Atmospheric Processes
Atmospheric processes play important roles in shaping the Earth’s energy and water cycles. With the help of numerical models, observations and theories, GFDL scientists conduct cutting-edge research to advance the fundamental understanding of atmospheric processes in governing climate variability and change, with the goal of developing more accurate representations of them in climate models. This work makes it possible to quantify the key characteristics of natural and anthropogenic perturbations to the climate system (such as greenhouse gases, aerosols, land use, volcanoes and solar radiation), and to elucidate the mechanisms through which these perturbations influence global and regional climate.
Aerosols and Climate
Clouds and Convection
Mineral Dust Cycle
Radiative ForcingsResearch Highlights
- Earlier Onset of the Indian Monsoon in the late 20th century: the Role of Anthropogenic Aerosols
July, 2013 - Sensitivity of tropospheric oxidants to biomass burning emissions: implications for radiative forcing
March, 2013 - Cloud tuning in a coupled climate model: impact on 20th century warming
May, 2013 - Springtime high surface ozone events over the western United States: Quantifying the role of stratospheric intrusions
November, 2012 - Mixing of dust and NH3 observed globally over anthropogenic dust sources
August, 2012
Recent Publications
- An Investigation of the Connections among Convection, Clouds, and Climate Sensitivity in a Global Climate Model
March, 2014 - Anthropogenic aerosols and the weakening of the South Asian Summer Monsoon by Bollasina et al., 2011
October, 2011 - The impacts of changing transport and precipitation on pollutant distributions in a future climate by Fang et al., 2011
September, 2011 - Aerosol effects on stratocumulus water paths in a PDF-based parameterization by Guo et al., 2011
September, 2011 - Sensitivity of the aerosol indirect effect to subgrid variability in the cloud parameterization of the GFDL Atmosphere General Circulation Model AM3 by Golaz et al., 2011
July, 2011 - The dynamical core, physical parameterizations, and basic simulation characteristics of the atmospheric component AM3 of the GFDL Global Coupled Model CM3 by Donner et al., 2011
July, 2011
