Last updated November 2024. Note that I only update this list sporadically. For the latest, it is best to check my Google Scholar profile.
I am gradually putting some of my older (but popular) papers in less accessible journals online:
Superscript † indicates that the co-author was a student or postdoc working with Pierrehumbert at the time the paper was written. Top 20 featured publications are indicated with ”*”
*Pierrehumbert RT 2010: Principles of Planetary Climate. Cambridge University Press, 652pp.
Archer DA and Pierrehumbert RT 2010: The Warming Papers. Wiley/Blackwell.
Pierrehumbert RT 2022: Planetary systems: A very short introduction. Oxford University Press, 160pp.
Principles of Planetary Climate, second edition (Cambridge University Press)
Mathematics and Physics Exoplorations in Python (Princeton University Press)
McNutt MK, Abdalati W, Caldeira K, Doney SC, Falkowski PG, Fetter S, Fleming JR, Hamburg SP, Morgan MG, Penner JE, Pierrehumbert RT, Rasch PJ, Russell LM, Snow JT, Titley DW, Wilcox J. 2015a. Climate intervention carbon dioxide removal and reliable sequestration. National Academies Press link
McNutt MK, Abdalati W, Caldeira K, Doney SC, Falkowski PG, Fetter S, Fleming JR, Hamburg SP, Morgan MG, Penner JE, Pierrehumbert RT, Rasch PJ, Russell LM, Snow JT, Titley DW, Wilcox J. 2015b. Climate intervention: Reflecting sunlight to cool earth. National Academies Press link
Solomon S, Battisti D, Doney S, Hayhoe K, Held I, Lettenmaier D, Lobell D, Matthews D, Pierrehumbert RT, Raphael M, Richels R, Root T, Steffen K, Tebaldi C and Yohe G 2010. Climate Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations and Impacts over Decades to Millennia. National Academy Press:Washington 190pp. link
Alley RB, Marotzke J, Nordhaus W, Overpeck J, Peteet D, Pielke R, Pierrehumbert RT, Rhines P, Stocker T, Talley L and Wallace JM 2002: Abrupt Climate Change: Inevitable Surprises National Academy Press,244pp. link
Stocker TF,Clarke GKC,Le Treut H, Lindzen RS, Meleshko VP, Mugara RK, Palmer TN, Pierrehumbert RT, Sellers PJ, Trenberth KE, and Willebrand J 2001. Physical Climate Processes and Feedbacks, Ch. 7 in The Physics of Climate Change: IPCC WG1 Third Assessment Report, Cambridge University Press. link
Pierrehumbert RT 1980: The Structure and Stability of Large Vortices in an Inviscid Flow. Ph.D. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Piaulet-Ghorayeb C, Benneke B, Radica M, Raul E, Coulombe LP, Ahrer EM, Kubyshkina D, Howard WS, Krissansen-Totton J, MacDonald RJ, et al. 2024. Jwst/niriss reveals the water-rich “steam world” atmosphere of gj 9827 d. The Astrophysical Journal Letters 974:L10
Meier† TG, Bower DJ, Lichtenberg T, Hammond M, Tackley PJ, Pierrehumbert RT, Caballero JA, Tsai SM, Weiner Mansfield M, Tosi N, et al. 2024. Geodynamics of super-earth gj 486b. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets 129:e2024JE008491
Habib† N, Pierrehumbert RT. 2024. 3d modeling of moist convective inhibition in hydrogen-dominated atmospheres. arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.18217
Lynch J, Pierrehumbert R. 2024. Does ‘net zero’mean zero cows? Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 80:153–157
Benneke B, Roy PA, Coulombe LP, Radica M, Piaulet C, Ahrer EM, Pierrehumbert R, Krissansen-Totton J, Schlichting HE, Hu R, et al. 2024. Jwst reveals CH4, CO2, and H2O in a metal-rich miscible atmosphere on a two-earth-radius exoplanet. arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.03325
Graham† RJ, Pierrehumbert RT. 2024. Carbon cycle instability for high-CO2 exoplanets: Implications for habitability. The Astrophysical Journal 970:32
Tsai SM, Parmentier V, Mendonça JM, Tan X, Deitrick R, Hammond M, Savel AB, Zhang X, Pierrehumbert RT, Schwieterman EW. 2024. Global chemical transport on hot jupiters: Insights from the 2d vulcan photochemical model. The Astrophysical Journal 963:41
Tan X, Komacek TD, Batalha NE, Deming D, Lupu R, Parmentier V, Pierrehumbert RT. 2024. Modelling the day–night temperature variations of ultra-hot jupiters: confronting non-grey general circulation models and observations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 528:1016–1036
