Karen Smith

Research Interests:
- Atmosphere-cryosphere interactions
- Stratosphere-troposphere coupling
- Polar climate change
- Atmospheric general circulation
Selected Publications:
KL Smith, LM Polvani, 2017. Spatial patterns of recent Antarctic surface temperature trends and the importance of natural variability: lessons from multiple reconstructions and the CMIP5 models. Climate Dynamics 48 (7-8), 2653-2670
Y Wu, KL Smith, 2016: Response of the Northern Hemisphere midlatitude circulation to Arctic amplification in a simple atmospheric general circulation model. Journal of Climate 29 (6), 2041-2058
K Smith, L Polvani, 2014: The surface impacts of Arctic stratospheric ozone anomalies. Environmental Research Letters 9 (7), doi:10.1088/1748-9326/9/7/074015
LM Polvani, KL Smith, 2013: Can natural variability explain observed Antarctic sea ice trends? New modeling evidence from CMIP5. Geophysical Research Letters 40 (12), 3195-3199.
KL Smith, LM Polvani, DR Marsh, 2012: Mitigation of 21st century Antarctic sea ice loss by stratospheric ozone recovery. Geophysical Research Letters 39 (20)
KL Smith, PJ Kushner, 2012: Linear interference and the initiation of extratropical stratosphere‐troposphere interactions. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 117 (D13)
KL Smith, CG Fletcher, PJ Kushner, 2010: The role of linear interference in the annular mode response to extratropical surface forcing. Journal of Climate 23 (22), 6036-6050.
T Schneider, KL Smith, PA O'Gorman, CC Walker, 2006: A climatology of tropospheric zonal-mean water vapor fields and fluxes in isentropic coordinates. Journal of climate 19 (22), 5918-5933.