Richard Somerville

Richard Somerville is a climate scientist and the author of The Forgiving Air: Understanding Environmental Change, a new editon of which was published in 2008 by the American Meteorological Society.

"Perhaps the most important function of climate science on an issue of broad interest like global warming is to help educate the public and to provide useful input into the policy process. Governments, corporations, and individuals should listen to and learn from the science, just as intelligent people listen to their physicians when their health is in question. Good science input can inform wise policymaking. The role of scientists is to help assess the science and present it in an intelligible way that is policy relevant."
- The Forgiving Air: Understanding Environmental Change

Richard Somerville is Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Research Professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. He formally retired in 2007 but remains active in research, education and outreach. He was a Coordinating Lead Author in Working Group I for the 2007 Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Richard Somerville was an organizer of the 2007 Bali Climate Declaration by Scientists. This effort by climate scientists to inject some quantitative scientific substance into the UN climate negotiations is described in The New York Times and Climate Science Watch.

SHORT BIOGRAPHY
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CURRICULUM VITAE
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THE FORGIVING AIR

A new edition of Richard Somerville's award-winning book, The Forgiving Air: Understanding Environmental Change, was published in 2008.
Review by John S. Perry of the 1998 edition of The Forgiving Air (pdf)

Richard Somerville writes non-technical articles for the general reader as well as peer-reviewed research papers for scientific specialists.

SELECTED RECENT ARTICLES BY RICHARD SOMERVILLE:

- Medical Metaphors for Climate Issues (Climatic Change, 2006) (pdf)
- Reflections on the U. N. Climate Change Negotiations in Bali (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 2008)
- Recent Climate Observations Compared to Projections (Science, 2007) (pdf)
- The Ethics of Climate Change (Yale Environment 360, 2008)
- Foreword to Oil, Water, and Climate, by Catherine Gautier (Cambridge University Press, 2008) (pdf)
- If I Were President: A Climate Change Speech (Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 2008) (pdf)
- Bert Bolin, 1925 - 2007 (Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 2008) (pdf)

A list of forty selected scientific papers by Richard Somerville (1991-2007) (pdf)

SPEAKING

Richard Somerville frequently speaks to audiences from the business, government and academic communities, as well as to the broader public.

A lecture given in December, 2006 by Richard Somerville as a Distinguished Lecturer at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of California, San Diego: "Global Warming: Climate Change Science vs. Public Policy"
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLAcD75eJOw (video)

Two lectures given in Singapore in November, 2007 by Richard Somerville as the Lee Kuan Yew Distinguished Visitor: "Global Warming: The Latest Word on the Best Science" and "Science Informing Policy: The IntergovernmentalPanel on Climate Change"
URL: http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/lkydvp/home/somerville.htm (video & slides)

A lecture by Richard Somerville at UCLA in January 2008 on "Climate Change Policy, Equity and Ethics"
URL: http://www.oid.ucla.edu/webcasts/courses/2007-2008/2008winter/aos270-1 (audio/video)

A lecture by Richard Somerville in January, 2008 at the Los Angeles World Affairs Council "Global Warming: The Latest Word on the Best Science"
URL: http://la36.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=24&clip_id=3081 (video)

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CURRICULUM VITAE
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RESEARCH

Richard Somerville works with graduate students and senior collaborators on radiative transfer, cloud physics, and climate feedbacks.

Richard Somerville is a team member of the National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center for Multi-Scale Modeling of Atmospheric Processes (CMMAP).
URL: http://kiwi.atmos.colostate.edu/cmmap/

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RICHARD SOMERVILLE

Postal address:

Prof. Richard Somerville
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive, Dept. 0224
La Jolla, CA 92093-0224
USA

Office phone: 1-858-534-4644

Fax: 1-858-534-8561

Email: rsomerville@ucsd.edu

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RICHARD C. J. SOMERVILLE

Richard C. J. Somerville is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. He is a theoretical meteorologist and an expert on computer simulations of the atmosphere. He received the Ph. D. in meteorology from New York University in 1966 and has been a professor at Scripps since 1979.

Richard Somerville's research is on the physics of clouds and their role in the climate system. His interests include all aspects of climate, including climate science outreach and the interface between science and public policy. He comments frequently on climate and environmental issues for the media.