McAuliffe GA, Lynch J, Cain M, Buckingham S, Rees RM, Collins AL, Allen M, Pierrehumbert R, Lee MR, Takahashi T. 2023. Are single global warming potential impact assessments adequate for carbon footprints of agri-food systems? Environmental Research Letters 18:084014
Habib N, Pierrehumbert RT. 2024. Modeling noncondensing compositional convection for applications to super-earth and sub-neptune atmospheres. The Astrophysical Journal 961:35
Innes H, Tsai SM, Pierrehumbert RT. 2023. The runaway greenhouse effect on hycean worlds. The Astrophysical Journal 953:168
Tsai SM, Steinrueck M, Parmentier V, Lewis N, Pierrehumbert R. 2023. The climate and compositional variation of the highly eccentric planet hd 80606 b–the rise and fall of carbon monoxide and elemental sulfur. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 520:3867–3886
Pierrehumbert RT. 2023. The runaway greenhouse on sub-neptune waterworlds. The Astrophysical Journal 944:20
Nguyen TG, Cowan NB, Pierrehumbert RT, Lupu RE, Moores JE. 2022. The impact of ultraviolet heating and cooling on the dynamics and observability of lava planet atmospheres. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 513:6125–6133
Pierrehumbert R. 2022a. Plant power: Burning biomass instead of coal can help fight climate change, but only if done right. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 78:125–127
Tsai SM, Lee EK, Pierrehumbert R. 2022. A mini-chemical scheme with net reactions for 3d gcms i.: Thermochemical kinetics. arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.04201
Tsai SM, Innes H, Lichtenberg T, Taylor J, Malik M, Chubb K, Pierrehumbert R. 2021. Inferring shallow surfaces on sub-neptune exoplanets with jwst. The Astrophysical Journal Letters 922:L27
Zieba S, Zilinskas M, Kreidberg L, Nguyen TG, Miguel Y, Cowan N, Pierrehumbert R, Carone L, Dang L, Hammond M, et al. 2022. K2 and spitzer phase curves of the rocky ultra-short-period planet k2-141 b hint at a tenuous rock vapor atmosphere. Astronomy & Astrophysics 664:A79
Lefèvre M, Tan X, Lee EK, Pierrehumbert R. 2022. Cloud-convection feedback in brown dwarf atmospheres. The Astrophysical Journal 929:153
Pierrehumbert RT. 2022b. Fluid mechanics: the quintessential complex system. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 938
Graham† R, Lichtenberg T, Boukrouche R, Pierrehumbert RT. 2021. A multispecies pseudoadiabat for simulating condensable-rich exoplanet atmospheres. The Planetary Science Journal 2:207
Tan† X, Lefèvre† M, Pierrehumbert RT. 2021. Convection modeling of pure-steam atmospheres. The Astrophysical Journal Letters 923:L15
Tsai SM, Innes H, Lichtenberg T, Taylor J, Malik M, Chubb K, Pierrehumbert R. 2021. Inferring shallow surfaces on sub-neptune exoplanets with jwst. The Astrophysical Journal Letters 922:L27
Innes† H, Pierrehumbert RT. 2022. Atmospheric dynamics of temperate sub-neptunes. i. dry dynamics. The Astrophysical Journal 927:38
Allen MR, Peters GP, Shine KP, Azar C, Balcombe P, Boucher O, Cain M, Ciais P, Collins W, Forster PM, et al. 2022. Indicate separate contributions of long-lived and short-lived greenhouse gases in emission targets. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science 5:1–4
Boukrouche† R, Lichtenberg† T, Pierrehumbert RT. 2021. Beyond runaway: initiation of the post-runaway greenhouse state on rocky exoplanets. The Astrophysical Journal 919:130
Lee EK, Parmentier V, Hammond M, Grimm SL, Kitzmann D, Tan† X, Tsai† SM, Pierrehumbert RT. 2021. Simulating gas giant exoplanet atmospheres with exo-fms: comparing semigrey, picket fence, and correlated-k radiative-transfer schemes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 506:2695–2711
Lefevre† M, Turbet M, Pierrehumbert R. 2021. 3d convection-resolving model of temperate, tidally locked exoplanets. The Astrophysical Journal 913:101
Baxter C, Desert JM, Tsai† SM, Todorov KO, Bean JL, Deming D, Parmentier V, Fortney JJ, Line M, Thorngren D, et al. 2021. Evidence for disequilibrium chemistry from vertical mixing in hot jupiter atmospheres-a comprehensive survey of transiting close-in gas giant exoplanets with warm-spitzer/irac. Astronomy & Astrophysics 648:A127
Lynch† J, Cain M, Frame D, Pierrehumbert R. 2021. Agriculture’s contribution to climate change and role in mitigation is distinct from predominantly fossil co2-emitting sectors. Frontiers in sustainable food systems 4:300
