In the works

Deutloff, J., A.B. Sokol, B. Gasparini, S.A. Buehler, P. Eriksson, J. Windmiller, A.K. Naumann, and L. Harris (2026). No Negative Climate Feedback From Reduction of Tropical Anvil Clouds. Submitted to Geophysical Research Letters.

Lee, Y., D. Kim, and A.B. Sokol (2026). Response of Anvil Cloud Fraction to Surface Warming: Inter-Model Difference in RCEMIP Simulations. Submitted to Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres.

Journal Publications

Sokol, A.B. and Chris J. Wright (2026). Sea surface temperature feedbacks and convective organization mediate the tropical circulation response to aerosols. Geophysical Research Letters. doi.org/10.1029/2026GL122829 [PDF]

G.L. O'Donnell, A.A. Wing and co-authors including A.B. Sokol (2026). Characteristics of a Multi-model Ensemble of Mock-Walker Simulations. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. doi.org/10.1029/2026MS005781 [PDF]

Sokol, A.B., T.M. Merlis, and S. Fueglistaler (2026). No "wet gets wetter" in kilometer-scale mock-Walker circulations. AGU Advances. doi.org/10.1029/2025AV002040 [PDF] [editorial highlight]

Sokol, A.B., V.A. Munteanu, P.N. Blossey, and D.L. Hartmann (2025). Internal ocean-atmosphere variability in kilometer-scale radiative-convective equilibrium. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. doi.org/10.1029/2024MS004567 [PDF]

Kärcher, B., F. Hoffman, A.B. Sokol, B. Gasparini, M. Corcos, E. Jensen, R. Atlas, A. Podglajen, H. Morrison, A. Hertzog, R. Plougonven, K.K. Chandrakhar, & W.W. Grabowski (2025). Dissecting cirrus clouds: Navigating effects of turbulence on homogeneous ice formation. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. doi.org/10.1038/s41612-025-01024-w [PDF]

Sokol, A.B., C.J. Wall, and D.L. Hartmann (2024). Greater climate sensitivity implied by anvil cloud thinning. Nature Geoscience. doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01420-6 [limited PDF] [editorial highlight]

Sokol, A.B. and T. Storelvmo (2024). The spatial heterogeneity of cloud phase observed by satellite. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres. doi.org/10.1029/2023JD039751 [PDF]

Atlas, R.L., C.S. Bretherton, A.B. Sokol, P.N. Blossey, and M.F. Khairoutdinov (2024). Tropical anvil cirrus are highly sensitive to ice microphysics within a nudged global storm-resolving model. Geophysical Research Letters. doi.org/10.1029/2023GL105868 [PDF]

Gasparini, B., S.C. Sullivan, A.B. Sokol, B. Kärcher, E. Jensen, and D.L. Hartmann (2023). Opinion: Tropical cirrus—from micro-scale processes to climate-scale impacts. Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics. doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-15413-2023 [PDF]

Lamraoui, F., M. Krämer, A. Afchine, A.B. Sokol, S. Khaykin, A. Pandey, and Z. Kuang (2023). Sensitivity of convectively driven tropical tropopause cirrus to ice habit. Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics. doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-2393-2023 [PDF]

Sokol, A.B. and D.L. Hartmann (2022). Congestus mode invigoration by convective aggregation in simulations of radiative-convective equilibrium. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. doi.org/10.1029/2022MS003045 [PDF]

Hartmann, D.L., B.D. Dygert, P.N. Blossey, Q. Fu, and A.B. Sokol (2022). The Vertical Profile of Radiative Cooling and Lapse Rate in a Warming Climate. Journal of Climate doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0861.1 [PDF]

Sokol, A.B. and D.L. Hartmann (2022). Radiative Cooling, Latent Heating, and Cloud Ice in the Tropical Upper Troposphere. Journal of Climate. doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0444.1 [PDF]

Gasparini, B., A.B. Sokol, C.J. Wall, D.L. Hartmann, and P.N. Blossey (2022). Diurnal differences in tropical anvil cloud evolution. Journal of Climate. doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0211.1 [PDF]

Sokol, A.B. and D.L. Hartmann (2020). Tropical Anvil Clouds: Radiative Driving Towards a Preferred State. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JD033107 [PDF]

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