Vittorio Canuto

TL;DR: The authors used a global climate model to compare the effectiveness of many climate forcing agents for producing climate change and found that replacing traditional instantaneous and adjusted forcings with an easily computed alternative, Fs, yields a better predictor of climate change, i.e., its efficacies are closer to unity.

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: In this paper, the mixing-length theory of turbulent convection in stellar atmospheres is improved theoretically by adding one of two new expressions (one with no free parameters) for the mixing length.

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).

TL;DR: In this article, a 2-point turbulence closure model is proposed to solve the problems of closed pressure correlations and the need to express the non-local third-order moments (TOM) in terms of lower order moments rather than via the down-gradient approximation as done thus far.