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The Year 2001 paper from R.S. Lindzen and colleagues in which they first proposed their "Iris" hypothesis, in which sea surface temperatures (SST's) are inversely correlated with outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) increases and suggestions of a cooling effect on global temperatures.
A paper by Hartmann & Michelsen which demonstrates that the proposed mechanism driving the SST - OLR inverse correlation (anvil cloud moisture detrainment) does not correlate with SST itself.
A reply by Lindzen et al. to the comments of Hartmann & Michelsen.
A further reply to Lindzen et al. from Hartmann & Michelsen. The first link is the body of the reply, and the second is an Appendix with supporting analysis on mean cloud fraction correlations.
A paper from Fu et al. demonstrating that Lindzen et al. used Japanese Geostationary Meteorological Satellite (GMS-5) satellite data incorrectly and overestimated high cloud radiative emissions and water vapor feedbacks.
A paper from Lin et al. that replaced Lindzen et al.'s modeled tropical cloud radiative fluxes with actual ones derived from Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite data, and obtained a positive rather than a negative feedback.
A paper from Chambers et al. similar to the Lin et al. study in which Cloud and Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) satellite data were used cloud radiative fluxes, also yielding a positive feedback.
An overview of the Iris Effect, with commentary, from the NASA Earth Observatory web site.
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