publications

submitted

• Weyland, F., Hoor, P., Kunkel, D., Birner, T., Plöger, F., and Turhal, K.: Long-term changes in the thermodynamic structure of the lowermost stratosphere inferred from ERA5 reanalysis data, EGUsphere [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-1700, 2024.
• Rupp, P., Spaeth, J., Afargan-Gerstman, H., Büeler, D., Sprenger, M., and Birner, T.: The impact of synoptic storm likelihood on European subseasonal forecast uncertainty and their modulation by the stratosphere, EGUsphere [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-1423, 2024.
• Turhal, K., Plöger, F., Clemens, J., Birner, T., Weyland, F., Konopka, P., and Hoor, P.: Variability and trends in the PV-gradient dynamical tropopause, EGUsphere [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-471, 2024.

peer-reviewed

2024

• Spaeth, J., Rupp, P., Osman, M., Grams, C. M., and Birner, T.: Flow‐dependence of ensemble spread of subseasonal forecasts explored via North Atlantic‐European weather regimes, Geophys. Res. Lett., 51, e2024GL109733, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL109733, 2024.
• Gupta, A., Sheshadri, A., Alexander, M. J., and Birner, T.: Insights on lateral gravity wave propagation in the extratropical stratosphere from 44 years of ERA5 data, Geophys. Res. Lett., 51, e2024GL108541, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL108541, 2024.
• Fujiwara, M., Martineau, P., Wright, J. S., Abalos, M., Šácha, P., Kawatani, Y., Davis, S. M., Birner, T., and Monge-Sanz, B. M.: Climatology of the terms and variables of transformed Eulerian-mean (TEM) equations from multiple reanalyses: MERRA-2, JRA-55, ERA-Interim, and CFSR, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 24, 7873–7898, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-7873-2024, 2024.
• Spaeth, J., P. Rupp, H. Garny, T. Birner: Stratospheric impact on subseasonal forecast uncertainty in the Northern extratropics, Commun. Earth Environ., 5, 126, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01292-z, 2024.
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• Gupta, A., R. Reichert, A. Dörnbrack, H. Garny, R. Eichinger, I. Polichtchouk, B. Kaifler, and T. Birner: Estimates of Southern Hemispheric Gravity Wave Momentum Fluxes Across Observations, Reanalyses, and Kilometer-scale Numerical Weather Prediction Model, J. Atmos. Sci., 81, 583–604, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-23-0095.1, 2024.
• Ploeger, F., Birner, T., Charlesworth, E., Konopka, P., and Müller, R.: Moist bias in the Pacific upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UTLS) in climate models affects regional circulation patterns, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 24, 2033–2043, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-2033-2024, 2024.

2023

• Harzer, F., H. Garny, F. Ploeger, H. Bönisch, P. Hoor, and T. Birner: On the pattern of interannual polar vortex–ozone co-variability during northern hemispheric winter, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, 10661-10675,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-10661-2023, 2023.
• Rupp, P., Spaeth, J., Garny, H., and Birner, T.: Enhanced polar vortex predictability following sudden stratospheric warming events, Geophys. Res. Lett., 50, e2023GL104057, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL104057, 2023.
• Charlesworth, E., Plöger, F., Birner, T., et al.: Stratospheric water vapor affecting atmospheric circulation, Nat. Commun., 14, 3925, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39559-2, 2023.
• Brown, F., Marshall, L., Haynes, P. H., Garcia, R. R., Birner, T., and Schmidt, A.: On the magnitude and sensitivity of the quasi-biennial oscillation response to a tropical volcanic eruption, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, 5335–5353, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-5335-2023, 2023.
• Adam O., N. Liberty-Levi, M. Byrne, T. Birner: Reduced Tropical Climate Land Area Under Global Warming, Geophys. Res. Lett., 50, e2022GL102546, https://doi. org/10.1029/2022GL102546, 2023.
• Hufnagl, L., Eichinger, R., Garny, H., Birner, T., Kuchař, A., Jöckel, P., and Graf, P.: Stratospheric Ozone Changes damp the CO2-induced Acceleration of the Brewer-Dobson Circulation, J. Climate, 36, 3305-3320, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0512.1, 2023.
• Walz, R., H. Garny, T. Birner: Stratospheric modulation of tropical upper-tropospheric warming-induced circulation changes in an idealized general circulation model, J. Atmos. Sci., 80, 611-631, 2023.
• Jäger, F., P. Rupp, T. Birner: Robust poleward jet shifts in idealised baroclinic-wave life-cycle experiments with noisy initial conditions, Weather Clim. Dynam., 4, 49–60, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-4-49-2023, 2023.

