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 …

Ice‐nucleating particles that impact clouds and climate: Observational and modeling research needs

SM Burrows, CS McCluskey, G Cornwell… - Reviews of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Atmospheric ice‐nucleating particles (INPs) play a critical role in cloud freezing processes,
with important implications for precipitation formation and cloud radiative properties, and …

The art and science of climate model tuning

F Hourdin, T Mauritsen, A Gettelman… - Bulletin of the …, 2017 - journals.ametsoc.org
The process of parameter estimation targeting a chosen set of observations is an essential
aspect of numerical modeling. This process is usually named tuning in the climate modeling …

Global organic and inorganic aerosol hygroscopicity and its effect on radiative forcing

ML Pöhlker, C Pöhlker, J Quaas, J Mülmenstädt… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The climate effects of atmospheric aerosol particles serving as cloud condensation nuclei
(CCN) depend on chemical composition and hygroscopicity, which are highly variable on …

Identifying key driving processes of major recent heat waves

K Wehrli, BP Guillod, M Hauser… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Heat waves lead to major impacts on human health, food production, and ecosystems. To
assess their predictability and how they are projected to change under global warming, it is …

Aerosols in the E3SM Version 1: New developments and their impacts on radiative forcing

H Wang, RC Easter, R Zhang, PL Ma… - Journal of Advances …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The new Energy Exascale Earth System Model Version 1 (E3SMv1) developed for
the US Department of Energy has significant new treatments of aerosols and light‐absorbing …

Challenges in constraining anthropogenic aerosol effects on cloud radiative forcing using present-day spatiotemporal variability

S Ghan, M Wang, S Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
A large number of processes are involved in the chain from emissions of aerosol precursor
gases and primary particles to impacts on cloud radiative forcing. Those processes are …

Global transformation and fate of SOA: Implications of low‐volatility SOA and gas‐phase fragmentation reactions

M Shrivastava, RC Easter, X Liu… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Secondary organic aerosols (SOA) are large contributors to fine‐particle loadings and
radiative forcing but are often represented crudely in global models. We have implemented …

Volcanic radiative forcing from 1979 to 2015

A Schmidt, MJ Mills, S Ghan, JM Gregory… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Using volcanic sulfur dioxide emissions in an aerosol‐climate model, we derive a time
series of global‐mean volcanic effective radiative forcing (ERF) from 1979 to 2015. For 2005 …

[HTML][HTML] Relative importance of high-latitude local and long-range-transported dust for Arctic ice-nucleating particles and impacts on Arctic mixed-phase clouds

Y Shi, X Liu, M Wu, X Zhao, Z Ke… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2022 - acp.copernicus.org
Dust particles, serving as ice-nucleating particles (INPs), may impact the Arctic surface
energy budget and regional climate by modulating the mixed-phase cloud properties and …