Elucidating the Role of Clouds-Circulation Coupling in Climate

Project Information

EUREC4A

Grant agreement ID: 694768

DOI 10.3030/694768

Project closed

EC signature date 17 May 2016

Start date 1 August 2016

End date 31 July 2022

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 3 013 334,00

EU contribution € 3 013 334,00

Coordinated by

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS
France

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (49)

Ship- and island-based atmospheric soundings from the 2020 EUREC4A field campaign

Author(s): Claudia Christine Stephan, Sabrina Schnitt, Hauke Schulz, Hugo Bellenger, Simon P. de Szoeke4 Claudia Acquistapace, Katharina Baier, Thibaut Dauhut, Rémi Laxenaire, Yanmichel Morfa-Avalos, Renaud Person, Estefanía Quiñones Meléndez, Gholamhossein Bagheri, Tobias Böck, Alton Daley, Johannes Güttler, Kevin C. Helfer, Sebastian A. Los, Almuth Neuberger, Johannes Röttenbacher, Andreas Raeke, Ma
Published in: Earth System Science Data, 2021, ISSN 1866-3516
Publisher: Copernicus
DOI: 10.5194/essd-13-491-2021

Wintertime process study of the North Brazil Current rings reveals the region as a larger sink for CO2 than expected

Author(s): Olivier, L.; Boutin, J.; Reverdin, G.; Lefevre, N.; Landschützer, P.; Speich, S.; Karstensen, J.; Labaste, M.; Noisel, C.; Ritschel, M.; Steinhoff, T.; Wanninkhof, R.
Published in: Biogeosciences, Issue 4, 2022, ISSN 1726-4170
Publisher: European Geosciences Union (EGU).
DOI: 10.5194/bg-19-2969-2022

On the daily cycle of mesoscale cloud organization in the winter trades.

Author(s): Jessica Vial; Raphaela Vogel; Hauke Schulz
Published in: Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, Issue 5, 2021, ISSN 0035-9009
Publisher: Royal Meteorological Society
DOI: 10.1002/qj.4103

Observed Modulation of the Tropical Radiation Budget by Deep Convective Organization and Lower‐Tropospheric Stability

Author(s): S. Bony, A. Semie, R. J. Kramer, B. Soden, A. M. Tompkins, K. A. Emanuel
Published in: AGU Advances, Issue 1/3, 2020, ISSN 2576-604X
Publisher: AGU
DOI: 10.1029/2019av000155

JOANNE: Joint dropsonde Observations of the Atmosphere in tropical North atlaNtic mesoscale Environments. In open review for Earth System Science Data

Author(s): George, G.; Stevens, B.; Bony, S.; Pincus, R.; Fairall, C.; Schulz, H.; Kölling, T.; Kalen, Q.; Klingebiel, M.; Konow, H.; Lundry, A.; Prange, M.; Radtke, J.
Published in: Earth System Science Data, Issue 2, 2021, ISSN 1866-3508
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
DOI: 10.5194/essd-13-5253-2021

Observational Evidence for a Stability Iris Effect in the Tropics

Author(s): Marion Saint‐Lu, Sandrine Bony, Jean‐Louis Dufresne
Published in: Geophysical Research Letters, Issue 47/14, 2020, ISSN 0094-8276
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
DOI: 10.1029/2020gl089059

EUREC4A

Author(s): B. Stevens; S. Bony; D. Farrell; F. Ament; F. Ament; A. Blyth; C. Fairall; J. Karstensen; P. K. Quinn; S. Speich; C. Acquistapace; F. Aemisegger; A. L. Albright; H. Bellenger; E. Bodenschatz; K.-A. Caesar; R. Chewitt-Lucas; G. de Boer; G. de Boer; J. Delanoë; L. Denby; F. Ewald; B. Fildier; M. Forde; G. George; S. Gross; M. Hagen; A. Hausold; K. J. Heywood; L. Hirsch; M. Jacob; F. Jansen; S. Kinn
Published in: Earth System Science Data, Issue 6, 2021, ISSN 1866-3516
Publisher: Copernicus
DOI: 10.5194/essd-13-4067-2021

Strong cloud-circulation coupling explains weak trade cumulus feedback

Author(s): Vogel R, A L Albright, J Vial, G George, B Stevens and S Bony
Published in: Nature, Issue 612, 2022, Page(s) 696-700, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05364-y

