Publications classified by topics
Sandrine Bony (LMD/IPSL, CNRS, Sorbonne University)
[Most of the publications are available in open-access from the journal’s website; If not, contact me]
NB: A paper can be associated with several topics
MAESTRO/ORCESTRA - EUREC4A – Convective organization – Climate feedbacks and sensitivity – Cloud feedbacks – CFMIP - Clouds and circulation – Precipitation - Water isotopes – IPSL climate model – Perspectives, IPCC & WCRP papers - Others
MAESTRO/ORCESTRA campaign:
MAESTRO/ORCESTRA overview papers:
Stevens, B., S. Bony, S. Gross, D. Klocke, J. Windmiller, A. Wing, J. von Bismarck, E. Brito, R. O. David, J. Delanoë, D. Farrell and Y. Wu, 2026: ORCESTRA: Organized Convection and EarthCARE Studies over the Tropical Atlantic, Tellus, 79, 1, 35–52, https://doi.org/10.16993/tellus.4123
MAESTRO/ORCESTRA analysis papers:
Bony, S., B. Poujol, B. McKim, N. Rochetin, M. Lothon, J. Windmiller, N. Maury, C. Dufaux, L. Jaffeux, P. Chazette and J. Delanoë, 2025: Evidence for the role of thermal and cloud merging in mesoscale convective organization. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 25, 17331–17362, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-17331-2025. Editor’s highlight
MAESTRO/ORCESTRA data papers:
Gloeckner, H. M., T. Mieslinger, N. Robbins-Blanch, G. George, L. Kluft, T. Kölling, S. Bony, J. M. Windmiller, and B. Stevens, 2026: BEACH: Barbados and Eastern Atlantic Combined High-altitude dropsonde datasets, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 4425–4450, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-4425-2026.
Winkler, M. et al., S. Bony, A. A. Wing and B. Stevens, 2026: RAPSODI: Radiosonde Atmospheric Profiles from Ship and island platforms during ORCESTRA, collected to Decipher the ITCZ, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 1833–1854, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-1833-2026, 2026.
EUREC4A overview papers:
Stevens, B., S. Bony, D. Farrell et al. (293 co-authors), 2021: EUREC4A, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 4067–4119, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-4067-2021
Bony, S., B. Stevens, F. Ament, S. Bigorre, P. Chazette, S. Crewell, J. Delanoë, K. Emanuel, D. Farrell, C. Flamant, S. Gross, L. Hirsch, J. Karstensen, B. Mayer, L. Nuijens, J. H. Ruppert Jr., I. Sandu, P. Siebesma, S. Speich, F. Szczap, J. Totems, R. Vogel, M. Wendisch, M. Wirth, 2017: EUREC4A: A field campaign to elucidate the couplings between clouds, convection and circulation. Surveys of Geophysics, 38(6), 1529-1568. doi:10.1007/s10712-017-9428-0
EUREC4A analysis papers:
Bony, S., B. Poujol, B. McKim, N. Rochetin, M. Lothon, J. Windmiller, N. Maury, C. Dufaux, L. Jaffeux, P. Chazette and J. Delanoë, 2025: Evidence for the role of thermal and cloud merging in mesoscale convective organization. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 25, 17331–17362, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-17331-2025, 2025. Editor’s highlight
Poujol, B., & Bony, S., 2024: Measuring clear-air vertical motions from space. AGU Advances, 5, e2024AV001267. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024AV001267 Editor’s highlight
Villiger, L., M. Dütsch, S. Bony, M. Lothon, S. Pfahl, H. Wernli, P.-E. Brilouet, P. Chazette, P. Coutris, J. Delanoë, C. Flamant, A. Schwarzenboeck, M. Werner and F. Aemisegger, 2023: Water isotopic characterisation of the cloud-circulation coupling in the North Atlantic trades. Part 1: A process-oriented evaluation of COSMOiso simulations with EUREC4A observations. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, 14643–14672, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-14643-2023
George, G., B. Stevens, S. Bony, R. Vogel and A. K. Naumann, 2023: Widespread shallow mesoscale circulations observed in the trades. Nature Geosci., 16, 584–589, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01215-1
Albright, A. L., B. Stevens, S. Bony, R. Vogel, 2023: A new conceptual picture of the trade-wind transition layer., J. Atmos. Sci., 80, 1547–1563, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-22-0184.1.
Vial J, A L Albright, R Vogel. I Musat and S Bony, 2023: Cloud transitions across the daily cycle illuminates model responses to trade cumuli to warming. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci, 120 (8), e2209805120, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2209805120
Vogel R, A L Albright, J Vial, G George, B Stevens and S Bony, 2022: Strong cloud–circulation coupling explains weak trade cumulus feedback. Nature, 612, 696-700, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05364-y Research Briefing
Albright A L, S Bony, B Stevens and R Vogel, 2022: Observed subcloud layer moisture and heat budgets in the trades. J. Atmos. Sci., 79(9), 2363-2385, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-21-0337.1
EUREC4A data papers:
Bailey A, F Aemisegger, L Villiger, S A. Los, G Reverdin, E Quiñones Meléndez, C Acquistapace, D B. Baranowski, T Böck, S Bony, T Bordsdorff, D Coffman, S P. de Szoeke, C J. Diekmann, M Dütsch, B Ertl, J Galewsky, D Henze, P Makuch, D Noone, P K. Quinn, M Rösch, A Schneider, M Schneider, S Speich, B Stevens, and E Thompson, 2023: Isotopic measurements in water vapor, precipitation, and seawater during EUREC4A, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 15, 465–495, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-465-2023
Bony S, M Lothon, J Delanoë, P Coutris, JC Etienne, F Aemisegger, A L Albright, T André, H Bellec, A Baron, J-F Bourdinot, P-E Brillouet, A Bourdon, J-C Canonici, C Caudoux, P Chazette, M Cluzeau, C Cornet, J-P Desbios, D Duchanoy, C Flamant, B Fildier, C Gourbeyre, L Guiraud, T Jiang, C Lainard, C Le Gac, C Lendroit, J Lernould, T Perrin, F Pouvesle, P Richard, N Rochetin, K Salaün, A Schwarzenboeck, G Seurat, B Stevens, J Totems, L Touzé-Peiffer, G Vergez, J Vial, L Villiger and R Vogel, 2022: EUREC4A observations from the SAFIRE ATR42 aircraft, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 14, 2021–2064, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-2021-2022
Bock, O., P. Bosser, C. Flamant, E. Doerflinger, F. Jansen, R. Fages, S. Bony and S. Schnitt, 2021: Integrated water vapour observations in the Caribbean arc from a network of ground-based GNSS receivers during EUREC4A, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 2407–2436, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-2407-2021
Bosser, P., O. Bock, C. Flamant, S. Bony and S. Speich, 2021: Integrated water vapour content retrievals from ship-borne GNSS receivers during EUREC4A, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, EUREC4A special issue, 13, 1499–1517, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-1499-2021
