William (Bill) Collins's Publications

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Recent Peer-Reviewed Publications

  1. Meehl, G.A, W.M. Washington, W.D. Collins, J.M. Arblaster, A. Hu, L.E. Buja, W.G. Strand, and H. Teng, 2005: How much more global warming and sea level rise? Science, 307, 1769–1772.
  2. Santer, B.D., T.M.L. Wigley, K.E. Taylor, P.W. Thorne, M.F. Wehner, J.S. Boyle, W. Collins, K.W. Dixon, C. Doutriaux, P.J. Gleckler, J.E. Hansen, T.R. Karl, S.A. Klein, J.R. Lanzante, C. Mears, G.A. Meehl, V. Ramaswamy, D.J. Seidel, and F.J. Wentz, 2005: Modeled and observed lapse-rate changes in the deep tropics. Science, 309, 1551-1556.
  3. Lamarque, J.F., J.T. Kiehl, P.G. Hess, W.D. Collins, L.K. Emmons, P. Ginoux, C. Lou, and X.X. Tie, 2005: Coupled chemistry-climate response to changes in aerosols emissions: global impact on the hydrological cycle and the tropospheric burdens of OH, ozone and NOx. Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, article no. L16809, doi:10.1029/2005GL023419.
  4. Lamarque, J.F., J. Kiehl, G. Brasseur, T. Butler, P. Cameron-Smith, W.D. Collins, Collins, C. Granier, D. Hauglustaine, P. Hess, E. Holland, L. Horowitz, M. Lawrence, McKenna, P. Merilees, M. Prather, P. Rasch, D. Rotman, D. Shindell, and P. Thorn-ton, 2005: Assessing future nitrogen deposition and carbon cycle feedback using a multi-model approach. Part 1: Analysis of nitrogen deposition. J. Geophys. Res., 110, article no. D19303, doi:10.1029/2004JD005463.
  5. Collins, W.D., C.M. Bitz, M.L. Blackmon, G.B. Bonan, C.S. Bretherton, J.A. Carton, P. Chang, S.C. Doney, J.J. Hack, T.B. Henderson, J.T. Kiehl, W.G. Large, D.S. McKenna, Santer, and R.D. Smith, 2006: The Community Climate System Model: CCSM3. Climate, 19, 2122–2143.
  6. Collins, W.D., P.J. Rasch, B.A. Boville, J.J. Hack, J.R. McCaa, D.L. Williamson, B.P. Briegleb, C.M. Bitz, S.-J. Lin, and M. Zhang, 2006: The formulation and atmospheric simulation of the Community Atmosphere Model: CAM3. J. Climate, 19, 2144–2161.
  7. Kiehl, J.T., C.A. Shields, J.J. Hack, and W.D. Collins, 2006: The climate sensitivity of the Community Climate System Model: CCSM3. J. Climate, 19, 2584–2596.
  8. Kinne, S., M. Schulz, C. Textor, S. Guibert, Y. Balkanski, S. Bauer, T. Berntsen, T. Berglen, O. Boucher, M. Chin, W. Collins, F. Dentener, T. Diehl, R. Easter, H. Fe­ichter, D. Fillmore, S. Ghan, P. Ginoux, S. Gong, A. Grini, J. Hendricks, M. Herzog, L. Horrowitz, I. Isaksen, T. Iversen, A. Jones, S. Kloster, D. Koch, M. Krool, A. Lauer, Lamarque, G. Lesins, X. Liu, U. Lohmann, V. Montanaro, G. Myhre, J. Penner, Pitari, S. Reddy, D. Roberts, O. Seland, P. Stier, T. Takemura, and X. Tie, 2006: An AeroCom initial assessment – optical properties in aerosol component modules of global models. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 6, 1815–1834.
  9. Meehl, G.A., W.M. Washington, B. Santer, W.D. Collins, J.M. Arblaster, A. Hu, D.M. Lawrence, H. Teng, L.E. Buja, and W.G. Strand, 2006: Climate change in the 20th and 21st cen­turies and climate change commitment in the CCSM3. J. Climate, 19, 2597–2616.
