Research Highlights | Earth & Environmental Systems Modeling

Title		Contact	Institution
Responses of East Asian Summer Monsoon to Natural and Anthropogenic Forcings in the 17 Latest IPCC AR5 Models	RGMA	Fenfei Song
Effect of Uncertainty in the Surface Mass Balance-Elevation Feedback on Projections of the Future Sea Level Rise from the Greenland Ice Sheet	ESMD
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)
New implicit solver allows natural radiocarbon to be used as a tracer to assess deep circulation biases in the ocean component of CESM	ESMD	Ann Bardin	University of California Irvine (UC Irvine)
Stochastic Newton MCMC for an Inverse Ice Sheet Model Problem	ESMD	Noemi Petra	University of Texas at Austin
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)
Adding Varoom to a Community Land Model: New study finds accurate parameters rev up water and energy flux modeling	ESMD	Y Sun	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Energy Balance in a Warm World Without the Ocean Conveyor Belt and Sea Ice	RGMA	Aixue Hu	National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
North Atlantic Warming and the Retreat of Greenland’s Outlet Glaciers	ESMD
Observational Constraint on Water Vapor Feedback	RGMA	N. D. Gordon
Natural and Human Influences on Changing Zonal-Mean Precipitation	ESMD	Celine Bonfils
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
Estimating Aerosol Effects on Cloud Radiative Forcing	ESMD	S J Ghan	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
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)
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)

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