Advisee names are underlined.
Merlis, T. M., C.-Y. Chang, P. Zurita-Gotor, and I. M. Held, 2024: Radiation-circulation destabilization of ITCZ position in an idealized GCM: Response to hemispherically asymmetric forcing. Geophysical Research Letters, submitted, preprint.
Guendelman, I., T. M. Merlis, K.-Y. Cheng, L. Harris, C. S. Bretherton, M. Bolot, L. Zhou, A. Kaltenbaugh, S. K. Clark, and S. Fueglistaler, 2024: Detecting changes in large-scale metrics of climate in short integrations of a global storm-resolving model of the stmosphere. Submitted.
Merlis, T. M., 2024: Perturbing the surface energy balance to emulate the historical pattern of tropical Pacific sea surface temperature trends. Journal of Climate, submitted.
Bolot, M., O. Pauluis, L. Harris, K.-Y. Cheng, T. M. Merlis, S. K. Clark, A. Kaltenbaugh, L. Zhou, and S. Fueglistaler, 2024: Precipitation-induced dissipation limits storm kinetic energy in a warming climate. Submitted.
Caballero, R. and T. M. Merlis, 2024: Polar feedbacks in clear-sky radiative-advective equilibrium from an air mass transformation perspective. Journal of Climate, in revision, preprint.
Merlis, T. M., I. Guendelman, K.-Y. Cheng, L. Harris, Y.-T. Chen, C. S. Bretherton, M. Bolot, L. Zhou, A. Kaltenbaugh, S. K. Clark, and S. Fueglistaler, 2024: The vertical structure of tropical temperature change in global storm-resolving model simulations of climate change. Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2024GL111549, doi:10.1029/2024GL111549, Official version.
Merlis, T. M., K.-Y. Cheng, I. Guendelman, L. Harris, C. S. Bretherton, M. Bolot, L. Zhou, A. Kaltenbaugh, S. K. Clark, G. A. Vecchi, and S. Fueglistaler, 2024: Climate sensitivity and relative humidity changes in global storm-resolving model simulations of climate change. Science Advances, 10, eadn5217, doi:10.1126/sciadv.adn5217, Official version.
Guendelman, I., T. M. Merlis, K.-Y. Cheng, L. Harris, C. S. Bretherton, M. Bolot, L. Zhou, A. Kaltenbaugh, S. K. Clark, and S. Fueglistaler, 2024: The precipitation response to warming and CO2 increase: A comparison of a global storm resolving model and CMIP6 models. Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2023GL107008, doi:10.1029/2023GL107008, Official version.
Chen, Y.-T., T. M. Merlis, and Y. Huang, 2024: The cause of negative CO2 forcing at the top-of-atmosphere: the role of stratospheric vs. tropospheric temperature inversions. Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2023GL106433, doi:10.1029/2023GL106433, Official version.
Meera, M., T. M. Merlis, and D. J. Kirshbaum, 2024: Response of the current climate to land-ocean contrasts in parameterized cumulus entrainment. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 16, e2023MS003691, doi:10.1029/2023MS003691. Official version.
Bolot, M., L. Harris, K.-Y. Cheng, T. M. Merlis, P. Blossey, C. S. Bretherton, S. K. Clark, A. Kaltenbaugh, L. Zhou, and S. Fueglistaler, 2023: Kilometer-scale global warming simulations and active sensors reveal changes of tropical deep convection. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 6, 209, doi:10.1038/s41612-023-00525-w. Official version.
Feldl, N. and T. M. Merlis, 2023: An analytical model for radiative feedbacks in comprehensive climate models. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2023GL105796, doi:10.1029/2023GL105796. Official version.
Chang, C.-Y. and T. M. Merlis, 2023: The role of diffusivity changes on the pattern of warming in energy balance models. Journal of Climate, 36, 7993-8006, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0121.1. Official version.
Zurita-Gotor, P., I. M. Held, T. M. Merlis, C.-Y. Chang, S. A. Hill, C. G. MacDonald, 2023: Non-uniqueness in ITCZ latitude due to radiation-circulation coupling in an idealized GCM. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 15, e2023MS003736, doi:10.1029/2023MS003736. Official version.
