Thomas Birner - Publications

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Atmospheric Science Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 
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Atmospheric Sciences

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2020 Rivoire L, Birner T, Knaff JA, Tourville N. Quantifying the radiative impact of clouds on tropopause layer cooling in tropical cyclones Journal of Climate. 33: 6361-6376. DOI: 10.1175/Jcli-D-19-0813.1  0.329
2019 Eichinger R, Dietmüller S, Garny H, Šácha P, Birner T, Boenisch H, Pitari G, Visioni D, Stenke A, Rozanov E, Revell L, Plummer DA, Jöckel P, Oman L, Deushi M, et al. The influence of mixing on stratospheric age of air changes in the 21st century. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 19: 921-940. PMID 32793293 DOI: 10.5194/Acp-19-921-2019  0.407
2019 Garny H, Walz R, Nützel M, Birner T. Extending the Modular Earth Submodel System (MESSy v2.55)model hierarchy: The ECHAM/MESSy idealized (EMIL) modelset-up Geoscientific Model Development Discussions. 1-34. DOI: 10.5194/Gmd-2019-330  0.439
2019 Ploeger F, Legras B, Charlesworth E, Yan X, Diallo M, Konopka P, Birner T, Tao M, Engel A, Riese M. How robust are stratospheric age of air trends from different reanalyses Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 19: 6085-6105. DOI: 10.5194/Acp-19-6085-2019  0.34
2019 Cámara Adl, Birner T, Albers JR. Are Sudden Stratospheric Warmings Preceded by Anomalous Tropospheric Wave Activity Journal of Climate. 32: 7173-7189. DOI: 10.1175/Jcli-D-19-0269.1  0.464
2019 Dacie S, Kluft L, Schmidt H, Stevens B, Buehler SA, Nowack PJ, Dietmüller S, Abraham NL, Birner T. A 1D RCE study of factors affecting the tropical tropopause layer and surface climate Journal of Climate. 32: 6769-6782. DOI: 10.1175/Jcli-D-18-0778.1  0.317
2019 Grise KM, Davis SM, Simpson IR, Waugh DW, Fu Q, Allen RJ, Rosenlof KH, Ummenhofer CC, Karnauskas KB, Maycock AC, Quan X, Birner T, Staten PW. Recent Tropical Expansion: Natural Variability or Forced Response? Journal of Climate. 32: 1551-1571. DOI: 10.1175/Jcli-D-18-0444.1  0.472
2019 Baldwin MP, Birner T, Brasseur G, Burrows J, Butchart N, Garcia R, Geller M, Gray L, Hamilton K, Harnik N, Hegglin MI, Langematz U, Robock A, Sato K, Scaife AA. 100 Years of Progress in Understanding the Stratosphere and Mesosphere Meteorological Monographs. 59: 27.1-27.62. DOI: 10.1175/Amsmonographs-D-19-0003.1  0.423
2019 Davis NA, Birner T. Eddy influences on the Hadley circulation Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 11: 1563-1581. DOI: 10.1029/2018Ms001554  0.315
2018 Eichinger R, Dietmüller S, Garny H, Sacha P, Birner T, Böhnisch H, Pitari G, Visioni D, Stenke A, Rozanov E, Revell L, Plummer DA, Jöckel P, Oman L, Deushi M, et al. The influence of mixing on stratospheric circulation changes in the21st century Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 1-31. DOI: 10.5194/Acp-2018-1110  0.411
2018 Diallo M, Riese M, Birner T, Konopka P, Müller R, Hegglin MI, Santee ML, Baldwin M, Legras B, Ploeger F. Response of stratospheric water vapor and ozone to the unusual timing of El Niño and the QBO disruption in 2015–2016 Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 18: 13055-13073. DOI: 10.5194/Acp-18-13055-2018  0.388
2018 Waugh DW, Grise KM, Seviour WJM, Davis SM, Davis N, Adam O, Son S, Simpson IR, Staten PW, Maycock AC, Ummenhofer CC, Birner T, Ming A. Revisiting the Relationship among Metrics of Tropical Expansion Journal of Climate. 31: 7565-7581. DOI: 10.1175/Jcli-D-18-0108.1  0.373
2018 Hitchcock P, Haynes PH, Randel WJ, Birner T. The Emergence of Shallow Easterly Jets within QBO Westerlies Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 75: 21-40. DOI: 10.1175/Jas-D-17-0108.1  0.474
2018 Staten PW, Lu J, Grise KM, Davis SM, Birner T. Re-examining tropical expansion Nature Climate Change. 8: 768-775. DOI: 10.1038/S41558-018-0246-2  0.435