Lichtenberg† T, Bower DJ, Hammond† M, Boukrouche† R, Sanan P, Tsai† SM, Pierrehumbert RT. 2021. Vertically resolved magma ocean–protoatmosphere evolution: H2, h2o, co2, ch4, co, o2, and n2 as primary absorbers. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets 126:e2020JE006711
Ding† F, Pierrehumbert RT. 2020. The phase-curve signature of condensible water-rich atmospheres on slowly rotating tidally locked exoplanets. The Astrophysical Journal Letters 901:L33
Hammond† M, Tsai† SM, Pierrehumbert RT. 2020. The equatorial jet speed on tidally locked planets. i. terrestrial planets. The Astrophysical Journal 901:78
Lee† GK, Casewell SL, Chubb KL, Hammond M, Tan X, Tsai SM, Pierrehumbert RT. 2020. Simplified 3d gcm modelling of the irradiated brown dwarf wd 0137- 349b. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 496:4674–4687
Graham† RJ, Pierrehumbert R. 2020. Thermodynamic and energetic limits on continental silicate weathering strongly impact the climate and habitability of wet, rocky worlds. The Astrophysical Journal 896:115
Jellinek A, Lenardic A, Pierrehumbert R. 2020. Ice, fire, or fizzle: The climate footprint of earth’s supercontinental cycles. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 21:e2019GC008464
Lynch† J, Cain M, Pierrehumbert R, Allen M. 2020. Demonstrating gwp*: A means of reporting warming-equivalent emissions that captures the contrasting impacts of short-and long-lived climate pollutants. Environmental Research Letters 15:044023
Pierrehumbert R. 2019. There is no plan b for dealing with the climate crisis. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists :1–7 link
Lynch† J, Pierrehumbert R. 2019. Climate impacts of cultured meat and beef cattle. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 3:5
Ding† F, Pierrehumbert RT. 2018. Global or local pure condensible atmospheres: Importance of horizontal latent heat transport. The Astrophysical Journal 867:54
Hammond† M, Pierrehumbert RT. 2018. Wave-mean flow interactions in the atmospheric circulation of tidally locked planets. The Astrophysical Journal 869:65
Godfray HCJ, Aveyard P, Garnett T, Hall JW, Key TJ, Lorimer J, Pierrehumbert RT, Scarborough P, Springmann M, Jebb SA. 2018. Meat consumption, health, and the environment. Science 361:eaam5324
Pierrehumbert RT, Hammond† M. 2019. Atmospheric circulation of tide-locked exoplanets. Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics 51:275–303 link
Horst SM, He C, Ugelow MS, Jellinek AM, Pierrehumbert RT, Tolbert MA. 2018. Exploring the atmosphere of Neoproterozoic Earth: the effect of O2 on haze formation and composition. The Astrophysical Journal 858:119
*Hammond† M, Pierrehumbert RT. 2017. Linking the climate and thermal phase curve of 55 Cancri e. The Astrophysical Journal 849:152
Mackintosh AN, Anderson BM, Pierrehumbert RT. 2017. Reconstructing climate from glaciers. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 45:649–680
Nilsson J, Jakobsson M, Borstad C, Kirchner N, Björk G, Pierrehumbert RT, Stranne C. 2017. Ice-shelf damming in the glacial arctic ocean: dynamical regimes of a basin-covering kilometre-thick ice shelf. The Cryosphere 11:1745–1765
Williams IN, Pierrehumbert RT. 2017. Observational evidence against strongly stabilizing tropical cloud feedbacks. Geophysical Research Letters 44:1503–1510
Fortney JJ, Robinson TD, Domagal-Goldman S, Amundsen DS, Brogi M, Claire M, Crisp D, Hebrard E, Imanaka H, de Kok R, et al. 2016. The need for laboratory work to aid in the understanding of exoplanetary atmospheres. arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.06305
Clark P, Shakun J, Marcott S, Mix A, Eby M, Kulp S, Levermann A, Milne G, Pfister P, Santer B, Schrag D, Solomon S, Stocker T, Strauss B, Weaver A, Winkelmann R, Archer D, Bard E, Goldner A, et al. 2016. Consequences of twenty-first-century policy for multi-millennial climate and sea-level change. Nature Climate Change 6:360–369
Pierrehumbert R. 2016. How to decarbonize? look to Sweden. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 72:105–111 pdf
Allen M, Fuglestvedt J, Shine K, Reisinger A, Pierrehumbert R, Forster P. 2016. New use of global warming potentials to compare cumulative and short-lived climate pollutants. Nature Climate Change 6:773–776
