Major Publications
If you would like a paper reprint please email me and I can post you one if I have any left.
2018 |
Zhou, S. X. Zhai, and I. A. Renfrew 2017: The impact of high-frequency weather systems on SST and surface mixed layer in the central Arabian Sea, J. Geophysical Research, 123, doi: 10.1002/2017JC013609 |
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2017 |
King, J.C., A. Kirchgaessner, S. Bevan, A.D. Elvidge, P. Kuipers Munneke, A. Luckman, A. Orr, I. A. Renfrew and M. R. van den Broeke, 2017: The impact of föhn winds on surface energy balance during the 2010-11 melt season over Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctica, 122, J. Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, doi:10.1002/2017JD026809 |
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Poulidis, A. P., T. Takemi, M. Iguchi, and I. A. Renfrew, 2017: Orographic effects on the transport and deposition of volcanic ash: A case study of Mt. Sakurajima, Japan, J. Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 122, doi:10.1002/2017JD026595. |
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Verezemskaya, P., N. Tilinina, S. Gulev, I. A. Renfrew and M. Lazzara, 2017: Southern Ocean mesocyclones and polar lows from manually tracked satellite mosaics, Geophysical Research Letters, 44, doi:10.1002/2017GL074053. |
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Sergeev, D. E., I. A. Renfrew, T. Spengler, S. R. Dorling, 2017: Structure of a shear-line polar low, Quarterly J. Royal Meteorol. Soc., 143, 12-26. doi:10.1002/qj.2911 |
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2016 |
Jung, T., N. Gordon, P. Bauer, D. Bromwich, M. Chevallier, J. Day, J. Dawson, F. Doblas-Reyes, C. Fairall, H. Goessling, M. Holland, J. Inoue, T. Iversen, S. Klebe, P. Lemke, M. Losch, A. Makshtas, B. Mills, P. Nurmi, D. Perovich, P. Reid, I. A. Renfrew, G. Smith, G. Svensson, M. Tolstykh, and Q. Yang, 2016: Advancing polar prediction capabilities on daily to seasonal time scales. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. 97, 1631-1647. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-14-00246.1 |
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Young, G., H. M. Jones, T. W. Choularton, J. Crosier, K. N. Bower, M. W. Gallagher, R. S. Davies, I. A. Renfrew, A. D. Elvidge, E. Darbyshire, F. Marenco, P. R. A. Brown, P. J. Connolly, G. Lloyd, P. I. Williams, J. D. Allan, J. W. Taylor, D. Liu, and M. J. Flynn, 2016: Observed microphysical changes in Arctic mixed-phase clouds when transitioning from sea ice to open ocean, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 16, 13945-13967, doi:10.5194/acp-16-13945-2016 |
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Jones, R.W., I.A. Renfrew, A. Orr, B.G.M. Webber, D.M. Holland and M.A. Lazzara, 2016: Evaluation of four global reanalysis products using in situ observations in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 121, 6240-6257, 10.1002/2015JD024680 |
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Moore, G.W.K., D.H. Bromwich, A.B. Wilson, I.A. Renfrew, L. Bai, 2016: Arctic System Reanalysis improvements in topographically-forced winds near Greenland, Quarterly J. Royal Meteorol. Soc., 142, 2033-2045. doi:10.1002/qj.2798 |
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Elvidge, A. D., and I. A. Renfrew, 2016: The causes of foehn warming in the lee of mountains, Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc., 97, 455-466.doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-14-00194.1 |
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Elvidge, A.D., I.A. Renfrew, A.I. Weiss, I.M. Brooks, T.A. Lachlan-Cope, and J.C. King 2016: Observations of surface momentum exchange over the marginal-ice-zone and recommendations for its parameterization, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 16, 1545-1563. doi:10.5194/acp-16-1545-2016 |
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Poulidis A.P., I. A. Renfrew and A. J. Matthews, 2016: Thermally Induced Convective Circulation and Precipitation over a Volcano, J. Atmospheric Sciences, 73, 1667-1686. doi: 10.1175/JAS-D-14-0327.1 |
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Elvidge, A. D., I. A. Renfrew, J. C. King, A. Orr, T. A. Lachlan-Cope, 2016: Foehn warming distributions in non-linear and linear flow regimes: A focus on the Antarctic Peninsula, Quarterly J. Royal Meteorol. Soc., 142, 618-631. doi:10.1002/qj.2489 |