2018 Kim J, Randel WJ, Birner T. Convectively Driven Tropopause‐Level Cooling and Its Influences on Stratospheric Moisture Journal of Geophysical Research. 123: 590-606. DOI: 10.1002/2017Jd027080  0.361
2017 Dietmüller S, Eichinger R, Garny H, Birner T, Boenisch H, Pitari G, Mancini E, Visioni D, Stenke A, Revell L, Rozanov E, Plummer DA, Scinocca J, Jöckel P, Oman L, et al. Quantifying the effect of mixing on the mean age of air in CCMVal-2 and CCMI-1 models Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 18: 6699-6720. DOI: 10.5194/Acp-18-6699-2018  0.426
2017 Sjoberg JP, Birner T, Johnson RH. Intraseasonal to interannual variability of Kelvin wave momentum fluxes as derived from high-resolution radiosonde data Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 17: 8971-8986. DOI: 10.5194/Acp-17-8971-2017  0.685
2017 Glanville AA, Birner T. Role of vertical and horizontal mixing in the tape recorder signal near the tropical tropopause Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 17: 4337-4353. DOI: 10.5194/Acp-17-4337-2017  0.436
2017 Fujiwara M, Wright JS, Manney GL, Gray LJ, Anstey J, Birner T, Davis S, Gerber EP, Harvey VL, Hegglin MI, Homeyer CR, Knox JA, Krüger K, Lambert A, Long CS, et al. Introduction to the SPARC Reanalysis Intercomparison Project (S-RIP) and overview of the reanalysis systems Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 17: 1417-1452. DOI: 10.5194/Acp-17-1417-2017  0.305
2017 Birner T, Albers JR. Sudden Stratospheric Warmings and Anomalous Upward Wave Activity Flux Sola. 8-12. DOI: 10.2151/Sola.13A-002  0.501
2017 Davis N, Birner T. On the Discrepancies in Tropical Belt Expansion between Reanalyses and Climate Models and among Tropical Belt Width Metrics Journal of Climate. 30: 1211-1231. DOI: 10.1175/Jcli-D-16-0371.1  0.404
2017 Cámara Adl, Albers JR, Birner T, Garcia RR, Hitchcock P, Kinnison DE, Smith AK. Sensitivity of Sudden Stratospheric Warmings to Previous Stratospheric Conditions Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 74: 2857-2877. DOI: 10.1175/Jas-D-17-0136.1  0.433
2017 Diallo M, Ploeger F, Konopka P, Birner T, Müller R, Riese M, Garny H, Legras B, Ray E, Berthet G, Jégou F. Significant Contributions of Volcanic Aerosols to Decadal Changes in the Stratospheric Circulation Geophysical Research Letters. 44. DOI: 10.1002/2017Gl074662  0.39
2017 Birner T, Charlesworth EJ. On the relative importance of radiative and dynamical heating for tropical tropopause temperatures Journal of Geophysical Research. 122: 6782-6797. DOI: 10.1002/2016Jd026445  0.367
2016 Ploeger F, Birner T. Seasonal and inter-annual variability of lower stratospheric age of air spectra Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 16: 10195-10213. DOI: 10.5194/Acp-16-10195-2016  0.36
2016 Davis NA, Seidel DJ, Birner T, Davis SM, Tilmes S. Changes in the width of the tropical belt due to simple radiative forcing changes in the GeoMIP simulations Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 16: 10083-10095. DOI: 10.5194/Acp-16-10083-2016  0.443
2016 Davis N, Birner T. Climate model biases in the width of the tropical belt Journal of Climate. 29: 1935-1954. DOI: 10.1175/Jcli-D-15-0336.1  0.445
2016 Abalos M, Randel WJ, Birner T. Phase-speed Spectra of Eddy Tracer Fluxes Linked to Isentropic Stirring and Mixing in the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 73: 4711-4730. DOI: 10.1175/Jas-D-16-0167.1  0.523
2016 Albers JR, Kiladis GN, Dias J, Birner T. Tropical upper-tropospheric potential vorticity intrusions during sudden stratospheric warmings Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 73: 2361-2384. DOI: 10.1175/Jas-D-15-0238.1  0.532
2016 Kim J, Randel WJ, Birner T, Abalos M. Spectrum of wave forcing associated with the annual cycle of upwelling at the tropical tropopause Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 73: 855-868. DOI: 10.1175/Jas-D-15-0096.1  0.565
2016 Davis S, Birner T, Seidel D. How Do Climate Variations Affect the Width of the Tropics Eos. 97. DOI: 10.1029/2016Eo049309  0.338
