Peer-reviewed Publications
2012
Hayes, A. G., R. D. Lorenz, M. A. Donelan, T. Schneider, M. Manga, M. P. Lamb, J. M. Mitchell, J. I. Lunine, H. E. Schlichting, W. W. Fischer, S. D. Graves, H. L. Tolman, O. Aharonson, P. J. Encrenaz, B. Ventura, D. Casarano, C. Notarnicola, and the Cassini RADAR Team, 2012: Wind driven capillary gravity waves on Titan’s lakes: Hard to detect or non-existent?. Icarus, submitted.
Mazloff, M. R., R. Ferrari, and T. Schneider, 2012: The force balance of the Southern Ocean meridional overturning circulation. Journal of Physical Oceanography, submitted.
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Merlis, T. M., T. Schneider, S. Bordoni, and I. Eisenman, 2012: Hadley circulation response to orbital precession. Part II: Subtropical continent. Journal of Climate, submitted.
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Merlis, T. M., T. Schneider, S. Bordoni, and I. Eisenman, 2012: The tropical precipitation response to orbital precession. Journal of Climate, submitted.
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Kaspi, Y., and T. Schneider, 2012: The role of stationary eddies in shaping midlatitude storm tracks. J. Atmos. Sci., submitted.
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Liu, J., T. Schneider, and Y. Kaspi, 2012: Predictions of thermal and gravitational signals of Jupiter’s deep zonal winds. Icarus, submitted.
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Lee, C.-T. A., B. Shen, B. Slotnick, K. Liao, Y. Yokoyama, A. Lenardic, R. Dasgupta, M. Jellinek, J. S. Lackey, T. Schneider, M. Tice, G. Dickens, 2012: Continent-island arc fluctuations, growth of crustal carbonates, and long-term climate change. Submitted.
Merlis, T. M., T. Schneider, S. Bordoni, and I. Eisenman, 2012: Hadley circulation response to orbital precession. Part I: Aquaplanets. Journal of Climate, submitted.
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Keppel-Aleks, G., P. O. Wennberg, R. A. Washenfelder, D. Wunch, T. Schneider, G. C. Toon, R. J. Andres, J.-F. Blavier, B. Connor, K. J. Davis, A. R. Desai, J. Messerschmidt, J. Notholt, C. M. Roehl, V. Sherlock, B. B. Stephens, S. A. Vay, and S. C. Wofsy, 2012: The imprint of surface fluxes and transport on variations in total column carbon dioxide. Biogeosciences, 9, 875-891.
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Orton, G. S, L. N. Fletcher, J. Liu, T. Schneider, P. A. Yanamandra-Fisher, I. de Pater, M. Edwards, T. R. Geballe, H. B. Hammel, T. Fujiyoshi, T. Encrenaz, E. Pantin, O. Mousis, T. Fuse, 2012: Recovery and characterization of Neptune's near-polar stratospheric hot spot. Planetary and Space Science, 61, 161-167.
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Schneider, T., S. D. Graves, E. L. Schaller, and M. E. Brown, 2012: Polar methane accumulation and rain storms on Titan from simulations of the methane cycle. Nature, 481, 58-61.
[PDF (Accepted Ms.)] [Official version] [Caltech News Release]
2011
O'Gorman, P. A., N. Lamquin, T. Schneider, and M. S. Singh, 2011: The relative humidity in an isentropic advection-condensation model: Limited poleward influence and properties of subtropical minima. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 68, 3079--3093.
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Liu, J., and T. Schneider, 2011: Convective generation of equatorial superrotation in planetary atmospheres. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 68, 2742-2756.
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Eisenman, I., T. Schneider, D. S. Battisti, and C. M. Bitz, 2011: Consistent changes in the sea ice seasonal cycle in response to global warming. Journal of Climate, 24, 5325-5335.
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Kaspi, Y., and T. Schneider, 2011: Downstream self-destruction of storm tracks. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 68, 2459-2464.
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Merlis, T. M., and T. Schneider, 2011: Changes in zonal surface temperature gradients and Walker circulations in a wide range of climates. Journal of Climate, 24, 4757-4768.
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Levine, X. J., and T. Schneider, 2011: Response of the Hadley circulation to climate change in an aquaplanet GCM coupled to a simple representation of ocean heat transport. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 68, 769-783.