Cold Pools Observed during EUREC4A: Detection and Characterization from Atmospheric Soundings

Author(s): Ludovic Touzé-Peiffer; Raphaela Vogel; Nicolas Rochetin
Published in: Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 1558-8424
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
DOI: 10.1175/jamc-d-21-0048.1

Presentation and Evaluation of the IPSL‐CM6A‐LR Climate Model

Author(s): Olivier Boucher, Jérôme Servonnat, Anna Lea Albright, Olivier Aumont, Yves Balkanski, Vladislav Bastrikov, Slimane Bekki, Rémy Bonnet, Sandrine Bony, Laurent Bopp, Pascale Braconnot, Patrick Brockmann, Patricia Cadule, Arnaud Caubel, Frederique Cheruy, Francis Codron, Anne Cozic, David Cugnet, Fabio D'Andrea, Paolo Davini, Casimir Lavergne, Sébastien Denvil, Julie Deshayes, Marion Devilliers,
Published in: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, Issue 12/7, 2020, ISSN 1942-2466
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
DOI: 10.1029/2019ms002010

How Rossby wave breaking modulates the water cycle in the North Atlantic trade wind region

Author(s): Franziska Aemisegger, Raphaela Vogel, Pascal Graf, Fabienne Dahinden, Leonie Villiger, Friedhelm Jansen, Sandrine Bony, Bjorn Stevens, Heini Wernli
Published in: Weather and Climate Dynamics, Issue 2/1, 2021, Page(s) 281-309, ISSN 2698-4016
Publisher: Copernicus
DOI: 10.5194/wcd-2-281-2021

Representation by two climate models of the dynamical and diabatic processes involved in the development of an explosively deepening cyclone during NAWDEX

Author(s): D. L. A. Flack; D. L. A. Flack; G. Rivière; I. Musat; R. Roehrig; S. Bony; J. Delanoë; Q. Cazenave; J. Pelon
Published in: Weather and Climate Dynamics, Issue 2, 2021, Page(s) 233-253, ISSN 2698-4016
Publisher: Copernicus
DOI: 10.5194/wcd-2-233-2021

The EUREC⁴A turbulence dataset derived from the SAFIRE ATR 42 aircraft

Author(s): Brilouet, Pierre-Etienne; Lothon, Marie; Etienne, Jean-Claude; Richard, Pascal; Bony, Sandrine; Lernoult, Julien; Bellec, Hubert; Vergez, Gilles; Perrin, Thierry; Delanoë, Julien; Jiang, Tetyana; Pouvesle, Frédéric; Lainard, Claude; Cluzeau, Michel; Guiraud, Laurent; Medina, Patrice; Charoy, Theotime
Published in: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03329876, Issue 2, 2021, ISSN 1866-3508
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
DOI: 10.5194/essd-13-3379-2021

Impact of a mixed ocean layer and the diurnal cycle on convective aggregation

Author(s): Adrian M. Tompkins, Addisu G. Semie
Published in: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 2021, ISSN 1942-2466
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
DOI: 10.1029/2020ms002186

Emergent Constraints on Regional Cloud Feedbacks

Author(s): Nicholas J. Lutsko, Max Popp, Robert H. Nazarian, Anna Lea Albright
Published in: Geophysical Research Letters, Issue 48 (10), 2021, Page(s) e2021GL092934, ISSN 0094-8276
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
DOI: 10.1029/2021gl092934

Clouds and Convective Self‐Aggregation in a Multimodel Ensemble of Radiative‐Convective Equilibrium Simulations

Author(s): Allison A. Wing, Catherine L. Stauffer, Tobias Becker, Kevin A. Reed, Min‐Seop Ahn, Nathan P. Arnold, Sandrine Bony, Mark Branson, George H. Bryan, Jean‐Pierre Chaboureau, Stephan R. De Roode, Kulkarni Gayatri, Cathy Hohenegger, I‐Kuan Hu, Fredrik Jansson, Todd R. Jones, Marat Khairoutdinov, Daehyun Kim, Zane K. Martin, Shuhei Matsugishi, Brian Medeiros, Hiroaki Miura, Yumin Moon, Sebastian
Published in: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, Issue 12/9, 2020, ISSN 1942-2466
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
DOI: 10.1029/2020ms002138

Thermodynamic constraint on the depth of the global tropospheric circulation

Author(s): David W. J. Thompson, Sandrine Bony, Ying Li
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 114/31, 2017, Page(s) 8181-8186, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1620493114

