Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Change
Susan Solomon Group
Publications
(the last six years)
2023
​Weimer, M., Wilka, C., Kinnison, D. E., Garcia, R. R., Bacmeister, J. T., Alexander, M. J., Dornbrack, A., Solomon, S., A method for estimating global subgrid-scale gravity wave temperature perturbations in chemistry-climate models, Preprint.
Weimer, M., Kinnison, D. E., Wilka, C., Solomon, S., Effects of denitrification on the distributions of trace gas abundances in the polar regions: a model-data comparison. Preprint. doi: 10.5194/edusphere-2022-1422
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2022
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Wang, M., Fu, Q., Solomon, S., Alexander, B., White, R.H., Stratosphere-troposphere exchanges of air mass and ozone concentration in the Last Glacial Maximum, , Journal of Geophysical Research, Atmospheres, 127 (10) e2021JD036327, 2022. doi: 10.1029/2021JD036327
Solomon, S., Dube, K., Stone, K., Yu, P., Kinnison, D., Toon, O.B., Strahan, S. E., Rosenlof, K. H., Portmann, R., Davis, S., Randel, W., Beranth, P., Boone, C., Bardeen, C. G., Bourassa, A., Zawada, D., Degenstein, D., On the stratospheric chemistry of mid-latitude wildfire smoke, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119 (10) e2117325119, 2022. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2117325119
Yook, S., Thompson, D. W. J., Solomon, S., Climate Impacts and Potential Drivers of the Unprecedented Antarcitic Ozone Holes of 2020 and 2021, Geophysical Research Letters, 49 (10) e2022FL098064, 2022. doi: 10.1029/2022GL098064
Strahan, S. E., Smale, D., Solomon, S., Taha, G., Damon, M. R., Steenrod, S. D., Jones, N., Liley, B., Querel, R., Robinson, J., Unexpected Repartitioning of Stratospheric Inorganic Chlorine After the 2020 Australian Wildfires. Geophysical Research Letters, 49 (14) e2022GL098290, 2022. doi: 10.1029/2022GL098290
Wespes, C., Ronsman, G., Clarisse, L., Solomon, S., Hurtmans, D., Clerbaux, C., Coheur, PF., Polar stratospheric nitric acid depletion surveyed from a decadal dataset of IASI total columns, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 22, 10993-11007, 2022. doi: 10.5194/acp-22-10993-2022
Lickley, M. J., Daniel, J. S., Fleming, E. L. Reimann, S., Solomon, S., Bayesian assessment of chlorofluorocarbon (CFC), hydrochlorofluorocarbon (HCFC) and halon banks suggest large reservoirs still present in old equipment, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 22, 11125-11136, 2022. doi: 10.5194/acp-22-11125-2022
Santer, B. D., Po-Chedley S., Feldl, N., Fyfe, J. C. Fu, Q., Solomon, S., England, M., Rodgers, K. B., Stuecker, M. F., Mears, C., Zou, CZ, Bonfils, C. J. W., Pallotta, G., Zelinka, M. D., Rosenbloom, N., Edwards, J., Robust Anthropogenic Signal Identified in the Seasonal Cycle of Tropospheric Temperature, Journal of Climate, 35 (18) 6075-6100, 2022. doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0766.1
Shah, K., Solomon, S., Kinnison, D., Fu, Q., Thompson, D. W. J., Phase Unlocking and the Modulation of Tropopause-Level Trace Gas Advection by the Quasibiennial Oscillation, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, 127 (21) e2021JD036142, 2022. doi: 10.1029/2021JD036142
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2021
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Wilka, C., Solomon, S., Cronin, T.W., Kinnison, D., Garcia, R., Atmospheric Chemistry Signatures of an Equatorially Symmetric Matsuno-Gill Circulation Pattern, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 79 (1), 107-116, 2021. doi: 10.1175/JAS-D-20-0025.1
Solomon, S., Risks to the stratospheric ozone shield in the Anthropocene, Ambio, 50 (1) 44-48, 2021. doi: 10.1007/s13280-020-01431-8
Wilka, C., Solomon, S., Kinnison, D., Tarasick, D., An Arctic Ozone Hole in 2020 If Not For the Montreal Protocol, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 21 (20) 15771-15781, 2021. doi: 10.5194/acp-21-15771-2021
