence hygrometer for use on the NASA ER‐2 and the Perseus remotely piloted aircraft (1994) (120)
Water Vapor Feedback in the Tropical Upper Troposphere: Model Results and Observations (2004) (116)
A reexamination of the “stratospheric fountain” hypothesis (1998) (107)
Dehydration of the stratosphere (2011) (104)
Observations of Climate Feedbacks over 2000–10 and Comparisons to Climate Models (2013) (99)
Trends in tropospheric humidity from reanalysis systems (2010) (97)
An examination of the total hydrogen budget of the lower stratosphere (1994) (91)
Suppression of deep convection over the tropical North Atlantic by the Saharan Air Layer (2005) (89)
In situ observations in aircraft exhaust plumes in the lower stratosphere at midlatitudes (1995) (83)
Bulk properties of isentropic mixing into the tropics in the lower stratosphere (1996) (83)
Variations of stratospheric water vapor over the past three decades (2014) (83)
Tropical cloud‐top height distributions revealed by the Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat)/Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) (2006) (81)
The distribution of hydrogen, nitrogen, and chlorine radicals in the lower stratosphere: Implications for changes in O3 due to emission of NOy from supersonic aircraft (1994) (76)
Simulation of stratospheric water vapor and trends using three reanalyses (2012) (74)
Introduction to Modern Climate Change (2011) (73)
Simulations of tropical upper tropospheric humidity (2000) (73)
A model of HDO in the tropical tropopause layer (2003) (72)
The diurnal variation of hydrogen, nitrogen, and chlorine radicals: Implications for the heterogeneous production of HNO2 (1994) (70)
The relationship between interannual and long‐term cloud feedbacks (2015) (69)
Large anomalies in lower stratospheric water vapour and ice during the 2015–2016 El Niño (2017) (68)
Distribution and Radiative Forcing of Tropical Thin Cirrus Clouds (2009) (64)
The Chemistry and Physics of Stratospheric Ozone (2000) (63)
Effects of Convective Ice Lofting on H2O and HDO in the Tropical Tropopause Layer (2007) (63)
Tropopause‐level thin cirrus coverage revealed by ICESat/Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (2006) (61)
Convective Mixing near the Tropical Tropopause: Insights from Seasonal Variations (2003) (61)
Maintenance of Lower Tropospheric Temperature Inversion in the Saharan Air Layer by Dust and Dry Anomaly (2009) (58)
SPADE H2O measurements and the seasonal cycle of stratospheric water vapor (1994) (50)
Measurements of stratospheric carbon dioxide and water vapor at northern midlatitudes: Implications for troposphere‐to‐stratosphere transport (1995) (50)
An Analysis of the Short-Term Cloud Feedback Using MODIS Data (2013) (50)
Transport of ice into the stratosphere and the humidification of the stratosphere over the 21st century (2016) (48)
Correlated observations of HCl and ClONO2 from UARS and implications for stratospheric chlorine partitioning (1995) (46)
UARS/MLS Cloud Ice Measurements: Implications for H2O Transport near the Tropopause (2005) (46)
Study of Horizontally Oriented Ice Crystals with CALIPSO Observations and Comparison with Monte Carlo Radiative Transfer Simulations (2012) (44)
Selected science highlights from the first 5 years of the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) Program (1998) (44)
An analysis of the regulation of tropical tropospheric water vapor (2007) (42)
Analysis of cirrus in the tropical tropopause layer from CALIPSO and MLS data: A water perspective (2012) (41)
Balloon‐borne in situ measurements of CLO and ozone: Implications for heterogeneous chemistry and mid‐latitude ozone loss (1993) (38)
Cirrus feedback on interannual climate fluctuations (2014) (38)
Cloud formation, convection, and stratospheric dehydration (2014) (38)
Instantaneous cloud overlap statistics in the tropical area revealed by ICESat/GLAS data (2006) (38)
Convective Hydration of the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere (2018) (37)