EUREC4A: A Field Campaign to Elucidate the Couplings Between Clouds, Convection and Circulation

Author(s): Sandrine Bony, Bjorn Stevens, Felix Ament, Sebastien Bigorre, Patrick Chazette, Susanne Crewell, Julien Delanoë, Kerry Emanuel, David Farrell, Cyrille Flamant, Silke Gross, Lutz Hirsch, Johannes Karstensen, Bernhard Mayer, Louise Nuijens, James H. Ruppert, Irina Sandu, Pier Siebesma, Sabrina Speich, Frédéric Szczap, Julien Totems, Raphaela Vogel, Manfred Wendisch, Martin Wirth
Published in: Surveys in Geophysics, Issue 38/6, 2017, Page(s) 1529-1568, ISSN 0169-3298
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10712-017-9428-0

Observed Relationships between Cloud Vertical Structure and Convective Aggregation over Tropical Ocean

Author(s): T. H. M. Stein, C. E. Holloway, I. Tobin, S. Bony
Published in: Journal of Climate, Issue 30/6, 2017, Page(s) 2187-2207, ISSN 0894-8755
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0125.1

Coupling between lower-tropospheric convective mixing and low-level clouds: Physical mechanisms and dependence on convection scheme

Author(s): Jessica Vial, Sandrine Bony, Jean-Louis Dufresne, Romain Roehrig
Published in: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, Issue 8/4, 2016, Page(s) 1892-1911, ISSN 1942-2466
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
DOI: 10.1002/2016MS000740

Prospects for narrowing bounds on Earth's equilibrium climate sensitivity

Author(s): Bjorn Stevens, Steven C. Sherwood, Sandrine Bony, Mark J. Webb
Published in: Earth's Future, Issue 4/11, 2016, Page(s) 512-522, ISSN 2328-4277
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
DOI: 10.1002/2016EF000376

Internal variability in a coupled general circulation model in radiative-convective equilibrium

Author(s): David Coppin, Sandrine Bony
Published in: Geophysical Research Letters, Issue 44/10, 2017, Page(s) 5142-5149, ISSN 0094-8276
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
DOI: 10.1002/2017GL073658

Mechanisms and Model Diversity of Trade-Wind Shallow Cumulus Cloud Feedbacks: A Review

Author(s): Jessica Vial, Sandrine Bony, Bjorn Stevens, Raphaela Vogel
Published in: Surveys in Geophysics, Issue 38/6, 2017, Page(s) 1331-1353, ISSN 0169-3298
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10712-017-9418-2

Observing Convective Aggregation

Author(s): Christopher E. Holloway, Allison A. Wing, Sandrine Bony, Caroline Muller, Hirohiko Masunaga, Tristan S. L’Ecuyer, David D. Turner, Paquita Zuidema
Published in: Surveys in Geophysics, Issue 38/6, 2017, Page(s) 1199-1236, ISSN 0169-3298
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10712-017-9419-1

Radiative Invigoration of Tropical Convection by Preceding Cirrus Clouds

Author(s): Hirohiko Masunaga, Sandrine Bony
Published in: Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Issue 75/4, 2018, Page(s) 1327-1342, ISSN 0022-4928
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
DOI: 10.1175/jas-d-17-0355.1

A high-altitude long-range aircraft configured as a cloud observatory–the NARVAL expeditions

Author(s): Bjorn Stevens, Felix Ament, Sandrine Bony, Susanne Crewell, Florian Ewald, Silke Gross, Akio Hansen, Lutz Hirsch, Marek Jacob, Tobias Kölling, Heike Konow, Bernhard Mayer, Manfred Wendisch, Martin Wirth, Kevin Wolf, Stephan Bakan, Matthias Bauer-Pfundstein, Matthias Brueck, Julien Delanoë, André Ehrlich, David Farrell, Marvin Forde, Felix Gödde, Hans Grob, Martin Hagen, Evelyn Jäkel, Friedhel
Published in: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 2019, ISSN 0003-0007
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
DOI: 10.1175/bams-d-18-0198.1

On the Interplay Between Convective Aggregation, Surface Temperature Gradients, and Climate Sensitivity

Author(s): David Coppin, Sandrine Bony
Published in: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, Issue 10/12, 2018, Page(s) 3123-3138, ISSN 1942-2466
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
DOI: 10.1029/2018ms001406