*Pierrehumbert R, Ding† F. 2016. Dynamics of atmospheres with a non-dilute condensible component. Proceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences / the Royal Society 472:20160107
Ding† F, Pierrehumbert R. 2016. Convection in condensible-rich atmospheres. The Astrophysical Journal 822:24
Wordsworth† R, Kerber L, Pierrehumbert R, Forget F, Head J. 2015. Comparison of ”warm and wet” and ”cold and icy” scenarios for early mars in a 3-d climate model. Journal of Geophysical Research E: Planets 120:1201–1219
Malone† A, Pierrehumbert R, Lowell T, Kelly M, Stroup J. 2015. Constraints on southern hemisphere tropical climate change during the Little Ice Age and Younger Dryas based on glacier modeling of the Quelccaya ice cap, Peru. Quaternary Science Reviews 125:106–116
Pierrehumbert R, Eshel G. 2015. Climate impact of beef: an analysis considering multiple time scales and production methods without use of global warming potentials. Environmental Research Letters 10:085002 pdf
Bloch-Johnson† J, Pierrehumbert RT, Abbot DS. 2015. Feedback temperature dependence determines the risk of high warming. Geophysical Research Letters 42:4973–4980 pdf
Wordsworth R and Pierrehumbert RT 2014: Abiotic Oxygen-dominated Atmospheres on Terrestrial Habitable Zone Planets Ap. J. Lett., 785 785 L20. doi:10.1088/2041-8205/785/2/L20 pdf
Glotter M, Pierrehumbert RT, Elliott J and Moyer, EJ 2013: A Simple Carbon Cycle Representation for Economic and Policy Analyses. Climatic Change 126,319-355.
Pierrehumbert RT 2013: Hot Climates, High Sensitivity. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci}, 110, 14118-14119, doi:10.1073/pnas.1313417110 pdf
Pierrehumbert RT 2014: Short Lived Climate Pollution. Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences {\bf 42}, doi:10.1146/annurev-earth-060313-054843.eprint link here .
Wordsworth R and Pierrehumbert RT 2013: Water loss from terrestrial planets with CO2-rich atmospheres Astrophysical J, 778 doi:10.1088/0004-637X/778/2/154 pdf
Abbot DS, Voigt A, Li D, Le Hir G, Pierrehumbert RT {\it et al} 2013: Robust elements of Snowball Earth atmospheric circulation and oases for life. J. Geophys. Res. -- Atmosphere}, 118(12),6017-6027, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50540 pdf
Shields A, Meadows VS, Bitz C, Pierrehumbert RT {\it et al} 2013: The Effect of Host Star Spectral Energy Distribution and Ice-Albedo Feedback on the Climate of Extrasolar Planets. Astrobiology, 13(8), 715-739, doi:10.1089/ast.2012.0961 pdf
Pierrehumbert RT 2013: Strange news from other stars .Nature Geoscience 6, 81-83. doi:10.1038/ngeo1711 . pdf
Wordsworth R and Pierrehumbert RT 2013: Hydrogen-nitrogen greenhouse warming in Earth's early atmosphere. Science, 339, 64-67. doi:10.1126/science.1225759 . pdf
Pierrehumbert RT 2013: Cumulative Carbon and Just Allocation of the Global Carbon Commons. Chicago Journal of International Law ,13.2 pp 527-548.. pdf
Abbot DS, Voigt A, Branson M, Pierrehumbert RT et al 2012: Clouds and Snowball Earth deglaciation. Geophys. Res. Lett, 39, doi:10.1029/2012GL052861. pdf
Solomon S, Pierrehumbert RT, Matthews D and Daniel JS 2012: Atmospheric composition, irreversible climate change, and mitigation policy. in Climate Science for Serving Society: Research, Modelling and Prediction Priorities, Hurrell, J. and Asrar, G., eds., Springer .pdf
Li, D., and R. T. Pierrehumbert 2011: Sea glacier flow and dust transport on Snowball Earth, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L17501, doi:10.1029/2011GL048991. pdf , Supplemental Material pdf
Pierrehumbert RT and Gaidos E 2011: Hydrogen Greenhouse Planets beyond the Habitable Zone. Ap. J. Lett.,734 doi:10.1088/2041-8205/734/1/L13 . pdf
Pierrehumbert RT 2011: A palette of climates for Gliese 581g. Ap. J. Lett., 726 doi: 10.1088/2041-8205/726/1/L8. pdf
Pierrehumbert RT 2011: Infrared radiation and planetary temperature. Physics Today 64, 33-38 pdf
Pierrehumbert RT, Abbot D, Voight A and Koll D 2011: Neoproterozoic Climate. Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences
39:417–60, doi:10.1146/annurev-earth-040809-152447 . Get pdf here
Abbot DS, Silber M, and Pierrehumbert RT 2011: Cloud Feedbacks and Arctic Sea Ice Tipping Points. J. Geophys. Res.- Atmospheres, 116, D19120, doi:10.1029/2011JD015653 .
