Research Highlights | Earth & Environmental Systems Modeling

Project: PCMDI – An Earth System Model Evaluation Project

Title		Contact	Institution
The Technical Specification of the CMIP6 Data Request	RGMA	Paul J. Durack	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Latest Earth System Models Predict More Global Warming than their Predecessors	RGMA	Mark Zelinka	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Model Quality Impacts Projections of Summer Rainfall	RGMA	Kenneth R. Sperber	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Climate Model Climatology Controls Future Changes in Clouds and Relative Humidity	RGMA	Benjamin Santer	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
What are the Causes of Equatorial Pacific Cold Sea Surface Temperature Bias?	RGMA	Hsi-Yen Ma	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Quantifying Stochastic Ucertainty in Detection Time of Human-Caused Climate Signals	RGMA	Benjamin Santer	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Twentieth Century Hydroclimate Changes Consistent with Human Influence	RGMA	Kate Marvel	NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS)
Detailing Aerosol-Cloud-Radiation Interactions using Simple Diagnostics	RGMA	Mark D. Zelinka	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Progressing Emergent Constraints on Future Climate Change	RGMA	Alex Hall	University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
Three Anniversaries Important for Climate Science	RGMA	Benjamin Santer	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Using Ground-Based Observations to Understand How Low Cloud Reflectivity Responds to Warming	RGMA	Stephen Klein	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Model Consensus Projections of US Regional Hydroclimates Under Greenhouse Warming	RGMA	Thomas J. Phillips	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Ocean Warming: From the Surface to the Deep in Observations and Models	RGMA	Paul J Durack	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Introduction to the Special Issue on Ocean Warming	RGMA	Paul J Durack	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Climate Constraint Represents Forced Signal	RGMA	Benjamin Santer	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Drivers of the Low Cloud Response to Poleward Jet Shifts in the North Pacific in Observations and Models	RGMA	Mark Zelinka	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Human-Caused Signal in the Seasonal Cycle of Tropospheric Temperature	RGMA	Benjamin Santer	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Evaluation of Proposed Emergent Constraints on Climate Sensitivity	RGMA	Peter Caldwell	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Drivers of Intermodel Differences in Clear-Sky Climate Feedbacks	RGMA	Benjamin Santer	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
CAUSES: Diagnosis of the Summertime Warm Bias in CMIP5 Climate Models at the ARM Southern Great Plains Site	RGMA	Chengzhu Zhang	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Observations Indicate that the Low-Cloud Feedback is Positive	RGMA	Stephen Klein	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Clearing Clouds of Uncertainty	RGMA	Mark Zelinka	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Dependence of Cloud Feedback on the Spatial Pattern of Sea Surface Warming	RGMA	Mark Zelinka	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Competing Influences on Aridity: Present and future	ESMD RGMA	Celine Bonfils	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Review of Cloud Feedbacks in Climate Models	RGMA	Mark Zelinka	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Model Spread in the Fast Response of Global Precipitation	RGMA	Anthony DeAngelis, adeangelis@ucla.edu	University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
Impact of Decadal Cloud Variations on the Earth’s Energy Budget	RGMA	Chen Zhou	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Insights from a Refined Decomposition of Cloud Feedbacks	RGMA	Mark Zelinka	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Will Low-level Clouds Reflect More Sunlight with Warming?	RGMA	Christopher Terai	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Evidence for Climate Change in Satellite Cloud Record	RGMA	Mark Zelinka	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)

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