Publications

Geiss, A; Marchand, R; Thompson, L (2020). The Influence of Sea Surface Temperature Reemergence on Marine Stratiform Cloud. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, 47(9), e2020GL086957.

Abstract
The global distribution of winter to winter sea surface temperature (SST) reemergence is analyzed using a novel metric based on an autoregressive 1 model, and the global impact of SST on cloud amount and cloud type are examined using satellite data. A region in the northeastern Pacific Ocean is identified where wintertime SSTs are correlated with the occurrence of marine stratiform cloud the following winter. This correlation is likely a manifestation of SST reemergence. We hypothesize that through this reemergence mechanism marine stratus cloud amount, and thus shortwave cloud radiative effect, in the northeastern Pacific exhibits memory on inter-seasonal and even multi-year time scales and that exploration of this relationship may provide insight into the SST-low cloud feedbacks.

DOI:
10.1029/2020GL086957

ISSN:
0094-8276