Zhang, L. N., Solomon, S., Stone, K. A., Shanklin, J. D. Eveson, J. D., Colwell, S., Burrows, J. P., Weber, M., Levelt, P. F., Kramarova, N. A., Haffner, D. P., On the use of satellite observations to fill gaps in the Halley station total ozone record, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 21 (12) 9829-9838, 2021. doi: 10.5194/acp-21-9829-2021
Solomon, S., Paul J. Crutzen (1933-2021), Science, 371 (6532) 892, 2021. doi: 10.1126/science.abh0217
Lickley, M., Fletcher, S., Rigby, M., Solomon, S., Joint inference of CFC lifetimes and banks suggests previously unidentified emissions, Nature Communications, 12 (2920), 2021. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-23229-2
Santer, B. D., Po-Chedley, S., Mears, C., Fyfe, J. C., Gillett, N., Fu, Q., Painter, J. F., Solomon, S., Steiner, A. K., Wentz, F. J., Zelinka, M. D., Zou, C., Using Climate Model Simulations to Constrain Observations, Journal of Climate, 34 (15) 6281-6301, 2021. doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0768.1
Lickley, M., Solomon, S., Kinnison, D., Krummel, P., Muhle, J., O’Dherty, S., Prinn, R., Rigby, M., Stone, K. A., Wang, P., Weiss, R., Young, D., Quantifying the Imprints of Stratospheric Contributions to Interhemispheric Differences in Tropospheric CFC-11, CFC-12, and N20 Abundances, Geophysical Research Letters, 48 (15), 2021. doi: 10.1029/2021GL093700
Zambri, B., Solomon, S., Thompson, D. W. J., Fu. Q., Emergence of Southern Hemisphere stratospheric circulation changes in response to ozone recovery, Nature Geoscience, 14 638-644, 2021. doi: 10.1038/s41561-021-00803-3
Francelino, M. R., Schaefer, C., de Los Milagros Skansi, M., Colwell, S., Bromwich, D. H., Jones, P., King, J. C., Lazzara, M. A., Renwick, J., Solomon, S., Brunet, M., Cerveny, R. S., WMO Evalutation of Two Extreme High Temperatures Occurring in February 2020 for the Antarctic Peninsula Region, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 102 (11), 2021. doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0040.1
Polvani, L. M., Banerjee, A., Chemke, R., Doddridge, E. W., Ferreira, D., Gnanadesikan, A., Holland, M. A., Kostov, Y., Marshall, J., Seviour, M., Solomon, S., Waugh, D. W., Interannual SAM Modulation of Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Does Not Account for Its Long-Term Trends, Pointing to a Limited Role for Ozone Depletion, Geophysical Research Letters, 48 (21), 2021. doi: 10.1029/2021GL094871
Rieger, L. A., Randel, W. J., Bourassa, A. E., Solomon, S., Stratospheric Temperature and Ozone Anomalies Associated With the 2020 Australian New Year Fires, Geophysical Research Letters, 48 (24), 2021. doi: 10.1029/2021GL095898
Wang, P., Scott, J.R., Solomon, S., Marshall, J., Babbin, A., Lickley, M., Thompson, D.W.J., DeVries, T., Liang, Q., Prinn, R.G., On the Effect of the Ocean on Atmospheric CFC-11 Lifetimes And Emission, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118 (12), 2021. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2021528118
Stone, K. A., Solomon, S., Thompson, D. W. J., Kinnison, D., Fyfe, J. C., On the Southern Hemisphere stratospheric response to ENSO and its impacts on tropospheric circulation, Journal of Climate, 2021. doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0250.1
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2020
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Larson, E.J.L., Portmann, R.W., Solomon, S., Murphy, D.M., Decadal attribution of historic temperature and ocean heat content change to anthropogenic emissions, Geophysical Research Letters, 47 (3) 2020. doi: 10.1029/2019GL085905
Fu, Q., White, R., Wang, M., Alexander, B., Solomon, S., Gettelman, A., Battisti, D., Lin, P., The Brewer-Dobson circulation during the Last Glacial Maximum, Geophysical Research Letters, 47 (3), 2020. doi: 10.1029/2019GL086271
