Richard Somerville

Richard Somerville's Degrees

PhD Meteorology New York University
Bachelors Meteorology Pennsylvania State University

Why Is Richard Somerville Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Richard Chapin James Somerville is an American climate scientist who is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, where he has been a professor since 1979.

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Richard Somerville's Published Works

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Published Works

Climate Change 2021—The Physical Science Basis (2021) (14596)
Recent Climate Observations Compared to Projections (2007) (703)
On the use of a coordinate transformation for the solution of the Navier-Stokes equations (1975) (643)
The Copenhagen Diagnosis: Updating the World on the Latest Climate Science (2011) (340)
Historical overview of climate change science (2007) (338)
Single-Column Models and Cloud Ensemble Models as Links between Observations and Climate Models (1996) (271)
Cloud optical thickness feedbacks in the CO2 climate problem (1984) (213)
Simulations of midlatitude frontal clouds by single-column and cloud--resolving models during the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement March 2000 cloud intensive operational period (2005) (169)
Communicating the science of climate change (2011) (168)
Intercomparison and evaluation of cumulus parametrizations under summertime midlatitude continental conditions (2001) (145)
A comparison of single column model simulations of summertime midlatitude continental convection (2000) (124)
Large-scale computations in fluid mechanics (1985) (120)
Roll-diameter dependence in Rayleigh convection and its effect upon the heat flux (1972) (102)
Preferred Latitudes of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (1994) (101)
The GISS Model of the Global Atmosphere (1974) (100)
Constraining the influence of natural variability to improve estimates of global aerosol indirect effects in a nudged version of the Community Atmosphere Model 5 (2012) (99)
Orogenic Propagating Precipitation Systems over the United States in a Global Climate Model with Embedded Explicit Convection (2011) (94)
SCM Simulations of Tropical Ice Clouds Using Observationally Based Parameterizations of Microphysics (2003) (90)
Stochastic radiative transfer in a partially cloudy atmosphere. (1993) (82)
Assessing the Diurnal Cycle of Precipitation in a Multi‐Scale Climate Model (2009) (69)
Numerical solution of the navier-stokes equations with topography (1975) (66)
The Impact of Antarctic Cloud Radiative Properties on a GCM Climate Simulation (1998) (64)
Methodology for estimating burned area from AVHRR reflectance data (1995) (62)
Modeling springtime shallow frontal clouds with cloud-resolving and single-column models (2005) (61)
Atmospheric response to solar radiation absorbed by phytoplankton (2003) (56)
Frost flower aerosol effects on Arctic wintertime longwave cloud radiative forcing (2013) (53)
Broken-cloud enhancement of solar radiation absorption (1996) (48)
Three-dimensional simulations of convection in layers with tilted rotation vectors (1983) (47)
Dynamics of Variable Wavelength in Finite‐Amplitude Bénard Convection (1971) (46)
Radiative Transfer through Broken Clouds: Observations and Model Validation (2002) (42)
Robustness and sensitivities of central U.S. summer convection in the super‐parameterized CAM: Multi‐model intercomparison with a new regional EOF index (2013) (41)
Empirical orthogonal function analysis of the diurnal cycle of precipitation in a multi‐scale climate model (2009) (38)
Direct radiative effect of mineral dust and volcanic aerosols in a simple aerosol climate model (2007) (38)
The response of US summer rainfall to quadrupled CO2 climate change in conventional and superparameterized versions of the NCAR community atmosphere model (2014) (37)
Cloud Radiation Forcings and Feedbacks: General Circulation Model Tests and Observational Validation (1997) (33)
Implications of Microphysics for Cloud-Radiation Parameterizations: Lessons from TOGA COARE (2000) (32)
The Sensitivity of Radiative Fluxes to Parameterized Cloud Microphysics (2003) (32)
Sensitivity of Cloud and Radiation Parameterizations to Changes in Vertical Resolution (2000) (31)
Nonlinear interactions between convection, rotation and flows with vertical shear (1986) (30)
A Numerical Study in Three Space Dimensions of Bénard Convection in a Rotating Fluid (1973) (29)
Direct climate forcing by biomass-burning aerosols : Impact of correlations between controlling variables (1999) (28)
Creating a Common Climate Language (2009) (27)
Numerical Simulation of Convection with Mean Vertical Motion (1979) (24)
Global Monitoring of Net Solar Irradiance at the Ocean Surface: Climatological Variability and the 1982-1983 El Niño. (1991) (23)
