Clouds and Convection Publications

• Guo, Huan, J-C Golaz, Leo J Donner, Paul Ginoux, and  Richard S Hemler, March 2014: Multi-variate probability density functions with dynamics in the GFDL atmospheric general circulation model: Global Tests. Journal of Climate, 27(5), doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00347.1.
• Zhao, Ming, March 2014: An investigation of the connections between convection, clouds and climate sensitivity in a Global Climate Model. Journal of Climate, 27(5), doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00145.1. Radley, Claire, Stephan Fueglistaler, and Leo J Donner, in press: Cloud and radiative balance changes in response to ENSO in observations and models. Journal of Climate. 2/14.
• Bollasina, Massimo, Yi Ming,  V Ramaswamy, M Daniel Schwarzkopf, and Vaishali Naik, in press: Contribution of Local and Remote Anthropogenic Aerosols to the 20th century Weakening of the South Asian Monsoon. Geophysical Research Letters. 1/14.
• Knutson, Thomas R., Fanrong Zeng, Andrew T Wittenberg, Hyeong-Seog Kim, Joseph J Sirutis, Morris A Bender, Ming Zhao, and Robert E Tuleya, January 2014: Recent Research at GFDL on Surface Temperature Trends and Simulations of Tropical Cyclone Activity in the Indian Ocean Region In Monitoring and Prediction of Tropical Cyclones in the Indian Ocean and Climate Change, New Delhi, India, Capital Publishing, doi:10.1007/978-94-007-7720-0_5.
• Rosenfeld, D, S C Sherwood, R Wood, and Leo J Donner, January 2014: Climate Effects of Aerosol-Cloud Interactions. Science, 343(6169), doi:10.1126/science.1247490.
• Zhang, Shaoqing, Ming Zhao, Shian-Jiann Lin, Xiaosong Yang, and Whit G Anderson, in press: Retrieval of Tropical Cyclone Statistics with a High-Resolution Coupled Model and Data. Geophysical Research Letters. 1/14.
• Maloney, E,Bruce Wyman, and Ming Zhao, in press: North American Climate in CMIP5 Experiments: Part III: Assessment of 21st Century Projections. Journal of Climate. 12/13.
• Sheffield, J, S J Camargo, R Fu, Qi Hu, X Jiang, N Johnson, K B Karnauskas, Seon Tae Kim, J L Kinter, Sanjiv Kumar, B Langenbrunner, E Maloney, A Mariotti, J E Meyerson, J D Neelin, S Nigam, Zaitao Pan, A Ruiz-Barradas, R Seager, Y L Serra, D-Z Sun, Chunzai Wang, S Xie, J-Y Yu, Tao Zhang, and Ming Zhao, December 2013: North American Climate in CMIP5 Experiments. Part II: Evaluation of Historical Simulations of Intra-Seasonal to Decadal Variability. Journal of Climate, 26(23), doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00593.1.
• Zhang, M, J-C Golaz, and Ming Zhao, et al., December 2013: CGILS: Results from the first phase of an international project to understand the physical mechanisms of low cloud feedbacks in single column models. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 5(4), doi:10.1002/2013MS000246.
• Bollasina, Massimo, and Yi Ming, November 2013: The role of land-surface processes in modulating the Indian monsoon annual cycle. Climate Dynamics, 41(9-10), doi:10.1007/s00382-012-1634-3.
• Strazzo, S E., J B Elsner, T LaRow, D J Halperin, and Ming Zhao, November 2013: Observed versus GCM-generated local tropical cyclone frequency: Comparisons using a spatial lattice. Journal of Climate, 26(21), doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00808.1.
• Blackburn, M, Ming Zhao, and Isaac M Held, et al., October 2013: The Aqua Planet Experiment (APE): CONTROL SST Simulation. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, 91A, doi:10.2151/jmsj.2013-A02.
• Williamson, D L., Ming Zhao, and Isaac M Held, et al., October 2013: The Aqua Planet Experiment (APE): Response to Changed Meridional SST Profile. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, 91A, doi:10.2151/jmsj.2013-A03.