2022

• Boljka, L., and T. Birner: Potential impact of tropopause sharpness on the structure and strength of the general circulation, npj Clim. Atmos. Sci., 5, 98, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-022-00319-6, 2022.
• Spaeth, J. and T. Birner: Stratospheric modulation of Arctic Oscillation extremes as represented by extended-range ensemble forecasts, Weather Clim. Dynam., 3, 883-903, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-3-883-2022, 2022.
• Davis, L. B., D. W. J. Thompson, and T. Birner: Links between Climate Sensitivity and the Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulation in a Simple General Circulation Model, J. Climate, 35(15), 5119-5136, 2022.
• Rupp, P., S. Loeffel, H. Garny, X. Chen, J. G. Pinto, T. Birner: Potential links between tropospheric and stratospheric circulation extremes during early 2020, J. Geophys. Res., 127, e2021JD035667, 2022.
• Davis, N. A. and T. Birner: Eddy-mediated Hadley cell expansion due to axisymmetric angular momentum adjustment to greenhouse gas forcings, J. Atmos. Sci., 79(1), 141-159, 2022.

2021

• Weinberger, I., C. I. Garfinkel, I. White, T. Birner: The efficiency of upward wave propagation near the tropopause: importance of the form of the refractive index, J. Atmos. Sci., 78(8), 2605-2617, 2021.
• Gupta, A., T. Birner, A. Dörnbrack, I. Polichtchouk: Importance of gravity wave forcing for springtime southern polar vortex breakdown as revealed by ERA5, Geophys. Res. Lett., 10.1029/2021GL092762, 2021.
• Scherllin-Pirscher, B., Steiner, A. K., Anthes, R. A., Alexander, M. J., Alexander, S. P., Biondi, R., Birner, T., Kim, J., Randel, W. J., Son, S., Tsuda, T., and Zeng, Z.: Tropical Temperature Variability in the UTLS: New Insights from GPS Radio Occultation Observations, Journal of Climate, 34(8), 2813-2838, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0385.1, 2021.
• Rupp, P. and T. Birner: Tropospheric eddy feedback to different stratospheric conditions in idealised baroclinic life cycles, Weather Clim. Dynam., 2, 111–128, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-2-111-2021, 2021.
• Baldwin, M. P., B. Ayarzagüena, T. Birner, N. Butchart, A. J. Charlton-Perez, A. H. Butler, D. I. V. Domeisen, C. I. Garfinkel, H. Garny, E. P. Gerber, M. I. Hegglin, U. Langematz, N. M. Pedatella: Sudden Stratospheric Warmings, Rev. Geophys., 59, e2020RG000708. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020RG000708, 2021.

2020

• Garny, H., R. Walz, M. Nützel, T. Birner: Extending the Modular Earth Submodel System (MESSy v2.54) model hierarchy: The ECHAM/MESSy idealized (EMIL) model setup, Geosci. Model Dev., 13, 5229–5257, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-5229-2020, 2020.
• Boljka, L. and T. Birner: Tropopause-level planetary wave source and its role in two-way troposphere–stratosphere coupling, Weather Clim. Dynam., 1, 555–575, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-1-555-2020, 2020.
• Rivoire, L., T. Birner, J. A. Knaff, N. Tourville: Quantifying the radiative impact of clouds on tropopause layer cooling in tropical cyclones, J. Climate, 33, 5527-5542, doi:10.1175/jcli-d-19-0813.1, 2020.
• Kautz, L.-A., Polichtchouk, I., Birner, T., Garny, H., Pinto, J. G.: Enhanced extended‐range predictability of the 2018 late‐winter Eurasian cold spell due to the stratosphere, Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 146, 1040-1055, doi:10.1002/qj.3724, 2020.