Somerville has received awards from the American Meteorological Society for both his research and his popular book, The Forgiving Air: Understanding Environmental Change, a new edition of which was published in 2008. Among many honors, he is a Fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Meteorological Society. He is a Coordinating Lead Author for the 2007 Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize equally with Al Gore.

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Curriculum Vitae

RICHARD C. J. SOMERVILLE

Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Research Professor
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
University of California, San Diego

rsomerville@ucsd.edu

http://richardsomerville.com

BIRTH: 30 May 1941, Washington, D.C.

EDUCATION:
B.S. 1961	Pennsylvania State University (Meteorology)
Ph.D. 1966	New York University (Meteorology)

POSITIONS:
2007-present	Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Research Professor Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, CA
2004-2007	Distinguished Professor Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, CA
1979-2007	Professor of Meteorology Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, CA
1974-1979	Head, Numerical Weather Prediction Section National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO
1971-1974	Meteorologist & Adjunct Professor Goddard Institute for Space Studies, NASA, New York, NY Columbia University and New York University, New York, NY
1969-1971	Research Scientist Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, NY
1967-1969	Research Associate Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, NOAA, Princeton, NJ
1966-1967	Postdoctoral Fellow National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO

EXPERTISE:
Richard Somerville is a theoretical meteorologist whose research interests include geophysical fluid dynamics, thermal convection, computational methods, predictability, atmospheric modeling, numerical weather prediction, radiative transfer, cloud physics, and climate.

HONORS:
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow (Elected 1993) American Meteorological Society, Fellow (Elected 1987) Award for Outstanding Contributions to Science Education - University Level, from the San Diego Science Educator�s Association (1991) Awarded the Walter Orr Roberts Lectureship in Interdisciplinary Sciences for 1999 by the American Meteorological Society, "for significant contributions to the understanding and discussion of global environmental change derived from multidisciplinary research activities." Awarded the Louis J. Battan Author's Award for 2000 by the American Meteorological Society, "for The Forgiving Air, an engaging and readable book filled with scientific insight and historical perspective about some of the most complex environmental problems we face today." Appointed Distinguished Lecturer, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society (2002-2003) Listed in Who's Who in America in all recent editions Appointed Distinguished Professor, University of California, San Diego (2004) Coordinating Lead Author, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Fourth Assessment Report (2007) Lee Kuan Yew Distinguished Visitor, Singapore (2007)

AUTHOR:
More than 150 research papers. A book on global change: The Forgiving Air: Understanding Environmental Change (1996, 2008).

ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE AT UCSD - SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY:
Head, Climate Research Group, 1979 - 1989 Director, Climate Research Division, 1989 - 1996 Coordinator, Climate Sciences Curricular Group, 1995 - 1999

PUBLIC SERVICE (Selected positions since1990):
American Association for the Advancement of Science Member, Steering Group, Section on Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences American Meteorological Society: Councilor Member, Fellows Committee Member, Committee on Societal Impacts Aspen Global Change Institute: Member, Advisory Board Chair, Board of Directors Climate Dynamics: Member, Editorial Board The Sea - Ideas and Observations on Progress in the Study of the Seas: Member, Editorial Board Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Coordinating Lead Author National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Member, Space Science and Applications Advisory Committee and Executive Committee Member and former Chair, Earth System Science and Applications Advisory Committee National Center for Atmospheric Research Member, NCAR Advisory Council National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Member, Panel on Climate and Global Change and Executive Committee of the Panel National Research Council: Member, Committee on Climate Data Records from Operational Satellites: Development of a NOAA Satellite Data Utilization Plan. National Science Foundation: Member, Advisory Committee for Atmospheric Sciences Member, Advisory Committee for Geosciences Chair, Geoscience Education Working Group U. S. Department of Energy: Member, ARM Program Science Team Executive Committee University Corporation for Atmospheric Research: Chair, Board of Trustees Chair, Executive Committee Chair, Committee on Budget and Programs Member�s Representative, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD ---------

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS - RICHARD C. J. SOMERVILLE (1967 – 2007)

Somerville, R. C. J., 1967: A nonlinear spectral model of convection in a fluid unevenly heated from below. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 24, 665-676.

Somerville, R. C. J., 1971: Bénard convection in a rotating fluid. Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, 2, 247-262.