Diagnostic Modeling of the Indian Monsoon Onset. Part I: Model Description and Validation (1991) (23)
The SCM Concept and Creation of ARM Forcing Datasets (2016) (23)
North African savanna fires and atmospheric carbon dioxide (1994) (22)
Sensitivity of climate forcing and response to dust optical properties in an idealized model (2007) (21)
The development of atmospheric general circulation models : complexity, synthesis, and computation (2011) (21)
IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) Working Group II. (2008) (20)
A Nonlinear Spectral Model of Convection in a Fluid Unevenly Heated from Below (1967) (19)
Cyclone-Scale Forcing of Ultralong Waves. (1979) (19)
Time to take action on climate communication. (2010) (19)
Baroclinic Instability and the Selection of the Zonal Scale of the Transient Eddies of Middle Latitudes (1979) (19)
Stochastic theory of radiative transfer through generalized cloud fields (2004) (19)
Impacts of ENSO events on cloud radiative effects in preindustrial conditions: Changes in cloud fraction and their dependence on interactive aerosol emissions and concentrations (2016) (17)
How much should the public know about climate science? (2011) (17)
The predictability of weather and climate (1987) (16)
Tropical Influences on the Predictability of Ultralong Waves (1980) (16)
Diagnostic Modeling of the Indian Monsoon Onset. Part II: Budget and Sensitivity Studies (1991) (15)
Bnard convection in a rotating fluid (1971) (14)
The Effect of Small-Scale Vertical Mixing of Horizontal Momentum in a General Circulation Model (1974) (14)
Thermal convection in a rotating shear flow (1987) (13)
Evaluating parameterizations of the autoconversion process using a single‐column model and Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program measurements (2006) (12)
Interannual to decadal climate variability of sea salt aerosols in the coupled climate model CESM1.0 (2015) (12)
Medical Metaphors for Climate Issues (2006) (12)
Extended-Range Forecasts with the GISS Model of the Global Atmosphere (1975) (11)
Advances in short term climate prediction (1983) (11)
Investigating ice nucleation in cirrus clouds with an aerosol‐enabled Multiscale Modeling Framework (2014) (10)
Investigating impacts of forest fires in Alaska and western Canada on regional weather over the northeastern United States using CAM5 global simulations to constrain transport to a WRF‐Chem regional domain (2014) (8)
Using Single-Column Models to Improve Cloud-Radiation Parameterizations (2000) (8)
Single-column models, arm observations, and GCM cloud-radiation schemes (1999) (7)
Accurate numerical solutions for Daisyworld (1989) (7)
ECONOMIC GROWTH, SUSTAINABILITY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT (1991) (6)
Semidirect dynamical and radiative effect of North African dust transport on lower tropospheric clouds over the subtropical North Atlantic in CESM 1.0 (2014) (6)
The Forgiving Air: Understanding Environmental Change (1996) (6)
A Generalized Energy Balance Climate Model with Parameterized Dynamics and Diabatic Heating (2005) (6)
Cloud-radiation interactions - Effects of cirrus optical thickness feedbacks (1986) (6)
Numerical simulation of small-scale thermal convection in the atmosphere (1973) (6)
The Tilting Instability with Buoyant Forcing in a Two-Dimensional Viscous Fluid (1996) (5)
Energetics Diagnosis of the NCAR General Circulation Model (1977) (5)
Large-Scale Computations in Fluid Mechanics. Lectures in Applied Mathematics Held at San Diego, California on 27 June - 8 July 1983. Volume 22. Part 1, (1985) (5)
The Copenhagen Diagnosis 2009 (2009) (5)
Bending the Curve: Climate Change Solutions (2019) (5)
Meteorology: Clouds and climate regulation (1985) (5)
Effects of alternative cloud radiation parameterizations in a general circulation model (1996) (4)
A search for short‐term meteorological effects of solar variability in an atmospheric circulation model (1976) (4)
An Energetics Analysis of Forecast Experiments with the NCAR General Circulation Model (1978) (3)
Climate with care (2007) (3)
Use of In Situ Observations to Characterize Cloud Microphysical and Radiative Properties: Application to Climate Studies (2003) (3)
Large-scale computations in fluid mechanics; Proceedings of the Fifteenth Summer Seminar on Applied Mathematics, University of California, La Jolla, CA, June 27-July 8, 1983. Parts 1 & 2 (1985) (3)
Probabilistic assessment of cloud fraction using Bayesian blending of independent datasets: Feasibility study of a new method (2013) (3)
Seasonal changes in the atmospheric heat balance simulated by the GISS general circulation model (1975) (3)
Science, Politics, and Public Perceptions of Climate Change (2012) (3)
Transect method for Antarctic cloud property retrieval using AVHRR data (2011) (2)