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2015 |
Moore, G.W.K., K. Våge, R.S. Pickart and I.A. Renfrew, 2015: Decreasing intensity of open-ocean convection in the Greenland and Iceland seas, Nature Climate Change, 5, 877-882. doi: 10.1038/nclimate2688 Supplementary material |
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Harden, B. E., I. A. Renfrew and G. N. Petersen, 2015: Meteorological buoy observations from the central Iceland Sea, J. Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 120, doi:10.1002/2014JD022584. |
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Moore, G.W.K, I.A. Renfrew, B.E. Harden, S.H. Mernild, 2015: The impact of resolution on the representation of Greenland barrier winds and katabatic flows, Geophysical Research Letters, 42, doi:10.1002/2015GL063550. |
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Vaughan, G., J. Methven,et al. 2015: Cloud Banding and Winds in Intense European Cyclones: Results from the DIAMET Project, Bulletin American Meteorol. Soc., 96, 249-265. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00238.1 |
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Elvidge, A. D., I. A. Renfrew, J. C. King, A. Orr, T. A. Lachlan-Cope, M. Weeks, S. L. Gray, 2015: Foehn jets over the Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctica, Quarterly J. Royal Meteorol. Soc.,141, 698-713. doi: 10.1002/qj.2382 |
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Cook, P. A. and I. A. Renfrew, 2015: Aircraft-based observations of air-sea turbulent fluxes around the British Isles, Quarterly J. Royal Meteorol. Soc.,141, 139-152. doi: 10.1002/qj.2345 |
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2014 |
Vihma, T., R. Pirazzini, I. Fer, I. A. Renfrew, J. Sedlar, M. Tjernström, C. Lüpkes, T. Nygård, D. Notz, J. Weiss, D. Marsan, B. Cheng, G. Birnbaum, S. Gerland, D. Chechin, and J. C. Gascard, 2014: Advances in understanding and parameterization of small-scale physical processes in the marine Arctic climate system: a review, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 9403-9450, doi:10.5194/acp-14-9403-2014 |
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Moore, G.W.K., R.S. Pickart, I. A. Renfrew and K. Våge, 2014: What causes the location of the air-sea heat flux maximum over the Labrador Sea? Geophysical Research Letters, 41, 3628–3635, doi:10.1002/2014GL059940 |
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Harden, B. E., R. S. Pickart, I. A. Renfrew, 2014: Offshore transport of dense water from the East Greenland shelf. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 44, 229–245. |
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2013 |
Moore, G.W.K., I.A. Renfrew, J.J. Cassano, 2013: Greenland Plateau Jets, Tellus A, 65, 17468, doi:10.3402/tellusa.v65i0.17468 |
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Moore, G.W.K., I.A. Renfrew, and R.S. Pickart, 2013: Multi-decadal mobility of the North Atlantic Oscillation, J. Climate, 26, 2453-2466. |
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Bourassa, M.A., S.T. Gille, C. Bitz, D. Carlson, I. Cerovecki, C. A. Clayson, M. Cronin, W.M. Drennan, C.W. Fairall, R.N. Hoffman, G. Magnusdottir, R.T. Pinker, I.A. Renfrew, M. Serreze, K. Speer, L.D. Talley, G.A. Wick, 2013: High-latitude ocean and sea ice surface fluxes: Challenges for climate research, Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc., 94, 403-423 |
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Condron, A. and I.A. Renfrew, 2013: The impact of polar mesoscale storms on northeast Atlantic Ocean circulation, Nature Geoscience, 6, 34-37, doi:10.1038/ngeo1661. Supplementary Material. |
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2012 |
Moore, G.W.K., I.A. Renfrew, R.S. Pickart, 2012: Spatial distribution of air-sea heat fluxes over the sub-polar North Atlantic, Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L18806, doi:10.1029/2012GL053097. |
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Harden, B.E. and I.A. Renfrew, 2012: On the spatial distribution of high winds off southeast Greenland, Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L14806, doi:10.1029/2012GL052245 |
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Moore, G.W.K. and I.A. Renfrew, 2012: Cold European winters: interplay between the NAO and the East Atlantic mode, Atmos. Sci. Let.,13, 1-8. |
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2011 |
