Levi Glenn Silvers
Curriculum Vitae
School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794
Email: levi.silvers@stonybrook.edu
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4304-2545
Google Scholar: https://tinyurl.com/ScholarSilvers
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Cloud feedback mechanisms, predictability and internal variability of the climate, large-scale fluid dynamics, satellite-based observations of clouds, climate change, development of atmospheric numerical models.
EDUCATION
2011 Ph.D. Atmospheric Science
Colorado State University, Advisor: Prof. Wayne Schubert
2007 M.S. Atmospheric Science
Colorado State University, Advisor: Prof. Wayne Schubert
2004 B.S. Physics
Gordon College, Wenham, MA., Minor in Mathematics
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2019-Present Research Scientist
Stony Brook University, School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Stony Brook, NY
2015-2019 Associate Research Scholar
Princeton University/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton NJ
2012-2015 Post Doctoral Scientist
The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
PEER REVIEW PUBLICATIONS
Reed, K.A, L.G. Silvers, A.A. Wing, I-K. Hu and B. Medeiros, 2021: Using Radiative Convective Equilibrium to Explore Clouds and Climate in the Community Atmosphere Model. 10, Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 13, doi: 10.1029/2021MS002539
Deroubaix, A., I. Labuhn, M. Camredon, B. Gaubert, P.-A. Monerie, et al. [including L.G.Silvers], 2021: Large uncertainties in trends of energy demand for heating and cooling under climate change. Nat. Commun. 12, 5197 doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-25504-8
Burnett, A.C., A. Sheshadri, L.G. Silvers, and T. Robinson, 2021: Tropical Cyclone Frequency under Varying SSTs in Aquaplanet Simulations. Geoph. Res. Lett., doi:10.1029/2020GL091980
Fueglistaler, S., and L.G. Silvers, 2021: The Peculiar Trajectory of Global Warming. J. of Geophys. Res. Atmos., doi: 10.1029/2020JD033629
Zhang, G., L.G. Silvers, M. Zhao, and T.R. Knutson, 2021: Idealized Aqua-Planet Simulations of Tropical Cyclone Activity: Significance of Temperature Gradients, Hadley Circulation, and Zonal Asymmetry. J. Atmos. Sci., doi: 10.1175/JAS-D-20-0079.1
Silvers, L.G., and T. Robinson, 2021: Clouds and Radiation in a mock-Walker Circulation. J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst, 13, doi: 10.1029/2020MS002196
Wing, A.A., C.L. Stauffer, T. Becker, K.A. Reed, M.-S. Ahn, et al. [including L. G. Silvers], 2020: Clouds and convective self-aggregation in a multi-model ensemble of radiative-convective equilibrium simulations. J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 12, doi: 10.1029/2020MS002138
Winton, M., A. Adcroft, J.P. Dunne, I.M. Held, E. Shevliakova, et al. [including L. G. Silvers], 2020: Climate sensitivity of GFDL’s CM4.0. J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst.,12, doi: 10.1029/2019MS001838
Held, I. M., H. Guo, A. Adcroft, J. P. Dunne, L. W. Horowitz, et al. [including L. G. Silvers], 2019: Structure and Performance of GFDL’s CM4.0 Climate Model. J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 11, doi: 10.1029/2019MS001829
Fan, S., P. Ginoux, C.J. Semen, L.G. Silvers, and M. Zhao, 2019: Towards improved cloud-phase simulation with a mineral dust and temperature-dependent parameterization for ice nucleation in mixed-phase clouds. J. Atmos. Sci. doi: 10.1175/JAS-D-18-0287.1
Andrews, T., J. Gregory, D. Paynter, L. Silvers, C. Zhou, et al., 2018: Accounting for changing temperature patterns increases historical estimates of climate sensitivity. Geoph. Res. Lett., 45, 8490-8499. doi: 10.1029/2018GL078887
Giorgetta, M., R. Brokopf, T. Crueger, M. Esch, S. Fiedler, et al. [including L. G. Silvers], 2018: ICON-A, the atmospheric component of the ICON Earth System Model. Part I: Model Description. J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst. 10, doi: 10.1029/2017MS001242
Zhao, M., J. C., Golaz., I. M. Held, H. Guo, V. Balaji, et al. [including L. G. Silvers], 2018: The GFDL global atmosphere and land model AM4.0/LM4.0: 1. Simulation characteristics with prescribed SSTs. J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst. 10, doi: 10.1002/2017MS001208
Zhao, M., J. C., Golaz., I. M. Held, H. Guo, V. Balaji, et al. [including L. G. Silvers], 2018: The GFDL global atmosphere and land model AM4.0/LM4.0: 2. Model description, sensitivity studies, and tuning strategies. J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst. 10, doi: 10.1002/2017MS001209
Paynter, D., T. Frolicher, L. Horowitz, and L.G. Silvers, 2018: Equilibrium climate sensitivity obtained from multi-millennial runs of two GFDL climate models. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 123, doi:10.1002/2017JD027885.