Estimates of the Water Vapor Climate Feedback during El Niño–Southern Oscillation (2009) (37)
Clouds and water vapor in the Northern Hemisphere summertime stratosphere (2009) (36)
The impact of forcing efficacy on the equilibrium climate sensitivity (2014) (35)
Contrails and Induced Cirrus: Optics and Radiation (2010) (34)
Modeling upper tropospheric and lower stratospheric water vapor anomalies (2013) (34)
Water Vapor, Clouds, and Saturation in the Tropical Tropopause Layer (2019) (33)
Long‐term variability in Saharan dust transport and its link to North Atlantic sea surface temperature (2008) (32)
The influence of internal variability on Earth's energy balance framework and implications for estimating climate sensitivity (2018) (32)
Determination of the amount of water vapor entering the stratosphere based on Halogen Occultation Experiment (HALOE) data (1999) (30)
Measurements of water vapor in the tropical lower stratosphere during the CEPEX Campaign: Results and interpretation (1995) (30)
An Estimate of Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity From Interannual Variability (2018) (30)
Cloud variations and the Earth's energy budget (2011) (30)
The effects of tropical cirrus clouds on the abundance of lower stratospheric ozone (1996) (28)
Test of the Fixed Anvil Temperature Hypothesis (2012) (28)
Regulation of H2O and CO in Tropical Tropopause Layer by the Madden-Julian Oscillation (2006) (28)
UARS measurements of CIO and NO2 at 40 and 46 km and implications for the model “ozone deficit” (1996) (27)
Satellite observations of temporary and irreversible denitrification (1999) (26)
Greater committed warming after accounting for the pattern effect (2021) (26)
Multimodel Analysis of the Water Vapor Feedback in the Tropical Upper Troposphere (2006) (23)
Contribution of different processes to changes in tropical lower-stratospheric water vapor in chemistry–climate models (2017) (23)
Balloon-borne measurements of CLO, NO, and O3 in a volcanic cloud: An analysis of heterogeneous chemistry between 20 and 30 km (1993) (23)
An analysis of the dependence of clear-sky top-of-atmosphere outgoing longwave radiation on atmospheric temperature and water vapor (2008) (22)
The impact of temperature vertical structure on trajectory modeling of stratospheric water vapor (2015) (21)
A test of the partitioning between ClO and ClONO2 using simultaneous UARS measurements of ClO, NO2, and ClONO2 (1996) (21)
Simultaneous, in situ measurements of OH, HO2, O3, and H2O: A test of modeled stratospheric HOx chemistry (1990) (21)
Trajectory model simulations of ozone (O 3 ) and carbon monoxide (CO) in the lower stratosphere (2014) (21)
The impact of gravity waves and cloud nucleation threshold on stratospheric water and tropical tropospheric cloud fraction (2016) (20)
Development of the Antarctic ozone hole (1996) (20)
Nitrogen partitioning in the middle stratosphere as observed by the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (1997) (20)
Estimation of the cirrus cloud scattering phase function from satellite observations (2014) (19)
Impact of dataset choice on calculations of the short‐term cloud feedback (2013) (19)
Statistical Properties of Horizontally Oriented Plates in Optically Thick Clouds From Satellite Observations (2013) (18)
Principal component analysis of the evolution of the Saharan air layer and dust transport: Comparisons between a model simulation and MODIS and AIRS retrievals (2006) (17)
Lower stratospheric chlorine partitioning during the decay of the Mt. Pinatubo aerosol cloud (1997) (16)
Comparisons between measurements and models of Antarctic ozone loss (2001) (16)
Frequency of tropical precipitating clouds as observed by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission Precipitation Radar and ICESat/Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (2007) (15)
Observations of convective cooling in the tropical tropopause layer in AIRS data (2004) (14)
