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Tom R. Knutson
Senior Scientist, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
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The Direct Radiative Effect of CO2 Increase on Summer Precipitation in North America
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
22 july 2024
WENGUI LIANG, Wenhao Dong, Thomas R. Knutson, Zhih...
Precipitation changes in full response to CO2 increase are widely studied but confidence in future projections remains low. Mechanistic understandi...
The Land Component LM4.1 of the GFDL Earth System Model ESM4.1: Model Description and Characteristics of Land Surface Climate and Carbon Cycling in the Historical Simulation
JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN MODELING EARTH SYSTEMS
30 april 2024
Elena Shevliakova, Sergey Malyshev, Isabel Martine...
We describe the baseline model configuration and simulation characteristics of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL)'s Land Model versio...
Sea surface temperature warming patterns are at the heart of future predictions of extreme weather and climate sensitivity
BRIDGING THE GAP FROM CLIMATE TO EXTREME WEATHER: OBSERVATIONS, THEORY, AND MODELING II ORAL
atmospheric sciences | 14 december 2023
Ming Zhao, Thomas R. Knutson
Recently studies indicate that virtually all global climate models (GCMs) have had difficulty simulating the observed sea surface temperature (SST) wa...
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Fast response of precipitation to historical BC and SO4 aerosols in ESM4 climate model
CLIMATE FORCING: QUANTIFYING THE ROLES AND RESPONSES OF ANTHROPOGENIC AND NATURAL CLIMATE DRIVERS III POSTER
global environmental change | 12 december 2023
Yanda Zhang, Thomas R. Knutson, Elena Shevliakova,...
Aerosol effects on precipitation are crucial factors in climate change, yet they remain poorly understood, presenting one of the largest uncertainties...
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Regulating Fine‐Scale Resolved Convection in High‐Resolution Models for Better Hurricane Track Prediction
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
08 july 2023
Kun Gao, Lucas Harris, Morris Bender, Jan-Huey Che...
High‐resolution atmospheric models are powerful tools for hurricane track and intensity predictions. Although using high resolution contribut...
The long-term trends of global land precipitation in GFDL's CM4 and ESM4 climate models
EXPLAINING AND PREDICTING EARTH SYSTEM CHANGE: A WORLD CLIMATE RESEARCH PROGRAM CALL TO ACTION – COUPLING OF OBSERVATIONS AND MODELS; INTEGRATED ATTRIBUTION, PREDICTION AND PROJECTION; ASSESSMENT OF CURRENT AND FUTURE HAZARDS IV POSTER
global environmental change | 13 december 2022
Yanda Zhang, Thomas R. Knutson, Elena Shevliakova
Precipitation is one of the key elements of the Earth system; its regional trends are important indicators of changes in flood and drought risks. The ...
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Idealized Aqua-Planet Simulations of Tropical Cyclone Activity: Significance of Temperature Gradients and Hadley Circulation
TROPICAL CYCLONES: OBSERVATIONS, MODELING, AND PREDICTABILITY I ORAL
atmospheric sciences | 13 december 2021
Gan Zhang, Levi G. Silvers, Ming Zhao, Thomas R. K...
Earlier studies have proposed many semiempirical relations between climate and tropical cyclone (TC) activity. To explore these relations, this study ...
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Understanding the Recent Global Increase in the Proportion of Tropical Cyclones Undergoing Rapid Intensification
BRIDGING THE GAP FROM CLIMATE TO EXTREME WEATHER: OBSERVATIONS, THEORY, AND MODELING II POSTER
atmospheric sciences | 13 december 2021
Kieran T. Bhatia, Alexander Baker, Gabriel A. Vecc...
We extend the results of Bhatia et al. (2019) by examining 24-hour intensification rates during the 36-year period between 1982-2017 and comparing the...
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