Brilouet, P.-E., Lothon, M., Etienne, J.-C., Richard, P., Bony, S., Lernoult, J., Bellec, H., Vergez, G., Perrin, T., Delanoë, J., Jiang, T., Pouvesle, F., Lainard, C., Cluzeau, M., Guiraud, L., Medina, P., and Charoy, T., 2021: The EUREC4A turbulence dataset derived from the SAFIRE ATR 42 aircraft, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 3379–3398, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-3379-2021
George, G., B. Stevens, S. Bony, R. Pincus, C. Fairall, H. Schulz, T. Kölling, Q. T. Kalen, M. Klingebiel, H. Konow, A. Lundry, M. Prange, and J. Radtke, 2021: JOANNE : Joint dropsonde Observations of the Atmosphere in tropical North atlaNtic meso-scale Environments, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 3, 5253–5272, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-5253-2021
Konow, H., F. Ewald, G. George, M. Jacob, M. Klingebiel, T. Kölling, A. E. Luebke, T. Mieslinger, V. Pörtge, J. Radtke, M. Schäfer, H. Schulz, R. Vogel, M. Wirth, S. Bony, S. Crewell, A. Ehrlich, L. Forster, A. Giez, F. Gödde, S. Groß, M. Gutleben, M. Hagen, L. Hirsch, F. Jansen, T. Lang, B. Mayer, M. Mech, M. Prange, S. Schnitt, J. Vial, A. Walbröl, M. Wendisch, K. Wolf, T. Zinner, M. Zöger, F. Ament, and B. Stevens, 2021: EUREC4A’s HALO, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 5545–5563, http://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-5545-2021
Stephan, C., S. Schnitt, H. Schulz, H. Bellenger, S. P. de Szoeke, C. Acquistapace, K. Baier, T. Dauhut, R.Laxenaire, Y. Morfa-Avalos, R. Person, E. Quiñones Meléndez, G. Bagheri, T. Böck, A. Daley, J. Güttler, K. C. Helfer, S. A. Los, A. Neuberger, J. Röttenbacher, A. Raeke, M. Ringel, M. Ritschel, P. Sadoulet, I. Schirmacher, M. Katharina Stolla, E. Wright, B. Charpentier, A. Doerenbecher, R. Wilson, F. Jansen, S. Kinne, G. Reverdin, S. Speich, S. Bony, and B. Stevens, 2021: Ship- and island-based atmospheric soundings from the 2020 EUREC4A field campaign, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 491-514, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-491-2021
Chazette, P., J. Totems, A. Baron, C. Flamant and S. Bony, 2020: Trade-wind clouds and aerosols characterized by airborne horizontal lidar measurements during the EUREC4A field campaign. Earth Syst. Sci. Data, EUREC4A special issue, 12, 2919-2936, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2919-2020
EUREC4A preparations (analyses & experimental strategies):
Aemisegger, F., R. Vogel, P. Graf, F. Dahinden, L. Villiger, F. Jansen, S. Bony, B. Stevens, and H. Wernli, 2021: How Rossby wave breaking modulates the water cycle in the North Atlantic trade wind region. Weather and Climate Dynamics, 2, 281–309, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-2-281-2021
George, G., B. Stevens, S. Bony, M. Klingebiel and R. Vogel, 2021: Observed impact of meso-scale vertical motion on cloudiness. J. Atmos. Sci., 78(8), 2413-2427, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-20-0335.1
Bony, S., H. Schulz, J. Vial and B. Stevens, 2020: Sugar, Gravel, Fish and Flowers: dependence of mesoscale patterns of tradewind clouds on environmental conditions. Geophys. Res. Lett., 47, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL085988 Editor's Highlight
Stevens, B., S. Bony, H. Brogniez, L. Hentgen, C. Hohenegger, C. Kiemle, T. S. L’Ecuyer, A. K. Naumann, H. Schulz, P. A. Siebesma, J. Vial, D. M. Winker and P. Zuidema, 2020: Sugar, Gravel, Fish and Flowers: Mesoscale cloud patterns in the Tradewinds. Q J R Meteorol Soc., 146, 141– 152. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3662
Rasp, S., H. Schulz, S. Bony, and B. Stevens, 2020: Combining Crowd-sourcing and Deep Learning to Explore the Mesoscale Organization of Shallow Convection. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 101, E1980–E1995, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0324.1
Vogel, R., S. Bony and B. Stevens, 2020: Estimating the shallow convective mass flux from the sub-cloud layer mass budget. J. Atmos. Sci., 77, 1559–1574, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-19-0135.1
Bony, S. and B. Stevens, 2019: Measuring Area-Averaged Vertical Motions with Dropsondes. J. Atmos. Sci., 76, 767–783, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-18-0141.1
Stevens, B., F. Ament, S. Bony, S. Crewell, F. Ewald, S. Gross, A. Hansen, L. Hirsch, M. Jakob, T. Kölling, H. Konow, B. Mayer, M. Wendisch, M. Wirth, K. Wolf, S. Bakan, M. Bauer-Pfundstein, M. Brueck, J. Delanoë, A. Ehrlich, D. Farrell, M. Forde, F. Gödde. H. Grob, M. Hagen, E. Jäkel, F. Jansen, C. Klepp, M. Klingebiel, M. Mech, G. Peters, M. Rapp, A. Wing and T. Zinner, 2019: A high-altitude long-range aircraft configured as a cloud observatory – the NARVAL expeditions. Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc., 100, 1061–1077, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-18-0198.1
Vial, J., R. Vogel, S. Bony, B. Stevens, D. M. Winker, X. Cai, C. Hohenegger, A. K. Naumann and H. Brogniez, 2019: A new look at the daily cycle of tradewind cumuli, J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 11., 3148–3166, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019MS001746
Bony, S., B. Stevens, F. Ament, S. Bigorre, P. Chazette, S. Crewell, J. Delanoë, K. Emanuel, D. Farrell, C. Flamant, S. Gross, L. Hirsch, J. Karstensen, B. Mayer, L. Nuijens, J. H. Ruppert Jr., I. Sandu, P. Siebesma, S. Speich, F. Szczap, J. Totems, R. Vogel, M. Wendisch, M. Wirth, 2017: EUREC4A: A field campaign to elucidate the couplings between clouds, convection and circulation. Surveys of Geophysics, 38(6), 1529-1568. doi:10.1007/s10712-017-9428-0
Based on observations:
Bony, S., B. Poujol, B. McKim, N. Rochetin, M. Lothon, J. Windmiller, N. Maury, C. Dufaux, L. Jaffeux, P. Chazette and J. Delanoë, 2025: Evidence for the role of thermal and cloud merging in mesoscale convective organization. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 25, 17331–17362, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-17331-2025, 2025. Editor’s highlight
Bao, J., S. Bony, D. Takasuka and C. Muller, 2025: Tropics-wide intraseasonal oscillations. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 122 (48), e2511549122, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2511549122
Poujol, B., & Bony, S., 2024: Measuring clear-air vertical motions from space. AGU Advances, 5, e2024AV001267. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024AV001267 Editor’s highlight
Galewsky, J. and M. Schneider, C. Diekmann, A. Semie, S. Bony, C. Risi, K. Emanuel and H. Brogniez, 2023: The influence of convective aggregation on the stable isotopic composition of water vapor: Implications for the humidity of the troposphere. AGU Advances, 4, e2023AV000877, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023AV000877
Masunaga, H., C. E. Holloway, H. Kanamori, S. Bony and T. H. M. Stein, 2021: Transient aggregation of convection: observed behavior and underlying processes. J. Climate, 34(5), 1685-1700, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0933.1