2019

• Charlesworth, E. J., T. Birner, J. R. Albers: Ozone transport-radiation feedbacks in the tropical tropopause layer, Geophys. Res. Lett., 46, doi:10.1029/2019GL084679, 2019.
• Baldwin, M. P., T. Birner, G. Brasseur, J. Burrows, N. Butchart, R. Garcia, M. Geller, L. Gray, K. Hamilton, N. Harnik, M. I. Hegglin, U. Langematz, A. Robock, K. Sato, A. Scaife: 100 Years of Progress in Understanding the Stratosphere and Mesosphere, Meteorological Monographs, 59, 27.1-27.62, https://doi.org/10.1175/AMSMONOGRAPHS-D-19-0003.1, 2019.
• de la Cámara, A., T. Birner, J. R. Albers: Are sudden stratospheric warmings preceded by anomalous tropospheric wave activity?, J. Climate, 32, 7173-7189, 2019.
• Dacie, S., L. Kluft, H. Schmidt, B. Stevens, S. A. Buehler, P. J. Nowak, S. Dietmüller, N. L. Abraham, T. Birner: A 1D RCE study of factors affecting the tropical tropopause layer and surface climate, J. Climate, 32, 6769-6782, 2019.
• Davis, N. A. and T. Birner: Eddy influences on the Hadley circulation, J. Adv. Model. Earth Sci. (JAMES), 11, 1563-1581, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018MS001554, 2019.
• Ploeger, F., Legras, B., Charlesworth, E., Yan, X., Diallo, M., Konopka, P., Birner, T., Tao, M., Engel, A., and Riese, M.: How robust are stratospheric age of air trends from different reanalyses?, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 19, 6085–6105, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-6085-2019, 2019.
• Grise, K. M., S. M. Davis, I. R. Simpson, D. W. Waugh, Q. Fu, R. J. Allen, K. H. Rosenlof, C. C. Ummenhofer, K. B. Karnauskas, A. C. Maycock, X.-W. Quan, T. Birner, and P. W. Staten, Recent tropical expansion: Natural variability or forced response?, J. Climate, 32, 1551-1571, 2019.
• Mitchell, J. L., T. Birner, G. Lapeyre, N. Nakamura, P. L. Read, G. Riviére, A. Sánchez-Lavega, G. K. Vallis: Zonal Jets in Nature - Terrestrial Atmospheres, in Zonal Jets, Eds. B. Galperin and P. L. Read, Cambridge University Press, 2019.
• Eichinger, R., Dietmüller, S., Garny, H., Sacha, P., Birner, T., Böhnisch, H., Pitari, G., Visioni, D., Stenke, A., Rozanov, E., Revell, L., Plummer, D. A., Jöckel, P., Oman, L., Deushi, M., Kinnison, D. E., Garcia, R., Morgenstern, O., Zeng, G., Stone, K. A., and Schofield, R., The influence of mixing on stratospheric circulation changes in the 21st century, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 19, 921-940, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-921-2019, 2019.

2018

• Adam, O., Grise, K. M., Staten, P., Simpson, I. R., Davis, S. M., Davis, N. A., Waugh, D. W., and Birner, T., The TropD software package (v1): standardized methods for calculating tropical-width diagnostics, Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 4339-4357, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-4339-2018, 2018.
• Diallo, M., Riese, M., Birner, T., Konopka, P., Müller, R., Hegglin, M. I., Santee, M. L., Baldwin, M., Legras, B., and Ploeger, F., Response of stratospheric water vapor and ozone to the unusual timing of El Niño and the QBO disruption in 2015-2016, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 13055-13073, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-13055-2018, 2018.
• Staten, P. W., J. Lu, K. M. Grise, S. M. Davis, T. Birner, Re-examining tropical expansion, Nature Climate Change, 8, 768-775, 2018.
• Waugh, D.W., K. Grise, W. J. M. Seviour, S.M. Davis, N. Davis, O. Adam, S.-W. Son, I R Simpson, P. W. Staten, A. C. Maycock, C.C. Ummenhofer, T. Birner , and A. Ming, Revisiting the Relationship among Metrics of Tropical Expansion, J. Climate, 31, 7565-7581, 2018.
• Dietmüller, S., Eichinger, R., Garny, H., Birner, T., Bönisch, H., Pitari, G., Mancini, E., Visioni, D., Stenke, A., Revell, L., Rozanov, E., Plummer, D. A., Scinocca, J., Jöckel, P., Oman, L., Deushi, M., Kiyotaka, S., Kinnison, D. E., Garcia, R., Morgenstern, O., Zeng, G., Stone, K. A., and Schofield, R., Quantifying the effect of mixing on the mean Age of Air in CCMVal-2 and CCMI-1 models, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 6699-6720, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-6699-2018, 2018.
• Kim, J., W. J. Randel, T. Birner, Convectively-driven tropopause-level cold layer and its influences on stratospheric moisture, J. Geophys. Res., 123, https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JD027080, 2018.
• Albers, J. R., J. Perlwitz, G. N. Kiladis, Z. Lawrence, A. H. Butler, T. Birner, G. L. Manney, A. O. Langford, J. Dias, Mechanisms governing interannual variability of stratosphere to troposphere ozone transport, J. Geophys. Res., 123, https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JD026890, 2018.
• Hitchcock, P., P. Haynes, W. J. Randel, T. Birner, The emergence of shallow easterly jets in QBO westerlies, J. Atmos. Sci., 75, 21-40, 2018.

