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Kim, W. M., Simpson, I. R., Terray, L., Collazo, S.. (2025). The unprecedented late-summer 2023 heatwave in Southeastern South America: Attribution and future projection of similar events. Weather and Climate Extremes, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wace.2025.100772 In March 2023, southeastern South America (SESA) experienced a severe heatwave with its maximum intensity exceeding four standard deviations from the climatological mean. The timing of the occurrence was also unusual, as it occurred in the ... CGD Affiliations: CGDVISITORS, CAS Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Record high temperatures in the ocean in 2024 Cheng, L., Abraham, J., Trenberth, K. E., Reagan, J., Zhang, H., et al. (2025). Record high temperatures in the ocean in 2024. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-025-4541-3 Heating in the ocean has continued in 2024 in response to increased greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, despite the transition from an El Niño to neutral conditions. In 2024, both global sea surface temperature (SST) and upper... CGD Affiliations: CGDAO, CAS Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Glacier preservation doubled by limiting warming to 1.5°C versus 2.7°C Zekollari, H., Schuster, L., Maussion, F., Hock, R., Marzeion, B., et al. (2025). Glacier preservation doubled by limiting warming to 1.5°C versus 2.7°C. Science, doi:https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adu4675 Glaciers adapt slowly to changing climatic conditions, with long-term implications for sea-level rise and water supply. Using eight glacier models, we simulated global glacier evolution over multicentennial timescales, allowing glaciers to ... CGD Affiliations: PPC, ESP Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Arctic atmospheric rivers in a changing climate and the impacts on sea ice Thaker, R., Vavrus, S. J., Shields, C. A., DuVivier, A. K., Maclennan, M., et al. (2025). Arctic atmospheric rivers in a changing climate and the impacts on sea ice. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JD042521 Atmospheric rivers (ARs) transport heat and moisture from lower latitudes to the Arctic, contributing to sea ice loss. As climate warming and sea ice decline continue, understanding how Arctic ARs evolve is essential. While studies suggest ... CGD Affiliations: ESP, PPC Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
The Tropical Basin Interaction Model Intercomparison Project (TBIMIP) Richter, I., Chang, P., Chiu, P., Danabasoglu, G., Doi, T., et al. (2025). The Tropical Basin Interaction Model Intercomparison Project (TBIMIP). Geoscientific Model Development, doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-2587-2025 Large-scale interaction between the three tropical ocean basins is an area of intense research that is often conducted through experimentation with numerical models. A common problem is that modeling groups use different experimental setups... CGD Affiliations: OS, ESP Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Şen, B., Che‐Castaldo, C., LaRue, M. A., Krumhardt, K., Landrum, L., et al. (2025). Temporal and spatial equivalence in demographic responses of emperor penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri) to environmental change. Journal of Animal Ecology, doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.70025 Population ecology and biogeography applications often necessitate the transfer of models across spatial and/or temporal dimensions to make predictions outside the bounds of the data used for model fitting. However, ecological data are ofte... CGD Affiliations: OS, PPC Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Distinctive pattern of global warming in ocean heat content Trenberth, K. E., Cheng, L., Pan, Y., Fasullo, J. T., Mayer, M.. (2025). Distinctive pattern of global warming in ocean heat content. Journal of Climate, doi:https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-24-0609.1 Huge heat anomalies in the atmosphere and ocean in recent years are not yet explained. Strong characteristic patterns in temperatures for upper layers of the ocean occurred from 2000 to 2023 in the presence of global warming from increasing... CGD Affiliations: CGDAO, CAS Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Jenouvrier, S., Eparvier, A., Şen, B., Ventura, F., Che-Castaldo, C., et al. (2025). Living with uncertainty: Using multi-model large ensembles to assess emperor penguin extinction risk for the IUCN Red List. Biological Conservation, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111037 Improved methods for identifying species at risk are needed to strengthen climate change vulnerability assessments, as current estimates indicate that up to one million species face extinction due to environmental changes. Integrating multi... CGD Affiliations: PPC, OS Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Holland, M. M., Krumhardt, K., DuVivier, A. K., Landrum, L.. (2025). Regional multiyear predictability of Antarctic sea ice in CESM2 and its implications for marine ecosystems. Journal of Climate, doi:https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-24-0258.1 Antarctic sea ice exhibits considerable regional variability that is influenced by ocean and atmospheric conditions. Previous studies have suggested that this variability may be predictable on seasonal-to-interannual time scales. Here, we u... CGD Affiliations: PPC, OS Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Kim, H., Kang, S. M., Pendergrass, A., Lehner, F., Shin, Y., et al. (2025). Higher precipitation in East Asia and western United States expected with future Southern Ocean warming. Nature Geoscience, doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-025-01669-5 Precipitation over East Asia and the western United States is projected to increase as a result of global warming, although substantial uncertainties persist regarding the magnitude. A key factor driving these uncertainties is the tropical ... CGD Affiliations: CGDVISITORS, CGDAO Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Henry, H., Olivas, T., Gumbleton, S., Beckham, N., Steury, T. D., et al. (2025). Willingness of recreational anglers to modify hook and bait choices for sea turtle conservation in Mobile Bay, Alabama, Gulf of Mexico. Fisheries Management and Ecology, doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/fme.12766 Saltwater angling is a culturally significant and economically vital coastal recreational activity, particularly in the Gulf of Mexico that attracts enthusiasts worldwide and contributes significantly to the well‐being of Gulf Coast c... CGD Affiliations: CGDAO Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Confronting Earth System Model trends with observations Simpson, I. R., Shaw, T. A., Ceppi, P., Clement, A. C., Fischer, E., et al. (2025). Confronting Earth System Model trends with observations. Science Advances, doi:https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adt8035 Anthropogenically forced climate change signals are emerging from the noise of internal variability in observations, and the impacts on society are growing. For decades, Climate or Earth System Models have been predicting how these climate ... CGD Affiliations: CAS, CGDVISITORS Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Changes in the regional water cycle and their impact on societies Lambert, F., Allan, R. P., Behrangi, A., Byrne, M. P., Ceppi, P., et al. (2025). Changes in the regional water cycle and their impact on societies. WIREs Climate Change, doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.70005 Changes in “blue water”, which is the total supply of fresh water available for human extraction over land, are quite closely related to changes in runoff or equivalently precipitation minus evaporation, . This article examines ... CGD Affiliations: CGDVISITORS Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Dixit, A., Sahany, S., Mishra, S. K., Lehner, F.. (2025). Optimizing wrf-hydroWRF-Hydro calibration in the Himalayan Basin: Precipitation influence and parameter sensitivity analysis. Journal of Hydrometeorology, doi:https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-24-0096.1 The lack of in situ observations and reliable climate information in large parts of the Himalayas poses significant challenges for assessing water resources vulnerability. Integrated hydrometeorological modeling systems, like WRF-Hydro, hav... CGD Affiliations: CGDAO Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Boza, B., Herrington, A. R., Ilicak, M., Danabasoglu, G., Sen, O. L.. (2025). Exploring climate of the Euro‐Mediterranean using a variable‐resolution configuration of the global community earth system model (VR‐CESM). Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JD041300 A Variable‐Resolution, global configuration of the Community Earth System Model (VR‐CESM) in which the atmosphere and land are the only active components is employed to investigate the climate of the Euro‐Mediterranean reg... CGD Affiliations: AMP, CGDAO Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
O'Loughlin, R. J., Li, D., Neale, R., O'Brien, T. A.. (2025). Moving beyond post hoc explainable artificial intelligence: A perspective paper on lessons learned from dynamical climate modeling. Geoscientific Model Development, doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-787-2025 AI models are criticized as being black boxes, potentially subjecting climate science to greater uncertainty. Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) has been proposed to probe AI models and increase trust. In this review and perspective ... CGD Affiliations: CGDAO Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Impacts of irrigation expansion on moist-heat stress based on IRRMIP results Yao, Y., Ducharne, A., Cook, B. I., Hertog, S. J. D., Aas, K. S., et al. (2025). Impacts of irrigation expansion on moist-heat stress based on IRRMIP results. Nature Communications, doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56356-1 Irrigation rapidly expanded during the 20th century, affecting climate via water, energy, and biogeochemical changes. Previous assessments of these effects predominantly relied on a single Earth System Model, and therefore suffered from str... CGD Affiliations: TSS Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Impact of host climate model on contrail cirrus effective radiative forcing estimates Zhang, W., Weverberg, K. V., Morcrette, C., Feng, W., Furtado, K., et al. (2025). Impact of host climate model on contrail cirrus effective radiative forcing estimates. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-473-2025 Estimates of aviation effective radiative forcing (ERF) indicate that contrail cirrus is currently its largest contributor, although with a substantial associated uncertainty of ∼ 70 %. Here, we implement the contrail parameterisation... CGD Affiliations: AMP, CGDAO Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Polar mesospheric ozone loss initiates downward coupling of solar signal in the Northern Hemisphere Seppälä, A., Kalakoski, N., Verronen, P. T., Marsh, D., Karpechko, A. Y., et al. (2025). Polar mesospheric ozone loss initiates downward coupling of solar signal in the Northern Hemisphere. Nature Communications, doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-55966-z Solar driven energetic particle precipitation (EPP) is an important factor in polar atmospheric ozone balance and has been linked to ground-level regional climate variability. However, the linking mechanism has remained ambiguous. The obser... CGD Affiliations: CGDAO Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Long-term variability and trends in the Agulhas Leakage and its impacts on the global overturning Großelindemann, H., Castruccio, F., Danabasoglu, G., Biastoch, A.. (2025). Long-term variability and trends in the Agulhas Leakage and its impacts on the global overturning. Ocean Science, doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-93-2025 Agulhas Leakage transports relatively warm and salty Indian Ocean waters into the Atlantic Ocean and as such is an important component of the global ocean circulation. These waters are part of the upper limb of the Atlantic meridional overt... CGD Affiliations: OS Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Deser, C., Kim, W. M., Wills, R. C. J., Simpson, I. R., Yeager, S., et al. (2025). Effects of macro vs. micro initialization and ocean initial-condition memory on the evolution of ensemble spread in the CESM2 large ensemble. Climate Dynamics, doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-024-07553-z “Single Model initial-condition Large Ensembles” (SMILEs) conducted with Earth system models have transformed our ability to quantify internal climate variability and forced climate change at local and regional scales. An import... CGD Affiliations: CAS, OS, CCR Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Internal climate variability modulates decadal changes in ocean anthropogenic carbon storage Olivarez, H. C., Lovenduski, N. S., Maroon, E., Müller, J. D., Fay, A. R., et al. (2025). Internal climate variability modulates decadal changes in ocean anthropogenic carbon storage. Environmental Research Letters, doi:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ada2ad The ocean removes man-made (anthropogenic) carbon from the atmosphere and thereby mitigates climate change. Observations from global hydrographic surveys reveal the spatial and temporal evolution of the ocean inventory of anthropogenic carb... CGD Affiliations: OS Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Seijo-Ellis, G., Giglio, D., Marques, G. M., Bryan, F. O.. (2024). CARIB12: A regional Community Earth System Model/Modular Ocean Model 6 configuration of the Caribbean Sea. Geoscientific Model Development, doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-8989-2024 A new Community Earth System Model/Modular Ocean Model 6 (CESM/MOM6) ocean-only regional 1/12° configuration of the Caribbean Sea is presented and validated. The model configuration was developed as a response to the rising need for high-r... CGD Affiliations: OS Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Response of the upper ocean to northeast Pacific atmospheric rivers under climate change Shields, C. A., Li, H., Castruccio, F., Fu, D., Nardi, K., et al. (2024). Response of the upper ocean to northeast Pacific atmospheric rivers under climate change. Communications Earth & Environment, doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01774-0 Atmospheric rivers are important transport vehicles for Earth’s water cycle. Using a high-resolution, eddy-resolving Earth System Model, atmospheric river impacts on the upper ocean are investigated by analyzing historical and climate cha... CGD Affiliations: CCR, OS Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Climate Extremes in the New Zealand Region: Mechanisms, Impacts and Attribution Salinger, M. J., Trenberth, K. E., Diamond, H. J., Behrens, E., Fitzharris, B., et al. (2024). Climate Extremes in the New Zealand Region: Mechanisms, Impacts and Attribution. International Journal of Climatology, doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.8667 As global surface temperatures have increased with human‐induced climate change, notable compound climate extremes in the New Zealand (NZ) region associated with atmospheric heatwaves (AHWs) and marine heatwaves (MHWs) have occurred i... CGD Affiliations: CGDAO Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Bonan, G. B., Deser, C., Wieder, W., Lombardozzi, D., Lehner, F.. (2024). When is a trend meaningful? Insights to carbon cycle variability from an initial-condition large ensemble. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-024-00878-w Internal climate variability (ICV) creates a range of climate trajectories, which are superimposed upon the forced response. A single climate model realization may not represent forced change alone and may diverge from other realizations, a... CGD Affiliations: TSS, CAS Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Multi-month forecasts of marine heatwaves and ocean acidification extremes Mogen, S. C., Lovenduski, N. S., Yeager, S., Capotondi, A., Jacox, M. G., et al. (2024). Multi-month forecasts of marine heatwaves and ocean acidification extremes. Nature Geoscience, doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01593-0 Marine heatwaves and ocean acidification extreme events are periods during which temperature and acidification reach statistically extreme levels (90th percentile), relative to normal variability, potentially endangering ecosystems. As the ... CGD Affiliations: CCR, OS Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Gettelman, A., Forbes, R., Marchand, R., Chen, C., Fielding, M.. (2024). The impact of cloud microphysics and ice nucleation on Southern Ocean clouds assessed with single-column modeling and instrument simulators. Geoscientific Model Development, doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-8069-2024 Supercooled liquid clouds are common at higher latitudes (especially over the Southern Ocean) and are critical for constraining climate projections. We take advantage of the Macquarie Island Cloud and Radiation Experiment (MICRE) to perform... CGD Affiliations: CGDAO, AMP Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Zhou, M., Tyka, M. D., Ho, D. T., Yankovsky, E., Bachman, S., et al. (2024). Mapping the global variation in the efficiency of ocean alkalinity enhancement for carbon dioxide removal. Nature Climate Change, doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-02179-9 To limit global warming to below 2 °C by 2100, CO2 removal from the atmosphere will be necessary. One promising method for achieving CO2 removal at scale is ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE), but there are challenges with incomplete air... CGD Affiliations: OS, CGDAO Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Land processes can substantially impact the mean climate state Zarakas, C. M., Kennedy, D., Dagon, K., Lawrence, D. M., Liu, A., et al. (2024). Land processes can substantially impact the mean climate state. Geophysical Research Letters, doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL108372 Terrestrial processes influence the atmosphere by controlling land‐to‐atmosphere fluxes of energy, water, and carbon. Prior research has demonstrated that parameter uncertainty drives uncertainty in land surface fluxes. However,... CGD Affiliations: CAS, CCR, TSS Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Berdahl, M., Leguy, G., Lipscomb, W., Otto-Bliesner, B., Brady, E. C., et al. (2024). Antarctic climate response in Last Interglacial simulations using the Community Earth System Model (CESM2). Climate of the Past, doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-2349-2024 We examine results from two transient modeling experiments that simulate the Last Interglacial period (LIG) using the state-of-the-art Community Earth System Model (CESM2), with a focus on climate and ocean changes relevant to the... CGD Affiliations: PPC Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Bridging the gap: A new module for human water use in the Community Earth System Model version 2.2.1 Taranu, S. I., Lawrence, D. M., Wada, Y., Tang, T., Kluzek, E., et al. (2024). Bridging the gap: A new module for human water use in the Community Earth System Model version 2.2.1. Geoscientific Model Development, doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-7365-2024 Water scarcity is exacerbated by rising water use and climate change, yet state-of-the-art Earth system models typically do not represent human water demand. Here we present an enhancement to the Community Earth System Model (CESM) and its ... CGD Affiliations: TSS Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Present-day methane shortwave absorption mutes surface warming relative to preindustrial conditions Allen, R. J., Randles, C. A., Kramer, R. J., Samset, B. H., Smith, C. J., et al. (2024). Present-day methane shortwave absorption mutes surface warming relative to preindustrial conditions. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-11207-2024 Recent analyses show the importance of methane shortwave absorption, which many climate models lack. In particular, Allen et al. (2023) used idealized climate model simulations to show that methane shortwave absorption mutes up to 30�... CGD Affiliations: CGDAO Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Examining tropical convection features at storm‐resolving scales over the Maritime Continent region Huang, X., Gettelman, A., Medeiros, B., Skamarock, W.. (2024). Examining tropical convection features at storm‐resolving scales over the Maritime Continent region. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JD040976 The mean state and convective features, centered over the Maritime Continent, are examined at coarse and convection‐permitting scalesCoarse and refined meshes have different precipitation statistics and probability distributionsPrecip... CGD Affiliations: CAS, CGDAO Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
The interaction between climate forcing and feedbacks Gettelman, A., Eidhammer, T., Duffy, M., McCoy, D. T., Song, C., et al. (2024). The interaction between climate forcing and feedbacks. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JD040857 A Perturbed Parameter Ensemble (PPE) with the Community Atmosphere Model version 6 (CAM6) is used to better understand the sensitivity of aerosol forcing and cloud feedbacks to changes in model processes. Aerosol forcing through aerosolR... CGD Affiliations: CGDAO, AMP Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Krumhardt, K., Long, M., Petrik, C. M., Levy, M. N., Castruccio, F., et al. (2024). From nutrients to fish: Impacts of mesoscale processes in a global CESM-FEISTY eddying ocean model framework. Progress in Oceanography, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2024.103314 The ocean sustains ecosystems that are essential for human livelihood and habitability of the planet. The ocean holds an enormous amount of carbon, and serves as a critical source of nutrition for human societies worldwide. Climate variabil... CGD Affiliations: OS, CGDAO, PPC Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
IAPv4 ocean temperature and ocean heat content gridded dataset Cheng, L., Pan, Y., Tan, Z., Zheng, H., Zhu, Y., et al. (2024). IAPv4 ocean temperature and ocean heat content gridded dataset. Earth System Science Data, doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-3517-2024 Ocean observational gridded products are vital for climate monitoring, ocean and climate research, model evaluation, and supporting climate mitigation and adaptation measures. This paper describes the 4th version of the Institute of Atmosph... CGD Affiliations: CGDAO Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Porter, R., Shields, C. A., O'Brien, T., Spear, A., Hawkins, L.. (2024). Investigating Different RegCM5 Planetary Boundary Layer (PBL) Parameterizations to Simulate an Atmospheric River (AR) Case Study. , doi:https://doi.org/10.5065/ge53-h519 While atmospheric rivers (ARs) play an important role in the hydrological cycle and are significant sources of water for the North American west coast, they can also bring extreme damage through heavy rain, flooding, and mudslides. Both ARs... CGD Affiliations: ESP, CGDVISITORS Publication Genre: Manuscript View on OpenSky |