Bony, S, A. Semie, R. J. Kramer, B. J. Soden, A. M. Tompkins and K. A. Emanuel, 2020: Observed modulation of the tropical radiation budget by deep convective organization and lower-tropospheric stability. AGU Advances, 1, e2019AV000155. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019AV000155 – Supplementary Material - Editor’s Highlight
Bony, S., H. Schulz, J. Vial and B. Stevens, 2020: Sugar, Gravel, Fish and Flowers: dependence of mesoscale patterns of tradewind clouds on environmental conditions. Geophys. Res. Lett., 47, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL085988 Editor's Highlight
Rasp, S., H. Schulz, S. Bony, and B. Stevens, 2020: Combining Crowd-sourcing and Deep Learning to Explore the Mesoscale Organization of Shallow Convection. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 101, E1980–E1995, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0324.1
Semie, A. and S. Bony, 2020: Relationship between precipitation extremes and convective organization inferred from satellite observations. Geophys. Res. Lett., 47, e2019GL086927. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL086927
Stevens, B., S. Bony, H. Brogniez, L. Hentgen, C. Hohenegger, C. Kiemle, T. S. L’Ecuyer, A. K. Naumann, H. Schulz, P. A. Siebesma, J. Vial, D. M. Winker and P. Zuidema, 2020: Sugar, Gravel, Fish and Flowers: Mesoscale cloud patterns in the Tradewinds. Q J R Meteorol Soc., 146, 141– 152. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3662
Masunaga, H. and S. Bony, 2018: Radiative Invigoration of Tropical Convection by Preceding Cirrus Clouds. J. Atmos. Sci., 75, 1327–1342, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-17-0355.1
Holloway, C. E., A A. Wing, S Bony, C Muller; H Masunaga, T S. L'Ecuyer, D D. Turner and P Zuidema, 2017: Observing Convective Aggregation, Surveys in Geophysics, 38 (6), 1199-1236, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10712-017-9419-1
Stein, T. H. M., C. E. Holloway, I. Tobin and S. Bony, 2017: Observed relationships between cloud vertical structure and convective aggregation over tropical ocean. J. Climate, 30 (6), 2187-2207
Tobin, I., S. Bony, C. E. Holloway, J.-Y. Grandpeix, G. Sèze, D. Coppin, S. J. Woolnough, and R. Roca, 2013 : Does convective aggregation need to be represented in cumulus parameterizations? J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 5, doi:10.1002/jame.20047
Tobin I., S. Bony and R. Roca, 2012 : Observational evidence for relationships between the degree of aggregation of deep convection, water vapor, surface fluxes and radiation, J. Climate, 25, 6885-6904, DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00258.1
Based on General Circulation Models:
Popp, M., N. J. Lutsko and S. Bony, 2020: Weaker links between zonal convective clustering and ITCZ width in climate models than in observations. Geophys. Res. Lett., 47, e2020GL090479. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL090479
Popp, M., N. J. Lutsko and S. Bony, 2020: The relationship between convective clustering and mean tropical climate in aquaplanet simulations. J. Adv. Mod. Earth Syst., 12, e2020MS002070. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020MS002070
Popp, M. and S. Bony, 2019: Stronger zonal convective clustering associated with a wider tropical rain belt. Nature Comm., 10, 4261, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12167-9
Coppin, D. and S. Bony, 2018: On the interplay between convective aggregation, surface temperature gradients and climate sensitivity. J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 10, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018MS001406 Editor’s Highlight
Coppin, D. and S. Bony, 2017: Internal Variability in a Coupled General Circulation Model in Radiative-Convective Equilibrium. Geophys. Res. Lett., 44, 5142-5149, https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL073658 Supplementary Information. Editor’s Highlight
Coppin, D. and S. Bony, 2015: Physical mechanisms controlling the initiation of convective self-aggregation in a General Circulation Model. J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 7, https://doi.org/10.1002/2015MS000571
Based on Cloud Resolving Models:
Colin, M., S. Sherwood, O. Geoffroy, S. Bony and D. Fuchs, 2019: Identifying the sources of convective memory in cloud-resolving simulations. J. Atmos. Sci., 76, 947-962, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-18-0036.1
Muller, C. and S. Bony, 2015: What favors convective aggregation, and why? Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, 5626–5634, https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GL064260 Supplementary Material.
RCEMIP (Radiative-Convective Equilibrium Model Intercomparison Project):
Wing, A et al. (incl Bony), 2020: Clouds and Convective Self-Aggregation in a Multi-Model Ensemble of Radiative-Convective Equilibrium Simulations. J. Adv. Mod. Earth Syst., 12, e2020MS002138. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020MS002138
Wing, A. A., K. A. Reed, M. Satoh, B. Stevens, S. Bony, and T. Ohno, 2018: Radiative-Convective Equilibrium Model Intercomparison Project. Geosci. Mod. Dev., 11(2), 793–813, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-793-2018
Bony, S., and B. Stevens, 2020: Clouds in a changing climate, pp 356-388, In book Clouds and Climate, Siebesma, Bony, Jakob and Stevens Editors, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9781107061071, 418 pp
Stevens B., S. C. Sherwood, S. Bony and M. J. Webb, 2016: Prospects for narrowing bounds on Earth's Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity. Earth's Future, 4, https://doi.org/10.1002/2016EF000376
Sherwood, S.C., S. Bony, O. Boucher, C. Bretherton, P. Forster, J. Gregory, and B. Stevens, 2015: Adjustments in the forcing-feedback framework for understanding climate change. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 96, 217-228, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00167.1
Vial, J., J.-L. Dufresne, and S. Bony, 2013 : On the interpretation of inter-model spread in CMIP5 climate sensitivity estimates. Climate Dynamics, 40, 2415-2431.
Dufresne J-L and S Bony, 2008: An assessment of the primary sources of spread of global warming estimates from coupled ocean-atmosphere models. J. Climate, 21 (19), 5135-5144.
Bony S, R Colman, V M Kattsov, R P Allan, C S Bretherton, J-L Dufresne, A Hall, S Hallegatte, M M Holland, W Ingram, D A Randall, B J Soden, G Tselioudis and M J Webb, 2006: How well do we understand and evaluate climate change feedback processes ?, J. Climate,19 (15), 3445-3482.
Lau K-M, H T Wu and S Bony, 1997: The role of large-scale circulation in the relationship between tropical convection and sea surface temperature, J. Climate, 10, 381-392.
Bony S, K-M Lau and Y C Sud, 1997: Sea surface temperature and large-scale circulation influences on tropical greenhouse effect and cloud radiative forcing, J. Climate, 10, 2055-2077.
