Abstract: The role of mountains in maintaining extensive midlatitude arid regions in the Northern Hemisphere was investigated using simulations from the GFDL Global Climate Model with and without orography. In the integration with ...

Abstract: An attempt has been made to use paleoclimatic data from the last glacial maximum to evaluate the sensitivity of two versions of an atmosphere/mixed-layer ocean model. Each of these models has been used to study the C02-induced ...

Abstract: The commonly held view of the conditions in the North Atlantic at the last glacial maximum, based on the interpretation of proxy records, is of large-scale cooling compared to today, limited deep convection, and extensive ...

Abstract: Feedback analysis in climate models commonly involves decomposing any change in the system?s energy balance into radiative forcing terms due to prescribed changes, and response terms due to the radiative effects of changes ...

Abstract: The climate response to idealized changes in the atmospheric CO2 concentration by the new GFDL climate model (CM2) is documented. This new model is very different from earlier GFDL models in its parameterizations of ...