Enhanced Atlantic Meridional Mode predictability in a high-resolution prediction system Zhang, Q., Chang, P., Fu, D., Yeager, S., Danabasoglu, G., et al. (2024). Enhanced Atlantic Meridional Mode predictability in a high-resolution prediction system. Science Advances, doi:https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ado6298 Accurate prediction of sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in the tropical North Atlantic on multiyear timescales is of paramount importance due to its notable impact on tropical cyclone activity. Recent advances in high-resolution climate pred... CGD Affiliations: CCR, OS Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Reimagining Earth in the Earth system Bonan, G. B., Lucier, O., Coen, D. R., Foster, A. C., Shuman, J., et al. (2024). Reimagining Earth in the Earth system. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2023MS004017 Terrestrial, aquatic, and marine ecosystems regulate climate at local to global scales through exchanges of energy and matter with the atmosphere and assist with climate change mitigation through nature-based climate solutions. Climate scie... CGD Affiliations: TSS Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Sitch, S., O'Sullivan, M., Robertson, E., Friedlingstein, P., Albergel, C., et al. (2024). Trends and drivers of terrestrial sources and sinks of carbon dioxide: An overview of the TRENDY project. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GB008102 The terrestrial biosphere plays a major role in the global carbon cycle, and there is a recognized need for regularly updated estimates of land-atmosphere exchange at regional and global scales. An international ensemble of Dynamic Global V... CGD Affiliations: CAS, TSS Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Wills, R. C. J., Herrington, A. R., Simpson, I. R., Battisti, D. S.. (2024). Resolving weather fronts increases the large-scale circulation response to Gulf Stream SST anomalies in variable-resolution CESM2 simulations. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2023MS004123 Canonical understanding based on general circulation models (GCMs) is that the atmospheric circulation response to midlatitude sea-surface temperature (SST) anomalies is weak compared to the larger influence of tropical SST anomalies. Howev... CGD Affiliations: AMP, CAS Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
High-resolution modelling identifies the Bering Strait's role in amplified Arctic warming Xu, G., Rencurrel, M. C., Chang, P., Liu, X., Danabasoglu, G., et al. (2024). High-resolution modelling identifies the Bering Strait's role in amplified Arctic warming. Nature Climate Change, doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-02008-z The Arctic region has warmed nearly four times faster than the global average since 1979, with far-reaching global implications. However, model projections of Arctic warming rates are uncertain and one key component is the ocean heat transp... CGD Affiliations: OS, CCR Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Cohen, S., Sobel, A., Biasutti, M., Wang, S., Simpson, I. R., et al. (2024). Implementation and exploration of parameterizations of large-scale dynamics in NCAR's single column atmosphere model SCAM6. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2023MS003866 A single column model with parameterized large-scale (LS) dynamics is used to better understand the response of steady-state tropical precipitation to relative sea surface temperature under various representations of radiation, convection, ... CGD Affiliations: CAS, CGDAO Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Wide range of possible trajectories of North Atlantic climate in a warming world Gu, Q., Gervais, M., Danabasoglu, G., Kim, W. M., Castruccio, F., et al. (2024). Wide range of possible trajectories of North Atlantic climate in a warming world. Nature Communications, doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-48401-2 Decadal variability in the North Atlantic Ocean impacts regional and global climate, yet changes in internal decadal variability under anthropogenic radiative forcing remain largely unexplored. Here we use the Community Earth System Model 2... CGD Affiliations: OS Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Small, R. J., Kurian, J., Chang, P., Xu, G., Tsujino, H., et al. (2024). Eastern boundary upwelling systems in ocean–sea ice simulations forced by CORE and JRA55-do: Mean state and variability at the surface. Journal of Climate, doi:https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0511.1 In this paper we summarize improvements in climate model simulation of eastern boundary upwelling systems the higher-resolution Japanese 55-year Atmospheric Reanalysis for driving ocean-sea ice models (JRA55-do, --0.5 degrees) and also due ... CGD Affiliations: OS, CCR Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Amrhein, D., Stephenson, D., Thompson, L.. (2024). A dynamics-weighted principal components analysis of dominant atmospheric drivers of ocean variability with an application to the North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre. Journal of Climate, doi:https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0197.1 This paper describes a framework for identifying dominant atmospheric drivers of ocean variability. The method combines statistics of atmosphere-ocean fluxes with physics from an ocean general circulation model to derive atmospheric pattern... CGD Affiliations: OS Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Modes of variability in E3SM and CESM Large Ensembles Fasullo, J. T., Caron, J., Phillips, A., Li, H., Richter, J. H., et al. (2024). Modes of variability in E3SM and CESM Large Ensembles. Journal of Climate, doi:https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0454.1 An adequate characterization of internal modes of climate variability (MoV) is a prerequisite for both accurate seasonal predictions and climate change detection and attribution. Assessing the fidelity of climate models in simulating MoV is... CGD Affiliations: CAS, CCR, AMP Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
