Publications
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Kohl, M. & O'Gorman, P. A., 2024
Diabatic Rossby vortex world: Finite amplitude effects in moist cyclogenesis
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences (submitted) -
Finkel, J. & O'Gorman, P. A., 2024
Bringing statistics to storylines: rare event sampling for sudden, transient extreme events
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 16, e2024MS004264
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Kohl, M. & O'Gorman, P. A., 2024
Asymmetry of the distribution of vertical velocities of the extratropical atmosphere in theory, models and reanalysis
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 81, 545-559 -
Abbott, T. H. & O'Gorman, P. A., 2024
Impact of precipitation mass sinks on midlatitude storms in idealized simulations across a wide range of climates
Weather and Climate Dynamics 5, 17-41 -
Beucler, T. et al, 2024
Climate-invariant machine learning
Science Advances 10, eadj7250
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Gertler, C. G., O'Gorman, P. A., & Pfahl, S., 2023
Moist available potential energy of the mean state of the atmosphere and the thermodynamic potential for warm conveyor belts and convection
Weather and Climate Dynamics 4, 361-379 -
Yuval, J. & O'Gorman, P. A., 2023
Neural-network parameterization of subgrid momentum transport in the atmosphere
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 15, e2023MS003606
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Duffy, M. L. & O'Gorman, P. A., 2023
Intermodel spread in Walker circulation responses linked to spread in moist stability and radiation responses
Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres 128, e2022JD037382
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Lee, S., L'Heureux, M., Wittenberg, A. T., Seager, S., O'Gorman, P.A., & Johnson, N. C., 2022
On the future zonal contrasts of equatorial Pacific climate: Perspectives from observations, simulations, and theories
npj Climate and Atmospheric Science 5:82 -
Wang, P., Yuval, J. & O'Gorman, P. A., 2022
Non-local parameterization of atmospheric subgrid processes with neural networks
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 14, e2022MS002984
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Kohl, M. & O'Gorman, P. A., 2022
The diabatic Rossby vortex: Growth rate, length scale and the wave-vortex transition
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 79, 2739-2755 -
Williams, A. & O'Gorman, P. A., 2022
Summer-winter contrast in the response of precipitation extremes to climate change over Northern Hemisphere land
Geophysical Research Letters 49, e2021GL096531
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Li, Z., O'Gorman, P. A., & Rothman, D., 2022
Tropical precipitation clusters as islands on a rough water-vapor topography
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 148, 403-417 -
O'Gorman, P. A., Li, Z., Boos, W. R. & Yuval, J. 2021
Response of extreme precipitation to uniform surface warming in quasi-global aquaplanet simulations at high resolution
Philosophical Transactions A 379, 20190543
Supplementary Material
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Yuval, J., O'Gorman, P. A. & Hill, C. N. 2021
Use of neural networks for stable, accurate and physically consistent parameterization of subgrid atmospheric processes with good performance at reduced precision
Geophysical Research Letters 48, e2020GL091363
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Fowler, H. J. et al. 2021
Towards advancing scientific knowledge of climate change impacts on short-duration rainfall extremes
Philosophical Transactions A 379, 20190542
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Tuel, A., O'Gorman, P. A., & Eltahir, E. A. B. 2021
Elements of the dynamical response to climate change over the Mediterranean
Journal of Climate 34, 1135-1146
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Gertler, C. G., O'Gorman, P. A., Kravitz, B., Moore, J.C., Phipps, S. J. & Watanabe, S. 2020
Weakening of the extratropical storm tracks in solar geoengineering scenarios
Geophysical Research Letters 47, e2020GL087348
Supporting Information
Yuval, J. & O'Gorman, P. A. 2020
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
Stable machine-learning parameterization of subgrid processes for climate modeling at a range of resolutions
Nature Communications 11, 3295
Supplementary Information
Li, Z. & O'Gorman, P. A. 2020
Response of vertical velocities in extratropical precipitation extremes to climate change
Journal of Climate 33, 7125-7139
Supporting Information
Duffy, M. L., O'Gorman, P. A. & Back, L. E. 2020
Importance of Laplacian of low-level warming for the response of precipitation to climate change over tropical oceans
Journal of Climate 33, 4403-4417
Supplemental Material
