Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (JAMES) Archives - Page 8 of 10

A view of cloud convection over the South Pacific

Improving Estimates of Long-Term Climate Sensitivity

by Terri Cook 5 March 201928 February 2023

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.

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Capturing the Dynamism of Plant Roots in Models

by P. A. Dirmeyer 1 February 2019

Simulating the dynamic nature of plant root profiles in Earth system models improves the representation of the carbon and water cycles.

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The ILAMB System for Benchmarking Land Surface Models

by P. A. Dirmeyer 29 November 201821 March 2022

An evolving set of tools helps land surface model developers optimize the realism of their parameterizations for the next generation of weather and climate models.

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Bulging, Shrinking, and Deformation of Land by Hydrologic Loading

by P. A. Dirmeyer 19 June 20181 November 2021

The deformation of continents by groundwater can be measured locally by GPS or detected from satellites, but more precisely monitored when measurements are combined with a hydrologic model.

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A Powerful New Tool to Analyze and Calibrate Earth System Models

by P. A. Dirmeyer 6 March 20189 March 2023

Polynomial chaos and Bayesian compressive sensing are applied to a land surface model to understand how large numbers of tunable parameters interact and may be optimized.