Pierrehumbert RT 2010: Principles of Planetary Climate. Cambridge University Press, 652pp. Online Supplement Publisher Link Amazon Link
Archer DA and Pierrehumbert RT 2010: The Warming Papers. Wiley/Blackwell. Publisher Link Amazon Link
Solomon S, Battisti D, Doney S, Hayhoe K, Held I, Lettenmaier D, Lobell D, Matthews D, Pierrehumbert RT, Raphael M, Richels R, Root T, Steffen K, Tebaldi C and Yohe G 2010: Climate Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations and Impacts over Decades to Millennia. National Academy Press:Washington 190pp. Publisher Link
Abbot DS and Pierrehumbert RT 2010: Mudball: Surface dust and Snowball Earth deglaciation, Geophys. Res.-Atmospheres 115, doi: 10.1029/2009JD01200 pdf
Abbot DS, Eisenman I and Pierrehumbert RT 2010: Sea Ice Resolution and the Snowball Diurnal Cycle., J. Climate 23, 6100-6109. pdf
Williams IN, Pierrehumbert RT and Huber M 2009: Global warming, convective threshold and false thermostats. Geophys. Res. Lett. 36. doi:10.1029/2009GL03984 pdf
Lee J.-E.,Pierrehumbert RT, Swann A, and Lintner BR 2009: Sensitivity of stable water isotopic values to convective parameterization schemes. Geophys. Res. Lett. 36 L23801. doi:10.1029/2009GL040880. pdf
Mitchell JL, Pierrehumbert RT, Frierson DMW and Caballero R 2009: The impact of methane thermodynamics on seasonal convection and circulation in a model Titan atmosphere. Icarus 203, 250-264. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2009.03.043 pdf
Halevy I, Pierrehumbert RT, Schrag DP 2009: Radiative transfer in CO2-rich paleoatmospheres J. Geophys. Res.-Atmospheres 114 D18112. doi:10.1029/2009JD011915 . pdf
Le Hir G, Donnadieu Y, Godderis Y, Pierrehumbert RT, Macouin M, Halverson G, Nedelec A, and Ramstein G 2008: The Snowball Earth aftermath: exploring the limits of continental weathering processes. Earth Plan Sci Lett doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2008.11.010. pdf
Caballero R, Mitchell J and Pierrehumbert RT 2008: Axisymmetric, nearly inviscid circulations in non-condensing radiative-convective atmospheres. Quart J Roy Meterol Soc 134,1269-1285. pdf
Goddéris Y, Donnadieu Y, de Vargas C,Pierrehumbert RT, Dromart G 2008: Causal or casual link between the rise of nannoplankton calcification and a tectonically-driven massive decrease in Late Triassic atmospheric CO2 ? Earth Plan Sci Lett 267,247-255. pdf
Brogniez H and Pierrehumbert RT 2007: Intercomparison of the tropical tropospheric humidity in GCMs with AMSU-B water vapor data. Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L17812, doi:10.1029/2006GL029118 . pdf
Brogniez H and Pierrehumbert RT 2006: Using microwave observations to assess large-scale control of free tropospheric water vapor in the mid-latitudes. Geophysical Research Letters 33, L14801, doi:10.1029/2006GL026240. pdf
Donnadieu Y, Godderis Y, Pierrehumbert R, Dromart G, Fluteau F and Jacob R 2006: A GEOCLIM simulation of climatic and biogeochemical consequences of Pangea breakup. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 7: Art. No. Q11019. pdf
Mitchell, J and Pierrehumbert RT 2006: The dynamics behind Titan's tropospheric methane clouds. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 103 (49),18421-18426. pdf
Sukhatme J and Pierrehumbert RT 2005: Statistical Equilibria of Uniformly Forced Advection Condensation. (posted on ArXiV)
Donnadieu Y, Pierrehumbert RT, Jacob R and Fluteau F 2006: On the primary control of the paleogeography during the Cretaceous: a climate modelling study. Earth Plan. Sci Lett. 248, 426-437. pdf
Le Hir G, Ramstein G, Donnadieu Y and Pierrehumbert RT 2007: Investigating plausible mechanisms to escape a hard Snowball-Earth. Comptes Rendus Geoscience 339 (3-4): 274-287 . pdf
Pierrehumbert RT 2006: Climate change: A catastrophe in slow-motion. Chicago Journal of International Law, 6, 573-596 pdf