Chen, Y.-T., Y. Huang, and T. M. Merlis, 2023: The global patterns of instantaneous CO2 forcing at the top-of-atmosphere and surface. Journal of Climate, 36, 6331-6347, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0708.1. Official version.
Fortin, A.-S., C. O. Dufour, T. M. Merlis, and R. Msadek, 2023: Drivers of the decline of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation under climate change in a hierarchy of climate models. Journal of Climate, 36, 6481-6498, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0561.1. Official version.
Labonté, M.-P. and T. M. Merlis, 2023: Evaluation of changes in dry and wet precipitation extremes in warmer climates using a passive water vapor modelling approach. Journal of Climate, 36, 2167-2182, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0048.1. Official version
Cheng, K.-Y., L. Harris, C. S. Bretherton, T. M. Merlis, M. Bolot, L. Zhou, A. Kaltenbaugh, S. K. Clark, and S. Fueglistaler, 2022: Impact of warmer sea surface temperature on the global pattern of intense convection: insights from a global storm resolving model. Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2022GL099796, doi:10.1029/2022GL099796. Official version
Kim, D., H. Kim, S. M. Kang, M. Stuecker, and T. M. Merlis, 2022: Weak future Hadley cell intensity changes due to compensating effects of tropical and extratropical forcing. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 5, 61, doi:10.1038/s41612-022-00287-x. Official version
Merlis, T. M., N. Feldl, and R. Caballero, 2022: Changes in poleward atmospheric energy transport over a wide range of climates: Energetic and diffusive perspectives and a priori theories. Journal of Climate, 35, 2933-2948, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0682.1. Official version
Hill, S. A., N. J. Burls, A. V. Fedorov, and T. M. Merlis, 2022: Symmetric and antisymmetric components of polar-amplified warming. Journal of Climate, 35, 3157-3172, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0972.1. Official version
Navarro, T., T. M. Merlis, N. B. Cowan, and N. Gomez, 2022: Atmospheric gravitational tides of Earth-like planets orbiting low mass stars. Planetary Science Journal, 3, 162, doi:10.3847/PSJ/ac76cd. Official version
R. Rousseau-Rizzi, T. M. Merlis, and N. Jeevanjee, 2022: The connection between Carnot and CAPE formulations of TC potential intensity. Journal of Climate, 35, 941-954, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0360.1. Official version
Kim, D., S. M. Kang, T. M. Merlis, and Y. Shin, 2021: Atmospheric circulation sensitivity to changes in the vertical structure of polar warming. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2021GL094726, doi:10.1029/2021GL094726. Official version
Feldl, N. and T. M. Merlis, 2021: Polar amplification in idealized climates: the role of ice, moisture, and seasons. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2021GL094130, doi:10.1029/2021GL094130. Official version
Bembenek, E., T. M. Merlis, and D. N. Straub, 2021: Influence of latitudinal and moisture effects on the barotropic instability of an idealized ITCZ. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 78, 2677-2689, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-20-0346.1. Official version
Feng, P.-N., H. Lin, J. Derome, and T. M. Merlis, 2021: Forecast skill of the NAO in the Subseasonal-to-Seasonal prediction models. Journal of Climate, 34, 4757-4769, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0430.1. Official version
Rollings, M. and T. M. Merlis, 2021: The observed relationship between Pacific SST variability and Hadley cell extent trends in reanalyses. Journal of Climate, 34, 2511-2527, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0410.1. Official version
Henry, M., T. M. Merlis, N. J. Lutsko, and B. E. J. Rose 2021: Decomposing the drivers of polar amplification with a single column model. Journal of Climate, 34, 2355-2365, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0178.1. Official version
Henry, M. and T. M. Merlis, 2020: Lapse rate changes dominate residual polar warming in solar radiation management experiments. Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2020GL087929, doi:10.1029/2020GL087929. Official version
