Research Highlights | Earth & Environmental Systems Modeling

Title		Contact	Institution
Agricultural and Forest Land-Use Change in the Continental United States: Are There Tipping Points?	MSD	Angelo Gurgel	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Why Do Models Disagree? An Example from the Electric Sector	MSD	Stuart Cohen	National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
A Distinct Atmospheric Mode for California Precipitation	RGMA MSD	Di Chen	University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
Increasing Tropical Cyclone Intensity Forecast Accuracy with a Deep-Learning-Based Model	MSD	Dave Judi	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Using Explainable AI to Understand Key Wildfire Controls	RGMA MSD	L. Ruby Leung	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Implications of Warming on Western United States Landfalling Atmospheric Rivers and Their Flood Damages	RGMA MSD	Andrew D. Jones	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
Understanding the Evolution of U.S. Energy, Water, and Agriculture Interconnections	MSD	Katherine Calvin	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Mesoscale Convective Systems Cause Most Warm-Season Floods in the Central-Eastern U.S.	RGMA MSD	L. Ruby Leung	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Metrics for Evaluating Tropical Cyclones in Climate Data	RGMA MSD	Colin Zarzycki	Pennsylvania State University
Attributable Human-Induced Changes in the Magnitude of Flooding in the Houston, Texas Region During Hurricane Harvey	ESMD RGMA MSD	William D. Collins	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
Global Vulnerability of Crop Yields to Climate Change	MSD	John Weyant	Stanford University
Changing Interests in Arctic Oil and Gas Development	MSD	Olivia Lee	University of Alaska Fairbanks
Small Increases in Agent-Based Model Complexity Can Result in Large Increases in Required Calibration Data	MSD	John Weyant	Stanford University
Market Expectations of a Warming Climate	MSD	John Weyant	Stanford University
Contrasting Responses of Mountain Snowpack to Warmer Sea Surfaces	RGMA MSD	L. Ruby Leung	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Pooling Data Improves Multimodel IDF Estimates over Median-Based IDF Estimates: Analysis over the Susquehanna and Florida	RGMA MSD	Abhishekh Kumar Srivastava	University of California Davis (UC Davis)
Evaluating the Economic Impact of Water Scarcity in a Changing World	MSD	Katherine Calvin	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Future of Irrigation Water Demand Under a Changing Climate	MSD	Andrew D. Jones	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
Coordination and Control – Limits in Standard Representations of Multi-Reservoir Operations in Hydrological Modeling	MSD	John Weyant	Stanford University
Meteorological Conditions Influence the Size and Occurrence of California Wildfires	RGMA MSD	L. Ruby Leung	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Uniform Ocean Warming Dominates Wet California Winters	RGMA MSD	L. Ruby Leung	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Impacts of Long-Term Temperature Changes on Electricity Investments	MSD	Katherine Calvin	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
The FLOod Probability Interpolation Tool (FLOPIT): A Simple Tool to Improve Spatial Flood Probability Quantification and Communication	MSD	John Weyant	Stanford University
Extreme Wind & Waves Aalong the U.S East Coast	RGMA MSD	S.C. Pryor	Cornell University - Department of Atmospheric and Earth Sciences
Corrected Models Project Drier Winters for Mediterranean Climate Regions	RGMA MSD	L. Ruby Leung	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Quantifying the Impacts of Compound Extremes on Agriculture	MSD	John Weyant	Stanford University
Assessing the Future of Global Energy-for-Water	MSD	Katherine Calvin	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Benchmarking the Community Land Model Over the Contiguous United States	MSD	Jennie Rice	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
A Quantitative Method to Describe Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) in Climate Models	RGMA MSD	Andrew D. Jones	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
Digital Atlas of Extreme Wind Speeds	RGMA MSD	S.C. Pryor	Cornell University

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