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Analysis of Climate Model Simulations for the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report

(CMEP 2011) - Awards

Name Title Affiliation Sponsoring Agency
Xiangdong Zhang Assessing and Understanding Variability, Changes, and Uncertainties of Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice in the IPCC AR5 Climate Model Simulations University of Alaska, Fairbanks Office of Naval Research
Cecilia Bitz Intercomparison of simulated Arctic snow on sea ice and estimation of snow-related feedbacks on sea ice University of Washington Office of Naval Research
Steve Vavrus Simulation of Extreme Arctic Cyclones in IPCC AR5 Experiments University of Wisconsin-Madison Office of Naval Research
Sumant Nigam

RAPID: Representation of Atlantic Multidecadal Variability and its Hydroclimate and Surface Temperature Links in Climate Simulations

University of Maryland NSF
Leila Carvalho RAPID: Decadal Variability of the American Monsoons--An Assessment of CMIP5 Simulation University of California, Santa Barbara NSF
John Chiang RAPID: Long-term Trends of the Atlantic Interhemispheric SST Gradient in the CMIP5 20th Century Simulations University of California, Berkeley NSF
Ning Zeng RAPID: Carbon Cycle-Climate Feedback Analysis in CMIP5 Models University of Maryland NSF
Venkatesh Merwade RAPID: Initial Assessment of IPCC AR5 Multi-model Ensembles for Hydroclimatic Features at Global and Regional Scales Perdue University NSF
Hyemi Kim RAPID: Prediction and Predictability for the Multi-decadal Variability in a Changing Climate Georgia Tech NSF
Julia Cole RAPID: Drought Risk and Low-frequency Hydroclimatic Variability in CMIP5 Simulations University of Arizona NSF
Walter Robinson RAPID: Warming Holes--Can Climate Models Represent the Variability and Sources of Regional Temperature Trends in the Continental United States? North Carolina State University NSF
Joel Norris RAPID: Evaluation of Multidecadal Variability in Surface Solar Radiation University of California, San Diego NSF
Anita Rapp RAPID: Evaluation of Climate Models in the Southeast Pacific Marine Stratocumulus Region Texas A&M University NSF
Amy Solomon RAPID: Predictability of Atmospheric Teleconnections in Initialized Decadal Forecasts University of Colorado NSF
MIngfang, Ting RAPID: Mechanisms of 20th Century Mediteranean Drying: The Role of External Forcing Versus Natural Variability Columbia University NSF
William Gutowski RAPID: Physical Behavior of Precipitation Extremes in CMIP5 GCMs and Observations Iowa State University NSF
Pedro DiNezio RAPID: Detectability of Changes in the Walker Circulation in Response to Global Warming University of Miami, RSMAS NSF
David Gutzler Hydroclimatic variability in Southwestern North America   NSF
ChuanLi Jiang Intercomparison of the Southern Ocean Sea Water pCO2 in IPCC AR5 Coupled Carbon/Climate Models Earth and Space Research NSF Antarctic Program
Julienne Stroeve Evaluation of Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice   NOAA
Michaela Biasutti The role of greenhouse gases in the forcing of 20th century precipitation changes in the African Sahel   NOAA
Prashant Sardeshmukh Do climate models capture the statistics of daily weather extremes?   NOAA
Wei Cheng Assessing the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) in climate models   NOAA
Patrick Taylor Analysis of Monthly Radiative Flux and Surface Temperature Variability and their Covariance in a Suite of CMIP5 Present Day Climate Simulations   NASA
Ron Kwok Assessment of CMIP5 model simulation of the Arctic sea ice cover with observational data   NASA
Kyu-Myong Kim Land-atmosphere interaction in changing climate and its impact on the frequency and intensity of heat waves in northern summer   NASA
Zachery Eitzen Simulated low cloud and deep cloud feedbacks compared against satellite observations   NASA

 

 

 

 

 





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Announcements

U.S. CLIVAR Call for New Working Groups (pdf)

U.S. CLIVAR joint call with Ocean Carbon Biogeochemistry Group (OCB) for Working Groups (pdf)

U.S. CLIVAR Summit 2011 presentations online

U.S. CLIVAR Decadal Predictability Working Group publishes paper in BAMS (Feb. 2011, Vol. 92, No. 2)

NCAR Advanced Study Program Summer Colloquium - 6-24 June 2011; Statistical Assessment of Extreme Weather Phenomena under climate Change - presentations online

More Announcements

Science Tidbits    

26 September 2011: Seeking better answers to climate change, extreme weather

20 September 2011: Earth is losing Arctic sea ice: consequences could be global

17 August 2011: Study blames humans for half of recent Arctic ice melt

9 July 2011: Record south-central drought could continue into 2012, National Weather Service predicts

7 July 2011 - US Climate: The New Normal

10 June 2011 - NASA launches Aquarius

 

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