2016 Rivoire L, Birner T, Knaff JA. Evolution of the upper-level thermal structure in tropical cyclones Geophysical Research Letters. 43. DOI: 10.1002/2016Gl070622  0.377
2015 Jones DC, Ito T, Birner T, Klocker A, Munday D. Planetary-geometric constraints on isopycnal slope in the southern Ocean Journal of Physical Oceanography. 45: 2991-3004. DOI: 10.1175/Jpo-D-15-0034.1  0.367
2015 Butler AH, Seidel DJ, Hardiman SC, Butchart N, Birner T, Match A. Defining sudden stratospheric warmings Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 96: 1913-1928. DOI: 10.1175/Bams-D-13-00173.1  0.385
2015 Birner T, Davis S, Seidel D. Stratospheric cooling and the tropical belt Physics Today. 68: 12-12. DOI: 10.1063/Pt.3.2864  0.36
2015 Konopka P, Ploeger F, Tao M, Birner T, Riese M. Hemispheric asymmetries and seasonality of mean age of air in the lower stratosphere: Deep versus shallow branch of the Brewer-Dobson circulation Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 120: 2053-2066. DOI: 10.1002/2014Jd022429  0.47
2015 Ploeger F, Abalos M, Birner T, Konopka P, Legras B, Müller R, Riese M. Quantifying the effects of mixing and residual circulation on trends of stratospheric mean age of air Geophysical Research Letters. 42: 2047-2054. DOI: 10.1002/2014Gl062927  0.329
2014 Sjoberg JP, Birner T. Stratospheric wave-mean flow feedbacks and sudden stratospheric warmings in a simple model forced by upward wave activity flux Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 71: 4055-4071. DOI: 10.1175/Jas-D-14-0113.1  0.69
2014 Albers JR, Birner T. Vortex preconditioning due to planetary and gravity waves prior to sudden stratospheric warmings Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 71: 4028-4054. DOI: 10.1175/Jas-D-14-0026.1  0.509
2014 Birner T, Davis SM, Seidel DJ. The changing width of Earth's tropical belt Physics Today. 67: 38-44. DOI: 10.1063/Pt.3.2620  0.306
2014 Garny H, Birner T, Bönisch H, Bunzel F. The effects of mixing on age of air Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 119: 7015-7034. DOI: 10.1002/2013Jd021417  0.373
2013 Davis NA, Birner T. Seasonal to multidecadal variability of the width of the tropical belt Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 118: 7773-7787. DOI: 10.1002/Jgrd.50610  0.411
2013 Charlton-Perez AJ, Baldwin MP, Birner T, Black RX, Butler AH, Calvo N, Davis NA, Gerber EP, Gillett N, Hardiman S, Kim J, Krüger K, Lee YY, Manzini E, McDaniel BA, et al. On the lack of stratospheric dynamical variability in low-top versions of the CMIP5 models Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 118: 2494-2505. DOI: 10.1002/Jgrd.50125  0.41
2013 Birner T, Thompson DWJ, Shepherd TG. Up-gradient eddy fluxes of potential vorticity near the subtropical jet Geophysical Research Letters. 40: 5988-5993. DOI: 10.1002/2013Gl057728  0.491
2012 Paulik LC, Birner T. Quantifying the deep convective temperature signal within the tropical tropopause layer (TTL) Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 12: 12183-12195. DOI: 10.5194/Acp-12-12183-2012  0.384
2012 Sjoberg JP, Birner T. Transient tropospheric forcing of sudden stratospheric warmings Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 69: 3420-3432. DOI: 10.1175/Jas-D-11-0195.1  0.683
2012 Thompson DWJ, Birner T. On the linkages between the tropospheric isentropic slope and eddy fluxes of heat during northern hemisphere winter Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 69: 1811-1823. DOI: 10.1175/Jas-D-11-0187.1  0.422
2011 Birner T, Bönisch H. Residual circulation trajectories and transit times into the extratropical lowermost stratosphere Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 11: 817-827. DOI: 10.5194/Acp-11-817-2011  0.464
2011 Bönisch H, Engel A, Birner T, Hoor P, Tarasick DW, Ray EA. On the structural changes in the Brewer-Dobson circulation after 2000 Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 11: 3937-3948. DOI: 10.5194/Acp-11-3937-2011  0.352