• Knutson, Thomas R., Joseph J Sirutis, Gabriel A Vecchi, Stephen T Garner, Ming Zhao, Hyeong-Seog Kim, Morris A Bender, Robert E Tuleya, Isaac M Held, and G Villarini, September 2013: Dynamical downscaling projections of 21st century Atlantic hurricane activity: CMIP3 and CMIP5 model-based scenario. Journal of Climate, 26(17), doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00539.1.
• Zhao, Ming, Isaac M Held, and Gabriel A Vecchi, et al., September 2013: Robust direct effect of increasing atmospheric CO₂ concentration on global tropical cyclone frequency: a multi-model inter-comparison. U.S. CLIVAR Variations, 11(3), 17-23.
• Elsner, J B., S E Strazzo, T H Jagger, T LaRow, and Ming Zhao, August 2013: Sensitivity of limiting hurricane intensity to SST
  in the Atlantic from observations and GCMs. Journal of Climate, 26(16), doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00433.1.
• Lin, Yanluan, Ming Zhao, Yi Ming, J-C Golaz, Leo J Donner, Stephen A Klein, V Ramaswamy, and S Xie, August 2013: Precipitation partitioning, tropical clouds and intraseasonal variability in GFDL AM2. Journal of Climate, 26(15), doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00442.1.
• Merlis, Timothy M., Ming Zhao, and Isaac M Held, August 2013: The sensitivity of hurricane frequency to ITCZ changes and radiatively forced warming in aquaplanet simulations. Geophysical Research Letters, 40(15), doi:10.1002/grl.50680.
• Rosenfeld, D, R Wood, Leo J Donner, and S C Sherwood, August 2013: Aerosol Cloud-Mediated Radiative Forcing: Highly Uncertain and Opposite Effects from Shallow and Deep Clouds In Climate Science for Serving Society: Research, Modeling and Prediction Priorities, doi:10.1007/978-94-007-6692-1_5.
• Song, H, Yanluan Lin, and Leo J Donner, et al., August 2013: Evaluation of Precipitation Simulated by Seven SCMs against the ARM Observation at the SGP Site. Journal of Climate, 26(15), doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00263.1.
• Suzuki, K, J-C Golaz, and G L Stephens, August 2013: Evaluating cloud tuning in a climate model with satellite observations. Geophysical Research Letters, 40(16), doi:10.1002/grl.50874.
• Bollasina, Massimo,  Yi Ming, and V Ramaswamy, July 2013: Earlier onset of the Indian Monsoon in the late 20th century: The role of anthropogenic aerosols. Geophysical Research Letters, 40(14), doi:10.1002/grl.50719.
• Huang, Jing, E Bou-Zeid, and J-C Golaz, June 2013: Turbulence and Vertical Fluxes in the Stable Atmospheric Boundary-Layer II: A Novel Mixing Length Model. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 70(6), doi:10.1175/JAS-D-12-0168.1.
• Vecchi, Gabriel A., Stephan Fueglistaler, Isaac M Held, Thomas R Knutson, and Ming Zhao, June 2013: Impacts of atmospheric temperature trends on tropical cyclone activity. Journal of Climate, 26(11), doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00503.1.
• Golaz, J-C, Larry W Horowitz, and Hiram Levy II, May 2013: Cloud tuning in a coupled climate model: impact on 20th century warming. Geophysical Research Letters, 40(10), doi:10.1002/grl.50232.
• Levy II, Hiram, Larry W Horowitz, M Daniel Schwarzkopf, Yi Ming, J-C Golaz, Vaishali Naik, and V Ramaswamy, May 2013: The Roles of Aerosol Direct and Indirect Effects in Past and Future Climate Change. Journal of Geophysical Research, 118, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50192.
• Su, H, Leo J Donner, Larry W Horowitz, and Charles J Seman, et al., April 2013: Diagnosis of regime-dependent cloud simulation errors in CMIP5 models using A-Train satellite observations and reanalysis data. Journal of Geophysical Research, 118(7), doi:10.1029/2012JD018575.