Lipps, F. B., and R. C. J. Somerville, 1971: Dynamics of variable wavelength in finite-amplitude Bénard convection. Physics of Fluids, 14, 759-765.

Willis, G. E., J. W. Deardorff, and R. C. J. Somerville, 1972: Roll-diameter dependence in Rayleigh convection and its effect upon the heat flux. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 54, 351-367.

Somerville, R. C. J., and F. B. Lipps, 1973: A numerical study in three space dimensions of Bénard convection in a rotating fluid. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 30, 590-596.

Somerville, R. C. J., P. H. Stone, M. Halem, J. E. Hansen, J. S. Hogan, L. M. Druyan, G. Russell, A. A. Lacis, W. J. Quirk, and J. Tenenbaum, 1974: The GISS model of the global atmosphere. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 31, 84-117.

Stone, P. H., W. J. Quirk, and R. C. J. Somerville, 1974: The effect of small-scale vertical mixing of horizontal momentum in a general circulation model. Monthly Weather Review, 102, 765-771.

Gal-Chen T., and R. C. J. Somerville, 1975: On the use of a coordinate transformation for the solution of the Navier-Stokes equations. Journal of Computational Physics, 17, 209-228.

Gal-Chen, T., and R. C. J. Somerville, 1975: Numerical solution of the Navier-Stokes equations with topography. Journal of Computational Physics, 17, 276-310.

Druyan, L. M., R. C. J. Somerville, and W. J. Quirk, 1975: Extended-range forecasts with the GISS model of the global atmosphere. Monthly Weather Review, 103, 779-795.

Somerville, R. C. J., W. J. Quirk, J. E. Hansen, A. A. Lacis, and P. H. Stone, 1976: A search for short-term meteorological effects of solar variability in an atmospheric circulation model. Journal of Geophysical Research, 81, 1572-1576.

Baker, W. E., E. C. Kung, and R. C. J. Somerville, 1977: Energetics diagnosis of the NCAR general circulation model. Monthly Weather Review, 105, 1384-1401.

Somerville, R. C. J., 1977: Pattern recognition techniques for weather forecast verification. Contributions to Atmospheric Physics, 50, 403-410.

Baker, W. E., E. C. Kung, and R. C. J. Somerville, 1978: An energetics analysis of forecast experiments with the NCAR general circulation model. Monthly Weather Review, 106, 311-323.

Somerville, R. C. J., and T. Gal-Chen, 1979: Numerical simulation of convection with mean vertical motion. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 36, 805-815.

Gall, R. L., R. Blakeslee, and R. C. J. Somerville, 1979: Baroclinic instability and the selection of the zonal scale of the transient eddies of middle latitudes. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 36, 767-784.

Gall, R. L., R. Blakeslee, and R. C. J. Somerville, 1979: Cyclone-scale forcing of ultralong waves. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 36, 1692-1698.

Dobosy, R. J., and R. C. J. Somerville, 1979: Tests of simple momentum boundary-layer parameterizations in a numerical weather prediction model. Contributions to Atmospheric Physics, 52, 190-203.

Somerville, R. C. J., 1980: Tropical influences on the predictability of ultralong waves. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 37, 1141-1156.

Roads, J. O., and R. C. J. Somerville, 1982: Predictability of ultralong waves in global and hemispheric quasi-geostrophic barotropic models. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 39, 745-755.

Hathaway, D. H., and R. C. J. Somerville, 1983: Three-dimensional simulations of convection in layers with tilted rotation vectors. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 126, 75-89.

Barnett, T. P., and R. C. J. Somerville, 1983: Advances in short term climate prediction. Reviews of Geophysics and Space Physics, 21, 1096-1102.

Roads, J. O., and R. C. J. Somerville, 1984: Linear predictability: Effects of stationary forcing. Predictability of Fluid Motions, G. Holloway and B. J. West (eds.), American Institute of Physics, New York, 106, 557-570.

Somerville, R. C. J., and L. A. Remer, 1984: Cloud optical thickness feedbacks in the CO2 climate problem. Journal of Geophysical Research, 89, 9668-9672.

Hathaway, D. H., and R. C. J. Somerville, 1985: Numerical simulation in three space dimensions of time-dependent thermal convection in a rotating fluid. Lectures in Applied Mathematics, 22, 309-319.

