The DOE E3SM model version 2: Overview of the physical model and initial model evaluation

JC Golaz, LP Van Roekel, X Zheng… - Journal of Advances …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This work documents version two of the Department of Energy's Energy Exascale Earth
System Model (E3SM). E3SMv2 is a significant evolution from its predecessor E3SMv1 …

Bounding global aerosol radiative forcing of climate change

N Bellouin, J Quaas, E Gryspeerdt… - Reviews of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aerosols interact with radiation and clouds. Substantial progress made over the past 40
years in observing, understanding, and modeling these processes helped quantify the …

The Meteorological Research Institute Earth System Model version 2.0, MRI-ESM2. 0: Description and basic evaluation of the physical component

S Yukimoto, H Kawai, T Koshiro, N Oshima… - Journal of the …, 2019 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Abstract The new Meteorological Research Institute Earth System Model version 2.0 (MRI-
ESM2. 0) has been developed based on previous models, MRI-CGCM3 and MRI-ESM1 …

Observations of clouds, aerosols, precipitation, and surface radiation over the Southern Ocean: An overview of CAPRICORN, MARCUS, MICRE, and SOCRATES

GM McFarquhar, CS Bretherton… - Bulletin of the …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
Weather and climate models are challenged by uncertainties and biases in simulating
Southern Ocean (SO) radiative fluxes that trace to a poor understanding of cloud, aerosol …

Opinion: Cloud-phase climate feedback and the importance of ice-nucleating particles

BJ Murray, KS Carslaw, PR Field - Atmospheric Chemistry and …, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
Shallow clouds covering vast areas of the world's middle-and high-latitude oceans play a
key role in dampening the global temperature rise associated with CO 2. These clouds …

Ecological consequences of sea-ice decline

E Post, US Bhatt, CM Bitz, JF Brodie, TL Fulton… - science, 2013 - science.org
After a decade with nine of the lowest arctic sea-ice minima on record, including the
historically low minimum in 2012, we synthesize recent developments in the study of …

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 …

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 …

Global climate impacts of fixing the Southern Ocean shortwave radiation bias in the Community Earth System Model (CESM)

JE Kay, C Wall, V Yettella, B Medeiros… - Journal of …, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
A large, long-standing, and pervasive climate model bias is excessive absorbed shortwave
radiation (ASR) over the midlatitude oceans, especially the Southern Ocean. This study …

Mixed-phase clouds: Progress and challenges

A Korolev, G McFarquhar, PR Field… - Meteorological …, 2017 - journals.ametsoc.org
Mixed-phase clouds represent a three-phase colloidal system consisting of water vapor, ice
particles, and coexisting supercooled liquid droplets. Mixed-phase clouds are ubiquitous in …