Measuring Area-Averaged Vertical Motions with Dropsondes

Author(s): Sandrine Bony, Bjorn Stevens
Published in: Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Issue 76/3, 2019, Page(s) 767-783, ISSN 0022-4928
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
DOI: 10.1175/jas-d-18-0141.1

Thermodynamic Control on the Poleward Shift of the Extratropical Jet in Climate Change Simulations: The Role of Rising High Clouds and Their Radiative Effects

Author(s): Ying Li, David W. J. Thompson, Sandrine Bony, Timothy M. Merlis
Published in: Journal of Climate, Issue 32/3, 2019, Page(s) 917-934, ISSN 0894-8755
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
DOI: 10.1175/jcli-d-18-0417.1

The Signature of Shallow Circulations, Not Cloud Radiative Effects, in the Spatial Distribution of Tropical Precipitation

Author(s): Dagmar Fläschner, Thorsten Mauritsen, Bjorn Stevens, Sandrine Bony
Published in: Journal of Climate, Issue 31/23, 2018, Page(s) 9489-9505, ISSN 0894-8755
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
DOI: 10.1175/jcli-d-18-0230.1

Sugar, Gravel, Fish, and Flowers: Mesoscale cloud patterns in the Tradewinds

Author(s): Bjorn Stevens, Sandrine Bony, Hélène Brogniez, Laureline Hentgen, Cathy Hohenegger, Christoph Kiemle, Tristan S. L'Ecuyer, Ann Kristin Naumann, Hauke Schulz, Pier A. Siebesma, Jessica Vial, Dave M. Winker, Paquita Zuidema
Published in: Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 2019, ISSN 0035-9009
Publisher: Royal Meteorological Society
DOI: 10.1002/qj.3662

Stronger zonal convective clustering associated with a wider tropical rain belt

Author(s): Max Popp, Sandrine Bony
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 10/1, 2019, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-12167-9

A New Look at the Daily Cycle of Trade Wind Cumuli

Author(s): Jessica Vial, Raphaela Vogel, Sandrine Bony, Bjorn Stevens, David M. Winker, Xia Cai, Cathy Hohenegger, Ann Kristin Naumann, Hélène Brogniez
Published in: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, Issue 11/10, 2019, Page(s) 3148-3166, ISSN 1942-2466
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
DOI: 10.1029/2019MS001746

Sugar, Gravel, Fish, and Flowers: Dependence of Mesoscale Patterns of Trade‐Wind Clouds on Environmental Conditions

Author(s): Sandrine Bony, Hauke Schulz, Jessica Vial, Bjorn Stevens
Published in: Geophysical Research Letters, Issue 47/7, 2020, ISSN 0094-8276
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
DOI: 10.1029/2019gl085988

Relationship Between Precipitation Extremes and Convective Organization Inferred From Satellite Observations

Author(s): Addisu Gezahegn Semie, Sandrine Bony
Published in: Geophysical Research Letters, Issue 47/9, 2020, ISSN 0094-8276
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
DOI: 10.1029/2019gl086927

Estimating the Shallow Convective Mass Flux from the Subcloud-Layer Mass Budget

Author(s): Raphaela Vogel, Sandrine Bony, Bjorn Stevens
Published in: Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Issue 77/5, 2020, Page(s) 1559-1574, ISSN 0022-4928
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
DOI: 10.1175/jas-d-19-0135.1

Clear-sky control of anvils in response to increased CO2 or surface warmingor volcanic eruptions

Author(s): Marion Saint-Lu, Sandrine Bony, and Jean-Louis Dufresne
Published in: Nature Climate and Atmospheric Sciences, Issue 5, 2022, Page(s) 78, ISSN 2397-3722
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41612-022-00304-z

Integrated water vapour observations in the Caribbean arc from a network of ground-based GNSS receivers during EUREC4A

Author(s): Olivier Bock; Pierre Bosser; Cyrille Flamant; Erik Doerflinger; Friedhelm Jansen; Romain Fages; Sandrine Bony; Sabrina Schnitt
Published in: Earth System Science Data, 2021, ISSN 1866-3516
Publisher: Copernicus
DOI: 10.5194/essd-13-2407-2021

