Atmospheric rivers over eastern US affected by Pacific/North America pattern

W Dong, M Zhao, Z Tan, V Ramaswamy - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
Atmospheric rivers (ARs) play important roles in various extreme weather events across the
US. While AR features in western US have been extensively studied, there remains limited …

Contrasting response of mesoscale convective systems occurrence over tropical land and ocean to increased sea surface temperature

W Dong, M Zhao, L Harris, KY Cheng… - Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) are pivotal in global energy/water cycles and
typically produce extreme weather events. Despite their importance, our understanding of …

Analysis of Precipitation Diurnal Cycle and Variance in Multiple Observations, CMIP6 Models, and a Series of GFDL-AM4. 0 Simulations

W Dong, JP Krasting, H Guo - Journal of Climate, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
The diurnal cycle of precipitation and precipitation variances at different time scales are
analyzed in this study based on multiple high-resolution 3-h precipitation datasets. The …

Recent wetting trend over Taklamakan and Gobi Desert dominated by internal variability

W Dong, Y Ming, Y Deng, Z Shen - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The Taklamakan and Gobi Desert (TGD) region has experienced a pronounced
increase in summer precipitation, including high-impact extreme events, over recent …

Does Increasing Horizontal Resolution Improve the Simulation of Intense Tropical Rainfall in GFDL's AM4 Model?

AC Nikumbh, P Lin, D Paynter… - Geophysical Research …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We examine tropical rainfall from the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory's Atmosphere
Model version 4 (GFDL AM4) at three horizontal resolutions of 100 km, 50 km, and 25 km …

Crucial role of sea surface temperature warming patterns in near-term high-impact weather and climate projection

M Zhao, T Knutson - npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 2024 - nature.com
Recent studies indicate that virtually all global climate models (GCMs) have had difficulty
simulating sea surface temperature (SST) trend patterns over the past four decades. GCMs …

Mesoscale convective systems represented in high resolution E3SMv2 and impact of new cloud and convection parameterizations

M Zhang, S Xie, Z Feng, CR Terai, W Lin… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, we evaluate mesoscale convective system (MCS) simulations in the second
version of US Department of Energy (DOE) Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SMv2) …

Improved Precipitation Diurnal Cycle in GFDL Climate Models With Non‐Equilibrium Convection

B Zhang, LJ Donner, M Zhao… - Journal of Advances in …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Most global climate models with convective parameterization have trouble in simulating the
observed diurnal cycle of convection. Maximum precipitation usually happens too early …

A multiscale assessment of the springtime US mesoscale convective systems in the NOAA GFDL AM4

Z You, Y Deng, Y Ming, W Dong - Climate Dynamics, 2024 - Springer
This study presents a multiscale assessment of the springtime US Mesoscale Convective
Systems (MCSs) in the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL)'s Atmosphere …

Diagnosing nonlocal effects and coherent structure scales in moist convection using a large-eddy simulation

FS Kao, YH Kuo, CM Wu - Authorea Preprints, 2024 - essopenarchive.org
The anelastic theory of effective buoyancy has been generalized to include the effects of
momentum flux convergence. Mediated by the nonlocal perturbation pressure, the dynamics …