Labonté, M.-P. and T. M. Merlis, 2020: Sensitivity of the atmospheric water cycle within the habitable zone of a tidally-locked, Earth-like exoplanet. Astrophysical Journal, 896, 31, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab9102. Official version
Bembenek, E., D. N. Straub, and T. M. Merlis, 2020: Effects of moisture in a two-layer model of the midlatitude jet stream. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 77, 131-147, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-19-0021.1. Official version
Merlis, T. M. and I. M. Held, 2019: Aquaplanet simulations of tropical cyclones. Current Climate Change Reports, 5, 185-195, doi:10.1007/s40641-019-00133-y. Official version (open access)
Menzel, M. E. and T. M. Merlis, 2019: Connecting direct effects of CO2 radiative forcing to ocean heat uptake and circulation. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 11, 2163-2176, doi:10.1029/2018MS001544. Official version
Maher, P., E. P. Gerber, B. Medeiros, T. M. Merlis, S. Sherwood, A. Sheshadri, A. H. Sobel, G. K. Vallis, A. Voigt, and P. Zurita-Gotor, 2019: Model hierarchies for understanding atmospheric circulation. Reviews of Geophysics, 57, 250-280, doi:10.1029/2018RG000607. Official version
Yang, J., J. Leconte, E. T. Wolf, T. M. Merlis, D. D. B. Koll, F. Forget, and D. S. Abbot, 2019: Simulations of water vapor and clouds on rapidly rotating and tidally locked planets: A 3D model intercomparison. The Astrophysical Journal, 875, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab09f1. Official version
Li, Y., D. W. J. Thompson, S. Bony, and T. M. Merlis, 2019: Thermodynamic control on the poleward shift of the extratropical jet in climate change simulations: The role of rising high clouds and their radiative effect. Journal of Climate, 32, 917-934, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0417.1. Official version
Henry, M. and T. M. Merlis, 2019: The role of the nonlinearity of the Stefan-Boltzmann law on the structure of radiatively forced temperature change. Journal of Climate, 32, 335-348, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0603.1. Official version
Merlis, T. M. and M. Henry 2018: Simple estimates of polar amplification in moist diffusive energy balance models. Journal of Climate, 31, 5811-5824, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0578.1. Official version
Jansen, M. F., L.-P. Nadeau, and T. M. Merlis, 2018: Transient versus Equilibrium Response of the Ocean's Overturning Circulation to Warming. Journal of Climate, 31, 5147-5163, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0797.1. Official version
O'Gorman, P. A., T. M. Merlis, and M. S. Singh, 2018: Increase in the skewness of extratropical vertical velocities with climate warming: fully nonlinear simulations versus moist baroclinic instability. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 144, 208-217, doi:10.1002/qj.3195. Official version
Kirshbaum, D. J., T. M. Merlis, J. R. Gyakum, R. McTaggart-Cowan, 2018: Sensitivity of idealized moist baroclinic waves to environmental temperature. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 75, 337-360, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-17-0188.1. Official version
Defforge, C. L. and T. M. Merlis, 2017: Evaluating the evidence of a global sea surface temperature threshold for tropical cyclone genesis. Journal of Climate, 30, 9133-9145. Official version
Viale, F. and T. M. Merlis, 2017: Variations in tropical cyclone frequency response to solar and CO2 forcing in aquaplanet simulations. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 9, 4-18, doi:10.1002/2016MS000785. Official version
Defforge, C. L. and T. M. Merlis, 2017: Observed warming trend in sea surface temperature at tropical cyclone genesis. Geophysical Research Letters, 44, 1034-1040, doi:10.1002/2016GL071045. Official version
Seo, J., S. M. Kang, and T. M. Merlis, 2017: A model intercomparison of the tropical precipitation response to a CO2 doubling in aquaplanet simulations. Geophysical Research Letters, 44, 993-1000, doi:10.1002/2016GL072347. Official version