Pierrehumbert RT 2005: Science Fiction Atmospheres. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 86, 696-698. pdf
Pierrehumbert RT 2005: Tropical Glacier Retreat. Published on realclimate.org. link to article
Pierrehumbert RT, Brogniez H, and Roca R 2007: On the relative humidity of the atmosphere. in The Global Circulation of the Atmosphere, T Schneider and A Sobel, eds. Princeton University Press. pdf
Pierrehumbert RT 2005: Climate dynamics of a hard snowball Earth. J. Geophys Res -- Atmospheres. 110(D1) D01111 doi:10.1029/2004JD005162. pdf
Pierrehumbert 2004a: Warming the world. Nature 432 677. pdf
Pierrehumbert 2004b: Translation of Mémoire sur les Températures du Globe Terrestre et des Espaces Planétaires by J-B J. Fourier. Nature 432 (online supplementary material to Pierrehumbert, 2004a) pdf
Pierrehumbert RT 2004: High levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide necessary for the termination of global glaciation Nature 429, 646-649. pdf
Goodman JC, Collins GC, Marshall J and Pierrehumbert RT 2004: Hydrothermal Plume Dynamics on Europa: Implications for Chaos Formation. J. Geophys. Res. 109(E3),E03008, doi:10.1029/2003JE002073. pdf
Goodman, JC and Pierrehumbert RT 2003: Glacial flow of floating marine
ice in Snowball Earth. J. Geophys. Res. 108 (C10),3308,doi:10.1029/2002JC001471. pdf
Alley RB, Marotzke J, Nordhaus WD, Overpeck JT,Peteet DM,Pielke RA Jr.,
Pierrehumbert RT, Rhines PB, Stocker TF,L. Talley LD,Wallace JM 2003: Abrupt Climate Change. Science 299, 2005-2010. pdf
Pierrehumbert RT 2003: Counting the Cost (Review of {\it Risk and
Reason} by C. Sunstein). Nature 422 263. pdf
Sukhatme J and Pierrehumbert RT 2002: Decay of passive scalars under the action of single scale smooth velocity fields in bounded two-dimensional domains: From non-self-similar probability distribution functions to self-similar eigenmodes. Phys. Rev. E 66, art. no. 056302. pdf erratum
Sukhatme J and Pierrehumbert RT 2002: Surface quasigeostrophic dynamics: The study of an active scalar. Chaos 12, 439-450. pdf
Pierrehumbert RT 2002: The Hydrologic Cycle in Deep Time Climate Problems. Nature 419,191-198. pdf
Alley RB, Marotzke J, Nordhaus W, Overpeck J, Peteet D, Pielke R, Pierrehumbert RT, Rhines P, Stocker T, Talley L and Wallace JM 2002: Abrupt Climate Change: Inevitable Surprises National Academy Press,244pp. online
Stocker TF,Clarke GKC,Le Treut H, Lindzen RS, Meleshko VP, Mugara RK, Palmer TN, Pierrehumbert RT, Sellers PJ, Trenberth KE, and Willebrand J 2001: Physical Climate Processes and Feedbacks, Ch. 7 in The Physics of Climate Change: IPCC WG1 Third Assessment Report, Cambridge University Press.
Rowley DB, Pierrehumbert RT and Currie BS 2001: A new approach to stable isotope-based paleoaltimetry: implications for paleoaltimetry and paleohypsometry of the High Himalaya since the Late Miocene. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 188,253-268. abstract pdf online .
Poulsen CJ, Pierrehumbert RT, and Jacob RL 2001: Impact of ocean dynamics on the simulation of the Neoproterozoic "snowball Earth" Geophysical Research Letters , 28,1575-1578. pdf online .
Hu Y, Pierrehumbert RT and Nakamura N 2001: Probability distribution function of tracer differences and the diffusive scale in the stratosphere. Unpublished note. pdf online .
Hu Y and Pierrehumbert RT 2001: The Advection-Diffusion Problem for Stratospheric Flow: Part II. Probability distribution function of tracer gradients. J. Atmos. Sci. 59, 2830-2845.. abstract postscript pdf .
Hu Y and Pierrehumbert RT 2001: The Advection-Diffusion Problem for Stratospheric Flow: Part I. Concentration probability distribution function. J. Atmos. Sci. 58,1493-1510.. abstract postscript pdf .
Ngan K and Pierrehumbert RT 2000: Spatially inhomogeneous and intermittent random advection. Phys. Fluids 12, 822-834.
