Search Results - "Zender, S."

Modeling dust as component minerals in the Community Atmosphere Model: development of framework and impact on radiative forcing by Scanza, R. A, Mahowald, N, Ghan, S, Zender, C. S, Kok, J. F, Liu, X, Zhang, Y, Albani, S

“…The mineralogy of desert dust is important due to its effect on radiation, clouds and biogeochemical cycling of trace nutrients. This study presents the…”
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SNICAR-ADv3: a community tool for modeling spectral snow albedo by Flanner, Mark G, Arnheim, Julian B, Cook, Joseph M, Dang, Cheng, He, Cenlin, Huang, Xianglei, Singh, Deepak, Skiles, S. McKenzie, Whicker, Chloe A, Zender, Charles S

“…The Snow, Ice, and Aerosol Radiative (SNICAR) model has been used in various capacities over the last 15 years to model the spectral albedo of snow with…”
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Recent Northern Hemisphere tropical expansion primarily driven by black carbon and tropospheric ozone by Allen, Robert J., Sherwood, Steven C., Norris, Joel R., Zender, Charles S.

“…The primary drivers of the Northern Hemisphere expansion of the tropical climate zone over the past several decades are shown to be the recent increases in…”
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Present-day climate forcing and response from black carbon in snow by Flanner, Mark G., Zender, Charles S., Randerson, James T., Rasch, Philip J.

“…We apply our Snow, Ice, and Aerosol Radiative (SNICAR) model, coupled to a general circulation model with prognostic carbon aerosol transport, to improve…”
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Global impact of smoke aerosols from landscape fires on climate and the Hadley circulation by Tosca, M. G, Randerson, J. T, Zender, C. S

“…Each year landscape fires across the globe emit black and organic carbon smoke particles that can last in the atmosphere for days to weeks. We characterized…”
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Climate effect of black carbon aerosol in a Tibetan Plateau glacier by Yang, Song, Xu, Baiqing, Cao, Junji, Zender, Charles S., Wang, Mo

“…In the Tibetan Plateau, the black carbon (BC) concentration in surface snow and snow pits has received much attention, whereas the seasonal behavior of…”
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Bit Grooming: statistically accurate precision-preserving quantization with compression, evaluated in the netCDF Operators (NCO, v4.4.8+) by Zender, Charles S

“…Geoscientific models and measurements generate false precision (scientifically meaningless data bits) that wastes storage space. False precision can mislead…”
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Linking snowpack microphysics and albedo evolution by Flanner, Mark G., Zender, Charles S.

“…Snow aging causes reflectance to vary significantly on timescales of days. This variability influences the strength of snow albedo feedback and can affect the…”
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Wind‐Associated Melt Trends and Contrasts Between the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets by Laffin, Matthew K., Zender, Charles S., Wessem, Melchior, Noël, Brice, Wang, Wenshan

“…Föhn and katabatic winds (downslope winds) can increase ice sheet surface melt, run‐off, and ice‐shelf vulnerability to hydrofracture and are poorly…”
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Bounding the role of black carbon in the climate system: A scientific assessment by Bond, T. C., Doherty, S. J., Fahey, D. W., Forster, P. M., Berntsen, T., DeAngelo, B. J., Flanner, M. G., Ghan, S., Kärcher, B., Koch, D., Kinne, S., Kondo, Y., Quinn, P. K., Sarofim, M. C., Schultz, M. G., Schulz, M., Venkataraman, C., Zhang, H., Zhang, S., Bellouin, N., Guttikunda, S. K., Hopke, P. K., Jacobson, M. Z., Kaiser, J. W., Klimont, Z., Lohmann, U., Schwarz, J. P., Shindell, D., Storelvmo, T., Warren, S. G., Zender, C. S.

“…Black carbon aerosol plays a unique and important role in Earth's climate system. Black carbon is a type of carbonaceous material with a unique combination of…”
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Intercomparison and improvement of two-stream shortwave radiative transfer schemes in Earth system models for a unified treatment of cryospheric surfaces by Dang, Cheng, Zender, Charles S, Flanner, Mark G

“…Snow is an important climate regulator because it greatly increases the surface albedo of middle and high latitudes of the Earth. Earth system models (ESMs)…”
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Mineral Dust Entrainment and Deposition (DEAD) model: Description and 1990s dust climatology by Zender, Charles S., Bian, Huisheng, Newman, David

“…We describe a model for predicting the size‐resolved distribution of atmospheric dust for climate and chemistry‐related studies. The dust distribution from…”
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Springtime warming and reduced snow cover from carbonaceous particles by Flanner, M. G., Zender, C. S., Hess, P. G., Mahowald, N. M., Painter, T. H., Ramanathan, V., Rasch, P. J.

