The technique for composing a small subset of global climate models is critical to provide scenarios impact and adaptation studies regional changes. A recent study developed novel statistical method selecting mini-ensemble five from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 widely capturing different future projections Japanese across eight atmospheric variables at surface. However, it ...

[1] This paper analyzes the sensitivity of simulated climate and energy balance to changes in soil emissivity over Northern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula and considers how this information may be used to improve emissivity parameterizations in climate models. Analysis of satellite observations suggests that the soil emissivity in current models is too high over this region. Sensitivity tests...

Abstract The Western Tibetan Vortex (WTV) is a large-scale circulation pattern identified from year-to-year variability, which was used to understand the causal mechanisms for slowdown of glacier melting over western Plateau (TP). A recent argument has suggested WTV set wind field anomalies resulting variability in near-surface air temperatures TP (above 1500 m), which, turn, likely driven by s...

[1] The complex interactions among climate variables in the Arctic have important implications for potential climate change, both globally and locally. Because the Arctic is a data-sparse region and because global climate models (GCMs) often represent Arctic climate variables poorly, significant uncertainties remain in our understanding of these processes. In addition to the traditional approac...

Our aim is to provide an observational reference for the evaluation of the surface and boundary layer parameterizations used in large-scale models using the remarkable long-term Canadian Prairie hourly dataset. First we use shortwave and longwave data from the Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN) station at Bratt’s Lake, Saskatchewan, and clear sky radiative fluxes from ERA-Interim, to sho...

Estimating the impact of radiation transport through cloud sides on the global energy budget is hampered by the lack of a fast radiation scheme suitable for use in global atmospheric models that can represent these effects in both the shortwave and longwave. This two-part paper describes the development of such a scheme, which we refer to as the Speedy Algorithm for Radiative Transfer through C...