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  1. Zhao, Ming, in press: An investigation of the effective climate sensitivity in GFDL’s new climate models CM4.0 and SPEAR. Journal of Climate. DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0327.1. May 2022.
  2. Frazer, Michelle E., and Yi Ming, in press: Understanding the extratropical liquid water path feedback in mixed-phase clouds with an idealized global climate model. Journal of Climate. DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0334.1. January 2022.
  3. Jeevanjee, Nadir, and Linjiong Zhou, in press: On the resolution-dependence of anvil cloud fraction and precipitation efficiency in radiative-convective equilibrium. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. DOI:10.1029/2021MS002759. February 2022.
  4. Chu, Wenchao, Yanluan Lin, and Ming Zhao, January 2022: Implementation and evaluation of a double-plume convective parameterization in NCAR CAM5. Journal of Climate, 35(2), DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0267.1617-637.
  5. Zhao, Ming, January 2022: A study of AR-, TS-, and MCS-associated precipitation and extreme precipitation in present and warmer climates. Journal of Climate, 35(2), DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0145.1479-497.
  6. Dong, Wenhao, Ming Zhao, Yi Ming, and V Ramaswamy, July 2021: Representation of tropical mesoscale convective systems in a general circulation model: Climatology and response to global warming. Journal of Climate, 34(14), DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0535.1.
  7. Guo, Huan, Yi Ming, Songmiao Fan, Linjiong Zhou, Lucas Harris, and Ming Zhao, June 2021: Two-moment bulk cloud microphysics with prognostic precipitation in GFDL’s Atmosphere Model AM4.0: configuration and performance. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 13(6), DOI:10.1029/2020MS002453.
  8. Zhou, Xiaoli, Rachel Atlas, Isabel L McCoy, Christopher S Bretherton, Charles Bardeen, Andrew Gettelman, Pu Lin, and Yi Ming, February 2021: Evaluation of cloud and precipitation simulations in CAM6 and AM4 using observations over the Southern Ocean. Earth and Space Science, 8(2), DOI:10.1029/2020EA001241.
  9. Atlas, Rachel, Christopher S Bretherton, Peter N Blossey, Andrew Gettelman, Charles Bardeen, Pu Lin, and Yi Ming, November 2020: How well do large-eddy simulations and global climate models represent observed boundary layer structures and low clouds over the summertime Southern Ocean? Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 12(11), DOI:10.1029/2020MS002205.
  10. Kuo, Y-H, J D Neelin, C-C Chen, W-T Chen, Leo J Donner, Andrew Gettelman, Xianan Jiang, K-T Kuo, Eric Maloney, C R Mechoso, Yi Ming, K A Schiro, Charles J Seman, C-M Wu, and Ming Zhao, January 2020: Convective transition statistics over tropical oceans for climate model diagnostics: GCM evaluation. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 77(1), DOI:10.1175/JAS-D-19-0132.1.
  11. Naud, C M., J Jeyaratnam, James F Booth, Ming Zhao, and Andrew Gettelman, January 2020: Evaluation of modeled precipitation in oceanic extratropical cyclones using IMERG. Journal of Climate, 33(1), DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0369.1.
  12. Paulot, Fabien, David J Paynter, Michael Winton, Paul Ginoux, Ming Zhao, and Larry W Horowitz, February 2020: Revisiting the impact of sea salt on climate sensitivity. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(3), DOI:10.1029/2019GL085601.
  13. Wing, Allison A., Catherine L Stauffer, Tobias Becker, Kevin A Reed, Min-Seop Ahn, Nathan P Arnold, Sandrine Bony, Mark Branson, George H Bryan, Jean-Pierre Chaboureau, Stephan R de Roode, Kulkarni Gayatri, Cathy Hohenegger, I-Kuan Hu, Fredrik Jansson, Todd R Jones, Marat Khairoutdinov, Daehyun Kim, Zane K Martin, Shuhei Matsugishi, Brian Medeiros, Hiroaki Miura, Yumin Moon, Sebastian K Muller, Tomoki Ohno, Max Popp, Thara Prabhakaran, David A Randall, Rosimar Rios-Berrios, Nicolas Rochetin, Romain Roehrig, David M Romps, James H Ruppert Jr, Masaki Satoh, Levi G Silvers, Martin S Singh, Bjorn Stevens, Lorenzo Tomassini, Chiel C van Heerwaarden, Shuguang Wang, and Ming Zhao, September 2020: Clouds and Convective Self-Aggregation in a Multi-Model Ensemble of Radiative-Convective Equilibrium Simulations. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 12(9), DOI:10.1029/2020MS002138.
  14. Winton, Michael, Alistair Adcroft, John P Dunne, Isaac M Held, Elena Shevliakova, Ming Zhao, Huan Guo, William J Hurlin, John P Krasting, Thomas R Knutson, David J Paynter, Levi G Silvers, and Rong Zhang, January 2020: Climate Sensitivity of GFDL’s CM4.0. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 12(1), DOI:10.1029/2019MS001838.