Pierrehumbert RT 2000: Climate change and the Tropical Pacific: The Sleeping Dragon Wakes. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 97, 1355-1358.abstract pdf
Pierrehumbert RT 2000: Lattice models of advection-diffusion Chaos 10, 61-74.abstract postscript pdf . See commentary on experimental work confirming the prediction of strange eigenmodes
Pierrehumbert RT 1999: Huascaran d18O as an indicator of tropical climate during the Last Glacial Maximum. Geophysical Research Letters , 26, 1341-1344.. abstract postscript pdf online
Pierrehumbert RT 1999: Subtropical water vapor as a mediator of rapid global climate change. . in Clark PU, Webb RS and Keigwin LD eds. Mechanisms of global change at millennial time scales. American Geophysical Union:Washington, D.C. Geophysical Monograph Series 112, 394 pp. .abstract postscript pdf
Boatto S and Pierrehumbert RT 1999: Dynamics of a passive tracer in a velocity field of four identical point vortices. J. Fluid Mech 394, 137-174. abstract postscript pdf
Pierrehumbert RT and Roca R 1998: Evidence for control of Atlantic subtropical humidity by large scale advection. Geophysical Research Letters 25, 4537-4540. pdf online
Pierrehumbert RT 1998: Lateral mixing as a source of subtropical
water vapor. Geophysical Research Letters 25, 151-154. abstract postscript pdf
Forget, F and Pierrehumbert RT 1997: Warming Early Mars with carbon
dioxide clouds that scatter infrared radiation. Science 278, 1273 - 1276. abstract postscript pdf
Pierrehumbert, RT and Erlick C 1997: On the scattering greenhouse
effect of CO2 ice clouds. J. Atmos. Sci 55, 1897
- 1903. abstract postscript pdf
Pierrehumbert, RT 1996: Anomalous scaling of high cloud variability
in the tropical Pacific. Geophysical Research Letters 23,
1095-1098.
Swanson K and Pierrehumbert RT 1997: Lower-tropospheric heat transport
in the Pacific storm track. J. Atmos. Sci 54, 1533
- 1543 .
Emanuel, K and Pierrehumbert, RT 1996: Microphysical and dynamical
control of tropospheric water vapor. in Clouds, Chemistry and
Climate, Nato ASI Series 35. Springer:Berlin, 260pp.
Pierrehumbert, RT 1996: Some remarks on mechanisms for the regulation
of tropical sea surface temperature. in Clouds, Chemistry and
Climate, Nato ASI Series 35. Springer:Berlin, 260pp. abstract postscript pdf
Held, I. M. , Pierrehumbert, R. T. , Garner, S.T. and Swanson,
K.L. 1995: Surface quasi-geostrophic dynamics. J. Fluid Mech 282, 1-20.
Vainshtein, S. I Sreenivasan, K.R., Pierrehumbert, R. T. , Kashyap,
V., and Juneja, A. 1994: Scaling exponents for turbulence and
other random processes and their relationships with multifractal
structure. Phys. Rev. E50, 1823-1835.
Swanson, K. and Pierrehumbert, R. T. 1995: Potential Vorticity
Homogenization and Stationary Waves. J. Atmos. Sci 52,
990 - 994.
Pierrehumbert, R. T. 1995: Thermostats, Radiator Fins, and the
Local Runaway Greenhouse. J. Atmos. Sci. 52, 1784-1806. pdf
Pierrehumbert, R.T. and K.L Swanson 1995: Baroclinic Instability Ann. Rev. Fluid Mech. 27, 419-467.
Yang, H. and Pierrehumbert, R. T. 1994: Production of dry air
by isentropic mixing. J. Atmos. Sci. 51, 3437-3454.
Pierrehumbert, R. T., Held, I.M. and Swanson, K. 1994: Spectra
of local and nonlocal two dimensional turbulence. Chaos, Solitons
and Fractals, 4, 1111-1116 pdf.
Pierrehumbert, R. T. 1994: On tracer microstructure in the large-eddy
dominated regime. Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, 4, 1091-1110. pdf See also commentary on experimental work confirming the prediction of strange eigenmodes.
Swanson, K. and Pierrehumbert, R. T. 1994: Nonlinear wave packet
evolution on a baroclinically unstable jet. J. Atmos. Sci 51, 384 - 396.
Pierrehumbert, R. T. and Yang, H. 1993: Global chaotic mixing
on isentropic surfaces. J. Atmos. Sci 50, 2462-2480.
Lin, S-J. and Pierrehumbert RT 1992: Is the
mid-latitude zonal flow absolutely unstable? J. Atmos. Sci 50, 505 - 517.
Lamb, K. and Pierrehumbert RT 1992: Steady
state nonlinear internal gravity wave critical levels satisfying
an upper radiation boundary condition. J. Fluid Mech. 238,
371-404.
Pierrehumbert, R. T. 1992: Spectra of tracer distributions: A
geometric approach. in Nonlinear phenomena in atmospheres and
oceans, R. Pierrehumbert and G. Carnevale, eds. Springer-Verlag:New
York 229pp.
Pierrehumbert, R. T. 1991: Chaotic mixing of tracers and vorticity
by modulated travelling Rossby waves. Geophys. Astrophys. Fluid.
Dyn. 58, 285-320. pdf
Pierrehumbert, R. T. 1991: Large scale horizontal mixing in planetary
atmospheres. Phys. Fluids A, 3,1250-1260.
