Research Highlights | Earth & Environmental Systems Modeling

Project: PCMDI – An Earth System Model Evaluation Project

Title		Contact	Institution
Keeping the Lights on for Global Ocean Salinity Observation	RGMA	Paul J. Durack	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Industrial-era Global Ocean Heat Uptake Doubles in Recent Decades	RGMA	Peter Gleckler	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Why do Climate Models Disagree?	RGMA	Peter M. Caldwell
Volcanic Effects on Climate	ESMD RGMA	Benjamin Santer	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
The Relationship between Interannual and Long-Term Cloud Feedbacks	RGMA	Chen Zhou	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
An Observational Radiative Constraint on Hydrologic Cycle Intensification	RGMA	Anthony M. DeAngelis	University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
Lessons from Madrid for next climate talks	RGMA	Benjamin Santer	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Do Emergent Constraints Help Predict Future Climate?	RGMA	Stephen Klein	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Higher climate sensitiviity is linked to a shallower tropical low clouds	RGMA	Florent Brient	ETH Zurich - Department of Earth Sciences
The Tropical Inversion will Strengthen in a Warming Climate	RGMA	Xin Qu	University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
Bioclimatic Evaluation of CMIP Historical Climate Simulations	RGMA	Thomas J. Phillips	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Identifying the Human Fingerprint in Observed Cloud Trends	RGMA	Kate Marvel	NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Observed Multivariable Signals of Late 20th and Early 21st Century Volcanic Activity	ESMD RGMA	Benjamin Santer	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Cirrus Clouds Represent An Important Component of the Cloud Feedback	RGMA	Chen Zhou	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Long-Term Sea-Level Change Revisited: The role of salinity	RGMA	Paul J. Durack	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
The Genesis of Obs4MIPs	RGMA	Joao Teixeira	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Quantifying Underestimates of Long-Term Upper-ocean Warming	RGMA	Paul J. Durack	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Assessing Model Simulations of Deep Convection: A Novel Compositing Approach	RGMA	Mark Zelinka	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
An Assessment of Global and Regional Sea Level for Years 1993–2007 in A Suite of Interannual CORE-II Simulations	RGMA	Stephen M. Griffies	Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL)
Evidence that relationship between low-level cloud reflectivity and temperature in the current climate can predict the climate change response	RGMA	Neil D Gordon
The Role of Clouds in Shifting the Mid-Latitude Jet	RGMA	Paulo Ceppi
Volcanic contribution to decadal changes in tropospheric temperature	ESMD RGMA	Benjamin Santer	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
A Novel Technique to Diagnose the Spatio-Temporal Impact of Convective Systems	RGMA	Mark Zelinka	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
The Asian Summer Monsoon: An Intercomparison of CMIP5 vs. CMIP3 Simulations of the Late 20th Century	RGMA	Kenneth R. Sperber	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Human and Natural Influences on the Changing Thermal Structure of the Atmosphere	ESMD RGMA	Benjamin Santer	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
CMIP3 Climate Models May Overestimate Global Warming by Underestimating Future Low Cloudiness	RGMA	Peter M Caldwell
Identifying Human Influences on Atmospheric Temperature	RGMA	Benjamin Santer	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Simplified Metrics for the Identification of the Madden-Julian Oscillation in Models	RGMA	Kenneth R. Sperber	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
CAUSES: On the Role of Surface Energy Budget Errors to the Warm Surface Air Temperature Error Over the Central United States	RGMA	Hsi-Yen Ma	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Positive Tropical Marine Low-Cloud Cover Feedback Inferred from Cloud-Controlling Factors	RGMA

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