Caroline Muller

Publications:

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS:

Agasthya L., Muller C., Cheve M., 2024
Moist convective scaling: Insights from an idealised model
In Review

Andre J., D'Andrea F., Drobinski P., Muller C., 2024
Regimes of precipitation change over Europe and the Mediterranean
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 129, e2023JD040413. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JD040413

Agasthya L., Muller C., 2024
Dynamics and Scaling of Internally Cooled Convection
with Corrigendum for Equation 28
Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, 134, doi.org/10.1016/j.cnsns.2024.108011

Hwong Y.-L., Muller C., 2024
The Unreasonable Efficiency of Total Rain Evaporation Removal in Triggering Convective Self-Aggregation
Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2023GL106523. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL106523

Bao J., Stevens B., Kluft L., Muller C., 2024
Intensification of daily tropical precipitation extremes from more organized convection
Science Advances, Vol 10, Issue 8, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adj6801
** See ISTA news article about this paper

Hwong Y.-L., Colin M., Aglas-Leitner P., Muller C.J., Sherwood S.C., 2023
Assessing Memory in Convection Schemes Using Idealized Tests
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 15, e2023MS003726. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023MS003726

Abramian S., Muller C., Risi C., 2023
Extreme Precipitation in Tropical Squall Lines
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 15, e2022MS003477. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022MS003477

Fildier B., Muller C., Pincus R., Fueglistaler S., 2023
How moisture shapes low-level radiative cooling in subsidence regimes
AGU Advances, 4, e2023AV000880. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023AV000880

Muller C., Abramian S., 2023
The cloud dynamics of convective storm systems
Physics Today, 76 (5): 28. https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.5234
** Front Cover of Physics Today

Risi C., Muller C., Vimeux F., Blossey P., Vedeau G., Dufaux C., Abramian S., 2023
What controls the mesoscale variations in water isotopic composition within tropical cyclones and squall lines? Cloud resolving model simulations in radiative-convective equilibrium
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 15, e2022MS003331. https://doi. org/10.1029/2022MS003331

Roca R., V. De Meyer, C. Muller, 2022
Precipitating fraction, not intensity, explains extreme coarse-grained precipitation Clausius-Clapeyron scaling with sea surface temperature over tropical oceans
Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2022GL100624. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL100624

Muller C., D. Yang, G. Craig, T. Cronin, B. Fildier, J. O. Haerter, C. Hohenegger, B. Mapes, D. Randall, S. Shamekh, S. Sherwood, 2022
Spontaneous Aggregation of Convective Storms
Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 54, https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-fluid-022421-011319
** Invited Review Paper on Theoretical Models of Self-Aggregation

Abramian S., Muller C., Risi C., 2022
Shear-convection interactions and orientation of tropical squall lines
Geophysical Research Letters, 49, https://doi. org/10.1029/2021GL095184

Da Silva N., Muller C., Shamekh S., Fildier B., 2021
Significant amplification of instantaneous extreme precipitation with convective self-aggregation
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 13, https://doi. org/10.1029/2021MS002607

Haerter J. O., Muller C., 2021
Mechanisms for the self-organization of tropical deep convection
Chapter in "Cloud Physics and Dynamics: Showers and Shade from Earth’s Atmosphere", AGU Books.

Stevens B., et al, 2021
EUREC4A
Earth System Science Data, Preprint

Risi C., C. Muller, P. Blossey, 2021
Rain evaporation, snow melt and entrainment at the heart of water vapor isotopic variations in the tropical troposphere, according to large-eddy simulations and a two-column model
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 13, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020MS002381

Albright A.-L., B. Fildier, L. Touze-Peiffer, R. Pincus, J. Vial, C. Muller, 2021
Atmospheric radiative profiles during EUREC4A
Earth System Science Data, 13, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-617-2021

Poujol B., A. Prein, M. Molina, C. Muller, 2021
Dynamic and thermodynamic impacts of climate change on organized convection in Alaska
Climate Dynamics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-020-05606-7

Fildier B., W. D. Collins, C. Muller, 2021
Distortions of the rain distribution with warming, with and without self-aggregation
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 13, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020MS002256

Shamekh S., C. Muller, J.-P. Duvel, F. D'Andrea, 2020
Self-aggregation of convective clouds with interactive sea surface temperature
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 12, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020MS002164

Risi C., C. Muller, P. Blossey, 2020
What controls the water vapor isotopic composition near the surface of tropical oceans? Results from an analytical model constrained by large-eddy simulations
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 12, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020MS002106

Drobinski P., N. Da Silva, S. Bastin, S. Mailler, C.J. Muller, B. Ahrens, O. Christensen, P. Lionello, 2020
How warmer and drier will the Mediterranean region be at the end of the 21st century?
Regional Environmental Change, 20, 78, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-020-01659-w

Muller C., Y. Takayabu, 2020
Response of precipitation extremes to warming: what have we learned from theory and idealized cloud-resolving simulations, and what remains to be learned?
Environmental Research Letters, 15, 035001, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab7130
** Invited Review Paper on Precipitation Extremes

Muller C., 2019
Clouds in current and in a warming climate
Book chapter, for the book of lecture notes from the Houches Summer School:
Fundamental Aspects of Turbulent Flows in Climate, Volume 108, August 2017
Oxford University Press, DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198855217.001.0001

Shamekh S., C. Muller, J.-P. Duvel, F. D'Andrea, 2019
How do ocean warm anomalies favor the aggregation of deep convective clouds?
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-18-0369.1

