Research Highlights | Earth & Environmental Systems Modeling

Title		Contact	Institution	Date
Estimating Aerosol Effects on Cloud Radiative Forcing	ESMD	S J Ghan	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)	2013-10
The Long and Short of Modeling Water Resources Management: A new module for Earth system models fills the gap across scales	ESMD	N Voisin	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)	2013-09
Human and Natural Influences on the Changing Thermal Structure of the Atmosphere	ESMD RGMA	Benjamin Santer	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)	2013-09
Parallel Algorithms for Planar and Spherical Delaunay Construction with an Application to Centroidal Voronoi Tessellations	ESMD			2013-08
Effects of 3D Radiative Transfer in the Sierra Nevada Mountains	ESMD	Y Gu		2012-10
Breaking Down Aerosol Complexity: A simpler representation of aerosols captures the essence of their influence on climate	ESMD	Steven J. Ghan	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)	2012-10
Partly Cloudy With a Chance of Aerosol: Satellite Images Reveal That Clouds Affect the Particles Surrounding Them	ESMD RGMA	Duli Chand		2012-09
How to Catch Aerosols in the Act: Scientists Use Satellites to Measure How Pollution Particles Affect Clouds	ESMD RGMA	Minghuai Wang		2012-08
An Innovative Approach to Improve Assessment of Climate Model Clouds: Scientists show the latest Community Atmospheric Model (CAM5) significantly improves cloud simulations	ESMD	J. E. Kay		2012-08
Pollution Weakens Monsoon's Might: Local, Global Emissions Suppress South Asian Summer Rainfall	ESMD	Dilip Ganguly		2012-07
Bytes for Bits: Researchers Develop a New, Efficient Aerosol Module for Climate Models	ESMD	Xiahong Liu		2012-05
Evaluating Aerosol-Cloud Interaction: Scientists Show Climate Model Reasonably Simulates The Relationship Between Aerosol And Cloud Droplet Size	ESMD	Chuanfeng Zhao		2012-04
Desert Dust Intensifies Summer Rainfall in U.S. Southwest	ESMD	Chun Zhao		2012-04
Exploring an Ensemble-Based Approach to Atmospheric Climate Modeling and Testing at Scale	ESMD	Salil Mahajan	Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Discrete Conservation Properties for Shallow Water Flows using Mixed Mimetic Spectral Elements	ESMD	David Lee	Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
Tracer Transport within an Unstructured Grid Ocean Model using Characteristic Discontinuous Galerkin Advection	ESMD	David Lee	Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
Dynamic Ice Sheets in the Community Earth System Model	ESMD RGMA
Negative 21st Century Mass Balance for the Greenland Ice Sheet	ESMD	Siyu Chen
Simulating Greenland's Surface Mass Balance in the Community Earth System Model	ESMD	Siyu Chen
Regional Model Simulation of the African Monsoon Precipitation Response to Land Use Change	ESMD RGMA	Samson Hagos
Sensitivity of Stratospheric Dynamics to O3 Production	ESMD	Jeremy G Fyke	Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
Plugging Water's Effects into an Earth System Model	ESMD MSD	Jeremy G Fyke	Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
Constraining Transient Ice Sheet Models with Sparse, Diverse Observations	ESMD
A New Global River Network Database for Macroscale Hydrologic Modeling	ESMD MSD	Minghuai Wang
U.S. Southwestern Drought Projected by Regional Models in Warmer Climate	ESMD	J. E. Kay
Evaluating Arctic Clouds in Climate Models	ESMD RGMA	J. E. Kay
Younger Dryas Cooling and the Greenland Climate Response to CO2	ESMD	Dilip Ganguly
Chemistry in CESM	ESMD	Dilip Ganguly
Cutting Air Pollution Got Boost From Weather: Scientists Compared Emission Controls Versus Weather During Beijing 2008 Olympic Games	ESMD	Steven J Smith
Predicting Arctic Sea Ice Loss: Scientists Put Climate Model Through Paces, Identify Shortcomings	ESMD	Steven J Smith

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