Office: Discovery Hall 127

Phone:

Email

Levi Silvers

Research Scientist

Education:

Ph.D.2011

- Colorado State University

Research Topics:

Clouds

Visit our Lab Site

rays

Bio/Research

Bio/Research

My research is focused on clouds. The goal is to elucidate how clouds contribute to the flux of energy through the atmosphere with a particular focus on showing the degree to which low-level clouds contribute to low frequency variability of the energy budget at the top of the atmosphere.

This research on clouds is part of an effort to compare and improve the results of several climate models. These inter-model comparisons (The Cloud Feedback Model Intercomparison Project CFMIP) are contributing to a better understanding of the entire physical Earth system.

My research interests also include large-scale dynamics, radiative-convective equilibrium, climate change, and the development of general circulation models.
Publications

Publications

Reed, K. A., Silvers, L. G., Wing, A. A., Hu, I. K., & Medeiros, B. (2021). Using radiative convective equilibrium to explore clouds and climate in the Community Atmosphere Model. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 13(12), e2021MS002539.

Deroubaix, A., Labuhn, I., Camredon, M., Gaubert, B., Monerie, P.A., Popp, M., Ramarohetra, J., Ruprich-Robert, Y., Silvers, L.G. and Siour, G., (2021). Large uncertainties in trends of energy demand for heating and cooling under climate change. Nature Communications, 12(1), 1-8.

Burnett, A. C., Sheshadri, A., Silvers, L. G., & Robinson, T. Tropical Cyclone Frequency under Varying SSTs in Aquaplanet Simulations. Geophysical Research Letters, e2020GL091980.

Fueglistaler, S., & Silvers, L. G. (2021). The peculiar trajectory of global warming. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, e2020JD033629.

Zhang, G., Silvers, L. G., Zhao, M., & Knutson, T. R. (2020). Idealized aqua-planet simulations of tropical cyclone activity: significance of temperature gradients, hadley circulation, and zonal asymmetry. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.

Silvers, L. G., & Robinson, T. (2020). Clouds and Radiation in a mock‐Walker Circulation. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, e2020MS002196.

Winton, M., Adcroft, A., Dunne, J. P., Held, I. M., Shevliakova, E., Zhao, M., Guo, H., Hurlin, W., Krasting, J., Knutson, T., Paynter, D., Silvers, L. G., & Zhang, R. (2020). Climate sensitivity of GFDL’s CM4.0. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 12, e2019MS001838. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019MS001838
Links

Links

Google Scholar

Lab Link