2019
Gertler, C. G. & O'Gorman, P. A. 2019
Changing available energy for large-scale and convective circulations in northern summer
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116, 4105-4110
Supporting Information
2018
O'Gorman, P. A. & Dwyer, J. G. 2018
Using machine learning to parameterize moist convection: potential for simulations of climate, climate change, and extreme events
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 10, 2548-2563
Supporting Information
Byrne, M. P. & O'Gorman, P. A. 2018
Trends in continental temperature and humidity directly linked to ocean warming
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115, 4863-4868
Supporting Information
O'Gorman, P. A., Merlis, T. M. & Singh, M. S. 2018
Increase in the skewness of extratropical vertical velocities with climate warming: fully nonlinear simulations versus moist baroclinic instability
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 144, 208-217
2017
Dwyer, J. G. & O'Gorman, P. A. 2017
Changing duration and spatial extent of midlatitude precipitation extremes across different climates
Geophysical Research Letters 44, 5863-5871
Supporting Information
Pfahl, S., O'Gorman, P. A. & Fischer, E. M. 2017
Understanding the regional pattern of projected future changes in extreme precipitation
Nature Climate Change 7, 423-427
Dwyer, J. G. & O'Gorman, P. A. 2017
Moist formulations of the Eliassen-Palm flux and their connection to the surface westerlies
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 74, 513-530
Marotzke, J. et al 2017
Climate research must sharpen its view
Nature Climate Change 7, 89-91
Gao, X., Schlosser, C. A., O'Gorman, P.A., Monier, E., & Entekhabi, D. 2017
21st century changes in U.S. regional heavy precipitation frequency based on resolved atmospheric patterns
Journal of Climate 30, 2501-2521
Stansifer, E. M., O'Gorman, P. A. & Holt, J. I. 2017
Accurate computation of moist available potential energy with the Munkres algorithm
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 143, 288-292
Matlab code to calculate the available potential energy: moist_ape.tar.gz
2016
Byrne, M. P. & O'Gorman, P. A. 2016
Understanding decreases in land relative humidity with global warming: conceptual model and GCM simulations
Journal of Climate 29, 9045-9061
Shaw, T. A., Baldwin, M., Barnes, E. A., Caballero, R., Garfinkel, C.I., Hwang, Y.-T., Li, C., O'Gorman, P.A., Riviere, G., Simpson, I.R., & Voigt, A. 2016
Storm track processes and the opposing influences of climate change
Nature Geoscience 9, 656-664
Singh, M. S. & O'Gorman, P. A. 2016
Scaling of the entropy budget with surface temperature in radiative-convective equilibrium
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 8, 1132-1150
Schär, C. et al 2016
Percentile indices for assessing changes in heavy precipitation events
Climatic Change 137, 201-216
Donat, M. G., Lowry, A. L., Alexander, L. V., O'Gorman, P. A. & Maher, N. 2016
More extreme precipitation in the world's dry and wet regions
Nature Climate Change 6, 508-513
2015
Pfahl, S., O'Gorman, P. A. & Singh, M. S. 2015
Extratropical cyclones in idealized simulations of changed climates
Journal of Climate 28, 9373-9392
Singh, M. S. & O'Gorman, P. A. 2015
Increases in moist-convective updraught velocities with warming in radiative convective equilibrium
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 141, 2828-2838
Byrne, M. P. & O'Gorman, P. A. 2015
The response of precipitation minus evapotranspiration to climate warming: Why the "wet-get-wetter, dry-get-drier" scaling does not hold over land
Journal of Climate 28, 8078-8092
Supplemental figures
O'Gorman, P. A. 2015
Precipitation extremes under climate change
Current Climate Change Reports 1, 49-59
Booth, J. F., Polvani, L. M., O'Gorman, P. A., & Wang, S. 2015
Effective stability in a moist baroclinic wave
Atmospheric Science Letters 16, 56-62
2014
O'Gorman, P. A. 2014
Contrasting responses of mean and extreme snowfall to climate change
Nature 512, 416-418
Ferreira, D., Marshall, J., O'Gorman, P. A., & Seager, S. 2014
Climate at high obliquity
Icarus 243, 236-248
Singh, M. S. & O'Gorman, P. A. 2014
Influence of microphysics on the scaling of precipitation extremes with temperature
Geophysical Research Letters 41, 6037-6044
Supporting Information
2013
Byrne, M. P. & O'Gorman, P. A. 2013
Link between land-ocean warming contrast and surface relative humidities in simulations with coupled climate models
Geophysical Research Letters 40, 5223-5227
Supporting Information
Singh, M. S. & O'Gorman, P. A. 2013
Influence of entrainment on the thermal stratification in simulations of radiative-convective equilibrium
Geophysical Research Letters 40, 4398-4403
Supporting Information
Matlab script for the zero-buoyancy plume model
(See also AGU Highlight published in EOS)
Byrne, M. P. & O'Gorman, P. A. 2013