2011 Butler AH, Thompson DWJ, Birner T. Isentropic slopes, downgradient eddy fluxes, and the extratropical atmospheric circulation response to tropical tropospheric heating Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 68: 2292-2305. DOI: 10.1175/Jas-D-10-05025.1  0.4
2011 Gettelman A, Hoor P, Pan LL, Randel WJ, Hegglin MI, Birner T. The extratropical upper troposphere and lower stratosphere Reviews of Geophysics. 49. DOI: 10.1029/2011Rg000355  0.415
2010 Birner T. Residual circulation and tropopause structure Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 67: 2582-2600. DOI: 10.1175/2010Jas3287.1  0.451
2010 Grise KM, Thompson DWJ, Birner T. A global survey of static stability in the stratosphere and upper troposphere Journal of Climate. 23: 2275-2292. DOI: 10.1175/2009Jcli3369.1  0.365
2010 Davoudi J, McFarlane NA, Birner T. Fluctuation of mass flux in a cloud-resolving simulation with interactive radiation Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 67: 400-418. DOI: 10.1175/2009Jas3215.1  0.463
2010 Birner T. Recent widening of the tropical belt from global tropopause statistics: Sensitivities Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 115. DOI: 10.1029/2010Jd014664  0.391
2010 Gettelman A, Hegglin MI, Son SW, Kim J, Fujiwara M, Birner T, Kremser S, Rex M, Añel JA, Akiyoshi H, Austin J, Bekki S, Braesike P, Brhl C, Butchart N, et al. Multimodel assessment of the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere: Tropics and global trends Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 115. DOI: 10.1029/2009Jd013638  0.399
2009 Son SW, Polvani LM, Waugh DW, Birner T, Akiyoshi H, Garcia RR, Gettelman A, Plummer DA, Rozanov E. The impact of stratospheric ozone recovery on tropopause height trends Journal of Climate. 22: 429-445. DOI: 10.1175/2008Jcli2215.1  0.415
2008 Bönisch H, Engel A, Curtius J, Birner T, Hoor P. Quantifying transport into the lowermost stratosphere using simultaneous in-situ measurements of SF 6 and CO 2 Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 9: 5905-5919. DOI: 10.5194/Acp-9-5905-2009  0.361
2008 Gettelman A, Birner T, Eyring V, Akiyoshi H, Bekki S, Brühl C, Dameris M, Kinnison D, Lefevre F, Lott F, Mancini E, Pitari G, Plummer DA, Rozanov E, Shibata K, et al. The Tropical Tropopause Layer 1960–2100 Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 9: 1621-1637. DOI: 10.5194/Acp-9-1621-2009  0.359
2008 Birner T, Williams PD. Sudden stratospheric warmings as noise-induced transitions Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 65: 3337-3343. DOI: 10.1175/2008Jas2770.1  0.511
2007 Gettelman A, Birner T. Insights into Tropical Tropopause Layer processes using global models Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 112. DOI: 10.1029/2007Jd008945  0.396
2006 Birner T, Sankey D, Shepherd TG. The tropopause inversion layer in models and analyses Geophysical Research Letters. 33. DOI: 10.1029/2006Gl026549  0.403
2006 Birner T. Fine-scale structure of the extratropical tropopause region Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 111. DOI: 10.1029/2005Jd006301  0.399
2004 Küpper C, Thuburn J, Craig GC, Birner T. Mass and water transport into the tropical stratosphere: A cloud-resolving simulation Journal of Geophysical Research D: Atmospheres. 109. DOI: 10.1029/2004Jd004541  0.429
2002 Birner T, Dörnbrack A, Schumann U. How sharp is the tropopause at midlatitudes? Geophysical Research Letters. 29: 45-1. DOI: 10.1029/2002Gl015142  0.388
2002 Dörnbrack A, Birner T, Fix A, Flentje H, Meister A, Schmid H, Browell EV, Mahoney MJ. Evidence for inertia gravity waves forming polar stratospheric clouds over Scandinavia Journal of Geophysical Research. 107: 8287. DOI: 10.1029/2001Jd000452  0.469
2001 Kivi R, Kyrö E, Dörnbrack A, Birner T. Observations of vertically thick polar stratospheric clouds and record low temperature in the Arctic vortex Geophysical Research Letters. 28: 3661-3664. DOI: 10.1029/2001Gl013187  0.419
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