Lickley, M., Solomon, S., Fletcher, S., Velders, G.J.M., Daniel, J., Rigby, M., Montzka, S., Kuijpers, JM., Stone, K., Quantifying contributions of chlorofluorocarbon banks to emissions and impacts on the ozone layer and climate, Nature Communications, 11 (1) 1-11, 2020. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-15162-7
Mattauch, L., Matthews, HD., Millar, R., Rezai, A., Solomon, S., Venmans, F., Steering the climate system: Using inertia to lower the cost of policy: Comment, American Economic Review, 110 (4) 1231-37, 2020. doi: 10.1257/aer.20190089
Zambri, B., Kinnison, D.E., Solomon, S., Subpolar activation of halogen heterogenous chemistry in austral spring, Geophysical Research Letters, 48 (2), 2020. doi: 10.1029/2020GL090036
DeLisi, C., Patrinos, A., MacCracken, M., Drell, D., Annas, G., Arkin, A., Church, G., Cook-Deegan, R., Jacoby, H., Lidstrom, M., Melillo, J., Milo, R., Paustian, K., Reilly, J., Roberts, R., Segre, D., Solomon, S., Woolf, D., Wullschleger, S., Yang, X., The Role of Synthetic Biology in Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Reduction: Prospects and Challenges, BioDesign Research, vol. 2020, 8 pages, 2020. doi: 10.34133/2020/1016207
King, J., Chalfie, M., Chomsky, et. al., et al. Uphold the nuclear weapons test moratorium, Science, 369 (6501) 262, 2020. doi: 10.1126/science.abd3313
Solomon, S., Alcamo, J., Ravishankara, A.R., Unfinished business after five decades of ozone-layer science and policy, Nature Communications, 11 (1) 4272, 2020. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-18052-0
Yook, S., Thompson, DWJ., Solomon, S., Kim, SY., The Key Role of Coupled Chemistry-Climate Interactions in Tropical Stratospheric Temperature Variability, Journal of Climate, 33 (17) 7619-7629. 2020. doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0071.1
Wang, M., Fu, Q., Solomon, S., White, R.H., Alexander, B., Stratospheric Ozone in the Last Glacial Maximum, Journal of Geophysical Atmospheres, 125 (21), 2020. doi: 10.1029/2020JD032929
Shah, K.S., Solomon, S., Thompson, D.W.J., Kinnison, D.E., Evaluating stratospheric tropical width using tracer concentrations, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 125 (21), 2020. doi: 10.1029/2020JD033081
Stone, K., Solomon, S., Kinnison, D.E., Prediction of Northern Hemisphere Regional Sea Ice Extent and Snow Depth Using Stratospheric Ozone Information, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 125 (22), 2020. doi: 10.1029/2019JD031770
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2019
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Stone, K.A., Solomon, S., Kinnison, D.E., Baggett, C.F., Barnes, E.A., Prediction of Northern Hemisphere regional surface temperatures using stratospheric ozone information, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124 (12) 5922-5933, 2019. doi: 10.1029/2018JD029626
Lickley, M., Cael, B.B., Solomon, S., Time of Steady Climate Change, Geophysical Research Letters, 46 (10) 5445-5451, 2019. doi: 10.1029/2018GL081704
Abalos, M., Polvani, L., Calvo, N., Kinnison, D., Ploeger, F., Randel, W., Solomon, S., New Insights on Impact of Ozone-Depleting Substances on the Brewer-Dobson Circulation, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124 (5) 2435-2451, 2019. doi: 10.1029/2018JD029301
Zambri, B., Solomon, S., Kinnison, D.E., Mills, M.J., Schmidt, A., Neely III, R.R., Bourassa, A.E., Degenstein, D.A., Roth, C.Z., Modeled and Observed Volcanic Aerosol Control on Stratospheric NOy and CLy, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124 (17-18) 10283-10303 2019. doi: 10.1029/2019JD031111
Gilford, D.M., Solomon, S., Emanuel, K., Seasonal Cycles of Along-Track Tropical Cyclone Maximum Intensity, Monthly Weather Review, 147 (7) 2417-2432, 2019. doi: 10.1175/MWR-D-19-0021.1
Santer, B.D., Fyfe, J.C., Solomon, S., Painter, J.F., Bonfils, C., Pallotta, G., Zelinka, M.D., Quantifying stochastic uncertainty in detection time of human-caused climate signals, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116 (40), 19821-19827, 2019. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1904586116
