Abstract: The depth of the planetary boundary layer (PBL) is a climatologically important quantity that has received little attention on regional to global scales. Here a 10-yr climatology of PBL depth from the University of California, ...

Abstract: This paper explores the capability of the mixed-layer model (MLM) to represent the observed relationship between low-cloud fraction and lower-tropospheric stability; it also investigates the influence of large-scale ...

Abstract: orecasts of October 2006 are used to investigate southeast Pacific stratocumulus in the Community Atmosphere Model, versions 4 and 5 (CAM4 and CAM5). Both models quickly develop biases similar to their climatic biases, ...

Abstract: ecent work indicates that climate models have a positive bias in the strength of the wintertime low-level temperature inversion over the high-latitude Northern Hemisphere. It has been argued this bias leads to underestimates ...

Abstract: AbstractCloud radiative feedbacks are disabled via ?cloud-locking? in the Community Earth System Model, version 1.2 (CESM1.2), to result in a shift in El Niño?Southern Oscillation (ENSO) periodicity from 2?7 years to decadal ...

Abstract: n the continued effort to understand the climate system and improve its representation in atmospheric general circulation models (AGCMs), it is crucial to develop reduced-complexity frameworks to evaluate these models. ...