Research Highlights | Earth & Environmental Systems Modeling

Title		Contact	Institution
Investigation of Aerosol Indirect Effects Using a Cumulus Microphysics Parameterization in a Regional Climate Model	ESMD RGMA
Greenland Ice Sheet surface mass balance variability increases under anthropogenic climate change.	ESMD RGMA	Jeremy G Fyke	Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
Processes Controlling Southern Ocean Shortwave Climate Feedbacks in CESM	RGMA	J E Kay
Interactions Between Externally-forced Climate Signals from Sunspot Peaks and the Internally-generated Pacific Decadal and North Atlantic Oscillations	RGMA	H van Loon
Pattern Scaling: a review of its strengths and limitations, and an update on the latest model simulations	RGMA	C Tebaldi
Distant Desert Dust Increases Snowpack in California: Local pollution’s influence less impressive on Sierra Nevada Mountains’ precipitation	RGMA	J Fan	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Jinyun Tang Wins Outstanding Publication Award from the Ecological Society of America	RGMA	Jinyun Tang
Evaluating Snow Depth on Arctic Sea Ice in CCSM	ESMD RGMA	Benjamin A Blazey	Universität Bremen
A Novel Technique to Diagnose the Spatio-Temporal Impact of Convective Systems	RGMA	Mark Zelinka	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Energy Balance in a Warm World Without the Ocean Conveyor Belt and Sea Ice	RGMA	Aixue Hu	National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
Observational Constraint on Water Vapor Feedback	RGMA	N. D. Gordon
A Sensitivity Study of Radiative Fluxes at the Top of Atmosphere to Cloud-Microphysics and Aerosol Parameters in the Community Atmosphere Model CAM5	ESMD RGMA
Size Matters: Modeling Dust Mass Balance and Radiative Forcing	RGMA	C Zhao	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Anomalous Temperature Regimes During the Cool Season: Long-Term Trends, Low-Frequency Mode Modulation, and Representation in CMIP5 Simulations	RGMA
Winter Weather Patterns Over Northern Eurasia and Arctic Sea Ice Loss	RGMA	B. Wu
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)
Probability of US Heat Waves Affected by a Subseasonal Planetary Wave Pattern	RGMA	H Teng
Brewing Up a Storm: Depth of warm ocean water encourages development of Northeasst Pacific hurricanes accross years	RGMA	K Balaguru
Mixed-Phase Clouds Cause Climate Model Biases in Arctic Wintertime Temperature Inversions	RGMA	F. Pithan
Intensification of Decadal and Multi-Decadal Sea Level Variability in the Western Tropical Pacific during Recent Decades	RGMA	W. Han
Testing a Relationship: Arctic Warming and China's Summer Monsoon	RGMA	Y Li	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Human and Natural Influences on the Changing Thermal Structure of the Atmosphere	ESMD RGMA	Benjamin Santer	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
A Decomposition of Feedback Contributions to Polar Warming Amplification	RGMA	P. C. Taylor
Climate Change Projections in CESM1 (CAM5) Compared to CCSM4	RGMA	G. A. Meehl	National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
Externally Forced and Internally Generated Decadal Climate Variability Associated with the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation	RGMA	G. A. Meehl	National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
The Long and Rich Life of Tropical Clouds	RGMA	Samson Hagos	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Steric Sea Level in CORE-Forced Simulations	RGMA	Stephen M and co-authors Griffies
Boreal Winter Low-Frequency Variability in CMIP5 Models	RGMA
On the Estimation of Systematic Error in Regression-Based Predictions of Climate Sensitivity	RGMA	B. M. Sanderson
Long-Term Ozone Changes and Associated Climate Impacts in CMIP5 Simulations	RGMA	V. Eyring

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