Harden, B. E., I. A. Renfrew and G. N. Petersen, 2011: A climatology of wintertime barrier winds off southeast Greenland, J. Climate, 24, 4701-4717. |
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Meredith, M.P., K. W. Nicholls, I. A. Renfrew, L. Boehme, M. Biuw and M. Fedak, 2011: Seasonal evolution of the upper-ocean adjacent to the South Orkney Islands, Southern Ocean: results from a “lazy biological mooring”, Deep-Sea Research II , 58, 1569-1579. |
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Moore, G.W.K., R.S. Pickart, and I.A. Renfrew, 2011: Complexities in the climate of the Subpolar North Atlantic: A case study from 2007, Quarterly J. Royal Meteorol. Soc.,137, 757-767. |
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Irvine, E. A., S. L. Gray, J. Methven, I.A. Renfrew, 2011: Forecast impact of targeted observations: Sensitivity to observation error and proximity to steep orography, Monthly Weather Review, 139, 69-78 . |
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2010 |
Meredith, M. P., M. I. Wallace, S. E. Stammerjohn, I. A. Renfrew, A. Clarke, H. J. Venables, D. R. Shoosmith, T. Souster, M. J. Leng, 2010: Changes in the freshwater composition of the upper ocean west of the Antarctic Peninsula during the first decade of the 21st century, Progress in Oceanography, 87, 127-143. |
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Fiedler, E., T. Lachlan-Cope, I. A. Renfrew, J. C. King, 2010: Convective heat transfer of thin-ice covered polynyas, J. Geophysical Res. (Oceans),115, C10051, doi:10.1029/2009JC005797. |
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Sproson, D. A. J., I. A. Renfrew and K.. J. Heywood, 2010: A Parameterization of Greenland’s tip jets suitable for ocean or coupled climate models, J. Geophysical Res. (Oceans),115, C08022, doi:10.1029/2009JC006002. |
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2009 |
Renfrew I.A and J. E. Kristjánsson, 2009: Guest Editorial - The Greenland Flow Distortion experiment, Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc. 135, 1917-1918. |
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Renfrew, I.A., S.D. Outten and G.W.K. Moore, 2009: An easterly tip jet off Cape Farewell, Greenland. Part I: Aircraft observations, Quarterly J. Royal Meteorol. Soc., 135, 1919-1933. |
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Outten S.D., I.A. Renfrew, and G.N. Petersen, 2009: An easterly tip jet off Cape Farewell, Greenland. Part II: Simulations and dynamics, Quarterly J. Royal Meteorol. Soc., 135, 1934-1949. Note unfortunately there is a sign error in the flux-divergence term which affects Figs 10-12. An erratum includes corrected versions of these figures. The main conclusions of this work are unaffected. |
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Petersen, G.N., I.A. Renfrew and G.W.K. Moore, 2009: An overview of barrier winds off southeastern Greenland during GFDex, Quarterly J. Royal Meteorol. Soc., 135, 1950-1967. |
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Irvine, E. A., S. L. Gray, J. Methven, I. A. Renfrew, K. Bovis, R. Swinbank, 2009: The impact of targeted observations made during the Greenland Flow Distortion Experiment, Quarterly J. Royal Meteorol. Soc., 135, 2012-2029. |
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Petersen, G. N. and I. A. Renfrew, 2009: Aircraft-based observations of air-sea fluxes over Denmark Strait and the Irminger Sea during high wind speed conditions, Quarterly J. Royal Meteorol. Soc., 135, 2030-2045. |
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Renfrew, I. A., G. N. Petersen, D. A. J. Sproson, G. W. K. Moore, H. Adiwidjaja, S. Zhang, and R. North, 2009: A comparison of aircraft-based surface-layer observations over Denmark Strait and the Irminger Sea with meteorological analyses and QuikSCAT winds, Quarterly J. Royal Meteorol. Soc., 135, 2046-2066. |
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Haine, T.W.N., S. Zhang, G.W.K. Moore and I.A. Renfrew, 2009: On the impact of high-resolution, high frequency meteorological forcing on Denmark-Strait ocean circulation, Quarterly J. Royal Meteorol. Soc., 135, 2067-2085. |
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Pickart R.S., G. W. K. Moore, A. M. MacDonald, I. A. Renfrew, J. E. Walsh, and W. S. Kessler, 2009: Seasonal evolution of Aleutian low pressure systems: Implications for the North