Solomon, S., The discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole, Nature, 575 (7781) 46-47, 2019. doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-02837-5
Fu, Q., Solomon, S., Pahlavan, HA, Lin, P., Observed changes in Brewer-Dobson circulation for 1980-2018, Environmental Research Letters, 14 (11) 114026, 2019. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/AB4DE7
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2018
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Santer, B.D., Thorne, P.W., Haimberger, L., Taylor, K.E., Wigley, T.M.L, Lanzante, J.R., Solomon, S., Free, M., Gleckler, P.J., Jones, P.D., Karl, T.R., Klein, S.A., Mears, C., Nychka, D., Schmidt, G.A., Sherwood, S.C., Wentz, F.J., Consistency of Modeled and Observed Temperature Trends in the Tropical Troposphere, Climate Modeling, 85-136, 2018. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-65058-6_5
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Bandoro, J., Solomon, Santer, B.D., Kinnison, D.E., Detectability of the Impacts of Ozone Depleting Substances and Greenhouse Gases upon Stratospheric Ozone Accounting for Nonlinearities in Historical Forcings, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 18 (1) 143-66, 2018. doi: 10.5194/acp-18-143-2018
Stone, K.A., Solomon, S., Kinnison, D.E., On the Identification of Ozone Recovery, Geophysical Research Letters, 45 (10) 5158-5165, 2018. doi: 10.1029/2018GL077955
Kaplan, M.B., Solomon, S., Response to rejoinder to: MB Kaplan, S. Solomon, A
coming boom in commercial shipping? The potential for rapid growth of noise from commercial ships by 2030, Mar. Policy 73 (Supplement C) (2016) 119–121, Marine Policy, 93 (54), 2018. doi: 10.1016/j.marpol.2018.03.010
Santer, B.D., Po-Chedley, S., Zelinka, M.D., Cvijanovic, I., Bonfils, C., Durack, P.J., Fu, Q., Kiehl, J., Mears, C., Painter, J., Pallotta, G., Solomon, S., Wentz, F.J., Zou, C., Human influence on the seasonal cycle of tropospheric temperature, Science, 361 (6399), 2018. doi: 10.1126/science.aas8806
Wilka, C., Shah, K., Stone, K., Solomon, S., Kinnison, D., Mills, M., Schmidt, A.,
Neely III, R.R., On the role of heterogeneous chemistry in ozone depletion and recovery, Geophysical Research Letters, 45 (15) 7835-7842, 2018. doi: 10.1029/2018GL078596
Fogt, R.L., Jones, M.E., Goergens, C.A., Solomon, S., Jones, J.M., Reply to “Comment on ‘An Exceptional Summer During the South Pole Race of 1911/12’”, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 99 (10) 2143-2145, 2018. doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-18-0088.1
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Lickley, M., Solomon, S., Drivers, timing and some impacts of global aridity change, Environmental Research Letters, 13 (10) 104010, 2018. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/aae013
Lickley, M., Solomon S., On the relative influences of different ocean basin sea
surface temperature anomalies on southern African rainfall in 20th and 21st century general circulation model simulations, International Journal of Climatology, 38 (13) 5003-5009, 2018. doi: 10.1002/joc.5691
Schmidt, A., Mills, M.J., Ghan, S., Gregory, J.M., Allan, R.P., Andrews, T., Bardeen, C.G., Conley, A., Forster, P.M., Gettelman, A. Portmann, R.W., Solomon, S., Toon, O.B., Volcanic Radiative Forcing From 1979 to 2015, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 123 (22) 12,491-12,508, 2018. doi: 10.1029/2018JD028776
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2017
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De Los Milagros Skansi, M., King, J., Lazzara, M.A., Cerveny, R.S. Stella, J.L., Solomon, Jones, P., Bromwich, D., Renwick, J., Burt, C.C., Peterson, T.C., Brunet, M., Driouech, F., Vose, R., Krahenbuhl, D., Evaluating the highest temperature extremes in the Antarctic, Eos, 98 (5) 18-23, 2017. doi: 10.1029/2017EO068325