Land-ocean warming contrast over a wide range of climates: convective quasi-equilibrium theory and idealized simulations
Journal of Climate 26, 4000-4016
O'Gorman, P. A. & Singh, M. S. 2013
Vertical structure of warming consistent with an upward shift in the middle and upper troposphere
Geophysical Research Letters 40, 1838-1842
Supporting Information
2012
Singh, M. S. & O'Gorman, P. A. 2012
Upward shift of the atmospheric general circulation under global warming: theory and simulations
Journal of Climate 25, 8259-8276
O'Gorman, P. A. 2012
Sensitivity of tropical precipitation extremes to climate change
Nature Geoscience 5, 697-700
Supplementary Information
(See also News and Views )
O'Gorman, P. A., Allan, R. P., Byrne, M. P. & Previdi, M. 2012
Energetic constraints on precipitation under climate change
Surveys in Geophysics 33, 585-608
2011
O'Gorman, P. A., Lamquin, N., Schneider, T. & Singh, M. S. 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
Muller, C. J. & O'Gorman, P. A. 2011
An energetic perspective on the regional response of precipitation to climate change
Nature Climate Change 1, 266-271
Supplementary Information
Muller, C. J., O'Gorman, P. A. & Back, L. E. 2011
Intensification of precipitation extremes with warming in a cloud resolving model
Journal of Climate 24, 2784-2800
O'Gorman, P. A. 2011
The effective static stability experienced by eddies in a moist atmosphere
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 68, 75-90
Description and Matlab script for the effective static stability
2010
O'Gorman, P. A. 2010
Understanding the varied response of the extratropical storm tracks to climate change
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107, 19176-19180
Supporting Information
(See also highlights in Nature Climate Change and PNAS )
Matlab code to calculate the available potential energy: moist_ape.tar.gz
Schneider, T., O'Gorman, P. A. & Levine, X. J., 2010
Water vapor and the dynamics of climate changes
Reviews of Geophysics 48, RG3001
Sherwood, S. C., Ingram, W., Tsushima, Y., Satoh, M., Roberts, M., Vidale, P. L. & O'Gorman, P. A., 2010
Relative humidity changes in a warmer climate
Journal of Geophysical Research 115, D09104
O'Gorman, P. A. & Muller, C. J. 2010
How closely do changes in surface and column water vapor follow Clausius-Clapeyron scaling in climate-change simulations?
Environmental Research Letters 5, 025207
2009
Muller, C. J., Back, L. E., O'Gorman, P. A. & Emanuel, K. A., 2009
A model for the relationship between tropical precipitation and column water vapor
Geophysical Research Letters 36, L16804
Editor's Highlight
O'Gorman, P.A. & Schneider, T., 2009
Scaling of precipitation extremes over a wide range of climates simulated with an idealized GCM
Journal of Climate 22, 5676-5685
O'Gorman, P.A. & Schneider, T., 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
Supporting Information
Matlab script to evaluate the precipitation extremes scaling: precip_extremes_scaling.m
2008
Schneider, T. & O'Gorman, P.A., 2008
Moist convection and the thermal stratification of the extratropical troposphere
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 65, 3571-3583
O'Gorman, P.A. & Schneider, T., 2008
Energy of midlatitude transient eddies in idealized simulations of changed climates
Journal of Climate 21, 5797-5806
O'Gorman, P.A. & Schneider, T., 2008
The hydrological cycle over a wide range of climates simulated with an idealized GCM
Journal of Climate 21, 3815-3832
O'Gorman, P.A. & Schneider, T., 2008
Weather layer dynamics of baroclinic eddies and multiple jets in an idealized general circulation model
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 65, 524-535
2003-2007
O'Gorman, P.A. & Schneider, T., 2007
Recovery of atmospheric flow statistics in a general circulation model without nonlinear eddy-eddy interactions
Geophysical Research Letters 34, L22801
Schneider, T. & O'Gorman, P.A. 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., 6166.
Schneider, T., Smith, K.L., O'Gorman, P.A., Walker, C.C. 2006
A climatology of zonal-mean moisture fields and fluxes in isentropic coordinates.
Journal of Climate 19, 5918-5933
O'Gorman, P.A. & Schneider, T., 2006
Stochastic models for the kinematics of moisture transport and condensation in homogeneous turbulent flows
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 63, 2992-3005
O'Gorman, P.A. & Pullin, D.I., 2005
Effect of Schmidt number on the velocity-scalar cospectrum in isotropic turbulence with a mean scalar gradient
with electronic supplement
Journal of Fluid Mechanics 532, 111 - 140
O'Gorman, P.A. & Pullin, D.I., 2004
On modal time correlations of turbulent velocity and scalar fields
Journal of Turbulence 5: Art. No. 35
O'Gorman, P.A. & Pullin, D.I., 2003
The velocity-scalar cross spectrum of stretched spiral vortices
Physics of Fluids 15, 280-291