Analysis of the correlations between atmospheric boundary‐layer and free‐tropospheric temperatures in the tropics (2006) (13)
Effects of convective ice evaporation on interannual variability of tropical tropopause layer water vapor (2018) (13)
Impact of convectively lofted ice on the seasonal cycle of water vapor in the tropical tropopause layer (2019) (12)
Influence of convection on stratospheric water vapor in the North American monsoon region (2019) (12)
Five-Year Climatology of Midtroposphere Dry Air Layers in Warm Tropical Ocean Regions as Viewed by AIRS/Aqua (2009) (11)
The influence of thermodynamic phase on the retrieval of mixed-phase cloud microphysical and optical properties in the visible and near-infrared region (2006) (11)
The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change (2019) (10)
Potential Problems Measuring Climate Sensitivity from the Historical Record (2020) (10)
Interhemispheric asymmetry in the 1 mbar O3 trend: An analysis using an interactive zonal mean model and UARS data (1998) (10)
Erythemal Radiation, Column Ozone, and the North American Monsoon (2020) (9)
Estimating Transient Climate Response in a Large‐Ensemble Global Climate Model Simulation (2019) (9)
Response of Aerosol Direct Radiative Effect to the East Asian Summer Monsoon (2015) (8)
Energy for air capture (2009) (7)
Introduction to Modern Climate Change: Forcing, feedbacks, and climate sensitivity (2011) (5)
A Radiative–Convective Equilibrium Perspective of Weakening of the Tropical Walker Circulation in Response to Global Warming (2012) (5)
CLIMATE AND CLIMATE CHANGE | Climate Feedbacks (2015) (4)
ACCRI: A Report on the Way Forward Based on the Review of Research Gaps and Priorities (2008) (4)
Introduction to Modern Climate Change: Index (2011) (4)
Comment on “Balloon‐borne observations of water vapor and ozone in the tropical upper troposphere and lower stratosphere” by H. Vömel et al. (2003) (4)
A new approach to retrieving cirrus cloud height with a combination of MODIS 1.24‐ and 1.38‐μm channels (2012) (4)
The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: Glossary (2010) (4)
Reply [to “Comment on ‘A reexamination of the ‘Stratospheric Fountain’ Hypothesis’ by A. E. Dessler”] (1999) (4)
The response of stratospheric water vapor to climate change driven by different forcing agents (2020) (3)
Cloud and Aerosol Distributions From SAGE III/ISS Observations (2021) (3)
An Assessment of Climate Feedbacks in Observations and Climate Models Using Different Energy Balance Frameworks (2021) (2)
A Report of Findings and Recommendations — Executive Summary. Workshop on the Impact of Aviation on Climate Change, June 7-9, 2006, Boston, MA (2006) (2)
Characterizing unforced decadal climate variability in global climate model large ensembles (2021) (2)
Trajectory model simulations of ozone and carbon monoxide in the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere (UTLS) (2014) (2)
Effects of tropical deep convection on interannual variability of tropical tropopause layer water vapor (2017) (2)
The future employment of geophysicists (1995) (2)
The impact of temperature resolution on trajectory modeling of stratospheric water vapour (2014) (2)
The effects of convection on the summertime mid-latitude overworld (2006) (1)
Persistent high latitude amplification of the Pacific Ocean over the past 10 million years (2022) (1)
The Impact of Neglecting Climate Change and Variability on ERCOT’s Forecasts of Electricity Demand in Texas (2021) (1)
Introduction to Modern Climate Change: Radiation and energy balance (2011) (1)
The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: Preface to the First Edition (2010) (1)
Testing chemistry-climate models' regulation of tropical lower-stratospheric water vapor (2016) (1)
Temporal and spatial characteristics of unforced climate variability in a global climate model ensemble (2019) (0)
Climate Policy and Politics in 2019, and a Path Forward (2019) (0)