2017

• Diallo, M., F. Ploeger, P. Konopka, T. Birner, R. Müller, M. Riese, H. Garny, B. Legras, E. Ray, G. Berthet, F. Jegou, Significant contributions of volcanic aerosols to decadal changes in the stratospheric circulation, Geophys. Res. Lett., 44, doi:10.1002/2017GL074662, 2017.
• de la Cámara, A., J. R. Albers, T. Birner, R. R. Garcia, P. Hitchcock, D. E. Kinnison, A. K. Smith, Sensitivity of sudden stratospheric warmings to previous stratospheric conditions, J. Atmos. Sci., 74, 2857-2877, 2017.
• Sjoberg, J. P., T. Birner, R. H. Johnson, Intraseasonal to interannual variability of Kelvin wave momentum fluxes as derived from high-resolution radiosonde data, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 8971-8986, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-8971-2017, 2017.
• Birner, T., J. R. Albers, Sudden stratospheric warmings and anomalous upward wave activity flux, SOLA, 13A, 8-12, doi:10.2151/sola.13A-002, 2017.
• Birner, T., E. Charlesworth, On the relative importance of radiative and dynamical heating for tropical tropopause temperatures, J. Geophys. Res., 122, doi: 10.1002/2016jd026445, 2017.
• Glanville, A. A., T. Birner, Role of vertical and horizontal mixing in the tape recorder signal near the tropical tropopause, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 4337-4353, doi:10.5194/acp-17-4337-2017, 2017.
• Davis, N., T. Birner, On the discrepancies in tropical belt expansion between reanalyses and climate models, and among tropical belt width metrics, J. Climate, 30, 1211-1231, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0371.1, 2017.
• Fujiwara, M., Wright, J. S., Manney, G. L., Gray, L. J., Anstey, J., Birner, T., Davis, S., Gerber, E. P., Harvey, V. L., Hegglin, M. I., Homeyer, C. R., Knox, J. A., Krüger, K., Lambert, A., Long, C. S., Martineau, P., Monge-Sanz, B. M., Santee, M. L., Tegtmeier, S., Chabrillat, S., Tan, D. G. H., Jackson, D. R., Polavarapu, S., Compo, G. P., Dragani, R., Ebisuzaki, W., Harada, Y., Kobayashi, C., McCarty, W., Onogi, K., Pawson, S., Simmons, A., Wargan, K., Whitaker, J. S., and Zou, C.-Z., Introduction to the SPARC Reanalysis Intercomparison Project (S-RIP) and overview of the reanalysis systems, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 1417-1452, doi:10.5194/acp-17-1417-2017, 2017.

2016

• Abalos, M., W. J. Randel, T. Birner, Phase-speed spectra of eddy tracer fluxes linked to isentropic stirring and mixing in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere, J. Atmos. Sci., 73, 4711-4730, doi: 10.1175/JAS-D-16-0167.1, 2016.
• Rivoire, L., T. Birner, J. A. Knaff, Evolution of the Upper-level Thermal Structure in Tropical Cyclones, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, doi: 10.1002/2016gl070622, 2016.
• Davis, N., D. J. Seidel, T. Birner, S. M. Davis, and S. Tilmes, Changes in the Width of the Tropical Belt due to Simple Radiative Forcing Changes in the GeoMIP Simulations, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 10083-10095, doi:10.5194/acp-16-10083-2016, 2016.
• Ploeger, F., T. Birner, Characteristics of lower stratospheric transport as inferred from the age of air spectrum, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 10195-10213, doi:10.5194/acp-16-10195-2016, 2016.
• Albers, J. R., G. N. Kiladis, T. Birner, J. Dias, Tropical upper tropospheric potential vorticity intrusions during sudden stratospheric warmings, J. Atmos. Sci., 73, 2361-2384, 2016.
• Davis, N. A., T. Birner, Climate model biases in the width of the tropical belt, J. Climate, 29, 1935-1954, 2016.
• Kim, J., W. J. Randel, T. Birner, M. Abalos, Spectrum of wave forcing associated with the annual cycle of upwelling at the tropical tropopause, J. Atmos. Sci., 73, 855-868, 2016.