  10. Collins, W.D., V. Ramaswamy, M.D. Schwarzkopf, Y. Sun, R.W. Portmann, Q. Fu, Casanova, J.-L. Dufresne, D.W. Fillmore, P.M.D. Forster, V.Y. Galin, L.K. Go­har, W.J. Ingram, D.P. Kratz, M.-P. Lefebvre, J. Li, P. Marquet, V. Oinas, Y. Tsushima, Uchiyama and W.Y. Zhong, 2006: Radiative forcing by well-mixed greenhouse gases: Estimates from climate models in the IPCC AR4. J. Geophys. Res., 111, article no. D14317, doi:10.1029/2005JD006713.
  11. Sun, D.Z., T. Zhang, C. Covey, S. Klein, W.D. Collins, J.J. Hack, J.T. Kiehl, G.A Meehl, I.M. Held, and M. Suarez, 2006: Radiative and dynamical feedbacks over the equatorial cold-tongue: Results from seven atmospheric GCMs. J. Climate, 19, 4059–4074.
  12. Gettelman, A., W.D. Collins, E.J. Fetzer, A. Eldering, and F.W. Irion, 2006: A satel­lite climatology of upper tropospheric relative humidity and implications for climate. J. Climate, 19, 6104–6121.
  13. Mahowald, N.M., M. Yoshioka, W.D. Collins, A.J. Conley, D.W. Fillmore, and D.B. Cole­man, 2006: Climate response and radiative forcing from mineral aerosols during the last glacial maximum, pre-industrial, current, and doubled-carbon dioxide climates. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, article no. L20705, doi:10.1029/2006GL026126.
  14. Collins, W.D., J.M. Lee-Taylor, D.P. Edwards, and G.L. Francis, 2006: Effects of in­creased near-infrared absorption by water vapor on the climate system. J. Geophys. Res., 111, article no. D18109, doi:10.1029/2005JD006796.
  15. Yoshioka, M., N.M. Mahowald, A.J. Conley, W.D. Collins, D.W. Fillmore, C.S. Zender, and D.B. Coleman, 2007: Impact of desert dust radiative forcing on Sahel precipitation: Relative importance of dust compared to sea surface temperature variations, vegetation changes and greenhouse gas warming. J. Climate, 20, 1445-1467.
  16. Meehl, G.A., J.M. Arblaster, and W.D. Collins, 2008: Effects of black carbon aerosols on the South Asian Monsoon. J. Climate, 21, 2869–2882.
  17. Iacono, M.J., J.S. Delamere, E.J. Mlawer, M.W. Shephard, S.A. Clough, and W.D. Collins, 2008, Radiative forcing by long-lived greenhouse gases: Calculations with the AER radiative transfer models, J. Geophys. Res.., 113, article no. D13103, doi:10.1029/2008JD009944.
  18. Jensen, M.P., A.M. Vogelmann, W.D. Collins, G.J. Zhang, and E. Luke, 2008: Investiga­tion of regional and seasonal variations in marine boundary layer cloud properties from MODIS observations. J. Climate 21, 4955–4973.
  19. Collins, W. D., and M. Satoh, 2009: Simulating global clouds: Past, present and future. Perturbed Clouds in the Climate System: Report of the Ernst Strungmann Forum, R.J. Charlson and J. Heintzenberg, eds., Frankfurt, Germany, March 27, 2008, MIT Press.
  20. Quaas, J., S. Bony, W.D. Collins, L. Donner, A. Illingworth, A. Jones, U. Lohmann, M. Satoh, S.E. Schwartz, W.-K. Tao, and R. Wood, 2009: Current understanding and quantification of clouds in the changing climate system and strategies for reducing critical uncertainties. Perturbed Clouds in the Climate System: Report of the Ernst Strungmann Forum, R.J. Charlson and J. Heintzenberg, eds., Frankfurt, Germany, March 27, 2008, MIT Press.
  21. Meehl, G.A., T.F. Stocker, W.D. Collins, et al, 2006:  Chapter 10: Global Climate Projections, in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group 1: the Physical Basis of Cliamte Chanage report, in press.

