Member Since 1993
Charlie S. Zender
Professor, University of California Irvine
Member, Informatics Leptoukh Lecture Award Committee
Professional Experience
University of California Irvine
Professor
1999 - Present
Education
University of Colorado Boulder
Doctorate
1996
Honors & Awards
Outstanding Reviewer Award - JGR: Atmospheres
Received December 2023
Greg Leptoukh Lecture
Received December 2021
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Publications
Improved Representations of Longwave Surface Emissivity to Reduce Surface and Atmospheric Heating Bi...
Many Earth system models (ESMs) approximate surface emissivity as a broadband constant. This approximation reduces the computational burden, yet om...
February 05, 2025
Use of Shallow Ice Core Measurements to Evaluate and Constra...
September 29, 2023
Elucidating Hidden and Enduring Weaknesses in Dust Emission ...
September 07, 2023
AGU Abstracts
Climate Sensitivity to Improved Spectral Solar Insolation in E3SM
THE SPECTRAL DIMENSION OF SHORTWAVE AND LONGWAVE RADIATION IN THE EARTH SYSTEM III ELIGHTNING
atmospheric sciences | 12 december 2024
Juan Tolento, Charles S. Zender, Andrew Roberts, E...
Surface and atmospheric radiative processes depend strongly on wavelength. For example, snow albedo shifts from highly reflective at wavelengths <0...
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The Climate & Forecast (CF) Metadata Convention for Quantization
COPING WITH THE DATA DELUGE POSTER
informatics | 11 december 2024
Charles S. Zender
An increasingly important and easy way to tame the geophysical data deluge is to quantize the random or unwanted trailing bits of IEEE floating point ...
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Surface and Atmospheric Heating Responses to Spectrally Resolved Albedo of Frozen and Liquid Water Surfaces
COUPLED-SYSTEM PROCESSES OF THE ARCTIC ATMOSPHERE–SEA ICE–OCEAN SYSTEM: HARNESSING FIELD OBSERVATIONS AND ADVANCING MODELS II ELIGHTNING
cryosphere | 11 december 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 (VIS) and near-infrared (NIR) wavelen...
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Volunteer Experience
2022 - 2026
Member
Informatics Leptoukh Lecture Award Committee
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