“…Boreal spring climate is uniquely susceptible to solar warming mechanisms because it has expansive snow cover and receives relatively strong insolation…”
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Expansion of Coccidioidomycosis Endemic Regions in the United States in Response to Climate Change by Gorris, Morgan E., Treseder, Kathleen K., Zender, Charles S., Randerson, James T.

“…Coccidioidomycosis (Valley fever) is a fungal disease endemic to the southwestern United States. Across this region, temperature and precipitation influence…”
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Observed 20th century desert dust variability: impact on climate and biogeochemistry by Mahowald, N. M., Kloster, S., Engelstaedter, S., Moore, J. K., Mukhopadhyay, S., McConnell, J. R., Albani, S., Doney, S. C., Bhattacharya, A., Curran, M. A. J., Flanner, M. G., Hoffman, F. M., Lawrence, D. M., Lindsay, K., Mayewski, P. A., Neff, J., Rothenberg, D., Thomas, E., Thornton, P. E., Zender, C. S.

“…Desert dust perturbs climate by directly and indirectly interacting with incoming solar and outgoing long wave radiation, thereby changing precipitation and…”
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Global dust model intercomparison in AeroCom phase I by Huneeus, N., Schulz, M., Balkanski, Y., Griesfeller, J., Prospero, J., Kinne, S., Bauer, S., Boucher, O., Chin, M., Dentener, F., Diehl, T., Easter, R., Fillmore, D., Ghan, S., Ginoux, P., Grini, A., Horowitz, L., Koch, D., Krol, M. C., Landing, W., Liu, X., Mahowald, N., Miller, R., Morcrette, J.-J., Myhre, G., Penner, J., Perlwitz, J., Stier, P., Takemura, T., Zender, C. S.

“…This study presents the results of a broad intercomparison of a total of 15 global aerosol models within the AeroCom project. Each model is compared to…”
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An Overview of the Atmospheric Component of the Energy Exascale Earth System Model by Rasch, P. J., Xie, S., Ma, P.‐L., Lin, W., Wang, H., Tang, Q., Burrows, S. M., Caldwell, P., Zhang, K., Easter, R. C., Cameron‐Smith, P., Singh, B., Wan, H., Golaz, J.‐C., Harrop, B. E., Roesler, E., Bacmeister, J., Larson, V. E., Evans, K. J., Qian, Y., Taylor, M., Leung, L. R., Zhang, Y., Brent, L., Branstetter, M., Hannay, C., Mahajan, S., Mametjanov, A., Neale, R., Richter, J. H., Yoon, J.‐H., Zender, C. S., Bader, D., Flanner, M., Foucar, J. G., Jacob, R., Keen, N., Klein, S. A., Liu, X., Salinger, A.G., Shrivastava, M., Yang, Y.

“…The Energy Exascale Earth System Model Atmosphere Model version 1, the atmospheric component of the Department of Energy's Energy Exascale Earth System Model…”
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Climatic Responses to Future Trans‐Arctic Shipping by Stephenson, Scott R., Wang, Wenshan, Zender, Charles S., Wang, Hailong, Davis, Steven J., Rasch, Philip J.

“…As global temperatures increase, sea ice loss will increasingly enable commercial shipping traffic to cross the Arctic Ocean, where the ships' gas and…”
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Impact of Boreal Forest Fire on Climate Warming by Randerson, J.T, Liu, H, Flanner, M.G, Chambers, S.D, Jin, Y, Hess, P.G, Pfister, G, Mack, M.C, Treseder, K.K, Welp, L.R, Chapin, F.S, Harden, J.W, Goulden, M.L, Lyons, E, Neff, J.C, Schuur, E.A.G, Zender, C.S

“…We report measurements and analysis of a boreal forest fire, integrating the effects of greenhouse gases, aerosols, black carbon deposition on snow and sea…”
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Change in atmospheric mineral aerosols in response to climate: Last glacial period, preindustrial, modern, and doubled carbon dioxide climates by Mahowald, Natalie M., Muhs, Daniel R., Levis, Samuel, Rasch, Philip J., Yoshioka, Masaru, Zender, Charles S., Luo, Chao

“…Desert dust simulations generated by the National Center for Atmospheric Research's Community Climate System Model for the current climate are shown to be…”
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