Contrails/Cirrus Optics and Radiation (SSWP # VI) (2008) (0)
Estimating Transient Climate Response in a large-ensemble global climate model simulation (2018) (0)
Why Does the Stratosphere Get Moister During the 21st Century (2014) (0)
SIMULTANEOUS , IN SiTU MEAS ! • REMENTS OF OH , HOa , O • , AND H 20 : A TEST OF MODEI (2007) (0)
The Thermodynamic Structure of the Saharan Air Layer Simulated in the NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis (2005) (0)
Impact of convectively lofted ice on the seasonal cycle of tropical lower stratospheric water vapor (2019) (0)
Effect of Lofted Ice Sublimation from Tropical Deep Convection on TTL Water Vapor (2018) (0)
A revised energy-balance framework for the Earth (2017) (0)
Using short-term climate variability to infer equilibrium climate sensitivity (2015) (0)
The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: Climate change policy: impacts, assessments, and responses (2010) (0)
Introduction to Modern Climate Change: Is the climate changing? (2011) (0)
Interactive comment on “ Cloud thermodynamic phase detection with polarimetrically sensitive passive sky radiometers ” by K . Knobelspiesse et al (2015) (0)
Introduction to Modern Climate Change: Fundamentals of climate change policy (2011) (0)
Interactive comment on “A model of HDO in the tropical tropopause layer” by A. E. Dessler and S. (2003) (0)
Interhemispheric asymmetry in the 1 mbar 03 trend: An analysis using an interactive zonal mean model (1998) (0)
The Effect of Forced and Unforced Variability on Heat Waves, Temperature Extremes, and Associated Population Risk in a CO2-Warmed World (2020) (0)
What do the CMIP5 models tell us about the water vapor feedback (2012) (0)
SPARC-IGAC Symposium on Climate-Chemistry Interactions. Climate Feedback by Water Vapor in the Tropical Upper Troposphere (2003) (0)
Introduction to Modern Climate Change: Impacts (2011) (0)
Trajectory Simulations of Upper Tropospheric Humidity (1999) (0)
Calculations of Polar Ozone Loss Rates (1999) (0)
Mixing Barriers and Seasonal Convective Transport near the Tropical Tropopause (2003) (0)
Introduction to Modern Climate Change: Why is the climate changing? (2011) (0)
What is the Spatial Relationship between the Water Minimum and Convection in the TTL (2003) (0)
Interactive comment on “ Observations of convective cooling in the tropical tropopause layer in AIRS data ” by H . Kim and A . E . Dessler (2004) (0)
The Role That Clouds Play in Uncertainty in the Climate Sensitivity (2014) (0)
The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: Science, politics, and science in politics (2005) (0)
The Origin of Stratospheric Air (2012) (0)
Aurorae on Uranus. (1982) (0)
Extreme tropical lower stratospheric water vapor and ice amounts during 2015-2016 and their relation to ENSO, QBO, and convective overshooting (2017) (0)
Introduction to Modern Climate Change: Mitigation policies (2011) (0)
The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: Climate change: present scientific knowledge and uncertainties (2005) (0)
The Impact of Convection and Gravity Waves on Stratospheric Water and Upper Troposphere Cloud Fraction (2017) (0)
Impacts of the Unforced Pattern Effect on the Cloud Feedback in CERES Observations and Climate Models (2022) (0)
The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: Global climate change: a new type of environmental problem (2005) (0)
The Effect of Dust Aerosols on Marine Ice Clouds: A Study of MODIS Level-3 Daily Retrieval (2004) (0)
Importance of detrained ice to the water budget of the upper troposphere (2003) (0)
Introduction to Modern Climate Change: A brief history of climate science and politics (2011) (0)
Estimating the cloud feedback between 2000-2008 (2010) (0)
Introduction to Modern Climate Change: Preface (2011) (0)
Comparison of Climate Sensitivity and Feedbacks Calculated by a Traditional and a New Equation (2018) (0)
TRMM Radar Observations of Cloud Tops in the Tropical Tropopause Layer (2002) (0)
