Publications

  • Kim, J., P. Kollias, B. Puigdomenech Treserras, A. Battaglia, I. Tan. Evaluation of the EarthCARE Cloud Profiling Radar (CPR) doppler velocity measurements during surface-based observations, submitted to Atmos. Chem. Phys.
  • Dou, T., G. Xu, Y. Yang, R. Zhou, G. Yu, I. Tan, A. J. Heymsfield, J. Huang, J. Yin, M. Ding, Y. Lin, A. B. Sokol, C. Xiao, D. Qin. Tropospheric ice in a warming world, Nature Climate Change, under revision.
  • Tan, I. The Climatic impacts of a satellite-based parameterization of the Wegener-Bergeron-Findeisen process for large-scale models. J. Adv. Model. Earth System. under revision
  • Stauffer, C., I. Tan, S. Matrosov. Aerosol and meteorological influences on mixed-phase stratiform clouds at North Slope of Alaska, 52(11), e2025GL114815, (2025), https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025GL114815
  • Langile, J., L. A. Rieger, Y. Blanchard, J.-P. Blanchet, A. Bourassa, D. Degenstein, Y. Huang, K. Strong, K. Walker, D. Zawada, S. Braun, J. Cole, Z. Mariani, C. McLinden, D. Paquin-Ricard, C. Sirois, Z. Qu, M. Wolde, X. Wang, H. A. Al-Abadleh, P. Ariya, H. Beltrami, R. Chang, C. Fletcher, C. Goldblatt, P. Grenier, J. Gyakum, P. Kushner, A. Di Luca, A. H. MacDougall, N. O'Neill, F. Pausata, R. Sica, I. Tan, J. M. Theriault, S. Tegtmeier, M. Toohey, A. Wiacek, W. Ward. The High-altitude Aerosols, Water vapour and Clouds mission: concept, scientific objectives, and data products, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc. in press. https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/aop/BAMS-D-23-0309.1/BAMS-D-23-0309.1.xml
  • Mauritsen, T., Y. Tsushima, B. Meyssignac, N. G. Loeb, M. Hakuba, P. Pilewski, J. Cole, K. Suzuki, T. P. Ackerman, R. P. Allan, T. Andrews, F. A.-M. Bender, J. Bloch-Johnson, A. Bodas-Salcedo, A. Brookshaw, P. Ceppi, N. Clerbaux, A. E. Dessler, A. Donohoe, J.-L. Dufresne, V. Eyring, K. Findell, A. Gettelman, J. J. Gristey, E. Hawkins, P. Heimbach, H. T. Hewitt, N. Jevanjee, C. Jones, S. M. Kang, S. Kato, J. E. Kay, S. A. Klein, R. Knutti, R. Kramer, J.-Y. Lee, D. T. McCoy, B. Medeiros, L. Megner, A. Modak, T. Ogura, M. D. Plamer, D. Paynter, J. Quaas, V. Ramanathan, M. Ringer, K. von Schuckmann, S. Sherwood, B. Stevens, I. Tan, G. Tselioudis, R. Sutton, A. Voigt, M. Watanabe, M. J. Webb, M. Wild, M. D. Zelinka. Earth's energy accumulation rate more than doubled, and we must pay close attention, AGU Advances, 6(3), (2025), https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024AV001636
  • Tan, I., C. Zhou, A. Lamy, C. Stauffer. Moderate climate sensitivity due to opposing feedbacks in observationally-constrained mixed-phase clouds, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 8(1), (2025), https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-025-00948-7
  • Zhou, C., Q. Wang, I. Tan, L. Zhang, M. D. Zelinka, M. Wang, J. Bloch-Johnson. Sea ice pattern effect on Earth's energy budget is characterized by hemispheric asymmetry, Science Advances, 11(9), (2025), https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adr4248
  • Tan, I. M. D. Zelinka, Q.Coopman, B. H. Kahn, L. Oreopoulos, G. Tselioudis, D. T. McCoy, N. Li. Contributions from cloud morphological changes to the interannual cloud feedback based on MODIS and ISCCP satellite observations, J. Geophys. Res., 129(8), e2023JD040540 (2024), https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023JD040540
  • Coulbury, C. I. Tan. Top of the Atmosphere Shortwave Arctic Cloud Feedbacks: A Comparison of Diagnostic Methods, Geophys. Res. Lett., 51(10), e2023GL107780
  • Coopman, Q., I. Tan. Characterization of the spatial distribution of mixed-phase cloud thermodynamic phase with satellite observations, Geophy. Res. Lett., 50(24), e2023GL104977 (2023), https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2023GL104977
  • Zelinka, M. D., I. Tan, L. Oreopoulos, G. Tselioudis. Detailing cloud property feedbacks with a regime-based decomposition, Climate Dynamics, 60(9-10), 2983-3003, (2023), https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-022-06488-7
  • McCoy, D. T., M. Frazer, J. Mulmenstadt, I. Tan, C. Terai, M. D. Zelinka. Extratropical cloud feedbacks. AGU Geophysical Monograph Series: Clouds and Their Climatic Impacts: Radiation, Circulation, and Precipitation, Chapter 6, pp. 133-157, (2023) https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781119700357.ch6
  • Tan, I., G. Sotiropoulou, P. Taylor, L. Zamora, M. Wendisch. A review of the factors influencing Arctic liquid-containing clouds: progress and outlook (invited), Clouds and their Climatic Impacts: Radiation, Circulation, and Precipitation, Chapter 5, AGU Geophysical Monograph Series: Clouds and Their Climatic Impacts: Radiation, Circulation, and Precipitation, Chapter 5, pp. 103-132, (2023) https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/9781119700357.ch5
