Climate, ecosystems, and planetary futures: The challenge to predict life in Earth system models

GB Bonan, SC Doney - Science, 2018 - science.org
BACKGROUND Earth system models (ESMs) simulate physical, chemical, and biological
processes that underlie climate and are the most complex in a hierarchy of models of Earth's …

The future of Earth system prediction: Advances in model-data fusion

A Gettelman, AJ Geer, RM Forbes, GR Carmichael… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Predictions of the Earth system, such as weather forecasts and climate projections, require
models informed by observations at many levels. Some methods for integrating models and …

Tropospheric Ozone Assessment Report: Assessment of global-scale model performance for global and regional ozone distributions, variability, and trends

PJ Young, V Naik, AM Fiore, A Gaudel, J Guo… - Elem Sci …, 2018 - online.ucpress.edu
The goal of the Tropospheric Ozone Assessment Report (TOAR) is to provide the research
community with an up-to-date scientific assessment of tropospheric ozone, from the surface …

Dynamical downscaling of regional climate: A review of methods and limitations

Z Xu, Y Han, Z Yang - Science China Earth Sciences, 2019 - Springer
The traditional dynamical downscaling (TDD) method employs continuous integration of
regional climate models (RCM) with the general circulation model (GCM) providing the initial …

The shifting scales of western US landfalling atmospheric rivers under climate change

AM Rhoades, AD Jones, A Srivastava… - Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Atmospheric rivers (ARs) can be a boon and bane to water resource managers as they have
the ability to replenish water reserves, but they can also generate million‐to‐billion‐dollar …

California's drought of the future: A midcentury recreation of the exceptional conditions of 2012–2017

PA Ullrich, Z Xu, AM Rhoades, MD Dettinger… - Earth's …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The California drought of 2012–2016 was a record‐breaking event with extensive social,
political, and economic repercussions. The impacts were widespread and exposed the …

Projecting 21st century snowpack trends in western USA mountains using variable-resolution CESM

AM Rhoades, PA Ullrich, CM Zarzycki - Climate Dynamics, 2018 - Springer
Climate change will impact western USA water supplies by shifting precipitation from snow
to rain and driving snowmelt earlier in the season. However, changes at the regional-to …

Anthropogenic warming impacts on today's Sierra Nevada snowpack and flood risk

X Huang, AD Hall, N Berg - Geophysical Research Letters, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigates temperature impacts to snowpack and runoff‐driven flood risk over
the Sierra Nevada during the extremely wet year of 2016–2017, which followed the …

Projecting climate change in South America using variable‐resolution community Earth system model: An application to Chile

NE Bambach, AM Rhoades, BJ Hatchett… - International Journal …, 2022 - escholarship.org
We introduce variable-resolution enabled Community Earth System Model (VR-CESM)
results simulating historical and future climate conditions at 28 km over South America and …

Optimizing a remote sensing production efficiency model for macro-scale GPP and yield estimation in agroecosystems

M Marshall, K Tu, J Brown - Remote sensing of environment, 2018 - Elsevier
Earth observation data are increasingly used to provide consistent eco-physiological
information over large areas through time. Production efficiency models (PEMs) estimate …