• Zhang, Rong, Thomas L Delworth, R Sutton, D Hodson, Keith W Dixon, Isaac M Held, Y Kushnir, D Marshall, Yi Ming, Rym Msadek, J Robson, Anthony Rosati, Mingfang Ting, and Gabriel A Vecchi, April 2013: Have Aerosols Caused the Observed Atlantic Multidecadal Variability? Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 70(4), doi:10.1175/JAS-D-12-0331.1.
• Huang, X, H-W Chuang, A Dessler, X Chen, K Minschwaner, Yi Ming, and V Ramaswamy, March 2013: A radiative-convective equilibrium perspective of the weakening of tropical Walker circulation in response to global warming. Journal of Climate, 26(5), doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00288.1.
• Bollasina, Massimo, and Yi Ming, February 2013: The general circulation model precipitation bias over the southwestern equatorial Indian Ocean and its implications for simulating the South Asian monsoon. Climate Dynamics, 40(3-4), doi:10.1007/s00382-012-1347-7.
• Benedict, J J., A Sobel, D M W Frierson, and Leo J Donner, January 2013: Tropical Intraseasonal Variability in Version 3 of the GFDL Atmosphere Model. Journal of Climate, 26(2), doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00103.1.
• Fan, Song-Miao, J P Schwarz, Junfeng Liu, D W Fahey, Paul Ginoux, Larry W Horowitz, Hiram Levy II, Yi Ming, and J R Spackman, December 2012: Inferring ice formation processes from global-scale black carbon profiles observed in the remote atmosphere and model simulations. Journal of Geophysical Research, 117, D23205, doi:10.1029/2012JD018126.
• Zhang, M, F P Bretherton, P N Blossey, S Bony, F Brient, and J-C Golaz, December 2012: The CGILS experimental design to investigate low cloud feedbacks in general circulation models by using single-column and large-eddy simulation models. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 4(4), doi:10.1029/2012MS000182.
• Ming, Yi, and V Ramaswamy, November 2012: Nonlocal component of radiative flux perturbation. Geophysical Research Letters, 39, L22706, doi:10.1029/2012GL054050.
• Jiang, X, Ming Zhao, and D E Waliser, October 2012: Modulation of tropical cyclones over the Eastern Pacific by the intra-seasonal variability simulated in an AGCM. Journal of Climate, 25(19), doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00531.1.
• Ocko, I B., V Ramaswamy, Paul Ginoux, Yi Ming, and Larry W Horowitz, October 2012: Sensitivity of scattering and absorbing aerosol direct radiative forcing to physical climate factors. Journal of Geophysical Research, 117, D20203, doi:10.1029/2012JD018019.
• Zhou, C, J Penner, Yi Ming, and X Huang, October 2012: Aerosol forcing based on CAM5 and AM3 meteorological fields. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 12(20), doi:10.5194/acp-12-9629-2012.
• Seidel, D J., Y Zhang, A Beljaars, J-C Golaz, A R Jacobson, and B Medeiros, September 2012: Climatology of the planetary boundary layer over the continental United States and Europe. Journal of Geophysical Research, 117, D17106, doi:10.1029/2012JD018143.
• Ginoux, Paul, J M Prospero, T E Gill, C Hsu, and Ming Zhao, August 2012: Global scale attribution of anthropogenic and natural dust sources and their emission rates based on MODIS Deep Blue aerosol products. Reviews of Geophysics, 50, RG3005, doi:10.1029/2012RG000388.
• Hill, S A., and Yi Ming, August 2012: Nonlinear climate response to regional brightening of tropical marine stratocumulus. Geophysical Research Letters, 39, L15707, doi:10.1029/2012GL052064.
• Jiang, X, D E Waliser, D Kim, Ming Zhao, K R Sperber, and William F Stern, et al., August 2012: Simulation of the intraseasonal variability over the Eastern Pacific ITCZ in climate models. Climate Dynamics, 39(3-4), doi:10.1007/s00382-011-1098-x.
• Li, J-L, D E Waliser, W-T Chen, B Guan, T Kubar, G L Stephens, H-Y Ma, M Deng, Leo J Donner, Charles J Seman, and Larry W Horowitz, August 2012: An observationally based evaluation of cloud ice water in CMIP3 and CMIP5 GCMs and contemporary reanalyses using contemporary satellite data. Journal of Geophysical Research, 117, D16105, doi:10.1029/2012JD017640.