  15. Zhao, Ming, December 2020: Simulations of Atmospheric Rivers, Their Variability and Response to GlobalWarming Using GFDL’s New High Resolution General Circulation Model. Journal of Climate, 33(23), DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0241.1.
  16. Rugenstein, M, J Bloch-Johnson, Jonathan M Gregory, Timothy Andrews, T Mauritsen, Chao Li, Thomas L Frölicher, and David J Paynter, et al., February 2020: Equilibrium climate sensitivity estimated by equilibrating climate models. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(4), DOI:10.1029/2019GL083898.
  17. Fan, Songmiao, Paul Ginoux, Charles J Seman, Levi G Silvers, and Ming Zhao, November 2019: Toward Improved Cloud-Phase Simulation with a Mineral Dust and Temperature-Dependent Parameterization for Ice Nucleation in Mixed-Phase Clouds. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 76(11), DOI:10.1175/JAS-D-18-0287.1.
  18. Held, Isaac M., Huan Guo, Alistair Adcroft, John P Dunne, Larry W Horowitz, John P Krasting, Elena Shevliakova, Michael Winton, Ming Zhao, Mitchell Bushuk, Andrew T Wittenberg, Bruce Wyman, Baoqiang Xiang, Rong Zhang, Whit G Anderson, V Balaji, Leo J Donner, Krista A Dunne, Jeffrey W Durachta, Paul P G Gauthier, Paul Ginoux, Jean-Christophe Golaz, Stephen M Griffies, Robert Hallberg, Lucas Harris, Matthew J Harrison, William J Hurlin, Jasmin G John, Pu Lin, Shian-Jiann Lin, Sergey Malyshev, Raymond Menzel, P C D Milly, Yi Ming, Vaishali Naik, David J Paynter, Fabien Paulot, V Ramaswamy, Brandon G Reichl, Thomas E Robinson, Anthony Rosati, Charles J Seman, Levi G Silvers, Seth D Underwood, and Niki Zadeh, November 2019: Structure and Performance of GFDL’s CM4.0 Climate Model. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 11(11), DOI:10.1029/2019MS001829.
  19. Naud, C M., James F Booth, J Jeyaratnam, Leo J Donner, Charles J Seman, Ming Zhao, Huan Guo, and Yi Ming, October 2019: Extratropical Cyclone Clouds in the GFDL climate model: diagnosing biases and the associated causes. Journal of Climate, 32(20), DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0421.1.
  20. Po-Chedley, S, M D Zelinka, and Nadir Jeevanjee, et al., November 2019: Climatology explains intermodel spread in tropical upper tropospheric cloud and relative humidity response to greenhouse warming. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(22), DOI:10.1029/2019GL084786.
  21. Seeley, Jacob T., and Nadir Jeevanjee, et al., January 2019: Formation of Tropical Anvil Clouds by Slow Evaporation. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(1), DOI:10.1029/2018GL080747.
  22. Seeley, Jacob T., Nadir Jeevanjee, and David M Romps, February 2019: FAT or FiTT: Are Anvil Clouds or the Tropopause Temperature Invariant? Geophysical Research Letters, 46(3), DOI:10.1029/2018GL080096.
  23. Silvers, Levi G., David J Paynter, and Ming Zhao, January 2018: The Diversity of Cloud Responses to Twentieth Century Sea Surface Temperatures. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(1), DOI:10.1002/2017GL075583.
  24. Xiang, Baoqiang, Ming Zhao, and Yi Ming, et al., July 2018: Contrasting Impacts of radiative forcing in the Southern Ocean versus Southern Tropics on ITCZ position and energy transport in one GFDL climate model. Journal of Climate, 31(14), DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0566.1.
  25. Zhao, Ming, Jean-Christophe Golaz, Isaac M Held, Huan Guo, V Balaji, Rusty Benson, Jan-Huey Chen, Xi Chen, Leo J Donner, John P Dunne, Krista A Dunne, Jeffrey W Durachta, Songmiao Fan, Stuart Freidenreich, Stephen T Garner, Paul Ginoux, Lucas Harris, Larry W Horowitz, John P Krasting, Amy R Langenhorst, Zhi Liang, Pu Lin, Shian-Jiann Lin, Sergey Malyshev, E Mason, P C D Milly, Yi Ming, Vaishali Naik, Fabien Paulot, David J Paynter, Peter Phillipps, Aparna Radhakrishnan, V Ramaswamy, Thomas E Robinson, M Daniel Schwarzkopf, Charles J Seman, Elena Shevliakova, Zhaoyi Shen, Hyeyum Hailey Shin, Levi G Silvers, R John Wilson, Michael Winton, Andrew T Wittenberg, Bruce Wyman, and Baoqiang Xiang, March 2018: The GFDL Global Atmosphere and Land Model AM4.0/LM4.0 – Part I: Simulation Characteristics with Prescribed SSTs. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 10(3), DOI:10.1002/2017MS001208.
