Research Highlights | Earth & Environmental Systems Modeling

Title		Contact	Institution
Investigation of Under-Ice Phytoplankton Growth in the Fully-Coupled, High-Resolution Regional Arctic System Model	RGMA	Jaclyn Clement Kinney	Naval Postgraduate School
Investigating Agricultural Trade’s Impact on Global Water Resources	MSD	Marshall Wise	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
A need for Actionable Climate Projections Across the Global South	RGMA	John Fasullo	National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
Historical Arctic Amplification in CMIP6 models	RGMA	Wiesław Maslowski (maslowsk@nps.edu)	Naval Postgraduate School
Potential Benefits in Remapping the Special Flood Hazard Area: Evidence from the U.S. Housing Market	MSD	John Weyant	Stanford University
The Lack of a QBO‐MJO Connection in Climate Models With a Nudged Stratosphere	RGMA	Julie Caron	National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
Opposite Trends of Wind-Associated Melt in Greenland and Antarctica	ESMD	Charlie Zender	University of California Irvine (UC Irvine)
Long-Term Change and Geospatial Patterns of River Ice Cover and Navigability in Southcentral Alaska Detected with Remote Sensing	RGMA	Dana Brown	University of Alaska Fairbanks
Storylines for Unprecedented Heatwaves Based on Ensemble Boosting	RGMA	Flavio Lehner	National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
In-Depth Scenario Analysis Identifies Key Drivers Shaping Solar and Wind Energy Transitions Up to 2050	MSD	Marshall Wise	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Understanding the Key Drivers of Anthropogenic Heat Impacts on Urban Temperatures	MSD	Jennie Rice	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Comparison of Methods to Estimate Aerosol Effective Radiative Forcings in Climate Models	RGMA	Mark Zelinka	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Near-Term Tropical Cyclone Risk and Coupled Earth System Model Biases	RGMA	Chia-Ying Lee	Columbia University
A Pacific Tropical Decadal Variability Challenge for Climate Models	RGMA	Emanuele Di Lorenzo	Brown University
A Strengthened Teleconnection of the Quasi‐Biennial Oscillation and Tropical Easterly Jet in the Past Decades in E3SMv1	RGMA	Jadwiga Richter	National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
Connecting Large-Scale Meteorological Patterns to Extratropical Cyclones in CMIP6 Climate Models Using Self-Organizing Maps	RGMA	Colin Zarzycki	Pennsylvania State University
A Review of Recent Advances in Urban Flood Research	RGMA	Naresh Devineni	City University of New York (City College)
Cold Surges Boost MJO’s Detour Over the Maritime Continent	RGMA	L. Ruby Leung	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Simultaneous Large Wildfires Will Increase in the Western U.S.	RGMA	Seth McGinnis	National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
Intensification of Hurricane Sally (2020) Over the Mississippi River Plume	RGMA	L. Ruby Leung	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Richland WA USA
Evaluation of Arctic and Antarctic Mixed-Phase Cloud Properties in E3SMv2 Using ARM Observations	ESMD RGMA	Shaocheng Xie	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Drivers of Dry Day Sensitivity to Increased CO2	RGMA	Brian Medeiros	National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
Evidence and Attribution of the Enhanced Land Carbon Sink	RGMA	Trevor Keenan	Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley
Particulates, Fire Emissions Projected to Increase Due to Climate Change	RGMA MSD	Ruby Leung	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
New Potential to Reduce Uncertainty in Regional Climate Projections by Combining Physical and Socio‐Economic Constraints	RGMA	Flavio Lehner	National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
Assessing Tropical Pacific-induced Predictability of Southern California Precipitation Using Machine Learning	ESMD	Salil Mahajan	Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Global Evaluation of Terrestrial Biogeochemistry in the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM)	ESMD	Xiaojuan Yang	Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Using a Theoretical Model to Predict Future Thunderstorm Changes over the United States	RGMA	L. Ruby Leung	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Do Models Produce Consistently Different Outcomes Between Scenarios with Different Land Use Change Patterns?	ESMD RGMA	L. Ruby Leung	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Human-Driven Ocean Change: More Than Just Warming	RGMA	Paul J. Durack	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)

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