• Jiang, J H., Leo J Donner, Larry W Horowitz, and Charles J Seman, et al., July 2012: Evaluation of cloud and water vapor simulations in CMIP5 climate models using NASA “A-Train” satellite observations. Journal of Geophysical Research, 117, D14105, doi:10.1029/2011JD017237.
• Pincus, R, S Platnick, S A Ackerman, Richard S Hemler, and R J P Hofmann, July 2012: Reconciling simulated and observed views of clouds: MODIS, ISCCP, and the limits of instrument simulators. Journal of Climate, 25(13), doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00267.1.
• Zhao, Ming, Isaac M Held, and Shian-Jiann Lin, July 2012: Some counter-intuitive dependencies of tropical cyclone frequency on parameters in a GCM. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 69(7), doi:10.1175/JAS-D-11-0238.1.
• Lin, Yanluan, Leo J Donner, Stephen A Klein, and Ming Zhao, et al., May 2012: TWP-ICE global atmospheric model intercomparison:convection responsiveness and resolution impact. Journal of Geophysical Research, 117(D09111), doi:10.1029/2011JD017018.
• Persad, Geeta, Yi Ming, and V Ramaswamy, April 2012: Tropical tropospheric-only responses to absorbing aerosols. Journal of Climate, 25(7), doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00122.1.
• Zhao, Ming, and Isaac M Held, April 2012: TC-permitting GCM simulations of hurricane frequency response to sea surface temperature anomalies projected for the late 21st century. Journal of Climate, 25(8), doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00313.1.
• Hsu, P, T Li, J-J Luo, H Murakami, A Kitoh, and Ming Zhao, March 2012: Increase of global monsoon area and precipitation under global warming: A robust signal? Geophysical Research Letters, 39, L06701, doi:10.1029/2012GL051037.
• Williamson, D L., M Blackburn, B J Hoskins, Ming Zhao, and Isaac M Held, et al., 2012: In The APE Atlas, NCAR Technical Note NCAR/TN-484+STR, Boulder, Colorado, National Center for Atmospheric Research, doi:10.5065/D6FF3QBR.
• Ming, Yi, V Ramaswamy, and G Chen, December 2011: A model investigation of aerosol-induced changes in boreal winter extratropical circulation. Journal of Climate, 24(23), doi:10.1175/2011JCLI4111.1.
• Bollasina, Massimo, Yi Ming, and V Ramaswamy, October 2011: Anthropogenic aerosols and the weakening of the South Asian summer monsoon. Science, 334(6055), doi:10.1126/science.1204994.
• Gent, P R., and Leo J Donner, et al., October 2011: The Community Climate System Model Version 4. Journal of Climate, 24(19), doi:10.1175/2011JCLI4083.1.
• Ghan, S, and Yi Ming, et al., October 2011: Droplet nucleation: Physically-based parameterizations and comparative evaluation. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 3, M10001, doi:10.1029/2011MS000074.
• Held, Isaac M., and Ming Zhao, October 2011: The response of tropical cyclone statistics to an increase in CO2 with fixed sea surface temperatures. Journal of Climate, 24(20), doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00050.1.
• Ming, Yi, and V Ramaswamy, October 2011: A model investigation of aerosol-induced changes in tropical circulation. Journal of Climate, 24(19), doi:10.1175/2011JCLI4108.1.
• Teixeira, J, and Ming Zhao, et al., October 2011: Tropical and sub-tropical cloud transitions in weather and climate prediction models: the GCSS/WGNE Pacific Crosssection Intercomparison (GPCI). Journal of Climate, 24(20), doi:10.1175/2011JCLI3672.1.
• Zhang, Y, D J Seidel, J-C Golaz, C Deser, and R A Tomas, October 2011: Climatological characteristics of Arctic and Antarctic surface-based inversions. Journal of Climate, 24(19), doi:10.1175/2011JCLI4004.1.
• Guo, Huan, J-C Golaz, and Leo J Donner, September 2011: Aerosol effects on stratocumulus water paths in a PDF-based parameterization. Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L17808, doi:10.1029/2011GL048611.