Feldl, N., S. Bordoni, and T. M. Merlis, 2017: Coupled high-latitude climate feedbacks and their impact on atmospheric heat transport. Journal of Climate, 30, 189-201. Official version
Galbraith, E. D., T. M. Merlis, and J. Palter, 2016: Destabilization of glacial climate by the radiative impact of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation disruptions. Geophysical Research Letters, 43, 8214-8221, doi:10.1002/2016GL069846. Official version
Yang, J., J. Leconte, E. T. Wolf, C. Goldblatt, N. Feldl, T. M. Merlis, Y. Wang, D. D. B. Koll, F. Ding, F. Forget, and D. S. Abbot, 2016: Differences in water vapor radiative transfer among 1D models can significantly affect the inner edge of the habitable zone. The Astrophysical Journal, 826, doi:10.3847/0004-637X/826/2/222. Official version
Trossman, D., J. Palter, T. M. Merlis, Y. Huang, and Y. Xia, 2016: Large-scale ocean circulation-cloud interactions reduce the pace of transient climate change. Geophysical Research Letters, 43, 3935-3943, doi:10.1002/2016GL067931. Official version
Merlis, T. M., W. Zhou, I. M. Held, and M. Zhao, 2016: Surface temperature dependence of tropical cyclone-permitting simulations in a spherical model with uniform thermal forcing. Geophysical Research Letters, 43, 2859-2865, doi:10.1002/2016GL067730. Official version Blog post by Isaac Held Surface windspeed animations: 297 K SST and 307 K SST.
Merlis, T. M., 2016: Does humidity's seasonal cycle affect the annual-mean tropical precipitation response to sulfate aerosol forcing? Journal of Climate, 29, 1451-1460. Official version
Merlis, T. M., 2015: Direct weakening of tropical circulations from masked CO2 radiative forcing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112, 13167-13171, doi:10.1073/pnas.1508268112. Official version
Ballinger, A. P., T. M. Merlis, I. M. Held, and M. Zhao, 2015: The sensitivity of tropical cyclone activity to off-equatorial thermal forcing. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 72, 2286-2302. Official version Blog post by Isaac Held
Merlis, T. M., 2014: Interacting components of the top-of-atmosphere energy balance affect changes in regional surface temperature. Geophysical Research Letters, 41, 7291-7297, doi:10.1002/2014GL061700. Official version
Merlis, T. M., I. M. Held, G. L. Stenchikov, F. Zeng, and L. W. Horowitz, 2014: Constraining transient climate sensitivity using coupled climate model simulations of volcanic eruptions. Journal of Climate, 27, 7781-7795. Official version Blog post (part I) by Isaac Held Blog post (part II) by Isaac Held
Merlis, T. M., M. Zhao, and I. M. Held, 2013: The sensitivity of hurricane frequency to ITCZ changes and radiatively forced warming in aquaplanet simulations. Geophysical Research Letters, 40, 4109-4114, doi:10.1002/grl.50680. Official version Blog post by Isaac Held
Merlis, T. M., T. Schneider, S. Bordoni, and I. Eisenman, 2013: The tropical precipitation response to orbital precession. Journal of Climate, 26, 2010-2021. Official version
Merlis, T. M., T. Schneider, S. Bordoni, and I. Eisenman, 2013: Hadley circulation response to orbital precession. Part II: Subtropical continent. Journal of Climate, 26, 754-771. Official version
Merlis, T. M., T. Schneider, S. Bordoni, and I. Eisenman, 2013: Hadley circulation response to orbital precession. Part I: Aquaplanets. Journal of Climate, 26, 740-753. Official version
Merlis, T. M. and T. Schneider, 2011:
Changes in zonal surface temperature gradients and Walker circulations in a wide range of climates.
Journal of Climate, 24, 4757-4768.
Official version
Implementation of Q-flux
Merlis, T. M. and T. Schneider, 2010:
Atmospheric dynamics of Earth-like tidally locked aquaplanets.
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 2, Art. #13.
Official version
Correction
GCM code.
Merlis, T. M. and T. Schneider, 2009: Scales of linear baroclinic instability and macroturbulence in dry atmospheres. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 66, 1821-1833. Official version
Merlis, T. M. and S. Khatiwala, 2008: Fast dynamical spin-up of ocean general circulation models using Newton-Krylov methods. Ocean Modelling, 21, 97-105. Official version