Research Highlights | Earth & Environmental Systems Modeling

Project: PCMDI – An Earth System Model Evaluation Project

Title		Contact	Institution
Observational Constraints on Low Cloud Feedback Reduce Uncertainty of Climate Sensitivity	RGMA	Timothy A. Myers	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Emergent Constraints on Climate Sensitivities	RGMA	Chad Thackeray	University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
Climate Change Projection in the Twenty-First Century Simulated by NIMS-KMA CMIP6 Model Based on New GHGs Concentration Pathways	RGMA	Jiwoo Lee	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Natural Variability Helps to Explain the Gap Between Atmospheric Warming in Satellite Observations and Climate Models	RGMA	Stephen Po-Chedley	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Climate Models Underestimate Diversity of Synoptic Conditions Associated With Extreme Precipitation Over California	RGMA	Jesse Norris	University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
Assessing Prior Emergent Constraints on Surface Albedo Feedback in the Latest Earth System Models	RGMA	Chad Thackeray	University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
New Insights in Climate Science in 2020	RGMA	Mark Zelinka	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Evaluating El Niño in Climate Models With the CLIVAR 2020 ENSO Metrics Package	RGMA	Jiwoo Lee	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Evaluating the Diurnal and Semidiurnal Cycle of Precipitation in CMIP6 Models Using Satellite- and Ground-Based Observations	RGMA	Peter Gleckler	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Climate Models Simulate Extreme Precipitation With Sharply Contrasting Physical Mechanisms	RGMA	Jesse Norris	University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
A Better Way to Gain Insights into Climate Model Moist Process Errors	RGMA	Hsi-Yen Ma	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Greater Committed Warming After Accounting for the Pattern Effect	RGMA	Mark Zelinka	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Impact of Boundary Layer Simulation on Predicting Radioactive Pollutant Dispersion	RGMA	Jiwoo Lee	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Simulated Versus Observed Variability in Tropospheric Temperature	RGMA	Giuliana Pallotta	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
On the correspondence between seasonal forecast biases and long-term climate biases in sea surface temperature	RGMA	Hsi-Yen Ma	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Climate Change and the Future Productivity and Distribution of Crab in the Bering Sea	RGMA	Jiwoo Lee	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
CMIP6 Volcanic Forcing Error Quantified to be Smaller than Internal Variability	ESMD RGMA	Paul J. Durack	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Different Types of Observations Show Robust Tropospheric Warming and Stratospheric Cooling	ESMD RGMA	Dave Bader	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Uncertainty in Future Warming is Reduced by Combining Emergent Constraints	RGMA	Peter Caldwell	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Human-Induced Changes to the Global Ocean Water Masses and Their Time of Emergence	RGMA	Paul J. Durack	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Fingerprints of External Forcings on Sahel Rainfall	RGMA	Kate Marvel	NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
International Analysis Narrows Range of Climate’s Sensitivity to CO2	RGMA	Stephen Klein	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
On the Evolution of Climate Feedbacks and Implied Climate Sensitivity Over Time in Earth System Model Simulations	RGMA	Mark Zelinka	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Observations for Model Intercomparison Project (Obs4MIPs): Status for CMIP6	RGMA	Paul J. Durack	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Human Influence on Joint Changes in Temperature, Rainfall and Continental Aridity	RGMA	Celine Bonfils	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Observed Sensitivity of Low Cloud Radiative Effects to Meteorological Perturbations over the Global Oceans	RGMA	Timothy A. Myers	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
MJO Propagation Across the Maritime Continent	RGMA	Peter J Gleckler	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Separating Natural From Externally-Forced Contributions to Observed Cloud Cover Trends	RGMA	Mark Zelinka	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Hadley Circulation Changes Depend on Surface Temperature Anomaly Patterns	RGMA	Mark Zelinka	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Documenting CMIP6 Models and Simulations	RGMA	Paul J. Durack	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)

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