2015

• Jones, D. C., T. Ito, T. Birner, A. Klocker, D. Munday, Planetary-geometric constraints on isopycnal slope in the Southern ocean, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 45, 2991-3004, 2015.
• Butler, A. H., D. J. Seidel, S. C. Hardiman, N. Butchart, T. Birner, A. Match, Defining sudden stratospheric warmings, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 96, 1913-1928, 2015.
• Ploeger, F., M. Abalos, T. Birner, P. Konopka, B. Legras, R. Müller, M. Riese, Quantifying the effects of mixing and residual circulation on trends of stratospheric mean age of air, Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, doi:10.1002/2014GL062927, 2015.
• Konopka, P., F. Ploeger, M. Tao, T. Birner, M. Riese, Hemispheric asymmetries and seasonality of mean age of air in the lower stratosphere: Deep versus shallow branch of the Brewer-Dobson circulation, J. Geophys. Res., 119, doi:10.1002/2014JD022429, 2015.

2014

• Birner, T., S. M. Davis, D. J. Seidel, The changing width of Earth's tropical belt, Physics Today 67, 12, 38-44, 2014.
• Sjoberg, J. P., T. Birner, Stratospheric wave-mean flow feedbacks and sudden stratospheric warmings in a simple model forced by upward wave-activity flux, J. Atmos. Sci., 71, 4055-4071, 2014.
• Albers, J. R., T. Birner, Relative roles of planetary and gravity waves in vortex preconditioning prior to sudden stratospheric warmings, J. Atmos. Sci., 71, 4028-4054, 2014.
• Garny, H., T. Birner, H. Bönisch, F. Bunzel, The effects of mixing on age of air, J. Geophys. Res., 119, doi:10.1002/2013JD021417, 2014.

2013

• Birner, T., D. W. J. Thompson, T. G. Shepherd, Up-gradient eddy fluxes of potential vorticity near the subtropical jet, Geophys. Res. Lett., 40, doi:10.1002/2013GL057728, 2013.
• Davis, N. A., T. Birner, Seasonal to multi-decadal variability of the width of the tropical belt, J. Geophys. Res., 118, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50610, 2013.
• Charlton-Perez, A. J., et al. (27 co-authors including T. Birner), On the lack of stratospheric dynamical variability in low-top versions of the CMIP5 models, J. Geophys. Res., 118, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50125, 2013. [note the supplementary material]

2012

• Paulik, L. C., T. Birner, Quantifying the deep convective temperature signal within the tropical tropopause layer (TTL), Atmos. Chem. Phys., 12, 12183-12195, doi:10.5194/acp-12-12183-2012, 2012.
• Sjoberg, J. P., T. Birner, Transient tropospheric forcing of sudden stratospheric warmings, J. Atmos. Sci., 69, 3420-3432, 2012.
• Thompson, D. W. J., T. Birner, On the linkages between the tropospheric isentropic slope and eddy fluxes of heat during Northern Hemisphere winter, J. Atmos. Sci., 69, 1811-1823, 2012.

2011

• Butler, A. H., D. W. J. Thompson, T. Birner, Isentropic slopes, downgradient eddy fluxes, and the extratropical atmospheric response to tropical tropospheric heating, J. Atmos. Sci., 68, 2292-2305, 2011.
• Gettelman, A., P. Hoor, L. L. Pan, W. J. Randel, M. I. Hegglin, T. Birner, The extratropical upper troposphere and lower stratosphere, Rev. Geophys., 49, RG3003, doi:10.1029/2011RG000355, 2011.
• Bönisch, H., A. Engel, T. Birner, P. Hoor, D. W. Tarasick, E. A. Ray, On the structural changes in the Brewer-Dobson circulation after 2000, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 3937-3948, 2011. [research highlight in Nature Geosci.]
• Birner, T., H. Bönisch, Residual circulation trajectories and transit times into the extratropical lowermost stratosphere, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 817-827, doi:10.5194/acp-11-817-2011, 2011.

2010

• Birner, T., Recent widening of the tropical belt from global tropopause statistics: Sensitivities, J. Geophys. Res., 115, D23109, doi:10.1029/2010JD014664, 2010.
• Gettelman, A., et al. (37 co-authors including T. Birner), Multi-model Assessment of the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere: Tropics and Trends, J. Geophys. Res., 115, D00M08, doi:10.1029/2009JD013638, 2010.
• Birner, T., Residual Circulation and Tropopause Structure, J. Atmos. Sci., 67, 2582-2600, 2010.
• Grise, K. M., D. W. J. Thompson, T. Birner, A Global Survey of Static Stability in the Stratosphere and Upper Troposphere, J. Climate, 23, 2275-2292, 2010.
• Davoudi, J., N. A. McFarlane, T. Birner, Fluctuation of mass flux in a cloud resolving simulation with interactive radiation, J. Atmos. Sci., 67, 400-418, 2010.