Duvel J-P, S Bony and H Le Treut, 1997: Results of the AMIP diagnostic subproject on the clear-sky greenhouse effect sensitivity to sea surface temperature changes, Clim. Dynamics, 13, 259-273.
Cess R. D. et al., 1997: Comparison of the seasonal change in cloud radiative forcing from atmospheric general circulation models and satellite observations, J. Geophys. Res, 102, 16593-16603.
Bony S, J-Ph Duvel and H Le Treut, 1995: Observed Dependence of the Water Vapor and Clear-sky Greenhouse Effect on Sea Surface Temperature; Comparison with Climate Warming Experiments, Clim. Dynamics, 11, 307-320.
Le Treut H, Z-X Li and S Bony, 1994: Climate sensitivity: cloud and water feedbacks and their assessment, NATO ASI Series, Springer-Verlag, 25, 353-367.
Bony S and J-Ph Duvel, 1994: Influence of the Vertical Structure of the atmosphere on the seasonal variation of precipitable water and greenhouse effect, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 12963-12980.
Anvil cloud feedback:
McKim, B. A., S. Bony and J.-L. Dufresne, 2024: Weak anvil cloud area feedback suggested by physical and observational constraints. Nature Geosci. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01414-4.
Saint-Lu M, S Bony and J-L Dufresne, 2022: Clear-sky control of anvils in response to increased CO2 or surface warming or volcanic eruptions, Nature Climate Atmos. Sci., 5, 78, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-022-00304-z
Saint-Lu, M., S. Bony and J.-L. Dufresne, 2020: Observational evidence for a stability Iris effect in the Tropics. Geophys. Res. Lett., 47, e2020GL089059, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL089059
Thompson, D. W., S Bony and Y. Li, 2017: A thermodynamic constraint on the global tropopause and large-scale extratropical dynamics. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 114 (31), 8181–8186, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1620493114
Bony S., B. Stevens, D. Coppin, T. Becker, K. Reed, A. Voigt and B. Medeiros, 2016: Thermodynamic control of anvil-cloud amount. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 113 (32), 8927–8932, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1601472113
Low-cloud feedback:
Vial J, A L Albright, R Vogel. I Musat and S Bony, 2023: Cloud transitions across the daily cycle illuminates model responses of trade cumuli to warming. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci, accepted.
Vogel R, A L Albright, J Vial, G George, B Stevens and S Bony, 2022: Strong cloud–circulation coupling explains weak trade cumulus feedback. Nature, 612, 696-700, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05364-y
Vial, J., S. Bony, B. Stevens and R. Vogel, 2017: Mechanisms and model diversity of trade-wind shallow cumulus cloud feedbacks: A review. Surveys of Geophysics, 38 (6), 1331-1353, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10712-017-9418-2
Brient, F., T. Schneider, Z. Tan, S. Bony, X. Qu and A. Hall, 2016: Shallowness of tropical low clouds as a predictor of climate models’ response to warming. Clim. Dynamics, 47 (1-2), 433-449, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-015-2846-0
Vial, J., S. Bony, J.-L. Dufresne and R. Roehrig, 2016: Coupling between lower-tropospheric convective mixing and low-level clouds: physical mechanisms and dependence on convection scheme. J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 8, https://doi.org/10.1002/2016MS000740
Medeiros, B., B. Stevens and S. Bony, 2015: Using aqua-planets to understand the robust response of comprehensive climate models to forcing. Clim. Dynamics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-014-2138-0, 44, 1957-1977.
Sherwood, S. C., S. Bony and J.-L. Dufresne, 2014 : Spread in model estimates of climate sensitivity traced to atmospheric convective mixing. Nature, 505, 37-42, https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12829. News and Views
Brient F. and S. Bony, 2013 : Interpretation of the positive low-cloud feedback predicted by a climate model under global warming. Clim. Dynamics, 40, 2415-2431, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-011-1279-7
Brient, F. and S. Bony, 2012 : How may low-cloud radiative properties simulated in the current climate influence low-cloud feedbacks under global warming? Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L20807, https://doi.org/10.1029/2012GL053265
Bony S and J-L Dufresne, 2005: Marine boundary layer clouds at the heart of tropical cloud feedback uncertainties in climate models, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, No. 20, L20806, https://doi.org/10.1029/2005GL02385. Supplementary Information.
Bony S, J-L Dufresne, H Le Treut, J-J Morcrette and C Senior, 2004: On dynamic and thermodynamic components of cloud changes. Clim. Dynamics, 22, 71-86. The original publication is available at springerlink.com.
CFMIP design:
Webb, M J., T Andrews, A Bodas-Salcedo, S Bony, C S. Bretherton, R Chadwick, H Chepfer, H Douville, P Good, J E. Kay, S A. Klein, R Marchand, B Medeiros, A. P Siebesma, C B. Skinner, B Stevens, G Tselioudis, Y Tsushima, and M Watanabe, 2017: The Cloud Feedback Model Intercomparison Project (CFMIP) contribution to CMIP6. Geosci. Mod. Dev., 10, 359–384, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-359-2017
Bony S, M. Webb, C. Bretherton, S. Klein, P. Siebesma, G. Tselioudis and M. Zhang, 2011 : CFMIP: Towards a better evaluation and understanding of clouds and cloud feedbacks in CMIP5 models. CLIVAR Exchanges, Special Issue on the WCRP Coupled Model Intercomparison Project – Phase 5 (CMIP5), pp 20-24, No. 56, Vol. 16, Issue No. 2, May 2011.
Bony S, M Webb, B Stevens, C Bretherton, S Klein and G Tselioudis, 2008: CFMIP-GCSS plans for advancing assessments of cloud-climate feedbacks. GEWEX News, 18, No. 4, pp 10-12, Nov 2008.
Satellite simulators and evaluation of model clouds:
Nam, C., S. Bony, J.-L. Dufresne and H. Chepfer, 2012 : The too few, too bright tropical low-cloud problem in CMIP5 models. Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L21801, https://doi.org/10.1029/2012GL053421.
Bodas-Salcedo, A., M. J. Webb, S. Bony, H. Chepfer, J.-L. Dufresne, S. A. Klein, Y. Zhang, R. Marchand, J. M. Haynes, R. Pincus, and V. O. John, 2011 : COSP: satellite simulation software for model assessment. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 92, 1023–1043, https://doi.org/10.1175/2011BAMS2856.1
Chepfer, H., S. Bony, D. Winker, G. Cesana, J. L. Dufresne, P. Minnis, C. J. Stubenrauch, and S. Zeng, 2010: The GCM-Oriented CALIPSO Cloud Product (CALIPSO-GOCCP), J. Geophys. Res., 115, D00H16, https://doi.org/10.1029/2009JD012251.
Chepfer H, S Bony, D Winker, M Chiriaco, J-L Dufresne and G. Sèze, 2008: Use of CALIPSO lidar observations to evaluate the cloudiness simulated by a climate model. Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L15704, https://doi.org/10.1029/2008GL034207.
