CAPT Publications

Journal Papers

• Evaluating parameterizations in general circulation models:  Climate simulation meets weather prediction by T. J. Phillips et al., 2004: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 85, 1903-1915.

• Impact of a revised convective triggering mechanism on Community Atmosphere Model, Version 2, simulations: Results from short-range weather forecasts by S. Xie et al. : Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, D14102, doi:10.1029/2004JD004692, 2004.

• Diagnosis of Community Atmospheric Model 2 (CAM2)  in numerical weather forecast configuration at Atmospheric Radiation Measurement sites by J. Boyle et al.: Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, D15516, doi: 10.1029/2004JD005109, 2005.

• Moisture and temperature balances at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Southern Great Plains Site in forecasts with the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM2) by D. Williamson et al. : Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, D15516, doi: 10.1029/2004JD005109, 2005.

• Diagnosis of the summertime warm and dry bias over the U.S. Gouthern Great Plains in the GFDL climate model using a weather forecasting approach by S. Klein et al.: Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L18805, doi: 10.1029/2006GL027567, 2006.

• Cluster analysis of tropical clouds using CloudSat data by Yuying Zhang et al.: Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L12813, 10.1029/2007GL029336, 2007.
  

• A comparison of forecast errors in CAM2 and CAM3 at the ARM Southern Great Plains Site by D. Williamson and J. Olson, 2007: Journal of Climate, 20, 4572-4585.
  

• Climate model forecast experiments for TOGA COARE by J. Boyle et al., 2008: Monthly Weather Review , 136, 808-832.
  

• Simulations of Arctic mixed-phase clouds in forecasts with CAM3 and AM2 for M-PACE by S. Xie et al.: Journal of Geophysical Research,  113, D04211, doi:10.1029/2007JD009225, 2008.

• On the diurnal cycle of deep convection, high-level cloud, and upper-troposphere water vapor in the Multiscale Modeling Framework by Yunyan Zhang et al.: Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, D16105, doi:10.1029/2008JD009905, 2008.
  

• Evaluation of tropical cloud and precipitation simulations of CAM3 using CloudSat and Calipso data by Yuying Zhang et al.: Journal of Geophysical Research ,115,D12205,doi:10.1029/2009JD012006.

• Evaluation of forecasted Southeast Pacific stratocumulus in the NCAR, GFDL, and ECMWF models by C. Hannay et al.: Journal of Climate, 22, 2871-2889.
  

• Mechanisms affecting the transition from shallow to deep convection over land: Inferences from observations of the diurnal cycle collected at the ARM Southern Great Plains site by Yunyan Zhang and Stephen A. Klein: Journal of the Atmospehric Sciences,67,2943-2959, doi: 10.1175/2010JAS3366.1.
  

• Impact of horizontal resolution on climate model forecasts of tropical convection and diabatic heating for the TWP-ICE period by James Boyle and Stephen A. Klein: Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, D23113, doi: 10.1029/2010JD014262, 2010.
  

• Aerosol first indirect effects on non-precipitating low-level liquid cloud properties as simulated by CAM5 at ARM sites by Chuanfeng Zhao, Stephen A. Klein, Shaocheng Xie, Xiaohong Liu, James S. Boyle, and Yuying Zhang: Geophysical Research Letters, 39, L08806, doi: 10.1029/2012GL051213, 2012.
  

• On the correspondence between short- and long-time-scale systematic errors in CAM4/CAM5 for the Year of Tropical Convection by Shaocheng Xie, Hsi-Yen Ma, James S. Boyle, Stephen A. Klein, and Yuying Zhang: Journal of Climate, 25, 7937-7955, 2012.
  

• Metrics and diagnostics for precipitation-related processes in climate model short-range hindcasts by Hsi-Yen Ma, Shaocheng Xie, James S. Boyle, Stephen A. Klein, and Yuying Zhang: Journal of Climate, 26, 1516-1534, 2013.
  

• Report on Activities Testing the Super-parameterization in the CAPT Framework (Potter et al. 2004)

• The CCPP Parameterization Testbed (CAPT): A Strategic Plan (Phillips et al. 2003)

• The CCPP-ARM Parameterization Testbed (CAPT): Where Climate Simulation Meets Weather Prediction (Phillips et al. 2004)

• A comparison of water vapor quantities from model short-range forecasts and ARM observations (Hnilo et al. 2006)

• A comparison of model short-range forecasts and the ARM Microbase data (Hnilo et al. 2006)
  

• Evaluation of Mixed-Phase Cloud Parameterizations in Short-Range Weather Forecasts with CAM3 and AM2 for M-PACE (Xie et al. 2007)