How do operational meteorologists perceive model performance for elevated convection? Flack, D. L. A., Lattimore, C., Seltzer, M., Silverstone, M. D., Lehnert, M., et al. (2024). How do operational meteorologists perceive model performance for elevated convection?. Atmospheric Science Letters, doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/asl.1213 Operational Meteorologists (OMs) in the Met Office have a perception that elevated convection is not well represented in kilometre-scale models, which are generally associated with an improved representation of convection. Here, we consider... CGD Affiliations: CGDAO Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Fowler, M., Neale, R., Waterman, T., Lawrence, D. M., Dirmeyer, P. A., et al. (2024). Assessing the atmospheric response to subgrid surface heterogeneity in the single-column Community Earth System Model, version 2 (CESM2). Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2022MS003517 Land-atmosphere interactions are central to the evolution of the atmospheric boundary layer and the subsequent formation of clouds and precipitation. Existing global climate models represent these connections with bulk approximations on coa... CGD Affiliations: AMP, TSS Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Holland, M. M., Hannay, C. E., Fasullo, J. T., Jahn, A., Kay, J. E., et al. (2024). New model ensemble reveals how forcing uncertainty and model structure alter climate simulated across CMIP generations of the Community Earth System Model. Geoscientific Model Development, doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-1585-2024 Climate simulation uncertainties arise from internal variability, model structure, and external forcings. Model intercomparisons (such as the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project; CMIP) and single-model large ensembles have provided insigh... CGD Affiliations: PPC, AMP, CAS, TSS Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Oldenburg, D., Kwon, Y., Frankignoul, C., Danabasoglu, G., Yeager, S., et al. (2024). The respective roles of Ocean Heat Transpor and surface heat fluxes in driving Arctic Ocean warming and sea ice decline. Journal of Climate, doi:https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0399.1 Arctic Ocean warming and sea ice loss are closely linked to increased ocean heat transport (OHT) into the Arctic and changes in surface heat fluxes. To quantitatively assess their respective roles, we use the 100-member Community Earth Syst... CGD Affiliations: OS, CCR Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Clow, G. L., Lovenduski, N. S., Levy, M. N., Lindsay, K., Kay, J. E.. (2024). The utility of simulated ocean chlorophyll observations: A case study with the Chlorophyll Observation Simulator Package (version 1) in CESMv2.2. Geoscientific Model Development, doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-975-2024 For several decades, a suite of satellite sensors has enabled us to study the global spatiotemporal distribution of phytoplankton through remote sensing of chlorophyll. However, the satellite record has extensive missing data, partially due... CGD Affiliations: OS Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Olivarez, H. C., Lovenduski, N. S., Eddebbar, Y. A., Fay, A. R., McKinley, G. A., et al. (2024). How does the Pinatubo eruption influence our understanding of long-term changes in ocean biogeochemistry?. Geophysical Research Letters, doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL105431 Pinatubo erupted during the first decadal survey of ocean biogeochemistry, embedding its climate fingerprint into foundational ocean biogeochemical observations and complicating the interpretation of long-term biogeochemical change. Here, w... CGD Affiliations: OS Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
New record ocean temperatures and related climate indicators in 2023 Cheng, L., Abraham, J., Trenberth, K. E., Boyer, T., Mann, M. E., et al. (2024). New record ocean temperatures and related climate indicators in 2023. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-024-3378-5 The global physical and biogeochemical environment has been substantially altered in response to increased atmospheric greenhouse gases from human activities. In 2023, the sea surface temperature (SST) and upper 2000 m ocean heat content (O... CGD Affiliations: CGDAO, CAS Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Observed humidity trends in dry regions contradict climate models Simpson, I. R., McKinnon, K. A., Kennedy, D., Lawrence, D. M., Lehner, F., et al. (2024). Observed humidity trends in dry regions contradict climate models. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, doi:https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2302480120 Arid and semi-arid regions of the world are particularly vulnerable to greenhouse gas- driven hydroclimate change. Climate models are our primary tool for projecting the future hydroclimate that society in these regions must adapt to, but h... CGD Affiliations: CAS, TSS Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Perturbing parameters to understand cloud contributions to climate change Duffy, M., Medeiros, B., Gettelman, A., Eidhammer, T.. (2024). Perturbing parameters to understand cloud contributions to climate change. Journal of Climate, doi:https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0250.1 The sensitivity of cloud feedbacks to atmospheric model parameters is evaluated using a CAM6 perturbed parameter ensemble (PPE). The CAM6 PPE perturbs 45 parameters across 262 simulations, 206 of which are used here. The spread in the total... CGD Affiliations: AMP, CGDAO Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Rabin, S., Sacks, W. J., Lombardozzi, D., Xia, L., Robock, A.. (2023). Observation-based sowing dates and cultivars significantly affect yield and irrigation for some crops in the Community Land Model (CLM5). Geoscientific Model Development, doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-7253-2023 Farmers around the world time the planting of their crops to optimize growing season conditions and choose varieties that grow slowly enough to take advantage of the entire growing season while minimizing the risk of late-season kill. As cl... CGD Affiliations: TSS, CSEG Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Recent multi-decadal Southern Ocean surface cooling unlikely caused by Southern Annular Mode trends Dong, Y., Polvani, L. M., Bonan, D. B.. (2023). Recent multi-decadal Southern Ocean surface cooling unlikely caused by Southern Annular Mode trends. Geophysical Research Letters, doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL106142 Over recent decades, the Southern Ocean (SO) has experienced multi-decadal surface cooling despite global warming. Earlier studies have proposed that recent SO cooling has been caused by the strengthening of surface westerlies associated wi... CGD Affiliations: CGDAO Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Gu, Q., Gervais, M., Maroon, E., Kim, W. M., Danabasoglu, G., et al. (2023). Investigating atmospheric responses to and mechanisms governing North Atlantic Sea surface temperatures over 10-year periods. Journal of Climate, doi:https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0093.1 North Atlantic sea surface temperature (SST) variability plays a critical role in modulating the climate system. However, characterizing patterns of North Atlantic SST variability and diagnosing the associated mechanisms is challenging beca... CGD Affiliations: OS Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Kim, W. M., González-Rojí, S. J., Raible, C. C.. (2023). Extratropical circulation associated with Mediterranean droughts during the Last Millennium in CMIP5 simulations. Climate of the Past, doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-2511-2023 The Mediterranean region is expected to experience significant changes in hydroclimate, reflected in increases in the duration and severity of soil moisture droughts. While numerous studies have explored Mediterranean droughts in coupled cl... CGD Affiliations: CGDVISITORS Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Simulated inventory and distribution of 137Cs released from multiple sources in the global ocean Tsumune, D., Bryan, F. O., Lindsay, K., Misumi, K., Tsubono, T., et al. (2023). Simulated inventory and distribution of 137Cs released from multiple sources in the global ocean. Marine Pollution Bulletin, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.115663 Radioactive cesium (137Cs) is distributed in the world's oceans as a result of global fallout from atmospheric nuclear weapons tests, releases from fuel reprocessing plants, and inputs from nuclear power plant accident. In order to detect f... CGD Affiliations: OS Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Yamaguchi, R., Kim, J., Rodgers, K. B., Stein, K., Timmermann, A., et al. (2023). Persistent ocean anomalies as a response to Northern Hemisphere heating induced by biomass burning variability. Journal of Climate, doi:https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0090.1 Biomass burning aerosol (BBA) emissions in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 6 (CMIP6) historical forcing fields have enhanced temporal variability during the years 1997-2014 compared to earlier peri-ods. Recent studies docume... CGD Affiliations: CAS, OS, CGDDEPT, CCR, CSEG Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Enhanced upper ocean warming projected by the eddy-resolving Community Earth System Model Xu, G., Chang, P., Small, R. J., Danabasoglu, G., Yeager, S., et al. (2023). Enhanced upper ocean warming projected by the eddy-resolving Community Earth System Model. Geophysical Research Letters, doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL106100 Ocean warming is a key factor impacting future changes in climate. Here we investigate vertical structure changes in globally averaged ocean heat content (OHC) in high- (HR) and low-resolution (LR) future climate simulations with the Commun... CGD Affiliations: OS, CCR Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Environmental drivers of coccolithophore growth in the Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean Oliver, H., McGillicuddy, D. J., Krumhardt, K., Long, M., Bates, N. R., et al. (2023). Environmental drivers of coccolithophore growth in the Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GB007751 The Great Calcite Belt (GCB) is a band of high concentrations of suspended particulate inorganic carbon (PIC) spanning the subantarctic Southern Ocean and plays an important role in the global carbon cycle. The key limiting factors controll... CGD Affiliations: OS Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
DuVivier, A. K., Vavrus, S. J., Holland, M. M., Landrum, L., Shields, C. A., et al. (2023). Investigating future Arctic sea ice loss and near-surface wind speed changes related to surface roughness using the Community Earth System Model. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JD038824 The Arctic is undergoing a pronounced and rapid transformation in response to changing greenhouse gasses, including reduction in sea ice extent and thickness. There are also projected increases in near-surface Arctic wind. This study addres... CGD Affiliations: PPC, CCR Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Opinion: Recent developments and future directions in studying the mesosphere and lower thermosphere Plane, J. M. C., Gumbel, J., Kalogerakis, K. S., Marsh, D., Savigny, C. v.. (2023). Opinion: Recent developments and future directions in studying the mesosphere and lower thermosphere. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-13255-2023 This article begins with a review of important advances in the chemistry and related physics of the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT) region of the atmosphere that have occurred over the past 2 decades, since the founding of Atmospher... CGD Affiliations: CGDAO Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Projections of winter polynyas and their biophysical impacts in the Ross Sea Antarctica DuVivier, A. K., Molina, M., Deppenmeier, A., Holland, M. M., Landrum, L., et al. (2023). Projections of winter polynyas and their biophysical impacts in the Ross Sea Antarctica. Climate Dynamics, doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-023-06951-z This study investigates winter polynyas in the southern Ross Sea, Antarctica where several polynyas are known to form. Coastal polynyas are areas of lower sea ice concentration and/or thickness along the coast that are otherwise surrounded ... CGD Affiliations: PPC, CCR, OS Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
The lack of a QBO-MJO connection in climate models with a nudged stratosphere Martin, Z. K., Simpson, I. R., Lin, P., Orbe, C., Tang, Q., et al. (2023). The lack of a QBO-MJO connection in climate models with a nudged stratosphere. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JD038722 The observed stratospheric quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO) and the tropospheric Madden-Julian oscillation (MJO) are strongly connected in boreal winter, with stronger MJO activity when lower-stratospheric winds are easterly. However, the c... CGD Affiliations: CAS, CCR, AMP Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Meehl, G. A., Shields, C. A., Arblaster, J., Neale, R., Hu, A., et al. (2023). Climate base state influences on South Asian monsoon processes derived from analyses of E3SMv2 and CESM2. Geophysical Research Letters, doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL104313 The effects of differences in climate base state are related to processes associated with the present-day South Asian monsoon simulations in the Energy Exascale Earth System Model version 2 (E3SMv2) and the Community Earth System Model vers... CGD Affiliations: CCR, AMP, CAS Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Datta, R. T., Herrington, A. R., Lenaerts, J. T. M., Schneider, D. P., Trusel, L., et al. (2023). Evaluating the impact of enhanced horizontal resolution over the Antarctic domain using a variable-resolution Earth system model. The Cryosphere, doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-3847-2023 Earth system models are essential tools for understanding the impacts of a warming world, particularly on the contribution of polar ice sheets to sea level change. However, current models lack full coupling of the ice sheets to the ocean an... CGD Affiliations: AMP, CGDAO Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Wijngaard, R. R., Herrington, A. R., Lipscomb, W., Leguy, G., An, S.. (2023). Exploring the ability of the variable-resolution Community Earth System Model to simulate cryospheric–hydrological variables in High Mountain Asia. The Cryosphere, doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-3803-2023 Earth system models (ESMs) can help to improve the understanding of climate-induced cryospheric-hydrological impacts in complex mountain regions, such as High Mountain Asia (HMA). Coarse ESM grids, however, have difficulties in representing... CGD Affiliations: AMP, PPC Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Higher water loss on Earth-like exoplanets in eccentric orbits Liu, B., Marsh, D., Walsh, C., Cooke, G.. (2023). Higher water loss on Earth-like exoplanets in eccentric orbits. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, doi:https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad1828 The climate of a terrestrial exoplanet is controlled by the type of host star, the orbital configuration, and the characteristics of the atmosphere and the surface. Many rocky exoplanets have higher eccentricities than those in the Solar sy... CGD Affiliations: CGDAO Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Rainbows and climate change: A tutorial on climate model diagnostics and parameterization Gettelman, A.. (2023). Rainbows and climate change: A tutorial on climate model diagnostics and parameterization. Geoscientific Model Development, doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-4937-2023 Earth system models (ESMs) must represent processes below the grid scale of a model using representations (parameterizations) of physical and chemical processes. As a tutorial exercise to understand diagnostics and parameterization, this wo... CGD Affiliations: CGDAO Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Li, Y., Richter, J. H., Chen, C., Tang, Q.. (2023). A strengthened teleconnection of the quasi-biennial oscillation and tropical easterly jet in the past decades in E3SMv1. Geophysical Research Letters, doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL104517 The Energy Exascale Earth System Model version 1 (E3SMv1) is a new global model that can generate a weakened tropical easterly jet (TEJ) during the easterly quasi-biennial oscillation (EQBO) and a strengthened TEJ during the westerly QBO (W... CGD Affiliations: CGDVISITORS, CCR, AMP Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Kim, W. M., Yeager, S., Danabasoglu, G., Chang, P.. (2023). Exceptional multi-year prediction skill of the Kuroshio Extension in the CESM high-resolution decadal prediction system. