Anthony D. Del Genio

TL;DR: The ModelE version of the GISS atmospheric general circulation model (GCM) and results for present-day climate simulations (ca. 1979) were presented in this article, where the model top is now above the stratopause, the number of vertical layers has increased, a new cloud microphysical scheme is used, vegetation biophysics now incorporates a sensitivity to humidity, atmospheric turbulence is calculated over the whole column, and new land snow and lake schemes are introduced.

TL;DR: It is calculated that Earth is now absorbing 0.85 ± 0.15 watts per square meter more energy from the Sun than it is emitting to space, confirmed by precise measurements of increasing ocean heat content over the past 10 years.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the tropical intraseasonal variability, especially the fidelity of Madden-Julian oscillation (MJO) simulations, in 14 coupled general circulation models participating in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report (AR4).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed global station data and created a gridded dataset of monthly precipitation for the period of 1900−88, and found that the first leading EOF in global precipitation fields is an ENSO-related pattern, concentrating mostly in the low latitudes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a description of the ModelE2 version of the GISS General Circulation Model (GCM) and the configurations used in the simulations performed for the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5).