• Kahn, B H., J Teixeira, E J Fetzer, A Gettelman, S M Hristova-Veleva, X Huang, A K Kochanski, M K hler, S K Krueger, R Wood, and Ming Zhao, September 2011: Temperature and water vapor variance scaling in global models: Comparisons to satellite and aircraft data. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 68(9), doi:10.1175/2011JAS3737.1.
• Lee, S S., and Leo J Donner, August 2011: Effects of Cloud Parameterization on Radiation and Precipitation: A comparison between single-moment microphysics and double-moment microphysics. Terrestrial Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, 22(4), doi:10.3319/TAO.2011.03.03.01(A).
• Donner, Leo J., Bruce Wyman, Richard S Hemler, Larry W Horowitz, Yi Ming, Ming Zhao, J-C Golaz, Paul Ginoux, Shian-Jiann Lin, M Daniel Schwarzkopf, John Austin, G Alaka, William F Cooke, Thomas L Delworth, Stuart Freidenreich, C Tony Gordon, Stephen M Griffies, Isaac M Held, William J Hurlin, Stephen A Klein, Thomas R Knutson, Amy R Langenhorst, Hyun-Chul Lee, Yanluan Lin, B I Magi, Sergey Malyshev, P C D Milly, Vaishali Naik, Mary Jo Nath, R Pincus, Jeff J Ploshay, V Ramaswamy, Charles J Seman, Elena Shevliakova, Joseph J Sirutis, William F Stern, Ronald J Stouffer, R John Wilson, Michael Winton, Andrew T Wittenberg, and Fanrong Zeng, July 2011: The dynamical core, physical parameterizations, and basic simulation characteristics of the atmospheric component AM3 of the GFDL Global Coupled Model CM3. Journal of Climate, 24(13), doi:10.1175/2011JCLI3955.1.
• Golaz, J-C, M Salzmann, Leo J Donner, Larry W Horowitz, Yi Ming, and Ming Zhao, July 2011: Sensitivity of the aerosol indirect effect to subgrid variability in the cloud parameterization of the GFDL Atmosphere General Circulation Model AM3. Journal of Climate, 24(13), doi:10.1175/2010JCLI3945.1.
• Griffies, Stephen M., Michael Winton, Leo J Donner, Larry W Horowitz, S M Downes, Riccardo Farneti, Anand Gnanadesikan, William J Hurlin, Hyun-Chul Lee, Zhi Liang, J B Palter, Bonita L Samuels, Andrew T Wittenberg, Bruce Wyman, J Yin, and Niki Zadeh, July 2011: The GFDL CM3 Coupled Climate Model: Characteristics of the ocean and sea ice simulations. Journal of Climate, 24(13), doi:10.1175/2011JCLI3964.1.
• Villarini, G, Gabriel A Vecchi, Thomas R Knutson, Ming Zhao, and J A Smith, July 2011: North Atlantic tropical storm frequency response to anthropogenic forcing: Projections and sources of uncertainty. Journal of Climate, 24(13), doi:10.1175/2011JCLI3853.1.
• Vecchi, Gabriel A., Ming Zhao, H Wang, G Villarini, Anthony Rosati, A Kumar, Isaac M Held, and Rich Gudgel, April 2011: Statistical-dynamical predictions of seasonal North Atlantic hurricane activity. Monthly Weather Review, 139(4), doi:10.1175/2010MWR3499.1.
• Lin, Yanluan, Leo J Donner, and B A Colle, March 2011: Parameterization of riming intensity and its impact on ice fall speed using ARM data. Monthly Weather Review, 139(3), doi:10.1175/2010MWR3299.1.
• Ming, Yi, March 2011: Aerosols In Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather, second edition, Oxford University Press, 34-38.
• Chen, G, Yi Ming, N D Singer, and Jian Lu, February 2011: Testing the Clausius-Clapeyron constraint on the aerosol-induced changes in mean and extreme precipitation. Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L04807, doi:10.1029/2010GL046435.
• Donner, Leo J., W Schubert, and R C J Somerville, February 2011: The Development of Atmospheric General Circulation Models: Complexity, Synthesis and Computation, New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 255pp.