Climate Matters: Ethics in a Warming World. Amnesty International Global Ethics Series. By John Broome. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. $23.95. xiii + 210 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-0-393-06336-3. 2012. (2013) (2)
Infrared Radiative Properties of the Antarctic Plateau from AVHRR Data. Part I: Effect of the Snow Surface (2004) (2)
The Co-evolution of Climate Models and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2010) (2)
Climate Mathematics (2019) (2)
Predictability of Ultralong Waves in Global and Hemispheric Quasi-Geostrophic Barotropic Models (1982) (1)
Oceanic cloud feedbacks on earth radiation budget parameters (1986) (1)
Single-Column Modeling, GCM Parameterizations and Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Data (2005) (1)
Is learning about climate change like having a colonoscopy? (2014) (1)
Simulation of High-Resolution Precipitable Water Data by a Stochastic Model with a Random Trigger (2016) (1)
Enhancing the Communication of Climate Change Science (2011) (1)
Sensitivity of Radiative Fluxes and Heating Rates to Cloud Microphysics (2002) (1)
Recent results from the GISS model of the global atmosphere. [circulation simulation for weather forecasting (1975) (1)
Pattern recognition of satellite cloud imagery for improved weather prediction (1986) (1)
Historical Overview of Climate Change Science Coordinating Lead (2007) (1)
Development of a Stochastic Cloud-Radiation Parameterization (2002) (1)
Sensitivity of Cloud-radiation Interactions to Cloud Microphysics (2002) (1)
Facts and opinions about climate change (2020) (1)
Numerical simulation in three space dimensions of time-dependent thermal convection in a rotating fluid (1985) (1)
Reply [to “Comment on ‘Cloud optical thickness feedbacks in the CO2climate problem’ by Richard Somerville and L. A. Remer”] (1985) (1)
Air-sea interactions and cirrus cloud-radiation feedbacks on climate (1988) (1)
IF I WERE PRESIDENT: A Climate Change Speech (2008) (1)
SCM Sensitivity to Microphysics, Radiation, and Convection Algorithms (2000) (1)
Predicting Decade-to-Century Climate Change: Prospects for Improving Models (1999) (1)
Scripps Ocean Modeling and Remote Sensing (SOMARS) (1987) (0)
Linear predictability: Effects of stationary forcing (2008) (0)
Predictability of planetary waves - Interhemispheric differences and the effects of stationary forcing (1983) (0)
Effects of observationally validated cloud-radiation schemes in a general circulation model (1997) (0)
HOW AND WHY TO UPGRADE CLOUD MICROPHYSICS IN CLIMATE MODELS (2005) (0)
A one dimensional coupled air-sea model for diagnostic studies during Toga Coare (1989) (0)
Numerical experiments on short-term meteorological effects of solar variability. [earth atmosphere model considering solar luminosity effects] (1974) (0)
Predictability of quasi-geostrophic planetary waves in global and hemispheric domains (1981) (0)
Cloud optical thickness feedbacks on climate: evidence from satellite remote sensing. Final report (1986) (0)
Dot Product of Two Vectors (2019) (0)
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH:USING ARM OBSERVATIONS & ADVANCED STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES TO EVALUATE CAM3 CLOUDS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF STOCHASTIC CLOUD-RADIATION (2013) (0)
Sensitivities of SCMs to New Parameterizations of Cloud-Radiative Interactions (2001) (0)
J 2 . 2 PARAMETERIZATIONS OF SOLAR SINGLE-SCATTERING RADIATIVE PROPERTIES FOR TROPICAL ICE CLOUDS (2002) (0)
Title Investigating impacts of forest fires in Alaska and western Canada on regional weather over the northeastern United States using CAM 5 global simulations to constrain transport to a WRF-Chem regional domain Permalink (2014) (0)
Observational and Modeling Studies of Clouds and the Hydrological Cycle (1997) (0)
Energy Balance Models for Climate (2019) (0)
Computing the Climate and More (2011) (0)
Apparent Multi-Decadal Trend in Shortwave Cloud Forcing Over the Tropical Pacific (2000) (0)
R Analysis of Incomplete Climate Data (2019) (0)
A new Type of Idealized Global Climate Model and its Application to Dust-Climate Interactions (2003) (0)
Title Investigating ice nucleation in cirrus clouds with an aerosol-enabled Multiscale Modeling Framework Permalink (2015) (0)
Arctic winter longwave aerosol indirect effect with a new parameterization of frost flower salt particle emissions (2012) (0)
Evaluating Forecasts of Central US Mesoscale Convective Systems in a GCM with Explicit Embedded Convection (2011) (0)
Components for a TRANSPORTÖR (2000) (0)
Effects of cloud-radiation schemes on climate model results (1996) (0)
R Graphics for Climate Science (2019) (0)
Special Issue—Scripps Cent ennial Climate and Atmospheric Science at Scripps: The Legacy of Jerome Namias (2003) (0)
Punishments and Prizes for Explaining Global Warming (2006) (0)
