Research Highlights | Earth & Environmental Systems Modeling

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Title		Contact	Institution	Date
Volcanic contribution to decadal changes in tropospheric temperature	ESMD RGMA	Benjamin Santer	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)	2014-02
Causes and Implications of Persistent Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Biases in ESMs	ESMD RGMA	Forrest M. Hoffman	Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)	2014-02
Links Between Flood Frequency and Annual Water Balance Behaviors: A Basis for Similarity and Regionalization	ESMD RGMA			2014-02
Effect of Uncertainty in the Surface Mass Balance-Elevation Feedback on Projections of the Future Sea Level Rise from the Greenland Ice Sheet	ESMD			2014-01
Investigation of Aerosol Indirect Effects Using a Cumulus Microphysics Parameterization in a Regional Climate Model	ESMD RGMA			2014-01
Greenland Ice Sheet surface mass balance variability increases under anthropogenic climate change.	ESMD RGMA	Jeremy G Fyke	Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)	2014-01
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)	2014-01
Stochastic Newton MCMC for an Inverse Ice Sheet Model Problem	ESMD	Noemi Petra	University of Texas at Austin	2014-01
Evaluating Snow Depth on Arctic Sea Ice in CCSM	ESMD RGMA	Benjamin A Blazey	Universität Bremen	2013-12
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)	2013-12
North Atlantic Warming and the Retreat of Greenland’s Outlet Glaciers	ESMD			2013-12
Natural and Human Influences on Changing Zonal-Mean Precipitation	ESMD	Celine Bonfils		2013-11
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			2013-11
Estimating Aerosol Effects on Cloud Radiative Forcing	ESMD	S J Ghan	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)	2013-10
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)	2013-09
Human and Natural Influences on the Changing Thermal Structure of the Atmosphere	ESMD RGMA	Benjamin Santer	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)	2013-09
Parallel Algorithms for Planar and Spherical Delaunay Construction with an Application to Centroidal Voronoi Tessellations	ESMD			2013-08
Effects of 3D Radiative Transfer in the Sierra Nevada Mountains	ESMD	Y Gu		2012-10
Breaking Down Aerosol Complexity: A simpler representation of aerosols captures the essence of their influence on climate	ESMD	Steven J. Ghan	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)	2012-10
Partly Cloudy With a Chance of Aerosol: Satellite Images Reveal That Clouds Affect the Particles Surrounding Them	ESMD RGMA	Duli Chand		2012-09
How to Catch Aerosols in the Act: Scientists Use Satellites to Measure How Pollution Particles Affect Clouds	ESMD RGMA	Minghuai Wang		2012-08
An Innovative Approach to Improve Assessment of Climate Model Clouds: Scientists show the latest Community Atmospheric Model (CAM5) significantly improves cloud simulations	ESMD	J. E. Kay		2012-08
Pollution Weakens Monsoon's Might: Local, Global Emissions Suppress South Asian Summer Rainfall	ESMD	Dilip Ganguly		2012-07
Bytes for Bits: Researchers Develop a New, Efficient Aerosol Module for Climate Models	ESMD	Xiahong Liu		2012-05
Evaluating Aerosol-Cloud Interaction: Scientists Show Climate Model Reasonably Simulates The Relationship Between Aerosol And Cloud Droplet Size	ESMD	Chuanfeng Zhao		2012-04
Desert Dust Intensifies Summer Rainfall in U.S. Southwest	ESMD	Chun Zhao		2012-04
Exploring an Ensemble-Based Approach to Atmospheric Climate Modeling and Testing at Scale	ESMD	Salil Mahajan	Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Discrete Conservation Properties for Shallow Water Flows using Mixed Mimetic Spectral Elements	ESMD	David Lee	Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
Tracer Transport within an Unstructured Grid Ocean Model using Characteristic Discontinuous Galerkin Advection	ESMD	David Lee	Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
Sensitivity of Stratospheric Dynamics to O3 Production	ESMD	Jeremy G Fyke	Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

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