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Keppel-Aleks, G., P. O. Wennberg, and T. Schneider, 2011: Sources of variations in total column carbon dioxide. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 11, 3581-3593.
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Kaspi, Y., and T. Schneider, 2011: Winter cold of eastern continental boundaries induced by warm ocean waters. Nature, 471, 621-624.
[Official version] [Nature News & Views] [Caltech News Release]
2010
Liu, J., and T. Schneider, 2010: Mechanisms of jet formation on the giant planets. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 67, 3652-3672.
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Merlis, T. M., and T. Schneider, 2010: Atmospheric dynamics of Earth-like tidally locked aquaplanets. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 2, Art. #13, 17 pp.
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Zonal wind animations: [Slow rotation] [Rapid rotation] [More animations]
Schneider, T., P. A. O'Gorman, and X. J. Levine, 2010: Water vapor and the dynamics of climate changes. Reviews of Geophysics, 48, RG3001, doi:10.1029/2009RG000302.
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Bordoni, S., and T. Schneider, 2010: Regime transitions of steady and time-dependent Hadley circulations: Comparison of axisymmetric and eddy-permitting simulations. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 67, 1643-1654.
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Couhert, A., T. Schneider, J. Li, D. E. Waliser, and A. M. Tompkins, 2010: The maintenance of the relative humidity of the subtropical free troposphere. Journal of Climate, 23, 390-403.
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2009
Sobel, A. H., and T. Schneider, 2009: Single-layer axisymmetric model for a Hadley circulation with parameterized eddy momentum forcing. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 1, Art. #10, 11 pp. doi:10.3894/JAMES.2009.1.10.
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O'Gorman, P. A., and T. Schneider, 2009: Scaling of precipitation extremes over a wide range of climates simulated with an idealized GCM. Journal of Climate, 22, 5676-5685.
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O'Gorman, P. A., and T. Schneider, 2009: The physical basis for increases in precipitation extremes in simulations of 21st-century climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106, 14773-14777.
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Schaller, E. L., H. G. Roe, T. Schneider, and M. E. Brown, 2009: Storms in the tropics of Titan. Nature, 460, 873-875.
[PDF] [Supplementary Information (PDF)] [Official version] [Caltech News Release]
Merlis, T. M., and T. Schneider, 2010: Scales of linear baroclinic instability and macroturbulence in dry atmospheres. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 66, 1821-1833.
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Schneider, T., and J. Liu, 2009: Formation of jets and equatorial superrotation on Jupiter. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 66, 579-601.
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2008
Korty, R. L., and T. Schneider, 2008: Extent of Hadley circulations in dry atmospheres. Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L23803, doi:10.1029/2008GL035847.
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O'Gorman, P. A., and T. Schneider, 2008: Energy of midlatitude transient eddies in idealized simulations of changed climates. Journal of Climate, 21, 5797-5806.
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Schneider, T., and P. A. O'Gorman, 2008: Moist convection and the thermal stratification of the extratropical troposphere. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 65, 3571-3583.
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Bordoni, S., and T. Schneider, 2008: Monsoons as eddy-mediated regime transitions of the tropical overturning circulation. Nature Geoscience, 1, 515-519.
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O'Gorman, P. A., and T. Schneider, 2008: The hydrological cycle over a wide range of climates simulated with an idealized GCM. Journal of Climate, 21, 3815-3832.
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Schneider, T., and C. C. Walker, 2008: Scaling laws and regime transitions of macroturbulence in dry atmospheres. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 65, 2153-2173.
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Marston, J. B., E. Conover, and T. Schneider, 2008: Statistics of an unstable barotropic jet from a cumulant expansion. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 65, 1955-1966.
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Schneider, T., and S. Bordoni, 2008: Eddy-mediated regime transitions in the seasonal cycle of a Hadley circulation and implications for monsoon dynamics. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 65, 915-934.
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O'Gorman, P. A., and T. Schneider, 2008: Weather-layer dynamics of baroclinic eddies and multiple jets in an idealized general circulation model. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 65, 524-535.
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2007
Korty, R. L., and T. Schneider, 2007: A climatology of the tropospheric thermal stratification using saturation potential vorticity. Journal of Climate, 20, 5977-5991.
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O'Gorman, P. A., and T. Schneider, 2007: Recovery of atmospheric flow statistics in a general circulation model without nonlinear eddy-eddy interactions. Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L22801, doi:10.1029/2007GL031779.