Pacific subpolar circulation, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 39, 1317-1339. |
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2008 |
Renfrew, I. A., G. W. K. Moore, J. E. Kristjánsson, H. Ólafsson, S. L. Gray, G. N. Petersen, K. Bovis, P. R. A. Brown, I. Føre, T. Haine, C. Hay, E. A. Irvine, A. Lawrence, T. Ohigashi, S. Outten, R. S. Pickart, M. Shapiro, D. Sproson, R. Swinbank, A. Woolley, S. Zhang, 2008: The Greenland Flow Distortion experiment, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 89, 1307-1324. |
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Moore, G. W. K., R. S. Pickart and I. A. Renfrew, 2008: Buoy observations from the windiest location in the world ocean, Cape Farewell, Greenland, Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L18802, doi:10.1029/2008GL034845. |
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Condron, A., G. R. Bigg and I. A. Renfrew, 2008: Modelling the impact of polar mesoscale cyclones on ocean circulation, J. Geophysical Res. (Oceans),113, C10005, doi:10.1029/2007JC004599. |
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Sproson, D. A. J., I. A. Renfrew and K.. J. Heywood, 2008: Atmospheric conditions associated with oceanic convection in the south-east Labrador Sea, Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L06601, doi:10.1029/2007GL032971. |
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Pickart, R. S., K. Våge, G. W. K. Moore, I. A. Renfrew, M. H. Ribergaard and H. C. Davies, 2008: Convection in the western North Atlantic sub-polar gyre: Do small-scale wind events matter?, In Arctic-Subarctic Ocean Fluxes: Defining the Role of the Northern Seas in Climate, R. R. Dickson, J. Meincke and P. Rhines (Eds.), Springer, 738 pp. |
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Meredith, M. P., M. A. Brandon, M. I. Wallace, A. Clarke, M. J. Leng, I. A. Renfrew, N. P. M. van Lipzig, J. C. King 2008: Variability in the freshwater balance of northern Marguerite Bay, Antarctic Peninsula: Results from δ18O, Deep Sea Research II, 55, 309-322. |
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2006 |
Renfrew, I. A. 2006: Polynyas and leads in the Southern Ocean, In Encyclopedia of the Antarctic, 759-762, B. Riffenburgh (Ed.), Routledge, New York. |
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Liu, A. Q., G. W. K. Moore, K. Tsuboki and I. A. Renfrew, 2006: The effect of the sea-ice zone on the development of boundary-layer roll clouds during cold-air outbreaks, Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 118, 557-581. Note the figures are B&W rather than colour as planned. Colour figures can be downloaded here. |
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Renfrew, I. A. and P. S. Anderson, 2006: Profiles of katabatic flow in summer and winter over Coats Land, Antarctica, Quarterly J. Royal Meteorol. Soc., 132, 779-802. |
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Condron, A., G. R. Bigg and I. A. Renfrew, 2006: Polar Mesoscale Cyclones in the Northeast Atlantic: Comparing Climatologies from ERA-40 and Satellite Imagery, Monthly Weather Review, 134, 1518-1533. |
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2005 |
Moore, G. W. K. and I. A. Renfrew, 2005: Tip jets and barrier winds: A QuikSCAT climatology of high wind speed events around Greenland, J. Climate, 18, 3713-3725. Note there is a corrigendum. |
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Anderson, P. S., R. S. Ladkin and I. A. Renfrew, 2005: An autonomous Doppler sodar wind profiling system, J. Oceanic Atmos. Tech., 22, 1309-1325. |
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Yu, Y, X. Cai, J. C. King and I. A. Renfrew, 2005: Numerical simulations of katabatic jumps in Coats Land, Antarctica, Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 114, 413-437. |
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2004 |
Meredith, M. P., I. A. Renfrew, A. Clarke, J. C. King, and M. A. Brandon, 2004:
Impact of the 1997/98 ENSO on upper‑ocean characteristics in Marguerite Bay, western Antarctic Peninsula , J. Geophys. Res. (Oceans), 109, C09013, doi:10.1029/2003JC001784. |
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Renfrew, I. A., 2004: The dynamics of idealized
katabatic flow over a moderate slope and ice shelf, Quart. J. Roy.
Meteor. Soc., 130, 1023-1045. |
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Curry, J. A., A. Bentamy, M. A. Bourassa,
