Sean Cohen

Postdocs

I am an atmospheric scientist interested in using simple models of energy transfer in Earth’s atmosphere to explain our climate. My primary interests are rainfall, tropical convection, and radiative transfer

Biography

Ph.D. Applied Math and Atmospheric Science, Columbia University, 2024
Thermal Engineer, Ball Aerospace, 2018-2020
M.S.E Mechanical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 2017
B.S.E Mechanical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 2017

Publications

Cohen, S., R. Pincus, and L. M. Polvani 2026: Stratospheric cooling and amplification of radiative forcing with rising carbon dioxide. Nature Geosci., doi:10.1038/s41561-026-01965-8. (Available via ReadCube)

Cohen S. and R. Pincus, 2025: A spectroscopic theory for how mean rainfall changes with surface temperature. Sci. Adv., 11, eadv6191. doi:10.1126/sciadv.adv6191.

Cohen, S., M. Biasutti, and A. Sobel, 2025: Modeling tropical precipitation in a single column with a boundary layer forcing. J. Atmos. Sci., 82, 1615-1627. doi:10.1175/JAS-D-24-0111.1

Cohen, S., A. Sobel, M. Biasutti, S. Wang, I. Simpson, A. Gettelman, and I. Hu, 2024: Implementation and exploration of parametrizations of large-scale dynamics in NCAR's Single Column Atmosphere Model SCAM6. J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 16, e2023MS003866. doi:10.1029/2023MS003866.

Columbia Affiliations
Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
LEAP - Learning the Earth through Artificial intelligence and Physics
Applied Math and Applied Physics