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Reducing uncertainties in climate models by Soden, Brian J, Collins, William D, Feldman, Daniel R

“…Implementing accurate calculations of radiative forcing can improve climate projections Radiative forcing is a fundamental quantity for understanding both…”
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Radiative forcing by long-lived greenhouse gases: Calculations with the AER radiative transfer models by Iacono, Michael J., Delamere, Jennifer S., Mlawer, Eli J., Shephard, Mark W., Clough, Shepard A., Collins, William D.

“…A primary component of the observed recent climate change is the radiative forcing from increased concentrations of long‐lived greenhouse gases (LLGHGs)…”
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Resolution Dependence of Future Tropical Cyclone Projections of CAM5.1 in the U.S. CLIVAR Hurricane Working Group Idealized Configurations by Wehner, Michael, Prabhat, Reed, Kevin A., Stone, Dáithí, Collins, William D., Bacmeister, Julio

“…The four idealized configurations of the U.S. CLIVAR Hurricane Working Group are integrated using the global Community Atmospheric Model version 5.1 at two…”
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Effects of Black Carbon Aerosols on the Indian Monsoon by Meehl, Gerald A., Arblaster, Julie M., Collins, William D.

“…A six-member ensemble of twentieth-century simulations with changes to only time-evolving global distributions of black carbon aerosols in a global coupled…”
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Anthropogenic aerosols mask increases in US rainfall by greenhouse gases by Risser, Mark D., Collins, William D., Wehner, Michael F., O’Brien, Travis A., Huang, Huanping, Ullrich, Paul A.

“…A comprehensive understanding of human-induced changes to rainfall is essential for water resource management and infrastructure design. However, at regional…”
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Origins of climate model discrepancies in atmospheric shortwave absorption and global precipitation changes by Fildier, Benjamin, Collins, William D.

“…Projected increases in mean precipitation are constrained by the atmospheric energy budget through radiative‐convective equilibrium. However, significant…”
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Contrasting Responses of Atlantic and Pacific Tropical Cyclone Activity to Atlantic Multidecadal Variability by Huang, Huanping, Collins, William D., Patricola, Christina M., Ruprich‐Robert, Yohan, Ullrich, Paul A., Baker, Alexander J.

“…This research assesses the influences of Atlantic Multidecadal Variability (AMV) on global tropical cyclones (TCs) using two large ensembles of idealized…”
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Far-infrared surface emissivity and climate by Feldman, Daniel R., Collins, William D., Pincus, Robert, Huang, Xianglei, Chen, Xiuhong

“…Significance We find that many of the Earth's climate variables, including surface temperature, outgoing longwave radiation, cooling rates, and frozen surface…”
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The effect of horizontal resolution on simulation quality in the Community Atmospheric Model, CAM5.1 by Wehner, Michael F., Reed, Kevin A., Li, Fuyu, Prabhat, Bacmeister, Julio, Chen, Cheng‐Ta, Paciorek, Christopher, Gleckler, Peter J., Sperber, Kenneth R., Collins, William D., Gettelman, Andrew, Jablonowski, Christiane

“…We present an analysis of version 5.1 of the Community Atmospheric Model (CAM5.1) at a high horizontal resolution. Intercomparison of this global model at…”
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The Community Climate System Model Version 3 (CCSM3) by Collins, William D., Bitz, Cecilia M., Blackmon, Maurice L., Bonan, Gordon B., Bretherton, Christopher S., Carton, James A., Chang, Ping, Doney, Scott C., Hack, James J., Henderson, Thomas B., Kiehl, Jeffrey T., Large, William G., McKenna, Daniel S., Santer, Benjamin D., Smith, Richard D.

“…The Community Climate System Model version 3 (CCSM3) has recently been developed and released to the climate community. CCSM3 is a coupled climate model with…”
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Distortions of the Rain Distribution With Warming, With and Without Self‐Aggregation by Fildier, Benjamin, Collins, William D., Muller, Caroline

“…We investigate how mesoscale circulations associated with convective aggregation can modulate the sensitivity of the hydrologic cycle to warming. We quantify…”
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The Formulation and Atmospheric Simulation of the Community Atmosphere Model Version 3 (CAM3) by Collins, William D., Rasch, Philip J., Boville, Byron A., Hack, James J., McCaa, James R., Williamson, David L., Briegleb, Bruce P., Bitz, Cecilia M., Lin, Shian-Jiann, Zhang, Minghua

“…A new version of the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM) has been developed and released to the climate community. CAM Version 3 (CAM3) is an atmospheric general…”
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Accounting for radiative forcing from albedo change in future global land-use scenarios by Jones, Andrew D., Calvin, Katherine V., Collins, William D., Edmonds, James

“…We demonstrate the effectiveness of a new method for quantifying radiative forcing from land use and land cover change (LULCC) within an integrated assessment…”
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Impact of Desert Dust Radiative Forcing on Sahel Precipitation: Relative Importance of Dust Compared to Sea Surface Temperature Variations, Vegetation Changes, and Greenhouse Gas Warming by Yoshioka, Masaru, Mahowald, Natalie M., Conley, Andrew J., Collins, William D., Fillmore, David W., Zender, Charles S., Coleman, Dani B.

“…The role of direct radiative forcing of desert dust aerosol in the change from wet to dry climate observed in the African Sahel region in the last half of the…”
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How Much More Global Warming and Sea Level Rise? by Meehl, Gerald A, Washington, Warren M, Collins, William D, Arblaster, Julie M, Hu, Aixue, Buja, Lawrence E, Strand, Warren G, Teng, Haiyan

“…Two global coupled climate models show that even if the concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere had been stabilized in the year 2000, we are…”
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What are the effects of Agro-Ecological Zones and land use region boundaries on land resource projection using the Global Change Assessment Model? by Di Vittorio, Alan V., Kyle, Page, Collins, William D.

“…Understanding potential impacts of climate change is complicated by spatially mismatched land representations between gridded datasets and models, and land use…”
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Historical and future trends in South Asian monsoon low pressure systems in a high-resolution model ensemble by Vishnu, S., Boos, William R., Collins, William D.

“…Historical trends in monsoon low pressure systems (LPS), the dominant rain-bearing weather system of South Asia, have been difficult to assess due to changes…”
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Quantifying Human‐Mediated Carbon Cycle Feedbacks by Jones, Andrew D., Calvin, Katherine V., Shi, Xiaoying, Di Vittorio, Alan V., Bond‐Lamberty, Ben, Thornton, Peter E., Collins, William D.

“…Changes in land and ocean carbon storage in response to elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations and associated climate change, known as the…”
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Sensitivity of Mountain Hydroclimate Simulations in Variable‐Resolution CESM to Microphysics and Horizontal Resolution by Rhoades, Alan M., Ullrich, Paul A., Zarzycki, Colin M., Johansen, Hans, Margulis, Steven A., Morrison, Hugh, Xu, Zexuan, Collins, William D.

“…Mountains are natural dams that impede atmospheric moisture transport and water towers that cool, condense, and store precipitation. They are essential in the…”
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Climate Change Projections for the Twenty-First Century and Climate Change Commitment in the CCSM3 by Meehl, Gerald A., Washington, Warren M., Santer, Benjamin D., Collins, William D., Arblaster, Julie M., Hu, Aixue, Lawrence, David M., Teng, Haiyan, Buja, Lawrence E., Strand, Warren G.

“…Climate change scenario simulations with the Community Climate System Model version 3 (CCSM3), a global coupled climate model, show that if concentrations of…”
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