Research Highlights | Earth & Environmental Systems Modeling

Title		Contact	Institution
Making 1+1 Bigger Than 2	ESMD RGMA	Ruby Leung	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Weaker Land–Climate Feedbacks From Nutrient Uptake During Photosynthesis-Inactive Periods	ESMD	William J. Riley	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
Snow in the Changing Sea-ice Systems	ESMD	Elizabeth Hunke	Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
Quantifying Uncertainty in the Energy Exascale Earth System Model	ESMD	Yun Qian	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Unified Treatment of Hydrologic Processes in Unsaturated and Saturated Zones Within the E3SM Land Model	ESMD	Gautam Bisht	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
Model Resolution Sensitivity of the Simulation of North Atlantic Oscillation Teleconnections to Precipitation Extremes	ESMD	Salil Mahajan	Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Quantifying Human-Mediated Carbon Cycle Feedbacks	ESMD	Andrew D. Jones	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
Cooling Off Warming Trends in the Arctic	ESMD RGMA	Philip Rasch	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Large Regional Shortwave Forcing by Anthropogenic Methane Informed by Jovian Observations	ESMD	William D. Collins	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
As Ecosystems Heat Up, Tundra Changes Speed Up	ESMD	Ben Bond-Lamberty	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
A Fresh Look at the K-Profile Parameterization and Evaluating it Against Large Eddy Simulation Results	ESMD	Luke Van Roekel	Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) - Theoretical Divison
MPAS-Albany Land Ice (MALI): A Variable-Resolution Ice Sheet Model for Earth System Modeling Using Voronoi Grids	ESMD	Matthew J. Hoffman	Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
Assessing Mountains as Natural Reservoirs with a Multi‐Metric Framework	ESMD RGMA	Andrew D. Jones	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
Seasonal Cycle and Annual Reversal of the Somali Current in an Eddy-Resolving Global Ocean Model	ESMD	Julie McClean	Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO)
Eroding Gaps in Understanding the Global Carbon Cycle	ESMD	L. Ruby Leung	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Quality Control for Community Based Sea Ice Model Development	ESMD RGMA	Elizabeth Hunke	Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
Contiguous US Summer Maximum Temperature and Heat Stress Trends in CRU and NOAA Climate Division Data Plus Comparisons to Reanalyses	ESMD RGMA MSD	Richard Grotjahn	University of California Davis (UC Davis)
Applying a New Multi-Scale Aerosol Model	ESMD	Jiwen Fan	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Current Strategies Using Satellite Data Limit the Accuracy of Space-Based Estimates of How Aerosols Brighten Clouds	ESMD RGMA	Po-Lun Ma and Philip J. Rasch	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
A Sharper View of Wind Changes by Large Storms	ESMD	Jiwen Fan	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Tiny Processes in Clouds Drive Storm System Longevity over the Central United States	ESMD RGMA	L. Ruby Leung	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
An Overview of Interactions and Feedbacks Between Ice Sheets and the Earth System	ESMD	Jeremy Fyke	Associated Engineering Group of Companies
Integrating Human System Dynamics Into Earth System Models	ESMD	Kate Calvin	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Finding the Leaks That Could Sink a Great Ship	ESMD	L. Ruby Leung	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Contribution of Environmental Forcings to US Runoff Changes for the Period 1950–2010	ESMD RGMA	Jiafu Mao	Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Strong Dependence of Simulated Carbon-Nitrogen Dynamics on Numerical Coupling Between Nitrogen Uptake and Mineralization Processes	ESMD RGMA	William J. Riley	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
Improved Representation of Surface Spectral Emissivity in a Global Climate Model and its Impact on Simulated Climate	ESMD	Xianglei Huang	University of Michigan
Forest Response to Rising CO2 Drives Zonally Asymmetric Rainfall Change Over Tropical Land	ESMD RGMA	Dr. Gabriel Kooperman	University of Georgia
Evaluating Ice Sheet Model Initializations	ESMD RGMA	Joseph H. Kennedy	Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
The Role of Convective Gustiness in Reducing Seasonal Precipitation Biases in the Tropical West Pacific	ESMD	Philip Rasch	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)

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