Zhang M H, W Y Lin, S A Klein, J T Bacmeister, S Bony, R T Cederwall, A D Del Genio, J J Hack, N G Loeb, U Lohmann, P Minnis, I Musat, R Pincus, P Stier, M J Suarez, M J Webb, J B Wu, S C Xie, M -S Yao and J H Zhang, 2005: Comparing Clouds And Their Seasonal Variations in 10 Atmospheric General Circulation Models With Satellite Measurements. J. Geophys. Res., 110, D15S02, https://doi.org/10.1029/2004JD005021.
Webb M, C Senior, S Bony and J-J Morcrette, 2001: Combining ERBE and ISCCP data to assess clouds in three climate models, Clim. Dynamics, 17, 905-922.
Bony S, H Le Treut, J-Ph Duvel and R S Kandel, 1992: Satellite validation of GCM-simulated annual cycle of the Earth radiation budget and cloud forcing, J. Geophys. Res., 97, 18061-18081.
Cloud feedback model intercomparisons:
Webb, M. J., A. P. Lock, C. S. Bretherton, S. Bony, J. N. S. Cole, A. Idelkadi, S. M. Kang, T. Koshiro, H. Kawai, T. Ogura, R. Roehrig, Y. Shin, T. Mauritsen, S. S. Sherwood, J. Vial, M. Watanabe, M. D. Woelfle, M. Zhao, 2015: The impact of parametrized convection on cloud feedback. Philosophical Transactions A, 373, 20140414. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2014.0414
Webb, M. J., A. P. Lock, A. Bodas-Salcedo, S. Bony, J. N. S. Cole, T. Koshiro, H. Kawai, C. Lacagnina, F. M. Selten, R. Roehrig, and B. Stevens, 2015 : The diurnal cycle of marine cloud feedback in climate models. Climate Dynamics, 44:1419–1436, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-014-2234-1
Zhang, M. et al., 2013 : CGILS: Results from the First Phase of an International Project to Understand the Physical Mechanisms of Low Cloud Feedbacks in Single Column Models. J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 5, 1–17, https://doi.org/10.1002/2013MS000246
Zhang, M., C. S. Bretherton, P. N. Blossey, F. Brient, S. Bony, and J.-C. Golaz, 2012 : The CGILS experimental design to investigate low cloud feedbacks in general circulation models by using single-column and large-eddy simulation models., J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 4, M12001, 15pp, https://doi.org/10.1029/2012MS000182.
Webb M J, C A Senior, D M H Sexton, W. J. Ingram, K D Williams, M A Ringer, B J McAvaney, R Colman, B J Soden, R Gudgel, T Knutson, S Emori, T Ogura, Y Tsushima, N Andronova, B Li, I Musat, S Bony and K Taylor, 2006: On the contribution of local feedback mechanisms to the range of climate sensitivity in two GCM ensembles, Clim. Dynamics, 27 (1), 17-38, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-006-0111-2
Williams K D, M A Ringer, C A Senior, M J Webb, B J McAvaney, N Andronova, S Bony, J-L Dufresne, S Emori, R Gudgel, T Knutson, B Li, K Lo, I Musat, J Wegner, A Slingo and J F B Mitchell, 2006: Evaluation of a component of the cloud response to climate change in an intercomparison of climate models, Clim. Dynamics, 26 (2-3), 145-165, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-005-0067-7.
Mex, J., C. Cassou, A. Jézéquel, S. Bony and C. Deser, 2026: Physical understanding of the extreme global temperature jump in 2023, Communications Earth & Environment, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-026-03382-6
Poujol, B., & Bony, S., 2024: Measuring clear-air vertical motions from space. AGU Advances, 5, e2024AV001267. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024AV001267
Blanco, J. E., R. Caballero, G. Datseris, B. Stevens, S. Bony, O. Hadas and Y. Kaspi, 2023: A Cloud-Controlling Factor Perspective on the Hemispheric Asymmetry of Extratropical Cloud Albedo. J. Climate, 36, 1793–1804, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0410.1
Hadas, O., G. Datseris, J. Blanco, S. Bony, R. Caballero, B. Stevens and Y. Kaspi, 2023: The role of baroclinic activity in controlling Earth’s albedo in the present and future climates. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci, 120 (5), e2208778120, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2208778120
Datseris, G., J. Blanco, O. Hadas, S. Bony, R. Caballero, Y. Kaspi and B. Stevens, 2022: Minimal recipes for global cloudiness, Geophys. Res. Lett., 49, e2022GL099678, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL099678
Flack, S., G. Riviere, I. Musat, R. Roehrig, S. Bony, J. Delanoë, Q. Cazenave and J. Pelon, 2021: Representation by two climate models of the dynamical and diabatic processes involved in the development of an explosively-deepening cyclone during NAWDEX, Weather and Climate Dynamics, 2, 233–253, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-2-233-2021
Bellon, G., and S. Bony, 2020: Tropical and subtropical cloud systems, pp 251-278, In book Clouds and Climate, Siebesma, Bony, Jakob and Stevens Editors, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9781107061071, 418 pp
Li, Y., D.W. Thompson, S. Bony, and T.M. Merlis, 2019: Thermodynamic Control on the Poleward Shift of the Extratropical Jet in Climate Change Simulations: The Role of Rising High Clouds and Their Radiative Effects. J. Climate, 32, 917–934, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0417.1
Thompson, D. W., S Bony and Y. Li, 2017: A thermodynamic constraint on the global tropopause and large-scale extratropical dynamics. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 114 (31), 8181–8186, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1620493114
Voigt, A., R. Pincus, B. Stevens, S. Bony, O. Boucher, N. Bellouin, A. Lewinschal, B. Medeiros, Z. Whang and H. Zhang: Fast and slow shifts of the zonal-mean intertropical convergence zone in response to an idealized anthropogenic aerosol. J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 9, 870–892, https://doi.org/10.1002/2016MS000902.
Li Y., D. W. J. Thompson and S. Bony, 2015: The influence of cloud radiative effects on the large-scale atmospheric circulation. J. Climate, 28, 7263-7278.
Fermepin, S. and S. Bony, 2014: Influence of low-cloud radiative effects on tropical circulation and precipitation. J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 6, 513–526, https://doi.org/10.1002/2013MS000288.
Li, Y., D. W. J. Thompson, G. L. Stephens and S. Bony, 2014: A global survey of the linkages between cloud vertical structure and large-scale climate, J. Geophys. Res., 119, 3770-3792, https://doi.org/10.1002/2013JD020669.
Voigt, A., S. Bony, J.-L. Dufresne, and B. Stevens, 2014: The radiative impact of clouds on the shift of the inter-tropical convergence zone, Geophys. Res. Lett., 41, 4308-4315, https://doi.org/10.1002/2014GL060354.
Zurovac-Jevtic D, S Bony and K A Emanuel, 2006: On the role of clouds and moisture in tropical waves: a two-dimensional model study, J. Atmos. Sci., 63 (8), 2140-2155.
Bony S and K A Emanuel, 2005: On the role of moist processes in tropical intraseasonal variability: cloud-radiation and moisture-convection feedbacks. J. Atmos. Sci., 62 (8), 2770-2789.
