Benjamin M. Sanderson

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Project Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO, USA. My research interests include Uncertainty Quantification for projections of future climate change, Climatic Feedback processes, Perturbed Physics and machine learning applications for climate science. I can often be found in Room 220A, in the Mesa Lab.

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0. Curriculum vitae

1. Publications

Meehl G.A., W.M. Washington, J.M. Arblaster, A. Hu, H. Teng, J.E. Kay, A. Gettelman, D.M. Lawrence, B.M. Sanderson, W.G. Strand, 2012: Climate change projections in CESM1(CAM5), J. Climate, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00572.1
Jonko, Alexandra K., Karen M. Shell, Benjamin M. Sanderson, Gokhan Danabasoglu, 2013: Climate Feedbacks in CCSM3 under Changing CO2 Forcing. Part II: Variation of Climate Feedbacks and Sensitivity with Forcing. J. Climate, 26, 2784-2795, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00479.1
B.M. Sanderson and R.Knutti, On the interpretation of constrained climate model ensembles, Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 39, Issue 16, August 2012
B.M. Sanderson and K.M.Shell, Model Specific radiative kernels for calculating cloud and non-cloud feedbacks, J.Climate, in press.
B.M. Sanderson, On the estimation of systematic error in regression-based predictions of Climate Sensitivity, Climatic Change, in press.
D.J Rowlands, D.J. Frame, D. Ackerley, T. Aina, B.B.B. Booth, C. Christensen, M. Collins, N. Faull, C.E. Forest, B.S Grandey, E. Gryspeerdt, E.J. Highwood, W.J. Ingram, S. Knight, A. Lopez, N. Massey, F. McNamara, N.Meinshausen, C. Piani, S.M. Rosier, B.M. Sanderson, L.A. Smith, D.A. Stone, M. Thurston, K. Yamazaki, Y.H. Yamazaki and M.R. Allen, Broad range of 2050 warming from an observationally constrained large climate model ensemble, Nature Geoscience 5, 256-260 (2012), doi:10.1038/ngeo1430
G.A Meehl, W.M.Washington, A. Hu, C. Tebaldi, J. Arblaster, H. Teng, B.M. Sanderson, T. Ault, W.G.Strand and J.B.White III, Relative outcomes of climate change mitigation related to global temperature versus sea level rise, Nature Climate Change, in press.
A.K. Jonko, K.M. Shell, B.M. Sanderson and G. Danabasoglu, Climate feedbacks in CCSM3 under changing CO2 forcing. Part I: Adapting the linear radiative kernel technique to feedback calculations for a broad range of forcings, J.Climate, online first
Meehl, G.A., W.M. Washington, J.M. Arblaster, A. Hu, H. Teng, C. Tebaldi, B. Sanderson, J.F. Lamarque, A. Conley, W.G. Strand, and J.B. White III, 2011: Climate system response to external forcings and climate change projections in CCSM4. J. Climate, online first doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00240.1
B. M. Sanderson, B. O'Neill, J.T. Kiehl, G.A. Meehl, R. Knutti and W.M. Washington, The response of the climate system to very high greenhouse gas emission scenarios, Environ. Res. Lett. 6 034005, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/6/3/034005
E.M. Fischer, D.M. Lawrence and B.M. Sanderson, Quantifying uncertainties in projections of extremes - a perturbed land surface parameter experiment, Clim. Dynam., online first, doi:10.1007/s00382-010-0915-y .
B.M Sanderson A Multimodel Study of Parametric Uncertainty in Predictions of Climate Response to Rising Greenhouse Gas Concentrations. J. Climate, 24, 1362-1377. 2011 doi: 10.1175/2010JCLI3498.1
B.M. Sanderson, K.M.Shell, W.J.Ingram Climate feedbacks determined from radiative kernels in a multi-thousand member ensemble of AOGCMs , CLIMATE DYNAMICS Volume 35, Numbers 7-8, 1219-1236, doi:10.1007/s00382-009-0661-1
B.M. Sanderson, R. Knutti, T.Aina, C.Christensen, N.Faull, D.J.Frame, W.J.Ingram, C.Piani, D.A.Stainforth, D.A.Stone and M.R.Allen Constraints on model response to greenhouse gas forcing and the role of sub-grid scale processes Mar 2008, J. Climate, Vol. 21, pp 2384-2400. doi:10.1175/2008JCLI1869.1
B.M. Sanderson, C.Piani, W.J.Ingram, D.A.Stone and M.R. Allen - Towards constraining climate sensitivity by linear analysis of feedback patterns in thousands of perturbed-physics GCM simulations Feb 2008, Clim. Dyn., Vol. 30, pp 175-190. doi:10.1007/s00382-007-0280-7
C.Piani, B. M. Sanderson, F.Giorgi, D.J.Frame, C.Christensen and M.Allen Regional probabilistic climate forecasts from a multithousand, multimodel ensemble of simulations Dec 2007, J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 112, D24108 doi:10.1029/2007JD008712
C. G. Knight, S. H. E. Knight, N. Massey, T. Aina, C. Christensen, D. J. Frame, J. A. Kettleborough, A. Martin, S. Pascoe, B. Sanderson, D. A. Stainforth, M. R. Allen, Association of parameter, software and hardware variation with large scale behavior across 57,000 climate models , PNAS, July 2007. doi:10.1073/pnas.0608144104

2. Other items

I have co-written a chapter on climate model uncertainty in the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology Meyers, Robert A. Ed. 2012, 10500 p. 2500 illus.
I obtained my D.Phil under the supervision of Myles Allen at the University of Oxford's Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics and defended my thesis Feedback Mechanisms and constraints on Climate Sensitivity from a Perturbed Physics Ensemble of General Circulation Models in 2007.
I spend my spare time acquiring and dissipating gravitational potential in the Colorado Rocky mountains.