Scientific Publications

 An authoritative list of publications is included with by CV (Initiates file downloadpdf).  

 

Synthesis and review articles:

  1. Stevens, Bjorn and Stephen E. Schwartz, 2012: Observing and Modeling Earth's Energy Flows.  Surveys of Geophysics, in press. (Initiates file downloadpdf)
  2. Stevens, Bjorn and Graham Feingold, 2009: Untangling aerosol effects on clouds and precipitation in a buffered system. Nature, 461, 607-613. (DOI)
  3. Siebesma, A. P., J.-L. Brenguier, Chistopher S. Bretherton, Wojciech W. Grabowski, Jost Heintzenberg, Bernd Kärcher, Katrin Lehmann, Jon C. Petch, Peter Spichtinger, Bjorn Stevens and Frank Stratmann, 2009: Cloud-controlling factors. Clouds in the perturbed climate system: their relationship to energy balance, atmospheric dynamics, and precipitation. J. Heintzenberg and R. Charlson Eds., 269-290. (pdf)
  4. Stevens, B. and J.-L. Brenguier 2009: Cloud-contolling factors: Low Clouds. Clouds in the perturbed climate system: their relationship to energy balance, atmospheric dynamics, and precipitation. J. Heintzenberg and R. Charlson Eds., 173-196. (pdf)
  5. Stevens, B., 2006: Bulk boundary layer concepts for simplified models of tropical dynamics. Theor. and Comp. Fluid Dyn., 20, 279-304. (DOI)
  6. Stevens, Bjorn, 2005: Atmospheric moist convection. Annual Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., 32, 605-643. (DOI)

 

A sampling of recent work

  • vanZanten, Margreet C., Bjorn Stevens, Louise Nuijens, A. Pier Siebesma and co-authors, 2011: Controls on precipitation and cloudiness in simulations of trade-wind cumulus as observed during RICO.  J. of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 3, 19pp. (DOI)
  • Medeiros, B. and B. Stevens, 2010: Revealing differences in GCM representations of low clouds. Clim. Dyn., 36, 385-399. (DOI)
  • Mellado, J.P, B. Stevens, H. Schmidt and N. Peters, 2010: Probability density functions in the cloud-top mixing layer., New J. Phys., 12, 085010 (DOI) 
  • Seifert, Axel, Louise Nuijens and Bjorn Stevens, 2010: Turbulence effects on warm-rain autoconversion. Quart. J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc., (DOI)
  • Quaas, Johannes, Bjorn Stevens, Philip Stier and Ulrike Lohmann, 2010: Interpreting the cloud cover – aerosol optical depth relationship found in satellite data using a general circulation model. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 6129-6135 (DOI)
  • Stechmann, Samuel N. and Bjorn Stevens, 2010: Multi-scale models for cumulus cloud dynamics. J. Atmos. Sci., 67, 3269-3285. (DOI)
  • Trivej, Panu and Bjorn Stevens, 2010: The echo size distribution of precipitating shallow cumuli. J. Atmos. Sci., 67, 788-804. (DOI)
  • Mellado, Juan-Pedro, Bjorn Stevens, Heiko Schmidt and Norbert Peters: Two-fluid formulation of the cloud-top mixing layer for direct numerical simulation. Theor. Comput. Fluid Dyn, 24, 511-536. (DOI)
  • Seifert, A. and B. Stevens, 2010: Microphysical scaling relations in a kinematic model of isolated shallow cumulus clouds. J. Atmos. Sci., 67, 1575-1590. (DOI)
  • Wu, Chien-Ming, Bjorn Stevens and Akio Arakawa, 2009: What controls the transition from shallow to deep convection? J. Atmos. Sci., 66, 1793-1806. (DOI)
  • Pincus, R. and B. Stevens, 2009: Monte Carlo spectral integration: a consistent approximation for radiative transfer in large eddy simulations. J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 1. 9pp. (pdf from publisher)
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