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Charlie S. Zender
Professor, University of California Irvine
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Surface and Atmospheric Heating Responses to Spectrally Resolved Albedo of Frozen and Liquid Water Surfaces
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: ATMOSPHERES
27 april 2024
Juan Tolento, Charles S. Zender, Chloe Whicker Cla...

Multiple Earth system models (ESMs) discretize surface albedo into two semi‐broadbands comprising the UV/visible and near‐infrared (NIR...

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The Effect of Physically Based Ice Radiative Processes on Greenland Ice Sheet Albedo and Surface Mass Balance in E3SM
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: ATMOSPHERES
08 april 2024
Chloe Whicker Clarke, Raf Antwerpen, Mark Flanner,...

A significant portion of surface melt on the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) is due to dark ice regions in the ablation zone, where solar absorption is ...

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Realistic representation of bare-ice albedo: Effects on Greenland surface mass balance in the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM)
SNOW AND FIRN PROCESSES ON GLACIERS AND ICE SHEETS I POSTER
cryosphere | 14 december 2023
Chloe Whicker Clarke, Raf Antwerpen, Mark Flanner,...
Surface melt from the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) is a large contributor to sea level rise. Melt on the surface of the ice sheet is partially controlle...
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Interoperability Lessons Migrating netCDF API Workflows from POSIX to Zarr Storage Formats
CF AND NETCDF: 30 YEARS OF WIDE-OPEN SCIENCE I POSTER
informatics | 13 december 2023
Charles S. Zender
The CF (Climate and Forecast) Conventions are a community-developed standard for self-describing Earth system science (and other) datasets in formats ...
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Spectrally Resolved Longwave Surface Emissivity Reduces Atmospheric Heating Biases
THE SPECTRAL DIMENSION OF SHORTWAVE AND LONGWAVE RADIATION IN THE EARTH SYSTEM II POSTER
atmospheric sciences | 12 december 2023
Lili Manzo, Charles S. Zender, Juan Tolento, Chloe...
Longwave (LW) radiative energy upwelling through the atmosphere is modulated by surface emissivity, which depends on both wavelength and surface type....
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Use of Shallow Ice Core Measurements to Evaluate and Constrain 1980–1990 Global Reanalyses of Ice Sheet Precipitation Rates
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
29 september 2023
Adam M. Schneider, Charles S. Zender, Nicole Loeb,...

Sea‐level rise (SLR) projections by Earth System Models (ESMs) depend on ice sheet surface mass balances. Accurate, global atmosphere reanaly...

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Elucidating Hidden and Enduring Weaknesses in Dust Emission Modeling
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: ATMOSPHERES
07 september 2023
Adrian Chappell, Nicholas Webb, Mark Hennen, Charl...

Large‐scale classical dust cycle models, developed more than two decades ago, assume for simplicity that the Earth's land surface is devoid o...

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Wind‐Associated Melt Trends and Contrasts Between the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
29 august 2023
Matthew K. Laffin, Charles S. Zender, Melchior van...

Föhn and katabatic winds (downslope winds) can increase ice sheet surface melt, run‐off, and ice‐shelf vulnerability to hydrofract...

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