Engquist, B. E., S. Osher, and R. C. J. Somerville (eds.), 1985: Large-Scale Computations in Fluid Mechanics, Lectures in Applied Mathematics, Vol. 22 , American Mathematical Society, Providence, Rhode Island, 2 volumes, 779 pp.

Hathaway, D. H., and R. C. J. Somerville, 1986: Nonlinear interactions between convection, rotation and flows with vertical shear. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 164, 91-105.

Hathaway, D. H., and R. C. J. Somerville, 1987: Thermal convection in a rotating shear flow. Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, 38, 43-68.

Somerville, R. C. J., and S. Iacobellis, 1987: Cloud-radiation interactions: Effects of cirrus optical thickness feedbacks. Short- and Medium-Range Numerical Weather Prediction, T. Matsuno (ed.), Meteorological Society of Japan, 177-185.

Chertock, B., S. Iacobellis, and R. C. J. Somerville, 1987: Remote sensing studies of oceanic cloud-radiation feedbacks. Atmospheric Radiation Progress And Prospects, K.-N. Liou and Z. Xiuji (eds.), Science Press and American Meteorological Society, 508-514.

Somerville, R. C. J., 1987: The predictability of weather and climate. Climatic Change, 11, 239-246.

Isakari, S. M., and R. C. J. Somerville, 1989: Accurate numerical solutions for Daisyworld. Tellus, 41B, 478-482.

Chertock, B., R. Frouin and R. C. J. Somerville, 1991: Global monitoring of net solar irradiance at the ocean surface: Climatological variability and the 1982/1983 El Nino. Journal of Climate, 4, 639-650.

Iacobellis, S., and R. C. J. Somerville, 1991: Diagnostic modeling of the Indian monsoon onset. Part I: Model description and validation. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 48, 1948-1959.

Iacobellis, S., and R. C. J. Somerville, 1991: Diagnostic modeling of the Indian monsoon onset. Part II: Budget and sensitivity studies. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 48, 1960-1971.

Malvagi, F., R. N. Byrne, G. C. Pomraning, and R. C. J. Somerville, 1993: Stochastic radiative transfer in a partially cloudy atmosphere. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 50, 2146-2158.

Somerville, R. C. J., 1993: Change on Planet Earth. UCSD Extension, University of California, San Diego, 166 pp.

Iacobellis, S. F., R. Frouin, H. Razafimpanilo and R. C. J. Somerville, 1994: North African savanna fires and atmospheric carbon dioxide. Journal of Geophysical Research, 99, D4, 8321-8334.

Waliser, D. E., and R. C. J. Somerville, 1994: The preferred latitudes of the intertropical convergence zone. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 51, 1619-1639.

Razafimpanilo, H., R. Frouin, S. F. Iacobellis, and R. C. J. Somerville, 1995: Methodology for estimating burned area from AVHRR reflectance data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 54, 273-289.

Somerville, R. C. J., 1996: The Forgiving Air: Understanding Environmental Change. University of California Press, 195 pp. (revised paperback edition, 1998).

Soloviev, G. I., V. D. Shapiro, R. C. J. Somerville and B. Shkoller, 1996: The tilting instability in a two-dimensional viscous fluid. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 53, 2671-2684.

Lee, W.-H., and R. C. J. Somerville, 1996: Effects of alternative cloud radiation parameterizations in a general circulation model. Annalae Geophysicae, 14, 107-114.

Byrne, R. N., R. C. J. Somerville and B. Subasilar, 1996: Broken-cloud enhancement of solar radiation absorption. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 53, 878-886.

Somerville, R. C. J., S. F. Iacobellis and W.-H. Lee, 1996: Effects of cloud-radiation schemes on climate model results. World Resource Review, 8, 321-333.

Randall, D. A., K.-M. Xu, R. C. J. Somerville and S. Iacobellis, 1996: Single-column models and cloud ensemble models as links between observations and climate models. Journal of Climate, 9, 1683-1697.

Lee, W.-H., S. F. Iacobellis, and R. C. J. Somerville, 1997: Cloud-radiation forcings and feedbacks: General circulation model tests and observational validation. Journal of Climate, 10, 2479-2496.

