High-resolution Modeling
High resolution improves model accuracy and allows important small-scale processes to be simulated, reducing dependence on uncertain parameterizations. Model resolution is limited by computing power. Climate models are carefully designed to “fit” into a target computer.
High-resolution Atmosphere Modeling
High-resolution Climate ModelingResearch Highlights
- The resolution dependence of contiguous US precipitation extremes in response to CO2 forcing
Aug 22, 2016 - An Extreme Event of Sea-level Rise along the Northeast Coast of North America in 2009-2010
Feb 24 2015 - Response to CO2 doubling of the Atlantic Hurricane Main Development Region in a High-Resolution Climate Model
Apr 15 2013 - Controls of Global Snow Under Climate Change
Feb 15 2013 - Some counter-intuitive dependencies of tropical cyclone frequency on parameters in a GCM
Apr 20 2012 - A Model Study of Heat Waves over North America: Meteorological Aspects and Projections for the 21st Century
Mar 12 2012 - Simulated climate and climate change in the GFDL CM2.5 high-resolution coupled climate model. Journal of Climate.
Delworth et al, 2012
Recent Publications
- Seasonal Forecasts of Major Hurricanes and Landfalling Tropical Cyclones using a High-Resolution GFDL Coupled Climate Model
November 2016 - Enhanced warming of the northwest Atlantic Ocean under climate change
January 2016 - Simulation and Prediction of Category 4 and 5 Hurricanes in the High-Resolution GFDL HiFLOR Coupled Climate Model
December 2015 - Role of mesoscale eddies in cross-frontal transport of heat and biogeochemical tracers in the Southern Ocean
December 2015 - Impacts on ocean heat from transient mesoscale eddies in a hierarchy of climate models
February 2015 - Has Coarse Ocean Resolution Biased Simulations of Transient Climate Sensitivity?
December 2014 - Response to CO2 doubling of the Atlantic Hurricane Main Development Region in a High-Resolution Climate Model
Apr 15 2013 - Controls of Global Snow Under Climate Change
Feb 15 2013 - Some counter-intuitive dependencies of tropical cyclone frequency on parameters in a GCM
Apr 20 2012 - A Model Study of Heat Waves over North America: Meteorological Aspects and Projections for the 21st Century
Mar 12 2012 - Delworth et al: Simulated climate and climate change in the GFDL CM2.5 high-resolution coupled climate model. Journal of Climate.
2012
