J. David Neelin

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that the subcloud-layer entropy is controlled by the sea surface temperature, the surface wind speed, and the large-scale vertical velocity in the convecting layer, and demonstrate how the recognition of this control leads to a simple, physically consistent view of largescale flows.

TL;DR: In this article, a vertically integrated measure of the moist static stability, the gross moist stability, is proposed, and the positions of these minima are determined by the time-mean moisture field, which is, in turn, closely tied to the time mean surface temperature.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined tropical regional precipitation anomalies under global warming in 10 coupled global climate models, and found that the thermodynamic component should be a good approximation for large-scale averages; this is confirmed for averages across convection zones and descent regions, respectively.

TL;DR: The role of naturally varying vegetation in influencing the climate variability in the West African Sahel is explored in a coupled atmosphere-land-vegetation model and interactive vegetation enhances the interdecadal variation substantially but can reduce year-to-year variability.

TL;DR: This article investigated future changes in dry-to-wet events using the Community Earth System Model Large Ensemble of climate model simulations and found that anthropogenic forcing yields large twenty-first-century increases in the frequency of wet extremes, including a more than threefold increase in sub-seasonal events comparable to California's 'Great Flood of 1862' and small but statistically robust increases in dry extremes are also apparent.