Lubin, D., B Chen, D. H. Bromwich, R. C. J. Somerville, W.-H. Lee, and K. M. Hines, 1998: The impact of Antarctic cloud radiative properties on a GCM climate simulation. Journal of Climate, 11, 447-462.

Iacobellis, S. F., R. Frouin, and R. C. J. Somerville, 1999: Direct climate forcing by biomass burning aerosols: Impact of correlations between controlling variables. Journal of Geophysical Research, 104, 12,031-12,045.

Somerville, R. C. J., and S. F. Iacobellis, 1999: Single-column models, ARM observations, and GCM cloud-radiation schemes. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth (B), 24, 733-740.

Lane, D. E., R. C. J. Somerville, and S. F. Iacobellis, 2000: Sensitivity of cloud and radiation parameterizations to changes in vertical resolution. Journal of Climate, 13, 915-922.

Iacobellis, S. F., and R. C. J. Somerville, 2000: Implications of microphysics for cloud-radiation parameterizations: Lessons from TOGA-COARE. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 57, 161-183.

Somerville, R. C. J., 2000: Using single-column models to improve cloud-radiation parameterizations. General Circulation Model Development: Past, Present and Future, Academic Press, D. Randall (ed.), pp. 641-657.

Ghan, S. J., D. Randall, K. Xu, R. Cederwall, D. Cripe, J. Hack, S. Iacobellis, S. Klein, S. Krueger, U. Lohmann, J. Pedretti, A. Robock, L. Rotstayn, R. Somerville, G. Strenchikov, Y. Sud, G. Walker, S. Xie, J. Yio, and M. Zhang, 2000: A comparison of single-column model simulations of Summertime midlatitude continental convection. Journal of Geophysical Research, D. (Atmospheres), 105 (D2), 2091-2124.

Lane, D. E., R. C. J. Somerville, and S. F. Iacobellis, 2001: Evaluation of a stochastic radiative transfer model using ground-based measurements. In IRS 2000: Current Problems in Atmospheric Radiation, W. L. Smith and Yu. M. Timofeyev (Eds.) A. Deepak Publishing, Hampton, Virginia, pp. 245-248.

Iacobellis, S. F., R. C. J. Somerville, and D. E. Lane, 2001: SCM sensitivity to microphysics, radiation and convection algorithms. In IRS 2000: Current Problems in Atmospheric Radiation, W. L. Smith and Yu. M. Timofeyev (Eds.) A. Deepak Publishing, Hampton, Virginia, pp. 1287-1290.

Xie, S., K-M. Xu, R. T. Cederwall, P. Bechtold, A. D. Del Genio, S. A. Klein, D. G. Cripe, S. J. Ghan, D. Gregory, S. F. Iacobellis, S. K. Krueger, U. Lohmann, J. C. Petch, D. A. Randall, L. D. Rotstayn, R. C. J. Somerville, Y. C. Sud, K. von Salzen, G. K. Walker, A. Wolf, J. J. Yio, G-J. Zhang, M. Zhang, 2002: Intercomparison and evaluation of cumulus parameterizations under summertime midlatitude continental conditions. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 128, pp. 1095-1136.

Lane, D. E., K. Goris, and R. C. J. Somerville, 2002: Radiative transfer through broken clouds: Observations and model validation. Journal of Climate, 15, pp. 2921-2933.

McFarquhar, G. M., S. Iacobellis, and R. C. J. Somerville, 2003: SCM simulations of tropical ice clouds using observationally based parameterizations of microphysics. Journal of Climate, 16, pp. 1643-1664.

Iacobellis, S. F., G. M. McFarquhar, D. L. Mitchell, and R. C. J. Somerville, 2003: The sensitivity of radiative fluxes to parameterized cloud microphysics. Journal of Climate, 16, pp. 2979-2996.

Shell, K., R. Frouin, S. Nakamoto, and R. Somerville, 2003: Atmospheric response to solar radiation absorbed by phytoplankton. Journal of Geophysical Research, 108, (D15), 4445, doi:10.1029/2003JD003440, 2003.

Berque, J., D. Lubin, and R. C. J. Somerville, 2004: Infrared radiative properties of the Antarctic Plateau from AVHRR Data. Part I: Effect of the snow surface. Journal of Applied Meteorology, 43, pp. 350-362.

