Comparing clouds and their seasonal variations in 10 atmospheric general circulation models with satellite measurements

By Minghua Zhang, Wuyin Lin, Stephen A. Klein, Julio Bacmeister, Sandrine Bony, R. Cederwall, A. D. Del Genio, James J. Hack, Norman G. Loeb, Ulrike Lohmann and 10 more. 2005

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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In Atmospheric Science

1. M. Webb
2. Sandrine Bony
3. J. Dufresne
4. M. Zelinka
5. Brian J. Soden
6. Stephen A. Klein
7. K. Williams
8. K. Taylor

In Global and Planetary Change

1. M. Webb
2. Sandrine Bony
3. J. Dufresne
4. M. Zelinka
5. Stephen A. Klein
6. Brian J. Soden
7. K. Williams
8. K. Taylor

Citations in the corpus

• The GCM‐Oriented CALIPSO Cloud Product (CALIPSO‐GOCCP) (2010, neutral): “…observed from space if satellites were flying above an atmosphere similar to that predicted by the model [e.g., Yu et al. , 1996; Stubenrauch et al. , 1997; Klein and Jakob , 1999; Webb et al. , 2001; Zhang et al. , 2005; Bodas-Salcedo et al. , 2008; Chepfer et al. , 2008; Marchand et al. , 2009].”
• A global survey of cloud overlap based on CALIPSO and CloudSat measurements (2015, background): “Although the 688 representations and simulations of these mid-level clouds in global climate models are 689 poor and under-predicted (Zhang et al., 2005), the balance of phases for these 690 mixed-phase clouds (mid-level clouds) due to cloud-layer temperature or ice nuclei 691 (IN) changes will…”
• On the contribution of local feedback mechanisms to the range of climate sensitivity in two GCM ensembles (2006, methodology): “Klein and Jakob (1999) and Webb et al. (2001) developed the ‘ISCCP simulator’, an implementation of this approach which can be run within models and which has been used in a number of studies (e.g. Tselioudis et al. 2000; Zhang et al. 2005; Williams et al. (2005b).”
• A global view of midlevel liquid‐layer topped stratiform cloud distribution and phase partition from CALIPSO and CloudSat measurements (2010, positive): “Model simulation and observation comparison studies [ Zhang et al. , 2005; Illingworth et al. , 2007] show that almost all GCMs underpredict midlevel cloud occurrence.”
• GCM intercomparison of global cloud regimes: present-day evaluation and climate change response (2007, methodology): “Whilst the Hadley Centre models produce some cirrus, there is little evidence of shallow cumulus and Zhang et al. (2005) suggest that this underestimation of shallow cumulus is a general issue for GCMs.”