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-023-00444-w The Kuroshio Extension (KE) has far-reaching influences on climate as well as on local marine ecosystems. Thus, skillful multi-year to decadal prediction of the KE state and understanding sources of skill are valuable. Retrospective forecas... CGD Affiliations: OS, CCR Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Annual cycle in upper-ocean heat content and the global energy budget Pan, Y., Cheng, L., Schuckmann, K. V., Trenberth, K. E., Li, G., et al. (2023). Annual cycle in upper-ocean heat content and the global energy budget. Journal of Climate, doi:https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0776.1 As a major component of Earth's energy budget, ocean heat content (OHC) plays a vital role in buffering climate change. The annual cycle is the most prominent change in OHC but has always been removed to study variations and changes in Eart... CGD Affiliations: CGDAO Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Tebaldi, C., Wehner, M., Leung, R., Lawrence, D. M.. (2023). Is land use producing robust signals in future projections from Earth system models, all else being equal?. Environmental Research Letters, doi:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ace3da We use six Earth system models (ESMs) run under SSP3-7.0, a scenario characterized by a relatively large land use change (LUC) over the 21st century, and under a variant of the same scenario where a significantly different pattern of LUC, t... CGD Affiliations: CGDAO Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
A Personal Tale of the Development of Climate Science: The Life and Times of Kevin Trenberth. Trenberth, K. E.. (2023). A Personal Tale of the Development of Climate Science: The Life and Times of Kevin Trenberth.. This report details the personal perspective of Kevin Trenberth on the main science-related developments during his career, which began from experiences in pre-satellite days in New Zealand in 1966 until he retired in 2020. It is a narrativ... CGD Affiliations: CGDAO Publication Genre: Book View on OpenSky |
Matrix approach to accelerate spin-up of CLM5 Liao, C., Lu, X., Huang, Y., Tao, F., Lawrence, D. M., et al. (2023). Matrix approach to accelerate spin-up of CLM5. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2023MS003625 Numerical models have been developed to investigate and understand responses of biogeochemical cycle to global changes. Steady state, when a system is in dynamic equilibrium, is generally required to initialize these model simulations. Howe... CGD Affiliations: CGDAO, TSS Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Yeager, S., Chang, P., Danabasoglu, G., Rosenbloom, N., Zhang, Q., et al. (2023). Reduced Southern Ocean warming enhances global skill and signal-to-noise in an eddy-resolving decadal prediction system. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-023-00434-y The impact of increased model horizontal resolution on climate prediction performance is examined by comparing results from low-resolution (LR) and high-resolution (HR) decadal prediction simulations conducted with the Community Earth Syste... CGD Affiliations: CCR, OS, CAS Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Impact of stochastic ocean density corrections on air-sea flux variability Agarwal, N., Small, R. J., Bryan, F. O., Grooms, I., Pegion, P. J.. (2023). Impact of stochastic ocean density corrections on air-sea flux variability. Geophysical Research Letters, doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL104248 Air-sea flux variability has contributions from both ocean and atmosphere at different spatio-temporal scales. Atmospheric synoptic scales and the air-sea turbulent heat flux that they drive are well represented in climate models, but ocean... CGD Affiliations: OS Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Kim, J., Yamaguchi, R., Rodgers, K. B., Timmermann, A., Lee, S., et al. (2023). Interannual fires as a source for subarctic summer decadal climate variability mediated by permafrost thawing. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-023-00415-1 Climate model simulations run under the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) use an inhomogeneous biomass burning aerosol (BBA) emission dataset, which exhibits pronounced interannual variability from 1997-2014 due to the i... CGD Affiliations: OS, CGDDEPT, CAS, CCR, CSEG Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Hu, A., Meehl, G. A., Abe-Ouchi, A., Han, W., Otto-Bliesner, B., et al. (2023). Dichotomy between freshwater and heat flux effects on oceanic conveyor belt stability and global climate. Communications Earth & Environment, doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00916-0 The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation is an important global-scale oceanic circulation, and its changes may be responsible for past abrupt climate change events. By using two versions of a coupled climate model, here we show that ... CGD Affiliations: CCR, PPC, CSEG Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Assessing clouds using satellite observations through three generations of global atmosphere models Medeiros, B., Shaw, J., Kay, J. E., Davis, I.. (2023). Assessing clouds using satellite observations through three generations of global atmosphere models. Earth and Space Science, doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2023EA002918 Clouds are parameterized in climate models using quantities on the model grid-scale to approximate the cloud cover and impact on radiation. Because of the complexity of processes involved with clouds, these parameterizations are one of the ... CGD Affiliations: AMP, PPC Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Importance of internal variability for climate model assessment Jain, S., Scaife, A. A., Shepherd, T. G., Deser, C., Dunstone, N., et al. (2023). Importance of internal variability for climate model assessment. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-023-00389-0 Benchmarking climate model simulations against observations of the climate is core to the process of building realistic climate models and developing accurate future projections. However, in many cases, models do not match historical observ... CGD Affiliations: CAS, CGDAO Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Leung, D. M., Kok, J. F., Li, L., Okin, G. S., Prigent, C., et al. (2023). A new process-based and scale-aware desert dust emission scheme for global climate models – Part I: Description and evaluation against inverse modeling emissions. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-6487-2023 Desert dust accounts for most of the atmosphere's aerosol burden by mass and produces numerous important impacts on the Earth system. However, current global climate models (GCMs) and land-surface models (LSMs) struggle to accurately repres... CGD Affiliations: CGDAO Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Raindrops keep falling on my head Trenberth, K. E., Bruere, W.. (2023). Raindrops keep falling on my head. Adventures in Climate Science: Scientists' Tales from the Frontiers of Climate Change The experts tell us the world is warming, but why do we care so much about a few lousy degrees? These tales of adventure from remote and remarkable parts of the Earth explore a multitude of ways the world is changing and explain the science... CGD Affiliations: CGDAO Publication Genre: Chapter View on OpenSky |