Introduction to Modern Climate Change: A simple climate model (2011) (0)
The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: References (2005) (0)
Water Vapor and Cloud Formation in the TTL: Simulation Results vs. Satellite Observations (2012) (0)
I Situ Stratospheric Ozone Measurements. (1994) (0)
Atmospheric Heating by Saharan Dust and Its Implication on the Temperature Profiles over the Tropical Cyclone Main Development Region (2007) (0)
Variability in transient climate response in a model ensemble (2018) (0)
Climate Sensitivity (0)
Variability in Transient Climate Response in the MPI Grand Ensemble and Its Relation to the Radiative Effect of Sea Ice Loss (2018) (0)
A quantification of how much crypto-miners are driving up the wholesale cost of energy in Texas (2023) (0)
CLOUD PHYSICS AND WATER VAPOR IN THE EVANESCENT CONVECTION ALTITUDE REGIME (2002) (0)
A Determination of NOx/NOy with UARS Meaurements (1996) (0)
Analysis of the TTL cirrus and Their Convective Origin - A Water Perspective (2012) (0)
Water Vapor and its Isotopic Composition in the Upper Troposphere and Stratosphere (2003) (0)
The tropical and sub-tropical UT/LS: probing its character using in situ measurements of HDO, H(sub 2) (sup 16)O, H(sub 2) (sup 18)O, and H(sub 2) (sup 17)O (2003) (0)
The Effect of Dust Storm on Deep Convection over the Tropical North Atlantic (2004) (0)
Dessler, Jimenez, Klein, and Nenes Receive 2012 Atmospheric Sciences Ascent Awards: Response (2013) (0)
A calculation of feedbacks based on climate variations over the last decade (2011) (0)
A Trend in the Northward Transport of Saharan Dust and Its Links to the Trend in North Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Energy (2007) (0)
1 Estimating Transient Climate Response in a large-ensemble global climate model simulation 1 2 (2018) (0)
Introduction to Modern Climate Change: Putting it together: A long-term policy to address climate change (2011) (0)
Observations of the Upper Tropospheric Water Vapor Feedback in UARS MLS and HALOE Data (2004) (0)
Cloud feedback on climate change and variability (2014) (0)
The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: Human-induced climate change: present scientific knowledge and uncertainties (2010) (0)
What's the real cause of climate change? (2019) (0)
Introduction to Modern Climate Change: The future of our climate (2011) (0)
Principle Component Analysis of the Evolution of the Saharan Air Layer and Dust Transport : Comparisons between a Model Simulation and MODIS Retrievals (2006) (0)
Introduction to Modern Climate Change: References (2011) (0)
The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: The climate-change policy debate: impacts and potential responses (2005) (0)
Introduction to Modern Climate Change: The carbon cycle (2011) (0)
A revision of the Earth’s energy balance framework (2017) (0)
The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: The state of climate policy and a path forward (2010) (0)
How Important Is Convective Hydration of the Lower Stratosphere (2017) (0)
Tropical Tropopause Layer Cloud Formation, Convection and Stratospheric Dehydration (2014) (0)
Introduction to Modern Climate Change: Exponential growth (2011) (0)
Introduction to Modern Climate Change: An introduction to the climate problem (2011) (0)
Water vapor mixing ratio from MLS/GEOSCCM/trajectory model simulations and tropical average time series of regressors from ERAi/MERRA-2/GEOSCCM, link to netCDF files (2018) (0)
The present impasse and steps forward (2005) (0)
The Saturated Tropical TTL (2018) (0)
Determining the Location and Radiative Impact of Thin Cirrus Clouds using Terra data (2002) (0)
Tropical tropopause-level thin cirrus coverage revealed by ICESat/GLAS (2005) (0)
Evaluation of the Present and Past Hydrologic Cycles in the Tropics Using Stable Isotopic Measurements from the Surface, Aircraft and Satellites (2008) (0)

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