Silvers, L.G., D. Paynter, and M. Zhao, 2018: The diversity of cloud responses to twentieth-century sea surface temperatures. Geoph. Res. Lett., 45, 391-400. doi:10.1002/2017GL075583.
Popp, M. and L. G. Silvers, 2017: Double and single ITCZs with and without clouds. J. Climate., 30, 9147-9166, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0062.1.
Silvers, L. G., B. Stevens, T. Mauritsen, and M. Giorgetta, 2016: Radiative convective equilibrium as A framework for studying the interaction between convection and its large-scale environment. J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 8, doi:10.1002/2016MS000629.
Hohenegger, C., L. Schlemmer, and L.G. Silvers, 2015: Coupling of convection and circulation at various resolutions. Tellus A, 67, 1-17, doi:10.3402/tellusa.v67.26678
Silvers, L.G., and Wayne H. Schubert, 2012: A theory of topographically bound balanced motions and application to atmospheric low-level jets. J. Atmos. Sci., 69, 2878-2891, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-11-0309.1
Schubert, W.H., L.G. Silvers, M.T. Masarik, and A.O. Gonzalez, 2009: A filtered model of tropical wave motions. J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 1, Art. #3, 11pp., doi:10.1029/JAMES.2009.1.3
Schubert, W.H., R.K. Taft, and L.G. Silvers, 2009: Shallow water quasi- geostrophic theory on the sphere. J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 1, Art. #2, 17pp., doi:10.1029/JAMES.2009.1.2
PUBLICATIONS (Submitted or in Press)
Silvers, L.G., K.A. Reed, and A.A. Wing, The response of the large-scale tropical circulation to warming, in revision at J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst. preprint available: doi:10.1002/essoar.10510163.1
PUBLISHED DATASETS
As the scientific lead at GFDL for the CFMIP experiments I authored or was a co-author for 48 datasets that have been published as part of the sixth phase of the coupled model intercomparison project (CMIP6). Details are given for 20 of these datasets below. All datasets are hosted by the Earth System Grid Federation and can be found here: https://search.datacite.org/repositories/dkrz.esgf
Silvers, L.G., C. Blanton, C. McHugh, J.G. John, A. Radhakrishnan, et al., 2018a: NOAA-GFDL GFDL-CM4 model output prepared for CMIP6 CFMIP. Earth System Grid Federation. doi:https://doi.org/10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.1641
Silvers, L.G., C. Blanton, C. McHugh, J.G. John, A. Radhakrishnan, et al., 2018b: NOAA-GFDL GFDL-CM4 model output prepared for CMIP6 CFMIP amip-4xCO2. Earth System Grid Federation. doi:https://doi.org/10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.8499
Silvers, L.G., C. Blanton, C. McHugh, J.G. John, A. Radhakrishnan, et al., 2018c: NOAA-GFDL GFDL-CM4 model output prepared for CMIP6 CFMIP amip-future4K. Earth System Grid Federation. doi:https://doi.org/10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.8503
Silvers, L.G., C. Blanton, C. McHugh, J.G. John, A. Radhakrishnan, et al., 2018d: NOAA-GFDL GFDL-CM4 model output prepared for CMIP6 CFMIP amip-lwoff. Earth System Grid Federation. doi:https://doi.org/10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.8506
Silvers, L.G., C. Blanton, C. McHugh, J.G. John, A. Radhakrishnan, et al., 2018e: NOAA-GFDL GFDL-CM4 model output prepared for CMIP6 CFMIP amip-m4K. Earth System Grid Federation. doi:https://doi.org/10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.8507
Silvers, L.G., C. Blanton, C. McHugh, J.G. John, A. Radhakrishnan, et al., 2018f: NOAA-GFDL GFDL-CM4 model output prepared for CMIP6 CFMIP amip-p4K. Earth System Grid Federation. doi:https://doi.org/10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.8508