Fläschner, D., T. Mauritsen, B. Stevens and S. Bony, 2018: The signature of shallow circulations, not cloud-radiative effects, in the spatial distribution of tropical precipitation. J. Climate, 31, 9489–9505, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0230.1
Vial, J., Cassou, C., Codron, F., Bony, S., & Ruprich‐Robert, Y., 2018: Influence of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation on the tropical climate response to CO2 forcing. Geophys. Res. Lett., 45, 8519–8528. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL078558
Gaetani M., C. Flamant, S. Bastin, S. Janicot, C. Lavaysse, F. Hourdin, P. Braconnot. and S. Bony, 2016: West African monsoon dynamics and precipitation: the competition between global SST warming and CO2 increase in CMIP5 idealized simulations, Clim. Dyn., Springer Verlag, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-016-3146-z
Oueslati B., S. Bony, C. Risi and J.-L. Dufresne, 2016: Interpreting the inter-model spread in regional precipitation projections in the tropics: Role of surface evaporation and cloud radiative effects. Clim. Dyn., 47, 2801. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-016-2998-6
Chavaillaz, Y., S. Joussaume, S. Bony and P. Braconnot, 2015: Spatial stabilization and intensification of moistening and drying rate patterns under future climate change, Clim. Dynamics, pp 1-15, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-015-2882-9.
Bony S., G. Bellon, D. Klocke, S. Sherwood, S. Fermepin, and S. Denvil, 2013 : Robust direct effect of carbon dioxide on tropical circulation and regional precipitation, Nature Geoscience, 6, 447-451, https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1799. Supplementary information. Press release Nature-Asia.
Galewsky, J. and M. Schneider, C. Diekmann, A. Semie, S. Bony, C. Risi, K. Emanuel and H. Brogniez, 2023: The influence of convective aggregation on the stable isotopic composition of water vapor: Implications for the humidity of the troposphere. AGU Advances, 4, e2023AV000877, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023AV000877
Risi C., J. Ogée, S. Bony, T. Bariac, N. Raz-Yaseef, L. Wingate, J. Welker, A. Knohl, C. Besson, M. Leclerc, G. Zhang, N. Buchmann, J. Santrucek, M. Hronkova, T. David, P. Peylin, and F. Guglielmom, 2016: Evaluation of the isotopic version of the land-surface model ORCHIDEE, Hydrol.. Current, 7:258. https://doi.org/10.4172/2157-7587.1000258
Tuinenburg, O. A., C. Risi, J.L. Lacour, M. Schneider, A. Wiegele, J. Worden, N. Kurita, J.P. Duvel, N. Deutscher, S. Bony, P.F. Coheur and C. Clerbaux, 2015: Moist processes during MJO events as diagnosed from water isotopic measurements from the IASI satellite, J. Geophys. Res., 120, 10619–10636, https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JD023461
Risi C, D Noone , J Worden , C Frankenberg , G Stiller , M Kiefer , B Funke , K A Walker , P Bernath , M Schneider , D Wunch , V Sherlock , N Deutscher , D Griffith , P Wennberg , K Strong , D Smale , E Mahieu , S Barthlott , F Hase , O García , J Notholt , T Warneke , G Toon , D Sayres , S Bony , J Lee , D Brown , R Uemura , C Sturm, 2012a : Process-evaluation of tropospheric humidity simulated by general circulation models using water vapor isotopologues. Part 1: Comparison between models and observations. J. Geophys. Res., 117, D05303, https://doi.org/10.1029/2011JD01662
Risi C, D Noone , J Worden , C Frankenberg , G Stiller , M Kiefer , B Funke , K A Walker , P Bernath , M Schneider , S Bony , J Lee , D Brown , C Sturm, 2012b : Process-evaluation of tropospheric humidity simulated by general circulation models using water vapor isotopic observations. Part 2: Using isotopic diagnostics to understand the mid and upper tropospheric moist bias in the tropics and subtropics. J. Geophys. Res., 117, D05304, https://doi.org/10.1029/2011JD016623
Lacour, J.-L., C. Risi, L. Clarisse, S. Bony, D. Hurtmans, C. Clerbaux, and P.-F. Coheur, 2012 : Mid-tropospheric δD observations from IASI/MetOp at high spatial and temporal resolution. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 12, 10817-10832, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-12-10817-2012
Risi C, S Bony, F Vimeux, C Frankenberg, D Noone and J Worden, 2010 : Understanding the Sahelian water budget through the isotopic composition of water vapor and precipitation. J. Geophys. Res, 115, D24110, https://doi.org/10.1029/2010JD014690
Landais A., C. Risi, S. Bony, F. Vimeux, L. Descroix, S. Falourd, and A. Bouygues, 2010 : Combined measurements of 17Oexcess and d-excess in African monsoon precipitation: implications for evaluating convective parameterizations. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 298, 104-112.
Risi C, S Bony, F Vimeux and J Jouzel, 2010 : Water stable isotopes in the LMDZ4 General Circulation Model: model evaluation for present day and past climates and applications to climatic interpretations of tropical isotopic records. J. Geophys. Res., 115, D12118, https://doi.org/10.1029/2009JD013255
Risi, C., A. Landais, S. Bony, J. Jouzel, V. Masson-Delmotte, and F. Vimeux, 2010: Understanding the 17O-excess glacial-interglacial variations in Vostok precipitation, J. Geophys. Res., 115, D10112, https://doi.org/10.1029/2008JD011535
Risi C, S Bony, F Vimeux, M Chong and L Descroix, 2010: Evolution of the water stable isotopic composition of the rain sampled along Sahelian squall lines. Quat. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 136 (S1), 227-242.
Risi C, S Bony, F Vimeux, L. Descroix, B. Ibrahim, E. Lebreton, I. Mamadou, B. Sultan, 2008 : What controls the isotopic composition of the African monsoon precipitation? Insights from event-based precipitation collected during the 2006 AMMA field campaign, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L24808, https://doi.org/10.1029/2008GL035920
Risi C, S Bony and F Vimeux, 2008: Influence of convective processes on the isotopic composition (δ18O and δD) of precipitation and water vapor in the tropics: Part 2. Physical interpretation of the Amount Effect. J. Geophys. Res., 113, D19306, https://doi.org/10.1029/2008JD009943 Editor’s Highlight: “Explaining isotope composition of tropical rains”
Bony S, C Risi and F Vimeux, 2008: Influence of convective processes on the isotopic composition (δ18O and δD) of precipitation and water vapor in the tropics: Part 1. Radiative-convective equilibrium and TOGA-COARE simulations. J. Geophys. Res., 113, D19305, https://doi.org/10.1029/2008JD009942 Editor’s Highlight: “Isotopes illuminate atmospheric convection”
Vimeux F., R. Gallaire, S. Bony, G. Hoffmann and J. C. Chiang, 2005: What are the climate controls on dD in precipitation in the Zongo Valley (Bolivia) ? Implications for the Illimani ice core interpretation, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 240, 205-220, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2005.09.03
Boucher, O. et al (72 co-authors), 2020: Presentation and evaluation of the IPSL-CM6A-LR climate model. J. Adv. Mod. Earth Syst., 12, e2019MS002010. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019MS002010
Ma, H.-Y., S. Xie, S. A. Klein, K. D. Williams, J. S. Boyle, S. Bony, H. Douville, S. Fermepin, B. Medeiros, S. Tyteca, M. Watanabe, and D. Williamson, 2014 : On the correspondence between mean forecast errors and climate errors in CMIP5 models. J. Climate, 27(4), 1781-1798.