EUREC<sup>4</sup>A observations from the SAFIRE ATR42 aircraft

Author(s): Sandrine Bony; Marie Lothon; Julien Delanoë; Pierre Coutris; Jean-Claude Etienne; Franziska Aemisegger; Anna Lea Albright; Thierry André; Hubert Bellec; Alexandre Baron; Jean-François Bourdinot; Pierre-Etienne Brilouet; Aurélien Bourdon; Jean-Christophe Canonici; Christophe Caudoux; Patrick Chazette; Michel Cluzeau; Céline Cornet; Jean-Philippe Desbios; Dominique Duchanoy; Cyrille Flamant; Be
Published in: Earth System Science Data, Issue 5, 2022, ISSN 1866-3508
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
DOI: 10.5194/essd-2021-459

Atmospheric radiative profiles during EUREC4A

Author(s): Albright, Anna Lea; Fildier, Benjamin; Touzé-Peiffer, Ludovic; Pincus, Robert; Vial, Jessica; Muller, Caroline
Published in: Earth System Science Data, Issue 5, 2021, ISSN 1866-3516
Publisher: Copernicus
DOI: 10.5194/essd-13-617-2021

Integrated water vapour content retrievals from ship-borne GNSS receivers during EUREC4A

Author(s): Pierre Bosser; Olivier Bock; Cyrille Flamant; Sandrine Bony; Sabrina Speich
Published in: Earth System Science Data, 2021, ISSN 1866-3516
Publisher: Copernicus
DOI: 10.5194/essd-13-1499-2021

Weaker Links Between Zonal Convective Clustering and ITCZ Width in Climate Models Than in Observations

Author(s): Max Popp, Nicholas J. Lutsko, Sandrine Bony
Published in: Geophysical Research Letters, Issue 47/22, 2020, ISSN 0094-8276
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
DOI: 10.1029/2020gl090479

Combining Crowdsourcing and Deep Learning to Explore the Mesoscale Organization of Shallow Convection

Author(s): Stephan Rasp, Hauke Schulz, Sandrine Bony, Bjorn Stevens
Published in: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Issue 101/11, 2020, Page(s) E1980-E1995, ISSN 0003-0007
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
DOI: 10.1175/bams-d-19-0324.1

Observed subcloud layer moisture and heat budgets in the trades

Author(s): Anna Lea Albright; Sandrine Bony; Bjorn Stevens; Raphaela Vogel
Published in: Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 2022, ISSN 0022-4928
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
DOI: 10.1175/jas-d-21-0337.1

The Relationship Between Convective Clustering and Mean Tropical Climate in Aquaplanet Simulations

Author(s): Max Popp, Nicholas J. Lutsko, Sandrine Bony
Published in: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, Issue 12/8, 2020, ISSN 1942-2466
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
DOI: 10.1029/2020ms002070

A climatology of trade-wind cumulus cold pools and their link to mesoscale cloud organization

Author(s): Raphaela Vogel; Heike Konow; Hauke Schulz; Paquita Zuidema
Published in: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Issue 4, 2021, ISSN 1680-7316
Publisher: European Geophysical Society
DOI: 10.5194/acp-2021-420

Trade-wind clouds and aerosols characterized by airborne horizontal lidar measurements during the EUREC<sup>4</sup>A field campaign

Author(s): Patrick Chazette, Julien Totems, Alexandre Baron, Cyrille Flamant, Sandrine Bony
Published in: Earth System Science Data, Issue 12/4, 2020, Page(s) 2919-2936, ISSN 1866-3516
Publisher: Copernicus
DOI: 10.5194/essd-12-2919-2020

Observed Impact of Mesoscale Vertical Motion on Cloudiness

Author(s): Geet George; Bjorn Stevens; Sandrine Bony; Marcus Klingebiel; Raphaela Vogel
Published in: Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 2021, ISSN 0022-4928
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
DOI: 10.1175/jas-d-20-0335.1

EUREC 4 A's HALO

Author(s): Heike Konow; Heike Konow; Florian Ewald; Geet George; Marek Jacob; Marek Jacob; Marcus Klingebiel; Marcus Klingebiel; Tobias Kölling; Tobias Kölling; Anna Elizabeth Luebke; Theresa Mieslinger; Theresa Mieslinger; Veronika Pörtge; Jule Radtke; Jule Radtke; Michael Schäfer; Hauke Schulz; Raphaela Vogel; Martin Wirth; Sandrine Bony; Susanne Crewell; André Ehrlich; Linda Forster; Andreas Giez; Fe
Published in: Earth System Science Data, Issue 5, 2021, ISSN 1866-3508
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
DOI: 10.5194/essd-13-5545-2021