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: A Science Communication Challenge (2007) (0)
Teaching teachers about global change science: Project COPE (1995) (0)
More than a thousand words: Helping science speak for itself (Invited) (2013) (0)
Investigating Ice Nucleation with an Aerosol Enabled Multi-scale Modeling Framework (2013) (0)
Modeling the response of the California Current system to global greenhouse warming. Final report to the National Institute for Global Environmental Change (August 1993) (1993) (0)
Evaluation of a Stochastic Radiative Transfer Model Using Ground-Based Measurements (2000) (0)
Learning Companion to Bending the Curve: Climate Change Solutions (2019) (0)
A Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Climate Change (2015) (0)
The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program and Single-Column Models (0)
The National Climate Assessment as a Resource for Science Communication (2014) (0)
Climate data records from environmental satellites [poster] (2004) (0)
Numerical solution of the Navier-Stokes equations with topography. [convective flow over mountainous terrain] (1975) (0)
Climate Change and Public Policy After Copenhagen (2010) (0)
How to build interdisciplinary research on Climate Change (Round table). (2008) (0)
ROAST: Peer Review as a Learning and Assessment Tool in Graduate Education (2003) (0)
Policy Brief 12-2: Climate Change Science: Predicting 21st Century Climate (1999) (0)
Component for conveyors (2000) (0)
Implementing the NSF Geosciences Education Vision: A University Perspective (2001) (0)
Cloudy Skies Areas of Research Functional Cloud Cover (0)
Modeling the Climatic Consequences of Geoengineering (2005) (0)
Contributing authors (1996) (0)
The Copenhagen Diagnosis 2010 (2010) (0)
Nudged and forecast simulations in a multiscale modeling framework - maximizing the use of high value intermittent observations (2010) (0)
Planetary wave prediction: Benefits of tropical data and global models (1985) (0)
6 B . 1 3 SENSITIVITY OF CLOUD-RADIATION INTERACTIONS TO VARIOUS CLOUD PARAMETERIZATIONS USING A SINGLE-COLUMN MODEL AND OBSERVATIONS FROM THE ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION MEASUREMENT PROGRAM (2007) (0)
OF RADIATIVE FLUXES AND HEATING RATES TO CLOUD MICROPHYSICS USING A SINGLE-COLUMN MODEL AND ARM DATA (2002) (0)
John Tyndall and his pioneering contributions to climate science and scientific outreach (2011) (0)
Another exchange on climate change (2012) (0)
Diagnostic modeling of the ARM experimental configuration. Final report (1998) (0)
Testing cloud-radiation algorithms in GCMs and single-column models (1995) (0)
Advanced R Analysis and Plotting: EOFs, Trends, and Global Data (2019) (0)
Climate stability and cloud optical thickness feedbacks (1989) (0)
Erratum: ``North African savanna fires and atmosheric carbon dioxide'' by S. F. Iacobellis et al. (1994) (0)
Final Report for Cloud-Aerosol Physics in Super-Parameterized Atmospheric Regional Climate Simulations (CAP-SPARCS)(DE-SC0002003) for 8/15/2009 through 8/14/2012 (2012) (0)
Basic Statistical Methods for Climate Data Analysis (2019) (0)
Climate Communication from a Science Perspective (2012) (0)
Trace gas emissions to the atmosphere by biomass burning in the west African savannas. Final report, 1 October 1991-31 March 1994 (1994) (0)
BROKEN-CLOUD CONTRIBUTION TO SOLAR RADIATION ABSORPTION (1995) (0)
Final Report for “Simulating the Arctic Winter Longwave Indirect Effects. A New Parameterization for Frost Flower Aerosol Salt Emissions” (DESC0006679) for 9/15/2011 through 9/14/2015 (2015) (0)
Basics of R Programming (2019) (0)
Calculus Applications to Climate Science II: Integrals (2019) (0)
Dimensional Analysis for Climate Science (2019) (0)
Remote Sensing Studies of Oceanic Cloud-Radiation Feedbacks (1987) (0)
FINAL REPORT (DE-FG02-97ER62338): Single-column modeling, GCM parameterizations, and ARM data (2009) (0)
Implementation of a physically-based cloud parameterization for both convective and layered clouds in CCM2 (1996) (0)
Title The response of US summer rainfall to quadrupled CO 2 climate change in conventional and superparameterized versions of the NCAR community atmosphere model Permalink (2014) (0)
Theoretical Modeling for Numerical Weather Prediction (1984) (0)
Climate Data Matrices and Linear Algebra (2019) (0)
Diagnostic analysis of cloud radiative properties (1995) (0)
The GISS model of the global atmosphere. [Goddard Institute for Space Studies numerical model] (1974) (0)
Main Symbols and Acronyms (2019) (0)
Technical Sessions Comparis,on of Cumulus Parameterizations Initial Experiments (0)
Bénard Convection and Effects of Rotation (1983) (0)
7.10 EVALUATING NEW CLOUD-RADIATION AND HYDROLOGIC CYCLE PARAMETERIZATIONS (2003) (0)
Numerical experiments on short-term meteorological effects on solar variability (1975) (0)

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