Lane-Veron, D. E., and R. C. J. Somerville, 2004: Stochastic theory of radiative transfer through generalized cloud fields. Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, D18113, doi:10.1029/2004JD004524, pp. 1-14, 2004.

Shell, K. M., and R. C. J. Somerville, 2004: A generalized energy balance climate model with parameterized dynamics and diabatic heating. Journal of Climate, 18, pp. 1753-1772, doi: 10.1175/JCLI3373.1.

Xie, S., M. Zhang, M. Branson, R. T. Cederwall, A. D. Del Genio, Z. A. Eitzen, S. J. Ghan, S. F. Iacobellis, K. J. Johnson, M. Khairoutdinov, S. A. Klein, S. K. Krueger, W. Lin, U. Lohmann, M. A. Miller, D. A. Randall, R. C. J. Somerville, Y. C. Sud, G. K. Walker, A. Wolf, X. Wu, K.-M. Xu, J. J. Yio, G. Zhang, and J. Zhang, 2005: Simulations of midlatitude frontal clouds by SCMs and CRMs during the ARM March 2000 Cloud IOP. Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, D15S03, doi:10.1029/2004JD005119, 2005.

Xu, K.-M., M. Zhang, Z. A. EitzenS. J. Ghan, S. A. Klein, X. Wu, M. Branson, A. D. DelGenio, S. F. Iacobellis, M. Khairoutdinov, W. Lin, U. Lohmann, D. A. Randall, R. C. J. Somerville, Y. C. Sud, G. K. Walker, A. Wolf, S. Xie, J. J. Yio, and J. Zhang, 2005: Modeling springtime shallow frontal clouds with cloud-resolving and single-column models. Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, D15S04, doi:10.1029/2004JD005153.

Iacobellis, S. F., and Richard C. J. Somerville, 2006: Evaluating parameterizations of the autoconversion process using a single-column model and ARM measurements. Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, D02203, doi:10.1029/2005JD006296.

Shell, K. M., and R. C. J. Somerville, 2007: Direct radiative effect of mineral dust and volcanic aerosols in a simple aerosol climate model. Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, D03205, doi:10.1029/2006JD007197.

Shell, K. M., and R. C. J. Somerville, 2007: Sensitivity of climate forcing and response to dust optical properties in an idealized model, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, D03206, doi:10.1029/2006JD007198.

Rahmstorf, S., A. Cazenave, J. A. Church, J. E. Hansen, R. F. Keeling, D. E. Parker, R. C. J. Somerville, 2007: Recent climate observations compared to projections. Science, 316, 709 (2007); published online 1 February 2007 (10.1126/science. 1136843).

Le Treut, H., R. Somerville, U. Cubasch, Y. Ding, C. Mauritzen, A. Mokssit, T. Peterson, and M. Prather, 2007: Historical Overview of Climate Change. In: Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Solomon, S., D. Qin, M. Manning, Z. Chen, M. Marquis, K. B. Averyt, M. Tignor and H. L. Miller (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA.

Solomon, S., D. Qin, M. Manning, R. B. Alley, T. Berntsen, N. L., Bindoff, Z. Chen, A. Chidthaisong, J. M. Gregory, G. C. Hegeri, M. Heimann, B. Hewitson, B. J. Hoskins, F. Joos, J. Jouzel, V. Kattsov, U. Lohmann, T. Matsuno, M. Molina, N. Nicholls, J. Overpeck, G. Raga, V. Ramaswamy, J. Ren, M. Rusticucci, R. Somerville, T. F. Stocker, P. Whetton, R. A. Wood and D. Wratt, 2007: Technical Summary. In: Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group[ I] to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Solomon, S., D. Qin, M. Manning, Z. Chen, M. Marquis, K. B. Averyt, M. Tignor and H. L. Miller (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA.

IPCC, 2007: Summary for Policymakers. In: Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Solomon, S., D. Qin, M. Manning, Z. Chen, M. Marquis, K. B. Averyt, M. Tignor and H. L. Miller (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA.

Jouzel, J., et R. C. J. Somerville, 2007: Le groupe intergouvernemental d’experts sur l’evolution du climat: le consensus a l’échelle planétaire. Comprendre le Changement Climatique, Odile Jacob (Paris), J.-L. Fellous et C. Gautier (eds.), pp. 27-44.

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