Adam Sokol (@AdamBSokol) profile picture

Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences postdoc at the Princeton. Shamelessly and incessantly cooling to space.

Philadelphia, PA
Joined April 2011
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Our new paper on tropical cloud feedbacks is out in @NatureGeosci. We show that changes in high cloud area do not provide a negative feedback on climate change like previously thought. Instead, high clouds become thinner with warming, which acts as a... nature.com/articles/s41561-0…
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...weakly positive feedback. This implies an increase (~0.3°C) in climate sensitivity relative to previous assessments that included a large, stabilizing feedback from anvil clouds. Two other papers out this month, from @rshivpriyam & Brett Mckim, find a similar result from...
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New paper with Dennis Hartmann is out! We use theory and a cloud-resolving model to look at the response of tropical cloud ice amount to warming. journals.ametsoc.org/view/jo…
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The LW cooling rate in the tropical upper troposphere increases w/ warming, which in RCE requires an increase in convective heating (i.e. more cloud ice). But the increase in ice is far less dramatic than you’d expect, b/c ice is cycled through the troposphere at a faster rate.
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(sound on) Check put my PhD research! I am pioneering the study of interactions between tropical convection and top-20 hits from the 2006 UK singles chart
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My first paper is out! We find that the anvil clouds produced by tropical convection evolve towards a preferred form. What could this mean for future changes in tropical high cloud amount? agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.…
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or, if reading's not your thing, let my #AGU2020 poster narration lull you into your afternoon nap (session A148) agu2020fallmeeting-agu.ipost…
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