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National and International Assessments

  1. Santer, B.D., J.E. Penner, P.W. Thorne, W. Collins, K. Dixon, T.L. Delworth, C. Doutri­aux, C.K. Folland, C.E. Forest, I.M. Held, J.R. Lanzante, G.A. Meehl, V. Ramaswamy, D.J. Seidel, M.F. Wehner, and T.M.L. Wigley, 2006: How well can the observed vertical temperature changes be reconciled with our understanding of the causes of these tempera­ture changes? in Temperature Trends in the Lower Atmosphere: Steps for Understanding and Reconciling Differences. T.R. Karl, S.J. Hassol, C.D. Miller, and W.L. Murray, ed­itors, 2006. A Report by the Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research, Washington, DC.
  2. Meehl, G.A., T.F. Stocker, W.D. Collins, P. Friedlingstein, A. Gaye, J. Gregory, A. Kitoh, R. Knutti, J. Murphy, A. Noda, S. Raper, I. Watterson, A. Weaver, Z.-C. Zhao, J. An-nan, J. Arblaster, C. Bitz, A. le Brocq, P. Brockmann, L. Buja, G. Clarke, M. Collins, E. Driesschaert, N.A. Diansky, K. Dixon, J.-L. Dufresne, J. Kyurgerov, J. Eby, N. Ed­wards, S. Emori, P. Forster, R. Furrer, J. Hansen, G. Hegerl, M. Holland, A. Hu, P. Huy­brechts, F. Joos, J. Kettleborough, M. Kimoto, M. Krynytzky, M.-F. Loutre, J. Lowe, M. Meinshausen, S. M¨uller, S. Nawrath, J. Oerlemans, T. Palmer, A. Payne, G.-K. Plat­tner, J. R¨ais¨anen, G.L. Russell, A. Rinke, D. Salas y Melia, G. Schmidt, B. Schnei­der, A. Shepherd, D. Stainforth, C. Tebaldi, H. Teng, L. Terray, A. Sokolov, P. Stott, E.M. Volodin, B. Wang, T.M.L. Wigley, Y. Yu, and S. Yukimoto, 2007: Chapter 10: Global Climate Projections, in Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Con­tribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Solomon, S., D. Qin, M. Manning, Z. Chen, M. Marquis, K.B. Averyt, M. Tignor and H.L. Miller (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA, 996 pp.
  3. Forster, P., V. Ramaswamy, P. Artaxo, T. Berntsen, R. Betts, D. Fahey, J. Haywood, J. Lean, D. Lowe, G. Myhre, J. Nganga, R. Prinn, G. Raga, M. Schulz, R. Van Dor­land, G. Bodeker, G. Boer, O. Boucher, W.D. Collins, T.J. Conway, E. Dlugokencky, J. Elkins, D. Etheridge, P. Fraser, D. Keeling, S. Kinne, K. Lassey, U. Lohmann, A. Manning, S. Montzka, D. Oram, K. O’Shaughnessy, S. Piper, M. Ponater, N. Ra­mankutty, K. Rosenlof, R. Saussen, M.D. Schwarzkopf, G. Stenchikov, N. Stuber, C. Tex­tor, R. Wang,, R. Weiss, and T. Whorf, 2007: Chapter 2: Changes in Atmospheric Constituents and in Radiative Forcing, in Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Inter­governmental Panel on Climate Change [Solomon, S., D. Qin, M. Manning, Z. Chen, M. Marquis, K.B. Averyt, M. Tignor and H.L. Miller (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA, 996 pp.
  4. Hegerl, G., F. Zwiers, P. Braconnot, N. Gillett, Y. Luo, J. Marengo, N. Nicholls, J. Pen­ner, P. Stott, M. Allen, C. Ammann, N. Andronova, R. Betts, A. Clement, W.D. Collins, S. Crooks, T. Delworth, R. van Dorland, C. Forest, P. Forster, H. Goosse, J. Gregory,D. Harvey, F. Joos, G. Jones, J. Kenyon, J. Kettleborough, R. Knutti, H. Lambert, M. Lavine, D. Levinson, V. Masson, T. Nozawa, B. Otto-Bliesner, D. Pierce, S. Power, D. Rind, L. Rotstayn, B.D. Santer, C. Senior, S. Stark, D. Stone, S. Tett, P. Thorne, M. Wang, B. Wielicki, T. Wong, L. Xu, X. Zhang, and E. Zorita, 2007: Chapter 9: Understanding and Attributing Climate Change, in Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Solomon, S., D. Qin, M. Manning, Z. Chen, M. Marquis, K.B. Averyt, M. Tignor and H.L. Miller (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA, 996 pp.

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