Fifty years of research on the Madden‐Julian Oscillation: Recent progress, challenges, and perspectives

X Jiang, ÁF Adames, D Kim… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Since its discovery in the early 1970s, the crucial role of the Madden‐Julian Oscillation
(MJO) in the global hydrological cycle and its tremendous influence on high‐impact climate …

Cloud feedback mechanisms and their representation in global climate models

P Ceppi, F Brient, MD Zelinka… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Cloud feedback—the change in top‐of‐atmosphere radiative flux resulting from the cloud
response to warming—constitutes by far the largest source of uncertainty in the climate …

Modelling the climate and surface mass balance of polar ice sheets using RACMO2–Part 2: Antarctica (1979–2016)

JM Van Wessem, WJ Van De Berg, BPY Noël… - The …, 2018 - tc.copernicus.org
We evaluate modelled Antarctic ice sheet (AIS) near-surface climate, surface mass balance
(SMB) and surface energy balance (SEB) from the updated polar version of the regional …

Grand challenges in satellite remote sensing

O Dubovik, GL Schuster, F Xu, Y Hu… - Frontiers in Remote …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The past five decades have witnessed satellite remote sensing become one of most efficient
tools for surveying the Earth at local, regional, and global spatial scales. These space-based …

The role of cloud phase in Earth's radiation budget

AV Matus, TS L'Ecuyer - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The radiative impact of clouds strongly depends on their partitioning between liquid and ice
phases. Until recently, however, it has been challenging to unambiguously discriminate …

CERES synoptic product: Methodology and validation of surface radiant flux

DA Rutan, S Kato, DR Doelling… - … of Atmospheric and …, 2015 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract The Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System Synoptic (SYN1deg), edition 3,
product provides climate-quality global 3-hourly 1°× 1° gridded top of atmosphere, in …

Clouds enhance Greenland ice sheet meltwater runoff

K Van Tricht, S Lhermitte, JTM Lenaerts… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The Greenland ice sheet has become one of the main contributors to global sea level rise,
predominantly through increased meltwater runoff. The main drivers of Greenland ice sheet …

The observed state of the energy budget in the early twenty-first century

TS L'Ecuyer, HK Beaudoing, M Rodell… - Journal of …, 2015 - journals.ametsoc.org
New objectively balanced observation-based reconstructions of global and continental
energy budgets and their seasonal variability are presented that span the golden decade of …

The TRAPPIST-1 habitable atmosphere intercomparison (THAI). II. Moist cases—The two waterworlds

DE Sergeev, TJ Fauchez, M Turbet… - The Planetary …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
To identify promising exoplanets for atmospheric characterization and to make the best use
of observational data, a thorough understanding of their atmospheres is needed. Three …

Observing convective aggregation

CE Holloway, AA Wing, S Bony, C Muller… - Surveys in …, 2017 - Springer
Convective self-aggregation, the spontaneous organization of initially scattered convection
into isolated convective clusters despite spatially homogeneous boundary conditions and …