Dorian Schuyler Abbot

abbot at uchicago dot edu
(773) 834-3048

Room 461
Hinds Geophysical Sciences Building
University of Chicago
5734 South Ellis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637


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Publications

2012

Burton, J.C., J.M. Amundson, D.S. Abbot, A. Boghosian, L. Mac. Cathles, S. Correa-Legisos, K.N. Darnell, N. Guttenberg, D.M. Holland, and D.R. MacAyeal (2012), Laboratory investigations of iceberg-capsize dynamics, energy dissipation and tsunamigenesis, Journal of Geophysical Research, 117, F01007, doi:10.1029/2011JF002055. [PDF]

2011

Abbot, D.S., M. Silber, and R.T. Pierrehumbert (2011), Bifurcations Leading to Summer Arctic Sea Ice Loss, Journal of Geophysical Research, 116, D19120, doi:10.1029/2011JD015653. [PDF]

Abbot, D.S. and E.R. Switzer (2011), The Steppenwolf: A proposal for a habitable planet in interstellar space, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 735:L27, doi:10.1088/2041-8205/735/2/L27. [PDF]

Abbot, D.S., A. Voigt, and D. Koll (2011), The Jormungand Global Climate State and Implications for Neoproterozoic Glaciations, Journal of Geophysical Research, 116, D18103, doi:10.1029/2011JD015927. [PDF]

Cathles, L.M., D.S. Abbot, J.N. Bassis, D.R. MacAyeal (2011), Modeling surface-roughness/solar-ablation feedback: Application to small-scale surface channels and crevasses of the Greenland Ice Sheet, Annals of Glaciology, 52(59), 99-108. [PDF]

Guttenberg, N., D.S. Abbot, J.M. Amundson, J.C. Burton, L.M. Cathles, D.R. MacAyeal, and W.W. Zhang (2011), A computational investigation of iceberg capsize as a driver of explosive ice-shelf disintegration, Annals of Glaciology, 52(59), 51-59. [PDF]

MacAyeal, D.R., D.S. Abbot, and O.V. Sergienko (2011), Iceberg capsize tsunamigenesis, Annals of Glaciology, 52(58), 51-56. [PDF]

Pierrehumbert, R.T., D.S. Abbot, A. Voigt, and D. Koll (2011), Climate of the Neoproterozoic, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 39, 417-60, DOI:10.1146/annurev-earth-040809-152447. [PDF]

Voigt, A., D.S. Abbot, R.T. Pierrehumbert, and J. Marotzke (2011), Initiation of a Marinoan Snowball Earth in a state-of-the-art atmosphere-ocean general circulation model, Clim. Past, 7, 249-263, doi:10.5194/cp-7-249-2011. [PDF]

2010

Abbot, D.S., I. Eisenman, and R.T. Pierrehumbert (2010), The Importance of Ice Resolution for Snowball Climate and Deglaciation, Journal of Climate, 23(22), 6100-6109, DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3693.1. [PDF]

Abbot, D.S. and I. Halevy (2010), Dust Aerosol Important for Snowball Earth Deglaciation, Journal of Climate, 23(15), 4121-4132, DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3378.1. [PDF]

Abbot, D.S. and R.T. Pierrehumbert (2010), Mudball: Surface dust and Snowball Earth deglaciation, Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, D03104, doi:10.1029/2009JD012007. [PDF]

2009

Abbot, D.S., M. Huber, G. Bousquet, and C.C. Walker (2009), High-CO2 Cloud Radiative Forcing Feedback over both Land and Ocean in a Global Climate Model, Geophysical Research Letters, 36, L05702, doi:10.1029/2008GL036703. [PDF] [Supplementary Material PDF]

Abbot, D.S. and E. Tziperman (2009), Controls on the Activation and Strength of a High Latitude Convective Cloud Feedback, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 66(2), 519-529, DOI: 10.1175/2008JAS2840.1. [PDF]

Abbot, D.S., C.C. Walker, and E. Tziperman (2009), Can a convective cloud feedback help to eliminate winter and spring sea ice at high CO2 concentrations? Journal of Climate, 22(21), 5719-5731, DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI2854.1. [PDF] [Correction]

Crouch, R.C. and D.S. Abbot (2009), Is Green Education Blue or Red? State-level Environmental Education Program Development through the Lens of Red- and Blue-State Politics, Journal of Environmental Education, 40(3), 52-62. [PDF]

2008

Abbot, D.S. (2008), A High-Latitude Convective Cloud Feedback, PhD Thesis, advised by Eli Tziperman, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. [PDF]

Abbot, D.S. and E. Tziperman (2008), A High Latitude Convective Cloud Feedback and Equable Climates, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 134(630), 165-185, DOI: 10.1002/qj.211. [PDF]

Abbot, D.S. and E. Tziperman (2008), Sea Ice, High Latitude Convection, and Equable Climates, Geophysical Research Letters, 35(3), L03702, doi:10.1029/2007GL032286. [PDF] [Supplementary Material PDF]

2007

Abbot, D.S. and K.A. Emanuel (2007), A Tropical and Subtropical Land-Sea-Atmosphere Drought Oscillation Mechanism, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 64(12), 4458-4466, DOI: 10.1175/2007JAS2186.1. [PDF]

2006

Palmer, P. I., D.S. Abbot, et al. (2006), Quantifying the seasonal and interannual variability of North American isoprene emissions using satellite observations of formaldehyde column, Journal of Geophysical Research, 111(D12), D12315, doi:10.1029/2005JD006689. [PDF]

2005

Shim, C., Y. Wang, Y. Choi, P. I. Palmer, D. S. Abbot, and K. Chance (2005), Constraining global isoprene emissions with GOME formaldehyde column measurements, Journal of Geophysical Research, 110(D24), D24301, doi:10.1029/2004JD005629. [PDF]

2003

Abbot, D.S., P. I. Palmer, R. V. Martin, K. V. Chance, D. J. Jacob, and A. Guenther (2003), Seasonal and interannual variability of isoprene emissions as determined by formaldehyde column measurements from space, Geophysical Research Letters, 30(17), doi:10.1029/2003GL017336. [PDF]

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