Timothy M. Merlis, Ph.D. - Publications

Affiliations: 
2012 Environmental Science and Engineering California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 
Area:
Atmospheric Sciences, Climate Change

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2021 Rollings M, Merlis TM. 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  0.36
2021 Henry M, Merlis TM, Lutsko NJ, Rose BEJ. 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  0.407
2020 Labonté M, Merlis TM. Sensitivity of the Atmospheric Water Cycle within the Habitable Zone of a Tidally Locked, Earth-like Exoplanet The Astrophysical Journal. 896: 31. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/Ab9102  0.529
2020 Henry M, Merlis TM. Forcing dependence of atmospheric lapse rate changes dominates residual polar warming in solar radiation management climate scenarios Geophysical Research Letters. 47. DOI: 10.1029/2020Gl087929  0.474
2019 Yang J, Leconte J, Wolf ET, Merlis T, Koll DDB, Forget F, Abbot DS. Simulations of Water Vapor and Clouds on Rapidly Rotating and Tidally Locked Planets: A 3D Model Intercomparison The Astrophysical Journal. 875: 46. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/Ab09F1  0.447
2019 Li Y, Thompson DWJ, Bony S, Merlis TM. Thermodynamic Control on the Poleward Shift of the Extratropical Jet in Climate Change Simulations: The Role of Rising High Clouds and Their Radiative Effects Journal of Climate. 32: 917-934. DOI: 10.1175/Jcli-D-18-0417.1  0.518
2019 Henry M, Merlis TM. 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  0.343
2019 Maher P, Gerber EP, Medeiros B, Merlis TM, Sherwood S, Sheshadri A, Sobel AH, Vallis GK, Voigt A, Zurita‐Gotor P. Model Hierarchies for Understanding Atmospheric Circulation Reviews of Geophysics. 57: 250-280. DOI: 10.1029/2018Rg000607  0.416
2019 Menzel ME, Merlis TM. 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  0.401
2019 Merlis TM, Held IM. Aquaplanet Simulations of Tropical Cyclones Current Climate Change Reports. 5: 185-195. DOI: 10.1007/s40641-019-00133-y  0.559
2018 Jansen MF, Nadeau L, Merlis TM. 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  0.523
2018 Merlis TM, Henry M. 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  0.449
2018 Kirshbaum DJ, Merlis TM, Gyakum JR, McTaggart-Cowan R. Sensitivity of Idealized Moist Baroclinic Waves to Environmental Temperature and Moisture Content Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 75: 337-360. DOI: 10.1175/Jas-D-17-0188.1  0.386
2018 O'Gorman PA, Merlis TM, Singh MS. 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  0.506
2017 Defforge CL, Merlis TM. Evaluating the Evidence of a Global Sea Surface Temperature Threshold for Tropical Cyclone Genesis Journal of Climate. 30: 9133-9145. DOI: 10.1175/Jcli-D-16-0737.1  0.438
2017 Feldl N, Bordoni S, Merlis TM. Coupled High-Latitude Climate Feedbacks and Their Impact on Atmospheric Heat Transport Journal of Climate. 30: 189-201. DOI: 10.1175/Jcli-D-16-0324.1  0.543
2017 Viale F, Merlis TM. 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  0.51
2017 Seo J, Kang SM, Merlis TM. 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  0.586
2017 Defforge CL, Merlis TM. Observed warming trend in sea surface temperature at tropical cyclone genesis Geophysical Research Letters. 44: 1034-1040. DOI: 10.1002/2016Gl071045  0.56
2016 Yang J, Leconte J, Wolf ET, Goldblatt C, Feldl N, Merlis T, Wang Y, Koll DDB, Ding F, Forget F, Abbot DS. DIFFERENCES in WATER VAPOR RADIATIVE TRANSFER among 1D MODELS CAN SIGNIFICANTLY AFFECT the INNER EDGE of the HABITABLE ZONE Astrophysical Journal. 826. DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/826/2/222  0.367
2016 Merlis TM. Does humidity's seasonal cycle affect the annual-mean tropical precipitation response to sulfate aerosol forcing? Journal of Climate. 29: 1451-1460. DOI: 10.1175/Jcli-D-15-0388.1  0.595
2016 Galbraith ED, Merlis TM, Palter JB. Destabilization of glacial climate by the radiative impact of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation disruptions Geophysical Research Letters. 43: 8214-8221. DOI: 10.1002/2016Gl069846  0.53
2016 Trossman DS, Palter JB, Merlis TM, Huang Y, Xia Y. Large-scale ocean circulation-cloud interactions reduce the pace of transient climate change Geophysical Research Letters. 43: 3935-3943. DOI: 10.1002/2016Gl067931  0.585
2016 Merlis TM, Zhou W, Held IM, Zhao M. Surface temperature dependence of tropical cyclone-permitting simulations in a spherical model with uniform thermal forcing Geophysical Research Letters. DOI: 10.1002/2016Gl067730  0.649
2015 Merlis TM. Direct weakening of tropical circulations from masked CO2 radiative forcing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 112: 13167-71. PMID 26460034 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1508268112  0.526
2015 Ballinger AP, Merlis TM, Held IM, Zhao M. The Sensitivity of Tropical Cyclone Activity to Off-Equatorial Thermal Forcing in Aquaplanet Simulations Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 72: 2286-2302. DOI: 10.1175/Jas-D-14-0284.1  0.693
2014 Merlis TM, Held IM, Stenchikov GL, Zeng F, Horowitz LW. Constraining transient climate sensitivity using coupled climate model simulations of volcanic eruptions Journal of Climate. 27: 7781-7795. DOI: 10.1175/Jcli-D-14-00214.1  0.683
2014 Merlis TM. 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  0.474
2013 Merlis TM, Schneider T, Bordoni S, Eisenman I. The tropical precipitation response to orbital precession Journal of Climate. 26: 2010-2021. DOI: 10.1175/Jcli-D-12-00186.1  0.659
2013 Merlis TM, Schneider T, Bordoni S, Eisenman I. Hadley circulation response to orbital precession. part ii: Subtropical continent Journal of Climate. 26: 754-771. DOI: 10.1175/Jcli-D-12-00149.1  0.659
2013 Merlis TM, Schneider T, Bordoni S, Eisenman I. Hadley circulation response to orbital precession. part i: Aquaplanets Journal of Climate. 26: 740-753. DOI: 10.1175/Jcli-D-11-00716.1  0.677
2013 Merlis TM, Zhao M, Held IM. 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  0.647
2012 Merlis TM, Schneider T. Correction to “Atmospheric dynamics of Earth‐like tidally locked aquaplanets” Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 4. DOI: 10.1029/2012Ms000151  0.523
2011 Merlis TM, Schneider T. Changes in zonal surface temperature gradients and Walker circulations in a wide range of climates Journal of Climate. 24: 4757-4768. DOI: 10.1175/2011Jcli4042.1  0.686
2010 Merlis TM, Schneider T. Atmospheric dynamics of Earth-like tidally locked aquaplanets Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 2: 13. DOI: 10.3894/James.2010.2.13  0.553
2009 Merlis TM, Schneider T. Scales of linear baroclinic instability and macroturbulence in dry atmospheres Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 66: 1821-1833. DOI: 10.1175/2008Jas2884.1  0.548
2008 Merlis TM, Khatiwala S. Fast dynamical spin-up of ocean general circulation models using Newton-Krylov methods Ocean Modelling. 21: 97-105. DOI: 10.1016/J.Ocemod.2007.12.001  0.392
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