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Ivy, D.J., Hilgenbrink, C., Kinnison, D., Plumb, R. Alan, Sheshadri, A., Solomon, S., Observed changes in the southern hemispheric circulation in May, Journal of Climate, 30 (2) 537-536, 2017. doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0394.1
Zickfeld, K., Solomon, S., Gilford, D.M., Centuries of thermal sea level rise due to anthropogenic emissions of short-lived greenhouse gases, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114 (4) 657-662, 2017. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1612066114
Ivy, D. J., Solomon, S. Calvo, N., Thompson, D.W.J., Observed connections of Arctic stratospheric ozone extremes to Northern Hemisphere surface climate, Environmental Research Letters, 12 (2) 024004, 2017. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa57a4
Gilford, D. M., and S. Solomon, Radiative effects of stratospheric seasonal cycles in the tropical upper troposphere and lower stratosphere, Journal of Climate, 30 (8) 2769-2783, 2017. doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0633.1
Dale, A., Fant, C., Strzepek, K., Lickley, M., Solomon, S., Climate model uncertainty in impact assessments for agriculture: A multi-ensemble case study on maize in sub-Saharan Africa, Earth’s Future, 5 (3) 337-353, 2017. doi: 10.1002/2017EF000539
Ivy, D. J., Solomon, S., Kinnison, D., Mills, M.J., Schmidt, A. Neely, RR, The influence of the Calbuco eruption on the 2015 Antarctic ozone hole in a fully coupled chemistry-climate model, Geophysical Research Letters, 44 (5) 2556-2561, 2017. doi: 10.1002/2016GL071925
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Solomon, S., D. Ivy, M. Gupta, J. Bandoro, B. D. Santer, Q. Fu, P. Lin, R. R. Garcia, D. E. Kinnison, and M. J. Mills, Mirrored Changes in Antarctic Ozone and Stratospheric Temperature in the late 20th versus early 21st Centuries, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmosphere, 122 (16), 8940-8950, 2017. doi: 10.1002/2017JD026719
Gilford D.M., Solomon S., and Emanuel K.A., On the seasonal cycles of tropical cyclone potential intensity, Journal of Climate, 30 (16), 6085-96, 2017. doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0827.1
Santer, B.D., Solomon, S., Pallotta, G., Mears, C., Po-Chedley, S., Fu, Q., Wentz, F., Zou, C.Z., Painter, J., Cvijanovic, I. and C. Bonfils, Comparing tropospheric warming in climate models and satellite data, Journal of Climate, 30 (1), 373-392, 2017. doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0333.1
Santer, B.D., Solomon, S., Wentz, F.J., Fu, Q., Po-Chedley, S., Mears, C., Painter, J.F. and C. Bonfils, Tropospheric warming over the past two decades, Scientific Reports, 7 (1), 2336, 2017. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-02520-7
Stone, K.A., Solomon, S., Kinnison D.E., Pitts, M.C., Poole, L.R., Mills, M.J., Schmidt, A., Neely III, R.R., Ivy, D., Schwartz, M.J., Vernier, J.P., Observing the impact of Calbuco volcanic aerosols on South Polar ozone depletion in 2015, Journal of Geophysical Research, 122 (21), 11,862-11,879, 2017. doi: 10.1002/2017JD026987
Li, J., D. W. Thompson, E. Barnes, S. Solomon, Quantifying the lead time required for a linear trend to emerge from natural climate variability, Journal of Climate, 30 (24), 10179-91, 2017. doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0280.1
Fogt, R.L., Jones, M., E., Solomon, S., Jones, J., M., Goergens, C., A., An Exceptional Summer during the South Pole Race of 1911/12, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 98 (10), 2189-2200, 2017. doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0013.1
Holt, J.I, Solomon, S., Selin, N.E., Sensitivity of inorganic aerosol radiative effects to US emissions, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 122 (12) 6379-6390, 2017. doi: 10.1002/2016JD025890