Dufresne, J-L et al., 2013: Climate change projections using the IPSL-CM5 Earth System Model: from CMIP3 to CMIP5, Clim. Dynamics, 40, 2123-2165, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-012-1636-1
Hourdin F., J-Y Grandpeix, C. Rio, S. Bony, A. Jam, F. Cheruy, N. Rochetin, L. Fairhead, A. Idelkadi, I. Musat, J-L Dufresne, M-P. Lefebvre, A. Lahellec, R. Roehrig, 2013: LMDZ5B: the atmospheric component of the IPSL climate model with revisited parameterizations for clouds and convection, Clim. Dynamics, 40, 2193-2222, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-012-1343-y
Hourdin F., M-A Foujols, F. Codron, V. Guemas, J-L Dufresne, S. Bony, S. Denvil, L.Guez, F. Lott, J. Ghattas, P. Braconnot, O. Marti, Y. Meurdesoif, L. Bopp, 2013: Climate and sensitivity of the IPSL-CM5A coupled model: impact of the LMDZ atmospheric grid configuration, Clim. Dynamics, 40, 2167-2192, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-012-1411-3
Marti O, P Braconnot, J-L Dufresne, J Bellier, R Benshila, S Bony, P Brockmann, P Cadule, A Caubel, F Codron, N de Noblet, S Denvil, L Fairhead, T Fichefet, M-A Foujols, P Friedlingstein, H Goosse, J-Y Grandpeix, E Guilyardi, F Hourdin, G Krinner, C Lévy, G Madec, J Mignot, I Musat, D Swingedouw and C Talandier, 2009 : Key features of the IPSL ocean atmosphere model and its sensitivity to atmospheric resolution. Clim. Dynamics, 34(1), pp 1-26, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-009-0640-6
Braconnot P, F Hourdin, S Bony, J-L Dufresne, J-Y Grandpeix and O Marti, 2007: Impact of different convective cloud schemes on the simulation of the tropical seasonal cycle with a coupled ocean-atmosphere model, Clim. Dynamics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-007-0244-y
Hourdin F, I. Musat, S. Bony, P. Braconnot, F. Codron, J.-L. Dufresne, L. Fairhead, M.-A. Filiberti, P. Friedlingstein, J.-Y. Grandpeix, G. Krinner, P. LeVan, Z.-X. Li, and F. Lott, 2006: The LMDZ general circulation model: climate performance and sensitivity to parameterized physics with emphasis on tropical convection. Clim. Dynamics, 19 (15), 3445-3482, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-006-0158-0
Dufresne, J-L, D Salas y Mélia, S Denvil, S Tyteca, O Arzel, S Bony, P Braconnot, P Brockmann, P Cadule, A Caubel, F Chauvin, M Déqué, H Douville, L Fairhead, T Fichefet, M-A Foujols, P Friedlingstein, J-F Gueremy, F Hourdin, A Idelkadi, C Levy, G Madec, P Marquet, O Marti, I Musat, S Planton, J-F Royer, D Swingedow, A Voldoire, 2006: Simulation de l'évolution récente et future du climat par les modèles du CNRM et de l'IPSL. La Météorologie, 55, 45-59.
Bony S and K A Emanuel, 2001: A parameterization of the cloudiness associated with cumulus convection; Evaluation using TOGA COARE data. J. Atmos. Sci., 58, 3158-3183.
Barthelet P. et al., 1998: Simulations couplées globales des changements climatiques associés à une augmentation de la teneur atmosphérique en CO2. Compte-rendus de l'Académie des Sciences de Paris, Science de la Terre et des Planètes, 326, 677-684.
Bony S, H Le Treut, J-Ph Duvel and R S Kandel, 1992: Satellite validation of GCM-simulated annual cycle of the Earth radiation budget and cloud forcing, J. Geophys. Res., 97, 18061-18081.
Perspective papers:
Stevens, B., Adami, S., Ali, T., Anzt, H., Aslan, Z., Attinger, S., Bäck, J., Baehr, J., Bauer, P., Bernier, N., Bishop, B., Bockelmann, H., Bony, S. et al.: Earth Virtualization Engines (EVE), Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 16, 2113–2122, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-2113-2024
Marotzke, J., C. Jakob, S Bony, P. A. Dirmeyer, P. O’Gorman, E. Hawkins, S. Perkins-Kirkpatrick, C Le Quéré, S Nowicki, K Paulavets, S I. Seneviratne, B Stevens and M Tuma, 2017: Climate research must sharpen its view. Nature Climate Change, https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3206
Bony S., B. Stevens, D. M. W. Frierson, C. Jakob, M. Kageyama, R. Pincus, T. G. Shepherd, S. C. Sherwood, A. P. Siebesma, A. H. Sobel, M. Watanabe, and M. J. Webb, 2015: Clouds, Circulation and Climate Sensitivity. Nature Geoscience, 8, 261–268, https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2398. Nature News. INSU News
Stevens, B. and S. Bony, 2013: Water in the atmosphere. Physics Today, June 2013, 29-34.
Stevens, B. and S. Bony, 2013: What are climate models missing?, Science, 340 (6136), 1053-1054, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1237554
Bony S., B. Stevens, I. Held, J. Mitchell, J.-L. Dufresne, K. Emanuel, P. Friedlingstein, S. Griffies and C. Senior, 2013 : Carbon Dioxide and Climate : Perspectives on a Scientific Assessment. Monograph on Climate Science for Serving Society: Research, Modeling and Prediction Priorities, Springer, G.R. Asrar and J.W. Hurrel (eds.), pp 391-413, DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-6692-1_14, Springer. http://link.springer.com.biblioplanets.gate.inist.fr/chapter/10.1007/978-94-007-6692-1_14
Overpeck, J.T., G.A. Meehl, S. Bony, and D.R. Easterling, 2011: Climate data challenges in the 21st century. Science, 331, 700-702. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1197869
IPCC:
Randall, D.A., R.A. Wood, S. Bony, R. Colman, T. Fichefet, J. Fyfe, V. Kattsov, A. Pitman, J. Shukla, J. Srinivasan, R.J. Stouffer, A. Sumi and K.E. Taylor, 2007: Climate Models and Their Evaluation. 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.
WCRP (World Climate Research Programme), including Grand Challenge and CMIP:
Stephens G, J Polcher, X Zeng, P van Oevelen, G Poveda, M Bosilovich, M-H Ahn, G Balsamo, Q Duan, G Hegerl, C Jakob, B Lamptey, R Leung, MP Guillem, Z Su, P Dirmeyer, K Findell, A Verhoef, M Ek, T L’Ecuyer, R Roca, A Nazemi, F Dominguez, D Klocke, S Bony: The 30 years of GEWEX. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0061, in press.