2009

• Bönisch, H., A. Engel, J. Curtius, T. Birner, P. Hoor, Quantifying transport into the lowermost stratosphere using simultaneous in-situ measurements of SF6 and CO2, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9, 5905-5919, 2009.
• Gettelman, A., T. Birner, V. Eyring, et al., The tropical tropopause layer 1960-2100, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9, 1621-1637, 2009.
• Son, S.-W., L. M. Polvani, D. W. Waugh, T. Birner, H. Akiyoshi, R. R. Garcia, A. Gettelman, D. A. Plummer, E. Rozanov, The impact of stratospheric ozone recovery on tropopause height trends, J. Climate, 22, 429-445, 2009.

2008

• Birner, T., P. D. Williams, Sudden stratospheric warmings as noise-induced transitions, J. Atmos. Sci., 65, 3337-3343, 2008.

2007

• Gettelman, A., T. Birner, Insights into tropical tropopause layer processes using global models, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D23104, doi:10.1029/2007JD008945, 2007.

2006

• Birner, T., D. Sankey, T. G. Shepherd, The tropopause inversion layer in models and analyses, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L14804, doi:10.1029/2006GL026549, 2006.
• Birner, T., Fine-scale structure of the extratropical tropopause region, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D04104, doi:10.1029/2005JD006301, 2006.

2004

• Küpper, C., J. Thuburn, G. C. Craig, T. Birner, Mass and water transport into the tropical stratosphere: A cloud-resolving simulation, J. Geophys. Res. 109, D10111, doi:10.1029/2004JD004541, 2004.

2002

• Dörnbrack, A., T. Birner, A. Fix, H. Flentje, A. Meister, H. Schmid, E. V. Browell, and M. J. Mahoney, Evidence for inertia gravity waves forming polar stratospheric clouds over Scandinavia, J. Geophys. Res. 107(D20), 8287, doi:10.1029/2001JD000452, 2002.
• Birner, T., A. Dörnbrack, U. Schumann, How sharp is the tropopause at midlatitudes? Geophys. Res. Lett. 29(14), 1700, doi:10.1029/2002GL015142, 2002.
• Birner, T., K. Lippert, R. Müller, A. Kühnel, U. Behn, Critical behaviour of nonequilibrium phase transitions to magnetically ordered states, Phys. Rev. E 65, 046110, 2002.

2001

• Kivi, R., E. Kyrö, A. Dörnbrack, and T. Birner, Observations of vertically thick polar stratospheric clouds and record low temperature in the Arctic vortex, Geophys. Res. Lett. 28(19), 3661-3664, 2001.

conference proceedings

• Birner, T. and A. Dörnbrack, 2001: A Ten Year Climatology of Stratospheric Gravity Wave Activity above Southern Germany, In Proc. SPARC 2000 General Assembly. [gziped ps-file]
• Lippert, K., R. Müller, T. Birner, A. Kühnel, and U. Behn, 2000: Noise induced phase transitions in spatially extended systems, In Proc. Bogolyubov Conference 'Problems of theoretical and mathematical physics', 27 September - 6 October 1999, Eds. V. G. Kadyshevsky, A. N. Sissakian, in: Physics of elementary particles and atomic nuclei, Vol. 31, part 7B, pp 150-155 (2000). [available on request by email to thomas.birner'at'lmu.de]

miscellaneous

• Davis, S. M., T. Birner, D. Seidel, How Do Climate Variations Affect the Width of the Tropics?, EOS (Meeting Report), 97, doi:10.1029/2016EO049309, 2016.
• Birner, T., The extratropical tropopause region, PhD Thesis, University of Munich, 2003 (also: Research Report DLR-FB-2004-17, German Aerospace Center, Cologne, Germany). (in German)
• Birner, T., A. Dörnbrack, and T. Schoenemeyer, Mountain-wave induced polar stratospheric clouds, TerraFLOPS, Issue Number 3, pp 4-5, October 2002.
• Birner, T., Noise induced phase transitions in systems of harmonically coupled Stratonovich-Models, Master Thesis, University of Leipzig, 1999. (in German)