Silvers, L.G., C. Blanton, C. McHugh, J.G. John, A. Radhakrishnan, et al., 2018g: NOAA-GFDL GFDL-CM4 model output prepared for CMIP6 CFMIP amip-p4K-lwoff. Earth System Grid Federation. doi:https://doi.org/10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.8509
Silvers, L.G., C. Blanton, C. McHugh, J.G. John, A. Radhakrishnan, et al., 2018h: NOAA-GFDL GFDL-CM4 model output prepared for CMIP6 CFMIP aqua-4xCO2. Earth System Grid Federation. doi:https://doi.org/10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.8511
Silvers, L.G., C. Blanton, C. McHugh, J.G. John, A. Radhakrishnan, et al., 2018i: NOAA-GFDL GFDL-CM4 model output prepared for CMIP6 CFMIP aqua-control. Earth System Grid Federation. doi:https://doi.org/10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.8512
Silvers, L.G., C. Blanton, C. McHugh, J.G. John, A. Radhakrishnan, et al., 2018j: NOAA-GFDL GFDL-CM4 model output prepared for CMIP6 CFMIP aqua-control-lwoff. Earth System Grid Federation. doi:https://doi.org/10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.8513
Silvers, L.G., C. Blanton, C. McHugh, J.G. John, A. Radhakrishnan, et al., 2018k: NOAA-GFDL GFDL-CM4 model output prepared for CMIP6 CFMIP aqua-p4K. Earth System Grid Federation. doi:https://doi.org/10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.8514
Zhao, M., C. Golaz, I. Held, H. Guo, V. Balaji, et al. [including L.G. Silvers], 2018a: NOAA-GFDL GFDL-AM4 model output. Earth System Grid Federation. doi:https://doi.org/10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.1401
Zhao, M., C. Golaz, I. Held, H. Guo, V. Balaji, et al. [including L.G. Silvers], 2018b:
NOAA-GFDL GFDL-AM4 model output prepared for CMIP6 CMIP amip. Earth System Grid Federation. doi:https://doi.org/10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.8493
Guo, H., J.G. John, C. Blanton, C. McHugh, S. Nokonov, et al. [including L.G. Silvers], 2018a: NOAA-GFDL GFDL-CM4 model output. Earth System Grid Federation. doi:https://doi.org/10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.1402
Guo, H., J.G. John, C. Blanton, C. McHugh, S. Nokonov, et al. [including L.G. Silvers], 2018b: NOAA-GFDL GFDL-CM4 model output 1pctCO2. Earth System Grid Federation. doi:https://doi.org/10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.8470
Guo, H., J.G. John, C. Blanton, C. McHugh, S. Nokonov, et al. [including L.G. Silvers], 2018c: NOAA-GFDL GFDL-CM4 model output abrupt-4xCO2. Earth System Grid Federation. doi:https://doi.org/10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.8486
Guo, H., J.G. John, C. Blanton, C. McHugh, S. Nokonov, et al. [including L.G. Silvers], 2018d: NOAA-GFDL GFDL-CM4 model output amip. Earth System Grid Federation. doi:https://doi.org/10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.8494
Guo, H., J.G. John, C. Blanton, C. McHugh, S. Nokonov, et al. [including L.G. Silvers], 2018e: NOAA-GFDL GFDL-CM4 model output historical. Earth System Grid Federation. doi:https://doi.org/10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.8594
Guo, H., J.G. John, C. Blanton, C. McHugh, S. Nokonov, et al. [including L.G. Silvers], 2018f: NOAA-GFDL GFDL-CM4 model output piControl. Earth System Grid Federation. doi:https://doi.org/10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.8666
Krasting, J.P., J.G. John, C. Blanton, C. McHugh, S. Nikonov, et al. [including L.G. Silvers], 2018: NOAA-GFDL GFDL-ESM4 model output prepared for CMIP6 CMIP. Earth System Grid Federation. doi:https://doi.org/10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.1407
DISSERTATION AND THESIS
Silvers, L.G., 2011: A theory of topographically bound balanced motions and application to atmospheric low-level jets. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, 78 pages.