Pierrehumbert, R. T. 1991: Dimensions of Atmospheric Variability.
in Beyond Belief:Randomness, Prediction and Explanation in
Science. J. L. Casti and A. Karlqvist, eds. CRC Press:Boston,
110-142. pdf
Carissimo, B.C.,Pierrehumbert RT, and H.L.
Pham 1988: An estimate of mountain drag during ALPEX for comparison
with numerical models. J. Atmos. Sci 45, 1949-1960.
Bacmeister, J. T. and Pierrehumbert RT 1988:
On high drag states of nonlinear stratified flow over obstacles. J. Atmos. Sci 45, 63 - 80.
.................................... 1987: An essay on the parameterization
of orographic gravity wave drag. in Observation, theory and
modelling of orographic effects. European Center for Medium
Range Weather Forecasting: Reading, England 1987.pdf
Lin, S-J and .................................... 1988: Does Ekman
friction suppress baroclinic instability? J. Atmos. Sci 45,
2920-2933.
Lin, S-J and .................................... 1987: Absolute
and convective instability of stratified shear flow. in Proceedings
of the 4th international symposium on stratified flow, Caltech
1987 . Elsevier
.Pierrehumbert RT and J. Bacmeister 1987: On
the realizability of Long's Model solutions for nonlinear stratified
flow over obstacles. in Proceedings of the 4th international
symposium on stratified flow, Caltech 1987 . Elsevier.
Lin, S-J and Pierrehumbert RT 1987: Comment
on "Richardson criteria for stratified vortex motions under
gravity" Phys. Fluids 30 1231-1232.
Panetta, R.L., I. Held and Pierrehumbert RT 1988:
External Rossby waves in the 2-layer model. J. Atmos. Sci 44, 2924-2933.
Pierrehumbert RT 1986: A universal shortwave instability
of two-dimensional eddies in an inviscid fluid. Phys Rev Letters 57, 2157-2159.
.Pierrehumbert RT 1986: Spatially amplifying modes
of the Charney baroclinic instability problem. J. Fluid Mech., 170, 293-317.
Pierrehumbert RT 1986: Remarks on a paper by
Aref and Flinchem. J. Fluid Mech. , 163,21-26.
Held, I., Pierrehumbert RT, and R. L. Panetta
1986: Dissipative destabilization of external Rossby waves. J.
Atmos. Sci., 43,388-396.
1985: The effect of local baroclinic instability on zonal inhomogeneities
of vorticity and temperature. Adv. Geophysics, 29,
165-182.
1985: A theoretical model of orographically modified cyclogenesis. J. Atmos. Sci., 42, 1244-1258.
1986: Lee cyclogenesis. Chapter 13 of Mesoscale Meteorology
and Forecasting, P. Ray ed. American Meteorological Society:
Boston.
Held, I., R. L. Panetta and Pierrehumbert RT 1985: Stationary external Rossby waves
in vertical shear. J. Atmos. Sci.,42, 865-883.
Pierrehumbert RT, and B. Wyman 1985: Upstream effects of mesoscale
mountains. J. Atmos. Sci., 42,977-1003.
Pierrehumbert RT 1985: Stratified semigeostrophic flow over two
dimensional topography in an unbounded atmosphere. J. Atmos.
Sci., 42, 523-526.
Pierrehumbert RT 1985: Orographic distortion of fronts. Revista
di Meteorologia Aeronautica, Anno 44, #1234.
Pierrehumbert RT 1985: Formation of shear layers upstream of the
Alps. Revista di Meteorologia Aeronautica, Anno 44,
#1234.
Pierrehumbert RT 1984: Local and global baroclinic instability
of a zonally varying flow. J. Atmos. Sci. 41, 2141-2162.
Pierrehumbert RT 1984: Linear results on the barrier effects of
mesoscale mountains. J. Atmos. Sci. 41, 1356-1367.
Pierrehumbert RT , and P. Malguzzi 1984: Forced coherent structures
and local multiple equilibria in a barotropic atmosphere. J.
Atmos. Sci. 41, 246-257.
Pierrehumbert RT 1983: Bounds on the growth of perturbations to
non-parallel steady flow ont he barotropic beta plane. J. Atmos.
Sci. 40, 1207-1217.
Reinhold, B. B. and Pierrehumbert RT 1982: Dynamics of weather
regimes: Quasi-stationary waves and blocking. Mon. Wea. Rev. 110, 1105-1145.
Pierrehumbert RT , and S. E. Widnall 1982: The two and three dimensional instabilities of a spatially periodic free shear layer. J. Fluid Mech. 114, 59-82.
Pierrehumbert RT , and S. E. Widnall 1981: The structure of organized vortices in a free shear layer. J. Fluid Mech. 102, 301-313.