  26. Zhao, Ming, Jean-Christophe Golaz, Isaac M Held, Huan Guo, V Balaji, Rusty Benson, Jan-Huey Chen, Xi Chen, Leo J Donner, John P Dunne, Krista A Dunne, Jeffrey W Durachta, Songmiao Fan, Stuart Freidenreich, Stephen T Garner, Paul Ginoux, Lucas Harris, Larry W Horowitz, John P Krasting, Amy R Langenhorst, Zhi Liang, Pu Lin, Shian-Jiann Lin, Sergey Malyshev, E Mason, P C D Milly, Yi Ming, Vaishali Naik, Fabien Paulot, David J Paynter, Peter Phillipps, Aparna Radhakrishnan, V Ramaswamy, Thomas E Robinson, M Daniel Schwarzkopf, Charles J Seman, Elena Shevliakova, Zhaoyi Shen, Hyeyum Hailey Shin, Levi G Silvers, R John Wilson, Michael Winton, Andrew T Wittenberg, Bruce Wyman, and Baoqiang Xiang, March 2018: The GFDL Global Atmosphere and Land Model AM4.0/LM4.0 – Part II: Model Description, Sensitivity Studies, and Tuning Strategies. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 10(3), DOI:10.1002/2017MS001209.
  27. Andrews, Timothy, Jonathan M Gregory, David J Paynter, and Levi G Silvers, et al., August 2018: Accounting for Changing Temperature Patterns Increases Historical Estimates of Climate Sensitivity. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(16), DOI:10.1029/2018GL078887.
  28. Paynter, David J., Thomas L Frölicher, Larry W Horowitz, and Levi G Silvers, February 2018: Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity Obtained from Multi-Millennial Runs of Two GFDL Climate Models. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 123(4), DOI:10.1002/2017JD027885.
  29. Ming, Yi, and Isaac M Held, January 2018: Modeling Water Vapor and Clouds as Passive Tracers in an Idealized GCM. Journal of Climate, 31(2), DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0812.1.
  30. Xiang, Baoqiang, Ming Zhao, Isaac M Held, and Jean-Christophe Golaz, February 2017: Predicting the severity of spurious “double ITCZ” problem in CMIP5 coupled models from AMIP simulations. Geophysical Research Letters, 44(3), DOI:10.1002/2016GL071992.
  31. Zhao, Ming, Jean-Christophe Golaz, Isaac M Held, V Ramaswamy, Shian-Jiann Lin, Yi Ming, Paul Ginoux, Bruce Wyman, Leo J Donner, David J Paynter, and Huan Guo, January 2016: Uncertainty in model climate sensitivity traced to representations of cumulus precipitation microphysics. Journal of Climate, DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0191.1.
  32. Donner, Leo J., T O’Brien, D Rieger, B Vogel, and William F Cooke, October 2016: Are atmospheric updrafts a key to unlocking climate forcing and sensitivity? Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 16(20), DOI:10.5194/acp-16-12983-2016.
  33. Guo, Huan, Jean-Christophe Golaz, Leo J Donner, Bruce Wyman, Ming Zhao, and Paul Ginoux, June 2015: CLUBB as a unified cloud parameterization: opportunities and challenges. Geophysical Research Letters, 42(11), DOI:10.1002/2015GL063672.
  34. Paynter, David J., and Thomas L Frölicher, October 2015: Sensitivity of radiative forcing, ocean heat uptake and climate feedbacks to changes in anthropogenic greenhouse gases and aerosols. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 120(19), DOI:10.1002/2015JD023364.
  35. Webb, M J., A P Lock, Christopher S Bretherton, Sandrine Bony, Jason N S Cole, A Idelkadi, Sarah M Kang, T Koshiro, H Kawai, T Ogura, Romain Roehrig, Yechul Shin, T Mauritsen, S C Sherwood, J Vial, M Watanabe, M D Woelfle, and Ming Zhao, October 2015: The impact of parametrized convection on cloud feedback. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, A, 373, DOI:10.1098/rsta.2014.0414.
  36. Xiang, Baoqiang, Shian-Jiann Lin, Ming Zhao, Gabriel A Vecchi, Tim Li, Xianan Jiang, Lucas Harris, and Jan-Huey Chen, February 2015: Beyond weather time scale prediction for Hurricane Sandy and Super Typhoon Haiyan in a global climate model. Monthly Weather Review, 143(2), DOI:10.1175/MWR-D-14-00227.1.
  37. Xiang, Baoqiang, Ming Zhao, Xianan Jiang, Shian-Jiann Lin, Tim Li, X Fu, and Gabriel A Vecchi, July 2015: The 3-4 Week MJO Prediction Skill in a GFDL Coupled Model. Journal of Climate, 28(13), DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0102.1.
  38. Zhao, Ming, March 2014: An Investigation of the Connections among Convection, Clouds, and Climate Sensitivity in a Global Climate Model. Journal of Climate, 27(5), DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00145.1.
  39. Popp, M, and L. G Silvers, 2017: Double and Single ITCZs with and without Clouds. Journal of Climate, 30(22), DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0062.1