Silvers, L.G., 2007: The theory of stratified, quasi-balanced flows on the sphere. M.S. thesis, Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, 57 pages.
INVITED TALKS
2020, Seminar, University of Wyoming, WY, November: Clouds and Climate Sensitivities Across a Hierarchy of GFDL CMIP6 Models
2020, Seminar, Florida State University, FL, January: A mock-Walker Circulation and Radiative Convective Equilibrium: Clouds and Precipitation
2019, Seminar, Caltech, Climate Modeling Alliance, CA, August: Cloud Resolving and General Circulation Model Simulations of an Idealized Walker Circulation
2017, Seminar, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, October: The Diversity of Cloud Responses to Twentieth-Century Sea Surface Temperatures
2017, Seminar, Stony Brook University School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Stony Brook, NY, March: Variability of the Climate Feedback Parameter in AM2.1, AM3, and AM4g10r8
2017, COSP (CFMIP Observation Simulator Package) Workshop, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace Climate Modelling Centre, Paris, France, February: COSP at GFDL
2016, Colloquium, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science, New York University, New York, NY, October: RCE as A Framework for Studying the Interaction Between Conv. and its Large-Scale Envi.
2016, Science Workshop Seminar, Bennington College, Bennington, VT, April: How to Make a Computer Model of the Earth System: Theoretical Physics Meets Practical Predictive Science
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Stony Brook University
- Instructor
Extreme Weather (ATM 103, Fall 2021)
- Guest Lectures
Global Atmospheric Change (ATM 305, Spring 2020)
Extreme Weather (ATM 103, Fall 2019)
Princeton University
- Instructor with Prison Teaching Initiative
Pre-Calculus, (Fall 2018)
Algebra, (Fall 2017, Spring 2018)
- Guest Lecturer
Earth’s Atmosphere, (Fall 2018)
Colorado State University
- Teaching Assistant
- Atmospheric Dynamics (AT 601), Fall 2009
- General Circulation of the Atmosphere (AT 605), Spring 2008
- Objective Analysis in the Atmospheric Sciences (AT 655), Spring 2007
- Research Mentor, (Summer 2009)
Assisted Prof. Taka Ito supervising undergraduate research intern
Other Institutions
- Guest Speaker, (May 2018)
Class on Weather and Climate
YingHua International School, Kingston, NJ
- Modeling Mentor, (August 2012)
Dynamical Core Model Intercomparison Project, Summer School, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO
- Physics Tutor, (Fall 2001,Spring 2002, Fall 2002)
Gordon College, Wenham, MA
CONFERENCES, SEMINARS, WORKSHIPS, SUMMER SCHOOLS
2022, Presentation, CFMIP Meeting on Clouds, Precipitation, Circulation, and Climate Sensitivity, Seattle, WA
2022, Presentation, European Geophysical Union, virtual meeting
2022, Presentation, CESM Winter Working Group Meeting, virtual meeting
2021, Presentation, American Geophysical Union, New Orleans, LA
2021, Presentation, CFMIP Meeting on Clouds, Precipitation, Circulation, and Climate Sensitivity, virtual meeting
2020, Presentation, American Geophysical Union, virtual meeting
2020, Presentation, American Meteorological Society, Annual Meeting, Boston, MA
2019, Presentation, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA
2019, Presentation, CFMIP Meeting on Clouds, Precipitation, Circulation, and Climate Sensitivity, Mykonos, Greece
2019, Presentation, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, Montreal, CA
2018, Presentation, American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C.
