Isaac M. Held

TL;DR: In this article, the entropy budget of an atmosphere in radiative-convective equilibrium is analyzed, and the dominant irreversible entropy source is associated with irreversible phase changes and diffusion of water vapor.

TL;DR: In this paper, a statistical analysis of the preindustrial, twentieth-century and twenty-first-century A1B scenario simulations in the latest Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 3 (CMIP3) dataset is presented.

TL;DR: In this paper, the near-surface branch of the overturning mass transport circulation in the troposphere, containing the equatorward flow, is examined in isentropic and geometric coordinates.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used two climate models to demonstrate that aquaplanets can successfully predict a climate model's sensitivity to an idealized climate change and found that tropical low clouds appear to play a leading role in determining the sensitivity.

TL;DR: In this paper, the equilibrium general circulation model (GCM) response to sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies in the western North Atlantic region is studied, where a coarse resolution GCM, with realistic lower boundary conditions including topography and climatological SST distribution, is integrated in perpetual January and perpetual October modes.