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Cumulus congestus clouds like these are usually a sign of incoming rain.

One Step Closer to a Milestone in Climate Modeling

by David Shultz 24 July 201911 August 2019

A pair of revisions to the Energy Exascale Earth System Model improves its ability to capture late afternoon and nocturnal rainfall as well as the timing and movement of convection.

A view of cloud convection over the South Pacific

Research Spotlights

Improving Estimates of Long-Term Climate Sensitivity

by Terri Cook 5 March 2019

New modeling casts doubt on the suitability of running experiments with fixed sea surface temperatures to understand the effects of cloud aggregation on Earth’s climate.

Editors' Highlights

Spectral Surface Emissivity Improves Arctic Climate Simulation

by Minghua Zhang 5 April 2018

Improving the representation of surface emissivity in the Community Earth System Model reduces its Arctic winter cold bias from 7 to 1 Kelvin degree.

Research Spotlights

High-Resolution Ocean Model Captures Large-Scale Heat Transport

by Sarah Stanley 28 October 2016

A lower-resolution model is sufficient to capture air-sea interactions, but a high-resolution model better simulates average sea surface temperatures in the North Atlantic.

(top) Observed and (bottom) simulated seasonal mean (December–January–February) 2-meter surface air temperature data.

Science Updates

A More Powerful Reality Test for Climate Models

by P. J. Gleckler, C. Doutriaux, P. J. Durack, K. E. Taylor, Y. Zhang, D. N. Williams, E. Mason and J. Servonnat 3 May 201620 May 2016

A new climate model evaluation package will deliver objective comparisons between models and observations for research and model development and provide a framework for community engagement.

Research Spotlights