Bony, S., B. Stevens, and D. Carlson, 2017: Understanding clouds to anticipate future climate. WMO Bulletin, 66, 8-11.
Stouffer, R. J., V. Eyring, G. A. Meehl, S. Bony, C. Senior, B. Stevens, K. E. Taylor, 2017: CMIP5 scientific gaps and recommendations for CMIP6. Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc., 98, 95-105, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00013.1
Eyring, V., S. Bony, G. A. Meehl, C. Senior, B. Stevens, R. J. Stouffer, and K. E. Taylor, 2016: Overview of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6): Experimental design and organisation. Geosci. Mod. Dev., 9, 1937–1958, www.geosci-model-dev.net/9/1937/2016/doi:10.5194/gmd-9-1937-2016
Asrar, G., J. Schmetz, S. Bony, O. Boucher, A. Busalacchi, A. Cazenave, M. Dowell, G. Flato, G. Hegerl, E. Källén, T. Nakajima, A. Ratier, R. Saunders, J. Slingo, B.-J. Sohn, B. Stevens, P. Zhang, and F. Zwiers, 2015: Climate Symposium 2014 – Findings and Recommendations. Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc., 96, ES145–ES147. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00003.1
Bony S., B. Stevens, D. M. W. Frierson, C. Jakob, M. Kageyama, R. Pincus, T. G. Shepherd, S. C. Sherwood, A. P. Siebesma, A. H. Sobel, M. Watanabe, and M. J. Webb, 2015: Clouds, Circulation and Climate Sensitivity. Nature Geoscience, 8, 261–268, https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2398. Nature News. INSU News
Stephens, G., S. Bony and B. Stevens, 2015: Clouds, Circulation and Climate Sensitivity Grand Challenge and GEWEX. GEWEX News, 25, 8-9, May 2015.
Meehl, G. A., R. Moss, K. E. Taylor, V. Eyring, R. J. Stouffer, S. Bony and B. Stevens, 2014 : Climate Model Intercomparisons : Preparing for the Next Phase. EOS, 95, No 9, 77-78.
Stevens, B., S. Bony, D. Frierson, C. Jakob, M. Kageyama, R. Pincus, T. Shepherd, S. Sherwood, P. Siebesma, A. Sobel, M. Watanabe and M. Webb, 2014: Cloud, Circulation and Climate Sensitivity: Ringberg workshop report, WCRP Report No. 8/2014, May 2014.
Meehl, G. A. and S. Bony, 2011 : Introduction to CMIP5. CLIVAR Exchanges, Special Issue on the WCRP Coupled Model Intercomparison Project – Phase 5 (CMIP5), pp 4-5, No. 56, Vol. 16, Issue No. 2, May 2011.
Bony S, D. Griggs, J. Marotzke, and H. Le Treut, 2011 : Role and terms of engagement for the WCRP Modelling Council, in WCRP Modelling Coordination Meeting, 15-16 Nov 2010, Paris, WCRP Series Report No. 133, WMO/TD-No1569.
Bony S, 2009: Why are cloud-radiation interactions so critical for climate modeling ? In ECMWF Seminar Series on "Parameterization of subgrid physical processes", ECMWF, Reading, UK, Sept 2008, pp 205-222.
Segura, H. et al. (including S. Bony), 2025: NextGEMS: entering the era of kilomer-scale Earth system modeling, Geosci. Model Dev., 18, 7735–7761, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-7735-2025
Illingworth A., and S. Bony, 2009: Observational Strategies at Meso and Large Scales to Reduce Critical Uncertainties in Future Changes of Cloud Properties. Peer-reviewed book chapter for Clouds in the Perturbed Climate System: Their Relationship to Energy Balance, Atmospheric Dynamics, and Precipitation. pp 511-530, Heintzenberg, J., and R. J. Charslon, eds., Ernst Strüngmann Forum Report, vol. 2, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Quaas J., S. Bony, W. D. Collins, L. Donner, A. J. 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. Peer-reviewed book chapter for Clouds in the Perturbed Climate System: Their Relationship to Energy Balance, Atmospheric Dynamics, and Precipitation. pp 557-573, Heintzenberg, J., and R. J. Charslon, eds., Ernst Strüngmann Forum Report, vol. 2, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Bony S, 2007: Cloud radiative feedbacks in GCMs: a challenge for the simulation of climate variatility and climate sensitivity. Proceedings of the ECMWF workshop on "Cloud parameterizations in large-scale models", ECMWF, Reading, United Kingdom, 11-13 Nov 2006, pp 9-18.
Haeffelin M., L. Barthes, O. Bock, C. Boitel, S. Bony, D. Bouniol, H. Chepfer, M. Chiriaco, J. Delanoe, P. Drobinski, J-L. Dufresne, C. Flamant, M. Grall, A. Hodzic, F. Hourdin, F. Lapouge, A. Mathieu, Y. Morille, C. Naud, V. Noel, J. Pelon, C. Pietras, A. Protat, B. Romand, G. Scialom, R. Vautard, 2005: SIRTA, a ground-based atmospheric observatory for cloud and aerosol research. Annales Geophysicae, 23 (2), 253-275.
Bony S, W Collins and D Fillmore, 2000: Indian ocean low clouds during the winter monsoon, J. Climate, 13, 2028-2043.
Bony S, Y C Sud, K-M Lau, J Susskind and S Saha, 1997: Comparison and satellite assessment of DAO and NCEP/NCAR reanalyses over tropical ocean, J. Climate, 10, 1441-1462.
In French:
Bony S, 2015: L'eau atmosphérique, in L'eau à découvert. Sous la direction de Rémy Mosseri, Catherine Jeandel et Agathe Euzen, CNRS éditions, 368 pages, Nov 2015, ISBN 978-2-271-08829-1.
Bony S, 2011: Estimation de la confiance dans les résultats de simulation, in Le climat à découvert. Outils et méthodes en recherche climatique., Sous la direction de Catherine Jeandel et Rémy Mosseri, CNRS éditions, 288 pages, mai 2011, ISBN 978-2-271-07198-9, pp 239-241.
Bony S, 2011: Cycle de l’eau : les nuages, in Le climat à découvert. Outils et méthodes en recherche climatique., Sous la direction de Catherine Jeandel et Rémy Mosseri, CNRS éditions, 288 pages, mai 2011, ISBN 978-2-271-07198-9, pp 61-62.
Joussaume S, S Bony, P Braconnot, J-L Dufresne, P Friedlingstein, S Planton et L Terray, 2008: Météo incertaine pour 2050. La Recherche, Numéro spécial “Objectif Terre 2050”, No. 415 (janvier 2008).
Bony S and J-L Dufresne, 2007: Processus régissant la sensibilité climatique. La Météorologie, 56 (février 2007), 29-32.
Bony S and J-L Dufresne, 2007: L'emballement climatique. Sciences et Avenir, Hors Série, 150 (avril 2007), 18-22.
Bony S, 2004: Comment le débat scientifique a fait progresser l'expertise sur les rétroactions atmosphériques. Publication de l'IDDRI, Science du changement climatique: Acquis et controverses, 37-38.