  • Wall, D. J., T. Storelvmo, J. R. Norris, I. Tan. Observational constraints on Southern Ocean cloud-phase feedback, Journal of Climate, 35(15), 5087--5102, (2022), https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/clim/35/15/JCLI-D-21-0812.1.xml
  • Tan, I., Barahona, D. The impacts of immersion ice nucleation parameterizations on Arctic mixed-phase stratiform cloud properties and the Arctic radiation budget in GEOS-5. Journal of Climate, 35(13), 4049--4070, (2022), https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/clim/aop/JCLI-D-21-0368.1/JCLI-D-21-0368.1.xml
  • McCoy, D. T., P. Field, M. Frazer, M. D. Zelinka, G. Elsaesser, J. Mulmenstadt, I. Tan, T. Myers, Z. Lebo. Extratropical shortwave cloud feedbacks in the context of the global circulation and hydrological cycle. Geophys. Res. Lett., 49(8), e2021GL097154 (2022), https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2021GL097154
  • Tan, I. Barahona, D., Q. Coopman. Potential link between ice nucleation and climate model spread in Arctic amplification. Geophys. Res. Lett., 49(4), e2021GL097373, (2022), https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL097373
  • Taylor, P. C., R. C. Boeke, L. N. Boisvert, N. Feldl, M. Henry, Y. Huang, P. Langen, W. Liu, F. Pithan, S. Sejas, I. Tan. Process drivers, intermodel spread, and the path forward: A review of amplified Arctic warming, Front. Earth Sci., 9:758361 (2022), https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2021.758361/full
  • Sagoo, N., T. Storelvmo, L. Hahn, I. Tan, A. J. Broccoli. Observationally constrained cloud phase unmasks orbitally driven climate feedbacks. Geophys. Res. Lett., 48(6), e2020GL091873, (2021), https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL091873
  • Lewis, J., J. R. Campbell, S. Lolli, S. A. Stewart, I. Tan, E. J. Welton. Determining cloud thermodynamic phase from the polarized micro pulse lidar. Atmos. Meas. Tech., 13(12), 6901-6913, (2020).  https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-6901-2020
  • Tan, I., L. Oreopoulos, N. Cho. The role of thermodynamic phase shifts in cloud optical depth variations with temperature. Geophys. Res. Lett., 46(8), 4502–4511, (2019). https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL081590
  • Tan, I., T. Storelvmo. Evidence of strong contributions from mixed-phase clouds to Arctic climate change. Geophys. Res. Lett., 46(5), 2894–2902, (2019). https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL081871
  • Tan, I., T. Storelvmo, M. D. Zelinka. Chapter 10, The climatic impact of thermodynamic phase partitioning in mixed-phase clouds, Mixed-Phase Clouds: Observations Modeling. Editor: Constantin Andronache, Elsevier, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-810549-8.00010-6
  • McCoy, D. T., I. Tan, D. L. Hartmann, M. D. Zelinka, T. Storelvmo. On the relationships among cloud cover, mixed-phase partitioning, and planetary albedo in GCMs. J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 8(2), 650–668, (2016).  https://doi.org/10.1002/2015MS000589 (Press release: EOS Research Spotlight).
  • Tan, I. T. Storelvmo, M. D. Zelinka. Observational constraints on mixed-phase clouds imply higher climate sensitivity, Science, 352(6282), 224-227, (2016). https://science.sciencemag.org/content/352/6282/224  (Selected press releases: The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post)
  • Tan, I., T. Storelvmo. Sensitivity study on the influence of cloud microphysical parameters on mixed-phase cloud thermodynamic phase partitioning in CAM5, J. Atmos. Sci., 73(2), 709–728, (2016). https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-15-0152.1
  • Storelvmo, T., I. Tan, A. V. Korolev. Cloud phase changes induced by CO2 warming — a powerful yet poorly constrained cloud-climate feedback. Curr. Clim. Change Rep., 1(4), 288–296, (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40641-015-0026-2
  • Storelvmo T., I. Tan. The Wegener-Bergeron-Findeisen process — Its discovery and vital importance for weather and climate. Meteor. Z. 24(11), 455-461, (2015). https://doi.org/10.1127/metz/2015/0626
  • Tan, I., T. Storelvmo, Y.-S. Choi. Spaceborne lidar observations of the ice nucleation potential of dust, polluted dust and smoke aerosols in mixed-phase clouds, J. Geophys. Res. 119(11), 6653–6665 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1002/2013JD021333
  • Choi, Y.-S., C.-H. Ho, C.-E. Park, T. Storelvmo, I. Tan. Influence of cloud phase composition on climate feedbacks. J. Geophys. Res. 119(7), 3687–3700, (2014). https://doi.org/10.1002/2013JD020582
  • Komurcu, M., T. Storelvmo, I. Tan, U. Lohmann, Y. Yun, J. E. Penner, Y. Wang, X. Liu, T. Takemura. Intercomparison of the cloud water phase among global climate models, J. Geophys. Res. 119(6), 3372–3400, (2014). https://doi.org/10.1002/2013JD021119