Richet O., J.-M. Chomaz, C. Muller, 2018
Internal tide dissipation at topography: triadic resonant instability equatorward and evanescent waves poleward of the critical latitude
Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, 123, https://doi.org/10.1029/2017JC013591

Muller C., D. Romps, 2018
Acceleration of tropical cyclogenesis by self-aggregation feedbacks
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201719967; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1719967115

Zuidema P., G. Torri, C. Muller, A. Chandra, 2017
A survey of precipitation-induced atmospheric cold pools over oceans and their interactions with the larger-scale environment
Surveys in Geophysics, 38: 1283. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10712-017-9447-x
** Invited Review Paper on Cold Pools

Holloway C. , A. Wing, S. Bony, C. Muller, H. Masunaga, T. L'Ecuyer, D. Turner, P. Zuidema, 2017
Observing Convective Aggregation
Surveys in Geophysics, doi: 10.1007/s10712-017-9419-1

Wing A., K. Emanuel, C. Holloway, C.J. Muller, 2017
Convective self-aggregation in numerical simulations : a review
Surveys in Geophysics, doi: 10.1007/s10712-017-9408-4
** Invited Review Paper on Self-Aggregation

Richet O., C. Muller, J.-M. Chomaz, 2017
Impact of a mean current on the internal tide energy dissipation at the critical latitude
Journal of Physical Oceanography, doi: 10.1175/JPO-D-16-0197.1

Drobinski P., N. Da Silva, G. Panthou, S. Bastin, C. Muller, B. Ahrens, M. Borga, D. Conte, G. Fosser, F. Giorgi, I. Guttler, V. Kotroni, L. Li, E. Morin, B. Onol, P. Quintana-Segui, R. Romera, T. Csaba Zsolt, 2016
Scaling precipitation extremes with temperature in the Mediterranean: past climate assessment and projection in anthropogenic scenarios
Climate Dynamics, doi:10.1007/s00382-016-3083-x

Drobinski P., B. Alonzo, S. Bastin, N. Da Silva, C.J. Muller, 2016
Scaling of precipitation extremes with temperature in the French Mediterranean region: what explains the hook shape?
Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 121, 3100-3119

Lefauve A., C.J. Muller, A. Melet, 2015
A three-dimensional map of tidal dissipation over abyssal hills
Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, 120, 4760–4777, doi:10.1002/2014JC010598

Muller C., S. Bony, 2015
What favors convective aggregation, and why?
Geophysical Research Letters, 42, 5626–5634 -  Supplementary Material 

Melet A., M. Nikurashin, C.J. Muller, S. Falahat, J. Nycander, P. Timko, B. Arbic, J. Goff, 2013
Internal tide generation by abyssal hills using analytical theory
Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, 118, 6303–6318

Muller C., 2013
Impact of convective organization on the response of tropical precipitation extremes to warming
Journal of Climate, 26, 5028–5043

Muller, I.M. Held, 2012
Detailed investigation of the self-aggregation of convection in cloud-resolving simulations
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 69, 2551–2565

Muller C., P.A. O'Gorman, 2011
An energetic perspective on the regional response of precipitation to climate change
Nature Climate Change, 1, 266–271 doi:10.1038/nclimate1169  -  Supplementary Material 

Muller C., P.A. O'Gorman, L.E. Back, 2011
Intensification of precipitation extremes with warming in a cloud resolving model
Journal of Climate, 24, 2784–2800 doi: 10.1175/2011JCLI3876.1

O'Gorman P., C.J. Muller, 2010
How closely do changes in surface and column water vapor follow Clausius-Clapeyron scaling in climate-change simulations?
Environmental Research Letters, 5, 025207
** See ERL news article about this paper

Canuto V., A.M. Howard, Y. Cheng, C.J. Muller, A. Leboissetier and S.R. Jayne, 2010
Ocean turbulence III: New GISS vertical mixing scheme
Ocean Modelling, 34, 70-91

Muller C., L.E. Back, P.A. O'Gorman, and K.A. Emanuel, 2009
A model for the relationship between tropical precipitation and column water vapor
Geophysical Research Letters, 36, L16804
** Chosen to be an editor’s highlight

Muller C. and O. Buhler, 2009
Saturation of the internal tides and induced mixing in the abyssal ocean
Journal of Physical Oceanography, 39, 2077-2096

Buhler O. and C.J. Muller, 2007
Instability and focusing of internal tides in the deep ocean
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 588, 1-28

OTHER:

Muller C.J., 2019
Fundamental study of small-scale processes in the atmosphere and in the ocean
HDR report

Muller C.J., Bony S., 2016
Self-Aggregation of atmospheric convection in idealized simulations
Workshop report, Oberwolfach Workshop Multiscale Interactions in Geophysical Fluids

Muller C.J., 2016
Dynamique des fluides geophysiques, l’experience Chinoise
Article de Presse, Journal du Bureau du CNRS en Chine

Muller C.J., Lefauve A., 2014
A worldwide map of tidal dissipation
Scientific contribution for the exhibition Lost in Fathoms by A. Tondeur & J.M. Chomaz, GV Art gallery London.

Muller C.J., Melet A., Nikurashin M., 2013
Abyssal Hill Roughness Impact on Internal Tide Generation: Linear Theory
Communication pour les Journees OGOA "Ondes de Gravite dans l'Ocean et l'Atmosphere" 23-24 mai 2013 ENS Lyon

Muller C.J., 2008
Wave-induced mixing above the abyssal seafloor
Ph.D. Thesis, New York University

Muller C.J., 2007. Communications from CFM2007 – 18eme congres francais de mecanique a Grenoble, aout 2007
http://irevues.inist.fr/cfm2007