[HTML][HTML] Opinion: Optimizing climate models with process knowledge, resolution, and artificial intelligence

T Schneider, LR Leung, RCJ Wills - Atmospheric Chemistry and …, 2024 - acp.copernicus.org
Accelerated progress in climate modeling is urgently needed for proactive and effective
climate change adaptation. The central challenge lies in accurately representing processes …

Machine learning for the physics of climate

A Bracco, J Brajard, HA Dijkstra… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Climate science has been revolutionized by the combined effects of an exponential growth
in computing power, which has enabled more sophisticated and higher-resolution …

Weaker land–atmosphere coupling in global storm-resolving simulation

J Lee, C Hohenegger - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024 - pnas.org
The debate on the sign of the soil moisture–precipitation feedback remains open. On the
one hand, studies using global coarse-resolution climate models have found strong positive …

Observation and reanalysis derived relationships between cloud and land surface fluxes across cumulus and stratiform coupling over the Southern Great Plains

T Su, Z Li, Y Zhang, Y Zheng… - Geophysical Research …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding interactions between low clouds and land surface fluxes is critical to
comprehending Earth's energy balance, yet their relationships remain elusive, with …

Escalating tropical cyclone precipitation extremes and landslide hazards in South China under Global Warming

X Shi, Y Liu, J Chen, H Chen, Y Wang, Z Lu… - npj Climate and …, 2024 - nature.com
Tropical cyclones (TCs) are expected to produce more intense precipitation under global
warming. However, substantial uncertainties exist in the projection of coarse-resolution …

Confronting the convective gray zone in the global configuration of the Met Office Unified Model

L Tomassini, M Willett, A Sellar, A Lock… - Journal of Advances …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In atmospheric models with kilometer‐scale grids the resolution approaches the scale of
convection. As a consequence the most energetic eddies in the atmosphere are partially …

Theory and the future of land-climate science

MP Byrne, GC Hegerl, J Scheff, O Adam, A Berg… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Climate over land—where humans live and the majority of food is produced—is changing
rapidly, driving severe impacts through extreme heat, wildfires, drought and flooding. Our …

Intensification of daily tropical precipitation extremes from more organized convection

J Bao, B Stevens, L Kluft, C Muller - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
Tropical precipitation extremes and their changes with surface warming are investigated
using global storm resolving simulations and high-resolution observations. The simulations …

Application-driven exascale: The JUPITER benchmark suite

A Herten, S Achilles, D Alvarez… - … Conference for High …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Benchmarks are essential in the design of modern HPC installations, as they define key
aspects of system components. Beyond synthetic workloads, it is crucial to include real …

Convection‐permitting ICON‐LAM simulations for renewable energy potential estimates over Southern Africa

S Chen, S Poll, HJ Hendricks Franssen… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Renewable energy is recognized in Africa as a means for climate change mitigation, but
also to provide access to electricity in sub‐Saharan Africa, where three‐quarters of the …