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Schneider, T., 2007: Uncertainty in climate-sensitivity estimates. Nature, 446, doi:10.1038/nature05707.
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Schneider, T., 2007: Comment on "Spatio-temporal filling of missing points in geophysical data sets" by D. Kondrashov and M. Ghil, Nonlin. Processes Geophys., 13, 151-159, 2006.
Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 14, 1-2.
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2006
Walker, C. C., and T. Schneider, 2006: Eddy influences on Hadley circulations: Simulations with an idealized GCM. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 63, 3333-3350.
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O'Gorman, P. A., and T. Schneider, 2006: Stochastic models for the kinematics of moisture flux and condensation in homogeneous turbulent flows. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 63, 2992-3005.
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Schneider, T., K. L. Smith, P. A. O'Gorman, and C. C. Walker, 2006: A climatology of tropospheric zonal-mean water vapor fields and fluxes in isentropic coordinates. Journal of Climate, 19, 5918-5933.
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Schneider, T., 2006: The general circulation of the atmosphere. Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 34, 655-688.
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Schneider, T., and C. C. Walker, 2006: Self-organization of atmospheric macroturbulence into critical states of weak nonlinear eddy-eddy interactions. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 63, 1569-1586.
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1999-2005
Walker, C. C., and T. Schneider, 2005: Response of idealized Hadley circulations to seasonally varying heating.
Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L06813, doi:10.1029/2004GL022304.
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Schneider, T., 2005: Zonal momentum balance, potential vorticity dynamics, and mass fluxes on near-surface isentropes.
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 62, 1884-1900.
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Krakauer, N. Y., T. Schneider, J. T. Randerson, and S. C. Olsen, 2004: Using generalized cross-validation to select parameters in inversions for regional carbon fluxes.
Geophysical Research Letters, 31, L19108, doi:10.1029/2004GL020323.
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Schneider, T., 2004: The tropopause and the thermal stratification in the extratropics of a dry atmosphere.
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 61,1317-1340.
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Schneider, T., I. M. Held, and S. T. Garner, 2003: Boundary effects in potential vorticity dynamics.
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 60, 1024-1040.
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Schneider, T., and I. M. Held, 2001: Discriminants of twentieth-century changes in Earth surface temperatures.
Journal of Climate, 14, 249-254.
[PDF] [Official version] [Animations] [Higher-order discriminants (PDF)]
Schneider, T., 2001: Analysis of incomplete climate data: Estimation of mean values and covariance matrices and imputation of missing values.
Journal of Climate, 14, 853-871.
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Schneider, T., and S. M. Griffies, 1999: A conceptual framework for predictability studies.
Journal of Climate, 12, 3133-3155.
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Held, I. M., and T. Schneider, 1999: The surface branch of the mass transport circulation in the troposphere.
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 56, 1688-1697.
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Schneider, T., and A. Neumaier, 2001: Algorithm 808: ARfit - A Matlab package for the estimation of parameters and eigenmodes of multivariate autoregressive models.
ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, 27, 58-65.
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Neumaier, A., and T. Schneider, 2001: Estimation of parameters and eigenmodes of multivariate autoregressive models.
ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, 27, 27-57.
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Books and Book Chapters
Schneider, T., and A. H. Sobel, Eds., 2007: The Global Circulation of the Atmosphere.
Princeton University Press, 400 pp.
[Contents, Foreword, Preface (PDF)] [Review (PDF)] [Princeton UP] [Amazon]
Schneider, T., 2007: The thermal stratification of the extratropical troposphere.
In The Global Circulation of the Atmosphere, T. Schneider and A. H. Sobel, Eds., Princeton University Press, 47-77.
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Miscellanea
Schneider, T., 2008: How we know global warming is real: The science behind human-induced climate change.
Skeptic Magazine, 14, 31-37.
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Schneider, T., and P. A. O'Gorman, 2007: Precipitation and its extremes in changed climates.
In Extreme Events, Proceedings of the 15th 'Aha Huliko'a Hawaiian Winter Workshop, P. Muller, C. Garrett, and D. Henderson, Eds., 61-66.
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Schneider, T., 2006: Analysis of incomplete data: Readings from the statistics literature.
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 87, 1410-1411.
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Schneider, T., and A. H. Sobel, 2006: Global circulation of the atmosphere (2004). (Meeting summary.)
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 87, 807-809.
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