2018, Presentation, CFMIP Meeting on Clouds, Precipitation, Circulation, and Climate Sensitivity, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO
2018, Princeton Research Day, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
2018, Poster Expo, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ
2017, Presentation, American Geophysical Union, New Orleans, LA
2017, Presentation, CFMIP Meeting on Cloud Processes, Circulation and Climate Sensitivity, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
2017, Seminar, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ
2016, Presentation CFMIP/WCRP Conference on Cloud Processes, Circulation, and Climate Sensitivity, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy
2016, Poster Expo, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ
2015, Presentation, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA
2015, Presentation, European Geophysical Union, Vienna, Austria
2015, Presentation, ICON Model Development Team Meeting, Hamburg, Germany
2015, Seminar, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ
2014, Presentation, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA
2014, Presentation, European Geophysical Union, Vienna, Austria
2014, Klima Campus Seminar, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
2013, Presentation, ICON Model Development Team Meeting, Offenbach, Germany
2013, Presentation, Interdisciplinary Conference of Young Earth System Scientists, Hamburg, Germany
2013, Presentation, ICON Model Development Team Meeting, Katlenburg, Germany
2013, Participant, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts Training Course, Reading, United Kingdom
2012, Presentation, ICON Model Development Team Meeting, Hamburg, Germany
2012, Mentor, Dynamical Core Model Intercomparison Project, Summer School, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO
2012, Presentation, ICON Model Development Team Meeting, Katlenburg, Germany
2011, Presentation, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA
2011, Presentation, 10th Team Meeting for the Center for Multiscale Modeling of Atmospheric Processes (CMMAP), Berkeley, CA
2010, Participant, Summer School on Atmospheric Modeling, Boulder, CO
2009, Presentation, AMS 17th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics and 15th Conference on Middle Atmosphere, Stowe, VT
2008, Participant, Workshop on Isentropic Vertical Coordinates, NCAR, Boulder, CO
2006, Participant, Summer School on Modern Mathematical Methods in Physical Oceanography. Breckenridge, CO
SERVICE AND OUTREACH
Member of SoMAS Diversity Equity & Inclusion Committee Present
Research Mentor
Timothy Park, Half Hollow Hills High School East Present
Samuel Park, Half Hollow Hills High School East 2021
Project on tropical cyclones, submitted to Regeneron STS
Juho Iipponen, Princeton University 2018
Graduate Student advised by Leo Donner
Cara Tabor, Colorado State University 2009
Undergraduate Student in Physics department
Public Presentation
Clouds: Perennial Inspiration for Artists and Scientists
Alike NY, 2022
übergeek Brewing Company, Riverhead, NY
Science Fair Judge
Long Island Science and Engineering Fair, (LISEF) NY, 2022
Monmouth Junction Elementary School, Monmouth Junction, NJ, 2016
Frontier Academy, Greeley CO, 2009
Session Chair,
AMS Schubert Symposium, Atmospheric Dynamics and Numerical Methods, Jan 2020
Princeton Research Day, Long Ago and Far Away, May 2018
Judge, Outstanding Student Paper Awards, American Geophysical Union
Proposal Review
Panel, NASA ROSES (Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Science)
Panel, DOE BER (Office of Biological & Environmental Research)
Individual, NSF (Climate and Large-scale Dynamics Program)
Manuscript Peer-Review
Atmosphere
Climate and Atmospheric Science – NPJ
Geoscientific Model Development
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
Journal of Geophysical Research
Nature Geoscience
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
Internal Manuscript Review
The Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Geophysical Union
European Geophysical Union
American Meteorological Society
PRE-PhD RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:
Research Assistant, Fall 2007- Fall 2011
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
Ph.D. research on large-scale potential vorticity dynamics
Advisor: Prof. Wayne H. Schubert
Research Assistant, Spring 2005- Fall 2007
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
M.S. research on global quasi-geostrophic theory
Research Assistant, Fall 2004-Spring 2005
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
Worked with Prof. Henk Dijkstra on research concerning the
thermohaline ocean circulation and seasonal cycles
Research Assistant, Summer 2002
University of Idaho, Moscow, ID
Research Experience for Undergraduates summer program
-Assisted Prof. David McIlroy with research in solid state physics