D. Bourras, E. F. Bradley, M. Brunke, S. Castro, S. H. Chou, C. A.
Clayson, W. J. Emery, L. Eymard, C. W. Fairall, M. Kubota, B. Lin,
W. Perrie, R. A. Reeder, I. A. Renfrew, W. B. Rossow, J. Schultz,
S. R. Smith, P. J. Webster, G. A. Wick, X. Zeng, 2004: SEAFLUX, Bull.
Amer. Met. Soc., 85, 409-424. |
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Liu, A. Q., G. W. K. Moore, K. Tsuboki and
I. A. Renfrew, 2004: A high-resolution simulation of convective roll
clouds during a cold-air outbreak, Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L03101,
doi:10.1029/2003GL018530. |
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2003 |
Renfrew, I. A., 2003: Polar lows, The Encyclopedia of the Atmospheric Sciences, Article 317, Vol. 3, 1761-1768, J. R. Holton, J. Pyle and J. A. Curry (Eds.), Academic Press. |
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Krahman, G., M. Visbeck, W. Smethie, E. A. D'Asaro,
P. B. Rhines, R. A. Clarke, J. Lazier, R. E. Davis, P. P. Niiler,
P. S. Guest, J. Meincke, G. W. K. Moore, R. S. Pickart, W. B. Owens,
M. D. Prater, I. A. Renfrew, F. A. Schott, 2003: The Labrador Sea
Deep Convection Experiment Data Collection, Geochemistry Geophysics
Geosystems, 4(10), 1091, doi: 10.1029/2003GC000536. |
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2002 |
Renfrew, I. A. and P. S. Anderson, 2002:
The surface climatology of an ordinary katabatic wind regime in Coats
Land, Antarctica, Tellus, 54A, 463-484. |
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Moore, G. W. K. and I. A. Renfrew, 2002: An assessment
of the surface turbulent heat fluxes from the NCEP reanalysis over
western boundary currents, J. Climate, 15, 2020-2037. |
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Renfrew, I. A., J. C. King, and T. Markus, 2002: Coastal
polynyas in the southern Weddell Sea: variability of the surface energy
budget, J. Geophys. Res. (Oceans), 107 (C6), 3063, doi: 10.1029/2000JC000720. Note due to an AGU doi mess up, you need to include 3063 when citing this paper. In addition the colour bar in Fig. 7 is wrong. You can download the figures seperately here. Note the "total rms" errors tabulated in Tables 1 and 2 are the total errors as defined in RMGB 2002, and are not the rms errors. |
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Moore, G. W. K., K. Alverson and I. A. Renfrew, 2002:
A reconstruction of the air-sea interaction associated with the Weddell
Polynya, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 32, 1685-1698. |
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Renfrew, I. A. , G. W. K. Moore, P. S. Guest, and K.
Bumke, 2002: A comparison of surface-layer and surface turbulent-flux
observations over the Labrador Sea with ECMWF analyses and NCEP reanalyses,
J. Phys. Oceanogr., 32, 383-400. Note unfortunately there is a typo in the final paper, the coefficients in eqns. (A8) and (A9) should be swapped. Note on page 389 it is stated that the total error is equal to the root-mean-square error - this is not the case. Tables 2 and 4 only show the total error, the r.m.s. errors are not published. Apologies for this mistake. |
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2000 |
Renfrew, I. A. and J. C. King, 2000: A simple
model of the convective internal boundary layer and its application
to surface heat flux estimates within polynyas, Boundary-Layer Meteorol., 94, 335-356. |
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1999 |
Renfrew, I. A. and G. W. K. Moore, 1999: An extreme
cold air outbreak over the Labrador Sea: roll vortices and air-sea
interaction, Mon. Wea. Rev., 127, 2379-2394. |
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Renfrew, I. A., G. W. K. Moore, T. D. Holt, S.W. Chang,
and P. Guest, 1999: Mesoscale forecasting during a field program:
Meteorological support of the Labrador Sea Deep Convection Experiment,
Bull. Amer. Met., Soc., 80, 605-620. Featuring our wonderful BAMS front cover! |
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1998 |
LabSea Group, The (J. Marshall, F. Dobson, K. Moore,
P. Rhines, M. Visbeck, E. d'Asaro, K. Bumke, S. Chang, R. Davis, K.
Fischer, R. Garwood, P. Guest, R. Harcourt, C. Herbaut, T. Holt, J.
Lazier, S. Legg, J. McWilliams, R. Pickart, M. Prater, I. Renfrew,
F. Schott, U. Send, and W. Smethie), 1998: The Labrador Sea Deep Convection
Experiment. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 79, 2033-2058. |
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Rivals, H., J.-P. Cammas, and I. A. Renfrew, 1998: Secondary
cyclogenesis: The initiation phase of a frontal wave observed over
the eastern Atlantic, Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 124, 243-267. |
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1997 |
Renfrew, I. A., G. W. K. Moore, and A. A. Clerk, 1997:
Binary interactions between polar lows, Tellus, 49A, 577-594. |
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Renfrew, I. A., A. J. Thorpe, and C. H. Bishop, 1997:
The role of the environmental flow in the development of secondary
frontal cyclones, Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 123, 1653-1675. |
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