An overview of CMIP5 and CMIP6 simulated cloud ice, radiation fields, surface wind stress, sea surface temperatures, and precipitation over tropical and subtropical …

JLF Li, KM Xu, JH Jiang, WL Lee… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The potential links between ice water path (IWP), radiation, circulation, sea surface
temperature (SST), and precipitation over the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans resulting from the …

Uncertainty and the basis for confidence in solar geoengineering research

B Kravitz, DG MacMartin - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 2020 - nature.com
Solar geoengineering is an emerging topic in climate-change discussions. To support future
decisions on the deployment of this technology, society requires better estimates of its …

Evaluation of climate models

G Flato, J Marotzke, B Abiodun, P Braconnot… - Climate change 2013 …, 2014 - pure.mpg.de
Climate models have continued to be developed and improved since the AR4, and many
models have been extended into Earth System models by including the representation of …

Configuration and assessment of the GISS ModelE2 contributions to the CMIP5 archive

GA Schmidt, M Kelley, L Nazarenko… - Journal of Advances …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We present a description of the ModelE2 version of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies
(GISS) General Circulation Model (GCM) and the configurations used in the simulations …

Improved climate simulation by MIROC5: mean states, variability, and climate sensitivity

M Watanabe, T Suzuki, R O'ishi, Y Komuro… - Journal of …, 2010 - journals.ametsoc.org
A new version of the atmosphere–ocean general circulation model cooperatively produced
by the Japanese research community, known as the Model for Interdisciplinary Research on …

CERES MODIS cloud product retrievals for edition 4—Part I: Algorithm changes

P Minnis, S Sun-Mack, Y Chen… - … on Geoscience and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Edition 2 (Ed2) cloud property retrieval algorithm system was upgraded and applied to
the MODerate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data for the Clouds and the …

CloudSat mission: Performance and early science after the first year of operation

GL Stephens, DG Vane, S Tanelli, E Im… - Journal of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
This paper reports on the early mission performance of the radar and other major aspects of
the CloudSat mission. The Cloudsat cloud profiling radar (CPR) has been operating since 2 …

Evaluation of cloud and water vapor simulations in CMIP5 climate models using NASA “A‐Train” satellite observations

JH Jiang, H Su, C Zhai, VS Perun… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Using NASA's A‐Train satellite measurements, we evaluate the accuracy of cloud water
content (CWC) and water vapor mixing ratio (H2O) outputs from 19 climate models …

Global radiative forcing from contrail cirrus

U Burkhardt, B Kärcher - Nature climate change, 2011 - nature.com
Aviation makes a significant contribution to anthropogenic climate forcing. The impacts arise
from emissions of greenhouse gases, aerosols and nitrogen oxides, and from changes in …

Global simulations of ice nucleation and ice supersaturation with an improved cloud scheme in the Community Atmosphere Model

A Gettelman, X Liu, SJ Ghan, H Morrison… - Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
A process‐based treatment of ice supersaturation and ice nucleation is implemented in the
National Center for Atmospheric Research Community Atmosphere Model (CAM). The new …