Another year of record heat for the oceans Cheng, L., Abraham, J., Trenberth, K. E., Fasullo, J. T., Boyer, T., et al. (2023). Another year of record heat for the oceans. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-023-2385-2 Changes in ocean heat content (OHC), salinity, and stratification provide critical indicators for changes in Earth's energy and water cycles. These cycles have been profoundly altered due to the emission of greenhouse gasses and other anthr... CGD Affiliations: CGDAO, CAS Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Şen, B., Che-Castaldo, C., Krumhardt, K., Landrum, L., Holland, M. M., et al. (2023). Spatio-temporal transferability of environmentally-dependent population models: Insights from the intrinsic predictabilities of Adélie penguin abundance time series. Ecological Indicators, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2023.110239 Ecological predictions are necessary for testing whether processes hypothesized to regulate species population dynamics are generalizable across time and space. In order to demonstrate generalizability, model predictions should be transfera... CGD Affiliations: OS, PPC Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Marques, G. M., Shao, A. E., Bachman, S., Danabasoglu, G., Bryan, F. O.. (2023). Representing eddy diffusion in the surface boundary layer of ocean models with general vertical coordinates. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2023MS003751 The mixing of tracers by mesoscale eddies, parameterized in many ocean general circulation models (OGCMs) as a diffusive-advective process, contributes significantly to the distribution of tracers in the ocean. In the ocean interior, diffus... CGD Affiliations: OS Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Mesoscale variability linked to interannual displacement of gulf stream Guo, Y., Bishop, S., Bryan, F. O., Bachman, S.. (2023). Mesoscale variability linked to interannual displacement of gulf stream. Geophysical Research Letters, doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL102549 The impacts of interannual oscillations of the Gulf Stream (GS) on oceanic mesoscale variability are investigated using satellite observations of sea surface height (SSH) and sea surface temperature (SST) from 1993 to 2018. We show that var... CGD Affiliations: OS Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Role of tropical cyclones in determining ENSO characteristics Li, H., Hu, A., Meehl, G. A.. (2023). Role of tropical cyclones in determining ENSO characteristics. Geophysical Research Letters, doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL101814 El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) can effectively modulate global tropical cyclone (TC) activity, but the role TCs may play in determining ENSO characteristics remains unclear. Here we investigate the impact of TC winds on ENSO using a su... CGD Affiliations: CCR Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Submesoscale effects on changes to export production under global warming Brett, G. J., Whitt, D., Long, M., Bryan, F. O., Feloy, K., et al. (2023). Submesoscale effects on changes to export production under global warming. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GB007619 We examine the effects of the submesoscale in mediating the response to projected warming of phytoplankton new production and export using idealized biogeochemical tracers in a high-resolution regional model of the Porcupine Abyssal Plain r... CGD Affiliations: CGDAO, OS Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Fay, A. R., McKinley, G. A., Lovenduski, N. S., Eddebbar, Y., Levy, M. N., et al. (2023). Immediate and long-lasting impacts of the Mt. Pinatubo eruption on ocean oxygen and carbon inventories. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GB007513 Large volcanic eruptions drive significant climate perturbations through major anomalies in radiative fluxes and the resulting widespread cooling of the surface and upper ocean. Recent studies suggest that these eruptions also drive importa... CGD Affiliations: OS Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Chang, P., Xu, G., Kurian, J., Small, R. J., Danabasoglu, G., et al. (2023). Uncertain future of sustainable fisheries environment in eastern boundary upwelling zones under climate change. Communications Earth & Environment, doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00681-0 Upwelling along ocean eastern boundaries is expected to intensify due to coastal wind strengthening driven by increasing land-sea contrast according to the Bakun hypothesis. Here, the latest high-resolution climate simulations that exhibit ... CGD Affiliations: OS, CGDAO, CCR Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Characterizing climate change from heating, not merely temperature Trenberth, K. E.. (2023). Characterizing climate change from heating, not merely temperature. Journal of Climate Action, Research, and Policy, doi:https://doi.org/10.1142/S2972312424750018 Current human-induced climate change arises primarily from the heating of the planet mainly from changes in atmospheric composition, and temperature change is one manifestation. The increasing greenhouse gases, notably carbon dioxide from b... CGD Affiliations: CGDAO Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
High-latitude stratospheric aerosol injection to preserve the Arctic Lee, W. R., MacMartin, D. G., Visioni, D., Kravitz, B., Chen, Y., et al. (2023). High-latitude stratospheric aerosol injection to preserve the Arctic. Earth's Future, doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EF003052 Stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) has been shown in climate models to reduce some impacts of global warming in the Arctic, including the loss of sea ice, permafrost thaw, and reduction of Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) mass; SAI at high lat... CGD Affiliations: PPC, CGDAO Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Impact of tropical cyclone wind forcing on the global climate in a fully coupled climate model Li, H., Hu, A., Meehl, G. A., Rosenbloom, N., Strand, W. G.. (2023). Impact of tropical cyclone wind forcing on the global climate in a fully coupled climate model. Journal of Climate, doi:https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0211.1 Tropical cyclones (TCs) alter upper-ocean temperature and influence ocean heat content via enhanced turbulent mixing. A better understanding of the role of TCs within the climate system requires a fully coupled modeling framework, where TC-... CGD Affiliations: CCR Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |
Implementation and evaluation of irrigation techniques in the Community Land Model Yao, Y., Vanderkelen, I., Lombardozzi, D., Swenson, S., Lawrence, D. M., et al. (2022). Implementation and evaluation of irrigation techniques in the Community Land Model. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2022MS003074 Several previous studies have highlighted the irrigation-induced impacts on the global and regional water cycle, energy budget, and near-surface climate. While land models are widely used to address this question, the implementations of irr... CGD Affiliations: TSS, CGDDEPT Publication Genre: Article View on OpenSky |